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Consumers today are better informed and more demanding than ever. With access to unlimited information thanks to the Internet, smartphones and tablets, they demand the ability to make purchases anywhere, anytime. Merchants equipped to offer shoppers the payment convenience, simplicity and fluidity they demand will increase sales conversion rates.
With the world's largest in-store acceptance network, Ingenico Smart Terminals have led the payment terminal industry for 30 years.
POS Payment Solutions for financial institutions and retailers
We operate the widest range of smart terminals combining the most advanced technologies with the latest security requirements whatever the local regulation, business sector, or payment method. Our smart terminals provide merchants with a unique platform and totally reliable connectivity for deploying and managing payment as well as value-enhancing business applications.
Paired with a comprehensive range of POS management services, Ingenico Smart Terminals enable merchants to optimize their store and checkout formats and to cover all consumer touch points.
Ingenico Smart Terminals satisfy the most demanding expectations of merchants, retailers and banks. We bring a consumer-centric approach to vertical markets (hospitality, retail, vending, banks & acquirers, petrol and transportation…) with payment solutions to cover all points of transactions (unattended, multi-lane, in-store and outdoor, mobile)
Designed for merchants to accept all payment means and the most innovative uses cases at the point of sales. The Ingenico Group's Desktop terminals cover a variety of functionalities to offer unique consumer experiences at the counter. With limited footprints and high reliability, they can easily integrate and answer the most demanding needs for color display, touch interface or consumer engagement capabilities.
Pocket-sized portable terminals with the broadest connectivity capabilities to accept any payment methods on-the-go. Supporting GPRS, WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, they can support anywhere. With their compact design and their rich multimedia capabilities, Ingenico Group's portable terminals are the best companion to support you in your business on the move, while opening the door to many new business applications, beyond payment.
Designed for the most demanding retail environments whilst accelerating check-out and improve consumer engagement. Large color screens, touch capabilities, intuitive interfaces and a wide scope of payment acceptance means are making Ingenico Group's Retail terminals the best solutions to improve the experience at the multilane checkout while facilitating the in-store integration.
Easy & flexible unattended payment solutions for self-services businesses. Its wide range of devices, from card and contactless readers, to PINPads, meeting the latest standards allow to easily integrate cashless payment in self-service kiosks. Answer any integration need in a flexible way, from Vending, to Transportation, Petrol or Retail.
Mobile fingerprint solution answering the need for biometric authentication. Leverage state-of-the-art biometric authentication technology to secure and build trust. Open cost-effective financial inclusion channels, such as branchless banking, microfinance or G2P. Manage government ID schemes: attendance tracking, pension payments, voting.
Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID, Ingenico Group's division, regroups activities dedicated to e-Health and e-ID from XIRING in France and Ingenico Healthcare in Germany, i.e. approximately one hundred people throughout Europe, representing a renowned expertise and an installed base of approximately 800,000 terminals.
For more information, visit our dedicated website http://healthcare-eid.ingenico.com/.
With 30 years of experience, Ingenico Group has developed a unique experience in designing best-in-class secured operating systems managing over 2500 payment applications.
On its latest generation of Telium TETRA payment terminals, Ingenico Group has designed a new Operating System, with a user-friendly interface, openness to the web standard and security at its core. This new future-proof Operating System embeds powerful and innovative security mechanisms to bridge secure payment with an open web-based environment. A new experience is within reach for developers, users and final consumers.
With its strong geographic coverage & its unique expertise, Ingenico Group can support all payment needs from standardized schemes, to the latest payment innovations and tailored solutions.
We can handle more than 300 methods of payment, above and beyond traditional credit and debit cards, including EMV standard, closed-loop payment networks, contactless or NFC technologies, e-wallets and QR code payment solutions.
The Telium TETRA suite has been designed to fully leverage Ingenico large applications' portfolio and accelerate the deployment of new solutions.
Maximize the availability of payment offers at the point of sale, in full compliance with security standards
With the Marketplace, Ingenico Group provides a collaborative environment where Estate owners, Content providers and Merchants can meet to offer Merchant business Apps and create new consumer experience.
Ingenico Group introduces a place where payment stakeholders can all interact, contribute and join forces to create new business opportunities in near-real-time.
The Marketplace is part of our Global Telium TETRA offer which allows value-added services to be deployed in the payment value chain. This seamless integration is made possible thanks to the new Telium TETRA Operating System combining payment & business. By capitalizing on the universal HTML 5 web language, Ingenico Group allows the development of innovative consumer-centric business apps, such as couponing, advertising, satisfaction surveys, that open to new commerce experience.


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Army HelmetsSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A fairly poor country was in the middle of a war. Being on the lower-end of the economic scale, they didn't have enough money for fancy armor or weapons. They typically went into battle armed with nothing more than regular clothes, cloth helmets, and an assortment of older-model firearms.
A few months into the war, the ruler of the country decided that an investment in new Army helmets would probably be a wise choice (considering the large number of head injuries caused by the thin cloth ones). After spending nearly all the money the country could scrape together on new steel helmets, they were shocked to see the number of head injuries go up.
How could it be possible that steel helmets, assuming the helmets fit perfectly, caused more injuries than cloth?
AnswerWhen people in the Army would be shot in the head (with a cloth helmet) they wouldn't get head injuries, they would die. Cloth may protect somewhat, but not enough to stop most bullets. Death isn't considered a head injury. However, with steel helmets, the bullet could be slowed down enough to not kill, but just injure. If a hit in the head wasn't fatal, it would be considered a head injury. So, instead of most shots to the head being fatal, they became head injuries.
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§ 404.1502. General definitions and terms for this subpart.
As used in the subpart—
Acceptable medical source refers to one of the sources described in § 404.1513(a) who provides evidence about your impairments. It includes treating sources, nontreating sources, and nonexamining sources.
Commissioner means the Commissioner of Social Security or his or her authorized designee.
Medical sources refers to acceptable medical sources, or other health care providers who are not acceptable medical sources.
Nonexamining source means a physician, psychologist, or other acceptable medical source who has not examined you but provides a medical or other opinion in your case. At the administrative law judge hearing and Appeals Council levels of the administrative review process, it includes State agency medical and psychological consultants, other program physicians and psychologists, and medical experts or psychological experts we consult. See § 404.1527.
Nontreating source means a physician, psychologist, or other acceptable medical source who has examined you but does not have, or did not have, an ongoing treatment relationship with you. The term includes an acceptable medical source who is a consultative examiner for us, when the consultative examiner is not your treating source. See § 404.1527.
State agency means that agency of a State which has been designated by the State to carry out the disability or blindness determination function.
Treating source means your own physician, psychologist, or other acceptable medical source who provides you, or has provided you, with medical treatment or evaluation and who has, or has had, an ongoing treatment relationship with you. Generally, we will consider that you have an ongoing treatment relationship with an acceptable medical source when the medical evidence establishes that you see, or have seen, the source with a frequency consistent with accepted medical practice for the type of treatment and/or evaluation required for your medical condition(s). We may consider an acceptable medical source who has treated or evaluated you only a few times or only after long intervals (e.g., twice a year) to be your treating source if the nature and frequency of the treatment or evaluation is typical for your condition(s). We will not consider an acceptable medical source to be your treating source if your relationship with the source is not based on your medical need for treatment or evaluation, but solely on your need to obtain a report in support of your claim for disability. In such a case, we will consider the acceptable medical source to be a nontreating source.
We or us refers to either the Social Security Administration or the State agency making the disability or blindness determination.
You or your means, as appropriate, the person who applies for benefits or for a period of disability, the person for whom an application is filed, or the person who is receiving benefits based on disability or blindness.
[56 FR 36954, Aug. 1, 1991, as amended at 62 FR 38451, July 18, 1997; 65 FR 11875, Mar. 7, 2000; 71 FR 16443, Mar. 31, 2006; 76 FR 24806, May 3, 2011]


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POLICE have found a woman missing from a care home in York.
Rowena Sylvester, 79, was seen in Dunnington, York at 3pm yesterday before disappearing.
Police had become concerned for her wellbeing.
It is understood a bus driver from First York helped to find Ms Sylvester in the York area last night.


text: Her/his name is calypso, 4 weeks old. They place i bought calypso from i have to hand feed her/him twice a day i tried to feed her earlier and she didn't want any so i came home from work to hear her , it sounded to me like crying or wining it only stopped when i fed her. is that something i should expect when shes hungry?


