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Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Fauna is found in many of the GTA games.
Fauna in 3D Universe
In the 3D Universe, the fauna remain generally the same and don't play a very major role in the game. In GTA III and GTA Vice City, Seagulls can be spotted flying overhead, but the seagulls in GTA III are just static props, much like the DeadDodo airplane. In GTA Vice City, seagulls can be shot down with a sniper rifle, but they offer no achievement and are not required for 100% completion.
GTA San Andreas features other birds alongside seagulls; eagles/hawks fly low over the desert and dove-like white birds can be seen flying around rural areas. Also, with the addition of diving underwater in GTA San Andreas, marine life can be spotted, such as schools of fish, jellyfish, dolphins, and sea turtles. These, too, are unsolid, and just static props. The fish are programmed to jump away from the player if he gets too close to them.
One particular named animal in the game is Ken Rosenberg's talking parrot named Tony, which can only be seen in the opening cutscenes for the missions Intensive Care, The Meat Business and Freefall. The bird's role in the game is minor, appearing only a few times as a comic relief when Ken resides in Las Venturas. The parrot utters, among others, Mafia slang terms and foul language, as well as a quote from Tony Montana: "I haven't fucked anybody over in my life who didn't have it coming to them", from the 1983 film Scarface.
The only other animal who is named in the game is Herbie, an astral goat who belongs to The Truth during the events of GTA San Andreas. However, the goat is never seen in any mission or cutscene whatsoever. The Truth claims that he travels around on Herbie and that he has not driven in fifteen years, despite owning a Camper.
In GTA San Andreas, sharks are rumored to be seen very rarely in shallow waters around San Fierro and Los Santos. But no logical evidence has ever been shown to support these claims, and most videos and pictures are just taken from modifications. Also, people may be mistaking dolphins for sharks.
Flies can be seen buzzing around trash piles throughout the state, including in the maintenance closet in the Four Dragons Casino.
In GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories, seagulls return once again and remain just as they were in GTA III; unsolid props.
Fauna in HD Universe
In GTA IV the only fauna are Flying Rats (pigeons). The flying rats will not move from their location, but will coo and peck at the ground. There are 200 flying rats in Liberty City and can be shot, resulting in a puff of feathers and blood. Shooting all 200 Flying Rats unlocks an achievement, an Annihilator on top of a helipad in Star Junction, and is required for 100% completion.
Seagulls once again return in The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. These seagulls function like Flying Rats; they do not move from their location, and have to be killed to achieve 100% completion. There are 50 seagulls around the city, and can be "collected" by shooting them. In TLAD, collecting all seagulls will unlock an Innovation, both at your safehouse and deliverable by Clay. Killing all Seagulls in TBoGT spawns an APC at Yusuf Amir's construction site. All fifty in TLAD were found by the gaming community within five days of release, before any official information was released.
In the game's ambient city audio, you can hear a dog barking, but there are no dogs in the game.
Fauna in GTA V
Animals return in GTA V and play a much larger role in the storyline.
Dogs appear in the game, and can be interacted with in various ways by the player. The only named dog in the game is Chop, a large Rottweiler belonging to Lamar Davis. The player can take the dog on walks and interact with him, boosting Chop's happiness.
Many avian animals can be seen in-game, such as seagulls, hawks, and other smaller rural birds.
List of Fauna in GTA games
GTA Vice City
- Sharks
- Dolphins
- Jellyfish
- Seagulls
GTA San Andreas
- Dolphins
- Jellyfish
- Starfish
- Fish
- Sea Turtles
- Seagulls
- Parrot
- Eagles/Hawks (not known which one)
- Flies
GTA Vice City Stories
- Seagulls
GTA Liberty City Stories
- Seagulls
- Flying Rats (Pigeons)
- Seagulls
GTA TBoGT
- Seagulls
- Deer
- Dogs
- Seagulls
- Sharks
- Cougars
- Cows
- Crows
- Various types of fish
- Coyote
- Boars
- Pigs
- Rats
- Chickens
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Rain is the eighth episode in season 1 of CSI: NY.
Three men commit a bank robbery that goes wrong in Chinatown which leaves two of them charred. When investigation is underway, it is discovered that the bank's manager, Joanna Cho assisted the robbery in fear of her infant daughter, Doris. When the third robber is tracked down, he is found in a pool of blood, with bloody baby handprints leading away.
