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Similar to its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto V will feature a multiplayer mode, dubbed Grand Theft Auto Online. Grand Theft Auto Online will be released on October 1, 2013, 14 days after the actual game. Grand Theft Auto Online will be a standalone multiplayer game in itself and is included on the disc of Grand Theft Auto V.
The ties between Max Payne 3's multiplayer and GTA 5 are interesting, as few games have offered crossover in this fashion. Rockstar's crews – large clans that can band together and win rewards by cooperating online – can be imported between Max Payne 3 and GTA 5, giving us a taste of what to expect from Rockstar's return to San Andreas.
Bewsher sheds light on the crew system, "Well, there are going to be two types of Crews – private crews that you and your friends can create and customise to your liking, and Rockstar-created crews that are open to everyone." "Private crews hold up to 250 members and public crews are unlimited, so thousands of people can join the same crew and start reaping the benefits."
" There are also a range of in-game rewards and mechanics that impact crew cooperation", Bewsher continues, "such as HUD identifiers, customisable emblems on in-game equipment for opponents to see, dedicated crew assist-style awards and the Crew feud mechanic to name a few. This last one creates automatic feuds between different crews, to see which is the meanest."
The concept is intriguing, lending social interaction and genuine cooperation to the arena shooter format where similar games would have you running and gunning as a lone wolf. Once again, Max Payne 3 demands teamwork. Reconfirming cross compatibility, Bewsher adds, "You may have read recently that we also announced that crews created in Max Payne 3, and any feuds you have going with other crews will be fully transferable into Grand Theft Auto 5 and beyond."
Game Modes
The gameplay options in GTA Online are limitless. It is believed that the player begins multiplayer by being dropped off from a plane, as there is an achievement that has a picture of a plane and says "Complete the Introduction". The achievement is also called "Off the Plane".
Unlike in GTA IV's Multiplayer, pretty much everything in single player GTA V will be available in multiplayer. This means you could go to Cluckin' Bell in multiplayer with friends and buy a piece of chicken, whereas in GTA IV, the store would have been empty.
In GTA Online, the players character can be customized much more than it could in GTA IV's multiplayer. Now, the player can buy their clothes from clothing stores around Los Santos using the money they earn from killing other players and from completing missions such as Heists. They can also buy tattoos, Haircuts and piercings. Also, if the player has the Collectors Edition of the game, they can choose to be additional characters which were featured in GTA IV. The only characters known to be featured in the edition are Niko Bellic and his son, who's name is not currently known.[1]You will also be able to play as Claude and Misty from GTA III to use as parent genes. Players can also customize their character using genes. What happens is you put in your parents heritage, then choose who's genes are most dominant. Additionally, you'll customize your characters daily activities - everything from family time to illegal activities, then from sports to being a couch potato. All this will have an impact on your characters appearence and skills.
Money & Life
Like in single player, the main aim is to get as much money as possible. The number of things money can be spent on are endless, as Rockstar continues updating the game all the time. The player can buy things such as apartments, garages and helipads, character customization options, such as tattoos, haircuts and clothes, and much, much more.
When a player purchases an apartment, they can invite other players to come and visit them. When another player comes to visit, they will use a door bell, which will be heard by the player who owns the apartment. The player can then choose whether or not to let them in. The player can also use CCTV on their TV to check who is actually outside.
As well as CCTV on the television, the player can also watch TV shows and interview. An extraordinary new feature is the ability for the player to watch other players being chased and attacked by police, via the camera attached to Police Mavericks. Whilst the helicopters are chasing a player, their camera will be filming the whole thing. The player then tunes into the chase on their television and enjoys.
Players can then also have garages and helipads. These are to store their vehicles and aircraft that they have found, bought, or earned. Once the player has some vehicles, they can use them to compete in races, or just to show off. Customized vehicles can also be stored in the garages and helipads.
Missions & Events
Leslie Benzies, Rockstar Games' director, says there will be around 700 missions in GTA Online and that Rockstar will be constantly renewing about 500 of these to keep GTA Online fresh, long after gamers have worked their way through GTA V. He also said that these missions can be encountered in many ways, including stumbling on them on the map, calling or receiving a phone call from an NPC, or choosing one of the menu.
Races can be entered as game modes. The player can compete using vehicles from their own garages and helipads/airfields. They can also create their own race tracks, using the Content Creator.
Like in single player, the player can perform heists, with friends. Heists will be a bit bigger than they are in single player, one that is known of containing around 20 steps. The one that is known of is where the player must steal a Titan being guarded by a group known as the Merryweather.
The players then steal the plane, take off, and escape. Like in single player, players have stats such as Driving, flying and shooting, which can be used by players to pick other players to use in heists.
After missions where you've a good old blood bath, you can wash the blood off yourself in the shower in your apartment.
Many new things can be done with vehicles in GTA Online. The only things known so far are that cars can be locked to prevent them being stolen, and the player can also buy car insurance just in case their car is stolen, destroyed, or lost.
Social ClubLike in Max Payne 3, players can form Crews using the Rockstar Games Social Club. Players can be in up to 4 Crews at one time. Crews can perform Heists and other activities together. When players form Crews in GTA Online, there will be an all new Hierarchy system to tell others who ranks where.
