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I have a two-dimensional array and I need to add key-value pairs to the 'inner' arrays conditionally, and then write the updated arrays back to the outer array. All the 'inner' arrays have the same structure. In the snippet below the first or outer 'foreach' is looping around calculating $dist values. It's the inner 'foreach' loop that concerns me here.
I am trying to add the key-value pairs 'dist=$dist' and 'unit'='miles' to each $listing. They get added to $listing, but this altered $listing wasn't getting written back to $listings (plural). So I've resorted to writing the altered $listing into a new outer array, and then changing its name back to $listings afterwards. Surely there's a better way ?
// Calculate all the distances and add to $listing array
foreach ($bus_ids as $bus_id) {
if (array_key_exists($bus_id, $latlongs)) {
$lat = $latlongs[$bus_id]['lat'];
$lng = $latlongs[$bus_id]['lng'];
$dist = distance($lat, $lng, $lat2, $lng2, true);
// echo $bus_id . " Distance: " . $dist;
foreach ($listings as $listing) {
if ($bus_id == $listing['bus_id']) {
$listing['dist'] = $dist;
$listing['unit'] = 'miles';
$newlistings[] = $listing;
break; // bus_id is unique
$listings = $newlistings;
I have tried:
foreach ($listings as $key => $listing) {
. . .
$listings[$key] = $listing;
. . .
and also:
foreach ($listings as &$listing) {
Neither seem to work, but perhaps I've not got it quite right.Curiously when it comes to altering the values in those same key-value pairs the assignment operator seems to work OK. This code follows almost immediately after the snippet above.
// $listings gets sorted by the value of $listing['dist']
// Convert small distances to yards
foreach ($listings as &$listing) {
if (isset($listing['dist']) && $listing['dist'] < 0.5) {
$listing['dist'] = round($listing['dist']*1760,-1);
$listing['unit'] = 'yards';
// $newlistings[] = $listing; (not needed here)
// $listings = $newlistings; (not needed here)
It appears that I can't ADD to an array using the assignment operator or 'as $key => $value' construction, but it is OK for altering something that already exists. Or have I just got my syntax muddled ?
You see that little & before $listing in the foreach of last code block? It's pretty significant...
Now; what EXACTLY are you trying to do? Or, to put it in a phase my programming brain can work on it (it's only 9 AM), answer the two questions:
What do you have BEFORE (Input)What do you want AFTER (Output)
Thank you for your response. I'm sorry if I did not give an adequate explanation of what I am (successfully) doing. My question was aimed at finding out if there was a better way (or why what appears to be the right way isn't working for me).
Right at the start of this process I have an array called $listings (plural). It contains many sub-arrays (about 200) which represent records from a MySQL database. These sub-arrays all have the same structure. If I were to create them manually they'd look like this:
listings[] = ('bus_id' => '1234', 'name' => 'name1', ......);
listings[] = ('bus_id' => '1235', 'name' => 'name2', ......);
and so on
They DO NOT include the KVPs 'dist' and 'unit'. In first of the three 'foreach' loops I am finding latlong co-ordinates from another table and calculating a distance, and I'm using the second 'foreach' to INSERT NEW KVPs into each sub-array when the appropriate record is found. They then look like this:
listings[] = ('bus_id' => '1234', 'name' => 'name1', 'dist' => $dist1, 'unit' => $unit......);
listings[] = ('bus_id' => '1235', 'name' => 'name2', 'dist' => $dist2, 'unit' => $unit......);
and so on. At this point 'unit' defaults to miles.
Now I need the changed sub-array to be 'written' back to $listings. That's where I thought '&$value' would come in, but it didn't seem to work, so I resorted to saving the changed sub-arrays to a new 'wrapper' array ($newlistings), and then changed its name afterwards. (OK, so the way the PHP Manual describes how '&$value' works is that it allows me to work on the actual $value rather than a copy, but it achieves the same effect as what I've called 'writing back'. How you look at it is less important than what it achieves.)
Next I sort the order of the sub-arrays within the main array by the value of 'dist' within each sub-array. That works fine, so no more on that score. EXCEPT to say that this is where it fails when I try to use' &$value' above. I get "Undefined index: dist...' which tells me the added KVPs haven't been 'written back' (as I call it) to the original $listings. So long as I write my augmented sub-arrays to another wrapper ($newlistings in my code) all is well. The presence of '&$listings' in the first code sample in my original posting made no difference, so I should probably have left it our for clarity.
Finally in the third 'foreach' I go through the sub-arrays looking for low values of 'dist' and converting them from miles to yards, and changing the 'unit' to yards too. In this case the '&$value' seems to have the desired effect of allowing me to work on the actual listings rather than a copy, so I don't explicitly have to write them to another array.
// Convert small distances to yards
foreach ($listings as &$listing) {
if (isset($listing['dist']) && $listing['dist'] < 0.5) {
$listing['dist'] = round($listing['dist']*1760,-1);
$listing['unit'] = 'yards';
// $newlistings[] = $listing; (not needed here)
// $listings = $newlistings; (not needed here)
As before, my question boils down very simply to: Why does '&$value' appear to work when I'm just altering existing KVPs, but NOT when I'm adding additional ones ?
If you'd like a summary, it's like this:
Case 1: (&$value does not work)Before: An array of arraysAfter: An array of arrays which (all) contain some extra KVPs
Case2: (&$value works)Before: An array of arraysAfter: An array of arrays which contain the same KVPs, two of which have been altered.
I hope this is understandable. It has become very long.
Well, in developing an answer to this, i have to ask a question. $dist = distance($lat, $lng, $lat2, $lng2, true);
Where are $lat2 and $lng2 defined?
Thank you for your response. I fear we may get distracted here. The lat and long values are being pulled out of the database and fed into the 'distance' function, which returns the distance between the two points. I suggest it doesn't matter what's going on there, the point is that apparently '&$value' doesn't work if KVPs are being added to the sub-arrays. Period.
