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Stocks Finish Mixed
Stocks ended Thursday mixed, but struggled for direction all session. Volume picked up some in late trading, but investors shrugged off positive corporate earnings news and mulled encouraging economic data.
"There is no truly strong momentum in price except sideways," said S&P chief market analyst Paul Cherney.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial average closed down 51.22 points, or 0.60%, to 8,537.92. The broader Standard and Poor's 500-stock index lost 3.42 points, or 0.38%, to 901.54. The tech-laden Nasdaq, buoyed by strength in the telecommunications sector, finished ahead 2.70 points, or 0.19%, to 1,399.29.
In economic news, November retail sales were up 0.4% (0.5% excluding auto sales), indicating consumer resilience at the start of the holiday shopping season. Jobless claims increased by 83,000 for the week ended Dec. 7, but the Commerce Dept. attributed the rise to a seasonal aberration. The third piece of economic data Thursday morning was the U.S. current account balance, an indicator of international trade and investment flows. While analysts expected the account deficit to widen, the deficit narrowed for the first time in a year.
Investors awaited still more economic news on Friday. Keenly anticipated on the heels of Thursday's bright retail sales numbers are the producer price index and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index.
The Dow average was dragged down by IBM (IBM ), which lost 1.56%, Merck (MRK ), which fell 2.11%, and 3M (MMM ), which dropped 0.88%.
The biotechnology and telecommunications sectors were strong Thursday, on good earnings news.
Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena (CIEN ) said it lost $1.75 per share in the fourth quarter. But investors latched on to the battered telecom's projection that first quarter sales could spike 10%, and drove the stock up 19.69%.
More good news for telecom companies: Long-distance giant Sprint (FON ) raised its fourth quarter earnings per share estimate by three cents. Shares in Sprint were trading up 6.76%.
Another sector charging ahead was biotechnology. The largest biotech firm, Amgen (AMGN ), announced it expected 2003 earnings to exceed Wall Street's expectations. Investors pushed Amgen shares up 6.73% for the day.
Shares in biotech Genentech (DNA ) rose on positive preliminary results from tests of new breast cancer treatments. The company's stock finished ahead 3.2% Thursday.
Bad news rocked shares of Bristol-Meyers Squibb (BMY . The pharmaceutical company's stock dropped 6.63% Thursday amid news reports of misleading accounting.
Ketchup king H.J. Heinz (HNZ ) posted second quarter earnings of 60 cents a share, in line with analysts' expectations. The good news drove the stock up slightly.
Agribusiness giant Bunge Ltd. (BG ) substantially raised fourth quarter earnings guidance and shares gained 7.3% by the closing bell.
Crude oil prices rose over 2% to near $28 per barrel, as OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, imposed new quotas aimed at reducing overall production by its members. Gold prices surged over $6 per ounce to crack the critical $331 level.
Treasury Market
Prices for U.S. Treasuries were up modestly Thursday afternoon, as stocks slid. A cheery November retail sales report had knocked prices in the red for most of the morning. Longer-term issues posted higher price gains, as the 10-year note's yield held steady at 4.00%.
"It was a very quiet and lackluster session," noted economic research outfit MMS International, as "geopolitical concerns and a vacillating stock market" eased the earlier pressure on bonds.
World Markets
European stocks finished down Thursday. In London, the FTSE index fell 39.60 points, or 1.00%, to 3,935.30. Paris' CAC-40 index slipped 52.66, or 1.65%, to 3,137.43. In Frankfurt, the DAX index lost 84.17 points, or 2.63%, to 3,111.88.
In Asia, stocks were mixed. Japan's Nikkei 225 index finished the day down 18.97 points, or 0.22%, to 8,708.69. Trading was spotty in advance of economic data expected on Friday. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index gained 29.21 points, or 0.30%, to 9,813.78.


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Chelsea have lodged a new bid for Wigan striker Victor Moses that could be worth up to £9million.
Wigan have rejected three lower offers, which have also included taking Josh McEachran or Romelu Lukaku on loan from Chelsea.
Moses, 21, has one year left on his contract and is valued at more than £10m by chairman Dave Whelan, who is interested only in a cash deal.
It is understood the two clubs are close to reaching an agreement, with Chelsea prepared to pay £6m up front and another £3m in performance-related add-ons.
Chelsea have bid for a number of attacking players over the summer, including Hulk, Willian, Andre Schurrle and Robert Lewandowski, but Moses appeals to them because of his potential and the fact he will also qualify as a home-grown player for the Champions League.
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(1) This is Roberto Giolito. He is the head of Fiat Style. A designer. He says that when they were developing what was to become the 2012 Fiat 500—more than 50 years after the original Cinquecento, which had its roots in the 1936 Topolino—they wanted to acknowledge the past without being captive to it. One modern aspect of the vehicle development: They actually crowd-sourced some of the design, with people going on line making suggestions regarding a concept version of the car-in-becoming. Giolito says that interior features and the shape of the fascias were directly influenced by those voting on the website.
(2) In order to be contemporaneous, changes had to be made to what is typically considered to be iconic about the Cinquecento. While the new car is respectful, it is different. One consideration that was made in designing the 500 is, Giolito says, "The position of people sitting in the car. We wanted them to be centered in the windows—not too low, not too high." Not all designers ostensibly pay attention to this.