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/1/2014 (1303 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Residents of Otterburne can now heat their homes and boil their water again with natural gas.
Shirley Bernardin said today a Manitoba Hydro worker came shortly after 11 a.m. to relight the pilot light in her furnace and hot water heater. She said the worker told her the community had been hooked up to an auxiliary tanker.
"This has definitely been an interesting experience," Bernardin said, noting her gas was off from Saturday at 1:30 a.m. to today.
"I'm so happy. I have been praying for all the workmen and workwomen who are out in this cold trying to restart things for us.
"We at least can sit around a heater."
Thousands of people still remain without natural gas as crews from TransCanada Corporation (TCC) continue to work on a section of natural gas pipeline that exploded near Otterburne just after midnight Saturday morning.
"We're trying to make do with what we have," said Derek Dowan, a Niverville resident who stayed home from work today to look after his two children, Daniel and Dave.
"We pulled the mattress off the bed and put it in the living room, so we had a big sleepover. We got all the blankets we had, all the pillows we could find, and bundled up.
"It hasn't been too bad. It was a little cold at night."
Dowan said it was near 4 C in the house when he woke this morning. He's been running an electric heater and using the stove in the kitchen to keep his family warm.
Dowan's wife Terri, who was at work at a local bakery, said the community really came together over the weekend.
"People are checking in with one another, making sure everyone is OK," she said. "We're all in this together."
Leave frozen homes, province urges
Province officials warned residents living without a furnace to leave their homes if they cannot properly heat it. Without heat, water pipes will freeze and the risk of hypothermia and frost bite increases.
Temporary warming shelters have been established at several locations.
The province also said it could be another 48 hours—and perhaps longer—for natural gas service to begin to be restored to approximately 15,000 Manitobans. Communities affected include New Bothwell, Niverville, Otterburne, Kleefeld, St-Pierre-Jolys, Grunthal, St. Malo, Dufrost and Ste. Agathe.
Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton also warned residents not to heat their homes with anything other than an approved electric heater.
"There's a real risk if people use barbecues for example and other heaters that are not meant for residences," Ashton said, adding they could result in carbon monoxide poisoning.
Natural gas tanker trucks are also in place at all health-care facilities in the area to ensure heating is maintained. A total of nine tanker trucks are supplying gas to affected communities.
Lee Spencer, acting executive director of Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization, said homeowners who leave their residences should shut off the main water line and drain internal pipes to avoid frozen or broken pipes when heat is restored.
"We're entering into the 48-hour window and there are still a day or two maybe to go in this crisis," Spencer said. "We ask neighbours to look in on their neighbours. We all think of the person that we know who may elderly and we've always considered to be self-sufficient and independent. Make sure they have warmth, they have food and they understand how they can get support."
Staying warm
RM of Hanover
Grunthal – Abundant Life Church, PR 216 South
New Bothwell – Christian Fellowship Church, 20 Sara Ave.
RM of De Salaberry
The Manor Retirement Home, 449 Jolys Ave., St-Pierre-Jolys
St. Malo Chalet Retirement Home
Otterburne residents to use St-Pierre-Jolys, Dufrost to use St. Malo
Town of Niverville
Niverville Heritage Centre – 2 Ave. S, Niverville.
RM of Hanover
(Kleefeld, Grunthal, New Bothwell, Friedensfeld)
Public inquiry line: 204-326-4488, ext. 6120
Public information officer: 204-326-4488, ext. 6135
Emergency Operations Centre location – Steinbach RM Office, 28 Westland Dr.
RM of De Salaberry
(Dufrost, St. Malo, St-Pierre-Jolys, Otterburne)
Public inquiry line: 204-433-7406
Emergency Operations Centre location – St-Pierre-Jolys Town Office, 555 Hebert Ave.
RM of Richot
Public inquiry line: 204-883-2918
Emergency Operations Centre location – St. Adolphe Emergency Operations Centre, fire hall
Public inquiry line: 204-388-4600
Emergency Operations Centre location – Niverville Town Office, 86 Main St.
RM of De Salaberry, Bible Fellowship Centre, Lavoie Avenue, St-Pierre-Jolys


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Maybe we should have expected this from someone who has built their business on cashmere and other super-soft, swaddling fabrics, but I was still somewhat taken aback when Brunello Cucinelli, the Italian luxury lifestyle entrepreneur who began his €250m business hand-dyeing sweaters, told me yesterday that he was excited about his planned IPO in May because he wanted "investors who would help take care of the company into the future."
He had children, he continued as we were looking at his A/W collection, and he was in his late 50s, and soon they would need partners that would walk alongside them and help them nurture their brand.This is, in my experience, not the view most brand executives take on the benefits of going to market. They usually get excited about opening multiple stores in Asia or something. Read more


