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Greetings, all - I am close to tearing my hair out over my pitiful gifting ability. My son has agreed to contact a friend and fellow gaming developer who works for G5 . I believe that many of us are experiencing the same problems and frustrations with the game. Would anyone care to voice any complaints not previously covered before I ask my son to look through these threads? I noted the seemingly arbitrary cut-off time for gifting, server problems, gifting Tribbles (sorry for the Star Trek reference), etc.
I would like to add my observation that all wishlist items gifted by Android players are appearing on my iPad in multiples of 5 as silver winding keys, steel springs and bronze gears. I am grateful for anything and everything, but it must be frustrating for those who are trying to gift certain items and are unable to do so. Being kicked out of the game every 90 seconds is also unnerving. Emptied cache, checked my network connections, tried the game on iOS, Android and Kindle devices. If the moderators will allow, please feel free to post any complaints, by Sunday, 09/02/14. My son will speak with his friend late Pacific time, as the issue cannot be addressed until Monday morning. Perhaps someone in networking might resolve all problems immediately, but a developer should be able to manage these complaints. Just an idea, and I thought it would be faster and more direct than awaiting the automatic response to my request.
Answer from: Oli
Hi Clare. I think one of my biggest irks is that you loose energy when you gain a level. There has been numerous occasions when I've started to play the game for the day and my energy level has booted up quite high. After 2 scenes I reach a new level and basically have lost out on 400/500 energy points. I would very much wish when a player reaches a new level the existing energy points is added on extra to the points you gain when you reach a new level. I also think that one should have much more gifting possibilities. It irritates me that I can't give all my friends gifts everyday. I have so many good friends ( you included!) on tablets who gift me more than one collection item, I can't even repay the favour. Super winged lightening should changed by points and not be time. You gain 5 points for every minute and not 1 point for every minute. For me it feels so long just to gain 120 points extra. I also encountered that the game does not charge properly. I have complained to them that I wake up in the morning and my energy level has only risen by 120 points or so. I have calculated that on average it should charge at least 240 points in 6 hours. Shoo, that was a a load of my chest. Maybe your son's friend can help with these matters too? Thanks for being a wonderful friend and for gifting and visiting me every day! Oli
Answer from: Nitey4ever
The mutiples of 5 are something the android users are doing themselves, not a glitch. I send 5 of each item on a friend's wishlist or maybe 10 if they only have 1 item listed. Etc. If there's nothing I can send, I send keys seeing as we need so many now for the low level collections made from gift-thank-you's. The tribbles are frustrating (I love the reference and for the sake of anyone else I believe you are referring to trying to send the last collection item in your inventory, confirming that you want to do so, and the game sends a different item anyway). The crashes are less frustrating for me as they are down to a minimum on my end (android samsung galaxy s4). But it is time for them to be fixed. No patches in a month and a half to fix issues? I personally have spent $280 on this game (don't judge) and I expect more service for my money on a game that is basically great.
Answer from: Clare/Eupraxia
Thought of another "bug" - When the server hangs as I am trying to send an inventory item, that attempt is counted as one of my ten free gifts. For example, it took me 3 tries to get a Wall Clock to someone. The remaining Wall Clocks were not deducted from my inventory (only the one), but I could only gift to 7 people today. Anyone else encountered this glitch?
Answer from: EmGee
Hi Clare. Yes, if you could pass along that it would be nice if and when launching a hard earned artifact, that we could be rewarded with the better rewards from searching the pictures. For example I have loads of masks but only one ruby. Thanks for listening!
Answer from: Brenda
Hi Clare, I don't know if they will change it or not but can you your son to find out what the logic is with the gift limitation. The rules say we can send 50 free gifts, one per friend but if we only have five friends we can only send five free gifts, why can't we share our fifty free gifts among our friends ( no matter how few) or send one free gift to all our friends ( no matter how many ). The game encourages us to make a lot more than fifty friends, it rewards us with trophies and chests full of goodies but it won't let us be nice to more than 50 of them, I'm sure there's a logical explanation and I'd really love to know what it is. . Live long and prosper.
Answer from: Chiggermagnet
Agree with the above comments. Small nit, I really enjoyed the extra badge to be found when I first joined. Now that I have an android phone I'm finding them again and really enjoy it. Can we have more? Also, it's a real pain to scroll through my free gifts/collection items to send. Can't it be a searchable list? Beth
Answer from: Holly
I am agreeing with (whatever word you guys used) the sending of the last collection item. i love to gift, but how i hate hate hate to scroll through all those pages to get to the item and then have the server issue happen on top of it and kick me out of the game - i had about had it last night! i spend 2-3 hours a day gifting, so this is a high priority to me! one thing i would love to see and i dont think i mentioned this on the last post done by Ellen about ideas for game.i hate being kicked out of gifting someone. if you are allowed to send "10 gifts" per day why should after a gift i be kicked out of that friend- if i want to give all 10 to that friend i should be allowed and just X out when i am done. sorry just had to complain about that- at least that would help cut down with the amount of scrolling as well.
Answer from: Mimi2
Hi Clare/Eupraxia. Thanks for having your son go the direct route. The biggest hassle for me at this point is the "unable to connect to server". No gifting/visiting ( or maybe minimal). What is their problem? Not enough server space? Whatever it is, it needs to be fixed! All our other complaints/suggestions are kind of secondary until this problem is fixed. After we are up and able to gift/ visit without problems, would be a good time to work on all the other issues and suggestions to improve of of G5's most popular games. Thanks again, Clare!
Answer from: Clare/Eupraxia
My apologies for confusing some of you with my Tribbles metaphor, but @nitey got it! :) I realise that it may seem as if I am overlooking Ellen's efforts. To the contrary, I directed my son to the thread of requests Ellen submitted to G5. I don't know what can be done about content equests. I am immediately concerned with the upswing in technical problems, especially the inability to connect to G5 servers. I attempted to send wish list items from my Android alias to my iPad account. It does not matter what I send, I receive silver winding keys, steel springs and bronze gears. I know that my friends who use Android devices send me items from my wishlist. It is a statistical improbability that all Android players decided to send the same 3 non-inventory items to me every day. "That would not be logical. " ;)
Answer from: Polo.mom
Hi all this gifting limit is driving me crazy! Before I could gift much more, and now only 10 collection items in total. Then I get "please wait" and I wait and wait. Friends you must forgive my limits, but as I said before, it's driving me crazy. karen
Answer from: Mac
@Clare. Out of interest, did you get all the collections I sent you a couple of days ago after you posted on Holly's thread? The reason I ask is that I remember sending you five or six entire collections in one go AND all the connecting items that would complete them (as it seemed a bit mean to send loads of collections if you didn't have the ability to convert them), anyway, the fact you are mentioning getting lots of springs/gears/keys is making me wonder whether you got the connecting items without the collections and wondered what the heck was going on. in which case I'm pretty bummed because all the collection items definitely left my cache.
Answer from: Ash
I agree with others - I'd like to see a bigger gifting limit, with an option to send free gifts more than once per day. And the glitch with the one gift really should be fixed. A nitpick for me: Friends who gift/visit me daily would ideally be at the front of my friends list. Or a simpler (though not as ideal option): list the friends alphabetically! They encourage 500+ friends in this game and then arrange them so illogically, that I end up overlooking some when gifting and have to scroll back and forth multiple times. Gifting and visits now take 30 minutes to an hour every day, when it could easily be modified to make it more user friendly. Very frustrating.
Answer from: Clare/Eupraxia
My son called me after speaking to his friend at G5. He sent links to the pages of technical complaints and also saved Ellen's requests as an email attachment. Not speaking for the entire company, but my son's friend was told that any problems are related to the Valentine's update. Oh, how amusing. My son plans on pursuing this. While he works for a different developer, the gaming community is quite small. The people on the creative end all seem to know each other. I am very angry, because I have spent so much time and money on crystals. As nitey remarked, "please don't judge". I was injured in an accident, have limited mobility and do spend my free time on this game and one that my son developed. I have spent far less money on in app purchases for my son's game!
