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Ed: Please see my next post for the PTR changes of 6/16/11.
There has been a conflict brewing in the Arena community over the last few weeks over an upcoming change to the way Conquest Points will be awarded starting in 4.2. From the PTR notes:
The game now separately tracks different Conquest Point caps for Battlegrounds and Arenas. The cap for Arena rating will always be 2/3 of the cap for Battleground rating at any given Arena rating. Players may earn a total number of Conquest Points per week equal to the higher of these two caps, but once players have reached the cap for either Arenas or Battlegrounds, they can no longer earn Conquest Points from that source. Conquest Points from Battleground holidays only count toward the total Conquest Point cap.
This is a somewhat confusingly-worded note, but the intent is that there will be a fundamental change in the way Conquest Points are earned. The only way to reach the weekly Conquest Point cap will be through doing Rated Battlegrounds, not Arenas. You can get 2/3rds of your weekly CP through Arenas, then the remainder have to come from Rated Battlegrounds.
If you want to be competitive in higher-end PvP, you must play Rated Battlegrounds in 4.2. That's the intent behind this change. All rated PvP is not equal. Zarhym writes:
So, as many of you are interpreting this change, it is to encourage more participation in Rated Battlegrounds. We see the fact that participating in Arenas is by far the superior way of obtaining top-notch PvP gear, in terms of time investment, as a problem. If you want to maximize your Conquest Point gains in patch 4.2, you'll need to participate at least a little bit in Rated Battlegrounds.
We know this may not sound very appealing to those of you who have grown accustomed to spending as little as an hour a week getting the top PvP currency in the game via Arenas over the last couple of expansions. To put things in perspective though, the total number of items that can be purchased with Conquest Points today is much larger than what you used to be able to buy with Arena Points pre-Deathwing world explosion. And there is no longer a requirement to "grind" unrated BGs for Honor each season, so the real time investment isn't changing as much as some players are perceiving it to be.
On top of that, the frank reality is that the total time investment required in season 9 to get all your points has been much, much too low, as you could do that from a few 2v2 Arena games each week completed in less than an hour's time. It shows that Rated Battlegrounds are currently sub-par in terms of the rate at which points can be accumulated.
We do feel this change is necessary to keep the time investment vs. high-quality item accumulation in check, even if it doesn't read well on paper. However, as always, your constructive feedback is welcomed. 🙂
This is an interesting response, because there are two reasons given for why this change is being made, not one.
- First, to encourage participation in Rated Battlegrounds.
- Second, to require more time playing to get high-end PvP gear.
The first one is obvious, but what's interesting is that it's not the focus of Zarhym's post. Of course this is being done to motivate players into playing Rated Battlegrounds. But why? After the first sentence, it's not mentioned again and the entire response is about the problem of time investment versus gear acquisition.
Doesn't this strike anyone else as being a little odd? Give one reason, then talk about another one that's not really related to the first?
Let's say that the problem is that Conquest PvP gear is too easy to get – a problem that I'm not sure is a real problem, but I can accept it for now. It's not even that it's too easy, it's that it doesn't take enough time each week if you do Arenas. Put the problem another way: too many Conquest Points are awarded per hour in Arenas.
Okay! That's a solvable problem!
When we've seen similar problems with Battlegrounds and Honor Points in the past, you know what Blizzard has done? They adjust the rate of points gained in a battleground. This is not rocket science – we've had several Honor Point adjustments when developers felt that it took too much time to gear up via Battlegrounds versus Heroics (patches 3.3.3 and 4.1 most recently, if my memory serves me correctly.)
The logical response to Arenas giving too many Conquest Points per hour is to reduce the number of CP awarded per match, not to send players into a different activity. I've seen many good, creative suggestions about how to handle this on the official forums and Arena Junkies. Any of a number of solutions could be implemented to increase the time per piece. In fact, Blizzard has already done this once before in Cataclysm, normalizing the CP per Arena win in 4.1 so it took at least 7-8 victories, regardless of bracket, to reach the minimum cap instead of 5.
First I'm asked to believe that the graveyard changes of 4.1 were an anti-camping measure, and now I'm being asked to believe that these changes are to solve the problem of Arenas awarding too many Conquest Points per hour?
I… I actually feel kinda insulted by this post. I never thought I'd say that about a Blizzard blue post, but … there it is. I know I'm supposed to take a page from the Vulcans on just about everything, but… really? Really?
You really expect me to believe this is about CP/hour?
I think there are numerous problems affecting Rated Battlegrounds right now. These problems drive players to disproportionately avoid rBGs and favor Arenas, which in turn causes problems since Blizzard must justify the development cost of Rated Battlegrounds. My hunch is that, much like in Tol Barad, Blizzard feels that the solution to these problems is one of scale, not design, and that by adding more people the problems will resolve themselves.
They might even be right.
Gevlon describes the underlying problem with Rated Battlegrounds when he writes:
Rated games have about 50% win rate. A bit more when you are underrated and a bit less when overrated, but after you reached your "real" rating, it's 50%.
If you played rated BGs, you know it's absolutely not true.
The objective of rated play is to determine ratings. That sounds silly to say, but I think it's important to come out and say it. It's not about being "better" or "harder" – it's about putting quantitative measurements on people's play, which in turn can elevate the level play with good matching. Ultimately, though, it's all about assigning numbers.
In theory, every team (and player within that team) has a equilibrium that they're moving towards, a rating that represents their true ability demonstrated over time. Players should converge on their real rating as they play, and – in theory – they should have a roughly even chance of winning against someone with the same rating. Through the crucible of rated play, your team's measure is taken.
When it works, ratings can be a hugely compelling incentive towards playing Arena because they guarantee that you'll win some of the time. You can pick up a new partner and after a few hours of play your rating will settle to that point of equilibrium. Once you're through that initial period – and it's often surprisingly fast – things will settle down and you'll start winning about half of the time.