I know the distance values are good because they run on through the script and print out on the screen.
Well my point was that $lat2 and $lon2 dont get set on each iteration of the loop, so you may be getting eroneous distances, unless all distances are being measured from a single point.
anyway, here's how i'd do it.
foreach($listings AS &$listing) {
if (array_key_exists($listing['bus_id'], $latlongs)) {
$listing['dist'] = distance($latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lat'], $latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lng'], $lat2, $lng2, true);
$listing['unit'] = 'miles';
Thank you. All the distances are indeed calculated from a single point (the user's location, which can be changed elsewhere). Your suggestion shortens the code quite a bit (at the price of making it harder to follow, perhaps). However, it still doesn't work unless I reintroduce my $newlistings.
foreach($listings AS &$listing) {
if (array_key_exists($listing['bus_id'], $latlongs)) {
$listing['dist'] = distance($latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lat'], $latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lng'], $lat2, $lng2, true);
$listing['unit'] = 'miles';
$newlistings[] = $listing;
$listings = $newlistings;
Without it I still get the 'Undefined Index: dist' error.
You can see it in rudimentary form at www.mobile.holidaymullandiona.comClick on one of the location buttons (NOT geo-location, it's not working yet) and the on 'Accommodation'/'Eating'/'Attractions'/You should be presented with a list in ascending order of distance from your chosen location. There's no built-in back button, but if you do go back you can repeat from a different dimension.
I've done this in my test enviroment:
$vals = array("moo","cow");
$arr = array(array(),array());
foreach($arr AS $key => &$myarr) {
if(array_key_exists($key,$vals)) {
$myarr['new'] = $vals[$key];
works absolutely fine. So the system should work... are you using an older version of PHP? (not that that should change anything, really)
Thank you.
Your test version certainly worked, and so I modified it to bring it closer to my script. As you can see, instead of running a calculation within the IF clause (as in my original), I've added on two KVPs from the $latlong array.
$listings = array (
0 => array("bus_id" => "1234", "name" => "Jim"),
1 => array("bus_id" => "1235", "name" => "Fred")
$latlongs = array (
"1234" => array("lat" => 56.31582, "lng" => 6.23551),
"1235" => array("lat" => 55.58868, "lng" => 5.01604)
foreach($listings AS &$listing) {
if(array_key_exists($listing['bus_id'],$latlongs)) {
$listing['lat'] = $latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lat'];
$listing['lng'] = $latlongs[$listing['bus_id']]['lng'];
$listing['unit'] = 'miles';
//Prints out:
/* Array (
[0] => Array ( [bus_id] => 1234 [name] => Jim [lat] => 56.31582 [lng] => 6.23551 [unit] => miles )
[1] => Array ( [bus_id] => 1235 [name] => Fred [lat] => 55.58868 [lng] => 5.01604 [unit] => miles )
It still works, which leaves me wondering why my original version doesn't (without introducing the $newlisting array). Perhaps there's some important aspect I've overlooked. I shall continue to look at it, but I'm not going to go grey over a couple of lines of code.Thank you for your help.
As far as I know, foreach will only loop though the elements of the selected array
if you want to display all the dimentions of an array use the function
if you only want to print out certain parts of an array, you could use this function.
function PrintArray($array) {
if(is_array($array)) {
foreach($array as $key=>$value) {
if(is_array($value) {
// the value of the current array is also a array, so call this function again to process that array
} else {
// This part of the array is just a key/value pair
echo "$key: $value
";
that will do the same as print_r(); however you can then limit what is printed by placing some conditions where i have the line
echo "$key: $value
";
so you could change that to
if($key == $name){echo "$key: $value
";}
so now it will only print the array element when key == name
Hope you get help.Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey. The issue isn't about the printing, it's about using a 'foreach' loop to tack additional KVPs onto a two-dimensional array. My last posting probably doesn't make much sense to someone picking up the thread now.
Well, I think this may work for you.
function merge_db_lists ($list1, $list2) {
$final_array = array();
$final_array = go_through_list($list1, $final_array);
$final_array = go_through_list($list2, $final_array);
return $final_array;
function go_through_list($list,$output){
foreach (array_keys($list) as $key){
if (array_key_exists($key, $output)){
foreach ($list[$key] as $item ){
$output[$key][] = $item;
$output[$key] = $list[$key];
return $output;
Thanks, Jeffery. It seems almost more complicated than what I was doing before. Since my original code (writing the augmented arrays into the $newlisting array) works perfectly well I'm going to leave it at that for now. I'm sure i'll come back to it when I've nothing else to do.
Thank you both for your interest and your time.


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Los Angeles Archdiocese kept sexual abuse in the shadows » Father Michael Daniel Buckley
In the case of Father Michael Daniel Buckley, the signs of abuse were there as early as 1965.
That was the year parents of children at Immaculate Conception Church in Monrovia sent two letters to then-Bishop Timothy Manning demanding Buckley's removal due to "grave moral reasons" and threatening to picket if their demands were not met.
Yet Buckley would continue his career with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for nearly 30 more years, racking up one lawsuit and eight accusers officially acknowledged by the archdiocese and who were included in the massive 2007 settlements.
The recent release of archdiocese personnel files, which are part of the court records in a related case, reveal Buckley was assigned to nearly a dozen church parishes, schools and hospitals throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Documents show Cardinal Roger Mahony was notified of at least two independent reports of abuse as early as February 1994, including the sexual assaults of three young brothers whose family looked to Buckley as a father-figure after the death of their dad.
The file includes reports of problems to church leaders by other clergy men and seminarians who said Buckley had made improper advances or tried to force himself on others.
Among the eight victims acknowledged by the archdiocese is a man who wrote church leaders in 1991 and described being forcefully kissed and grabbed by Buckley when Buckley would visit another priest at the then-13-year-old's parish, Holy Innocents in Long Beach, in 1966.
Then there is the man who wrote to church leaders in February of 1994 to say Buckley convinced his parents to let him stay overnight with Buckley when Buckley was assigned to Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, where Buckley served as chaplain in 1965.