Answer from: Brenda
Hi Clare, I was just wondering if you son spoke to his friend and if he got any good tips, like what the password is for unlimited ladybugs :-))
Answer from: Clare/Eupraxia
Hello, I have an update from my son and G5. The Valentine's update was considered as a "new feature" and the company extended the deadline for the quest. The powers that be apparently believe that requests for new features are a bit unreasonable. The response was not quite phrased that way, but my son was not encouraged. I don't think that his point about "sloppy code" went over too well with G5, but my son is right. One thing that is encouraging - companies tend to listen to people who spend large sums of money on their in-app purchases. I collected my iTunes App Store receipts and sent them to G5 and Mytona. I won't tell you how much I have spent on crystals, because you would probably be horrified. I will say that I have spent over $2,000 since November. Before you judge me, please understand that I have limited mobility and am not accustomed to being at home. I still see my students who are working on their dissertations, and I have my family to keep me from losing my mind. This game amused me, and I (past tense) thoroughly enjoyed it. So please don't judge me for being frivolous. I don't spend what I cannot afford.
Answer from: Clare/Eupraxia
(continued from above) My reason for mentioning the above is that someone at G5 is listening to me. I am an unusually high spender for this game, and I am angry. I will take my business elsewhere. I play a game on Steam (where my son develops gaming software), and I could just move all my gaming money to their products. We should not live in a world where you have to spend money to get a company's attention, but it has come to that. I cannot connect to this game's servers. Yesterday, I could not visit anyone. I apologise; I attempted to visit my friends throughout the day and evening but kept being booted out of the game. I hope to have better luck today. I will try late this evening EST, when I usually have an easier time connecting to G5 servers. For those who may be interested, G5 is a publicly traded company headquartered in Sweden, but the development offices and tech support are in Ukraine and Russia. There is or was a U.S. marketing presence in San Francisco, but my understanding is that most requests are handled by the offices in Ukraine. My contact is Russian, and I spoke in her native language, as I did not want any misunderstandings. I am not an aggressive person but feel I need to be in this case, as I do not think that our complaints are being taken seriously. I am not under any illusion that I have the power to enact change on my own, but I will not spend any more money on purchases from G5 until they fix the server situation. Thank you to the moderators for piecing together this very long post, and thank you for reading. Clare
Answer from: Mmmeee
HI Clare, Thanks so much for taking this on. I think many of us share your frustration and I think unfortunately money talks. It is a difficult game to play without spending money so it should be, in my opinion, providing great customer service and better programming. I cannot believe how dismissive they are when their mistakes cost money for their customers (or in my emails to G5 I refer to us as their ATMs). As I am typing this I keep thinking to myself, yeah and you are still playing it. I stopped paying anything for 6 months and finally broke down with the Christmas update then when I crashed. I too have decided to stop putting any $ into this game. For me in addition to the server issues I just find it downright insulting that they think their explanation of the Valentines Day energy items is acceptable. If they are going to lie to us could they at least come up with a better one than that? It is kind of funny how much that one is bothering me after all the other crap that has happened with this game. G5 shows time and time again they have very little interest in customer relations and doing the right things for their customers. I don't mind paying for play either. A lot of time and energy goes into updates so I think of it as a payment. I think everyone sets their own perimeters, for some it is not worth paying and others it is so there is no right answer and it is up to the individual. Certainly no judgement here. Thanks again for doing this and sorry for my rant. Chris
Answer from: Brenda
You won't get any judgement from me either, I've been disabled long enough to accept that my bedroom is pretty much my world but I do remember what it was like in the beginning. I'm addicted to hidden object adventure games and my husband spends a lot of money buying them for me including a lot of G5 games, I complete most of them in 2 days or less and have 7 new ones on my iPad right now.The secret society has kept me occupied for months but only because of the friends I've made and I have to admit I haven't spent a single cent on it, if they asked for a donation to improve the game I would be one of the first in the queue but I refuse to pay for a full dinner only to have some programmer decide I'm only getting a lick of a lollipop. The biggest reason I won't pay for anything that will help me to advance is because I had reached level 49 in my first game when it crashed and put me back to level one, I've read too many cases of this happening and I would have been very angry if I had paid to get that far. Thank you for contacting them and trying to persuade them to improve the game, I for one definitely appreciate it.
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Starting out I had no idea how I was going to cosplay something that's only a black ball surrounded by purple mist. But after playing around in the haunted mansion in Pearl, I had the idea to style it in a gothic lolita theme. The outfit is completely black and was all pulled from my closet. For the mist I used lavender tulle and tore and shredded the ends. And so people would knew what I was, I made Gastly out of a foam ball, paper for the eyes and mouth, and the scrap tulle, then attached him to the top of my parasol.
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Alfred Molina stars in this new play about 20th century artist Mark Rothko.
Recent Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow, who directed Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, goes head to head with John Logan. The talented twosome is collaborating on HBO's upcoming The Miraculous Year.
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Summers withdraws from consideration as next Fed chairman
WASHINGTON – Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers has withdrawn his name as a candidate for Federal Reserve chairman, in a startling development that raises new questions about who will lead the Fed when Chairman Ben S. Bernanke steps down in four months.
The other main candidates for the job have been Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen and former Fed Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn, though it is still possible that President Obama may choose someone else. Time is short for nominating someone for the critical post, with a confirmation process expected to last several months.
Obama had been strongly leaning toward picking Summers, who helped him navigate the depths of the financial crisis and recession at the beginning of his term, and had assurances from Democratic leaders in the Senate that they would work to get him confirmed, according to people familiar with the matter.
But amid an intensifying uproar of liberal Democrats and left-leaning groups opposed to his nomination, Summers decided to withdraw his name Sunday, telephoning the president to tell him his decision.
"It has been a privilege to work with you since the beginning of your Administration as you led the nation through a severe recession into a sustained economic recovery," Summers, a Harvard professor, wrote in a letter to the president. "This is a complex moment in our national life. I have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the Administration, or ultimately, the interests of the nation's ongoing economic recovery."
Obama accepted Summers' decision, lauding him and saying he planned to continue to consult his former adviser.
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In a fit of rage Saturday, a member of Canada's national men's ball hockey team sent an official to hospital.
With Canada trailing 5-1, Justin Pender chased a Czech opponent across the rink with one second left in a quarterfinal game at the 2013 World Ball Hockey Championship in Newfoundland.
Prior to the scrap, Pender is seen jawing with a Czech player during a face off.
Two officials, and the Czech goalie, tried to intervene. But Pender continued to pound on the player, hitting and tangling up others in the process.
Watch the incident below (#24 in white is the Canadian and I have started the video when the incident begins)...
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Posted by godblender on 06/10/13 at 05:49 PM ET
That's not being "tough Canadian." That's being an @sshole.
Posted by SYF from Twerkin' with Anastasia Ashley on 06/10/13 at 06:03 PM ET
Look at that heart and compete level, he'd probably be a captain in the NHL.
In other news, International Ball Hockey has higher quality video than the AHL.
Posted by Hootinani from the parade following Babs out of town on 06/10/13 at 06:10 PM ET
There's a World Championship of Ball Hockey??? Really??? Is it for people who can't figure out ice skates???
Seriously, that player needs to be prosecuted for assault and never be allowed to play organized sports again. And WTF was up with the crowd? Aren't Canadians supposed to be the nicest people on the planet?
Posted by CaptainDennisPolonich from The Land of Fake Boobs and Real Nuts on 06/10/13 at 06:58 PM ET
Canadians: Nicest people ever*
*until you put a hockey stick in their hand.