Main Cast
- Gary Sinise as Det. Mack "Mac" Taylor
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- Mark Kelly as Rob Bloom
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- Matt Bushell as Marvin Hummel
- Samantha Quan as Joanne Cho
- David Guzzone as Kevin Moretti
- The baby was born in the Year of the Monkey and was 11 months old. Chinese New Year for the Year of the Monkey started January 22, 2004. In order for the baby to be 11 months old, this episode, shown in mid-November, must take place after December 22.
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Your castle walls are being smashed by siege engines, an enemy catapult surrounded by troops is rumbling ever closer, your villagers are starving, wolves have been spotted in a nearby cave, your barracks are desperately empty... just another typical day for a medieval lord in FireFly Studios' Stronghold 3. Since first launching in 2001, the Stronghold series has become one of the most respected in its genre thanks to its mix of precision village building, fast-paced real-time gameplay and dramatic sieges with hundreds of enemies swarming over your castle. Stronghold 3 promises to be the best yet, with a keep full of fantastic new features that ensure old and new fans alike experience a gritty slice of medieval life.
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All Men Can't Jump
Why nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
At first glance the annual Man vs. Horse Marathon, set for June 9 in Wales, seems like a joke sport brought to us by the same brilliant minds behind dwarf tossing and gravy wrestling. It was, after all, the product of a pints-fueled debate in a Welsh pub, and for years its official starter was rock musician Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. But the jokiness is misleading: When viewed through science's clarifying lens, the funny marathon is one of the few sports that isn't a joke.
Hear me out, sports fans—I'm a basketball nut myself, and so the joke is as much on me as anyone. To see where I'm coming from, you can't do better than examining basketball's most physically talented player, Michael Jordan. He was hailed as nearly repealing the law of gravity, and during his prime he made rival players look as if they were moving in slow motion. But Air Jordan wasn't in the same league as a house cat when it comes to leaping. Consider how casually young cats can jump up onto refrigerators. To match that, a man would have to do a standing jump right over the backboard. And a top-notch Frisbee dog corkscrewing through the air eight feet up to snag a whizzing disc makes Jordan look decidedly human when it comes to the fantastic quickness, agility, strength, and ballistic precision various animals are endowed with.
There's no denying it—our kind started substituting brains for brawn long ago, and it shows: We can't begin to compete with animals when it comes to the raw ingredients of athletic prowess. Yet being the absurdly self-enthralled species we are, we crowd into arenas and stadiums to marvel at our pathetic physical abilities as if they were something special. But there is one exception to our general paltriness: We're the right honorable kings and queens of the planet when it comes to long-distance running.
The Wales marathon has helped demonstrate that. Its originator was a Welsh pub owner named Gordon Green. One day in 1979 he got into an argument with an equestrian friend about the relative strengths of men and horses as distance runners. Green insisted a human could beat a horse in a long race, and to prove his point he helped instigate the marathon in 1980. For the next 24 years, he found himself losing the argument as riders on horseback left human runners behind. But then it finally happened—in 2004 a British man named Huw Lobb won. Three years later Germany's Florian Holzinger outran the horses, as did one other human contestant. The media loved it—a predictable farce had become a man-bites-dog story. Bookies were less enthused; they had to pay out on bets made at 16-to-1 odds favoring the horses.
The oddsmakers would have known better if they'd been following the work of Harvard anthropologist Daniel Lieberman and University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble. They jointly proposed in a 2004 paper that we're superlatively endowed by evolution to go long. Our long-striding legs are packed with springlike tendons, muscles, and ligaments that enable us to briefly store elastic energy as we come down on a foot and then recoil to help propel us forward. Tellingly, the most important of these springs, our big, strong Achilles tendons, aren't found in early human precursors such as Australopithecus—it seems that the high-end tendons evolved along with other adaptations for distance running in the genus Homo when it appeared on the African savannah about 2 million years ago.
We've inherited large leg and foot joints from those ancestors, which spread out high forces that must be absorbed when running. To help ensure stability on two legs, we have big gluteus maximus muscles. (Chimps, which are incapable of distance running, have comparatively tiny butts.) Our clever torsos are designed to "counter-rotate" versus the hips as we run, also aiding stability. And we have an unusually large percentage of fatigue-resistant, slow-twitch muscle fibers, which make for endurance rather than speed. By contrast, most animals are geared for sprinting because they're either predators that chase or prey that run away, and their muscles thus have much higher percentages of fast-twitch fibers than ours. (Cheetahs' hind-leg muscles are the fast-twitch-richest of all.)