That is where the boy — then 14 — said he was orally copulated and forced to perform oral sex. He couldn't recall how many time he was molested total, but said it went on because he felt too ashamed, afraid and confused to ask for help.
"It was only when I physically attacked him and loudly cursed him did he leave me alone," the man wrote 30 years later in a handwritten statement to church leaders, describing the lasting pain and trauma that led to lifetime struggle with alcohol and drugs.
In the cases of the family of three brothers, Cardinal Manning personally promised the boys' mother in 1975 that Buckley would never again be allowed near children.
The files, however, reveal that Manning did not fulfill the promise. He merely transferred Buckley — as was done 10 years earlier to the Immaculate Heart Parish in Santa Ana — to parishes in Avalon, Culver City, Lomita, New Cuyama and Pomona.
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Hello all,
New to this board so here goes.
Been doing BBQ for 20+ years. Steven's books have really helped me up my game. People love my Q. Anyway, I'm trying to move up to the next level, and by that I mean: I want to cook a rack of ribs like the BBQ Team called "Just North of Memphis."
I was recently at the St. Petersburg, FL "Rib Fest." I sampled most of the Q. Very little of what I ate was on par with what I can make until I stopped by the JNOM team. Their ribs are simply the best I have ever had, and they are better by a long ways. Not a photo-finish. These things transend every rib I have ever eaten.
I have looked and looked for at least a hint of an idea how they make them. Here is all I have been able to find. They are served dry with what appears to be very little rub. The rub has a good deal of salt in the flavor profile. I know they smoke them vertically (hanging). I know they use maple wood, and I know there is steam in the smoke from water pans. Thats it folks. The rest is a mystery.
Does anyone have any more information? If you ever get the chance, do not miss trying these ribs. They are the show stopper. I wondered why the line for food at their location was 45 minutes longer than everyone else cooking at this show. I found out! Incredible.


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Wow, it's superb!
what a wonderful creative shot !
just gorgeous
So..you can fly. Angel?
Great ergonomics in this mini-office.
so I feel sometimes !!!
amazing work with this gorgeous shot !
COOL shot!
Have a nice Sunday Carraol! : )
I guess Marty get the mood of this post. Thank you all
Wow, this is an amazing point of view Carraol, it's a little like 'which part is real'!!


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A 66-year-old railway poster featuring a Barnet signal box has been sold for £2,500 at an auction – £1,000 more than expected.
The 40ins by 50ins poster had been expected to sell for between £1,000 and £1,500 at the Christie's auction in London.
The poster, emblazoned with the words On Early Shift, is particularly valuable because it is by the late Terence Cuneo, who is regarded as one of the greatest painters of steam locomotives.
It features Cuneo's painting of the Greenwood Signal Box at New Barnet with a fast-approaching A4 Pacific steam locomotive in the background.
It was produced by Cuneo in 1948, which means it is also one of the very first posters produced by the newly-formed British Railways, which came into being on January 1, 1948, when the four major privately owned railway companies were nationalised.
In his memoirs, The Mouse and His Master, Cuneo recalled: "Another [poster] I particularly enjoyed was the signal-box poster, On Early Shift.
"This show the interior of a busy, one-man box on the London and North Eastern Railway main line, just south of Greenwood tunnel, now, alas, dismantled. I attended all the shifts, the early, the midday and the night, in order to decide which would shape best pictorially.
"Although I finally chose the early one, I always remember the splendid character on the night shift. He was a signalman of the old school and took a terrific pride in his job and in the appearance of the box itself.
"He would never dream, for instance, of touching the levers without a chamois leather between his hands and the steel."
If Cuneo had produced his Barnet railway poster five or six years later it would have featured his trademark mouse. From 1953, all Cuneo paintings feature a mouse, after his pet Abyssinian cat, Cleopatra, strolled into his studio one day and deposited a dead field mouse, as a gift, at his feet.
Cuneo was liked and admired by the Royal Family and in 1953, five years after he produced his Barnet railway poster, he was made the official artist at the Queen's Coronation.
The Queen also contributed to the cost of the bronze statue of Cuneo that was unveiled at
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It's very rare that one community is just 'good' or just 'bad'. I met nobody but nice people playing NS2 the other day, yet when I played Chivalry it had some of the worst, yet I wouldn't class the community there as bad because I just didn't find the right people. There's dicks in everything, and classing a community as good or bad based on a few games is a bit silly. Come and play NS2 with some RPS guys. Not Finicky, of course.
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I think you must have been very, very unlucky Gundato. I have played NS2 for around about 40 hours and I don't recall any racial slurs, homophobic remarks or sexism on display in any game I have played. Once I had to mute someone for talking non-stop jibberish and there has been once or twice when a couple of people have got annoyed at new players being commander, but that is normally after they have not been listening to advice. It has easily been the best community I have ever played with.
As for the complaints from TixyLixx, I have to disagree with most of them. I can see it being confusing as an Alien at first, but the UI is excellent for the Marines. Orders pop up on the screen with a nice arrow pointing you to the right direction. Health and building status appears cleanly, whilst your health, armour and ammo are displayed nice and straight to the point, without taking up too much screen real estate.
Also, I would say the game is incredibly unique. I didn't play much of the original, but there have definitely been quite a few changes from the earlier mod, from what I can gather. This is also easily the most polished and balanced version of this style of multiplayer I have seen.
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I just want to recommend this game to people after my first impressions.
I took the plunge yesterday in the sale, and immediately hopped on last night, watched the basic tutorial video and then jumped into a game. I did terribly, but it was awesome fun, and the community was just so nice!
There was one guy who very patiently and repeatedly handed out instructions and compliments, and continued to do so even as our team got totally trashed. When the game was basically as good as over, he suggested we retreat out to the ready room, and stayed pleasant and seemingly enthusiastic for the next game the whole while.