Okay, before you get your panties in a bunch, my Canadian friends (all 2 of them) agree with this statement
Posted by Vladimir16 from Grand River Valley on 06/10/13 at 08:01 PM ET
I wasn't coming here to pour it on but then I watched it, holy sh*t Canada… one of your players goes apesh*t to where a goalie has to throw himself onto the guy to protect him… and you come over and STAND GUARD making sure no other Czech players come in first? WTF? IN the meantime two Czech and a couple of officials are getting beat on?
Clearly #24 isn't the only one in white who is garbage…
Ban the entire Canadian team. And quite frankly if charges are pressed against #24, charges need to be pressed against the rest of the guys in white on the floor as accomplices, because not only did they not act to stop it, they STOOD GUARD so it could continue…
I've been hearing about this video all day, and it's so much worse than advertised.
Posted by Primis on 06/10/13 at 09:51 PM ET
Wow. That Toronto Sun article is…wow.
Are they seriously trying to defend this piece of sh*t?
And that voting section at the end of the article…is that a f*cking joke?
I mean, they realize this guy sent a ref to the f*cking hospital, right?
Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 06/10/13 at 10:07 PM ET
UPDATE: Terry Ryan, a fellow Canadian national teamer, said he supports what Pender did to the Czech players.
oUTSTANDING cHARACTER.
Posted by SYF from Twerkin' with Anastasia Ashley on 06/10/13 at 10:22 PM ET
Okay, is it wrong of me to hope someone does something like that to Marchand?
Posted by madhatter on 06/10/13 at 10:59 PM ET
#24 realizes he made a mistake and is sorry.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 06/11/13 at 12:06 PM ET
#24 realizes he made a mistake and is sorry.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 06/11/13 at 01:06 PM ET
Calling that a brawl shows how out of touch and biased the Canadian media can be when it comes to their own. That was an attack, an assault pure and simple. Pender's teammates made certain it did not turn into a brawl.
The man should do jail time for it and be barred from organized sports for life. That the Czech player may have been a poor sport is no excuse for a physical attack, let alone one that vicious. I hope the linesman sues him.
Posted by CaptainDennisPolonich from The Land of Fake Boobs and Real Nuts on 06/11/13 at 12:20 PM ET
Pender's career stats indicated that he played for the ECHL Bakersfield Condors. I don't remember him at all in any of the Condors v. Wranglers games at all. He was virtually a man in a boy's league.
Posted by SYF from Twerkin' with Anastasia Ashley on 06/11/13 at 12:25 PM ET
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The long version of the story involves digging into the WordPress core code to figure out where all the & encoded ampersands were coming from and finally finding all the places! (And nobody really wants to hear it, so ...)
Three new caveats:
As usual, get the updated plugin and drop a note on the help desk if you have any questions, suggestions, or results to share!
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WordPress core changed up the shortcode behavior for security reasons and I understand their reasoning, but it broke plugins like CM+ that already had taken into consideration the dangers of user input being "injected" into your web page. What changed is that now they ignore any short codes that are a part of an HTML tag, but not all the parameters. So, for those who used a CM+ shortcode to fill in a form field's value, it stopped doing that with the WP 4.2.3 update.
For example
<input type='text' name='email' value='[email]'>
used to do the right thing. As of WP 4.2.3, it just left the value blank.
The way around this, as validated by WP core developers, is to have the shortcode generate the whole HTML tag. In order to do that in a robust way, I added a new > shortcode to CM+ that you feed three unnamed parameters: before, cookie, and after.
This allows for mechanical translation from a tag with an embedded [cookie_name] shortcode to the new format. There are instructions for this, as well as a web-based translation tool, available from the download page.
The good news is that any other customization you're doing on WordPress pages with [firstname] or other CM+ cookie shortcodes should work as always -- as long as it isn't embedded in a parameter of an HTML tag. The even better news is that the latest version of the CM+ plugin gives us a way to use the shortcodes in the old way as well. The best news is that this means the upgrades to Paul Myers's Email Affiliate System that CM+ turned into The BEAST (Blog and Email Affiliate SysTem) should all still be viable with the security of the latest version of WordPress.
As always, feel compelled to download CookieMonster-plus and sign up for my plugin announcement list on that download page.
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I was making a food run for my wife on a scale few people appreciate. Rather than running across town for a favorite dish, I drove from the middle of California to the middle of Oregon to bring back 165 pounds of blueberries. (There is a long saga that led up to this point that will have to wait for another time since it is more color than the point of this post.)
In planning the trip, I polled my Facebook friends for interesting things to see on I-5 during my breaks. I also realized I could take the 101 up the coast at the expense of an extra couple hours on top of the 9 hours Google maps was already predicting on I-5. The consensus from fb was to take the 101 if I had the time to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
As I set out, I convinced Gmaps on my phone to point me to the 101 (I should have taken the hint when it was so difficult to get directions that way). It gave me several options between Middlebury and the coast and I opted for the extra 10 minutes to go past Clear Lake and the 10 more to take the far side that looked like it would have a better view of the lake.
Everything was fine as I wound my way through the creepiness that is post-burn Pope Valley and off towards Clear Lake. Then I get pulled over and ticketed for changing audio tracks and appearing to be "using my phone without a headset" -- something I had intentionally avoided by digging out an old MP3 player. Needless to say, I wasn't very pleased with that situation, but took it well enough that the officer thanked me for being so "reasonable" in asking, for future reference, whether it mattered that it was an MP3 player, not my phone. (FYI, he was non-committal and pleasantly said I could contest it if I didn't agree with the ticket.)
Continuing on, I found myself amazingly neutral about the ticket, but almost instantly wearied by the whole mess. (I really dislike feeling misunderstood.) Driving around Clear Lake I was able to appreciate the view and suddenly realized that I had hit my quota for appreciating natural beauty at the moment. I also realized I was adding hours to my trip (that I now wanted done ASAP) for more views like the one I was no longer enjoying within the first hour of the drive!
Pulling over at the next long turnout, I remapped the shortest route from where I was parked. I was not pleased to realize I had to backtrack a ways before I could get on the shorter route up I-5. Part of me rebelled and started throwing a bit of a tantrum about going back the way I had just come. Thankfully, the more sensible part of me did the math and realized it was an extra couple hours up the coast over the afternoon or 10-15 minutes now (that happened to be anti-parallel with a section of road I'd just driven).
In that moment, I was presented with one of the biggest hurdles we face in making good decisions -- the knowledge of what it took to get us to the point of making that decision. These "sunk costs" may be time or money. They may be energy spent or even other opportunities deferred in order to pursue the current path. Or, possibly the biggest one, the commitment and consistency of having previously made a decision and now wanting to stick with that choice as the right choice.
Who wants to question their own decision making abilities?! We would much rather make a choice and follow through on it. Who cares that the "reality" of the situation is different than the assumptions we made in the process of choosing! (Hint: we all should care...because they is always a gap between our map and the territory.)
The most "natural" choice is to just stick with the original plan and make the best of it. Now, I don't know about you, but that rarely works out well for me -- especially before GPS mapping was so prevalent and I thought I knew how to get somewhere based on looking at a map before I left. I have driven many, many miles (literal and figurative) in the wrong direction out of stubbornness over the years.
This time was different. All other things being equal, I wanted to get to Oregon and back as quickly as possible. Most of me had a very clear sense that things had changed and I wasn't as likely to enjoy the 101 scenery. That made most all those "other things" pretty darned equal.
That meant if I kept going forward and ended up on the coastal highway, it would be a case of shooting myself in the foot (while mixing my metaphors) to spite my face. The logical thing to do was to backtrack to the shortest route -- in spite of whatever happened in the past to get me to that new decision point.
I had several moments during my almost 7 years of PhD work where I had to do this same sort of evaluation. It didn't matter that I was 4 years into it. It only mattered whether the decision to stick it out still made sense. Fortunately, it did everytime I did the evaluation and eventually I got the dissertation written, approved, and defended!
