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In this paper, we infer the statuses of a taxi, consisting of occupied, non-occupied and parked, in terms of its GPS trajectory. The status information can enable urban computing for improving a city's transportation systems and land use planning. In our solution, we first identify and extract a set of effective features incorporating the knowledge of a single trajectory, historical trajectories and geographic data like road network. Second, a parking status detection algorithm is devised to find parking places (from a given trajectory), dividing a trajectory into segments (i.e., sub-trajectories). Third, we propose a two-phase inference model to learn the status (occupied or non-occupied) of each point from a taxi segment. This model first uses the identified features to train a local probabilistic classifier and then carries out a Hidden Semi-Markov Model (HSMM) for globally considering long term travel patterns. We evaluated our method with a large-scale real-world trajectory dataset generated by 600 taxis, showing the advantages of our method over baselines.}, author = {Yin Zhu and Yu Zheng and Liuhang Zhang and Darshan Santani and Xing Xie and Qiang Yang}, month = {November}, number = {MSR-TR-2011-144}, title = {Inferring Taxi Status Using GPS Trajectories}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=161919}, year = {2011}, }


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Patients would be given a simple monthly injection of the drug which halts the crippling effects of the condition.
An annual course of the drug, known as tocilizumab, could cost as little as £4,000 and may be available on the NHS as early as January.
The development has been described as "exciting" and "dramatic" by the medical profession.
The condition, which affects the immune system and causes the body to attack its own joints, affects 487,000 people in the UK.
Around 18,000 are diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) each year, and 70 per cent of those are women.
The drug, which will be sold under the brand name RoActemra, is currently seeking approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).
In January it is expected to gain a UK marketing licence.
The drug is being heralded as a "step change" in treatment following a trial in which nearly half of patients on the medication found their condition did not get any worse.
Rheumatoid arthritis causes painful swelling and stiffness in joints - particularly the hands, feet and wrists - as well as bone damage and permanent disability.
The condition develops at an average age of 25, but often is not discovered for many years.
Several drugs have been developed to try and help ease the pain, but as yet, there is no cure.
Tocilizumab works in conjunction with an existing treatment, methotrexate, and is administered monthly in hospital.
In the trial, taking methotrexate on its own only stopped symptoms in eight per cent of patients.
Combined with tocilizumab, 47 per cent of patients saw their condition halted.
Ailsa Bosworth, chief executive of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS), said: "We are encouraged by these findings, particularly as the treatment shows such promise of achieving remission, the ultimate goal for people with this cruel and debilitating disease.
"It presents new hope for the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis in the UK."
Robert Moots, Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Liverpool, said: "These are very exciting results as RA is a nasty disease that ruins thousands of lives and rots away victim's joints.
"Tocilizumab is a really important and powerful weapon in our armoury and offers a great leap forward in the fight against RA."
Dr David Walker, a consultant rheumatologist at Newcastle hospital, added: "RA patients are so stoical and uncomplaining because they are so used to having the pain.
"If this pushes them to remission, the results are dramatic - I think it is very promising."
The international LITHE trial, led by Professor Paul Emery from the University of Leeds, was conducted in 15 countries and involved 1,190 patients.
X-ray scans assessed the level of bone erosion and the narrowing of joint spaces.
Patients filled in a quality of life questionnaire to see how well they could perform normal daily activities.
Prof Emery said: "Results of this pivotal study convincingly demonstrate that tocilizumab can effectively and rapidly diminish the painful and debilitating effects of rheumatoid arthritis.
"These trial findings are significant because it is critical to stop joint damage as quickly as possible to avoid joint deformity and to help people with RA maintain their quality of life."
The results were presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in San Francisco.
But there was concern in Britain about how long it would take the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) to approve the drug, if at all.
Rheumatology consultants said the NHS Primary Care Trusts were unlikely to use the drug until it was approved by Nice, which said it had received a request for appraisal.
Earlier this year, Nice caused controversy by ruling that rheumatoid arthritis sufferers could not switch from one form of a pain relieving drug to another if the initial treatment did not work.