It's sort of sad how shocking this is to me, and how used I've gotten to communities treating newbies like dirt.
On the actual game front, I was stuck on the alien side all night. I wanted to play a marine, since I figured that would be easier to get to grips with, but team balance demanded I play on the slimy side. It was still fun, despite getting toasted repeatedly.Started writing a blog for video games, roleplaying, game mechanics, and AARs.
In case anyone hasn't realised NS2 is 60% off for the next 30 hours on Steam!!
If you've just bought it, check out the new RPS steam group and our forum thread. We'll be meeting up soon.
Well done for taking the plunge. NS2 is one of those games that is easy to bounce off, but if you stick around it will reward you handsomely.
I took the plunge today and joined the steam group. I hope I get to play with you guys.Steam ID ; GFWL: alset85
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Buy me NS2.
Red Orchestra 2? I can't play one moment of it without turning all VOIP volume to zero: otherwise I have to spend ten minutes on every server muting people left and right. Granted, in the text chat I've seen a lot of good talk about the game and tactics, but there's 100% always someone shouting obscenities / playing music / speaking Russian* in the mic.
* No offense to Russians in general; but I only play on Euro/US servers, most of which have an English-only rule, and because I don't understand any Russian, it gets a little annoying when someone talks to themselves all the time.
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Every time I see the carnival of stupid that is chat/voip in another game I just think what am I doing here and go straight back to ns2.
If me being a dick on here keeps turds like gundato out of the beautiful ns2 community I'm accomplishing something here.
The game takes a mediocum of spatial awareness and multitasking ability, which is a nice filter for the dumb witted anyhow, they'll get nothing out of it and will only feel frustrated or lost.
Been avoiding the game during the steam sale while the game applies its quality filter mechanics on the avalanche of internet stupid and gundatos that flows in during these sales, in a week or two things 'll be back to normal as these ungamers return to their call of duties and assassin's creeds and diablos.
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Never been put off by a community no matter how bad "they" are.
Remember playing NS 1 a long time ago. Half these guys said all sorts of cheesy shit like "you're only as good as the worst player on your team" and excessive amounts of "thank you" and - even worse - "you're welcome" ("your" welcome, rather). Then when I said fuck you to some prick skulk who bit my face off, he responded with: "Very mature." I laughed my ass off and realized that approximately half the guys who were on that server were kids pretending to be adult. Such a hoot i remember 'till this day.
Peeps were ALOT more normal on other servers (sadly). As for the gameplay, I remember that the game was pretty confusing. Maps are huge and there are an assload of vents so memorizing the layout is probably crucial to the enjoyment of the game. Helps if you have a more hands-on commander that marks waypoints. Anyway it sounds fun but i'm pretty undecided at this point so i'll see how it goes when i wake up tomorrow morning.
I joined the game in late beta (got the game in march 2012 but performance and complexity put me off). Since then I've been sinking over 100h into the game and I have the feeling it just gets better and better and I'm more excited with each day I fire it up.
Considering the community: I came from BF3. While there is still a nice yet tiny community going on the battlefield steam forums, battlelog is beyond hope and the ingame people you get to play with are mostly such a bunch of morons, totally unresponsive to any tactical or strategical suggestions you are forced to hammer into the text chat... BF3 could have been a really nice game (after all, I spent 400h with it), but the community killed it for me. I don't have any rl friends to play with and anyone whom I befriended trailed off to playing team deathmatch or fast vehicle respawn servers. Clans are not for me as I don't like to stick to any schedules.
Now, NS2's community is AMAZING! No matter if you go to the official forums or playing the game, there's always a helpfull soul to point you into the right direction. There's always a bad apple, especially now with so many people picking the game up, but overall, reason and hospitality rules that community. There are quite a few elitists, but they usually keep to themselves and don't go into Rookie servers to drill newbs into shooting themselves on the toilet.
First RPS meetup is happening this Sunday 8pm UTC.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, discussion is here and the steam group is here.
Also last chance to grab NS2 for ten dollars before it goes off the daily deals in five hours time.
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Still thinking about it... what's the difference between normal and deluxe, btw?
still the possibility of NS2 getting cheaper though.
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Oh the frustration it can be with a new commander. I will give him a chance but it does not help there is 3 people trying to help and tell him what to do. They need to pay some attention to how another commander works. Ideally use Explore to try the interface. But Explore does not teach them how to click on requests and drop ammo/medpacks. I know I wasn't great at the start either.
I just tried to be commander. For the first time. So yeah, a new commander.
The game was quite advanced. Our first commander was good, but left mid-game.
Our second commander was a rookie, and had no idea what to do. Eventually he got bullied out of the chair.
Then noone wanted to take it.
Then I though "what the heck, it's already mostly a lost game..."
Between people constantly reminding me that we were capped at 200 resources (but there was nothing to research, as we only had 1 command station and all 1-comm upgrades were done) and some guy using voice chat to repeat over and over the same orders I could not understand, half because I was new to the chair, half because his accent was weird as all hell, I ended up completely fed, disconnected, fuck this shit.
At least I did learn how to drop health, ammo and scans, so that's something, I guess.
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Active commander who does ammo, health and scans makes a big difference.
I worst of part of being commander is when your team can't shoot worth anything and them constantly ignoring your orders.
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Anyone who even considers being a commander needs to go play a little on the explore mode, to at least familiarize himself with the interface and the menus. When you try it in actual game, there is seriously no time for it.
This tactic is a little cynical because it mainly tries to negate the skill level of your team by not upgrading anything in the armoury except welders and AA to stop your team wasting their PRes so they have the necessary 75 when you have dual exos up. Then its just mantrain into their hive time with as many MACs as you can afford.
So yeh, not really much time to waste when comming or its pretty much G_Gso much for pathos
Build 236 is live, and it's a big one.
Full patchnotes
Seems like the devs fixed a crash that was still affecting me from time to time, so hurrah for that.
Also, I can't wait to try out the revamped version of docking.
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Still no free weekends,demo or anything like that ??