(3) The Fiat 500 was originally launched in 2007. Since then, more than 500,000 have been sold, and it has become available in some 80 countries. The Fiat 500 that is available in the U.S., explains Laura Soave, head of Fiat Brand North America, has undergone modifications to not only meet regulations, but to make it more appealing for the American consumer. For example, an acoustic package—including door and hatch sealing, foam in the C-pillars, foam-in-place material under the carpet, and an acoustic damping engine cover—was developed for the car; which reduces the sound level to 71 dB, five dB less than the European car. The five-speed manual has new gear ratios for the U.S. market and an Aisin six-speed automatic was developed specifically for American customers. There is a new rear axle design to improve the torsional stiffness. These developments will be rolled back across the Atlantic. The Fiat 500 for U.S. consumers is built in the Chrysler Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico. (The 500 available elsewhere is built in a Fiat plant in Tychy, Poland.)
(4) Michael Vincent, chief program engineer, 1.4 MultiAir Engine, says that there is an acronym related to what's found under the hood of the 500: FIRE. It stands for "Fully Integrated Robotized Engine." Essentially, there is an electro-hydraulic intake valve management system that controls air intake into each cylinder and stroke-by-stroke, based on driving conditions. In addition to which, there's no throttle valve. The result of this is that there is 10% more power and 15% more torque developed while reducing fuel consumption by 10%. The 1.4-liter in-line four produces 101 hp @ 6,500 rpm and 98 lb-ft of torque @ 4,000 rpm. The engine is built at the GEMA Engine Plant in Dundee, MI.
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10 Steps toward Universal Design of Online Courses
January 11th, 2013
Implementing the principles of universal design in online learning means anticipating the diversity of students that may enroll in your course and planning accordingly. These ten key elements will greatly enhance the accessibility and usability of your course for students with and without disabilities.
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Step 1: Develop content first, then design.
Step 2: Provide simple, consistent navigation.
Step 3: Include an accommodation statement.
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Step 5: Model and teach good discussion board etiquette.
Step 6: Use color with care.
Step 7: Provide accessible document formats.
Step 8: Choose fonts carefully.
Step 9: Convert PowerPoint™ to accessible HTML.
Step 10: If it's auditory make it visual; if it is visual make it auditory.
Some of these Steps (9, 10) might require some technical assistance. Be sure to contact your Instructional Technologist if you need assistance!
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MegaJustice necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
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We are an professional organization, but are looking for a more personal, lively logo. Austin is the capital of Texas and considered the live music capital of the world. We are looking a a bold, modern, personal feel that is unique like the city we live in. We want it to feel like Austin and have an "interactive" style.
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About Libya, and much else by Justin Raimondo LewRockwell.com I couldn't bear to watch the President's why-we're-in-Libya speech as it was broadcast: it's Spring, after all, and my garden needs planting. Priorities, priorities, priorities: so important, in politics and in life. We all have our priorities: I have mine, and the President of the... »
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instinctm brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 86 Designs von 36 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are looking for a logo for a dating website that will translate well on the web and on television. IMPORTANT: A clean simple logo that will appeal to people in age 40+, not people in their 20's.
We will be promoting this company online, thorugh TV and through print. This will need to work well both in color and black & white. Design the logo towards some average person in their 40's, not some hipster in their 20's. In the same breath, make it fun! It should appeal equally to males and females. The concept is about meeting REAL people and not fake profiles that many people find at other online dating firms.
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Easiest you could try some sort of Vulcan Mind-Melt) with pichenettes…..
Things to look at:
For starters you should try to obtain a copy of Musical Applications for Microprocessors by Hal Chamberlin, or get the modular grimoire Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls by Allen Strange. If you use some google-fu you should be able to obtain it as an illicit e-book.
or you could read this as a primer to some modular synthesis techniques with the emphasis on sound design theory.
For the electronic theory I would recommend the Art of Electronics by Horowitz/Hill and of course Electronotes as the latter is the definitive guide on the synth application field.
There's also the Barry Klein book and of course:
Watch the courses on-line by Aaron D Lanterman also! He has some great lectures on-line. Pichenettes beat me to it, linking to those but I also recommend them.
Subtractive isn't that difficult. Early synths kinda grew out of lab equipment. There's been circuits to filter and produce tones for years.
There's various approaches to building any given circuit. Some will use transistors to build a circuit, others will use more discrete parts.
If you're more interested in more complex synth engines like FM and modelling synths then you aren't really going to need to build anything as they're more suited to the fully digital domain.
I'm not sure building your own is going to save you money, but I do empathize with that thinking. The used market probably wins here.
As for unique, modular will definitely get you that since there are almost infinite ways to wire them up. It also lets you design and build only the parts you're interested in building. The rest you can buy or build from a kit.
Another fun project could be rebuilding something old and rare like an Arp Odessey from schematics. I guess getting parts would be a pain though. The number of clones of studio gear has exploded (compressors, eq's, etc.). It might be just a matter of time before we see that with synths. You could start a revolution :)
+1 on thinking you'll save money. In the long run, you won't save much. Maybe a couple hundred, depending on what it is. But, it isn't as hard of a hit if you source the parts gradually. Little here, little there. Plus, you can tell the wife/girlfriend that building it yourself will save all kinds of money! At least that much is true, I know first hand :)
Xoxbox vs 303? That said, the only synth that has true clones is the 303. Then there's the Telemark, Red Square and other homages/sound-alikes… And re-issues/improved stuff like the new SEMs, Voyager and latter Moog gear. Then there's the dumbed-down or just stupid re-issues made by Roland. And the fun stuff like the Korg Monotron/Monotribes. Or the Mini-brute which is build on Steiner-Parker legacy and that ubiquitous saw-multiplier from an ancient issues of Electro-notes and other fun ideas.
I was thinking of the new Moog stuff too. The Minibrute is especially interesting because it has no midi control/patch save. I think its success might inspire others to recreate some classics. Why shouldn't korg remake the MS-20? Before they were potentially afraid no one would want a synth you can't fully control by a computer. Minibrute is proving that isn't true. Then again Roland won't redo the 303, 808, or 909 and there's clearly a demand for those…
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Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander claims the Silver Ferns "out-Australianised" her side as New Zealand drew first blood in the Constellation Cup series.