Meanwhile, back at Clear Lake... I took a deep breath, committed, and pulled a U-turn to take the shorter, more optimal-in-the-moment, route. And, after the split second grieving process, I continued knowing I'd made the "right" choice with the new information I had available at that point.
So, what does this mean for you and your business? First off, you need to take the frame of mind that sunk costs are irrelevant. Sayings like "don't throw good money after bad" are more than cheesy platitudes. If a satellite is in orbit around the Earth and has gotten off course, we don't care what path it took to get where it is. We don't care about the complete history of micro-burns needed to get it here. We only care about the current situation (position, speed, remaining fuel, etc) and what actions need to be taken in order to get it back on track.
With that mindset in place, there are a few steps you can take to make these sorts of decisions easier to make correctly.
1. Have trusted advisers. In my driving adventure, I had an adviser that I trusted: Google maps. A satellite has teams of NASA-grade experts crunching the numbers and plotting the course to fulfill their mission goals.
2. Consult them often. Turn by turn directions are great -- as long as you listen to them. If you've ever made a stop while using Google maps, you know there really ought to be a "pause" feature so the voice prompts don't tell you to make a U-turn in the snack aisle (even if that is a good recommendation!). Muting that voice in the snack aisle can have disastrous consequences if we don't turn it back on later. Similarly, having advisers is pointless if you don't listen when they advise or don't consult them on a regular basis. When? How about those times we're about to make a turn (decision) or we look around and realize we don't know quite where we are now. Which leads us to the next point, ...
3. Recognize when the situation has changed enough or is sufficiently different than when you made the original decision/s. Life is full of changes. Ignoring those changes only gets us more and more out of alignment with what is happening around us. A rocket headed for space can't ignore gravity, no matter how "inconvenient" F=Gm1m2/r^2 may be. Markets shift, technologies change, and life keeps on happening. If we blithely ignore that, we are walking off a cliff and assuming gravity will ignore us back. (It isn't heights that are the problem, or even falling. It is that abrupt change in velocity when we bounce off the planet that puts a damper on someone's day.)
4. Have a clear goal in mind. This helps in two ways. One is that it gives us a clear direction to be focused. When we can keep our eye on the prize, we can more easily set aside the distractions to quickly get back on track. If you've put together a well-formed outcome, you should already have a step-by-step plan to get you to your goal. And, more valuable still, you will have gone through the planning process and know the territory well enough to navigate around unforeseen obstacles.
The other way a clear goal helps is that it generally has more emotional oomph to it that we can tap into when needed. The bigger and better we expect the outcome to be, the more we will block out those other voices in our head that may derail us further than an arbitrary obstacle. Whenever we turn our energies against ourselves, we are creating "dragons" and they love to take us on a merry ride if we let them! (We shall address dragon slaying and taming another day...)
So, by having trusted advisers, consulting them often, recognizing when we are in uncharted territories, and not feeding the dragons, we are more likely to make clear decisions in spite of sunk costs and reach our goals more easily.
It sounds so simple, doesn't it!
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If you've been considering a new look for your website or are ready to build another site, let my weird week pay off for you big time.
What a strange week this has been. End of term drama with students, getting extra "Daddy days" while my wife nurses her mother back to post-surgical health, and fighting off some sort of cough-snot nastiness.
A couple more things that happened this week that are relevant to you: a client abandoned a project in the customization phase and Google invited me to play with their latest toy. These two together lead to an interesting opportunity for you.
I'm quite happy with the latest custom theme I built (that looks amazingly like the one you're viewing now!). Intentionally pared down visual elements, easily customizable, and responsive/mobile friendly. Unfortunately, the client is no longer planning to use the theme due to a shift in their business internals.
I suspect this will develop into my latest boilerplate for future custom themes. And in the meantime, I'd rather get it out there on some more sites rather than languish on my hardrive.
Combine that with a time-sensitive invite to get my own Google Glass unit, and I start feeling like the Godfather (as well as sounding like Corleone with this sore throat!) -- I'd like to make you an offer you can't refuse.
This project was over $1000 and we cut the customization phase short. I'd like to pick up there and customize this WordPress theme for a few individuals and cover the costs of the Glass unit without disturbing the rest of my budget.
When you take advantage of my shiny object syndrome (or rather the commercialization of technology I've been drooling over and attempting to piece together over the last two decades!), you get the leverage of the core theme I just built ($1,000+) as well as an initial round of customizations ($500) for just the cost of the customizations -- $500.
I will also include a .com domain name and cpanel hosting for a year ($100) and install and configure WordPress on your new site ($50). And if you have your content ready now, I will create up to the first 5 pages of the site ($250). (Including a "contact us" page with form that emails you and also allows you to browse all the entries within the WordPress dashboard.)
If you're updating an existing site, I will install and test the new theme on a representative subset of your site to ensure that there are no conflicts with any existing plugins on your site that may not play nice with others ($300-500).
And, once you've paid, I have a wide library of plugins that I can install from other vendors that I have with "developer rights," meaning I can install them on client sites as well as my own. These include plugins to run your own affiliate program, membership site, or appointment system (among many other things) -- all within your existing WordPress site.
Now, I can only honor this for a very small number of people over the next two days (through 9pm Pacific on Sunday) because I have a limited time to order my Google Glass (my invite is only good for 7 days!) and I also have very little time for additional client work between now and the end of the year. If you order and my schedule is already full, I will have to refund your money and I can quote your project after the new year.
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For this, I don't have time (or interest) to put together a fancy direct-response salesletter or a bunch of compelling graphics. If this is something you want/need/find interesting, reserve your place now and you'll have a new site or new look by the end of the year.
Either way, have a happy Christmas and create a wonderful new year!
P.S. What do *you* think of Google Glass? Freakshow, fad, or phenom?! Comment below.
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Sure, I get the actual deconstruction of the word (co - incident, occurring at the same time), but it isn't something magical or mystical to me. Just like the "Law of Attraction" -- coincidence is all about tuning your awareness.
I certainly subscribe to the notion of giving an idea more conscious processing time when I've noticed it in 3 different ways/places/forms in a short period of time. I'm not saying that any of those 3+ interactions were not divinely inspired. What I am saying, is that independent of the externals, I noticed it three times.
By focusing on the internal aspect, I have some control over what happens -- unlike what happened when I used to focus on the externals. I can only partially control what stimuli I'm exposed to, and that only by being aware of what environments I put myself into each moment of my day.
What I can take control of is my own internal state. I can apply that small amount of willpower in ways that have the biggest positive impact in my life, independent of the environment in which I may find myself.
The challenge is this: you can't dig your well when you're thirsty (HT to my friend Donna Fox). You have to plan ahead, do the work in advance, and have those resources at the ready when the need arises. It can be hard work, and you rarely have the extra resources available to do that hard work "on the fly" -- any extra resources you can gather are usually needed to deal with the current situation.
Athletes do not walk onto the field/court/ring without having spent many hours perfecting their craft. They don't go out on game day and expect to learn a new technique. They often spend years getting the mechanics internalized enough that they can then spend the rest of their life, or at least their career, perfecting the nuances of their craft. And that perfecting is a function of regular practice, tested through training with others, and proven through competition (HT to Scott Sonnon).
I take those "coincidence" moments, when I become consciously aware of a specific part of my world, and use them as triggers. This is a "privileged signal" from my unconscious that has become conscious. When I'm ready to receive that information, I know it is prompting me to "dig my well" and take some knowledge, awareness, or behavior to the next level.
What are the "levels"? Just like the athlete example, it is either going from nothing to gross skill, adding a layer of refinement to existing skills, or deconstructing a skill in order to teach it to others. These transitions correspond roughly, in NLP vocabulary, to moving from conscious incompetence (or possibly unconscious incompetence) to conscious competence, from conscious competence to unconscious competence, and unconscious competence to mastery modeling.
Right now, I am hyper aware of two related things: the physical ways in which we release our emotional tensions and the verbal mechanisms for shifting the beliefs that drive those emotions. I am putting in conscious time "practicing" by refining my skills at Sleight of Mouth language patterns as well as developing new skills in renewing joint mobility and releasing muscular tensions.