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FrameMaker and Word: Anchored Frames, 3D graphics with links, globally update positioning
About This Episode
Many of us have been frustrated by how "slippery" the positioning of anchored frames can be in Word. FrameMaker 11 provides considerably more control. This video starts out with a bang, showing how you can easily generate a table of parts, views or animations (with auto-hypertext links) to a 3D graphics. The published PDF output provides an attractive, guided user experience. Discover how FrameMaker 11's new Object Styles allow you to name, then globally update the appearance or positioning of both anchored frames and graphic objects. Hotspots also allow you to create a link between a zone of a graphic and related text.
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Help me celebrate my 30th birthday...10:44 PM
I already have the giveaways lined up, and they are FAB if I do say so myself!!!!
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How exciting!!! I remember my big 3-0 and I have to say that I was a little worried about leaving my 20's, but the start of my 30's has been FABULOUS! Enjoy it and Happy Early Birthday...looking forward to all your posts and how nice of you to do giveaways too!!!ReplyDelete
Liesl :)
This is so fun! I am posting ur button today! Happy early Birthday!ReplyDelete
Well happy birthday! Never rush any season of your life, but it just keeps getting better. 30 was awesome and let me tell you that 40+ has been even better. You'll do it with style!ReplyDelete
You are so cute!! Happy early Birthday!!!ReplyDelete
I shot you a b-day email. ;)ReplyDelete
Have an awesome birthday!! The 30's were full of self discovery for me, that is when I started to see things in a whole new light. All the best!!ReplyDelete
What a great idea girl! The 30's are the best years of our lives. Time to partey!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday...You'll love your 30's...they fly by too, so enjoy every blessings of everyday!ReplyDelete
How cool is that. I'm an April girl too. 2 years and 18 days before you. I turn 32 on April 10th. Just the other day someone asked how old I am and I answered 29, no I am not trying to lie and say I'm younger than I am, but I just didn't remember. My 30th I was very pregnant and celebrated by making myself 4 cakes that I ate almost by myself since hardly anyone showed up for the party and those who came were dieting to fit into their swimsuits in the summer. Last year I went to Norway the day after and didn't have time to party. You loose a little track then of age, well at least I do. But yes I am turning 32 and I feel like I am 22 in some ways and 42 in other ways. Just perfect I will say. I am loving my 30's.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday, oh to be 30 again!ReplyDelete
I'll be sending you an email. Would love to participate! Ohh, and your button is on our page. Happy birth MONTH!ReplyDelete
Just added the button!! How fun! I've been thinking about your FB/Tweet about a flash mob...you would be perfect at that! Wonder how you would do a blog flash mob?ReplyDelete
I knew I liked you for some reason I'm a '99 girl also.ReplyDelete
And I will also be 30 this year! I want to do something?, well something who knows what.
What type of job do you have/had to takes you to different countries? I am so jealous all I have donw the past 10 years is have babies, and I know thats not a bad thing but it is a little discouraging when you see others that have accomplished so much you wish you might have done something.
Anyway, I added your 30 button to my blog here is a link.
I added your button! Sounds like so much fun!ReplyDelete
30 is just a great age! I will be 30 in October :) I just added your button to my blog! Happy Birthday!ReplyDelete
I turn 30 this month, too! Next week, actually :) My husband threw me a surprise party tonight. So fun! I had NO idea! Yay for turning 30!!!ReplyDelete
What a great way to celebrate your birthday! I don't miss my 20's and have loved my 30's {thus far} :-) Added your button to A Woman's Haven!ReplyDelete
i just added the button and count me in for the giveaway...I will do a knotted bead necklace...ReplyDelete
Just added the button, so funn! Glad i found you on SITS, you have the cutest site ever!ReplyDelete
Oops, blog design was finally finished today and I lost your button!ReplyDelete
Just re-posted it!
Come on by and follow me!
Have a great night and again, happy early birthday! :) I like to celebrate birthday months!
Just blogged about how much fun your blog is and your birthday bash! I am so excited that I randomly found your blog, it's so much fun! :)ReplyDelete
I just posted your blog to my facebook page and I am currently working on putting it on my website www.sweetlyunique.com. Awesome blog! SO glad I stumbled across it :)ReplyDelete
Posted the button today! Front & Center! http://myreagangrace.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
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Hey Ladies & Gents. Like Mr. L_No here, I've been a long-time lurker.
I'm a big time PC Gamer. I do own other consoles as well. Looking forward to be locked in awesome discussions with all of you fine folks in here! :D
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- Feb 2013
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<<< Additional generic lurker comment.
Been following for the past few years, extremely avid reader. Super excited to get involved in the community!!!!!!!!!! I've been putting it off for a while to keep time freed up but, well, it's time to face fate and just accept that I'll be spending all my downtime here for eternity.
I'm a 'murica reader in the Eastern timezone. I'm an extremely die-hard PC enthusiast with a built-up command center (read: basement the girlfriend is not allowed in without saying the password) in which I keep my home-made cockpits, e-driving equipment, and command station (read: PC/HDTV/couch). I'm mostly a sandbox MMO enthusiast, but have not been excessively involved in an online version since SWG.
*A side note on that topic, I'm currently following The Repopulation closely and am extremely excited for it. I hope, assuming the game turns out as advertised, that I am given the opportunity to enjoy the pleasure of spending many a wee hour with some fellow RPS'ers carving our own little niche into its world.
Personally, I'm a 26-year-old male working in law enforcement, where I have obviously unconventional shift work that allows me to not be permanently bound to timezone differences. I'm a huge motor-freak (petrolhead?) and regularly decide whether to pay my mortgage or buy a new toy ....priorities. While 1% of my life goes into gaming and fast things, the other 99% is spent spoiling my Doberman Pinscher.
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- Feb 2013
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Hello, good evening, greetings, etc. Not new to the site, very new to the forum. Go easy, yeah?
Multi-plat gamer but PC is my weapon of choice. List of over 50 games on my steam account that are still unplayed; I seem to have more fun buying ridiculous numbers of games in sales than actually playing the damn things.
I've sunk a lot of hours in to BF3; it's not healthy, but it's a thing. Actually running a 24h charity event on BF3 in April; I'll probably be mildly spamming that for support, should I be permitted.
In other news, I have a cat and a motorbike. They don't combine, unfortunately. That would be awesome though. A meowterbike.
Hello here. They call me Tzefa
I spend most of my time playing PC games online so you'll probably see me joining in where I can
I play alot o' league of legends and Planetside 2 atm
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- Feb 2013
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- California
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Hi all! I joined just to reply to a thread. Maybe I can reply to more threads? The possibilities are endless!
OY!! First post here - been lurking/reading RPS for I don't know, three years? Been a part of my daily routine for too long now. No idea why I never signed on for the forums, but it's probably because I read the majority of the articles on my intelli-phone, and am often curious as to why there is no mobile theme. (I'm a web developer, why don't I just make a completely non-obtrusive one for you guys?)
I digress - I'll be showing up on these forums quite often now, I suppose. Not that you care. My computer's broken right now, anyway, and I'm actively building another one. Just have to transfer some funds and I should have a fine rig up and running in about two weeks, and I can hopefully get back to dropping in on FolkARPS games again. Used to frequent RPS Steam Chat until my motherboard fried, and I look forwards to making obscure game references and puns whenever I possibly can. Oh, and I wrote something that was in the Sunday Papers once! So that's neat too. Not that I'm trying to be a braggadocio, but I was proud.
Back to trying to cope during my brief hiatus, sans-computer.
Old timer lurker here as well, am looking for an RPS CS:GO outfit. Do we have one?All times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those that loved me, and alone.
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- Feb 2013
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Hello! I've been a regular RPS reader for quite a while, and now I've found a good reason to sign up for the forums. Which is - getting smashed by other (hopefully) human Blood Bowl players in the RPS Challenge League.
What else can I say. I like turn-based games and games telling an unpredictable and/or gripping story. I also have a bit of a spaceship fetish, which I've been satisfying in Eve Online for over three years now.
And I'm constantly impressed by the community this site has managed to build! It's a shining beacon of benevolent light in the anonymous darkness of internet discussion places. Big up yourself!
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Hi! I'm a West Australian based long time reader. I've joined mainly to try and get into the social clubs. Feel free to add me on Steam or MW:O, I look forward to playing with you all.
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Hello. I'm a long time reader, occasional poster and 2 time attender of RPS social club in London (both times getting far more drunk than was good for me). If you add me on Steam and see I'm playing a game that you would like to try on multiplayer (either competitive or co-op) give me a shout and I'll happily give it a go.
Right now I really want to try and get a co-op game of Men of War:Assualt Squad going so any takers feel free to get in touch.
Steam name = netsukemonkey
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- Feb 2013
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Hi all,
Naetharu here, I am a York based researcher who spends way too much time reading RPS when I should be doing real work! I've decided to take the plunge and join the forums too. I'm hoping to get involved with some of the social groups with a bit of online gaming.
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Ex USN Deepsea Diver, ADS Pilot. IRONMAN. Rugger. CrossFit instructor. Canyoneer. WoW feral movie maker, Coldbear. Turn based tactics guy. Chaos Gate aficionado and faq writer (15 years ago under name parl2001).
Alexandria, VA
Hi everyone!
chouzar here, regular RPS reader, I would like to play some more games from my unplayed list. Really like tactical games, I'm thinking on joining the Frozen Synapse league, and if anyone is interested I'm up for some Battles for Wesnoth and Field of Glory.
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First time poster and not really long time reader. I recently bought myself a new machine and I need to find more people to play with! A friend of mine suggested that I should check out RPS when we were talking about planetside 2 and here I am.
I'm studying at the moment and in a couple a years I will hopefully have an exam in system science and work as a programmer. My native tongue is swedish btw.
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Hello all, 52fitz here. Been reading RPS for years. It's been too long (though a lot of fun) playing single-player, time to get more sociable.
I work in the tech side of broadcasting and enjoy running (and walking) in the hills.
Favourite games, things like HL2 and Stalker. Hoping to learn and enjoy stuff like Arma.
Hello again, lurking on and off the site for a few months but making an effort to actually read daily because I always end up here and some point, so making a conscious effort to get on the forums too :D
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Hi everybody,
Im Dan from CODE Team, 2 people team called Creative Output Development (CODE)
When I said im going to develop games, everybody said NO - you dont have fancy game development education, you must have at least 4 years of experience, be realistic, get real job like your friends, you never gonna get girlfriend without a job, girls dont like loosers then stop dreaming and get a job, you are
not good enough, you dont have millions of dolars for office, workers, licenses, equipment give it up! today id software, dice, rockstar games are a big shots do you really think you and your friend can compete with them? Im just tellin this for you own good not to bring you down, your plan wont work its just impossible, and look at your friends they have famillies, children, apartment in a loan, stable good job, a car and what do you have Daniel? nothing, you are broke, no money, no job, you didnt even finish your engineering degree.
I didnt pay attention to all of this crap and guess what? I actually make games :) I didnt listen to that NO, the best way to start making games is to DO IT!
What happens when somebody says I cant do it? I DO IT.
There is no maybe, I wanna make games, hard work beats talent to the knees, Whatever it takes I WILL DO.
If I wont believe it, who else will?
I will use that attitude as a blueprint for the rest of my life.
I would love to tell our story maybe you guys might be interested in taking a look at.
Our Story
1) CODE the beginning.
Im Jarek. Right now I am about to graduate Electrical Engineering degree. Normally I wouldnt even think about game development as my carer but chain of events happened that set me on that path. First of all I always have dreamed about being programmer and because of that I started to learn programming very early. I wrote my very first program in C when I was 12 and since then I never discontinued my passion for programming. In time I tried very different languages and styles but never committed to any of them. When I started my studies I already known most programming languages used there. There where not many as this was electrical department and we focused mainly on micro controllers. One of main events that set me on my new path was meeting with cousin that graduated Technical University. We ended up talking about game development as a job. He was first person that told me that it was not a bad choice for career and gave me lots of encouragement. I didnt think that I had necessary skills because designing software differs greatly from programming hardware. After giving this some thought I realized that my hardware programming skills will become my advantage. When you think about it the very first games where made by electrical engineers. Then about month later my childhood friend proposed that we could build our own game. Full of doubts but determined I accepted his proposition. Shortly after we started my doubts have diminished and found myself learning and experimenting all day long. Soon with practice I learned all I needed to create our first game.
My story offers only a small piece of wisdom.
1) Never give up your dreams. You have ability to shape your reality just as reality can shape you.
2) You have to gain trust In yourself. For me to gain that inner strength I had to put my trust in others that had faith in me. In time I gained trust in my abilities.
3)There is always room for improvement. Never stop learning.
Im Dan,
When I started my College IT Engineer degree (2008) I wanted to be an sys_admin I found a job as help desk junior admin in hosting company, I loved servers but I also loved perfection and in help desk job after 3 years I was frustrated mostly because of customers and endless emails from them.
On summer I went from Gdynia (Poland) to Dublin (Ireland) and got hired by big gaming company. My long CV of hosting skills and passion for games since child helped me with getting job, I also was lucky to know english and polish (more languages you know better for you).
My job title was Quality Assurance Game Tester, I quickly figure out that big company people are not god like they are mortals like Me and You.
People there inspired me, it was like heaven for gamer in every single day.
My main objective was to see how this big colossus works from the inside, I was curious about everything.
After summer I went back to Gdynia to continue my College degree, I changed my plans from being an sys_admin to game tester, I had a map on my wall and marked Vancouver EA Games QA as my another direction.
During my last years of college I found an internship (2011) as 3d artist in small gaming company, I learned 3dsmax in 28 days from tutorials and Blender in 9 days and I love Blender since then.
Some day after I was fired, they told me I was not good enough, I was burning inside not only of that reason and that I was first in my life fired.
I was enraged because I was working after work till late to speed-up my skills to be as good as other people there, I wanted to be the best with big ambitions and was treated like piece of ****.
I regretted that I went back to my country for small salary (500 euro/week Dublin, 125 euro/month on internship Gdynia) and to continue my useless college degree that didnt learned me anything.
I quickly realized that college dont give me guarantee of stable good payed job, and job is based on hope. I started to thinking about my own company, making better games and treating employee like human not like cog.
2) I need backup!
2 January 2012
I proposed my childhood friend Jarek to join me on making our own games, and he said Yes.
Our ENTJ/INTJ Team work amazingly perfect and we were like a sponge, starting to read lots of books. We started to contact everybody in the industry, and didnt think that I will ever talk to Trip Hawkins (Founder of EA), one of my dots connected from my map, it was QA EA Games, but QA changed from quality assurance to questions and answers from Founder of EA and I was delighted.
After checking out histories of other companies there are two similar patterns:
1) 1-3 founders
2) ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
We changed our logo and name couple of times, first it was Epileptic Games but we figured that word Epileptic was inappropriate, then it was badpixel but it was taken, after that we figure out RAGE (Really Awesome Games Entertainment) influenced by DICE (Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment) but there was one problem, id released game called RAGE, finally Jarek proposed CODE (Creative Output Development) and we were happy with that name.
Its hard to work from home where family distracting you every 5 seconds, after release of our first game called Very Little Monsters we are planning to get office.
We started Very Little Monsters knowing nothing, we started from scratch. Reading motivational books kept us inspired and determined, one brick at a time and soon you have a wall - Will Smith.
We started excersise to keep our sanity and health in good shape (fire dance, running, gym, krav maga, boxing).
Books was our main source of absolutely everything, In my early years I have hated books, the main problem was that books in school didnt caught my attention, now im reading books like crazy, its almost like Neo from matrix I know kung-fu.
We found as much about tasks and time management as we could google.
Hope it is useful for someone that lost his job and his entire world and faith collapsed in blink of an eye.
Always remember that hard work beats talent to the knees, you have 24 hours every day, use it.
Dont listen to people that dont make games, they dont have a bloody clue what are you talking about, 3d mesh? Whats that! if they cant do it they will tell that YOU cant do it, so always ask people that make games. Never let failure to be an option, as long as you wont give up you wont loose! When life beats you down you get up, when they shut doors, you can go back by window.
Work hard, there is no other way around.
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I've been reading the site for what must be a couple of years now, so its about time I said hello and got involved in things - hopefully the online banter will be as entertaining as the article comment threads!
I work as an applications programmer and have intentions of trying my hand at a bit of game development, assuming that I can tear myself away from the steam sales/indie bundles that have been vapourising my free time lately...
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I'm foop, and I've been playing games on electronic devices of one sort or another for the last 30 years.
I play the sort of things that RPS loves, which is probably why I read it. I've used to be hugely into EvE, but becoming a parent made that somewhat hard to fit in. Recently, apart from my constant dabbling with Dwarf Fortress, I've been trying to play Planetside 2. I've discovered that I suck at sniping.