This is not the situation in Rated Battlegrounds. Team MMRs – the measurement of the overall team's ability – are often wildly mismatched. And I'm not talking about 100-200 points difference – we're talking 1000-1500 points variance. That's just ridiculously unfair matching.
If we assume that the same matching programs are in use between Arenas and rBGs, then the problem isn't that there's buggy code – it's that the finder slowly relaxes its standards until it finds a suitable match. Let that sink in for a minute. Assuming that it's working correctly, the hugely imbalanced match was the best match it could find.
Which, in turn, means that there aren't enough teams in the system, period.
At best, there are clusters of teams in the queue, grouped around certain rating points. At worst, the queue is empty enough that the clusters don't exist, and it's all about finding any match.
I expect that the truth is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes – the few teams that survive the initial beatdown get established, allowing them to rise a bit, which in turn lets them win against the hapless newbies. It's a vicious cycle where the strong thrive and the weak are pushed out, causing fair competition to cease at the lower skill levels. (Oh, hi, Warsong Gulch 10-19 bracket before the twinks left. It's nice to see you again.)
Cross-battlegroup queues was the first step towards solving this problem. Making same-faction matches possible was the next step towards solving this problem, as it effectively doubles the size of the matchmaking pool. Requiring Rated Battlegrounds to cap Conquest Points is a logical step in this progression.
As long as Rated Battlegrounds require a full raid group to enter the queue, this problem will bedevil the system. Twink battlegrounds have similar problems with population, but can draw from individuals queueing in addition to guild groups. Arena 2s and 3s will enjoy fairer matching (and more accurate ratings) than 5s or rBGs due to larger populations to draw from, which in turn is due to the relative ease of coordinating smaller groups.
Much like Tol Barad, Blizzard needs to do something to get people to play Rated Battlegrounds. If the problems are not simply technical, but rather one of scale and player distribution, then driving PvPers into rBGs is the logical solution.
Much like awarding 1800 Honor to the attackers for a victory in Tol Barad, I expect that this will work… in much the same way, sadly.
I think we'll look back fondly on the problems we had with Tol Barad during the first few months of Cataclysm, because this change to Arenas is going to make the TB debacle look like child's play.
I confess, I was nervous when Rated Battlegrounds were announced as part of Cataclysm. The idea sounded all well and good, but the devil is in the details of implementation. How would ratings be assigned? How would losses be handled? What would this mean for the current setup? I had dozens of questions without any answers.
– "Preparing for Rated Battlegrounds," June 2010
I wrote that a year ago. Let's take a look at some of the problems Rated Battlegrounds have had since launch.
- Having both 10-man and 15-man rBGs proved to be very difficult to staff for, causing 15s to be underplayed.
- 15s were cut to drive players into 10s, which removed half of the battlegrounds from rated play. This left only two types of games – Capture the Flag and Resource/Node Control – on 3 maps. (10-man Arathi Basin was added later to compensate.)
- Compositions which dominated these two games – especially the 4-healer/1-tank teams in CTF – caused a very defensive type of game, necessitating major changes to all rated maps, which in turn affected non-rated play.
- Wins were often not recorded properly, sometimes causing teams to lose MMR for a victory. Can you imagine going through the effort of putting together a 10-man raid, downing a boss, and getting penalized for it?
On top of that:
- Due to a lack of players, inexperienced teams will usually find themselves facing far superior opponents. This demoralizes the new players while boring the experienced ones.
The devil is in the details. Any one of these problems might not be enough to cause a mass exodus from rBGs, but over time, they've whittled down people's desire to play them. Looking at the list above, as well as the cross-battlegroup and inter-faction changes designed to bring more people in to Rated Battlegrounds, paints a rather gloomy picture of this part of PvP.
In Tol Barad, Blizzard used a carrot to get people to fix the problem of people not playing it anymore. By offering massive Honor Point rewards for winning on offense, they caused rational win-trading by masses of their playerbase, completely undermining the zone. They made 2 more changes to the reward structure before finally implementing the solution that actually "fixed" Tol Barad – change the game mechanics to allow for an easier final base cap.
The carrot got people back into Tol Barad, but it didn't solve the problem.
It backfired pretty badly, to be honest. I'd be shy of offering carrots after that week, too.
So, instead of a carrot to draw people in to Rated Battlegrounds, Blizzard now offers us a stick. And make no mistake about it – this is a stick. If you don't do Rated Battlegrounds, you will fall behind in Arenas. Instead of offering better rewards from rBGs – or poorer rewards from Arenas, which works out to the same thing – we get an ultimatum. Instead of making Rated Battlegrounds more fun than Arenas, we get handed a chore that must be done.
You will do Rated Battlegrounds if you want to cap Conquest Points each week.
Tol Barad has more incentives to play than Wintergrasp, but players are less enthusiastic about it. Rated Battlegrounds have more rewards than Arenas and normal battlegrounds, but participation is low. Conquest Gear is too easy to get, while Honor Gear is too hard.
What the hell is going on with PvP in Cataclysm, anyways?
It's so strange to be writing about the problems with Rated Battlegrounds when, for me personally, Season 9 has been a blast. I have had so much fun screwing around in Arenas it's not even funny. This is, admittedly, a very personal perspective – we finally have enough folks interested in Arenas in my guild that we have a definite PvP subculture growing. Some weeks are bad, but most are good, and the time spent in the Arena has been rewarding on a lot of levels.
I still think a lot about my motivations that led me to write Replay Value, and why it is I'd rather PvP than raid. Arenas play a large part of that right now; it's more appealing to me, with a somewhat fractured schedule, to know that I can bang out my weekly cap in a night or two of play, no matter the comp I choose to go with. I hang out with my friends, we have fun, we win some, we lose some, we have fun. Bring the player, not the class, right?