What do these promptings have to do with business? Only as much as your business involves you thinking clearly or moving smoothly. Last time I checked, even Internet-only business people have a body (all you brain-in-a-jar folks, please correct me) and that body influences your thought process (and vice versa)!
Taking a step back, business owners also need to know what skills need practice and training to prepare for the testing during "competition." It's also handy to know what situations are truly competition versus training versus practice. (My own rule of thumb: if it just involves internal skills, it is practice; if it involves your team or partners, it is training; if it involves other businesses in the same market, it is competition.)
For those of us not directly retailing, this time of year is perfect for practicing and training for the new year. While your competition is off thinking about the holidays, you can be digging your well -- developing the skills you'll need in the moment when things pick back up post-holidays.
Taking another step back, developing your awareness of how you're being prompted, internally, can lead to some great moments of flow -- both the "in the zone" type flow and cash flow! Of course, you need to do something because of that awareness and hopefully the little bit of knowledge shared here will help drive that behavior to prepare in resourceful ways.
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How have you been prompted recently?
What are you practicing right now?
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In late July, I walked through an integrated strategic development process and set an intent to serve more people, leverage tension management, and create sustainable functionality. If that all sounds like gibberish, that's fine, because going through the process (with a little guidance) kicked me into high gear.
The week after I started through the process I finished six client sites, had a breakthrough in my research, and started developing a new product in partnership with John Delavera. I was doing so much good work that one of my friends lamented "where's the fun Wayne?" (Don't worry, he's still here, just resting during this half of the tension cycle.)
The month was rolling along, I get the product ready for testing, and as I start sending out review copies -- disaster -- one of the web hosting companies I use disappeared and took the new product site with it. Annoying, but no big deal, they should be back in a couple hours.
That's when I made the mistake of waiting.
A week later, still no signs of the hosting company.
Two weeks pass, still no word and no hosting.
Fortunately, I caught myself in the hurry-up-and-wait mode and broke out of it.
Switched hosting providers, got everything set up again, and slipped back into hurry-up-and-wait for the reviewers. This time I noticed it after a few days (instead of weeks) and pushed forward anyway.
During this waiting time Marlon Sanders sent out an email recommending a book called The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone. Grabbed a copy, read it over the weekend, and kicked back into gear. The major premise of the 10x book is that success isn't something optional or nice to have, it is our duty and obligation to be successful. The title comes from Cardone's suggestion for reaching success: make 10x bigger goals and take 10x as many actions.
The funny thing is, I'll give Cardone credit for making a better meme, but I've taught the same principles that drive The 10x Rule before! It's the "shoot for the moon and even if you fall short you'll land among the stars" method of planning with what I call MnM goals.
Anyway, I kicked back into 10x high gear and leveraged the "do 10x as many actions" mantra, and my commitment to Delavera, to crank out my first product release into a particular marketplace (something I'd been considering for way too long without having committed). I found myself using the 10x mindset unconsciously, then realizing that the three solid reviews I got in time to release the product were the result of having given out 20+ review copies and if I'd given out the half a dozen I'd started with I would have been lucky to have any reviews!
This past weekend Marlon sent out another email with a challenge that meshed nicely with the 10x factor. The challenge was to implement two time blocks a day for 7 days, one for producing and one for promoting. I took him up on his challenge and set aside two blocks each day.
Again, time blocking is something I'd heard from Paul Evans and Derrick Franklin, but hadn't thought to label them with core activities. (Thanks for that prompting Marlon! You really are the best at breaking marketing down into simple pieces.)
From all of this, I created a cool product called WP Instant Minisite. It released on Tuesday, and is already in the black and poised to pay a nice return.
Lessons (Re)Learned This Month
Basically, it's the same few lessons repeated on different scales: trust, set an intention, take massive action, get feedback often, iterate quickly.
How are you going to apply these this week?
Leave a comment and leverage that public declaration!
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Having done a lot of soul searching and self-discovery over the years, I've come to recognize that I'm externally motivated and externally validated. Needing other people to get jazzed and to confirm straight thinking means the best way to kick-start yourself is to make sure you're reaching out and connecting with other people.
Here's the formula and a little explanation:
This is a tested and proven formula that has been used by myself and others to get more things done than would have happened otherwise.
As a business mentor, my friend and some time business partner, Donna Fox has used this with spectacular results -- for herself and for those being mentored. She uses a daily meeting of about 5 minutes with these components. Check out her accountability blog post for the details of how she uses this formula.
In a productivity setting, my friend and fellow NLP Trainer, Stever Robbins has guided many groups through an hourly-check-in-for-a-day version of this same formula in what he calls Action Days.
The same components are there to some degree in both of these protocols: far, past, near, feeling -- and they both generate more action than not employing these components.
Here's the breakdown on what each piece is and how it helps:
There you go -- a formula for getting a lot more done with a little accountability.
How have you noticed these pieces as a part of your accountability?
When have you successfully used accountability to drive your own actions?
Share below.
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Last week I developed an internal editorial calendar and, thankfully, it was prompted by a desire to be more intentional in expressing gratitude. What specifically prompted it was connecting with @TimBerry on twitter.
Tim is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software who makes the best business planning software I've ever seen. So what does that have to do with gratitude? I've gotten two great gifts from Tim over the last few years: a copy of Business Plan Pro and an hour of his time, both in connection with the McCloskey business plan competition.
Not only can I recommend the company's software, but I highly recommend connecting with Tim as he is articulate, experienced, and an all around nice guy -- especially when it comes to business topics.
And as I continue to practice my gratitude, we can all thank Tim for the inspiration -- unintentional or not!
Who are you grateful to today? Share below in the comments.
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The punchline:
Here is the list of folks from the video -- these are ones I listen to (and think you should too):
(And yes, I've gotten value from every one of the above links -- that's why I value and trust these folks!)
What do you take away from my top search rankings shown in the video? Comment below.
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The new features include a config option for setting the cookie duration (default is 30 days) and integration with Contact Form 7 to allow pre-filling text and email fields based on cookied values. I'm considering the same feature for hidden fields, but I ran out of steam just getting the visible fields to work properly.
In case you missed the significance, you can use CM+ to pre-fill people's name and email address in contact forms so you can pass them from, say, a squeeze page to a survey page. CF7 has lots of flexibility in configuring forms and can be easily setup for surveys. When combined with the Contact Form 7 to Database Extension you can get something akin to the Ask Database survey functionality but self contained within WordPress.
CM+ 1.3.6 added CF7 shortcodes text+, text*+, email+, and email*+ to pull values from cookies or other parameter string values. They behave just like the non-plus versions, they just check the cookies and parameter string for default values to pre-fill the form.
As always, feel compelled to download CookieMonster-plus and sign up for my plugin announcement list below.
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Meanwhile, in news of bills that a lot of people seem to really hate, let's talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working on a new anti-piracy bill as an alternative to SOPA and its Senate cousin, the Protect IP Act, says Hillicon Valley. Instead of calling on Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and internet service providers to track down and "de-index" sites accused of trafficking in pirated material, the bill would rely on the International Trade Commission to issue cease-and-desist orders against the ITC finds to be engaged in copyright infringement.
Once issued the court order would compel payment providers and online advertising services to cease providing services to the offending website. The approach comports with current copyright law and hews to the "follow the money" approach favored by Google and other tech companies.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is said to be among the group crafting the legislation. That's important because he's already said he'd filibuster the Protect IP Act right out of existence if it ever makes it to the floor.


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Culture and Politics - Creative Control of the Reformation
Written by Douglas Wilson
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the phrase black swan in the title of his fine book The Black Swan. A black swan event is a surprise, it has a major impact, and there will be those (after the fact) who claimed they saw it coming. But in actuality, virtually no one saw it coming because these things are extremely difficult to predict. But after they happen, they seem so obviously inevitable. Take a daily feature of everyone's life now -- the development of the Internet. There it is, a black swan.