Without their talismanic captain Casey Williams, the Ferns edged Australia by two goals in yesterday's opening test in Melbourne, leading at every change of ends.
Williams, who was poised to return to the international arena after a 14-month absence, was ruled out of the series opener yesterday morning after pulling up with a sore knee after training.
Without their chief ball-gatherer, the onus was on the Ferns' attack end to produce an extremely accurate performance to fend off the Australians on their home turf.
The New Zealand side proved equal to the task, with midcourters Laura Langman and Camilla Lees patiently working the ball in to shooters Irene van Dyk (28/29) and Maria Tutaia (26/29), who both finished brilliantly.
Alexander believes her side were beaten at their own game.
"I thought they were extraordinarily patient with the ball, and that frustrated us," she said.
"We just could not turn over ball. And it's a credit to them, they actually out-Australianised us - if that's a word."
It's not. So you can forgive New Zealand coach Waimarama Taumaunu for being a little confused as to what Alexander was getting at.
"I'm not even sure what that means," she laughed.
But Taumaunu did concur her side's superior execution in the attack end was the winning of the match for them, with Australia having eight more attempts at goal than the Kiwi side.
"Great shooting by both our of shooters, we took one more gain ball than the Australians did and when you win by margins of two the differences can be that small between the two teams," said Taumaunu.
Much of the pre-match talk surrounded how the new-look Ferns midcourt would fare against the experienced Australian line-up, with the wing attack spot in particular being the main concern.
But three-test rookie Lees, who was playing against Australia for the first time, impressed with her patience and composure.
The 23-year-old medical student admitted she was nervous about being thrown into the red-hot atmosphere of a transtasman test, but said she was pleased with her first outing.
"I was a bit nervous to start with but as the game went on I really enjoyed it. I was trying to keep my cool in the last five minutes which seemed to take forever ....I loved it, it was cool," said Lees.
"It was a huge step up and I felt every mistake we made we were punished. That was probably the biggest step up I noticed, I didn't want to make any mistakes.
Despite getting past the Australians without the services of their best defender, Taumaunu said her side will need to take a big step up in Thursday's second test in Auckland if they are to secure their first series win in eight years against their most fierce rivals.
"I think there's quite a bit of room for improvement. I was really pleased with centre pass work, that's what we focused on, I thought our error rate on our through court was probably a bit higher than I would have liked so I'd like us to do something about on Thursday."


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David Robertson and Pierre-Laurent Aimard return to the New York Philharmonic to perform the U.S. premiere of Tristan Murail's Le Désenchantement du monde, Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The work is a Philharmonic co-commission with Bavarian Radio, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
The program also includes Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, also with Aimard as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.
Program details:
Messian: Les Offrandes Oubliées: Méditation Symphonique pour Orchestra (The Forgotten Offerings: Symphonic Meditation for Orchestra)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major
Murail: Piano Concerto (U.S. premiere, New York Philharmonic co-commission with Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2


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The top line shows the average price of houses. The middle line is townhomes and the bottom is condos.
According to the REBGV, sales decreased by 35% in 2008, versus 2007 and prices are down 15.9% for houses and 14.5% for condos and 11.6% for townhomes, from May 2008.
For Vancouver West Side, house prices are up 64% over the last 5 years. Townhomes are up 68.3% and condos are up 54%.
Best value for a house in Greater Vancouver is Maple Ridge, with a benchmark price of $394,893. The most expensive is West Vancouver at $1,168,852, closely followed by Vancouver West Side at $1,165,007.
Best value for a townhomes is also Maple Ridge at $300,497.Most expensive n'hood is Vancouver West at $609,623.
Best value for a condo is also Maple Ridge with a benchmark price of $220,481. Most expensive is West Vancouver with a benchmark price of $575,736, followed by Vancouver West at $424,509.
Total sales for 2008 vs 2007 – houses 1033 vs 1745. Townhomes 512 vs 814 and condos 2398 vs 5605, as recorded on MLS.
Total listings for 2008 vs 2007 – houses 3135 vs 2491. Townhomes 1566 vs 1223 and condos 8899 vs 7750, as recorded on MLS.
Total new listingsfor Vancouver West – December 2008 – 312 vs 417 in December 2007
Total sales for Vancouver West in December 2008 – 219 vs 170 in November (amazing! given the incredible snowfall we had for the last 2 weeks of the month). December 2007 showed 372 sales as per MLS.
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MovieScope By Robert Snyder 'Cold Mountain' – When 'Gone With The Wind' Got Up And Went
MovieScope By Robert Snyder
'Cold Mountain' – When 'Gone With The Wind' Got Up And Went
The greatest Civil War movie ever made is "Gone With the Wind." With its story of love frustrated by war, "Cold Mountain" could be compared to it. However, the closest you'd get is "Wind's" scene of Ashley Wilkes (Les ley Howard) hobbling up the road to Tara and the arms of his lov ed one.
"Cold Mountain's" major problem is its utter lack of passion. "Gone With the Wind" was a hurricane of emotion, even though lead lovers Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) never got along. "Mountain" is more like a Ken Burns documentary than the Hollywood landmark hit. Yet, Scarlett looks far worse for wear after the war than does "Moun tain's" Ada (Nicole Kidman), who never seems far from a Beverly Hills beauty parlor (the movie was filmed in Romania... go figure).