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The older Lincoln Hwy in Western is a wide dirt road now. There are some things to see along the way. Starting about five miles north
of Callao, UT. The first thing that came up was the Sixmile ranch:
At the beginning of Overland Canyon is the Pony Express Canyon Station, It replaced a wooden station that was burnt down by indians three
miles away. Notice the gun port on the far wall.
From Canyon Station looking up Overland Canyon. The Overland Stage used this route before the Pony Express.
This is a monument for the Pony Express that is a couple hundreds yards off the road with a deep wash between. I used a telephoto lens
for this picture.
This may have been the old Lincoln Hwy, taken near the last picture as the road came out of Overland Canyon.
Finally an old building west of Ibapah, UT.
That is it for the Lincoln Hwy in Utah. Next Lincoln Hwy in Eastern Nevada.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of a motorist who was struck by a stray bullet.
Analiza Gobaton, 41, a mother of three, was waiting in traffic in her SUV on Blanding Boulevard at 103rd Street on Friday morning when she was shot in the head, causing her vehicle to crash into another. Gobaton died Sunday at a hospital.
Taurice Brown has been charged in the killing.
Police said a witness told them Brown went to his house in the 6100 block of Transylvania Avenue, about 125 yards east of Blanding Boulevard, and got into an argument with another man.
Police said Brown pulled out a gun and began shooting at the man, identified by police as Wiggins, who was in his car and began to drive away.
The witness told police there was also a passenger in Brown's car who also shot at the man. That person is still unidentified.
Police said the witness identified Brown from a photo spread. Police said several other witnesses at the scene were interviewed and reported that at least one man was shooting at a car as it was traveling west on Transylvania Avenue toward Blanding Boulevard.
Wiggins told police he went to the witness' home to sell cocaine to the witness, police said. Police said that during the transaction, Wiggins told them, a silver Buick drove into the witness' driveway.
Police said Wiggins told them he and Brown spoke with each other, and as he began to drive away, Brown, who police said was the driver of the Buick, began shooting at him.
Wiggins continued driving away as he was being shot at, police said. Wiggins told police he did not know Brown and could not identify him.
Police said Wiggins' vehicle was shot in the rear quarter panel and taillight.
Brown was arrested and booked into the Pretrial Detention Facility.
Viewings for Gobaton will be held Thursday and Friday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., with Rosary at 6 p.m. at Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home, 111 Blanding Blvd., in Orange Park.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5752 Blanding Blvd.
Gobaton was driving to the church for morning Mass and an award ceremony for her two oldest children, who attend school there, when she was shot two blocks from the church.
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ROAD closure signs are having a disastrous impact on trade.
Work to improve drains along the B1022 Colchester Road in Tiptree started three weeks ago and could take another month.
Signs have been put up as far as seven miles away to warn drivers of the closure and diversions.
Businesses, including Layer Marney Tower which is three miles away from where the work is happening, say they have lost at least a fifth of customers.
Nicholas Charrington, owner of Layer Marney Tower, said: "It is a main artery between Maldon, Tiptree and Colchester and it is having an effect.
"If you come from Maldon, the road to us is closed and you have got to detour around it, which is not always easy and makes people think: 'I shan't bother'.
"If you come from Colchester all the signs are up saying the road is closed and people start looking elsewhere.
"As soon as the road closed, we saw a drop in numbers.
"We have lost 20 per cent or so of our day visitors.
"It has been quite disastrous.
With the bank holiday coming up, we have been quite anxious, let's hope they finish in time."
A few days after the roadworks started, signs went up telling drivers the venue was still open and Mr Charrington said there had been a slight improvement.
Eddie Suen, director of Maypole Chinese and Thai restaurant in Messing Road, Tiptree, said he has only had five diners on his busiest nights compared to 20 before the road closure signs went up.
He said: "My customers see the sign and have not been coming through.
"People phone me up and say they cannot get here.
"I phoned up the highways officer to make a complaint and they put up two signs in Tiptree to say it is business as usual.
"It has made a little bit of an improvement for people in Tiptree as they know my restaurant is still open."
Mr Suen said there are signs about seven miles away at junctions in Maldon Road, Colchester, and Warren Lane, Stanway, that had put people off visiting altogether.
He said: "The flooding has been happening in the village and we know the work is necessary.
"But they didn't need closure notices so far away."
The road closure is between the junctions of Oak Road and Haynes Green Road and is intended to stop frequent flooding.
The diversion is: B1022 Maldon Road, Warren Lane, Stanway by-pass, B1408 London Road, A12, B1024 London Road, B1023 Inworth Road / Kelvedon Road, B1022 Maypole Road and vice versa. The work is due to finish on September 12.