Its demanding a Powerful Cpu, i have a 9850 Be cpu and its playable but struggling.If your cpu is stronger you should be fine. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?...850B+Quad-Core.
As for the Game itself i played ns 1 extensively so here are imho the main differences:
Tech is now territorial for Marines too, no 2nd Hive Location,no higher techs.
Shotgun spreads a lot more,if you cannot hit with the Rifle you wont kill anything with the Shirtgun.
Lerks have gone from a Sporespammer Role to a Guerilla Sniper/Support or Spitfire Strafe and Bite role.Also they can cling to walls and ceilings.
Even good Fades are less Dangerous due to limited Energy and the Ability to damage them while blinking (Also no selfhealing as Ability).
Wallrunning for Skulks has become *much* easier.
Sentries have been nerfed a lot, no more Turret farms,cheaper,limited Arcs of Fire, a single clever Skulk can take out a unguarded turret setup.
Celerity builds up slowly now, so the longer you run uninterrupted the faster you get.In other Words its more a means of traveling fast than a Combat Advantage.
Ha/Exosuits Have build in Gatling Guns but cannot use Phase Gates,also Hmgs have been removed.
Grenlaunchers damage the Shooter.
No more Hand grenades.And Jetpacs are more like Jumppacs.
The Commanders and overall Strategy are way more important now (Spy Drones/Special Abilities for Commanders/Supply Chains for Aliens).
Overall its pretty good,but imho most Rounds feel pretty the same as the Marines can no longer relocate their CC/Main Base and have to occuppy Hive Locations for Tech.Great Search Engine for Game bargains:


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Veteran Trafford councilman Bruno is resigning
For most of the past decade, Frank Bruno was the face of Trafford politics.
Confrontational, confident and a consummate hands-on micromanager, he was involved in every aspect of borough government. He helped lead Trafford out of debt, celebrated when it became debt free and said he has no regrets as he leaves office with the borough once again in debt but with a new fire station and new borough building.
Although he never held the borough council presidency, he was the driving force behind wiping out nearly $1 million in borough debt, and as a result, he won financial recognition for the borough and himself. After weathering political attacks and engaging in spirited battles with other local officials, he resigned last week as a councilman whose political authority had been diminished over the past year by his colleagues.
The longtime finance chairman no longer sat on a council committee. The one-time power broker said he no longer felt he was accomplishing anything.
"To go from being the point man to not even leading a committee — what's the point?" he asked. "There is no point."
In his resignation letter, he cited an "ever-growing conflict on Council" that was "not only unproductive, but bad for the community overall" for the reason of his departure.
"I enjoyed helping the town of Trafford, and I hold my head up high," Bruno, 44, said. "I wouldn't change anything. If I were still on council, I would be running things the same way if I were still in charge."
Bruno's legacy is that of helping pull the borough out of debt amid the construction of a new borough government building on Brinton Avenue and then being forced from the leadership last year when some council members complained about overspending on the new public-safety building beside it.
Money matters
Until a council shakeup in March 2012, Bruno handled the borough finances without much second-guessing.
His track record included the management of a six-year austerity plan to purge a $967,500 debt by 2009, when the borough's annual budget was $1.2 million.
At meetings in a new, $1 million borough building that opened in 2007, Bruno set up a giant chart to illustrate the debt and how far the borough had to go to eliminate it. When council approved the final payment in May 2009, officials passed out glasses of champagne to celebrate with about 25 residents.
Council accomplished the task without a tax-rate increase, which led to the borough receiving the Governor's Award for Local Government Excellence in the category of fiscal accountability that year. The next year, the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs gave Bruno the Distinguished Service Award.
With the debt cleared and two years of modest tax-rate decreases, council in 2010 embarked on a solution to the deteriorating century-old fire station on Duquesne Avenue. Officials raised the tax rate by 26 percent to pay for the debt service on construction of a new station after Trafford didn't receive a federal stimulus grant for the project.
The decaying fire station had clogged sewers and a mice problem, said Tom Dobrinick, the assistant fire chief and treasurer for the Trafford Fire Company.
Bruno headed the borough building committee in meetings that were closed to the public — which prompted the Penn-Trafford Star to object that the committee violated the state's open-meetings law — and pushed the project forward on the firefighters' behalf.
Dobrinick said some criticize Bruno and say he made decisions for personal gains. But he said Bruno "had the town at heart."
"He wanted to do that to get us out of there, and he was very instrumental in getting the plans reactivated after a while," said Dobrinick, who served on the building committee. "I definitely would give him credit for getting that ball rolling."
After the shovels hit the ground in summer 2011, though, some officials reiterated their worries about the cost. Last February, John Daykon, Vicki Megon and Henry Schultz said they worried about the borough's ability to pay for construction.
At that point, the borough was committed to $2.4 million in contracts — $400,000 more than the loan for the project.
Bruno insisted he could keep the budget in order, but council voted 4-3 in March to eject him as vice president.
Voted in as the new president, Rich Laird then removed Bruno as finance chairman and put Daykon and Megon in charge of the committee. Laird said one of the problems with the project was the lack of transparency because the building meetings were closed until Mayor Rey Peduzzi took over the committee.
Council members later refinanced Trafford's new debts and estimated the building might cost $2.6 million when every bill is tallied up.
"Even today, the building is over-designed and over-priced for what we need in Trafford, but you can't keep hammering over spilt milk," Laird said. "It's over. We have to make the best of it."
Bruno said there's a big difference between the debt the borough had in the early 2000s and the debt it has now. He termed the debt when he came into office as "bad debt." For example, he said, the borough still was paying for police cars that no longer were in service.
Bruno said people mistook him for a fiscal conservative because he was so focused on eliminating borough debt early on that. The Democrat said he didn't have a single-minded debt-reduction mindset when he joined Trafford Council; rather, he said, the situation dictated an aggressive approach to finances. Because of the reputation he built during his early days on council, he said, some supporters turned on him when he pushed for the new fire station.