All of these little carrots that Blizzard manipulates in-game help us justify our specific choice of activity – in-game. They guide us towards certain things that we want. If we want to be a respected PvPer, we'll probably want a PvP title, so we'll work towards it. Perhaps we want a cool mount to show off our raiding skills, or a title that shows how much we like Fishing.
But there are bigger carrots out there, motivations that have nothing to do with in-game bling.
- Am I having fun?
- Am I enjoying spending time with the people I interact with?
- Do I have a sense of accomplishment for the work that I've done?
Sure, the loot is nice. Shiny purples make you feel like, damn, I done good. Having a character with accomplishments makes you feel better.
But what happens when something in game simply isn't fun for people?
This is the biggest carrot of all that a game, any game, can offer – this is more fun than the other things you could be doing right now. Why are mobile games so popular? Because they're more fun than just waiting around in line somewhere. You can play Angry Birds on your phone for a few minutes while waiting in line at the DMV. You can play Words with Friends while killing time at the coffee shop. You can play World of Warcraft instead of watching TV, to unwind at the end of a busy day.
Why are Arenas popular right now? Is it the easy loot? Sure, that's part of it. But they're also more fun than Rated Battlegrounds for a lot of players. When I took my casual PvE-oriented guild into rBGs for a night, we got matched up with teams way beyond our rating – and we got stomped. The next rBG night we begged and pleaded for people to give it another try – and got stomped again.
We haven't been able to fill out a rBG team since. Arena teams? Yes. Regular battleground groups? All the time. But no more Rated Battlegrounds.
This is not an easy problem to fix. Rated Battlegrounds aren't fun for those who aren't already good at them, so inexperienced teams find themselves matched up against good teams who destroy them, which drives the inexperienced teams away, perpetuating the imbalance.
I find myself thinking about the bigger carrots more and more these days. Why did I find Wintergrasp so much more fun than Tol Barad? Why do I prefer Arena to rBGs? Are these little carrots even worth it anymore?
Having little carrots replaced with a little sticks makes me wonder about the bigger carrots.
I witnessed a fascinating exchange over Twitter a few weeks ago between members of a highly progressed raiding guild about Rated Battlegrounds. It went something like this.
- GM: I'd like to put together a Rated BG team.
- PvPer: Please make sure that the people on it are good, or we'll get destroyed.
- GM: Well, this is something that I think a lot of people are interested in.
- PvPer: Seriously, people need a 1900 Arena rating, or this is a waste of my time.
- PvEer: I was leveling a priest specifically to help fill out our PvP team, but since I don't Arena I'm not sure why I'm bothering if that's your attitude.
- PvPer: I appreciate what you're doing, but I'm also being realistic here. It's not enough to have a priest. We need good players in every position or it's not worth our time.
- PvEer: Thanks for demeaning my contribution before I've even made it.
- GM: I just wanted to have us run some rBGs, people.
Rated Battlegrounds are like raids in organization, time investment, and composition. You need to have certain roles filled, players need to invest time in getting appropriate gear, and players need to be able to execute their roles correctly.
They are unlike raids in that the difficulty of the activity will vary from encounter to encounter, and will never get easier – at least if the rating system is working correctly. You will go from getting your ass kicked all the time, to getting your ass kicked some of the time, to getting your ass kicked occasionally but still losing roughly half of the time. Raiding generally doesn't work like that – you get your ass handed to you for a while, then you make progress, then eventually the boss goes on farm status and you move on.
The conversation I watched unfold on Twitter had two people arguing two very valid, but conflicting, points of view.
The first point of view is that you need to be good enough to play with us. Raiders already know this, and many raid teams enforce strict rules about who can raid or who cannot. If you ignore the labels, the PvPer was actually espousing a philosophy of minimum demonstrated competence – you have to put in the time to show that you can perform up to a certain standard before you get the job. You have to be able to run Heroics before you raid. You have to be able to play in the Arenas before you rBG.
The other point of view is that you need to value the contributions of the members of your team, no matter the level of competence. Dismissing someone's effort of leveling another character to 85 and gearing it up for rated PvP play based on an arbitrary qualification absolutely destroys their motivation. The PvEer in question is an excellent raider with strong loyalty towards their guild, but without a lot of PvP experience on that character. By adopting the attitude that it's a waste of his time if people aren't already really good, the PvPer made his participation conditional on the PvEer's performance – which is not good for building a team.
(As an aside, flip the roles around and see how this conversation applies to raiding. It's a fascinating exercise.)
The problem here is that the bar for minimum competence in Rated Battlegrounds is high, because mediocre and fair teams don't keep playing.
Guilds are in an awkward position here; many have preexisting raid teams of skilled PvE players who would like to try rBGs, but don't have the same level of experience or commitment to PvP yet. They can't even practice in regular battlegrounds to help gear everyone up – they can only hope to find a like minded group to war-game with, which is time fighting without improving even basic gear. PvPers in non-PvP guilds are in a similarly awkward situation, having to mentor and assist their guild in preparing for an activity not everyone signed up for.
The new guild system only exacerbates this problem. Guilds are tempted by the new achievement structure to expand their normal spheres of activity. Players are encouraged to do things in guild groups, further increasing the temptation to have guilds just try out things like Rated Battlegrounds – even if there's not a solid PvP core. Players who want to both raid and PvP either have to find a guild which is a good fit on both, or consider splitting their time between guilds by having a PvP toon in one and a raiding toon in another – a hugely awkward solution.
I brought up this conversation because it reflects a real problem with Rated Battlegrounds – there's not really any way to do them causally, unlike raiding. You can't bang your head against them and make some progress. The content doesn't get nerfed over time, things won't get easier naturally. You never outgear your opponents, and the way things are structured now, you must have a good level of gear and competency across the team to have a chance. The similarities to the heyday of 10-19 Warsong Gulch twinking are apt.