But what most sets us apart as runners is that we're really cool—we naked apes are champion sweaters and can dissipate body heat faster than any other large mammal. Our main rivals for the endurance-running crown fall into two groups: migratory ungulates, such as horses and wildebeest, and social carnivores, such as dogs and hyenas. They can easily out-sprint us by galloping. But none can gallop very far without overheating—they largely rely on panting to keep cool, and they can't pant when galloping, for panting involves taking very rapid, shallow breaths that would interfere with respiration when running. Dogs can gallop for only about 10 to 15 minutes before reverting to a trot, and so their distance-running speed tops out at about 3.8 meters per second. Horses' average distance-running speed is 5.8 meters per second—a canter. Wildebeests' is 5.1 meters per second.


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Hopefully Oklahoma will be more tired than ISU. Tough to beat a team 3 times in the same season. ISU can do it, but it should be a good game. I think it's better ISU is playing the Sooners rather than the thugs from WVU.
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I was SO surprised to see ISU women on TWO local cable channels here in Florida last night.
No matter what, I could NEVER cheer for Dirt and Urine.
Should be a tough game. I think this game will be won in the paint with good play from our bigs. Just keep winning!
Heading to the stadium now. Looking for a good game from the sisters. Am thinking a critical aspect will be Coach Fen's rotation of the bigs. Keep 'em fresh and out of foul trouble.
Wow. OSU had a chance to tie it up with Baylor with about a minute left and turned it over...what a close game.
Still can't believe OU wont the game against WVU last night
It awesome that the jerkazoids here in Minnesota that turn FSN into the fishing and hockey channel on weekends are actually carrying the game today!
Wonder in what manner will the refs intervene? It would be nice to have a feature game where we don't end up with a single comment on the refs. I don't think the powers that be will be very happy to see big hair Cole lose three time in one season to that gray haired guy from the northern plains.
Man, is the announcer related to Whitney Hand?
Keep it up ladies, bury them early and often, you can tell OU is tired
23-3 run. incredible.
Would be nice to have the chance to ease up at the end to help prep for Baylor
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And, according to sources, he also makes a dangerous margarita, a killer mojito and a superior guacamole.But what's currently obsessing Enriquez is his vision about the next stage of human evolution: from Homo sapiens to a new species he calls Homo evolutis. He recently published a short ebook of this name, based on his 2009 TED talk, written with his Excel Medical Fund partner Steve Gullans. In it, they argue that genomics, robotics and other scientific innovations are turning Homo sapiens into a higher form of hominid, one that's able to take its evolution into its own hands. This new species will be able, or already is able, to regenerate limbs, extend its lifespan and control its environment in ways considered impossible a decade ago. The authors think evolution is like that -- it occurs in bursts, and the world transforms before you've even noticed that the change has begun.The pair say they aren't futurists. "What we're doing is closer to history and cartography," they write. "We focus on discoveries that have occurred very recently, and how they will profoundly change tomorrow."Homo Evolutis combines short, elliptical sentences, charts, photographs, emoticons and nerdy jokes into a dizzying yet entertaining voyage into astrophysical, biological and anthropological research. In it, Enriquez and Gullans argue that hominid speciation has been going on for millions of years, and that only very recently in the history of the universe did Homo sapiens become the only member of its species. Our asumption that no other humanoid would ever appear "completely ignored all evolutionary history and the fossil record", they write. "And, perhaps, far more importantly, it also ignored what is occurring right around us daily as our ability to read, copy and write life-code evolves."Enriquez sees this with absolute certainty. He believes that time and science will prove his Homo evolutis thesis to be correct. "It's a very different gig from the hominid that's aware of its environment," he says. "A lot of people think that the way you modify evolution is, you change the human hand, or make this person taller or shorter. All that stuff is going on, but we're also keeping people alive today who, under most circumstances, would have been dead a long time ago. And we're bringing people into the world today who likely would have never been born. You look at pregnancy today and see that there are at least 17 ways to get pregnant. All of a sudden you can have a baby in five years, ten years, 50 years, 100 years. You're decoupling time and reproduction. That's a very advanced concept."When you bring together the ability to read life with the ability to rewrite life, you're going to generate a big chunk of the coming global economy," he continues. "We're going to try to do that. We're going to try to change energy, we're going to try to change chemicals, we're going to try to change medicine, we're going to try to change a pile of stuff. We're just beginning to touch it. That's what's amazing."Enriquez is a TED rock star: he gave a prescient 2003 conference talk, "Decoding the future with genomics", and in 2011 was one of two guest TED curators, the first time anyone has held that honour. The other was Bill Gates.But although the 52-year-old can boast a list of professional accomplishments worthy of a handful of careers, Enriquez still approaches the world like a perpetual student. In his mind, he's