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For this week, I just created a preliminary schedule for the project. Here it is:
Website Project Timeline
Week 4
Submit topic preferences.
Week 5
Groups and topics assigned. Preliminary meeting with group to discuss division of tasks.
Week 6
Group meetings in class. You should have read the appropriate section of the Chamallas text and be prepared to share an idea for your group's analytic statement.
Week 7
Draft and submit project prospectus. The prospectus should describe the problem or question that you plan to address and show why the question is problematic and significant.
Week 8
Groups will meet with instructor to discuss project prospectus.
Begin creating website. By the end of this period you should have created your bibliography page and your links page. You should have at least 5 sources for each.
Week 9
Choose a subject for the visual you will create and begin working on it.
Weeks 10–12
Draft analytic statement and create a visual to complement the statement. Post both the statement and visual on your website. At the end of this period, we will workshop each group's website in class.
Week 14
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The boy who nearly drowned while on board the Disney Fantasy cruise ship has been flown back to his home state, according to his parents.
Chase Lykken, 4, was recovering at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children before being flown back to Minnesota on Tuesday night.
Lykken was found unconscious in a pool on the Disney Fantasy on March 30 before the ship left Port Canaveral. He was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center and later transferred to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
[RELATED: Follow Chase's recovery]
His family has been updating his progress on the web site "Caring Bridge." On Tuesday, doctors told Chase's parents he suffered damage in the part of the brain that controls motor programming, movement and tremors. He also damaged the part of his brain in charge of his temperature, heart rate, thirst, hunger and sweating.
"But he is a fighter," his parents wrote. "He has all of us behind him. The Lord spared his life and for that I am thankful."
Chase will "continue his fight" at St. Paul Children's Hospital.
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Meriwether is a county in Georgia. It was formed in 1827 from the following county/ies: Troup. Meriwether began keeping birth records in , marriage records in 1828, and death records in . It began keeping land records in 1827, probate records in 1825, and court records in 1828. For more information, contact the county at P.O. Box 428, Greenville 30222 . On the attached map, Meriwether is located at E2.
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PUTNAM COUNTY — Ability at Work is the theme for Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month 2014. The Putnam County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Brookhill People First Chapter 70 celebrate Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in March and invite you to consider the true meaning of this year's theme, "Ability at Work!"
Statewide, and across the nation, organizations such as Putnam County Board of Developmental Disabilities are devoted to serving individuals with developmental disabilities. Brookhill People First Chapter 70, a self advocacy group, is helping to bring public awareness of the many abilities people have, regardless of disability. "Ability at Work" encourages people to understand that when people with disabilities are welcomed into local neighborhoods, workplaces, houses of worship, and schools everyone wins. This is a time when our organization focuses on encouraging the public to better understand the individuals with disabilities. This art display is one way to show abilities at work!
Nellie Ropp, is a native of Forest Ohio and moved to Putnam County as a young lady. She started working at Brookhill Center in 1980 and is currently semi-retired. She has been involved with ceramics art since she was in her early twenties. She also had dabbled in some pencil sketching where she has drawn items like old fashion cars and bird cages. Currently Nellie is putting large puzzles together framing them and selling them as wall art. Nellie has given her art away for gifts to people who are important in her life. Nellie's puzzle art is for sale.
Marilyn Peterson is a native of Liverpool Ohio and moved to Putnam County eleven years ago. She started working at Brookhill Industries in 2004 and attends full time. She enjoys painting, food crafts, latch hook kits, crocheting, & most other craft activities. She is displaying a latch hook wall art of a bear. Marilyn gives a lot of her art away for gifts to people who are important to her. Marilyn is an active member of People First.
Other artists featured in this display are individuals who utilize the Life Option Corridor Activities Room at Brookhill Center. They create many different kinds of art throughout the year as shown in this display.
During Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, People First encourages their community to learn more about people who have developmental disabilities and to recognize that all of us have talents and abilities that we can offer to make our community better place to live!
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Share the joy of artistic expression with a child and you paint them a world bright with possibilities.
Your contribution to The Schwartz Family Camper Scholarship Art Fund helps children who would not otherwise have the opportunity to enjoy a camp experience centered on the arts.
Children benefiting from The Schwartz Family Camper Scholarship Fund will get to attend the Appel Farm Summer Arts Camp for a 4-week session.
Sylvia and Solomon Schwartz and Siri Schwartz Mills-Beierlein loved art and found great happiness in sharing that passion with younger generations. The Schwartz Memorial Camper Scholarship Fund, managed by the American Camp Association, was created to honor their memory and to continue to inspire art appreciation in young people. You can be a part of that legacy and give a child a camp experience that enriches his or her life and lets creativity thrive.
"Our family is comforted by knowing that the Schwartzes continue to give to children and to live on in the continuation of their passion. We cannot thank you enough for joining us in honoring them, and in becoming a benefactor of their good work." -- the Coleman Family
To make a donation to The Schwartz Memorial Camper Scholarship Fund, please use the Gift/Contribution form.
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Take three middle-aged guys, dress them up in aprons and chef's hats, stick razor-sharp knives in their hands, then order them to whip up three gourmet dishes from secret ingredients while standing on a stage under hot lights with hundreds of wine-swilling audience members looking on in horror.
That's pretty much the recipe for disaster.
It's also the thrilling scenario that will play out Thursday night at the Caboto Centre on Wilkes Avenue when I, my buddy Bob, who happens to be the publisher of this newspaper, and our pal Joe Grande, the gregarious owner of Mona Lisa Ristorante on Corydon Avenue, take part in a charity cook-off.
My two pals and I are on one of four three-cook teams putting their culinary skills on the line in the first-ever Golden Apron Gala, an Iron Chef-style fundraiser in support of Wolseley Family Place, a core-area resource centre that has been providing programs and services to low-income families for 16 years.
(To check on last-minute tickets, email email@example.com or call 204-774-1837. Tickets are $100 per person.)
I do not know what our food-fight rivals call themselves, but our team's official name is The Squid Ink-stained Wretches. I selected this impressive moniker because squid ink is used to make gourmet pasta, whereas wretches are a thing used to make newspapers.
For the Wretches to emerge victorious, we will most likely have to bribe the judges, a panel of three local chefs and three randomly selected audience members. The truth is, it will be a huge moral victory if Bob, Joe and I are able to walk off the stage with the same number of fingers we had when we walked on.
But having a cool-sounding team name is not enough to carry even the most talented band of chefs to victory in a heated battle such as this. You also need a secret culinary strategy. I pointed that out to Bob -- who, like me, has the natural cooking ability of a cinder block -- and here's what he said: "I would use the same strategy as I do in the gut-busting workouts that are part of my new obsession with CrossFit training: Just hang on. Push through the pain. Don't throw up. It'll be over soon."
As you can imagine, our hopes of being awarded the golden aprons hinge entirely on our restaurateur pal Joe showing up, which is never a sure thing. The truth is, our team in Mona Lisa's summer bocce league is called the No-Show Joes, because of Joe's God-given ability to forget when games are scheduled.
Over a tiny cup of espresso this week, I asked Joe how he planned to lead us to the culinary version of the promised land. "I think we'll apply the KISS system," he explained. "We're going to be kissing everyone through the whole thing. Every time we do something, we kiss.
"Ha ha ha. No, it's Keep It Simple, Stupid. Italian cooking is simple, so we're going to stick to Italian because that's what I know best. As long as we don't hit each other in the head with a pan, we'll be OK."
The way the charity cook-off works is, starting at 7:15 p.m., the four teams get 90 minutes to whip up an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert -- incorporating a different secret ingredient into each of the three dishes.
"Then right before you start cooking, each team will draw for a mystery ingredient you have to incorporate into at least one of the dishes," explained event organizer Pamela Mason.
Along with raising desperately needed cash for the non-profit's food-related programming, Mason said the goal is for the inaugural cook-off to help the centre connect with the community in a light-hearted manner.
"It gets people associating Wolseley Family Place with good things," she told me. "The work at the centre can be pretty intense sometimes. Lots of families live with poverty and violence and substance abuse -- some pretty difficult things to face."
Which is good to know, but I began sweating profusely when she pointed out my team will be facing some hardcore opponents. "Most of your competitors have some serious skill," she warned me, "but you guys have Joe. Joe's a good cook, right?"
Yes, Pamela, our buddy Joe is an excellent cook. He's also a fierce culinary competitor.
"Maybe we should try to intimidate the other cooks," is what Joe suggested earlier this week, flashing his trademark impish grin. "We could put some hot peppers in their dessert or turn off the electricity or something like that."
Of course, he was just kidding when he said that. At least I think he was.