The only way to make rBGs more accessible to casual PvPers is to lower the overall minimum competence required by flooding the system with weaker teams. Otherwise, the pool will remain populated by dedicated PvP teams who will crush aspiring teams as a matter of course.
I'll let you try to find a good way to spin that inconvenient fact into a press release.
I keep coming back to that blue post about this change and wondering what the behind-the-scenes discussions are like at Blizzard regarding Rated Battlegrounds. Only they have the real numbers behind participation – only they can really tell if the amount of developer time spent on the key PvP feature of this expansion has been worth it. Are enough players playing rBGs to justify their cost?
The change to how Conquest Points are being awarded in 4.2 isn't about slowing down gear acquisition; it's an effort by Blizzard to get players back into Rated Battlegrounds to solve a number of problems that, upon due consideration, stem from not having enough teams distributed throughout the rBG system.
That's okay. I can understand it. This is their business, and ultimately this is about their bottom line, not mine. I can be curious, I can have opinions about it, but let's face it – my criteria for the success of a game (is it fun?) is different from theirs (is it profitable?). I can enjoy an activity that isn't making the developer any money and call it a success. The popularity of Rated Battlegrounds, and therefore their profitability, is not really my concern.
At least it wasn't, until Blizzard just made it my concern by affecting the fun I was having elsewhere.
There are things I care about as a customer of any product or service, and there are things that I decidedly don't. I care about the product I get, the service I receive, and the price I pay. If you fail to deliver what I paid you for, here are some things I really don't care about:
- Your other customers.
- Your internal problems.
- Your bottom line.
This is just business; it's not personal. I don't care about your other customers if they're taking away development resources on things I've paid for. I don't care about your process problems which cause you to be 6 weeks late in installing a circuit, and then cause you to do it wrong. I don't even care if you're going to take a loss on the transaction. None of those are my problem.
Don't get me wrong: I understand that problems happen, I provide goods and services too. I value long-term partnerships, and don't throw them away because of isolated issues. I want us both to be successful. I want my partners to make money and have a profitable relationship with me.
But when someone says the reason they failed to deliver something they promised due to an internal problem, or due to other customers, I remind them that I don't care about their problems. I care about my problem, which is that you failed to deliver on a promise!
And if you can't fix it and make it right, then I will start looking to take my business elsewhere. It's just business; it's not personal. You screwed up, which I can forgive, but then you tried to make your problem into my problem, and I don't forgive that easily.
It took me several days to realize that my reaction to Zarhym's post was exactly the same reaction I have to someone telling me they're going to have to limit services I receive due to process problems that resulted from, say, a reorganization, or a new product launch. And hey, prices are going up, too!
I was actually quite relieved when I realized this. Like, okay, I get why I'm pissed about this. Got it.
Why should I care that Rated Battlegrounds need more teams playing it? I enjoy playing PvP with the people I play with. We tried Rated Battlegrounds, didn't enjoy the experience, so went off to play Arenas instead. It's not a judgement call on the Rated Battleground product as a whole – it's just that it wasn't fun for me and the people I wanted to play with. Other people love them, which is great! But not us, not right now.
I like Product A, and have liked it for a while. But now, in order to enjoy Product A, I have to also buy Product RBG, which is more expensive, is more of a hassle to assemble, and takes longer to deal with. I can get Product A on its own, but I get less than I used to without Product RBG.
And this change is because sales of Product RBG are low. It's a quirk of the product that if more people had Product RBG, it would probably be easier to use, which is arguably a good thing for the vendor.
But how is it good for me, exactly?
Other people's problems are not my problems, and I don't appreciate it when they try to make them mine.
I don't think it's my place to say if Rated Battlegrounds are a success or a failure. In my world, that's a business evaluation that only Blizzard can really perform, because it really only matters to their bottom line.
As a player, however, I have to look at it and ask why I'm being asked to change my behavior. Why am I being asked to stop having the fun I've been having in Arenas and start having less fun in Rated Battlegrounds? Does it add up that this is really about slowing down gear acquisition?
I think that's what bugs me the most about this change. I understand corporate logic; you can't come out and admit that a game is not attracting players, because that's a tacit admission of failure in the marketplace. That's not going to happen. It's dumb of me to rationally expect Blizzard to come out and say, "Rated Battlegrounds are not doing as well as we would like; not enough teams are participating, so we're going to force our PvP players to participate – despite their unwillingness to do so to date."
Yeah. Not going to see that in a press release.
But this is the second time that major changes have been introduced to PvP due to Rated Battlegrounds that affect other parts of PvP, and the second time that such changes have come out with misleading explanations. And much like saying that the graveyard changes were to prevent camping (when they obviously were not), saying that the changes to Arena Conquest Points are to slow down CP/hour is simply … wrong. Dishonest. It doesn't hold up.
Come right out and say it: we need more teams participating in the lower rating levels of Rated Battlegrounds. That is the fix that's needed. If rBGs are to have a chance at being successful in this expansion, more people absolutely need to be convinced to put forth the effort to give them a try, casually, to give the matching algorithm a chance to work.
There's a little carrot called gear that's being held out to PvPers to get them to play Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds. The stick is now there, too – if you want to stay competitive in Arenas, you'll do your rBGs and like them.
I don't expect this to change, and I don't expect Blizzard to say anything more on the matter.
All I ask is that that we be honest about why this change is happening, and make our choices accordingly.


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This week I have been reading The Words We Carry by D.G. Kaye and would like to share my thoughts with you on the book.
"I have been a great critic of myself for most of my life, and I was darned good at it, deflating my own ego without the help of anyone else."
What do our shopping habits, high-heeled shoes, and big hair have to do with how we perceive ourselves? Do the slights we endured when we were young affect how we choose our relationships now?