barely begun. "I've got so much to learn, it's ridiculous," he says.It's late spring at the intersection of Vassar and Main in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Enriquez, wearing the smart-casual tech uniform of a blue blazer, white shirt and khaki trousers, looks around at the heart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus. He sees nothing but progress."You're standing on the most important corner on the planet today," he says, pointing out all the adjacent buildings. To his mind, the diverse areas of research being conducted inside them are all interconnected."This is what's going to determine what's going on with brains and cognitive research," he says, indicating to a building behind him."This is where most of the public human-genome sequencing is done. And this is the centre for integrative cancer research. Back here, they're doing the future of fuels, the future of electricity, the future of viruses and robots." He points out the headquarters across the street of Novartis and Genzyme, two huge genomics firms, and adds that at least 200 other life-science firms are headquartered within three kilometres. "This place right here, in market capital, has created companies equivalent to the thirteenth-largest economy on the planet," he says. Since 2004, Enriquez, along with several partners, has operated the Excel Medical Fund, a venture-capital firm that he calls a "weird little nerd shop". It has helped create "some very interesting little companies", including Synthetic Genomics, which produced the world's first completely artificial life form. Many of those little companies are earning millions in revenue, but Enriquez says they have a chance to make more than just money. Read page 2 1234567 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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- KeLeBeK said...
I follow your blog for a while. You are amazing woman. I love your energy, vision and colors =)
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ove the post. Some great pieces, especially the first photo.
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I love her hair, and she definitely reminds me of Ilona and Carol Burnett (who was my childhood idol).
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Legislation meant to clarify when and how student-led prayers are allowed in public schools has passed the North Carolina Senate.
The bill that passed unanimously Thursday says students can pray and express religious viewpoints as long as they don't create disruptions. It also requires school employees to show "appropriate respect" toward students who are properly exercising their rights.
Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem.
Some Democrats have questioned the need for the bill and the removal of language from a previous version of the bill explicitly forbidding the schools from establishing an official religion.
The bill now heads to the House.
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July is the seventh month of the year. It's one of the months of the year with thirty-one days.
In his youth, it was one of Harry Potter's least favourite months because he was at the Dursleys' instead of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with his friends. Ironically, it was also the month of his birthday. It was also, however, during this month that Harry first learned that he was a wizard.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Groupon is launching a new service that allows businesses run credit cards using an iPhone or iPod Touch, the latest company to seek a portion of that growing market.
Groupon Payments is aimed mainly at businesses that offer deals through the Groupon. A test program, however, allows other merchants to use the service at higher rates.
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The Democratic National Convention is taking place in Charlotte this week and there's a huge focus on independent media… especially blogging and citizen journalism. With convention delegates and the media armed with iPhones and using Instagram, Twitter, YouTube & Facebook this has election is more connected & real-time than any that has come before.
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GRAYSON COUNTY, TX - The number of Grayson County residents infected with the West Nile Virus continues to grow.
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Into the Garden: Divide plants now for a showier spring
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I hate long division. In math and in the garden.
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Don't forget to water this fall. Trees and shrubs are already stressed due to our harsh summer and will need a bit of TLC during the autumn months.
Using a soaker hose on a timer is an efficient way to water new plants. There are kits available at many garden centers that include soaker hoses and regular hoses. Put the soaker section around the base of the plant, and then use the regular garden-type hose between plants so you don't waste water.
Other fall chores slated for the next few weeks include digging up cannas and dahlias, planting new trees (to replace those lost in the derecho), and putting away all of the garden stakes and pots.
The National Home Gardening Club suggests putting terra cotta pots in a place where they will not experience the freeze-and-thaw cycle. A porous material, terra cotta gets water into the pores, and the freezing and thawing of that water will cause the pots to break. Even if the pots are glazed, they will still crack in cold weather.
Dump out the pots, scrub the pot lightly with a wire brush, then wash with a 10 percent bleach solution. Let the pots dry, and store them where they won't get wet. If you must leave them outdoors, mulch around the terra cotta thoroughly, surround it with burlap and fill the burlap with an insulator such as dry leaves, straw or pine needles.