"I think I disappointed some people who supported me because of the austerity plan," he said. "I still stand by the decision that it had to be built. That's a 30-year debt on a 100-year building."
Given his blunt and confrontation style, Bruno frequently was a lightning rod for controversy. He regularly was a target of anonymous political mailings leading up to local elections. He — as well as other members of council — had heated arguements with former Mayor Mary Dobos, and then he faced criticism from former ally Brett Lloyd after Lloyd left council.
Then, in May of 2010, Bruno bought a home in Hempfield.
Bruno said his political opponents made the new house a campaign issue a year later by showing pictures of it to voters outside the polls, but he was re-elected to a third term, anyway.
The Westinghouse engineer maintains Trafford as his primary residence, but his family calls Hempfield home. Bruno, who said he is in Trafford almost every day, remains a registered voter at his borough home.
Bruno said he never hid his ownership of the Hempfield home and even wrote a letter to the editor in June 2010 to describe the purchase but explain his intention to stay on council unless the borough solicitor determined he wasn't qualified. An opinion from Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck supported his position.
Records the Penn-Trafford Star obtained this month from the Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority show a significant decrease in water consumption at Bruno's Trafford home since mid-2010.
For the six meter readings from February 2009 to April 2010, the water consumption recorded averages 13,869 gallons per quarter. Usage fell to 2,057 gallons for a reading in August 2010 and then averaged 150 gallons for the following nine billing cycles.
To put that into perspective, the average American uses about 60 gallons of water a day at home, according to Save Water PA, a nonprofit organization focused on water conservation.
"I never denied I stay at both homes and continue to maintain my residency in Trafford," he said. "It may have been a political point but certainly not a legal one. My wife and kids are at Hempfield all the time since 2010, so there would be a water drop-off."
Laird, who has spent winter months in Arizona in past years, said he was aware of the decline in water usage at Bruno's home.
"That was one of the things we had in our docket for a challenge, but it's past tense now," Laird said.
But challenges to legal residency aren't an open-and-shut cases, said Michael Witherel, an experienced municipal solicitor in Allegheny County. When someone has multiple properties, it's difficult to prove that they aren't living at more than one address, he said.
He pointed to the example someone he knows who works in the Pittsburgh area on Mondays through Thursdays and then returns to North Carolina to live with his wife.
"You don't want to disenfranchise voters if a person has a residence in each community," Witherel said. "If he still owns a home and pays his taxes, it's going to be very difficult for a judge to say he doesn't live there."
Mixed reaction
Tammi DeMarchi, an 18-year borough resident who served with Bruno on the borough recreation board, credited Bruno for doing a lot of little things behind the scenes to make sure community events ran smoothly. She said he is "unappreciated."
"I think he's truly going to be missed in this community, and I think we're going to notice it without him," DeMarchi said. "He's just a go-getter, and it's hard to find people like him with his dedication, and to lose people like him is just sad."
In making the motion last week to accept Bruno's resignation, Councilman Casey Shoub thanked him for his assistance on various building and sewer projects.
"I really respected his help and really appreciated it in all of those times," Shoub said.
But a neighbor, Tom Babeo, said Bruno was a divisive figure in town. Babeo, a former councilman, said his relationship with Bruno soured after what he called Bruno putting some of the blame for the past borough debt on his shoulders.
Babeo who lives near Bruno's home, said it was a "complete sham" that Bruno continued to say Trafford was his primary residence.
"He's doing the town a favor," Babeo said. "We'll be a lot better off without him."
Laird said that there were good and bad points to Bruno's time on Council, though he said he disagreed with much of the planning for the public-safety building.
"(Bruno's tenure is) kind of a chapter I'm putting behind me," Laird said. "There's no sense in me really talking about it. We took control and straightened things out, and that was for the good of Trafford."
Bruno, too, said he's putting his time as a local official behind him. Asked if he will ever seek office again, he quickly responded with a firm "No."
Even though he was the most influential Trafford official of at least the past 10 years, he said he never considered himself a politician. Politicians aren't as blunt as he is, he said, and he wasn't good at telling people what they wanted to hear to win their support.
"I never was a politician," he said. "I have no desire to be one."
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1. Projecting or jutting beyond a line or surface; protruding.
2. Strikingly conspicuous; prominent. See Synonyms at noticeable.
3. Springing; jumping: salient tree toads.
1. A military position that projects into the position of the enemy.
2. A projecting angle or part.
[Latin salins, salient-, present participle of salre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]
sali·ent·ly adv.
Noun 1. salient - (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
line of battle - a line formed by troops or ships prepared to deliver or receive an attack
projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
Adj. 1. salient - having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
prominent, outstanding, striking, spectacular
conspicuous, obvious - obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening"
2. salient - (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
re-entrant, reentrant - (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles"
3. salient - represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
inclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane"
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MEPs Must Back "Bold Step" to Ban Shark Finning
As the European Commission proposes an outright ban on shark finning, the senior vice-president of the European Parliament's fisheries committee warns fellow MEPs not to water down the plans.
The cruel practice of shark finning is big business, not just in Asian countries like China, where fins are coveted as a delicacy fetching up to €1,000 each. European fishermen are making a killing from this lucrative yet inhumane trade too. It is the high value of shark fins, in contrast to the lower value of shark meat that creates the economic incentive for shark finning. Fishermen cut the valuable fins from the fish and throw the rest back into the water, often while the animal is still alive.
Unfortunately, sharks have a serious image problem – not helped by their terrifying pop-culture depiction in films like Jaws – that means they have few sympathisers outside the conservationist community. Indeed, fishermen in European Union member states like Spain, France and Portugal and Britain, which are responsible for 90 per cent of EU finning and benefit greatly from this extremely lucrative trade, know that the punishments for wrong-doing are miniscule compared to the rewards on offer.