The NRAS has appealed the decision to refuse the drug which cost about £100 a week per patient.
There are fears that tocilizumab - which could cost between £4,000 and £10,000 - may also be refused.
Professor David Scott, consultant rheumatologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said: "This drug is very exciting, it is a step change, but it is also frustrating that it takes time to use it.
"As a clinician, once your patient has got a disease severe enough to warrant an expensive drug you should be able to use the best drug available and not have to wait for Nice."


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It's that time of year again; the newest edition of the hottest football video game hits the shelves and the rankings of Madden NFL 13 are being scrutinized. Every player wants to know their ranking and why. Well, if Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is reading this, let's begin.
The QB ranking are as follows: Aaron Rodgers: 99, Tom Brady: 98, Drew Brees: 98, Eli Manning: 97, Ben Roethlisberger: 95, Peyton Manning: 93,Philip Rivers: 92, Matthew Stafford: 91, Romo: 90 and Michael Vick: 89.
First off, it's a crime that the eldest Manning is ranked behind the younger brother, but Denver Broncos columnist Mark Stringer has already covered that. Romo's ranking of 90 is pretty accurate, although Rivers being ranked higher than him is questionable. Other than that, Madden got it right.
Both of the Mannings are obviously better, both in numbers and wins. Rodgers, Brady and Brees are on a whole different level, so their rankings are justified as well. Roethlisberger isn't incredibly consistent, but neither is Romo and the former has two rings. Stafford is in the history books with a 5,000-yard season in his first full year, so the fact Rivers is ahead of him is a crime. Vick is lucky to be in the top 10. Period.
Now this isn't Pick on Rivers Day, but he shouldn't be ahead of Stafford or Romo. He hasn't won anything, literally, and his character concerns are a lot worse than most people think. That's not to say Romo is a medaled field general, but he's got a better head on his shoulders than Rivers.
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Presidential trade representative Robert Zoellick last week called for the House of Representatives to set a date for a vote on "fast track" legislation.
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A survey of House members by CongressDaily shows 178 members publicly undeclared or on the fence on the issue.
It's unlikely the House leadership will call a vote if it has no chance of passage.
The White House would love to have TPA before Nov. 9, when the World Trade Organization opens a ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar. The goal of those talks is to launch another global trade round such as the Kennedy Round that Mr. Malmgren helped negotiate, or the latest, the Uruguay Round.
Earlier rounds didn't have fast track before getting going. Nor is it essential this time, Malmgren says.
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For instance, economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot note that trade liberalization in the past two decades has led to a net loss in real income for three quarters of the American labor force lacking college degrees. Those wages, say the Center for Economic and Policy Research economists, have been redistributed to workers with college and advanced degrees.
Liberalized trade has also shifted income from wages generally to business profits. Hourly wages fell as much as 12.6 percent - or as little as 1.6 percent, they maintain.
Wait a minute, says an independent task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1990, as the US has become significantly more open to trade, real average household incomes have grown by at least 10 percent.
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October 18, 2012 5:00 pm ET
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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the People's United Financial Inc. Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Regina, and I'll be your coordinator for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.
I would now like to turn the presentation over to Mr. Peter Goulding, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations for People's United Financial Inc. Please proceed, sir.
Peter Goulding
Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. Jack Barnes, President and Chief Executive Officer; Kirk Walters, our Chief Financial Officer; along with Jeff Hoyt, our Controller, are here with me to review our third quarter results. Before we get started, please remember to refer to our forward-looking statements on Slide 1 of our presentation, which is posted on our website, peoples.com, under Investor Relations.
With that, I'll turn the call over to Jack.
John P. Barnes
Thank you, Peter. Good afternoon, everyone. As always, we appreciate your joining us today. On Slide 2, we provide an overview of our third quarter results. For the quarter, operating earnings were $64.4 million or $0.19 per share, down from $67.2 million or $0.20 per share in the second quarter. Net income for the quarter was $62.2 million or $0.18 per share.
Operating net interest margin declined to 3.82% compared to 3.88% in the second quarter. The decline in the margin is primarily the result of lower loan yields which was partially offset by lower funding costs.