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Rotarians in Otley are celebrating winning a top award for their environmental improvement work.
The Rotary Club of Otley Chevin, after previously taking bronze and silver, has gone one better by scooping an Eco Gold Award.
The accolade was awarded in recognition of the club's recent environmental projects, which have included holding mass litter-picks and bulb planting events and getting Otley bypass renamed Rotary Way.
Environmental officer Bryan Kitching was presented with the award last week.


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… just because, when I see certain people it reminds me of stories.
George McPhee:
He was playing for the Rangers and living in Rye. One night he heard some noise in his driveway and saw a large fellow with a flashlight in his car, attempting to remove the stereo.
McPhee immediately ran out. The thief, seeing this little guy coming at him, and having the large flashlight as a weapon, thought he could handle the situation.
Long story short, and needless to say, when the police arrived, the perp was happy to see them.
Mike Knuble:
In '99-2000, Rangers coach John Muckler was on the verge of being fired (debatable, because Jim Dolan wouldn't let Neil Smith do the honors for most of that season). But it was one of those situations where you just felt that if the Rangers lost one more in a row, there would have to be a coaching change.
Well, Knuble scored in overtime to save Muckler, I think it was in Washington. Soon after, the coach had a hand in that brilliant trade of Knuble to Boston for Rob DiMaio.
Now the end of the season comes, and the Rangers are in Boston, Muckler and Smith have been fired, John Tortorella is interim coach, and Knuble is in the hallway talking about his former team. It was mentioned to him how he had temporarily saved Muckler's job.
"What the (byfuglien) was I thinking?" Knuble smiled.
Tony Granato:
(I apologize if I've told this one before).
Always an agitator, Granato had goaded Marty McSorley of the Kings into a penalty, and when they came together, Granato speared McSorley, perhaps in the southern hemisphere. Anyway, McSorley — known to have a wee bit of a temper — went berserk. The linesmen were trying to get him into the penalty box, and he was flinging them around like rag dolls trying to get loose and get at Granato.
They finally got him in the box, but McSorley was still going nuts, shaking the glass and pounding on it with his stick, so they gave him a game misconduct. Now they had to escort him to the dressing room, and on the way, McSorley was spinning and flailing, still trying to get free so he could get at Granato. He never did.
A few months later, Granato and Tomas Sandstrom were traded to the Kings for Bernie Nicholls.
Granato's wife told him, "You can't go there. That man is there and he is going to kill you."
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WASHINGTON I like Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis. I admire her intelligence, chutzpah, tenacity and, to be perfectly honest, her enviable continence.
But her elevation to national heroine, essentially owing to her ability to speak for 11 hours straight without a break while wearing (how many times did we hear or read it?) "rouge-red sneakers," is absurd.
No matter what one's politics, one can't help noticing the strangeness of this latest phenomenon fame by filibuster or the remarkable acclamation bestowed on Davis for her passionate defense of a woman's right to destroy an unborn child (or fetus, if you prefer) up to the 24th week of pregnancy.


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Louisiana ranks sixth among states with the largest income disparity between the rich and the poor, according to a report released Wednesday by a national policy group.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which examines policies affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals, found that the average income of the richest 5 percent of households in Louisiana is 14.1 times larger than the income of the bottom 20 percent of households.
"The divide between the poorest and richest households in Louisiana is among the worst in the country," said Elizabeth McNichol, who co-authored the report.
The report ranked Louisiana sixth in the greatest disparity between the top and bottom income households in the late 2000s. The gap was greater in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Georgia and New York.
Jan Moller, director of the Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Budget Project, said Louisiana's tax code is tilted toward the wealthy.
The Louisiana Budget Project is an arm of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
He said the state gives away hundreds of millions of dollars a year in tax breaks while relying heavily on sales tax revenue that penalizes the poor.
Moller suggested legislators could consider doubling the state earned income tax credit or increasing a child care tax credit during next year's session.
Gov. Bobby Jindal already said the session will focus on the state's tax code. Exactly what changes the governor will push is unclear.
"We hope this report serves as a wake up call to legislators and policy makers," Moller said.
The earned income tax credit benefits low- and middle-income taxpayers who work. The child care tax credit helps parents with child care expenses.
Tim Barfield, executive counsel for the state Department of Revenue, declined to comment on the report.
Barfield's communications director, Douglas Baker, said the governor's package will focus on making the state's tax code fairer, flatter and simpler for all citizens. "The best way to lift the poor out of poverty is a job, and that is our hope as we look toward the upcoming legislative session," Baker said in a prepared statement.
Moller said he hopes the legislative debate will be undertaken with the state's lower income households in mind.
He said increasing the earned income tax credit would help struggling households pay for car repairs, school clothes, rent and debt. The money would go back into the economy, he said.
Moller said the report took a snapshot of income after federal, but not state, taxes were removed. He said the income analyzed for the report takes into account federal benefits such as food stamps.
He said the governor needs to boost the income of people in the bottom class rather than lower tax rates for corporations that already do well.
Moller said he has not raised his ideas with the Governor's Office. "Our point of view is certainly no secret," he said.
McNichol said the gap between rich households and low- to middle-income households is growing nationwide.
The report blames the gap on stagnant or modest growth in wages for the nonwealthy and a decline in the real value of the minimum wage.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said states can close the gap by:
- Raising the minimum wage.
- Undoing cuts to unemployment insurance benefits.
- Ending states' heavy reliance on sales taxes and user fees.


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Did you know?Local people from the Tsonga community are shareholders in Thonga Beach Lodge.
Thonga Beach Lodge is a romantic luxury hideaway set in a coastal milkwood forest, just a short walk away from a white sand beach and some of South Africa's best tropical reef diving.
The lodge falls within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, which was one of South Africa's first World Heritage Sites, declared on the same day in 1999 as the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and the Robben Island World Heritage Site. At iSimangaliso, the delicate coastal dune-forest ecology meets savannah bushveld and a string of biodiverse and intriguing inland lakes.
One of these lakes is Lake Sibaya, which is only 25 minutes' drive away from the lodge. Thonga Beach Lodge offers kayaking trips along the lake's shoreline. If you're a birder, this is a good place to see the only fruit-eating vulture in the world – the palmnut vulture. It is also home to Pel's fishing owl (which is so seldom seen it has attained near-mythical status) and the charming pygmy goose.
iSimangaliso might just as well have been named Bird Central: there are more than 500 bird species in this semi-tropical part of the world. Look out for crocodiles and hippos too.
In summer months (October to March), Thonga (pronounced 'Tonga') offers turtle tracking safaris at night. Enormous leatherbacks and loggerheads lumber ashore, dig holes in the sand and lay their eggs. In late summer, the babies hatch and tiny turtles struggle down to the water's edge. Years hence, those grown-up hatchlings will be coming ashore to lay eggs on this very beach.
Rates include a visit to a nearby Tsonga homestead, where you can meet local people and learn about their culture and heritage.
But it's the diving and snorkelling that people come back for, year after year. The warm Indian Ocean offers up bottlenose dolphins, whale sharks, manta rays, giant turtles, Moorish idols and parrotfish, among many other species. There are 1 250 recorded species here, which compares rather well with the Great Barrier Reef, with 1 500.
On the other hand, it's practically compulsory to set aside a day or two to just lie on the pristine beach, gazing at the clear waves and those adorable three-banded plovers.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Thonga Beach Lodge
Tel: +27 (0)35 474 1473
Fax: +27 (0)35 474 1490
Email: email@example.com
How to get here
The closest major city is Durban, which is about 300km away (about a three- or four-hour drive). See the listed Isibindi Africa Lodges website for detailed directions. Please note that the lodge is not accessible by two-wheel drive vehicles. Two-wheel drive vehicles can park at a designated area about an hour from the lodge, from where twice-daily transfers are arranged.
Best time to visit
Summers (October to March) can be sweltering. The winter and 'shoulder months' (April to September) are very pleasant, with only a light chill in the evenings.
Around the area
The iSimangaliso Wetland Park has identified what it calls its 10 jewels (it's certainly not every area that has this wealth of species and options). These include: Kosi Bay, Sodwana Bay, Lake Sibaya, the coastal forest, the eastern and western shores of Lake St Lucia, the estuary and uMkhuze, where you can see most of the Big Five.
Tours to do
Doing a turtle tracking tour is a memorable experience and comes highly recommended. Other activities at Thonga Beach Lodge include surf fishing and fly-fishing (catch and release).
What will it cost
Ocean-view rooms are approx R3 190 per person per night sharing, and forest view rooms are R2 760. Rates include accommodation; all meals; guided walks in the coastal forest; kayaking and a sundowner trip on Lake Sibaya; snorkelling equipment; and a local tour of the Tsonga community.
Length of stay
Three nights would be ideal.
What to pack
Even in winter (May to August) temperatures are pleasantly warm. Bring along what you'd take to a beach, plus binoculars for birds and wildlife.
Where to stay
Great care has been taken not to damage the protected milkwood coastal forest within which 12 luxury suites have been built on stilts. Some offer sea views, and others offer forest views.