- Multiplayer will hold 16 people on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.[citation needed]
- Crews from Max Payne 3 will carry over to Grand Theft Auto V.
- Grand Theft Auto V will have multiplayer features linked to Rockstar's Social Club.
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28 Jan. 2013
NYC Show Report: AgendaThe final of the six New York shows to open last week, Agenda completed its two-day run on Thursday, January 24 and was heralded as a whopping success. Skate-, surf- and streetwear driven as always, this latest edition featured about 170 brands on two floors at 82 Mercer Street in SoHo. The show was bustling on Thursday but all exhibitors reported that traffic was slower than the day before when visitors literally packed the aisles.
Numerous brands, such as 10 Deep from New York, were not showing their fall 2013 offerings ybut still selling spring items and immediates, such as floral print tees and a camo-mix button up. Sales director Josh Fishel explained that 10 Deep will debut its fall items in Las Vegas next month instead.
Those that did have fall ready tended not to stray from tried-and-true items such as graphic tees, varsity jackets and caps. Feltraiger showed its new sibling line RatMouth, which consists of snarky graphic tees and caps with phrases such as "Bite It You Scum" and "SSSuck It!" New York-based brand RockSmith, which originated in Japan, offered a blue varsity jacket with orange sleeves and a baseball-inspired "Ninjas" top. Trukfit also had varsity jackets, as did WeSC, which also showed a forest-animal print sweatshirt, a navy cotton pea coat, a full line of jeans and some bright 1970s-style nylon sneakers.
Other interesting footwear styles were on view at Android Homme (floral-print high-tops and textured bright red models) and Creative Recreation (a red leather high-top decorated with zippers, animal-print styles and catwalk-inspired metallic ones).
Interesting and affordable denim was on view at Born Fly, a brand created by Jacob Harris, owner of the Brooklyn streetwear boutique Vinnies. He explained that the collection was born strictly as an in-house line but is now being wholesaled to other doors.
Finnish snowboarding brand Makia showed some great high quality knits and a plaid fleece-lined cape. Glamour Kills also impressed with its women's 100% knitted sweaters which resembled message T-shirts. One has a skull graphic and reads HELL YEAH while the other features the face of a cat and reads CHILL OUT.
Finally, California-based accessories brand Hex offered clean, modern design (it will soon be working with the design-centric retailer Design Within Reach) with its various bags and electronic device holders–plus two amazing sets of headphones that retail for around $200. One is a striped fabric model while the other is in mock croc skin.
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Then, in November of 2011, the FDA issued yet another warning stating that there was a potential connection between dogs that were falling ill and chicken jerky that was being imported from China. (I reported on this back in December.) Common symptoms included:
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The Brute Enforcer is an Emergency Police Vehicle featured in the following games :
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (as the VCPD Enforcer)
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (as the NOOSE Enforcer)
It is called out once the player has reached a four-star wanted level (three in Chinatown Wars), containing SWAT Officers (or, in the case of GTA IV, NOOSE Tactical Response Unit Officers). It has seating for up to four people, including the driver.
The vehicle's overall performance is average-to-good. While large and heavy, the Enforcer's powerful engine allows it to accelerate well and reach high top speeds, while its cornering can be properly negotiated via the use of the handbrake. Its low clearance, small wheels and heavy weight, however, make it unsuited on rough terrain where it may roll easily. In some games, the player gains armor upon entering the Enforcer.
GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories
Between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories, the Enforcer is designed as a truck-based, long chassis emergency response vehicle, apparently based on a 1980s-1990s NYPD Freightliner "E33" Emergency Response Unit truck [1][2], similar in body construction, livery design and minor details; differences were negligible between games.
The Enforcer bears "POLICE" markings, except in GTA Vice City and Vice City Stories, where it has "SWAT" markings (as some forces ceased to officially use the term SWAT over time, this may be seen as a nod to historical accuracy). Police liveries of the Enforcer depend largely on those found on local police cars, although for GTA Vice City Stories, the game's Enforcer features a black-and-white livery, contrary to the VCPD Cruiser's green-and-white livery. Much like the "Police" car, the Enforcer in GTA III is revealed in a pre-release screenshot to originally feature a blue-and-white livery; it can be assumed that the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City may have prompted the same recoloring that gave the vehicle its present black-and-white color.
As with all Emergency/Police Vehicles, the Enforcer is equipped with sirens and lights which will cause other traffic to move out of the way when active. Although supposedly heavily armored, the truck is not bulletproof, although it is relatively resilient.
GTA IV — GTA: Chinatown Wars
In the GTA IV Era, the Enforcer shares a chassis with the Securicar and Police Stockade (based on an armored 1989-2001 International 4000 Series, but the front turning signals have been omitted). It bears the NOOSE livery, and "Liberty City Tactical Response Unit" markings. It comes with a black finish and cannot be washed at a car wish like every other Emergency Vehicles. It is labeled as being manufactured by Brute as an 8000cc "Turbochar" and also bears "8000 Stockade" badging.The vehicle is heavily armored with an Impregnable Armor, featuring "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT" as a company slogan) brand badges present to the lower back of the vehicle's cab), rendering it almost completely bulletproof; while most vehicles can be destroyed by a shotgun shell to the fuel tank, this does not apply to the Enforcer. The vehicle is still vulnerable to explosion damage and while a steel mesh grating over the windshield protects the driver and front passenger from frontal assault, the cabin's side windows are not armored. It does not have a Police Computer, unlike the other Law Enforcement Vehicles (except for the Annihilator and Police Maverick) because it is used by the NOOSE Tactical Response Unit Officers who are only called for interventions.