D.G. takes us on a journey, unlocking the hurts of the past by identifying situations that hindered her own self-esteem. Her anecdotes and confessions demonstrate how the hurtful events in our lives linger and set the tone for how we value our own self-worth.
Words We Carry is a raw, personal accounting of how the author overcame the demons of low self-esteem with the determination to learn to love herself.
My review for Words We Carry.
Words We Carry is packed with the accumulated knowledge, wisdom, survival tips and strategies from someone who went through difficult and unhappy childhood and teen years.
I think it is fair to say that most of us are less than confident about our body shape, and that is particularly tough when you can no longer use the excuse of puppy fat, and your friends are heading out in slinky black dresses and high-heeled shoes.
Unfortunately, not all mothers are born with the nurturing gene and as soon as you become competition, there is an opportunity to reinforce your lack of self-esteem with carefully chosen and cutting words. I would like to think that the experiences that D.G. Kaye describes were rare, but I am afraid that after counselling women on their health and weight for twenty years, the story is very familiar.
Those harmful words from those who are supposed to love us, are the ones we carry throughout our lifetime, unless we can find a way to dilute their power and replace them with affirmations of a much more positive nature.
D.G. Kaye describes her strategies to claim her own identity, build her self-esteem and evolve from the ugly duckling that she had been made to feel she was, into a swan. This involved a makeover in a number of departments, including wearing high heels at all times and over every terrain, and standing out from the crowd with her now signature titian hair colour. She also developed a healthy, outgoing personality and independence that led her to discover groups of people who accepted and embraced her as a friend.
In the second section of the book Kaye looks at the impact this early negative conditioning had on her relationships, including romances with older men whose different approach to dating and expectations provided a more secure environment. Unfortunately, having entered one serious and long-term relationship, echoes of the verbal abuse that she received as a child and teenager, threatened to undo all the hard work that she had accomplished. Thankfully she went on to find happiness and empowerment with someone who appreciates all that she has become.
Kaye looks at issues such as the difference between Alone vs. Lonely, Negativity and Self-Worth, Forming Healthier Relationships, and importantly Exposing our Personality Through the Internet. All the chapters provide commonsense strategies to overcome a lack of self-confidence, and I do think that women and men in their 50s and 60s, will definitely be able to draw parallels to Kaye's own experiences.
Whilst I recommend this memoir/self-help book to men and women of my age, I also think that it should be read by all mothers whose daughters are heading into their teens and beyond. It might just remind them of how fragile their child is when about to face the outside world, and that there are enough external challenges to be overcome, without encountering them in the place they should feel safe.
It is also a book for young women who are struggling with weight issues and those who feel that they are not as attractive as their friends, or who feel that they are somehow going through something never experienced before.
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. By reading this they might take strength in knowing that this is an age old problem, and that they can change the narrative and write their own story.
Read all the reviews and buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Words-We-Carry-Obsession-Self-Esteem-ebook/dp/B00OQJGE42
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Thank you for dropping in today and I hope you will head over to Amazon and read the reviews and buy the books. Thanks Sally

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Kellogg settles Rice Krispies false ad case
By Saundra Young
For the second time in a year, cereal giant Kellogg is settling false advertising charges from the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC announced that the leading cereal maker's claims that Rice Krispies boosts a child's immunity with "25 percent Daily Value of Antioxidants and Nutrients – Vitamins A, B, C and E" were "dubious" and ordered the company to discontinue all advertising stating such. Kellogg has agreed to the order.
Last April, the Kellogg Company settled FTC charges over false advertising claims for another popular breakfast cereal Frosted Mini-Wheats. The national ad campaign claimed the cereal was clinically shown to improve kids' attentiveness by nearly 20 percent. The FTC found the clinical studies actually showed that only half the children who ate the cereal had improved attentiveness and that very few–only 1 in 9 - were 20 percent more attentive. That settlement barred Kellogg from making these claims, and from misrepresenting test results in any breakfast or snack food products.
"We expect more from a great American company than making dubious claims – not once, but twice – that its cereals improve children's health," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. "Next time, Kellogg needs to stop and think twice about the claims it's making before rolling out a new ad campaign, so parents can make the best choices for their children."
Now the FTC's is modifying its original order and barring Kellogg from making any misleading or unsubstantiated health-related claims about any of the food products the company sells –unless there is scientific evidence to back those claims.
"What is particularly disconcerting to us," said FTC Commissioner Julie Brill, "Is that at the same time Kellogg was making promises to the commission regarding Frosted Mini-Wheats, the company was preparing to make problematic claims about Rice Krispies"
Kellogg released a statement: "Kellogg Company has a long history of responsible advertising. We stand behind the validity of our product claims and research, so we agreed to an order that covers those claims. We believe that the revisions to the existing consent agreement satisfied any remaining concerns."
The company has signed the FTC order, which is just like a court order and is legally binding. If the order is violated in any way, the company could be fined up to $16,000 per violation. The definition of violation can vary, for example, from every time a commercial airs touting these claims, to every box of cereal that remains of the shelf containing the potentially misleading wording. The FTC says violations can often lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. Companies are required to provide information on how they are complying with the Agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection's Enforcement Division, which is constantly checking to see whether companies are complying with FTC orders.
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Triathlon Challenge: From spin bike to road bike
Joaquin Brignoni is one of six CNN iReporters selected to be part of the Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge. He and his teammates each received a new Cannondale road bike as part of the challenge. They're learning to ride their new speed machines - slowly, but surely.
"It's time to ride!" my coach said as we reviewed my weekly training schedule. I felt a jolt of excitement to jump off the 6 a.m. spin bike and hit the real road.
We met on a Friday afternoon at a local trail near my coach's home in Winter Garden, Florida. I was super excited because I had never ridden a road bike before. So, once I arrived, I quickly unhitched my new wheels, put on my helmet and I was ready to roll.