But in truth, sharks are particularly vulnerable to human exploitation because they reproduce relatively late in life, and have few young. The likely loss of shark species from our oceans would upset the whole ecosystem. The sharks that are tossed back into the water, after having their fins hacked off, often languish on the sea bed until they're finished off by another predator or starve to death. The alternative – landing sharks with fins attached or not at all – not only effectively halts the cruelty of finning, but also offers vastly improved information about the species caught. This information is vital for robust population assessment and effective global shark management.
The European Commission has finally proposed an outright ban on shark finning, which has contributed massively to the decline of sharks in global waters. The practice of removing fins from carcasses at sea has officially been illegal since 2003, yet Article 4 of the regulation means that fishermen can easily apply for a derogation that allows them to get permits to continue the practice under certain conditions. The fact is, the permits are too easy to obtain and for those that get them, the conditions are far too easy to flaunt and too difficult for officials to check upon. The practice of finning will remain widespread as long as the permits are handed out.
When these proposals come before MEPs, there will be certain member states seeking to water them down. This would be disastrous, as the commission has taken a very bold step by proposing the removal of Article 4. The new commission proposal would prohibit the removal of shark fins onboard vessels, thereby requiring EU vessels to land sharks with their fins naturally attached to the body, with no exceptions and no derogations.
This is a positive step toward the much-needed protection of sharks but the responsibility now lies with fisheries ministers and MEPs for all 27 member states, to agree that the proposal is the only reliable way of ensuring that sharks are not finned. The current loophole makes it impossible even to detect whether the inhumane practice of finning has even occurred. By adopting a fins-attached approach, at a stroke the EU will bring an end to this cruelty in its waters and deliver a massive boost to shark management and conservation efforts where EU vessels are catching sharks.


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Q: Chef, I love pasta, but don't cook it any more at home because my husband is allergic to gluten. What suggestions do you have so I can get my pasta fix and still cook for my husband?
A: You can always choose to purchase gluten-free pasta. But with fall here and winter squash in such abundance, I like to use them as a great substitute for pasta. These hard squashes can be cut into long julienne strips--wide like fettuccini or thin like spaghetti. If your knife skills are not that good, try using a mandolin. Just be careful and use the safety attachments as required.
Here is an easy recipe that only takes about 30 minutes to make. Spaghetti squash--when cooked for 25 minutes and scooped out correctly--will look like long strands of yellow spaghetti. You will love the flavor. I do recommend trying some of the other squashes: butternut squash, cut long and thin like linguini with clams and marinara; or acorn squash, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces to look like penne and served with basil chicken and pine nuts. Play with the different squashes and sub them for you favorite pastas in any dish. You can even use squash as a replacement for lasagna noodles.
1 spaghetti squash
4 T butter
1 medium tomato, seeded and diced (reserve seeds)
1/2 cup pumpkin, diced small
1/2 medium jalapeño, minced
3 T onion, finely diced
2 T cilantro, chopped
juice of 2 limes
4 large shrimp
Cajun seasoning to taste
salt/pepper to taste
1 T vegetable oil
1 kale leaf
First, wash and cut squash in half across the middle (not from stem to end). Remove the seeds and rub 1 tablespoon butter on the inside. Place on cooking sheet and roast in 350-degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes until tender.
While squash is cooking, make your pico de gallo (salsa). Place diced pumpkin in hot sauté pan, add juice from one lime and sauté until tender. Mix together the diced vegetables in a bowl. Place the seeds and center of the tomato into a cheesecloth and squeeze the juice into the bowl. Add juice of ½ lime and season with salt and pepper. Reserve salsa.
When squash is ready, remove from oven and let rest for a moment. Using a fork, scrape around the inside of the squash in a circular motion. This will create the long spaghetti you are looking for. Place the squash into a bowl and set aside.
Season shrimp with Cajun spice and pan-sear with vegetable oil. Remove shrimp and add the spaghetti squash and 2 tablespoons of butter. Toss until butter is incorporated; then add a couple of tablespoons of the pico de gallo. Place on plate with shrimp. Add a little more pico, if you wish. I suggest topping with some fried kale.
For a great snack: Squash seeds are great toasted and tossed with butter, brown sugar and Cajun spice, then cooled.


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Hot and Spicy Showdown: Holy Mole!by Sara Levine in View All Posts, March 31st, 2010
The heat is always on in the Ultimate Recipe Showdown kitchens, but it got even hotter this week with the Hot & Spicy competition. The contestants' fiery flavors spanned the globe, from Thai chicken soup to Indonesian salad to Mexican tacos.
Once again, we sat down with Katherine Alford, VP of Food Network Test Kitchen and veteran URS judge, to get her tips on cooking (and eating) spicy foods.
FN Dish: Is a dish ever "too spicy" for you? Were you worried at all that one of the contestants might overdo the heat in this round?
Katherine Alford: Yes, a dish can be too spicy, if it's hot just for the sake of being hot and taking your head off. The best spicy food has more than just incendiary heat. Even dishes that use habaneros, the hottest chile, should be balanced to play up its fruity quality. A good hot and spicy dish should have enough going on so that the heat is part of a larger taste.
FN Dish: The dishes in this round represented many diverse cuisines. What are some of the best international cuisines for spicy food lovers to experiment with?
KA: Of course the first that comes to mind is Mexican, as well as a wide range of Asian cuisines such as Szechuan, Vietnamese and Thai, Indian…or Indonesian like our runner-up. But what is interesting is that spices and chiles can be found in many cuisines…one of my favorite peppers is the Aleppo pepper that is used in Turkish and Lebanese food. It's smoky, almost meaty, and it packs a punch.
Try Bobby Flay's recipe for Tuna Crusted with Aleppo Peppers.
FN Dish: What are some good drinks (alcoholic and non) to serve with spicy food?
KA: Beer is a great complement. With all the terrific craft brews being made these days, you can make some super fun pairings. I also like the Aqua Frescas of Mexico, these super-refreshing fresh fruit drinks are ideal with spicy foods. And I have a real weakness for Thai Iced Coffee or Chai with spicy curries.