Total loan growth amounted to 8.8% on an annualized basis. We are very pleased to see this increased momentum, which is significant when considering the runoff in our acquired portfolios.
Noninterest income in the quarter increased $5.7 million to $81.4 million. This increase was primarily due to higher prepayment fees, seasonally strong insurance revenues, higher gain on sale of residential mortgages and increased operating lease income.
We are particularly pleased with the progress on our efficiency ratio, which improved to 61.4% from 61.5% in the second quarter. We were able to drive operating leverage while absorbing the full quarter expenses of the Citizens branch acquisition. With the growing balance sheet, supported by strategic revenue initiatives and identified expense reductions scheduled in the quarters ahead, we look forward to continued progress on our efficiency ratio as we push towards our goal of 55%.
Asset quality, a longtime hallmark of this institution, continues to impress as net charge-offs totaled just 18 basis points this quarter, which is the lowest level since the second quarter of 2009.
During the quarter, we repurchased 4.5 million shares or $53.5 million at a weighted average price of $11.90 per share. Year-to-date, we repurchased 13.5 million shares or $164 million at a weighted average price of $12.12 per share. This results in approximately $8.6 million of annual dividend saving. We have 4.5 million shares remaining in our existing share repurchase authorization.
Capital ratios remain strong, with the tangible equity ratio at 11.2% for the third quarter. We continue to make progress deploying in our capital through balance sheet growth, dividend payments and share repurchase activity.
Now I'd like to turn it over to Kirk.
Kirk W. Walters
Thank you, Jack. On Slide 3, you can see a breakdown of the elements contributing to our 3.89% net interest margin for the quarter. Lower loan yields negatively impacted the margin by 9 basis points, approximately 5 basis points of this decline related to the runoff of higher yielding loans in the acquired loan portfolio. The other 4 basis point decline related to a combination of originated loans coming on at lower rates, payoff and repricing.
Cost recovery income, which represents settlements and payoffs in the acquired loan portfolio in excess of the carrying amount, continued this quarter and amounted to $4.1 million, down from $4.7 million last quarter, which negatively impacted the margin by 1 basis point. These forces are partially offset by a 3 basis point improvement in funding rates and mix. Deposit costs are 41 basis point, down from 45 basis points last quarter and 58 basis points in the third quarter a year ago. As a reminder, the favorable effect of fair value amortization on acquired time deposits in the Danvers acquisition will end this month and negatively impact our fourth quarter net interest margin by approximately 2 basis points. In this rate environment, opportunities continue to exist to lower deposit cost. For example, average deposits and acquired markets represent approximately 17% of total average deposits, with a weighted average cost of 77 basis points, which reflects progress, but is still well above our franchise wide cost of deposits.
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Hi all,
I'm in the midst of applying for my first mortgage loan. So far, things are going good - the pre approval went smoothly (after I scrambled to have the "dispute" comments removed).
I haven't made an offer on anything yet, but it is definitely on the horizon. To prepare, my LO (going thru WF for 203k rehab) gave me a "document checklist". Most of the items on there are standard - W2's, paystubs, bank statements, etc.
But, there is one item I'm a little concerned about. They want an explanation for inquiries on my credit reports. There are 3 in total - HSBC (7/2010), Alliant CU (8/2010) and Citi (9/2010). I can explain them away, no problem.
My question is, does this raise a red flag for underwriters? Also, is there anything specific I should say in the letter?
All they are asking for is the purpose of the inquiry and whether an account was opened. For HSBC, no account was opened. For Alliant, I refi'd my car and got a $15k visa (zero bal). For Citi, I opened a $4.9 CL CC ($300 bal). I guess I'm wondering how much more I should say besides the facts (ie, should i rationalize or promise to keep the balance at zero).
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New full-time students enrolled for full-time for Fall 2011 must complete the on-line enrollment/waiver process by September 19, 2011. Failure to complete the on-line waiver form will result in the student's automatic enrollment in the Student Health Insurance Plan and the premium charged to the student's Accounts Receivable. Charges for premiums cannot be removed after September 19, 2011. Part-time, dissertation, executive program students and previously enrolled dependents are not automatically enrolled.