The rear axle of this vehicle is also unique as compared to most of the heavy vehicles in GTA IV, as instead of having double wheel for each side of the rear axle, this vehicle has only one wheel for each side of the rear axle which is uncommon for most of the heavy vehicles. This vehicle does not power with air-brake but instead, it powers with disc/disk-brake and/or drum brake.
The GTA Chinatown Wars rendition of the NOOSE Enforcer leans towards a van-based design similar to a Boxville, sharing the Alphamail's body design.
- In GTA IV, when you get a 5 or 6 star wanted level, the back doors of the enforcer will open revealing two NOOSE officers. If you drive behind them then they will open fire from the back of the truck. This is similar to other police who will fire from their car.
- In GTA IV, the Enforcer has no windows but when blown up, windows appear in its "wreck form" just like the Police Stockade.
- In GTA San Andreas, the Enforcer has LSPD (Los Santos Police Department) markings, regardless of where in the state it appears.
- In GTA III and GTA Vice City, Enforcers have red-and-white lightbars; GTA San Andreas Enforcers feature red-and-amber lightbars. Both lightbars, however, flash red and blue when active.
- A unique Enforcer in Give Me Liberty is a seperate model of a Rumpo.
- In the Introduction (GTA III) the Enforcer that is on fire and flipped to its side on Callahan Bridge, is the Enforcer from GTA LCS. The main difference is the color of the word "POLICE" and darker shade of black.
- A pre-GTA IV Enforcer has been featured in Manhunt 2 as a van for the Project Militia.
- In TBOGT, it takes at least 10 APC cannon or Explosive Shotgun rounds to trigger the Enforcer to burn and explode.
- After taking severe damage, the GTA IV Enforcer burns within the driver cab before exploding, just like the Securicar and the Police Stockade.
- In GTA IV the Enforcer can be sold at S&M Auto Sales where as the other NOOSE Vehicles, Police Vehicles and the FIB Buffalo can't.
- If the player enters an Enforcer, he will receive a full Body Armor if he didn't have it before. If the player lost some of his armor, it will be 100% again, except in GTA IV where the player receive 20% of Body Armor when he enters (it works similar as the Health in case of Ambulance cars).
- In Chinatown Wars, it is one of the three vehicles seen (though partially) in 3D (The Offshore Offload) along with Heston's Admiral (Evidence Dash) and the Ammu-Nation Yankee. Its license plate is "NOO 53".
GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories
- Parked in the backlot of the Staunton LCPD station. The gate into the area will only open if the player has a police vehicle. Alternately, the player can enter around the gate using the elevated veranda of the station's front entrance.
GTA Vice City
- Parked at the parking lot of the Vice Point VCPD station.
GTA San Andreas
- Sometimes spawn inside the garage of the LSPD, SFPD, and LVPD HQ.
- Spawns when you get a four star wanted level containing 4 SWAT NPCs wielding a micro SMG.
GTA Vice City Stories
- Parked behind the Downtown VCPD station (not in original PS2)
GTA IV + Episodes from Liberty City
- In GTA IV, obtainable during "Blow Your Cover", when the player returns to the same spot where they park Playboy X's yellow Patriot at a deal in Beechwood City, Broker. A NOOSE Enforcer will appear in roughly the same location.
- Obtainable at a 4-star wanted level.
GTA Chinatown Wars
- Parked in the backlot of the Varsity Heights LCPD station.
See also
- SWAT Van; GTA 2 and GTA Advance equivalent.


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The Faith of the Seven is the principal religion of the Seven Kingdoms. It is little-practiced beyond its borders. The Faith of the Seven is dominant in the south of Westeros. The only regions where it is not the majority religion are the North, where worship of the Old Gods of the Forest remains strong, and on the Iron Islands, where the local religion of the Drowned God is most widespread. There are many exceptions in all three areas, however.[1]
HistoryThe Faith originated six thousand years before the War of the Five Kings in the continent of Essos, specifically in Andalos where, according to legend, the "God of Seven" manifested before the Andal people. Afterward the Andals sailed west and their invasion of Westeros began. Some of the Andal warriors carved the seven-pointed star, the symbol of their religion, into their flesh to demonstrate their devotion. Bearing weapons made of steel, the Andals conquered the First Men and slaughtered the Children of the Forest, viewing their magic as an abomination before the Seven. The Andals burned down most of the weirwood trees in the south, which are considered sacred in the worship of the Old Gods of the Forest.[2] Soon all the kingdoms of the First Men, except the Kingdom of the North, fell to the invaders, who intermingled with some of the local dynasties, such as House Gardener, or replaced them altogether, as was the case of Mountain Kings of the Vale.[3][4] As the Andals asserted their dominance over all regions south of the Neck, they asserted their religion over the First Men they conquered, replacing the worship of the Old Gods almost entirely throughout the southern kingdoms of Westeros. Thus the Andals' Faith of the Seven became the dominant religion on the entire continent, except for in the North and the Iron Islands.[5][1]
The Faith holds that there is one god who has seven faces or aspects: the Father, the Mother, the Maiden, the Crone, the Warrior, the Smith, and the Stranger. Each aspect represents one part of life or existence.[1]
- The Father: represents divine justice, and judges the souls of the dead.