Based on the best-selling novel by Char les Frazier, "Cold Mountain" be gins with the Battle of the Crater inter-cut with flashbacks of Ada and her longed-for love, Confederate soldier William Pinkney Inman (Jude Law), barely meeting each other before he's whisked off to war. The story is based on that ofA0Frazier's great-great uncle, who deserted the Confederacy and walked 300 miles home to Cold Mountain in North Carolina. After graphically depicting the horror and confusion of the Crat er battle, screenwriter-director An thony Minghella uses Homer's "The Odyssey" as a metaphor for Inman's journey home. As Ada and her down-to-earth neighbor Ruby Thewes (RenE9e Zellweger) patch up the family farm and sew the fields, Inman has close encounters with Siren-like prostitutes and Circe-esque single woman Sara (Natalie Portman), who protects herself, her infant and her hog from Yankee assailants. While the Circe/Sara is fighting off Yan kees, Ada and Ruby battle evil Confederate soldiers, who make up the Guard for the Home Defense. Led by a real historical figure nam ed Teague (Ray Winstone), the Guard is a malignant militia, which harasses, steals and kills under the pretense of searching for Rebel deserters. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, Inman appears on a snow-covered road before gun-totting Ada who, at first, doesn't recognize him, but soon is rolling with her lost love in the nude.
However, it isn't long before the Teague and his thugs are after Inman and out to upset a potentially loving relationship. There, the analogy to Homer's epic ends.
Like he proved withA0 "The English Pat ient," Minghella is the master of the methodical movie. It's hard to make the Civil War and its aftershocks boring, but Minghella manages. As for the acting, Nidman is too cutesy for her age, Law is lethargic and Zellweger is taking a breather after her Oscar-nominated workout in "Chicago."
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Congressman James Langevin has long been an appealing target for ambitious politicians - Democratic and Republican.
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We're taking a look at the best and worst of the Pac-12 bowl season.
Best player, offense: Washington RB Bishop Sankey was the best player on the field in the Huskies' 28-26 defeat in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. He gained 205 yards on 30 carries with a TD. He also caught six passes for 74 yards, giving him 279 of Washington's 447 yards from scrimmage.
Best player, defense: Arizona State DT Will Sutton had 2.5 sacks and 3.5 tackles for a loss in the Sun Devils' 62-28 domination of Navy.
Best player, special teams: De'Anthony Thomas' 94-yard return of the opening kickoff of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl set the tone for Oregon's 35-17 triumph over Kansas State. We'll also slip in that his 23-yard TD on a screen pass was perhaps even more spectacular.
Best game: It's still difficult to wrap one's mind around Arizona's comeback against Nevada in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. The Wolf Pack led 48-35 with 1:48 remaining, but the Wildcats scored two touchdowns and recovered an onside kick in the final 46 seconds to steal a 49-48 victory. Arizona trailed 21-0 in the first quarter and was down 45-28 entering the final period, but still won.
Worst game: USC's 21-7 loss to a Georgia Tech team with seven defeats in the Hyundai Sun Bowl was not only the worst performance of the Pac-12's bowl season, it was the worst bowl performance in USC history. The Trojans, the preseason No. 1 team, managed to gain just 205 yards against a bad defense, one that had been shredded in a 49-28 loss to Middle Tennessee.
Best play: Arizona linebacker Marquis Flowers recovered the onside kick that set up the Wildcats' go-ahead drive against Nevada. He also grabbed the interception with 13 seconds left that ended the high drama.
Best goal-line stand: Stanford dominated Wisconsin's offense in the second half of the Rose Bowl, but that wasn't the case in the second quarter, when the Badgers scored 14 points and were gashing the Cardinal. Gashing, other than one critical play. On fourth-and-goal at the Stanford 1-yard line, Badgers RB James White was stonewalled by DE Ben Gardner.
Worst play: Baylor led UCLA 14-0, but UCLA looked poised to make a defensive stop in the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl. The Bears faced a third-and-9 from their 45-yard line. UCLA decided to blitz, and Bears QB Nick Florence made them pay with a 55-yard TD pass to Tevin Reese. It was a beautiful pass and catch for Baylor. But it was a crushing blow to the Bruins, who never mounted much of a challenge the rest of the evening.
Best stat(s): Arizona State QB Taylor Kelly was nearly perfect against Navy. He completed 17 of 19 passes for 277 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions. That's a pass efficiency rating of 277.43. Alabama's AJ McCarron led the nation with a pass efficiency rating of 175.28 this season. Oh, and Kelly also rushed for 81 yards on seven carries -- 11.6 yards per rush -- and a TD.
Best stat(s) II: Stanford's defense shut out Wisconsin in the second half of the Rose Bowl, holding the Badgers to just four first downs and 82 total yards, including 13 yards rushing from All-American RB Montee Ball.
Worst stat: UCLA's feckless performance against Baylor was best summed up by the Bruins going 1-for-17 on third downs. That's bad against any defense, but making matters worse is this: Baylor ranked 119th in the nation in third-down conversions allowed.
Crazy stat: Texas' defense posted an Alamo Bowl-record 10 sacks for minus-81 yards against Oregon State. Alex Okafor alone set a bowl record with 4.5 sacks. Here's a guess that Beavers fans were wondering how a team that gave up 23 sacks in its previous 12 games couldn't make an adjustment, because Okafor doesn't rank in the top five of defensive linemen/outside linebackers Oregon State faced during the regular season.


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The Pennsylvania Rush '01 Boys have won state cups and are headed to the US Club Soccer Regional Tournament.
This is the first year that the US Club National Cup has been played in Pennsylvania and the '01 Boys are proud to be representing Rush Soccer in their region. On the road to the Regional Tournament, the 'o1 Boys defeated FCUSA '01 and LVU'01. Two of the wins were shutouts while tallying six goals for and zero goals against.
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Sirs Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart: Manhattan Mates!
They're best friends and longtime costars so it's no wonder Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart decided to team up and explore New York City as a pair.