In fact, any historical event, once it occurs, however unlikely, can be shown to be inevitable by any competent historian. But reading the clues before it all happens is a different matter.
Christians understand the resurrection of Jesus was the black swan of all history
-- it was a surprise to everyone, it has transformed the world, and modern Christians like to tsk at the twelve disciples for hiding in the upper room instead of being out by the Lord's grave, looking expectantly at their watches. Jesus had told them plainly beforehand what He was going to do, and then after the fact, He showed them again -- going through all the Scriptures -- how these things had to happen. It is so plain to us . . . now that it has happened.
But the resurrection was not a one-off event -- it was more like a theme. And so, as Chesterton observed once, Christianity has died often, but it has not even slowed us down. This is because we serve a God who knows the way out of the grave.
But however many times it happens, the result is always the same -- total surprise, a major impact, and then a short period of time where we all adjust, learning to take it all for granted. As any apt student of church history should be able to tell you, reformations and revivals are quintessential black swan events.
"But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead" (2 Cor. 1:9):
When it comes to revivals, the reason why it comes as such a surprise to us is simple. God -- in order to keep the glory where it needs to be kept -- makes sure that we are in such a bad way, in such a condition of death and hopelessness, that nobody expects a resurrection. Resurrections are a key ingredient in what might be called one of God's favorite events -- the surprise party.
In fact, this element of surprise is so key, I would be inclined to argue that if someone genuinely (and accurately) expects it to happen, this should be taken as evidence that it is already starting to happen. He may not see the valley flooded, but he does see cracks in the dam, and an abnormal amount of water coming through. Some people call it five minutes beforehand, just not five years.
Why does God let things get into a horrible condition before He rises up and acts? The text above tells us why He did that to the apostle Paul. It was so that they would not trust in themselves. Now if there is any group of Christians who need to be taught not to trust in themselves, but in God who raises the dead, that group would be American evangelicals. For us, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" is a Christian school slogan for our track teams' t-shirts. Paul was talking there (Phil. 4:13) about this profound death and resurrection cycle in his life, while we tend to think it is about jumping higher, running faster, hanging with cute girls afterwards, and all with whiter teeth.
There are of course a number of situations where a "can do" spirit is admirable, but we don't really need to be reminded of those occasions. There are other places -- like the boneyard -- where such a mentality is plainly demented. We need our preachers to stop telling the skeletons to develp a positive mental attitude.
So is this why our country is coming apart in our hands? Is this why popular entertainment is so corrupt? Is this why our justices despise the gift of life? Is this why our laws cannot make out the reason God gave us boys and girls? Is this why Congress does not understand the concept of red ink? Yes -- so that we would stop trusting in ourselves.
Is this why our fathers devise various means to run out on their families? Is this why wives are terminally disrespectful to them, doing what they can to chase them out early? Is this why our children are so sullen and unhappy? Yes -- so that we would stop trusting in ourselves.
Is this why our seminaries do their level best to train sexless capons for future ministry? Is this why pulpits are treated as bunkers to hide in, instead of cockpits to fight from? Is this why we call theologians conservative if they condescend to believe most of the Bible? Yes -- so that we would stop trusting in ourselves.
All hope is lost? Good. That means the conditions for a black swan revival are improving by the day. The stone cold deader we get, the more God is hastening the day. Nothing is dying but what needs to die. Let it go, and let the black swan surprise you.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans here has named Robert G. Miller, chief executive officer of Albertsons LLC, as its 2012 Horatio Alger Award winner.
The award is given to individuals "whose courage and determination allowed them to overcome the challenges they faced early in their lives and achieve success in their fields," the association said in a statement.
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The first phase of the London 2012 marketing begins with the BBC's Torch Relay campaign which will launch on 1 May, created by RKCR / Y&R. Using animation, the creative idea is based on the graphic motif of the torch itself and the 8000 holes in the design that represents each individual torchbearer. The trail opens on the DNA of the Olympic Flame and then pulls out to reveal the beautiful golden Olympic Torch, created in graphical dots. These dots begin to make up landscapes and characters. We see animated runners holding the torch and crowds coming together in celebration. As it reaches the end of the trail it pulls out to reveal the torch's journey and the celebrations taking place across the United Kingdom. Elements from the animation will also be used in the title sequences for the BBC Torch specials, the One Show special titles and Blue Peter. Images from the campaign will also be used online on the BBC Torch pages.
The campaign starts with a 60 second launch trail running across BBC One and BBC Three, and will then move into a 40 second appointment to view trail for the One Show special on 18 May.
The Torch campaign will be the first time audiences will hear the specially commissioned Elbow track "First Steps" that the BBC and RKCR / Y&R are using for its theme tune for the Olympics. The version used on the Torch campaign is a taster for the full track which will be launched for the Games times marketing campaign and Olympic title sequences also created by RKCR / Y&R.
'Like the Olympic Torch itself we wanted to capture the spirit of the Olympics as simply and as beautiful as possible, by bringing to life the emotion and symbolism of the Olympic Flame' – Jules Chalkley and Nick Simons, RKCR


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Cubs bolster pen after trade with Pirates
Locked in a tight race atop the NL Central, the Cubs sent right-handers Kevin Hart and Jose Ascanio and minor league infielder Josh Harrison to Pittsburgh for Grabow and lefty Tom Gorzelanny.
Grabow, a top situational lefty, is 3-0 with a 3.42 ERA in 45 appearances. He can become a free agent after the season and probably wouldn�t have re-signed with the Pirates.
�John Grabow is pretty darn good. It got to the point where we weren�t going to get John Grabow without Kevin in the deal,� Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said.
Gorzelanny, who was 14-10 with a 3.88 ERA for Pittsburgh in 2007, has spent most of this year at Triple-A Indianapolis.
The 26-year-old Hart was traded minutes after pitching Chicago to a 12-3 victory over Houston on Thursday. He is 3-1 with a 2.60 ERA in eight games, including four starts.
�This package was a great return for what we gave up,� Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said.
Hart found out after his third straight win that he wouldn�t be boarding a flight with the Cubs to Florida. Instead, he was headed to a new team�still wearing a Cubs sweat shirt.
�It�s a little weird,� Hart said. �You know it�s part of the business. It�s always a possibility it�s going to happen.�
Hendry said Grabow will complement fellow lefty Sean Marshall in the bullpen, giving the Cubs more flexibility.
�To get another lefty of that caliber is essential,� Hendry said.
Gorzelanny, from the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park, will remain in Triple-A for the time being, Hendry said. The Cubs are encouraged that Gorzelanny is back on track and hope he will return to the form he showed two years ago.
Huntington said there was an �uneasy feeling� about trading Gorzelanny within the division.
�He�s made some nice adjustments. He�s more aggressive in the strike zone, he�s using the fastball better than last year for sure,� Huntington said. �But what counted for us is the three players we�re getting in return. We like the return, the ability for them to play and pitch for us for a long time.�
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Hart has made four starts this season and also pitched out of the bullpen while splitting time between Triple-A and the majors.
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that addresses a whole host of issues. The patch is for PC only and fixes some items for both the game and the DLC. Now, if you don't have the
installed and plan on doing so, install that first and then the DLC. If you plan on installing
later, you'll have to re-install the 1.04 patch. The order would be install original game, DLC, and then this patch. The patch is a svelte 90MB download for those that are interested and the list of fixes are listed after the jump.
General Fixes
On the PC, sometimes an achievement image and message would not display properly. This has been fixed.
Fixed some authorization issues with downloadable content
Blood talents from the Grey Warden Base premium downloadable content now work properly in other modules.
Installing new downloadable content no longer leaves the ôOther Campaigns selection grayed-out.