- The Mother: represents mercy, peace, fertility, and childbirth. She is sometimes referred to as "the strength of women".
- The Maiden: represents purity, love, and beauty.
- The Crone: represents wisdom and foresight. She is represented carrying a lantern.
- The Warrior: represents strength and courage in battle.
- The Smith: represents creation and craftsmanship.
- The Stranger: The Stranger represents death and the unknown. It is rarely prayed to.
The Stranger is depicted as neither male nor female, thus the number of male and female aspects within the godhead is equal: three males (Father, Warrior, Smith), three females (Maiden, Mother, Crone), and one who is neither. Unlike the other aspects which are represented as human figures in artwork, because the Stranger represents the unknown it is often portrayed in a wide variety of forms, often frightening. Sometimes it is represented as a skeletal figure, or a non-human creature possessing various animalistic features.
Due to its seven "aspects", the deity is often referred to as the "Seven-faced God" or the "God of Seven", but most frequently as simply "the Seven". The Seven are also referred to as "the New Gods" or "New God", in contrast with the "Old Gods" of the Forest worshiped by the First Men before the invasion of the Andals.[6]
In practice, many devotees will refer to the aspects as "Gods" plural, though priests of the Faith will attempt to stress the theological nuance to their followers that there is indeed only one God, the "Seven-in-One" deity. This has not stopped the commonly heard exclamation "Gods be good!" from being used pervasively throughout the Seven Kingdoms.Due to the "Seven-in-One" nature of the deity, the number seven is sacred in the religion, with symbolism involving the number seven featuring heavily in its belief system. Newborn babies are anointed with seven oils and named in the light of the Seven hours after they are born. In death, there are said to be Seven Hells.
The Seven Pointed Star is the most prominent symbol of the Faith, representing how each of the seven aspects is one facet of a unified whole. Other common symbols include rainbows, which are often generated by crystal prisms. This is used as an allegory to explain the complex theological concept of a single God composed of Seven persons: just as pure light separates into the constituent seven colors of the rainbow as it passes through a crystal, so too is there only one deity, which appears to men in seven different ways.
Patterns of worship
Unlike the Old Gods of the Forest, whose worshipers in The North are looked down upon by members of the Faith of the Seven as savages who worship multiple gods, the Faith is based on a number of holy texts and complex social rules. The most prominent of these books is titled The Seven Pointed Star.
Temples of the Faith are seven-sided buildings known as "Septs", with each wall dedicated to one of the seven aspects. Followers of the Faith gather in septs for group prayer, which frequently involves singing hymns of praise to the Seven. One such hymn dedicated to the Mother is "Gentle Mother, Font of Mercy". There are also monasteries, known as "septries", where smaller numbers of worshipers gather who have taken a monastic oath. Septries often have vows of silence or other requirements, and are places of quiet contemplation.
- See main article: "Knighthood".
Mounted warriors known as knights dedicate themselves to a code of behavior known as chivalry, heavily influenced by the Faith of the Seven and its principles. The will of the Seven is said to favor the victor in a trial by combat.
Social rulesAlong with the Old Gods, the Faith shares several basic social rules against incest, kinslaying, and bastardy. The Faith of the Seven, along with all major religions, also upholds the laws of hospitality, which hold sacred the good behavior of a guest and host towards each other.
The Faith of the Seven considers homosexuality to be a sin. Therefore, homosexuals in the Seven Kingdoms such as Ser Loras Tyrell and Renly Baratheon must keep their true sexual and romantic behavior secret, or else face significant social consequences.There are no different denominations within the Faith of the Seven, as all adherents are part of one universal organization. However, different regions of the Seven Kingdoms may interpret and apply its rules more or less strictly than others, particularly Dorne. When the Rhoynar migrated to Dorne a thousand years ago, they brought with them their own social customs from their river-based city-states on the continent of Essos. The Rhoynar converted to the Faith of the Seven, but in many ways they picked and chose which parts of the religion they liked and simply ignored the parts they didn't want to follow. Thus the present-day Dornishmen which descend from them follow the rules of the Faith somewhat loosely. In particular, the Rhoynar were quite tolerant of sexual behavior including homosexuality, and thus homosexuality or bisexuality carries little if any social taint in present-day Dorne, even though they are still nominally followers of the Faith of the Seven. Thus while a knight from the Reach such as Ser Loras Tyrell must hide his homosexuality, several major lords and ladies in Dorne are openly bisexual or homosexual. The Rhoynar also had much less disdain for bastards than the peoples already established in Westeros when they arrived. While bastards in present-day Dorne do have to use the bastard surname "Sand" and are less likely to inherit, it is actually not unusual to see bastards living at the court of their noble parents there.
Wedding Ceremonies
Unlike the faith of the Old Gods of the Forest, which lacks elaborate ceremonies (including marriage ceremonies), weddings under the auspices of the Faith of the Seven are elaborate and ritualized. These ceremonies typically take place inside of a sept and are presided over by a septon. At the beginning of the ceremony, the bride is escorted to the altar by her father where the groom and the septon await. The groom is then told, "You may now cloak the bride and bring her under your protection" and drapes a cloak bearing his house's colors around the bride's shoulders.