The "X-Men" costars, who have been working together on the Broadway production of "No Man's Land" and "Waiting for Godot," posed for a variety of tourist-style photos that ended up on Stewart's Twitter account.
Regarding their shots of Madame Tussauds, the Empire State Building and Coney Island, Patrick noted, "It has taken me by surprise, anyway, the response to the two of us doing silly photographs in exciting places and helping promote our show."
McKellen added, jokingly, "Ever since Patrick asked me to marry him in the summer, we couldn't have been closer, could we?"


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Torres hopes UEFA rethink Atletico banning
Liverpool striker Fernando Torres has spoken of his disappointment after hearing his much-anticipated return to Atletico Madrid's Vicente Calderon could be scuppered.
Torres through the ranks at Atletico and quickly become a fan favourite before moving to Anfield in a big-money move a year ago. "After so much time waiting, it is the worst and most unexpected news that I could have heard this morning," the 24-year-old told Marca.
"I'm eager to go back. I don't know if it is definitive, I hope that a solution can be found. It is a shame that these incidents have forced the stadium to be closed, but if this is what happens then we have to accept it."
And British sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe called on UEFA to use the money from Atletico's record fine to help Liverpool fans.
Sutcliffe said: "It's great to see UEFA taking a tough stance on racism as this is the only way we are going to kick this problem out of the game.
"But the decision to move the match at this late stage will play havoc with Liverpool fans' travel plans and put them out of pocket.
"These decisions need to be made more quickly to avoid this. I would like to see UEFA use the 150,000 euro fine paid by Atletico to help the Liverpool supporters get to the match."
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Is this I-680 or the Donner Pass?
Original post made by Jeff, Del Prado, on Sep 29, 2010
September 29, 2010
I'm writing this in case I do not make it. My family and the world need to know how our last days were spent trapped on the freeway trying desperately to reach the new Toll Lane in Sunol. We were promised a faster commute, but have been stuck in a level of hell only surpassed by those waiting in line to audition for American Idol.
Like many others, I joined the long line of cars creeping along 680 south at the Bernal entrance. We crept along listening to reports on the radio of congestion extending north to the Oregon border. We measured our commute not in miles, but in inches. By day 2, I had made it as far as the Sunol Blvd exit. I toyed with the idea of getting off the freeway and returning home to my family. But my job beckoned and promises of commute nirvana up ahead in the new toll lane kept me queued in the long line of frustrated drivers.
By day three, all the food and water I could scrounge from my car and along the side of the freeway were gone. Other commuters and I started talking about sending a scouting party ahead on foot to see if there was an overland route we could take. 4 brave souls struck out in their wingtips and ties, but they returned 1 short later in the evening. The details of their harrowing trek will be the stuff of legend if this journal survives. The lost member of their party will be remembered as a hero due to his actions to save the others. We are still not clear as to what occurred, but the survivors seem to imply commuters further south had turned to cannibalism due to the lack of food and coffee. The three remaining members did manage to bring back his Bally wingtips and leather belt. We may try to eat those later.
By day 5, the smell along the freeway was fetid and rank. Most cars had run out of fuel, so the drivers were pushing their vehicles anytime the long string of cars inched forward. Only those driving hybrids seemed to still have power, but none of them were as well armed as the many SUV drivers, so they were easily overrun and their fuel supplies taken. Armed gangs began terrorizing the weakened commuters. Barter systems were setup, people trading bags of airplane peanuts for a few ounces of fuel. I tried a desperate attempt to hike back up the freeway to home, but was forced back into my car by a roving band of Caltrans workers threatening anyone who dared to leave their car and not experience the glory of the Express Lane.
Day 7 dawned over the Eastern hills. I was delirious from the lack of sleep, hunger, and Starbuck's withdrawal. I was awake most of the night fending off a horde of what my little community of commuters called "tollbies" - similar to zombies, but without the insatiable appetite for human flesh. Tollbies had lost their sense of humanity and reason, seeking only to experience the FasTrack enabled rush of Express Lane joy. These poor lost souls wandered down the freeway in small groups between the camps of stranded motorists, waving their FasTrack transponders in the air hoping beyond all hope for that reassuring "beep" signaling they had reached the Promised Lane. My encampment used our laptops and spare tires to create crude barriers to keep the Tollbies from overrunning us. Our latest plan for rescue involves tying a note to a dead cell phone and seeing if we can throw it at a passing ACE train, but we hold little hope any rescue is on it way.
A few of our group have scouted the Northbound lanes for any sign of rescue, but were met with resistance from those stuck in the miles long backup from the evening commute. Small wars are now occurring between the North and South bound commuters as the Northies try to claim the southbound HOV/Toll Lane. The Northies feel they are justified in their seizure since their commute has been horrendous for many more years than the Southies and they have never benefited from a HOV lane. All hope of reconciliation, rescue or free flowing traffic appear to be abandoned.
If anyone reads this, please tell my family I love them. My Blackberry is almost out of battery power, so this will be my last entry. I only hope they have FasTrack in heaven.
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a resident of Parkside
on Sep 30, 2010 at 8:40 am
SteveP is a registered user.
Good write-up. I can hardly wait for the movie to come out....thank God (and us taxpayers) for shovel-ready projects!
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Sep 30, 2010 at 8:58 am
This so made my morning. Thanks
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:01 am
Not to worry. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown will take care of the problem if he is elected Governor. During his first stint as Governor, he stopped most freeway projects dead in their tracks. Do you remember the unfinished I680/I280 and 101 interchange in San Jose that went unfinished for about 20 years after he stopped freeway construction dead in its tracks? Do you remember how he transformed CalTrans from the best in the country to a laughing stock? Do you remember the time before Moonbeam Brown when California had the best roads in the country? If Moonbeam gets in, most freeways in the state will seem like Donner Pass.