Multiple transitions in and out of Fade areas were multiplying the number of visual effects running, which slowed down gameplay. This no longer occurs.
Fixed pick-pocketing. Characters were successfully stealing, but not receiving any items.
Floating numbers no longer appear over the player's head.
Damage statistics are now being updated properly on the Inventory screen when weapons are unequipped.
Names with accents and special characters now show up correctly in the "Story So Far" load hints.
Switching between Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening no longer resets options to default settings.
Selling too many items to the same merchant no longer corrupts the save files.
Screenshots were being uploaded automatically on the PC by default on new installations. This no longer happens.
Importing a character to a new module from a save game that did not have the hero in the party caused the game to crash. This is fixed.
Imported characters to Dragon Age: Awakening now start the game with equipment and clothing on.
A number of memory leaks have been fixed, which will reduce the frequency of crashes.
Audio drivers have been updated to fix a number of audio-related crashes.
Fixed a number of issues with portraits not being uploaded correctly to the BioWare social site.
Dragon Age: Origins Fixes
Fixed an issue with the wrong characters appearing in Morrigan's ritual.
Players who rescued their party members in the Fade of the Broken Circle plot are no longer forced to fight the sloth demon alone.
It is no longer possible for the player to get blocked during gameplay by pursuing both candidates' quests in the Orzammar plot line.
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Fixes
Fixed a variety of bugs related to party members' approval and personal quests not triggering.
Lillith will now only thank the player once at Vigil's Keep after being rescued.
During the Assault on Amaranthine, a bug would occasionally make some enemies invincible, which impeded game progress. This no longer happens.
Players may now receive notes of appreciation from former love interests.
Masterpiece and paragon silverite runes are now weapon runes instead of armor runes.
The masterpiece slow rune is now available for purchase from merchant stores.
Imported rogue characters now properly detect traps.
The message, "Legacy tattoo asset do not use!" no longer appears on the face of some imported characters.
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Completion of a minimum of 240 hours of a practicum in clinical trials is required for the degree. The practicum usually begins near completion of formal coursework. The student is required to meet with the program director or assistant director to receive practicum approval before he/she begins.
The goal of the practicum direct experience component is to provide the student hands-on exposure to clinical research. The student will work with a mentor and will be actively involved in the development, execution, and evaluation of a clinical research project. During the practicum, it is expected that the student will be exposed to clinical research planning, protocol preparation, interaction with Institutional Review Boards, regulatory requirements, selection of subjects/patients for the clinical trial, study monitoring, and data analysis.
The practicum may be completed with a mentor who is actively conducting clinical research studies within a clinical research or hospital setting. It may also be performed under the direction of a clinical research professional within a drug, device, or biotechnology company, a clinical research organization (CRO), or site management organization (SMO) actively involved in clinical trials. Areas within Boston University School of Medicine that may offer practicum opportunities include Dermatology, Cardiology, Pulmonary, Psychiatry, the General Clinical Research Center and the Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
**It is the responsibility of the student to identify/select a practicum site. The Assistant Director will assist in this process, but it is ultimately the student's responsibility to ensure that a practicum mentor and site is selected on a timely basis.
At the completion of the practicum, the student will write a one to three page summary of activities accomplished during the practicum. This description will be reviewed by the mentor, signed that both agree that the practicum was successfully completed, and then submitted to the MSCI Assistant Director as documentation of objectives achieved.
Credits for Practicum
Students may earn up to 4 credits for the practicum experience; 2 credits/semester. In order to earn credits the practicum component must be a voluntary endeavor. Students who work in clinical research can satisfy the practicum component through their job however, they may not earn credits.


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A list of newly released paperbacks.
"Dark Voyage" by Alan Furst (Random House, $13.95). From a writer of historical suspense novels at the height of his powers, Furst, a former Seattle resident, takes readers out to sea during World War II, where a Dutch freighter has been sent on a secret, anti-Nazi mission by Dutch government operatives and the British navy.
"Birds Without Wings" by Louis de Bernières (Vintage, $15). The author of "Corelli's Mandolin" returns with what reviewer Deloris Tarzan Ament called "a novel of epic proportions" that offers an intimate view of sweeping change in a Turkish hill town during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
"Resistance" by Barry Lopez (Vintage, $12). National Book Award recipient ("Arctic Dreams") and Oregon resident Lopez pens nine fictional narratives by dissident expatriates — writers, artists, activists and translators — who are summoned by the Office of Inland Security for "terrorizing the imaginations" of their fellow citizens.
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- Anthony Bourdain brought 'Parts Unknown' to Seattle — here's where he ate
- Residents fight Seattle rules allowing apartment developers to forgo parking
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- Cleveland Browns waive Kasen Williams, could a return to Seahawks be in the offing?
- UW's Azeem Victor suspended indefinitely after arrest
"Cruisers" by Craig Nova (Vintage, $14). Nova returns to his 1980s top form with this story set in Vermont that explores the intersecting lives of a state trooper, at odds with his girlfriend about his dangerous line of work, and a computer repairman with deep-seated issues stemming from the murder of his mother when he was 12. "It's a novel as visceral and noirish and, yes, symphonic as any he's written since the 1980s," Michael Upchurch wrote.
"D.B." by Elwood Reid (Anchor, $14.95). Reid spins a work of fiction from the unsolved mystery of real-life hijacker D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 commandeered a Boeing 727 flying from Portland to Seattle and then disappeared during the getaway flight. In Reid's take, Cooper is Phil Fitch, a disgruntled Vietnam vet who escapes the plane and flees to Mexico, where he becomes a drifter. A frustrated FBI agent tails him. More meditation than thriller, said reviewer Mark Lindquist.
"The Queen of the South" by Arturo Pèrez-Reverte (Plume, $14). Pèrez-Reverte ("The Fencing Master") sends his heroine Teresa Mendoza, the girlfriend of a Mexican druglord, on a thrilling and scary odyssey into the international underworld.
"Port Mungo" by Patrick McGrath (Vintage $13). McGrath ("Asylum," "Spider") takes readers to a river town on the Gulf of Honduras, where a British artist and his American artist lover retreat so he can create masterpieces. Instead, the couple descends into debauchery and psychological disarray. Unlikable characters and a foregone ending might leave some disappointed in this McGrath outing, said reviewer Ellen Emry Heltzle.
"The Pacific and Other Stories" by Mark Helprin (Penguin, $15). In stores Tuesday: sixteen stories ranging in setting from Seattle to New York, Israel, Italy, France and beyond. John Freeman noted how the collection "opens with pieces in an almost classical mode and then cycles from fabulist yarn spinning to roman á clef style intimacies."
"Osprey Island" by Thisbe Nissen (Anchor Books, $13). A satisfying read from a technically gifted writer, this story focuses on a New England resort in the summer of 1988 that, for several reasons, is not having a great high season.
"A Good Year" by Peter Mayle (Vintage, $13). In his fifth novel, travelogue writer Mayle whips up a charming soufflé set in his beloved Provence. The novel's hero is a London banker who inherits — what else? — a vineyard in Provence. Wine and intrigue ensue. "A delightful divertissement," raved Robert Allen Papinchak.
"Cannabis: A History" by Martin Booth (Picador, $15). Just this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws allowing people to use marijuana for medical reasons don't protect users from federal laws banning the drug. Booth, who died of cancer last year, lays out a historical analysis that suggests, "in a rational world, cultivation of the hemp plant would not only be decriminalized but prized," according to reviewer Deloris Tarzan Ament.
"I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick" by Emmanuel Carrère (Picador, $15). The French writer Carrère paints a psychological portrait of the science-fiction cult icon who brought us "Minority Report" and "Total Recall."
"Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II" by Robert Kurson (Random House, $14.95). Weekend scuba divers Richie Kohler and John Chatterton pushed themselves to the limit exploring deep-water shipwrecks, but their discovery of an undocumented German submarine in 230 feet of water off the coast of New Jersey in 1991 widens into a perilous quest to piece together the U-boat's past.