The bride and groom then join hands, which are tied together with a ribbon by the septon, who says, "In the sight of the Seven, I hereby seal these two souls, binding them as one, for eternity." He then instructs them to, "Look upon one another and say the words." At this point, the bride and groom turn to face each other are recite the following vow in unison: "Father, Smith, Warrior, Mother, Maiden, Crone, Stranger, I am his/hers and she/he is mine from this day until the end of my days."
Deviations from this ritual do occur sometimes. Owing in large part to its spur-of-the-moment, secret nature and the characters' remote location at the time, the wedding of Robb Stark and Talisa Maegyr takes place outside instead of inside a sept. It also appears that Robb did not cloak Talisa (possibly because he did not have a cloak available). Talisa is also not given away by her father, who was not present or anyone else for that matter. By contrast, Sansa Stark is given away at her wedding but not by her father, who had been executed beforehand. Instead, King Joffrey Baratheon, saying he is "the Father of the Realm" takes it upon himself to give Sansa away.
Unlike the worship of the Old Gods, the Faith of the Seven has an organized clergy with a complex internal hierarchy. Both men and women can be priests of the Seven. Male priests are known as septons and female priests as septas.[1]
The head of the Faith is known as the High Septon, who resides at the headquarters of the Faith of the Seven, the Great Sept of Baelor in the city of King's Landing.There are several monastic or devotional orders that believers in the Faith of the Seven may belong to. One of the most prominent of these is the Silent Sisters, a separate all-female monastic order devoted to the Stranger, the aspect that represents death. The Silent Sisters are responsible for dressing and preparing dead bodies for funeral rites, and have taken vows of silence and chastity. Silent Sisters are separate from the regular clergy, and are not considered to be septas.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Faith is altogether quite similar to how it is portrayed on-screen. Author George R.R. Martin has stated that the Faith of the Seven is loosely analogous, at least in social function, to the medieval Catholic Church. Martin himself was raised Roman Catholic but by the time of the TV series, describes himself as a "lapsed Catholic". He borrowed the idea of the three-in-one Holy Trinity (Father-Son-Holy Ghost) and modified it into a "Holy Septinity" of sorts when he made the seven-in-one god of the Faith of the Seven.
When Aegon the Conqueror invaded and subdued Westeros three centuries ago, he gained the support of the Faith, who crowned him King and convinced the rulers of the city of Oldtown to open their gates to him. The Faith's support was critical to Aegon taking control of the continent. However, when he died and his son Aenys (born of incest, which is proscribed by the Faith) took the throne, they led a religious uprising against him. This uprising was eventually crushed by the Targaryen dynasty with great loss of life, when the weakling Aenys died and was succeeded by his ruthless brother Maegor the Cruel. Peace was reached when Maegor died and was succeeded by Aenys' son Jaehaerys, who brokered a peace agreement: the Faith didn't have to actively support the incestuous marriage practices of the Targaryens, but it did have to at least acknowledge the marriages as valid, and the Faith's leadership accepted the offer. The Faith's military forces, the Faith Militant, disbanded and the Faith have remained loyal supporters of the crown ever since.
Many septons and septas are based at a sept or septry, but "begging brothers", septons without a sept, wander the Seven Kingdoms and minister to smaller towns and villages which lack septs of their own.
Similar to the real-life College of Cardinals in Catholicism, the Faith is ruled over by a council known as the Most Devout, which elects the High Septon. New High Septons are usually selected from among the members of the Most Devout, but this is not a requirement. While septons and septas serve on the council of the Most Devout, the High Septon is usually male. It hasn't been mentioned if there is an actual rule against electing a "High Septa" and there has never been one, or if there were High Septas in the past, and one simply hasn't been elected during the timeframe of the novels.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 HBO viewers guide, season 2 appendix, Gods Old and New entry
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Westeros: "The Old Gods and the New"
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Westeros: "The Age of Heroes"
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Westeros: "House Arryn"
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Westeros: "The Old Gods and the New"
- ↑ Complete Guide to Westeros: "The Old Gods and the New"
See also
|Major religions in Essos:
· Great Stallion · Great Shepherd · Ghiscari religion ·
· Moonsingers · Lion of Night & Maiden-Made-of-Light
|Lesser cults in Essos:
· Hooded Wayfarer · Moon-Pale Maiden · Merling King


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In doing so, the project moved from skateboard to snowboard as the phone maker teamed up with snow sports equipment manufacturer Burton and design agency Vitamins Design -- the same group whose "Folding Wheel" concept won various design awards (and was featured in the September 2010 issue of Wired). After all, who could be better to help with a new hardware concept than a group who literally reinvented the wheel?As such, Vitamins was primarily responsible for the research and development of the hardware for Push and took the components it designed through numerous changes and modifications before they were ready to be set loose on the mountain with Burton and Nokia. We visited Vitamins in its south London base to take at look at some early prototypes for the sensors, which were, to say the least, crude: an optical laser mouse positioned over a hole in a baking tray that would slide over snow to measure speed isn't exactly what you might call "sophisticated technology". In continuing its attempts to devise a system for accurately tracking speed, the Vitamins team also drove around central London, leaning out of car windows and pointing speed radar guns at the ground to gain a reading. While this did provide a fairly accurate measurement, the same technique could not be used on snow, due to the ice crystals scattering the beam from the radar gun and therefore not returning a beam that could be measured. (You can see photos of many prototypes in the gallery below.)This was one of many challenges the team had to overcome in building the sensors for Push. 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The mathematics department at Volunteer State Community College now offers a five semester hour course entitled, "Mathematics for Industrial Technology." In the past, the college has offered mathematics courses for general education, engineering, and business majors. The technical mathematics offering is a new direction.