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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- An expanding program in clean and renewable energy at a western Ohio university is exceeding enrollment expectations and drawing students from around the world.
The program at the University of Dayton has swelled to three times the school's expectations for enrollment since it was launched in 2009.
Among its 50 students, the program has three Fulbright scholars -- a record for any one program at the university. Fulbright scholars are international students chosen for their academics and leadership potential.
Professor Kelly Kissock tells The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/YA2pCM) that one of the greatest strengths of the program is that its students are in demand all over.
One report says as many as 40 million Americans could be working in renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2030.
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Villanueva, Cubs can't prevent Fish comeback
Hurler allows go-ahead runs in sixth; Navarro shot in ninth not enough
MIAMI -- The Cubs were looking for their first four-game sweep of an opponent since August 2011 and first four-game sweep of the Marlins, but the bid came up short as Giancarlo Stanton pestered them Sunday in a 6-4 loss at Marlins Park.
Cubs starter Carlos Villanueva had two bad innings -- the first and the last of his outing. He surrendered a two-run home run to Stanton in the opening frame, and then had an eventful sixth inning with Stanton in the middle of it again to give Miami the lead after the Chicago offense gave the Villanueva a 3-2 advantage.
With Juan Pierre on second, two outs and first base open, Villanueva went right after Stanton, starting him off with two pitches in the strike zone and going right back into it with the count 2-2. Stanton made him pay as he singled to left-center to score Pierre and tie the game at 3. Stanton advanced to second on the throw home.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum was asked why he didn't walk Stanton, who had already hit the first of two homers at that point on top of going deep on Saturday.
"Not in that situation. I just felt [Villanueva] had the pitches to pitch around him and keep the ball away from him," Sveum said. "I didn't have my left-hander [James Russell]. He was down today, so I didn't have anybody for [left-handed-hitting Greg] Dobbs, and I didn't want to put the winning run on either."
Villanueva then intentionally walked Dobbs in the same situation in order to face Donovan Solano.
Solano hit a line drive over shortstop Starlin Castro that reached the outfield and allowed Stanton to score. The play was initially ruled an error on Castro, but later changed to a hit and an RBI that gave Miami a 4-3 lead.
"That ball -- he put some movement on it," said Castro, who was 2-for-4 with a two-run double at the plate. "I think it almost hit my face."
Villanueva ultimately made it out of the inning. He gave up two runs in both the first and sixth, but was stellar in between. After Stanton's first-inning homer, he retired 14 of the next 15 batters, walking Stanton as the only man he failed to retire during the stretch.
"I made a couple of mistakes, and he took advantage of it," said Villanueva (1-1), who was hit with the loss and finished throwing six innings, giving up four earned runs on four hits and three walks while tying a career high with eight strikeouts. "Hitters like that are supposed to. You don't want to get in a situation for a guy like that to beat you, but I tried to make a pitch and he got it.
"In the first inning, just a bad changeup. It just came back to his bat. In the sixth inning, I felt like I had to put him away there, and just left one where he could reach and he did what he's supposed to do."
Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco (2-2) allowed three Cubs runs in the first three innings, but responded by retiring the last 15 batters he faced in his seven innings, including the last three batters he saw in a two-run third.
Miami added insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh and eighth. Nick Green hit a solo home run, his first of the year, in the seventh, and Stanton blasted his second of the afternoon in the eighth. Both came off reliever Kameron Loe.
Stanton went 3-for-3 with four RBIs in his seventh career multi-homer game, and is currently on a five-game hitting streak in which he's 8-for-18 after an abysmal start to the season.
"This guy is a special player -- a game-changer," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "It was just a matter of time."
Said Castro of Stanton: "He killed us."
Chicago tried to make some noise down 6-3 in the top of the ninth off Marlins closer Steve Cishek. Dioner Navarro led off the inning with a home run to right, but Cishek then induced Luis Valbuena and Darwin Barney to ground out to short, and took a one-hop comebacker from pinch-hitter Julio Borbon to finish off the Cubs.
The Cubs got two runners on in the top of the eighth, but couldn't score off Marlins reliever Mike Dunn. Castro and Anthony Rizzo hit back-to-back singles with one out, but Dunn got Alfonso Soriano and Nate Schierholtz to fly out to left.
Down 2-1 in the third, Chicago scored two runs to take the lead when Castro drove in Villanueva and David DeJesus -- who both reached with singles off Nolasco -- with a sharp double down the left-field line that snuck past a diving Chris Valaika at third.
The Cubs struck first in the game when Rizzo, who went 2-for-3, hit the right-center-field wall on one hop for an RBI double. The Parkland, Fla., native went 5-for-13 with two homers, a double and five RBIs over the homecoming series.
David Furones is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Slim pickings for EFM buyers
A slow EFM punctuated by just a handful of commercial must-haves and a subdued reaction to the festival selection turned hopeful thoughts to France and the promise of Cannes.
Among the few heavy hitters that sold widely were Focus Features International's [FFI] Kill The Messenger, IM Global's Blood Sisters, FilmNation's Solace, Mister Smith's Love, Rosie and eOne Films International's Queen Of The Night.
The viability of commercial fare in Berlin has grown in recent years but the proximity to the AFM and holiday season means February can be a tough month when it comes to new packages.
Three potential heavyweights that dropped on the eve of the market were Lionsgate's Reese Witherspoon starrer The Good Lie and Exclusive Media's crime sagas Black Mass with Johnny Depp and Dark Places, starring Charlize Theron.
Theron's attendance was a smart way to direct attention to a project most buyers would have had little time to prepare for by the time they set off for Berlin. Driven by eleventh-hour packaging from the agents in Los Angeles, the influx of late arrivals is problematic for buyers who have little time to read a script or run numbers with head office back home.
"We have got to find a better way of doing this," said FFI chief Alison Thompson, whose Kill The Messenger came together late in the day. "If you bring these movies late to the market it can impact how you sell."
"It's a doubled-edged sword," said The Exchange chief Brian O'Shea, who closed multiple territories on Sundance hit The Spectacular Now. "If it clicks it can be exciting but if it doesn't it can create a negative effect."
Several quality arthouse titles prospered such as StudioCanal's Our Kind Of Traitor, SND's Yves Saint Laurent biopic, Le Pacte's COmpetition entry The Nun and TrustNordisk's Nymphomaniac.
TrustNordisk titillated buyers with footage of Lars von Trier's upcoming sexual saga, triggering one of only a few US deals here as Magnolia pounced. Roadside Attractions snapped up Competition hit Gloria and SPC moved on The Invisible Woman. Grace Of Monaco and Diana were also in play.
However the headline grabber was TWC's move on US rights to Blood Sisters in a deal with IM Global that resulted in what is believed to be one of the biggest ever to emerge from the EFM. Harvey Weinstein pursued the potential young adult franchise with zeal and is understood to have committed between $30-35m in p&a in advance of a Feb 14 2014 release.
Aside from this, the general pattern was one of wariness as cautious buyers looking for slots beyond Q1 2014 were unwilling to pledge MGs and slow to get out their wallets.
"You need to have big commercial or strong arthouse titles that stand out," said Independent managing director Andrew Orr. "For example, we have distinctive titles Metro Manila, which won an audience prize at Sundance and The Motel Life, which won the Audience Award in Rome."
The Berlinale press office said 890 films in the market represented a gain on last year. There were 455 participating companies in the market and 1,690 buyers. The number of total participants is estimated to be about 7,650.
EFM head Beki Probst told Screen: "Considering that we are in a difficult period, we are all very happy that this market went well. The attendance was good, the buzz was good, we can't ask for more."
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"Gibson's second apology followed complaints from one prominent Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League, that his first mea culpa, issued on Saturday, failed to get "to the essence of his bigotry and anti-Semitism".
From the AHD:
Noun: One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Etymology: French, from Old French.
Word history: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."
From the OED
BIGOT: 1598, from M.Fr. bigot, from O.Fr., supposedly a derogatory name for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of O.E. oath bi God. Plausible, since the Eng. were known as goddamns in Joan of Arc's France, and during World War I Americans serving in France were said to be known as les sommobiches (see also son of a bitch). But the earliest Fr. use of the word (12c.) is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul. The earliest Eng. sense is of "religious hypocrite," especially a female one, and may be influenced by beguine. Sense extended 1687 to other than religious opinions.
I also looked up 'bigot' in the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology.
[...]F. bigot (XV), of unkn. origin. Found (XII) as the proper name of a people of S. France, whence it has been referred by some to medL. Visigothi (the Visigoths of the region were Arians); it is used in Wace's 'Roman du Rou' (XII) as an abusive term by the French to Normans, and it became a Norman family name. The gap between these early references and the much later use of the word as a comon noun has not been bridged.[...]