Plastic pots can become brittle in cold weather. Storing them away from extreme cold is good -- they also will benefit from a good scrubbing with a 10 percent bleach solution.
I learned a valuable lesson last year when I brought in my houseplants that had enjoyed a summer vacation on the back porch. Insects had burrowed into the bottom of the plants (through the little drainage hole) and, once inside, they decided to find new digs. So be sure to give the plants a good rinsing with the hose to remove any bugs from the leaves and stems, and check the bottom of the pot for any freeloaders. Prune any damaged parts, and repot if necessary.
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Wooden and metal furniture are best stored somewhere out of the weather, or under a tarp or cover. Some metals, such as cast iron, are susceptible to rust. Use rustproof paint to protect these items.
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WASHINGTON – Even the substantial changes made in mental health treatment in Virginia after 32 people were killed by a gunman at Virginia Tech in 2007 may not be enough to stop mentally ill people from getting guns.
The condition of the country's mental health system has become a big issue following the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Virginia's mental health care system received sharp criticism after the Virginia Tech shootings because the killer, who had been under mental health care, was still able to legally buy two hand guns.
Gov. Bob McDonnell says millions of dollars were added for treatment.
"We also reformed our mental health laws with regard to the whole procedure for getting adjudicated incompetent," says McDonnell.
Those with mental health issues who go through the system and are reviewed by a judge are now in a database preventing them from legally buying or owning a gun.
But that would not prevent many people with mental health issues from getting a gun. People with mental health issues often go undetected unless they have brushes with the law.
Del. Bob Marshall (R-Manassas) says part of the problem may be the federal privacy laws known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
"If you're a spouse or a parent, you can't even know, according to the HIPAA laws, that in fact your spouse or your child is receiving this kind of treatment, even though your insurance is paying for it."
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It's falling... Whatever!
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More than $81 million has been awarded to date to 40 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. The funds are enabling states and local communities to initiate planning strategies to address the impacts of BRAC 2005 closures and realignments on a national scale and to provide training and other reemployment services to BRAC-impacted individuals.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- A football fan was stabbed in the neck following San Francisco 49ers-Atlanta Falcons NFL playoff game.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the incident occurred in a parking lot outside the Georgia Dome. The newspaper reported the Falcons' fans began arguing with a small group of 49ers fans. The argument escalated and one fan punched another fan and then someone pulled a knife and slashed a 35-year-old man. He was not identified. Atlanta television station WSB reported he was in stable condition at an Atlanta hospital.
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Georgia World Congress Center police are handling the investigation. Police say they hope to speak to a woman spotted in the area, though it's unclear whether they view her as a suspect or witness
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Clifford Thies on the American Economic Association and Richard T. Ely
Recorded: Monday, November 28, 2011
The American Economic Association (AEA) takes pride in celebrating its founder Richard T. Ely. This pride is strange, given the character of Elys thought, which is revealed in The Independent Review article The Shaping of a Future Presidents Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins by Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford F. Thies, as well as the Econ Journal Watch article Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza. In this podcast, Thies is interviewed by the economist Lawrence H. White and explores Elys ideas, values, and impact. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
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Jeffrey A. Miron on Legalizing Drugs
Recorded: Friday, November 20, 2009
Originally aired on 11/20/09 on FoxBusiness.com Live. Jeffrey A. Miron, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Drug War Crimes, argues in favor of legalizing marijuana and other drugs in the U.S.
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FORT WAYNE (www.incnow.tv) - Homestead's and Concordia's girls scored impressive pre-Christmas basketball wins Wednesday night.
Sydney Buck scored 13 of her game high 23 points in the first quarter of Homestead's 52-38 win over previously unbeaten and 3A third ranked Angola 52-38
Josie Fisher added 11 and Lindley Kistler ten for the 4A No. 13 Lady Spartans.
Rachel Rinehart led Angola with twelve.
Courtney Smith scored 19 points and DeJour Young 17 as 3A No. 8 Concordia moved to 8-2 with their 58-41 win over Columbia City, who got twelve points from Emily Whiteleather.
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Rohan Marley, the father of singer Lauryn Hill's five kids, is calling Wyclef Jean a liar.
As Jean made his media rounds last week promoting his book, Purpose: An Immigrant's Story, he discussed his former relationship with Fugees band mate Lauryn Hill including the confusion of him fathering her first child.