In the fall of 1998 the college and Bosch Braking Systems joined with Nashville State Technical Institute to offer, for the first time, an 80 hour degree program for Bosch employees. Upon successful completion of the program these employees will receive an Associate's Degree in Industrial Technology. The timing of this program and of this Education Edge grant initiative provided an opportunity to develop an excellent technical mathematics course.
An important component of this degree program is the technical mathematics course. The authors built into this grant project the objective of developing an up-to-date mathematics course. The advantage here would be that the authors could develop this course in conjunction with people in business and industry who use mathematics every day.
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Mathematics 165
Mathematics for Industrial Technology
An integrated course in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Topics include but are not limited to: basic geometry, elements of trigonometry, solving systems of equations using determinants and matrices, vectors, oblique triangles, complex numbers, exponential and logarithmic functions, variation, conic sections, elementary statistics, elements of statistical process control, and metric measurement. Designed primarily for students in an Associates of Applied Science program in conjunction with a particular industry.
Two years of high school algebra and an acceptable score on the AAPP placement test, or DSM 086. The ability to use a graphing calculator is strongly recommended.
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Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus (Metric Version), Allyn J. Washington, Addison-Wesley Pub., 6th edition, (1995) Student's Solution Manual Basic Technical Mathematics, Frances Bazen Willbanks, Anne Ziegler, Addison-Wesley Pub., 6th edition, (1995) Graphing Calculator Lab Manual for the Allyn J. Washington Series in Basic Technical Mathematics, Robert E. Seaver, Addison-Wesley Pub., 6th edition, (1995)
General Education Goals:
As a result of successfully completing this course, the student will have a sufficient mathematical foundation which will enable him or her to perform correct calculations and solve problems in an industrial setting.
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In addition to performing mathematical operations and becoming adept at problem solving, the student should be able to communicate his or her solution to a larger group in a clear and articulate manner.
Outcome Statements: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to perform each of the following operations.
- Find the perimeter and area of the following two-dimensional figures: square, rectangle, circle, parallelogram, triangle, and trapezoid.
- Measure angles in radians as well as degrees.
- Use Simpson's Rule to find the area of irregularly shaped figures.
- Find the surface area and volume of the following three-dimensional figures: cube, right circular cylinder, right prism, right circular cone, regular pyramid, sphere.
- Solve contextual problems using all of the above mentioned concepts.
- Find all of the following trigonometric ratios for any right triangle: sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, cotangent.
- Given the appropriate information, be able to find any missing part of a right triangle in the context of an applied problem.
- Find all of the trigonometric ratios of a general angle using the correct sign whether the angle is given in degrees or radians.
- Convert any angle from radians to degrees and vice-versa.
- Find the length of any circular arc.
- Find the area of any circular sector.
- Find the linear and angular velocity of any object moving in a circular motion.
- Find the vector components of any object moving in any direction on a two-dimensional coordinate axis system.
- Use the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines to find any part of a general triangle.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers.
- Find and simplify the product and quotient of any complex number in polar form.
- Use DeMoivre's Theorem to find any power or root of a complex number in polar form.
- Use complex numbers to solve applied problems involving voltage, current, reactance, impedance, phase angle, capacitive reactance, and inductive reactance.
- Graph any exponential or logarithmic function.
- Use the properties of exponents and the properties of logarithms to solve logarithmic and exponential equations.
- Change the base of any logarithm to either base 10 or base e.
- Interpret and create graphs of data on semi-log or log-log paper.
- Find the any unknown part of a proportion.
- Solve any applied problem where quantities vary directly, inversely, or jointly with each other.
- Prove any trigonometric identity using the eight basic trigonometric identities, the sum and difference identities, the double-angle identities, and the half-angle identities.
- Solve for any angle given a trigonometric function of that angle.
- Simplify and solve a trigonometric equation to find an unknown angle.
- Use the distance formula to find the distance between any two points on a coordinate axis system.
- Find the slope of any line and apply it to various situations such as carpentry and road building.
- Find, in any form, the equation of a straight line given the appropriate information about it.
- Use the equation of a straight line to write a formula expressing one variable in terms of another.
- Find all of the forms of the equation of a straight line i.e. point-slope, slope-intercept, and general.
- Find the coordinates of the center and the radius of a circle given its equation either in standard of general form.
- Given the coordinates of the center and the radius of a circle, write the equation for it in standard form.
- Given a set of data, arrange it into frequency distributions by intervals, set up a frequency distribution table, and represent the data graphically by either a histogram or frequency polygon, or both.