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Brink of Alienation
Machine gun aliens to death in this frantic run and gun series!
Press Start
Oldschool gaming fanatics will love this series!
I Love Egg
This series of cartoons is undeniably cute and inventive!
Rather odd
Admittedly, the flash was annoying at first. The voices popped a bit in the mic, I can tell, which made it harder to listen to. The loop, while very short, was done effectively though, with no obvious gap between where it starts and ends. The animation wasn't too bad, and I understand what you were trying to do with this flash.
haha loved it
Haha i love these types with the wazzup themes and this was entertaining and gave me a good laugh, maybe add a new twist to these ever growing styles of themes. yeah it needs something new the theme styles are cool, maybe make it so that someone kills the wazzup guy or something?
I could see you adding a whole new twist on these wazzup flashes with maybe the other people killing the wazzup guy because they thought he was anoying or something
Wazzup lol
I thought this small loop was fantastically well done, i mean you captured that whole craze well with this. The way you drew the mr t character was great, you added a lot of detail to him and his hand which made the joke even better. The voice acting for the word was good, nice and high in pitch. The only problem with this is that it gets very annoying after a couple of seconds.
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didnt see that coming...
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(WJLA) - Talk to any given driver in Northern Virginia, and there's a decent chance you'll get responses like these when asking about calling or texting while driving:
"I try to avoid to avoid it as much as I can, but sometimes it happens."
"I feel a little guilty after, and then I'll put down the phone."
Jennifer Cash of Springfield is trying to curb the habit, but when it comes to using the phone in a construction zone, she doesn't need the reminder.
"I'll definitely try to not be on the phone at all in that type of situation, because you never know what's gonna happenwhat lanes are merging, what lanes are ending," she says.
That's the message from law enforcement and transportation officials at Thursday's "Orange Cones, No Phones" event in Dale City, as distracted driving is reported to be a major problem across the commonwealth.
Now, with new express lanes on I-95 set to open early next year, construction is happening at a rapid pace from Stafford County to north of the beltway - making it a difficult area to navigate.
Statistics show that the number of distracted drivers on 95 involved in incidents or near misses is up seven-percent from last year. Nationally, this year so far, nearly 355,000 crashes have occurred involving drivers using cell phones and texting.
Shalice Brown works in Springfield, and did text and drive - until she became a mother:
"I'm ashamed to say that I did it before but now I'm reformed."


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WHEELING - The cold tubs are no longer empty. Instead, bodies dripping with sweat are lined up, waiting impatiently to jump into a contraption that would make members of the Polar Bear Club blush.
The sounds of whistles blowing and pads cracking began in earnest Friday on the Ohio side of the river as schools reported for the opening of practice. Their West Virginia counterparts join the fracas Monday.
Yes, folks, football is back. The season begins in less than four weeks, which seems like an eternity when you've been waiting since early December.
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I enjoy just about every sport out there, but have never made any bones about which is my favorite. I can't really explain why the love for high school football courses through my veins the way it does, but I will give it a try.
You see, football is special. As I've typed previously, whether your favorite high school goes 10-0 or 0-10 this season, the community in which you reside will rally around the same cause. The only colors that matter are the ones your boys are wearing on Fridays or Saturdays.
There's a feeling you get walking into a small-town stadium that people in places like New York or Los Angeles will never experience. There's more entertainment options in the Ohio Valley than most will lead you to believe, but the one place you can find just about everyone on a weekly basis, is the football field.
Make no mistake, our children are smart enough to realize this also. It's why many of them spent their summer 'vacation' in the weight room and/or running through the neighborhood.
To make a long story short, you better be ready to go when the season starts because this will be the quickest 10 weeks of the calendar year.
2013-14 Park Class 'Got It'
If such as thing as a hard-bound copy of sports writing etiquette existed, at or near the front of the book it would tell us under no circumstances is it permissible to cheer for the people you are covering. I not only get that, but abide by the imaginary code that you only find occasionally on signs inside a press box.