During interviews last week, Jean claimed he had an affair with Hill in 1996 while he was with his current wife, Marie Claudinette. He shared that Hill told him he was the father of her first child, Zion David and he even showed up at the hospital for the birth. He added that Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, was not present.
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Hallowe'en is a holiday celebrated by both Muggles and the wizarding world on 31 October. At Hogwarts School, there is a feast every year on Hallowe'en and the first Hogsmeade weekend of the year usually occurs around the same day. Rubeus Hagrid grows enormous pumpkins for the feast by magic. On this day in 1981, the First Wizarding War ended with the disappearance of Lord Voldemort, after he murdered James and Lily Potter. It was also the day Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington died.
Hallowe'en feast
The Hallowe'en Feast at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry occurs on the 31st of October every year. Usually the Hallowe'en Feast is festooned with sweets-filled pumpkins, bats, orange streamers, water snakes and all sorts of Hallowe'en-related decorations. There is usually some entertainment at the end, this may be by the Hogwarts Ghosts who pop out of the walls and do formation gliding. It's a highly anticipated feast which most Hogwarts students look forward to every year.
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- Oddly enough, either during or after the feast in the first four books something fateful happens. The troll, the Chamber of Secrets re-opening, Sirius Black's attack on the Fat Lady, and Harry Potter's name emerging from the Goblet of Fire. In the seventh book, we discover that the date, 31 October is significant, as it is the date of James and Lily Potter's death - 31st October, 1981.
- Also somewhat oddly, though Hallowe'en and the date of 31 October are of great significance within the series, nothing of note happens on Hallowe'en in any of the final three installments of the series.
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Alcudia is one of the best areas of Mallorca, and it is perfect for practicing cycling thanks to its natural environment. Therefore, there are several routes to practice this sport.
The JS Sol de Alcudia Hotel in Alcudia, which has been recently renovated, offers bicycle rental. Another good option is staying at the Alcudi-Mar Hotel, our cycling center, located only 100m away from the stunning Playa de Muro.
The Cycling Federation of the Balearic Islands offers some routes to go cycling around the area departing from Alcudia:
Alcudia – Badia de Pollença – Formentor:
Route: Alcudia – Badia de Pollença – Formentor – Cala Sant Vicenç – Pollença – Alcudia.
Distance: 50 km back and forth
Difficulty: Easy excursion. Medium- high difficulty, until Formentor.
Points of interest: In Alcudia, the walled town, the roman ruins of Pollentia and the roman theatre. The seascape of the Badia de Pollença is wonderful, together with the views from the top of Formentor. In Pollença, you will find El Puig de Maria and El Calvari.


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Alteil's first full year has come and gone, and left things ever different from when it started. In terms of site traffic, users and income, things are looking up. Last month was our best in Alteil history, and it's even possible we'll be in the black by the end of next year. The server now has over 81,000 registered accounts, although the mileage you can get out of that number may vary (I think the average user has at least 4, and there was this one guy who made over 100 accounts in one day just to see if I'd notice.)
The biggest event of last year was the August upgrade, where we changed out the back end of the game, resulting in better stability, and the front end, resulting in dual spectating, NPCs and the Demo. After about a week that went from "this is awesome" to "this is normal, I can't believe we survived at all before this point." This upgrade resulted in a permanent bump to our retention rate, but also a bit of a hit to our number of new users per day (anyone who decided the game wasn't for them after the Demo, I suppose). Not only did the retention of level 1 users increase, but user retention across the board. Even our strange level 10 quitting rate started to decrease slowly but steadily after that point.
We learned a lot this year, especially about getting new users and advertising. For example, web advertising and then going to small conventions or large niche conventions is good. People see our booth and say "Hey, Alteil. I think I've seen an ad or something for them somewhere. Let's go check them out." Going to big general gaming conventions is bad. People see our booth and say "Hey, Alteil. I think I've seen an ad or something for them somewhere. Let's go check out other games that aren't out yet." If you're past Beta, big gaming conventions are not a place to be. Everyone has a very limited amount of time and they can't waste it on something they could just play by going to your website. Also, big expensive ads on mainstream sites were getting us great traffic, but we do better with cheaper, more targeted advertising. Hopefully we'll be able to take these lessons into next year and keep Alteil growing.