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Former White House financial adviser, Pippa Malmgren, has had a go at Australia's increasingly narrow reliance upon China:
"Why do Australians restrict themselves to the flight to Shanghai and Beijing? … It always makes sense to diversify, but for whatever reason Australia didn't diversify over the past decade; they've just said 'the US is history, China is the future.' And now the US is coming back to life and China is weakening — and for Australia it's too late to rejig the model.
"I think Australia has made a very big mistake in that they have pegged their future principally on China. It would behove Australians to focus more on the one market which has always been there for them, which is the US … In fact Australia is about the only country that is not a net beneficiary of the fact that manufacturing is leaving China. So why isn't Australia attracting it? Because Australia pegged its future not only exclusively on China but exclusively on resources."
Malmgren was an advisor to the Bush White House and is a smart lady to say the least. More to the point, she is an economic neo-liberal. Yet here she is asking why it is that we embraced the Dutch disease thrust upon us by global markets. Given this, it is perhaps a good moment to ask, who's fault is it?
Over such a long boom, it's not an easy question to answer and in some very important sense is artificial. It's all 20/20 hindsight after all. Nonetheless, there are a series of mistakes that it is reasonable to call out Australia's elite on. In the end, all of the mistakes come back to one fundamental error, too much of the boom was spent and not enough saved, overheating the economy, driving external debt and the dollar too high and hollowing out everything not bolted down or not a hole in the ground.
The Macfarlane RBA used the boom to rationalise its housing bubble (20% blame)
The RBA of Ian Macfarlane offered easy money for far too long. From the moment it came into being, it slashed interest rates on reasonable inflation levels resulting from the productivity-related growth of the late nineties. As Phil Lowe has written, it is a mistake to lower interest rates simply on the back of a positive supply shock such as this and disregard the results, such as rising asset prices. By the time Macfarlane awoke to this simple truth in 2003, Sydney's housing bubble was huge.
But as the terms of trade boom began, bailing out the mistake, his RBA continued its easy money policies and rather than deflate, the bubble went national with Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart (cities far and wide, many unaffected by mining directly), all followed Sydney house prices skywards. By the time he retired, Australian inflation expectations were, to say the least, firmly entrenched.
More than anyone, the Macfarlane RBA established an expectation of rising asset prices to replace traditional savings. Under its watch, a chronic current account deficit became a borrowing glut.
The Howard/Costello regime gave us too much of a good thing (30%)
Accompanying the Macfarlane era's easy money years, fiscal policy was too easy. Yes, Howard and Costello paid down public debt, established the Future Fund and installed a tax on spending in the form of the GST, but they also exacerbated falling savings rates with fiscal largesse and give-aways that were overly generous.
Capital gains tax alterations boosted asset prices and successive tax cuts had us all borrowing and spending like drunken sailors with no thought to the future. Shortly after leaving office, the resulting mountainous external private debt imploded in the global financial crisis, the banks were effectively nationalised, and suddenly the savings rate (which had already begun to turn) rocketed.
The Rudd/Gillard/Swan regime botched the solutions (20%)
The GFC stimulus was well-handled with the exception of one policy. When Treasury sent its proposed stimulus package to Cabinet, there was no First Home Buyers Grant boost in it. It was added by the pollies. The result was a blow-off round of housing speculation in 2009 that saved growth but missed the opportunity to deflate (not crash) Australian asset prices.
The resulting re-inflated bubble has dogged every move made by the RBA since. Rather than extra capacity freed by the GFC being redeployed into the renewed mining boom, the RBA has had to raise rates and the dollar and force capacity to free up. That is, it embraced Dutch disease as a way to prevent the mining boom overheating the economy again. We simply should have allowed housing to deflate in 2009, even via recession if necessary.
The Rudd/Swan team then tried to install a resource super profits tax that would have helped shore up government savings for many years yet and may as well have helped contain the second round boom (though it was probably too late). But its policy process ruined the chance of getting the tax over the line with the body politic. It was rushed, poorly designed in a political sense and opened the way for a violent mining backlash. This failure will dog the country for many years to come.
In the face of this, the Gillard government and its executive embraced Dutch disease as Australia's saviour, extrapolating unsustainable Chinese growth endlessly into the future.
Unethical mining and media companies (10%)
Presented with the opening offered by the Rudd/Swan team's poor policy process, mining companies engineered perhaps the cheapest and easiest bloodless coup in the history of democracy, with the help of hapless media firms. Australia was left naked before an onslaught of investment that, by definition, meant an increased reliance upon very few commodities going to even fewer countries.
The Australian people (20%)
We all did this in some measure to ourselves.
In sum, I give to you, the Dutch disease blame doughnut.
*'Dutch disease' is an economic concept explaining the relationship between an increase in the exploitation of natural resources and a decline in manufacturing.
David Llewellyn-Smith is the editor at MacroBusiness www.macrobusiness.com.au. This is an excerpt from a longer article available at the site.


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A BLIND man has hit out at the "low life scum" who pulled a knife on him in an attempted robbery, leaving him scared to leave the house.
Andy Muxlow, aged 44, has been robbed of his independence after the attack at about 7.30pm on Friday, March 28 in Geraldine Road, Malvern, left him too frightened to go out.
Mr Muxlow, of Orchid Court, Poolbrook, Malvern, is registered blind but was able to kick and punch the leg and face of one of the male offenders who held a knife to his throat and chest and demanded money.
He said: "This has really knocked my confidence and taken away my independence. I am very independent, or I was. Even though I have got very limited sight, nothing phases me or it didn't phase me in Malvern because I know Malvern like the back of my hand.
Mr Muxlow, who has no sight in his right eye and only six per cent vision in his left, feels he could have been badly injured if he wasn't able to fight back.
"I lashed out and I was lucky to make connection, to be fair. If I hadn't made connection I think it would have been a totally different game. I think I would have been in hospital.
"They are low life scum who thought they were picking on a vulnerable person but they didn't get away with it because I was able to fight back."
Mr Muxlow also praised the police for their response to the incident.
"The response from the police was superb. I couldn't fault them and I hope someone will come forward with some information."
He added: "It might sound stupid but I am pleased it happened to me where I could react. It could have been someone a bit more vulnerable."
It is believed there was at least two offenders and they may have been watching as he withdrew money from a cash machine opposite the Loco convenience store in Barnards Green.
One of the offenders was described as white, wearing a dark coloured top with white stripes on the shoulders.
Mr Muxlow was unable to run because he was afraid of colliding with something and although the offenders shouted threats after him, they did not attempt to follow him.
He was treated by an ambulance crew after having a panic attack but was otherwise not injured.
Anyone with information should call PC Doidge, quoting incident 630-S-280314, on the non-emergency number 101.


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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo are Competitive Parents"Tou do slip it into every single thing you say. If she's being cute, you're like, 'Oh my god, Look at how cute you are! Dada!" Levine said.
Maroon 5's Adam Levine Goes on an Acid Trip in New 'Cold' VideoThe band's latest single get a trippy visual.
Adam Levine Won't Sabotage His Relationships to Make Good Music"I'm kind of playing a character that's far from myself in some of these songs."
Maroon 5 Tease Psychedelic Video for 'Cold'"I got arrested when the cops came, but they weren't really the cops," Levine says. "It was like this adorable little cartoon stripper and she gave me an adorable little cartoon lap dance."
Maroon 5 Drop New Track 'Cold'The track features the rapper Future.
Maroon 5 Tease Fans with Sexy/Creepy Women/AnimalsWhat does it all mean?
Adam Levine to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of FameThe dedication celebration for Levine will take place Feb. 10 in Los Angeles and will be live-streamed.
Bottlerock Napa Valley 2017 Lineup: Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, Maroon 5 to HeadlineThe 3-day festival will take place at the Napa Valley Expo, May 26 - 28, 2017.
Maroon 5 are the Pokémon You Can't Catch in 'Don't Wanna Know' VideoMaroon 5 gets silly about being celebrities in their latest video.
Maroon 5 Debut New Single 'Don't Wanna Know' Featuring Kendrick LamarIt's the first time the two artists have collaborated.
Maroon 5 Cancel North Carolina ShowsThe band is protesting the state's controversial bathroom laws.
Maroon 5 Bassist Gets Community Service for Drug ChargeMadden accepted a conditional dismissal offer during an appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.