That being said, there are times as a human when I find myself wanting good things to happen to good people. Graduated Wheeling Park football players - Zach Phillips, Geremy Paige, Matt Hackathorn, Eric Banks and Liam Casey - fall into that category for me.
It wasn't long after a picture surfaced of those five, arm-in-arm, walking off the Wheeling Island Stadium turf together for the final time after the Rudy Mumley OVAC Charity Football Classic last Sunday night, that I realized I am truly going to miss covering and interacting with those young men. Sure, it's awesome to document great athletes, but it's something all together different when they also get what life is about.
These guys were always at the ready with a 'hey, Mr. Rine.' Truth be told, I'm not a fan of being called 'Mr.' because I still see myself as relatively young as a 37th birthday quickly approaches next month. The thing is, I never corrected or advised them that a simple 'Shawn' would suffice, because in my mind that's like telling someone their parents did too good of a job raising them.
To these five, I say see you later, not goodbye.
Come to think of it, none of you will be in my coverage area the next four years, and according to that handbook, that makes it OK for me to cheer for you from this point forward.
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The Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has reached a three-year deal covering crews for TV shows produced by FremantleMedia North America.Pact was jointly announced Tuesday by the union and FMNA, the U.S. production division of FremantleMedia. The agreement covers domestic programs produced for network and basic cable, including "American Idol," "America's Got Talent" and the upcoming "The X Factor," which is co-produced with Simon Cowell's Syco Television. The announcement also said IATSE crews have already been working on several Fremantle shows and noted that the new agreement "establishes parameters" across all programs. Specific details weren't immediately disclosed. "We are pleased to enter into this long-term relationship," said IATSE president Matthew Loeb. "This new enhanced agreement underlines our commitment to working with FremantleMedia North America on some of the biggest programming brands on television."
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Postcolonializing biblical interpretation
If post-modernism is at least partially about 'how the world dreams itself to be "American", then, post-colonialism is about waking from that dream, and learning to dream otherwise.
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In life one must for ever choose between being one who tells stories and one about whom stories are told.
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Until now liberation hermeneutics has been seen as the distinctive contribution of Third World biblical interpreters. Recently another critical category, postcolonialism, has emerged as its rival, and has staked a claim to represent minority voices. On the face of it, both liberation hermeneutics and postcolonialism share a common interpretative vocation – for instance, deideologizing dominant interpretation, a commitment to the Other and distrust of totalizing tendencies. However, a closer look in the last chapter revealed that liberation hermeneutics is still stuck with some of the vices of the modernistic project – excessive textualism, disparagement of both major and popular religions and homogenization of the poor. Also it seems shy about breaking with them. What I propose to do first in this chapter is to delineate the characteristics of the new entrant to the critical arena – postcolonialism – and outline some of its theoretical and praxiological intentions and assumptions; second, to deal with the applicability of postcolonialism to biblical studies; and third, to map out the affinities and differences between postcolonialism and liberation hermeneutics. In the concluding part I will try to answer some of the questions


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I started riding a year ago when I found out that I was diabetic. My doc said I needed an hour per day of vigorous aerobic exercise. My knees don't let me run, but they do let me ride. I found that riding was the about the most pleasurable thing in my life. Fresh air, exercise, no blood pressure meds, better sugar control!
Who else started because of a serious health issue? And have you become totally hooked on the experience?


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It's the basic idea. But instead of clumping everything, just use what you need. Position is useful for many things, but it might not be needed for rendering. So be prepared to change what belongs together.
This is a very basic example. Is this data oriented? It is already faster than a traditionnal oo approach but I have to call the processing function for each set of entities.
Orcs allOrcs = Orcs();
Think beyond. There is no need to have just orcs. Anything that is subject to movement or physics goes into here. Or perhaps everything that has a position in the world. Only thing all these have in common is position. Or vice versa - if it has position, it's in that array.
There might be more if it's convenient, but position of an orc is no different than that of an elf or a cannon ball. Even when combined with speed, physics are the same for all. What it then comes down to is speed changes, perhaps the acceleration values. Then above might be extended as something like this, in simplest form:
Vector2D * positions; Vector2D * speeds; Vector2D * acceleration; float * mass;To make orcs move slower, they might have their mass value higher than something like an elf.