So what's new for 2010? I'm sure someone's excited that my year-end excel sheets to the bosses will involve a few less red bars than last year's, but 2010 is the real reason everyone is reading this. Planning out the year overall, we need to consider that now we've got 6 Sets out, it's time to think about slowing down the card releases just a bit. At 4 Sets a year, we're going to catch up to the Japanese sooner rather than later. Although, I am thinking about more than one EX Pack per Set. I just need to find a way to stop that from messing up my numbering… Anyway, instead of more card Sets, (which are like a temporary boost of adrenaline to the game) we're going to look at the one thing that seems to permanently affect our numbers: features. This looks like a good opportunity for a list…
-Lavato Heroes – No. Really, this is a no. Call it an un-announcement. Those of you who follow the Japanese game at all know that Alteil has a companion game called Lavato Heroes, it's that green 'Coming Soon' button on the My Iczer page that's been there since we launched. It's like this, I know the game has its fans, but personally I'm not crazy about it. Also, since it was designed as an alternate game to Alteil, it doesn't really work with Alteil at all (even Mirage Master works with Alteil because it gives you Gran and helps you memorize the cards). Of course, the big reason is time. Every card has an Alteil version and a Lavato Heroes version. That means redesigning and rebalancing every card from scratch. Personally, I'd rather spend that time making Alteil the best it can be for everyone. Maybe some other time, but for now don't worry about it.
-Napoleon – Hopefully first quarter. Napoleon is another mini-game like Mirage Master that goes alongside Alteil. Unlike Lavato Heroes, this one is a lot less work for us. Basically, as an alternate way to earn Fight Money, you can play the traditional card game, Napoleon (I'm not going to recount the rules here, Wikipedia is your friend), with your Alteil buddies. Of course, there's some Alteil art and other Alteil-style surprises thrown in, but that's basically it. Nothing huge, but it might also draw some other casual players to the site and it does have the added bonus of being a team game, so for once you can actually do something as a team in Alteil.
-Organized Play – Second Quarter or summer. This year has taught me two things, Organized Play needs to happen, and no one here has the time it takes to deal with it properly. Right now my tentative plan is to try to get an Organized Play Intern, maybe paid in Gran at first and hopefully money later, who could handle it (living in NY not required (although it could help), but I think I'll have to require living in the US). There will be prize support, but no programmer support until all the other projects on this list are done (meaning we'll be making do with the training arena). Although, on the plus side I did figure out a kludge that would let us do random packs in the Tournament Arena, but where you get to keep the higher-rarity cards. It should work a little like a Magic Tournament that way.
-Premium Features – First quarter. Premium Features include match Replays and more Card File slots. I believe there is also an increase in the available length of things like friend mail and chat, too. The idea is to have benefits available that do not translate into a direct game advantage, like buying cards. The plan is to give them to paying players, and also free players will be able to access them for a limited time. The exact details we don't have complete control over, because this is a feature we're porting over from the Japanese game (although we can tweak some things, so for those of you who read Japanese, don't expect it to be exactly the same as theirs).
-Beginner's Packs – Throughout the year. The numbers on these were really good, not necessarily in terms of profit, but in terms of spreading out the spending over more users. We'll definitely be doing more of them this year (yeah, yeah, they'll include Skeleton Warrior this time). I'm not sure about permanent, but they'll be up for long stretches and probably taken down when there is the possibility of being out-dated in the near future. After the Set 6 Gold Boxes come down we'll run the numbers on that, and if they're as good as I think they were, you'll be seeing them again, too. I'm also planning to try and crunch numbers for my next shop experiment, probably Gold Packs.
-Lupos' Watchdog – Mostly done, not yet implemented. It may surprise you that while we've been working on EX 5, Set 6 and all our contests, we (by "we", I mean Lupos and Edgar) have not exactly been sitting on our backsides in the development area. As I've said before, the main game module is not exactly something we can just monkey around with whenever we want. We have tools for adding stuff to the shop and adding cards and all that, but the main game module is complicated, finicky, and runs entirely in processor-heavy Flash, so you don't want to add anything to it unless you really, really mean it. But it turns out that most of the things we want to do involve stuff in the actual game. To make this possible, Lupos has been writing some code that runs entirely on our server and basically just "watches" the databases, and as the Flash runs along its merry way and makes changes to the databases, Lupos' program checks out the changes in the databases and uses it to figure out what's going on in the game. It can then react to what's happening by running other code, or interact with the users by sending them in game mail. So, for example, if you find a strange mail in the Mail Tab that says "I'm watching you. I know you just got a 10 game winning streak with Primclone against players half your level. Shame on you" That's probably just us testing.