- Given a set of data, find the measures of central tendency i.e. mean, median, mode.
- Given a set of data, find the standard deviation.
- Use the Method of Least Squares to find the equation of the line that best fits a set of points obtained by collecting two sets of data.
- Extend the Method of Least Squares to find the equation of the nonlinear curve which best fits a set of points obtained by collecting two sets of data.
- Use the basic definitions of Statistical Process Control (SPC) to create and correctly interpret the following charts: X-R, np, p, c, and u.
- Use dimensional analysis to convert units within the metric system as well as convert from metric to English and vice-versa.
- Graph and interpret equations of the forms: y = a sin x, y = a cos x, y = a sin bx, y = a cos bx, y = a sin (bx + c), y = a cos (bx + c).
- Solve problems involving phenomena described by the equations in item 42 above.
Mathematics for Industrial Technology
Topical Outline
* Coverage may be modified to accommodate particular industry needs.
Units of Measurement; the Metric System
- Introduction
- Reductions and Conversions
- Basic Geometry
- Lines and Angles
- Triangles
- Quadrilaterals
- Circles
- Measurement of Irregular Areas
- Solid Geometric Figures
- The Trigonometric Functions
- Angles
- Defining the Trigonometric Functions
- Values of the Trigonometric Functions
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'Mad': Does My Mom Know I'm Watching This?
When I was a kid, chuckling my head off at Mad magazine's irreverent take on pop culture, I always thought, "They should make this into a TV show?" A-hem, just a few years since then Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network have answered that request, which is one many kids have had over the years.
The studio commissioned Robot Chicken writer/producer Kevin Shinick to tackle the task of turning the iconic mag into an animated series. The Emmy-nominated writer/actor/director has experience in irreverent animation on Chicken, as well as Ugly Americans. His writing credits also include the stage show Spider-Man Live!, as well as other comic book, games and TV productions.
Fans of Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? might remember him as the host of the Emmy-winning series.
Rick DeMott: So how do you go about putting together an episode of Mad?
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I'm thehead writer and I have a staff of three or four other writers. I'm fortunate to have the team that I do, because we all want this to be the best show for Mad, because we grew up reading it and we all loved it. So what we try to do is mirror the feel of the magazine. When you read the magazine it always started with a movie parody and ended with a TV parody. It would have fake commercials, fake promos in between Spy vs. Spy and whatever. So from that level we try to stack a show like that. We're always going to start with a movie and end with a TV and have anything else I mentioned in between.
From an animation standpoint, I'm always trying to make sure that every episode is a mini animated film festival. Usually… we break this rule from time to time… the movie parody is photo collage, the TV parody might be a Mort Drucker type look. I make sure we get Flash in there. I make sure we get stop-motion in every episode. Even within those categories we try and mix it up a bit. We have a couple different stop-motion companies we use, so they have different looks. We have a number of animators who have a really great style in their Flash. The company we use called Bunko does a lot of the photo collage stuff, but we also do a lot of the photo collage stuff in-house as well. So at the end of the day I'm looking up at my board and I'm making sure that one level I'm hitting all the things I'd want to see as a Mad magazine reader and now viewer and as an animation lover I want to see how many different styles I can put into one episode.
RD:Are most of the companies based in the United States or is it a mix between U.S. and foreign firms?
KS: It's a mix. A majority of them are here in the United States. One is in Korea. The majority are here either in Los Angeles or New York and varying places.
RD: What did you bring from your experience on Robot Chicken to this series?
KS: Well, it's funny they're similar in their format, but to me they're really different in their content, because at Robot Chicken I'll do a Strawberry Shortcake sketch or a He-Man sketch, but our goal for this show was to parody more stuff that is going on right now. We have all discovered Mad magazine somewhere between the ages of eight and 15. So that was what our target audience was. But I want this show to be enjoyable and funny to everybody. So I think we have jokes in there for everyone. You can watch this with your family. But our target demographic is eight to 15.
Both Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network wanted to make it a policy that most of the stuff you can point to on television now. Whether it be iCarly or the movies that are out this year and things like that, so it's a much more current show. We'll do topical things from time to time. That for me is the biggest difference. One is very retro and one is very current. Like we haven't done a Star Wars bit, but we've done a Clone Wars bit. And although we have stop-motion we run the gamut of styles as apposed to Robot Chicken where we pride ourselves on how well we do our stop-motion, but here it's like a hub of all types of animation.
RD: What's the difference between doing a show for a target audience of eight to 15 and doing a show that airs on Adult Swim?
KS: When we decided that we were going to do a Mad magazine type show we wanted it to appeal to a large audience. Also just like Mad magazine did, we wanted to give you the impression that you're watching something you probably shouldn't be allowed to watch. Now with Robot Chicken I could see a lot of parents saying you're definitely not allowed to watch that. We really don't have any parameters on Robot Chicken. If it's funny, we do it and we put it on the air and there you have it. Here because we're in a primetime time slot we have a larger audience for our demographic and we have much more hoops to jump through in terms of what can be said at 8:30 pm and done or seen. Now that being said the idea was they wanted to extend the hours of Adult Swim from 10 to 9 o'clock and use Mad to bridge the gap, which is why we're on at 8:30. The appearance of the evening starts to turn into "hmmm, I'm not sure if I should be watching this or not" has a great appeal.