And later, things can be clumped together:
struct PhysicsProperties { float mass, width, strength; } ... PhysicsProperties * props;Here, instead of having individual properties per item, one links to a shared template.
Traditional design would instead be something like this:
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Arizona Theatre Company and Hotel San Carlos Team up for a 1920s 'Soiree' on First Friday
The Great Gatsby (1974)
The Arizona Theatre Company is bringing a little performance art to First Friday in downtown Phoenix on March 2.
ATC is partnering with Hotel San Carlos to put on a 1920s-themed 'soiree' starting at 6 p.m. So feel free to don your best rendition of a flapper or prohibition-era gangster costume and hit the town.
The party is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby, which the ATC happens to be performing March 22 to April 8 at the Herberger Theater Center.
"We selected the Hotel San Carlos because the age and location of the property made it a relevant and intriguing partner for The Great Gatsby," says Gary Edwards, a PR and marketing associate with the ATC.
Hotel San Carlos' Ghost Lounge hosts a First Friday event each month, which prompted Edwards to propose a partnership.
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Ghost Lounge bartenders will be serving 1920's inspired drink specials and DJ Shade will provide the music.
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Choosing a good game of the year for TEGWritten by The Guild Master
Even though we have had some good games this year, I think we can all agree none have been truly outstanding. We appear to still be catching up to what we used to get every year during the golden age of gaming in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the large publishers decided all we wanted was Call of duty clones or hack and slash RPGs games made to a formula for the next 20 years.
In fact the last really great year for games was 5 years ago and that was 1 tiny island of goodness in 20 years of crap.
People tend to nominated the 1 new game they played during a year as their best game despite having nothing to compare it too. Technically that game is also their worst game of the year since it is their only new game that year and a game of year vote is not asking for the players worst game, but his best one for that year and that requires the player own at least 2 new games so one can be their best game and 1 can be their worst game.
The reason for this is gamer boredom.... they way the treble A games or Terrible A games as I like to call them are all made to the same formula and any thing that dares to be different simply does not get published is why that happens.
In the past when I let such results stand and a bad choice won the game of the year at TEG.
Come 1st Jan the following year, nobody could even remember which game won our game of the year.
But when a good game wins, like Mount and Blade Warbands did back in 2010, it not only gets remembered but the entire forum started playing it because of word of mouth alone. That was a real game of the year winner than most of the forum did not even know existed until 1 user talked about it when it first got released and kick started interest in it.
The thing is a game of the year should be the game you could not put down that year, a new game that you absolutely loved to bits. If your nominating a game that was merely okay to play, then you are missing the entire point of a game of the year vote. This is not a "most okay game of the year" thing, this is the best game of the year we are looking for.
I admit it is not easy to choose such a game when the standard of games has been so low for so long. The world is full of Call of duty clones and hack and slash games passing them selves off as modern RPGs (which they are not) because all the large publishers make them and we all call them Treble A games. Well been there done that, boring boring boring.... they cannot even implement decent controls in them so why should these Terrible A games even warrant a mention. There is nothing Treble A about them other than the £50 to £65 price tag for 10 hours of game play.
Before publishers got control of us by deciding what games got published on CD and DVD, small indie companies made niche market games like Simcity and Command and Conquer, the very sort of games publishers did not want to publish. Later those niche market games became the defacto main stream game standard and the large publishers brought them out.
Back then those standards changed every few years. Without publishers to control everything by saying what would or would not be published on disk, all sorts of great niche market games emerged and became main stream standards. After the Publishers took over and told us to like Assassins Creed, Dragon Age, Call of duty twice a year at £50 a pop, the standard stopped changing and games got made to a formula that only new gamers could love.
The ones that had played them got bored of them quickly and that has led to a situation where real gamers only buy 1 game a year today because the games being made are the same as the ones that got made in 1995 and they have played all those games todeath.