Vote wisely in November!
a resident of Valencia
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:18 am
Remember - it is now against the law to text while driving - even if you are stuck in traffic. Get over it!
a resident of Valencia
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:23 am
Jeff, this is very funny and well-written! Thank you for the clever commentary. Do you (or should I say, did you :)) write for a living?
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:26 am
Loved it! Anxious to read next journal entry.
a resident of Del Prado
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:35 am
Diane - no, just a hobby. Thanks for the kind words.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:38 am
Thanks for the laugh!
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:38 am
This was the funniest thing I read all week. I cracked up at the part about the devoted Cal- Trans workers. Keep em coming!
a resident of Siena
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:53 am
Absolutely hilarious.
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:54 am
I needed a good laught today, I was in traffic right along side of you. What I don't get is they make it sound like traffic is bad until you get to that "great new toll lane" people it was always backed up, the new lane is not adding any value. It clears up after you pass 84 entrance. Just give us a carpool lane going North please!!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 30, 2010 at 10:12 am
Loved it!! Hilarious!! And yes, we need a carpool lane going North ASAP!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 30, 2010 at 10:25 am
a resident of Stoneridge
on Sep 30, 2010 at 10:27 am
Even before the carpool lane opened, the trip from Sunol to Milpitas was the fastest part of my commute. Now that it is opened, I see few cars using the "express" lane, and I am usually able to keep up with the cars that do use it. I don't understand how allowing a few cars to pay for a lane will speed up traffic, but perhaps it's all about providing those that aren't bothered by spending $2.50/day a quicker commute.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 30, 2010 at 10:56 am
So what happened to the whole "oh it's only slowed down because of unrelated accidents" propaganda? Have the caltrans apologists abandoned this defense for the traffic?
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 30, 2010 at 12:30 pm
If the Sunol grade ever does get heavy traffic again, and as a consequnce people start paying to use the lane, what do you think the effect will be of mixing carpoolers (typically conservative drivers) with toll payers (typical A type people where every second counts)? One wants to arrive safely and other wants to set land speed records.
Not to worry, the express lane has wide shoulders. More then enough room to clear the wreckage out of way.
Use to carpool for several years. One day, the guy driving, was being followed by a jerk in a black Nissian Titan pick-up truck. A solo driver in the carpool lane. We were traveling around 70mph and this guy was within inches of our rear bumper. He passed us going down the grade towards Mission Blvd, gave us the finger, and re-entered the carpool lane speeding up to probably 90mph. License plate was SXPRTY (why did DMV let this one through?). When we got to our exit, Mission Blvd south, this guy was only three cars ahead of us, stuck waiting in the 680/Mission exit lane.
Even traveling the entire distance of the toll lane, the time saved between 65mph and 35mph is only 10 minutes. Kind of like traveling to LA on I 5, passing a truck doing 70mph while the truck is at 60mph, traveling down the road for 2 hours, stopping for gas, and by the time you have filled up, the truck has passed you.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Sep 30, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Protest the toll lane by not using it, maybe they will see what a failure it is, and let everyone use it. Keep the roads free for everyone, and speed everyone along. I am sick of the traffic on Foothill Road when people get off 680 due to traffic. The lack of an A period at Foothill High School, just adds even more cars to Foothill Road every morning. Now we just need it to rain...
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 30, 2010 at 2:27 pm
great article. so glad that i read this after writing an angry letter to CALTRAN.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Sep 30, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Right on "Resident mom". Not only am I too cheap to use the toll lane, but I would never give them the satisfaction.
First, they don't build any new roads, so traffic jams force us into mass transit, then they act like they sympathize, and allow single drivers another lane, but in reality they just want more money.
a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Sep 30, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I LOVED reading your entry! Keep the dream of your family alive and trek on! Here's to working from home!
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European Stocks Little Changed on Debt Sales, DraghiCorinne Gretler
European stocks were little changed as France and Spain sold debt, while European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said that economic recovery should begin later this year amid a continued accommodative policy.
Vodafone Group Plc contributed the most to gains by a gauge of telecommunications shares after reiterating its forecast for the year through March. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA advanced for a third day. DNB ASA climbed to its highest price since June 2011 after increasing its dividend. Sanofi dropped to its lowest price since November after saying that profit may retreat this year.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index slipped 0.2 percent to 283.88 at the close of trading, after earlier rallying as much as 0.6 percent. The equity benchmark has gained 1.5 percent this year as U.S. lawmakers agreed on a compromise federal budget. The gauge has fallen 1.5 percent this week amid signs of political uncertainty returning to Italy and Spain.
"After the recent resurgence of the tensions in Europe, Draghi had to reassure the markets, both on the macro-economic side and on a personal level, answering questions about the Monte Paschi case," said John Plassard, vice president at Mirabaud Securities LLP in Geneva, which oversees about $28 billion. "He did this successfully. He hinted at continued accommodative policy to support the economy and that's a positive element markets have been yearning for this week."
The number of shares changing hands in companies listed on the Stoxx 600 was 24 percent greater than the average of the last 30 days, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.
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The ECB left its benchmark rate at a record low of 0.75 percent following a meeting of policy makers in Frankfurt today. That matched every forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
Draghi said the combined economy of the 17 nations that use the euro will begin to recover later this year because the absence of inflation risks will allow the ECB to leave interest rates at their record low.
In the U.K., Bank of England officials refrained from adding further stimulus to aid the economy and held its interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent. The BOE panel led by the current governor, Mervyn King, left its target for bond purchases at 375 billion pounds ($588 billion). All 43 economists in a Bloomberg survey had forecast no change.