Warning for those who missed Sunday's episode: Spoilers ahead!
Agua Frescas would be delicious with this week's winning dish, Julie Merriman's Chipotle Rubbed Steak Tacos Mole. Chef and fellow judge Michael Psilakis gave this recipe some very high praise: He said he'd make it for his family at home. At first, the judges worried that Julie had too much going on in this recipe, but with her smart shortcuts—like using peanut butter in the mole sauce instead of going the traditional route of grinding whole nuts—the aspiring chef was able to pull it off with delicious results.
On FoodNetwork.com, check out all eight URS recipes from the Hot & Spicy round, including runner-up Ken Hulme's Spicy Shrimp and Pork Meatballs with Rujak Sauce (pictured above). We've also got many more recipe ideas for spicy food lovers.
As any Bobby Flay fan knows, Bobby loves his chiles. He's also an expert at balancing their heat—a very important aspect of cooking with hot peppers. To snack on while watching the Final Four this weekend, make Bobby's Grilled Chicken Wings with Spicy Chipotle Hot Sauce and Blue Cheese-Yogurt Dipping Sauce. In the mood for something a little more elegant, but still simple? Try his Grilled Spicy Filet Mignon Salad with Ginger-Lime Dressing.
URS host Guy Fieri also likes dishes that pack some heat—he's got plenty of spicy recipes in his repertoire. For fun game-watching finger food, try his Cilantro Wrapped Prawns with Spicy Pickled Pineapple or Pretzel Chicken Tenders with Spicy Honey Dijon Sauce. Guy even gives cocktails a kick: Try his Spicy Agave Wave, spiked with jalapeno.
Tune in this Sunday at 9pm/8c for Ultimate Recipe Showdown's anticipated Burger Competition. You'll see two rounds of burger madness, eight burger recipes, and a URS first: A father vs. son burger showdown!


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This book is essential reading for any librarian charged with planning and implementing an online information literacy program. Librarians already working in online tutorial design, campus collaboration in online learning environments or the refinement of effective online information literacy programs will also find much to learn.
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Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo
Information literacy Credit Courses And Programs:
Graduate Online Information Literacy: The Acts ACTS Experience
Associated Canadian Theological Schools
William Badke
The Development of a library Research Methods Course for Online Graduate Students in Education
Valdosta State University
Julie Chapman, Cliff Landis, and Shilo Smith
LIB120: Introduction to Information Literacy
University of Rhode Island
Jim Kinnie
Integrating Information Literacy into Distance Education: The Profression of an Online Course
Washington State University
Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, B. Jane Scales, and Lara Ursin Cummings
Making it Available 24/7: Developing an Online Version of the One-Credit Class
Indiana University South Bend
Nancy Wootton Colborn and Feng Shan
An Ever-Evolving Experience: Teaching Information Literacy as a General Education Requirement
Fontbonne University
Peggy Ridlen and Jane Theissen
Online Information Literacy Course at UIS: Standing the Test of Time
University of Illinois at Springfield
Pamela M. Salela, Denise D. Green, and Julie Chapman
A Mature Information Literacy Program: Which Way Forward?
University of West Georgia
Mark McManus and Shirley O. Lankford
Information Literacy Instruction Embedded Into Discipline Courses and Programs:
Library Research Instruction for Distance Learners at Prince George's Community College
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Norma Allenbach Schmidt
From Partnership to Program Development: Information Literacy in an Academic Curriculum
Arizona State University
Barbara J. D'Angelo
Providing Online Information Literacy Instruction to Non-Traditional Distance Learning Engineering Students
University of Florida
Kathryn Kennedy
Information Literacy Instruction Tutorials (General AND Subject-Specific):
Smart Search: An Easily Customizable Subject-Specific Online Information Literacy Tutorial
Miami University
Eric Resnis and Jen-chien Yu
Giving Medical Students What They Want: Online Instruction at 11 p.m.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lisa Wallis, Kristina Appelt, Kimberly Pendell, and Cleo Pappas
From Classroom to Computer: Collaboration, Integration and Success
University of Arizona
Leslie Sult and Louise Greenfield
Introducing Information Literacy in a WEBCT-Based Composition Course Using Streaming Media Tutorials
University of Idaho
Diane Prorak, Beth Hill, and Ben Hunter
Many Birds, One Stone: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Process of Creating an Online Tutorial
Austin Community College
Red Wassenich
Nettrail: The Evolution of an Interactive, Self-Guided Tutorial for Undergraduates
University of California Santa Cruz
Deborah A. Murphy, Christy Hightower, and Ken Lyons
Planning, Building, and Assessing an Online Information Literacy Tutorial:
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Megan Oakleaf
Redesigning a Library Research Tutorial: A View from the Trenches
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Kelly Rhodes McBride
Starting a Riot: Information Literacy Instruction Online and in the Classroom
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Caroline Sinkinson and Jennifer Knievel
Connecting the Dots: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Information Literacy
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Restaurant chains are typically defined as a collection of related eateries utilizing the same name across many different geographic locations that are either under shared corporate ownership or operate as franchises. A full service restaurant is an establishment in which customers place their order with a waitress, served their meal at their table, and pay at the end of their meal.
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To get to our top 25 brands, we researched over 100 restaurant chains. Chili's was named the most effective brand in the group, scoring higher than all listed competitors, including Denny's, Olive Garden, and Applebee's.
Chili's's brand health score of 636 out of 1,000 possible points beat its nearest competitor, Denny's, by 6 points, or 0.94%, and surpassed third place Olive Garden by 10 points, or 1.57%. The gap between Chili's and lowest-ranked Macaroni Grill was 151 points, or 23.74%.
So how did Chili's rise to the position of category leader? Three areas of competence caught our attention:
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In addition to chilis.com, Chili's maintains a strong social media presence in Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, along with testing location-based channels such as FourSquare and mobile (mobile coupons, mobile advertising to boost ordering via smartphones, and charity awareness via mobile bar codes printed on menus).
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