RD: Mad magazine has been around along time and it seemed destined for animation, but do you think this is the right time to get away with it where as before you couldn't?
KS: I agree with that on so many levels, because on one hand our society has gotten so pop culture referential that I can't think of a better time to bring to life the mother of all comedy mags, which pretty much did that no matter what was on. Since we're in a society that [pokes fun at pop culture] on a regular basis, I thought this was a prime time to have this show come to life.
But also there has been huge advances in animation. There has been huge advances in acceptance of animation as a prime form. Cartoon Network, we have a network for cartoons and even Cartoon Network has advanced over the past x amount of years. So now it's not like "What? You want to do it as a cartoon?" The Simpsons broke down boundaries as a primetime show and everything sort of falls in line. I look at shows that we're up against or others on our network and it's such a different world than just 10 years ago in terms of variety.
Also, in this day and age, and I felt this on Robot Chicken too, we're not just competing with other shows, but we're competing with the Internet, we're competing with the guy at home who is doing his own animation style and popping it on a website. It's a great time to do it because it's so ripe, but it's also a challenging time.
RD: How has Mad magazine influenced the show?
As I said earlier about how we put together an episode that's how we stake a show. We have a writer's room and when we're writing it, we just sit and try to come up with whatever we can find funny. After looking through the magazine and seeing what worked for the magazine and what can translate to television well and what is better staying with the magazine, at the end of the day you realize that if it's funny it will work. There is a category it can be put into. There are so many things that make us laugh in the room that we're going to make it Mad. We're going to make it Mad like. But that's probably because it was very funny. So it's not very difficult to make it like the magazine, because we're just sitting around trying to make ourselves laugh.
Some of the challenges have been good for us. At Robot Chicken I can do a kick to the groin or we could throw in bleeps or curse and stuff and say, "hey, that will be funny." But here I know that I can't do that, but in a good way it made me go back and think that I don't have to do that to be funny. I can make stuff funny on its own. I don't need to be crass. We just had a blast doing that. And as I said before this world it ripe for pickin' in terms of things to make fun of. We haven't had any trouble with that.
RD: You transitioned from acting to writing to directing. What was your first break into writing?
KS: As an actor I started writing some theater pieces in New York and doing one man shows. Those shows got people into the room. After that I wanted to do a one man show off-Broadway and I was meeting with these producers and on the way out, completely as a side note, they said, "You don't know anything about Spider-Man, do you?" And I was like "Actually I do." I was a big fan of the comics. They had the world theatrical rights to do the first stage version of Spider-Man and they hadn't seen any treatments they liked, so they let me take a crack at it. One of the great things about this, as a performer and as a lover of theater, I sat down and wrote a treatment knowing that this is Spider-Man and this is going to be the first theater experience for a lot of kids. And I just wanted to offer everything the theater has to offer. I wanted it to be funny. I wanted it to be a big extravaganza. I wanted it to be a spectacle. So I went and wrote this Spider-Man Live! show and it toured the country to 40 cities. It played at Radio City Music Hall. It was a really great experience.
On one hand it legitimized myself as a writer, but also writing more of my own stuff and coming to Los Angeles and getting hooked up with Robot Chicken and Seth [Green] and all them that was my big break into television.
RD: Was animation something you were always a fan of or was it something that you grew a love for?
KS: My career has always gone with the door that opened. I wasn't always sure where I was going. I never went to a door and thought, "That's definitely not something I'm interested in." If you look at my resume, it's all over the place in terms of comic books and TV and film and theater, because whatever was in front of me, I was like, "let me take a look at this."
That being said I got a job ages ago as the voice of Nickelodeon. I was the guy who was like — Coming up next it's SpongeBob! They asked me if I wanted to become a writer and I said yes. It's funny that animation has become a huge part of my career, but I wouldn't say I went out and sought it. I've always enjoyed it. I've always appreciated it. I'm amazed at what you can achieve with animation. But to be honest it was very serendipitous. The animation world has embraced me, and my career, and I can't complain.
RD: What is the difference between writing for TV versus games versus comics?
KS: No matter what I'm doing I'm seeing it through the eyes of myself as an audience member. If it's a TV show then I know where I'm going to be watching it and what it's going to look like and what format it's going to be in. If I'm reading a comic or if I'm doing a theater piece, it's the same way. So I always write, it doesn't matter the medium, as if it's something I would want to read or see.
RD: My last question is — how many times have people asked you where in the world in Carmen Sandiego?
KS: (laughs) Very frequently. For Halloween, here at Warner Bros., someone went as Carmen Sandiego so they had the running gag whenever she was around saying, "hey Kev, there she is."
That was a great show that I enjoyed doing. It's so funny how it stays with me and how people continually bring it up. It stays with people and I'm very happy about that.
Rick DeMott is the director of content for Animation World Network, VFXWorld and AWNtv. Additionally, he's the creator of the movie review site, Rick's Flicks Picks, which was named one of the 100 best movie blogs by The Daily Reviewer. He has written for TV series, such as Discovery Kids' Growing Up Creepie and Cartoon Network's Pet Alien, the animation history book Animation Art, and the humor, absurdist and surrealist website Unloosen. Previously, he held various production and management positions in the entertainment industry.


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