France sold 7.98 billion euros ($11 billion) of government debt and Spain raised more than its maximum target at a bond auction. Yields climbed, compared with the most recent sales.
National benchmark indexes declined in 12 of the 18 western-European markets today. Germany's DAX advanced 0.1 percent, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100 fell 1.1 percent. France's CAC 40 lost 1.2 percent, erasing its gain for the year.
Vodafone, DNB
Vodafone gained 0.9 percent to 171.9 pence after the world's second-biggest mobile-phone operator repeated its forecast that adjusted operating profit for the year through March will be in the upper half of a range of 11.1 billion pounds to 11.9 billion pounds. Analysts had estimated 11.6 billion pounds.
Banca Monte dei Paschi rallied 4.1 percent to 24 euro cents. The Italian bank engulfed by investigations into its former managers will take a 730 million-euro hit to its assets after accounting for structured deals that hid earlier losses.
DNB surged 7.3 percent to 81.30 kroner, posting the best performance on the Stoxx 600. Norway's largest lender reported net income of 3.81 billion kroner ($689 million), exceeding the 3.32 billion-krone average of 15 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The company also proposed a dividend for 2012 of 2.1 kroner a share, or 25 percent of its earnings a share and an increase of 5 percent from 2011.
Sanofi Slips
Sanofi declined 4 percent to 66.60 euros after projecting that earnings per share may drop as much as 5 percent this year as generic competition to its Plavix blood thinner limits revenue in the U.S. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted that earnings would slip 0.2 percent.
Alcatel-Lucent SA climbed 4.9 percent to 1.23 euros after its chief executive officer announced he will leave. The stock earlier rallied as much as 11 percent, as Chief Executive Officer Ben Verwaayen stepped down after his 4 1/2-year-long attempt to turn around the phone-equipment maker failed. The company reported a fourth-quarter net loss of 1.37 billion euros and as it booked a one-off impairment charge of 1.4 billion euros. Verwaayen will remain in place until the board finds a replacement.
Daimler AG gained 2.8 percent to 44.21 euros after the world's third-biggest maker of luxury vehicles forecast that group revenue and deliveries of Mercedes-Benz cars will increase in 2013.
Burberry Group Plc slid 6.5 percent to 1,337 pence as the U.K.'s largest luxury-goods maker replaced its chief financial officer. Stacey Cartwright, who has held the post for more than nine years, will step down in July. Carol Fairweather will take over from Cartwright, while John Smith will take on the new position of chief operating officer.


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David Pryce-Jones explores the novels of Evelyn Waugh and his special relationship with the author.
Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940
Evelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a special stamp on the times, like Dean Swift or Dr. Johnson. About the best that most writers can expect from posterity is cultural embalming, probably in the form of a monograph written by some academic paid to read books nobody else is reading. Almost fifty years after his death, Waugh remains a presence because the spirit of comedy in his books is pure and irrepressible. A reissue of his fiction by Little, Brown and Company attests to the lasting nature of his works.


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The promises of muscular humanitarianism in Syria have been deferred. When John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov reached a deal last month that the Assad regime would verifiably dispose of its chemical weapons, the world united in resolving to help the Syrian people suffering in civil war.
David Cameron insisted that the UK would remain fully engaged with the humanitarian mission in Syria, saying that the chemical weapons deal should not allow the world to assume that Syria had been "solved".
Yet there has been an all too predictable lessening of the pressure of world opinion. Although the work of the UN chemical weapons inspectors seems to be going ahead with surprising despatch, the war itself – and the plight of refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq – is getting worse.
Yesterday brought the testimony of David Nott, the "Indiana Jones of surgery" who has led a group of international doctors in Syria. He says snipers, assumed to be hired by the Assad regime, have been using pregnant women for target practice, aiming at unborn children for sport. Mr Nott, whose scheme to train doctors in Britain to work in conflict zones was featured in The Independent on Sunday in August, describes his experience in Syria as "hell beyond hell".
It is to be hoped that this reminder of the horror of the Syrian civil war will rouse the world's conscience and spur renewed diplomatic effort. The unusual protest of the Saudi Arabian government, refusing to take its place on the UN Security Council, might add to the pressure. The Saudis accused the UN, among other things, of allowing the Syrian government "to kill its own people with chemical weapons... without confronting it or imposing any deterrent sanctions". That seems overstated, given that the use of chemical weapons has been confronted, but if it helps Saudi Arabia, the richest country in the region, live up to its promises to help refugees, no one should complain.
The British Government has made a contribution. Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, announced a week ago that a further £12m over two years would be going to Jordanian local government to provide help. But a more assertive humanitarian effort is needed. Mr Nott suggests UN-supervised corridors in Syria to allow the delivery of aid and medical help. Now that UN inspectors are working in Syria to enforce the deal on chemical weapons, would it not be possible to push the Russians to make good on their rhetoric of humanitarian protection? Let us hope Dr Nott's hope of meeting David Cameron to make this point is not in vain.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's vision of "intelligence-driven prosecution" could do for prosecutors what CompStat did for policing.
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Manhattanites seem to like district attorneys with a pedigree. Robert Morgenthau, who held the position from 1975 until his retirement last year, was the son of Henry Morgenthau -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt's treasury secretary. Cyrus Vance Jr., Morgenthau's successor, is the son of Cyrus Vance Sr. -- President Jimmy Carter's secretary of state. But while he bears a famous name, Vance Jr.'s path to elected office -- and his ambitions for it -- are distinctly his own.
A native New Yorker, Vance, age 56, spent much of his childhood in Washington, D.C., where he enjoyed such unusual experiences as sleepovers at the White House. (President Lyndon Johnson gave him his first pocketknife.) After graduating from Georgetown University Law School in 1982, Vance became an assistant district attorney under Morgenthau for six years. In 2004, he returned to New York City after several years in Seattle, and was elected as Morgenthau's successor last fall.