-Achievement System – 1st or 2nd Quarter. So what does Lupos' magic program mean for you? Well, imagine one of the things it looks for is when you get, say a 5 game win streak for the first time. Imagine the mail it sends says "Achievement Unlocked: 5 game streak." And imagine the other code it runs was some script to give you a reward, say a few Point Cards. That would be an Achievement System, and it's one of our top priorities for next year (You know the drill, by "us" I mean Lupos and Edgar, although I call it "helping" when I hover between them anxiously while they're trying to code – they love that). First of all, it means more ways to grind for Point Cards and other rewards for free players. Second, it means more ways to do interesting things with the cards you have for paying players. (Yes, someday you will be able to unlock the Achievement for scoring ten wins while having no cards in your deck except "Flying.") Third, it means just more game for everyone, and lastly the Achievement System can be used to "make" other things. For example, a series of Achievements that must be gained in order would effectively be a poor man's single player quest. In fact, our plan is to make a series of Achievements for level 1 players, each one sending an in game mail with details on the next one in order, to walk the player through the beginning of the game (First play an NPC, then play a real person, play Mirage Master, etc). We may even "launch" Achievements with only these Introductory Quest ones, since making 10 or so simple introductory Achievements is a lot faster than Lupos and Edgar making individual code for the big block of 30-50 Achievements that we'd need for a robust Achievement system. There also will be Achievements that may only be attainable for a certain amount of time. For example, we might want an achievement for playing with something interesting but probably disadvantageous, like playing with an all Martial Artists' File, and if later Martial Artists become awesome (with the addition of Dandan of course), we might discontinue the achievement. (You'd still get to keep it if you already had it, although you may find yourself explaining to the new players why it's such a big deal).
-Project X – Until this post, "Project X" is how I generally referred to the Achievement system. We've really been on and off working on it since early summer, and actuality Lupos' watchdog code came about as a necessary step to make Achievements possible, not the other way around. So, from now on Project X is "whatever's next." As of now that's not set in stone, but I'm pretty sure I want it to be something that takes advantage of our great content to make "more game" for lower level and free players. As many people have pointed out, a lot of our players have no contact with 90% of our cards, (except when they're desperately trying to find a way to stop them.) I've been going through the suggestions in the forum, and something like a limited "File Rental" system might be good. I also like the Mini-boss idea, but in reverse. Maybe instead of high level players being mini-bosses, a low level player could take on the role (and the File) of a powerful and unusual mini-boss for a short time to challenge some high level players. (Note, I'm too tired to look it up right now, but if the above were originally your ideas, feel free to claim credit in this thread). Anyway, the content of Project X is not set in stone, but the intention (make more game content for low level and fee players) is decided. Oh, and when the content is set in stone it will probably be secret until we get working on it and get confident that we can actually complete it in a reasonable amount of time (What do you want? We're insecure about these things).
-Project "Sun and Moon" – There's probably a good reason why this list has TWO "secret" projects listed on it… oh, right because nothing's as well planned as I'd like you to believe! No, wait… it's because I like being mysterious. Yeah… mysterious. This is our second secret project, which is NOT directly part of the game. So if all you care about it is getting more out of the gameplay, this is not something to worry about. Still, it's a cooperative project between the Alteil team and our parent company, Media Blasters, and if it comes together (it probably has a 25% chance of being completed at this stage) I think it's something all Alteil fans will like. Or, maybe I just made it up so I always have a good excuse (Oh, right well… I didn't get to reading the Forum threads about how our business practices are effectively selling all our user's souls to Satan, because I was too busy, uh… working on Project Sun and Moon! Yeah, that's the ticket…)
Whew! That was long. I don't think I have enough left in me for an inspirational last paragraph. I'm sure if you all use your imaginations, you can picture a world where I tied all this together beautifully, perhaps with an uplifting quote from "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" to really clinch it. Seriously, these plans set our course for the first half of next year. Our goal is to improve the game in ways we can feasibly implement as soon as possible, and bring out the best in Alteil. We couldn't have come up with this plan without the suggestions from you, our users. Even suggestions that have not been incorporated directly, will have their effects on the end products of our efforts. I for one, I'm looking forward to the future of Alteil, and I hope you all are too.