The niche market that changed the main stream standard every 2 to 3 years has been suppressed by the publishers who forced games to conform to their idea of a standard main stream game. It is like communism controlling fashion. Where once wild colours existed and changed every year, now we have the standard uniform EA and UBISOFT Grey for gaming.
It has created a shortage of original thinking indie devs and its only just starting to correct it self with the digital age allowing indie devs to sell directly to us if the publishers say no. So the publishers are now the dying breed, they either support those making games we want, or the developer heads over to kickstarter and makes the game anyway without them.
The trouble with the digital age is starting a new golden age for gaming is that whilst there 100s of great games being made by indie developers these days. There are 1000s of crap games being made too. You could waste a lot of money trying to find just 1 good game so people are more than ever likely to stick with the Terrible A games, sorry Treble A games because they know what boring piece of mundane "seen it all before" crap they will be getting for a vastly inflated price. Fact is could by 3 games for the price of 1 Treble A game most days.
Before 1995 most gamers played off line or over a lan. Most Gamers did not have forums and places to share news of cool new games and yet we talked about and enjoyed more great new games back then, than today's gamers do with the entire internet at their disposal.
The reason is 20 years of publishers making the same old crap to a formula means the "indie dev" has become some sort of low grade developer that cannot be trusted when in fact all the best games started out as games made by those indie developers. People have forgot that and they need to start remembering that all great games originally came from the small indie companies, not the big publishers.
With that in mind, here are some this years best games in my opinion.
Galactic Civ 3.... One of the first releases this year to require a 64 bit OS. Now all the consoles are finally 64 bit (10 years late), 64 bit gaming has arrived and it means greater number crunching abilities. So Simulations are about to see a new hay day dawn for them, as is reflected by some of the choices I make here today.
Satelite Reign, a return of an old favorite Syndicate style game.... I am loving it but it is a small game, not something your going to be playing for 100s of hours. Perhaps a tad over priced too, feels like an £18 game not a £22 game, but still a real winner for Cyberpunk fans and one of my favorite games this year.
Cities Skylines, another 64 bit game and believe me, city games are exactly the sort of games that take full advantage of faster and better processors. This one is a dream on a 64 bit machine. There has not been a good city sim like this for over 10 years, this is one of the niche markets that got abandoned and we have been playing light weight city games ever since. But that is changing and Cities Skylines is doing the changing.... a new defacto standard has arrived. This may not appeal to all gamers but these niche market games are important none the less. They are the driver of change in the game industry, who knows you may find the improvements in this game make the next GTA game you play a 1000 times better.
Wasteland 2 The Directors Cut, a vast improvement over the original Wasteland 2 release and one of the 2 squad based games in todays list. This is also a 64 bit game and another one of the types of games that disappeared when the large publishers standard controlling what got published thanks to their control of the CD market.
Just by looking at those, you helping the new golden age of gaming arrive, being more aware of all the games being made and not just the ones made by the Large Publishers is important and that is why game of year votes are important. It is a time when we can talk about what great games we played this year and tell our friends about them because that is how tomorrows classics are decided..... through word of mouth.... not tons of money and hype.
10 years from now the hype will have faded and most will not even remember the names of those over hyped games, but the good games... we will all remember those and we will not care if they where published by EA or some time indie company originally because that tiny indie company is likely to be a large development house by then.


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With leftover roast chicken in the refrigerator, crispy chicken quesadillas became the lunch solution at our house this week. Add a cup of soup, a green salad, and you have a satisfying dinner. Chicken quesadillas are quick and easy to make, and this version is gluten-free.
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West Ham have confirmed ticket details for August's Bobby Moore Cup clash with Napoli.
The Hammers face the Serie A outfit at the Boleyn Ground on Saturday 8th August, a week ahead of the 2009/10 Premier League season kick-off.
The club have confimed that tickets for the game are available in advance from the ticket office at £10-15 for season ticket holders (£5 for under 16s) whilst academy members will pay £13-20 (£5 again for under 16s).
Advance tickets for non season ticket holders are priced at £16-25 for adults, £6.50-10 for senior citizens and £5 for under 16s. However those hoping to pay on the door will have to fork out between £20-35, with senior citizen and under 16 rates as before.
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