I decided priority No. 1 was to stay focused on remembering to unclip early with the same foot before every stop. I'm proud to report no falls on my first ride!
As I began to pedal the bike's rapidly increasing speed became intimidating. I had never moved that fast on anything without a motor before. I was fully aware that any sudden movements could send me flying over the handlebars like a slingshot.
I was nervous to take my hand off the handlebars to grab my water bottle. So hydrating for the first time while riding really made my heart rate jump! Yet, I successfully managed to drink twice without running off the road. I felt like a pro.
Once I got comfortable with the speed, I relaxed more, focused on adjusting my hand positions and using hand signals to communicate with riders behind me.
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Recently, a Russian research team reached the waters of Lake Vostok. Vostok is one of the largest lakes on Earth, but the body of water escaped attention for many years because it's buried under 3,700m of ice in Antarctica. There is no word yet on what has been found in the lake itself, but researchers now had a glimpse at the life present within it. That's because some of the lake's waters freeze onto the underside of a glacier that transits across the surface of the lake, trapping any organisms within it.
By sequencing the DNA and RNA trapped in the ice, the authors found what appears to be a diverse community of bacterial species, including some that suggest that Vostok has the equivalent of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. And, perhaps more intriguingly, it appears to have animals living under the ice.
The challenge with any of these studies is avoiding contamination (see, for example, the bigfoot genome). So, the authors of this paper took a rather extreme measure to eliminate it: they chilled some bleach and dipped the ice cores in that to wipe out anything that might have accumulated on the surface. They also froze some sterile water and treated it identically to the their ice core samples. These controls did produce some DNA sequences, but the vast majority of it was human, human acne bacteria, the E. coli bacteria used in labs, or, oddly, cow (maybe someone was eating lunch in lab that day?).
The DNA from the Vostok samples was much richer and more diverse than that. A huge range of bacterial species was present, including many groups that live in fresh and saltwater environments, in soil, and in sediments. There were even some unexpected finds. Cyanobacteria normally make a living by doing photosynthesis, but their DNA was found in the lake, which is buried under enough ice that light never reaches it. Archaea have picked up a reputation as extremophiles, but there were only two sets of sequence from them in the ice. The vast majority of the sequences were bacterial.
Some of the sequences come from bacterial groups that were first identified at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Those are powered by volcanic activity, and the authors note that Vostok fills a rift valley, which might allow similar structures to form in the lake itself. Alternately, the bacteria could be living in water that seeps into hot areas under the lake bottom and sporadically get ejected into the lake.
But perhaps the biggest surprise is the presence of sequences that indicate multicellular life. Many of those are from fungi, but a number of them appear to be from animals, including arthropods, a mollusk, cnidarians, and crustaceans. A couple of factors support the idea that animals may be present. One is that members of these groups have been found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The second is that a number of bacterial species are either animal pathogens or part of the gut community.
All in all, the DNA pictures suggest there may be a large community of creatures living deep under the ice. What it doesn't make clear is if it's a thriving community (like that which we've seen at deep-sea vents) or a sparse one that's barely scraping by. DNA sequences can be suggestive, but there's always the chance that two closely related species have adapted to very different environments. So it's a bit dangerous to infer too much from the presence of some of the groups here. To really get a clear picture of life in the lake, we'll probably have to figure out a way to send something down to look.
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It was a Triple Cher week on "Dancing With the Stars" — she judged, she performed, she provided the music for all the dances.
Unfortunately for Brant Daugherty and Peta Murgatroyd, even scoring triple 9s for the foxtrot danced to Cher's "It's In His Kiss" couldn't save them from being eliminated in Week 8. After the individual dances, Brant and Peta danced a rumba against Leah Remini and Tony Dovolani in the dance-off, and lost. That, plus the lack of viewers' votes from last week, proved the end of their dancing days.
Co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet asked Brant about the experience and he was all class while showing a lot of emotion. "I learned something I never thought I'd be able to learn in my life," he said. "I learned a lot about myself, and I'm very, very grateful for the opportunity." Peta added, with tears in her eyes, "He's an amazing guy. Thank you for making every day a pleasure."
Cher opened the show with a rocking rendition of "Believe," even adding some of her own dancers to the mix of DWTS pros. What was hard to believe was how nervous she was at being a judge and how she only changed costumes three times. I did love how she promised, with a big grin, to knee judge Bruno Tonioli if he started some of his antics next to her. We need her back each week to hold him at bay!!
The couple with the highest score for their individual dance would not be in the dance-off and would be safe to dance next week — now that's something to dance for. Host Tom Bergeron explained that each couple had to learn four dances to prepare for the individual and possible dance-off routines. Exhausting!
Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff — Argentine tango
While the dance was very sexy, a week of distractions and spotty rehearsals showed up in some missed footwork on Corbin's part. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba said Corbin brought his 'A' game, as he did last week, and his lifts took her breath away. Bruno thought his performance "had wonderful depth," but that his footwork was a little off, and Cher "thought it was amazing."
Score: 9, 9, 9 = 27
Leah Remini and Tony Dovolani — Viennese waltz
Leah is getting more and more confident as the season goes on, but the routine seemed a little safe. Bruno said it was "all sweet loveliness, innocence" but Leah should watch her frame in hold. Carrie Ann added that during some moments, she got behind the music. Cher thought it was great and interpreted the emotions of when she and Sonny first met.
Score: 8, 9, 8 = 25
Brant and Peta — foxtrot
Although Carrie Ann said that Brant had the most potential, she said he needed to act like a leading man, while Bruno said he really needed to refine his dancing to the next step. And Cher just smiled.