"On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense" by David Brooks (Simon & Schuster, $14). New York Times Op-Ed columnist and frequent public-radio commentator Brooks takes readers on a fun, metaphorical drive through the new American suburbia, one filled with as many fine restaurants as Olive Gardens, and as many hopeful immigrants as SUV-driving corporate climbers.
"One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner" by Jay Parini (Harper Perennial, $15.95). Using new material, including letters and interviews, Parini reassesses the troubled life and extraordinary talent of one of the South's most piercing novelists. "Parini's biography is not only readable but downright enthralling," reviewer Clarence Brown said.
"Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil" by David Goodstein (Norton, $13.95). Something to think about next time you fill up: Goodstein, a California Institute of Technology physics professor, says civilization itself will be at stake if the world's fossil-fuel supply runs dry before societies figure out how to function without it. With a new postscript by the author.
"A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan" by Christiane Bird (Random House, $14.95). Bird, a journalist, spent three months traveling through Kurdish regions in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran in 2002, collecting varied and insightful notes on what it means to be an oppressed people, what it means to be a people without a state and, finally, what it means to be a "people." With a new afterword by the author.
"The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues" edited by Wendy Lesser (Anchor Books, $13.95). Amy Tan, Luc Sante, Bharati Mukherjee, Ariel Dorfman and other multilingual contributors offer original essays on how a native language shapes the speaker.
"The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West" by Joel Achenbach (Simon & Schuster, $14). Achenbach's lively portrait of the nation's first president shows him as a visionary general after the War of Independence who dreamed of holding his fractious new nation together by turning the Potomac River into a unifying commercial corridor linking the settled East Coast with the frontier Ohio River valley.
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1. RAD #70, 2. artist balls detail, 3. Bracelet 2.4 (2007, IT) The Cellar Locker Bracelet (iron), 4. Stress Ball.., 5. Stress 1, 6. Spinning Stress Ring - 3, 7. String Theory Ring 1 (RAD 84), 8. Maria Fomich, 9. Stress - detailAs I get closer to moving from the city I grew up in (Los Angeles) to a new town that I'm admittedly not very familiar with (Richmond, Virginia), I'm feeling the stress a little more each day. Where will I live? How will I adapt to new temperatures and landscapes? What am I thinking???
Images found through a search for "stress" on Flickr.
The reasons why I decided to move at the age of 55 are all still valid. I want a larger living space/studio and real estate prices in Los Angeles are prohibitive, I've been craving a change of scene since the turn of the millenium, and a I have a burning desire to shake up my complacency to see where it leads.
But those reasons don't make the reality of my move and all that it will entail any easier to deal with. Cousins. Cousins will make the move easier. And I'll see them in April when I go out for a test run of the Visual Arts Center where I hope to start teaching full time next fall. But for now, I'm feeling a little flummoxed with all the terrors of moving myself, my car, my belongs, and mostly the kitties. I'm overwhelmed at the thought of leaving the wonderful metal clay community and teaching venues that I built from scratch over the past ten years. But at the same time, I'm looking forward to all the wonderful opportunities that I'm about to encounter. Just waiting for the anticipation to blossom into reality.


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as most of you probably noticed already, we published a point release, 1.4.1. the tarball is here:
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this is just a point release, so not really any new features. detailed release notes are as follows:
- export: consistent names for output formats
- export to disk: overwrite file option
- grain plugin now allows smaller coarseness and will display coarseness values half of what they used to be, this is merely a cosmetic change, your images are unaffected.
- some masks related fixes
- some lua related fixes
- tiff writer (32bit float, little endian output, configurable compression)
- tiff reader
- subtly nicer scrollbar behavior
- theme loading cornercase fixups
- shadow & highlight module improvements (should be less prone to artifacts when used on new images)
- allow importing more than 1 style at a time
- regression was fixed when building darktable against bleeding edge glibc
- Sony A77V enhanced color matrix
- Nikon D5100 updated white balance presets
- Nikon 1 V2 noise profile (and by extension J3/AW1)
- Nikon 1 J1 noise profile (and by extension V1/J2/S1)
- Pentax K3 noise profile
- experimental support for Panasonic DMC-LF1 (we still need samples for the nonstandard aspect ratios)
- experimental support for SONY DSC-RX100M2
- experimental support for SONY NEX-3N
- still no Nikon D5300/D3300 support, we're still looking into that.
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I am not a Dell Employee
Dell forum member since 2002
Inspiron 15 - 5577 Laptop
Home Built Desktop PC with ASUS Z170, i7 6700K CPU, Windows 10 64 bit Pro. SSD drive. Sonar Platinum Recordng Studio Software.
Dell SE2717HR 27" Monitor
Member of Nashville based R.O.P.E.
Has anybody out there found a solution to this problem? I've had my E510 for six years now. Replaced the PSU a few years back when it went out and this identical problem just came up.
I put in 4 new-to-me sticks of RAM, basically 2 matched pairs of 2x1GB for a total of 4GB and they have been working just fine for two months now.... until I started getting the 1 and 4 diagnostic lights with the boot screen coming up at about 10% on the bar. Just today, the 3 and 4 lights came on with the drive/disk icon lit up as well.
Everything I've read in the forums points to the motherboard. Is there a way to test it without pulling the mobo?
Any help would be appreciated.
The only sure way to "test" the motherboard is to replace it with a known good one. Where is it failing? At POST (Power On Self Test) or when it's trying to load Windows? If it's at the POST then there is no way to test anything. If it's failing when loading Windows then you can run the Dell diagnostics (F12 at POST to access the diagnostics) and see if anything turns up.
Thanks for the response fireberd.
It has been failing at POST, I was able however on one attempt last night to boot up Windows XP, I ran the Dell Diagnostic test at F12 but it seems to only allow the option of diagnosing the hard drives not the entire system.
I was able to look through Device manager in the Control Panel and nothing showed up with yellow flags there.
System ran for about half an hour before blue screen crash with NAVEX15.sys showed up.
I was able to run a diagnostic scan with Norton Antivirus 360 and nothing showed up as faulty.
Also ran a scan of memory sticks and processor with a program called Hot CPU Tester hot-cpu-tester.en.softonic.com which showed everything working normally.
This morning, tried booting up and I can only get to the Dell boot up screen showing the BIOS status bar stuck at 10% once again with the 3 and 4 diagnostic lights on.
I don't have access to a "good" motherboard right now, I'm looking however at option of buying a matching cheap used motherboard off Craigslist or ebay to get me by for now, or just outright purchasing a new computer instead of getting nickel and dimed to death with a five year old computer that is bound to die soon anyway.
The E510 is a BTX style - most motherboards are ATX and will not fit/work. Also, you need another 5150/E510 motherboard due to the Dell proprietary (and undocumented) front panel connection (which can vary from model to model). If the one on Craigslist is for this model then it will fit (whether it's really good or not is another issue coming from Craigs list).
A little update here... I removed all four sticks of RAM and then powered up the system....it gave me that beeping noise so I assumed the mobo was not the only culprit here. I then proceeded to boot up with one stick at a time.
Was able through the process of elimination to detect one faulty stick of RAM out of the four.
When that one stick was added the BIOS screen would show up and the meter would not progress beyond about 90% when it was added with other good sticks of RAM.
For now at least, the system is up and running. I'm still unsure of why I was getting 1 and 4 lit up before and then 3 and 4 after a few days of unsuccessful efforts.
Plan for now is to save up and replace this aging beast as soon as possible.
Thanks again for the helpful feedback.
I work on pcs and macs for fun and I ran into the same problem you have on one of my church members pc. After hours of looking for solutions and nothing solving the problem, I removed the 1st and 2nd ram slots and it booted right up. I believe an upgrade of ram was made with an increase higher than the motherboard could handle. It had been working with 2048 but ceased to function until it was using 1024 again. I hope this helps