Since taking office, Vance has focused on what he calls "intelligence-driven prosecution." The centerpiece of his initiative is a special crime strategies unit that works with police and community leaders to target crime hot spots. If it succeeds, Vance may well do for prosecutors what former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton did for policing -- move the focus from process and individual cases to results and lower crime.
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On "Adam Raised a Cain" Springsteen isn't slowing down for anything. He's screaming each word. He knows why he was confused when he was 18 and he doesn't like it. The real source of his hatred wasn't his father's demands, but his fear that he would become like him. Darkness on the Edge of Town isn't simply about paying the price of escaping one's past, one's family, one's class, one's town. The terror underneath the record, the terror that comes tearing out in "Adam Raised a Cain," is that he an never escape. It fills Springsteen with so much hate, and it also humbles him:
In the Bible Cain slew Abel,And East of Eden he was cast,You're born into this life payingFor the sins of somebody else's past.Daddy worked his whole life, fornothing but the pain,Now he walks these empty rooms,looking for something to blame.Adam raised a Cain
Though "The Promise" was not originally about his father, in the middle of the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions Springsteen rewrote the lyrics. The song still does not focus on that figure, but it does speak of betrayal and defeat, of lost dreams. And it is father who teaches him "how to walk quiet/How to make my peace with the past." When Springsteen sang "The Promise" at the Music Hall last week he brought Darkness on the Edge of Town full circle, even though the song isn't on the album. "When the promise is broken you keep on livin' ": on Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen considers all the other choices; on "The Promise" he chooses.
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Re: st: Class membership probabiliy and mlogit
Gindo Tampubolon <email@example.com>
Re: st: Class membership probabiliy and mlogit
Tue, 15 May 2007 08:50:53 +0100
Dear Jon, Jonathan and others,
Bolck et al. 2004. describe one way to deal with this situation [in some areas,
it's known as a variant of latent structure model, MIMIC model etc.]
What you plan to do is what they call a three-step approach as opposed to a one
step approach of setting up the full likelihood of the measurement part [latent
class] and the structural part [multinomial logit].
Here's the reference:
Bolck A, Croon M, Hagenaars J.
Estimating Latent Structure Models with Categorical Variables: One-Step Versus
Three-Step Estimators, POLITICAL ANALYSIS, 12 (1): 3-27, Winter 2004
I tend to use the full maximum likelihood in another software and so don't have
any experience in constructing the matrix they suggest to correct the bias
inthe three step approach.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:13:56 +0100
From: "Jon Heron (ALSPAC)" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: st: Class membership probabiliy and mlogit
Hi Maarten,
unfortunately, our data don't appear suitable for this model
- all but 3% of the cases have at least one probability which is
equal to zero
In particular, for the commonest response 'patterns' YYYYYYY and
NNNNNNN, we find ourselves with one probability practically equal
to one and very little else. Only when we have a great deal of
uncertainly, e.g. for NYNNYNY will we get six non-zero class assignment
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- --On 11 May 2007 20:24 +0100 Maarten buis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I have another suggestion. You could use the probabilities as the
dependent variable by estimating a -dirifit- model. See:
Hope this helps,
--- Jonathan Sterne <email@example.com> wrote:
Dear statalisters
We have been fitting latent class models, the output of which is a
set of
posterior probabilities that each subject falls into one of six
classes. We now want to use multinomial logistic regression (mlogit)
examine predictors of class membership.
One option is to assign each subject to her/his modal class (the
class for
which there is the highest probability of membership. However loses
information (some subjects will have a high probability that they
belong to
a particular class, others will have relatively similar probabilities
membership of two or more classes.
As an alternative, we wish to fit multinomial logistic regression
using the class variable as the multinomial outcome and weighting the
analysis using class membership probabilities.
We have stacked the data so we have multiple rows for each subject in
following form
ID Exposure Class Prob
1 1 1 0.1
1 1 2 0.1
1 1 3 0.4
1 1 4 0.3
1 1 5 0.05
1 1 6 0.05
'Prob' sums to one within subject and class repeats 1,2,3,4,5,6
through the
whole dataset.
We weight using pweights [pw = prob]
Consequently, our model of choice has been:
xi: mlogit class xvars [pw = prob], rrr
(identical to xi: mlogit class xvars [iw = prob], rrr robust)
and we have also experimented with
xi: mlogit class xvars [pw = prob], rrr robust cluster(id)
which gives lower SE's, and
xi: mlogit class exposure [iweight = prob], rrr
which gives *higher* SE's than the pweight model without 'robust'
We would be grateful for advice on the following questions:
1. Is it appropriate to weight according to class membership
(we are pretty convinced that it is)?
2. Does anyone have a recommendation as to which of the above model
formulations gives theoretically appropriate standard errors?
Many thanks
Jonathan Sterne
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Our patch notes have gotten a makeover. We are proud to present our spiced up patch notes format, now including a video overview, screenshots, and graphics. Take a look here.
We had some issues with migration during the patching process last night, but the big milestone patch is now officially live! There are some known issues that we are currently working on such as an inability to change your warpaint and a problem with the upgraded Missile Shot ability. If you find any critical issues, please let us know.
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Salvager Addon – We'd like to give a big thank you to Thehink who created a bulk salvaging mod for Firefall.
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A: In order for Firefall to be ready for release, we have to make sure that there is enough content, that our endgame is where we want it to be, and that our retention rate for new players is solid. Right now we're working on a ton of cool features such as bosses and open world PVP so we are definitely on our way to release.
Q: Is Red 5 planning on finishing the campaign before the game is released?
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