Score: 9, 9, 9 = 27
Elizabeth Berkley Lauren and Val Chmerkovskiy — jazz
I thought that this was one of Elizabeth's poorer routines, although she certainly got a lot of anger out in her dance moves. Cher said it was great and rough, but she liked the rough part, and Elizabeth took the opportunity to tell Cher "thank you for showing other women you can create your own rules." However, as Bruno pointed out, "all that aggression" made her miss several music cues, and Carrie Ann thought it was "kind of one-dimensional," which made it lose impact.
Score: 8, 9, 8 = 25
Bill Engvall and Emma Slater — disco
Bill is really learning how to move his hips and seemed to have a great time with the routine although his timing is not improving along with his moves. Bruno called it "disco inferno, or infernal," but that he had the spirit going. Carrie Ann called Bill the "mayor of 'Dancing With the Stars'" but that he was off the beat — "It was an amazing disco … if you turned the music off." Cher was amazed that he could get Emma "up in all those positions (lifts)" and Bill said it was because of a "little blue pill."
Score: 8, 8, 8 = 24
Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke — tango
Although he was nervous about performing in front of Cher, Jack did one of his very best performances. Carrie Ann told him he was so confident and that she thoroughly enjoyed that performance although he missed one move. Cher thought it was great and that he looked like a "pimp, a tango-dancing pimp," for which Jack thanked her. Bruno said Cher had it right and that it was a proper classic tango.
Score: 9, 9, 9 = 27
Amber Riley and Derek Hough — rumba
Poor Amber had more problems with her knee so Derek had to redo the choreography, and Amber got the giggles when she thought about being "all girly." But she nailed the dance, even with a bum knee. Cher said, "You did it!" and Bruno said she was a "girl on top. You were leading the whole time." But Carrie Ann didn't think it was Amber's best dance and that she is waiting to see more.
Score: 9, 9, 10 = 28
And with that score, Amber and Derek didn't need to take part in the dance-off and they were automatically safe to dance next week. Wow! What a reward for a week of pain! The six remaining couples were divided into three teams. Since there were three pairs with scores of 27, the couple with the highest cumulative scores over the season — Corbin and Karina — would pick their challenger. They picked Elizabeth and Val, who picked the dance: cha-cha. After two very sexy routines, the judges unanimously picked Corbin and Karina the winners and recipients of three more points for a total of 30.
Next, Brant and Peta picked Leah and Tony as their challenger and they picked a rumba. Incredibly, Leah did an outstanding job of the dance and outshined Brant. Bruno selected Brant and Peta, but Carrie Ann and Cher picked Leah and Tony to receive the three points, for a total of 28.
Finally, Jack and Cheryl went up against Bill and Emma, doing disco, which they had just done in their individual dance. Jack is really looking like the celeb to beat and he and Cheryl did a terrific routine that Bruno described as "dirty dancing." The judges all selected Jack and Cheryl and they got the three points, for a total of 30.
One of the high points of the show came then as Tom asked Bill to read the teleprompter for him. Bill started reading, "Bill and Emma are … OMG!!!" Tom shouted, "They're safe!" as Bill jumped around in excitement. I don't think he ever thought that his fan base was so large, but I don't know if it can last much longer.
Next week, each couple will be doing an individual dance and the exciting trio dance, where one of the eliminated pros or a member of the DWTS Troupe is added to the routine. Sometimes, these dances turn out to be real stunners — hopefully that will happen next week. See you next Monday — keep dancing!
Final totals of celebrity scores:
Corbin and Karina — 30
Jack and Cheryl — 30
Amber and Derek — 28 (automatically safe after individual dances)
Leah and Tony — 28
Brant and Peta — 27
Elizabeth and Val — 25
Bill and Emma — 24


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Three years, three excellent awards by the world's prestigious guidebook. Lonely Planet made a list of the most beautiful, yet lesser known tourist destinations. It wasn't the hot springs of Iceland, Gibraltar Rocks, Odysseus' Ithaca or Luxemburg that ranked in first place but the historical center of Olomouc!
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Thank you
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Recall there have been genocides by hindus of minorities throughout India's history. In Kashmir, Gujarat, Assam, Punjab. In the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India thousands of Sikh worshippers were gunned down by India's Hindu Army. An American Federal Court Judge has issued arrest warrants for Modi, Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi for their roles in this genocide of Sikhs.
I hate the hindus from the bottom of my heart. Reminds one of what the Nazis and Gestapo did to Jews. This is absolutely disgraceful that the western nations have kept quiet about it. The hindus we all know are neanderthals.
Tom Brady eats pig poo poo. CHEATER!
Hi. I am Hindu. I love India.
My heart is in Hinduism.
Tom Brady is an as.s hole. Cheater. NFL did NOT do enough
I am Halperin. I love Hindus from the bottom of my heart.
God bless Modi.
Tom Brady is a phoney
It took Putin of Russia a week to hold plebiscite in Crimea. India has not been able to accomplish this in 70 years in Indian Occupied Kashmir. YES, 70 YEARS !! RUB YOUR EYES !!!
Scotland held its plebiscite in a day !!!
The concept is no different than what we Americans are doing in Puerto Rico. Let the people decide their fate. This is what democracy is all about.
Unlike what hindoos did in Indian Occupied Kashmir, we Americans didn't send in the Army to Puerto Rico to occupy it and raype the people.
I am Hindu now. .and I truly love India and Modi too.
God bless India. ....
..very very much true.
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Viva India!
Priyanka, what you are trying to achieve is noble but tell me this. You people (hindoos) say you have been around since 5000 years !!! Now if you have not been able to change yourselves in soooo many years the probability you will be able to turn yourselves around now is 0.
Vis-a-vis raypes
I just farted. Wow..it is a real stinker
All I can say is that Modi is a disgrace to the human race. He happens to be from India is a celebration of that country's terrorist culture. He further happens to be a hindoo is reflective that garbage produces smelly gases.
I am Bonhomie. .
I am Hindu and i eat flies.
Praise Shiva and love Modi.
India is beautiful and great. .
What baffles me is that thousands of people were killed, maimed and burnt alive by hindoos in Gujarat, India but nobody heard their cries. Nobody heard their screams. Nobody saw their plight. Nobody smelled their burning bodies. NOBODY!!!
Mmm. Burning bodies with BBQ sauce and salty gooey moist boogers.
Hear my scream.
Pass the A-1 Sauce! Goes great with well done meat. LMFAO!
Mmm. Well done bodies. I prefer Heinz 57 on my Gujarat beef. Lol
I just farted big time.
Get the Lysol! !!
There. My scream was heard. LMFAO!
@Amarnath. Oh gee wow. Looks to me like you just NAILED IT!
What further baffles me is that millions of people have been and continue to be slaughtered in Indian Occupied Kashmir. A lot of them have been buried alive and rayped. Human rights outfits have provided coordinates of these unmarked graves to the Indian Government. How strange their compasses ceased functioning!!!
Howdy. I'm Bonhomie.
I eat salty gooey moist boogers from Bombay
Very much tasty. .try it.
I too eat cow poo poo.
Love it.
And I drink Modi's pee pee
Pee pee from Modi??? Really???
Then you just NAILED IT!
Hi Chappie. How's everything going?
I eat cow poo poo from Oklahoma.
It's soooo good
I think I'm done. Someone please brush me with BBQ sauce. LMFAO!
The optimal state of survival is for hindoos is to live under subjugation. Americans have figured it out and without physical occupation are now controlling India remotely via economic subjugation. In other words Aid with strings attached. LMFAO ... They have hindoos convinced it is trade. Wink Wink !
The Egyptians left behind The Pyramids. The Greeks The Parthenon. The Romans The Pantheon. The Christians The St. Peter's Basilica. The Moslems The Taj Mahal. The Hindus ..... RAYPES. And collapsed buildings.
I am a bird.
Chirp chirp chirp.
Hello Larry Lupino. I am a bird too.
What kind of bird are you? I am a Blue Jay.
Chirp chirp
Hi Bonhomie.
Nice to meet you. I am a Mockingbird. I am originally from Rolla Missouri. But I am in Oklahoma now.
My goodness! How did you end up in Oklahoma dude?


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On July 5, the US Army announced it had completed a two-week demonstration of a new ground-based sensor system for its MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system (UAS) that will allow UAS operators to detect and avoid other aircraft. The Army is now ready to begin the certification process with the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the Grey Eagle—formerly known as the Warrior—to fly unfettered in domestic airspace. The Army expects to start flying the UASs in domestic airspace for training by March of 2014.
The $90 million Grey Eagle is a descendant of the Predator and manufactured by General Atomics. The aircraft is a medium-range multipurpose UAV that has seen duty in Afghanistan with the Army. In the demonstrations held at the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, the MQ-1C was tested with the Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) system, a ground-based radar that monitors the UAV and the aircraft around it.
The GBSAA system will be deployed at five bases around the US where Gray Eagle squadrons will be home-based. Fort Hood, Texas will get the first installation, followed by Fort Riley, Kansas. Fort Stewart in Georgia, Fort Campbell in Kentucky, and Fort Bragg in North Carolina will get their GBSAA systems by 2015.
The Army's announcement comes as the FAA faces a looming deadline to come up with a plan to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles into its regulations for domestic aircraft. Congress put a mandate into the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, signed in February, that requires the FAA to come up with rules for licensing UAVs to fly in the same airspace as human pilots and complete drones' "integration into the national airspace." Rules for certification of the first civilian UAVs, for use by law enforcement and emergency response agencies, were supposed to be in place by May, with the licenses for these "fast-tracked" drones to be issued starting in August.
Privacy advocates with the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations have expressed concern about the operation of unmanned aerial systems by government agencies. The fear is that they could easily tread on individuals' privacy by allowing persistent wide-scale surveillance. In part as a response to these concerns, and as part of an effort to give the FAA a helping hand in accelerating UAV licensing, members of the UAV industry published a voluntary "Code of Conduct" for drone operators and manufacturers on July 5. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's guidelines for "safe, non-intrusive operations" define who should fly UAS and under what circumstances—and include a promise to respect individuals' privacy.
Divided into sections entitled "Safety," "Professionalism" and "Respect," the guidelines take the form of a pledge—"We will" being the first two words of each guideline. For example: "We will ensure UAS will be piloted by individuals who are properly trained and competent to operate the vehicle of its systems." Under the heading of "Respect," the Code of Conduct makes the following pledges:
- We will respect the rights of other users of the airspace.
- We will respect the privacy of individuals.
- We will respect the concerns of the public as they relate to unmanned aircraft operations.
- We will support improving public awareness and education on the operation of UAS.
The Code of Conduct also includes a list of factors that should be incorporated into the risk assessment before operating a UAS.


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Jessica Lange Stuns in New Ad for Marc Jacobs Beauty
She's so gorgeous - it's almost scary!
American Horror Story star Jessica Lange makes her debut as the new face of Marc Jacobs Beauty in a stunning new close-up shot.
Lange, 64, was announced as the new face for the brand on Wednesday at an event in Paris, which is currently in the midst of Fashion Week. The Oscar winner will be featured in the brand's summer and fall print ad campaigns. Additionally, Lange will also star in a short campaign film directed by Jacobs, which will start streaming online May 5.
Announcing the new face of @MarcBeauty, Jessica Lange! Campaign shot by David Sims. Shop at http://t.co/u1tNxeqTKT pic.twitter.com/oxQtIJYkGy- Marc Jacobs Intl (@MarcJacobsIntl) February 26, 2014
Lange is currently filming a remake of The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg. What do you think of her ad?
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