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Originally posted by Atrocitus
Agreed...His comments on Space alone made me dislike the guy immensely...
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Originally posted by KyngBills
I feel less petty now, cause I really hated that guy for his smug ass comments on space lol. They have a recent quote from him where he talks about how excited he is for swtor's upcoming space thing, but it's too late lol
Originally posted by Jonoku
Bieware ruined that game, not EA. Hopefully EA hires people that actually worked on MMO's to replace all of bioware's employees.
Originally posted by superniceguy
I don't think swg 2.0 will ever happen, but I do hope a game comes along and decides to copy most of it's fundamental game processes. What I'm trying to get at, is I want swg 2.0, but I would take a knock off, even a new I.P. Right now, Repopulation has promise, but its an indie, so it will never have the money to go all out unfortunately.
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Joined: 10/01/12
Its amazing actually....
I thought I was an anomaly concerning Dannyboy Erickson and my feelings towards him. The more I read gamers opinions on him, the more I see the general consensus regarding him was negative....
DId anyone see his 'bio' pose where hes dressed up in a ghetto tux with a daisy or whatever in his pocket??? LMAO
Check the expression on his face..Its like he's trying to appear, well...um sophisticated and debonair? BAHAHAHAHAHA
Ahem sorry.....
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Originally posted by Atrocitus
No but that's quite a way to shame him, I must say. Apparently you need to ifind a way to put hum down (and promote EA). grats?
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Originally posted by KarteliOriginally posted by smh_alot
If that's your criterium, then as good as all game companies are gone, or other companies as well for that matter, bc you'll always have people leaving and joining in the course of time. If that's your criterium, then you could say Blizzard is gone, when the majority of the key players that made their games like D2, Starcraft and WC3 were gone when 2005-2006 came around.
I'm talking about actually being gone, in the real world. A company is more than a few people. Blizzard isn't gone simply bc the Blizzard that some people knew from the past has changed and seen a number of their key people leave, and the same applies for Bioware. If you don't see them making games as Mass Effect series or Dragon Age anymore, or they all turn out to be like DA2, and BW gets integrated and loses its name like Mythic did, then you can say it's gone.
Anything else is just hyperbolic sentimentality, but then again, we see enough of that around on these forums anyway, so wouldn't be a big surprise, many MMO gamers are bit of a chronic dramaqueens anyway.
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Originally posted by smh_alot
thats is not his criterium dude, its a thing called reality, a company is just as good as the ppl working for them. Also there is nothing sentimentalist of hyperbolic just simple reason and logic. dont be an azz.
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by smh_alot
Blizzard are pretty much like EA or SOE or LA, they have varying quality
Bioware was a dedicated small team on its own, pumping out top class game after top class game, because they cared at one point about their games. Now that team is gone, even if there are more Dragon Ages and Mass Effects, the quality will not be so certain, but EA probably will still use the Bioware name, to enhance their sales.
The Sims were originally developed my Maxis with EAs name on it, and now is just called The Sims Studio and is all EA, with Maxis no where in sight
Bioware is as dead as Anakin Skywalker when he bacame Darth Vader
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Originally posted by smh_alot
So very true. With the way some of them go on and on week in and week out on the same subject you would think the end of days has arrived. Even bible thumpers don't dramatize and beat a horse this much.
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Joined: 11/21/11
I'm not a wow fan
And I'm definetly not a diablo 3 fan.
But its unfair to lump blizzard in with ea. Blizzard don't around buying up good games companies and turning them to shit.
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Joined: 3/05/07
Originally posted by ShakyMo
Amen. They have the decency, at least, to keep their shit turning powers focused only on themselves. I kid, mostly. I still love most of what Blizzard does. I actually thought SC2 was a blast. I didn't buy D3 simply because I find Torchlight a better game to wait for. The RMT thing sure did give em fits though.
Really, though, this problem finds in fault in you guys. I mean, we, as gamers, have known for a decade or better than EA is seriously just screwing things up for everything. Yet we still feed em cash. We should have buried that company in refused sales years ago. How about you all just stop hoping anything good will ever come of them and keep your money. I haven't bought anything from em in a good while. Matter of fact, these days I only really buy from Bethesda.
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Originally posted by ShakyMo
Apples to Oranges.
Lump Activision in with EA instead (publisher to publisher). Blizzard was reformed in 2009 to create the company now: Activision-Blizzard. But, as when you sell your soul to any large conglomorate publisher (EA or Activision in this case), quality takes a plunge.
Anyone that played WoW would notice the huge drop in quality around 2009+, as the game became more of a money maker than a fun pasttime for gamers. Cash-shop went in, features were ignored, game became centered around getting new players (dumbing down WoW) while trying to keep existing players happy.
Arguably it worked (more money), or it didn't work (many veterans quit), but since Activision took a seat on the bridge WoW saw for the first time a drop in subscribers. A trend that seems to carry on. 12M players is a thing of the past. The recent expansion saw a jump back to 10 mil accounts, but that won't last - and the number includes free account time, as part of Blizzards standards for calculating "subs".
So, Blizzard doesn't go around buying companies because they are a game company. Activision however will bleed you dry if you get too close. Vivendi (who owns both Blizzard and Activision now) is the head mistress, waiting for clean souls to walk through the door, so she can corrupt them..
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We are talking about daniel erickson leaving bioware.......he left because EA didn't pay him the money he wanted. He is starting fresh and new to make more money and EA wants to be cheap and not pay the guy more. I don't blame him.
Also Bioware doesn't exist anymore, the studio is filled with EA workers. They mine as well put everything with a EA logo only. They destroy every company they buy and ruin them and devourer them. Bioware is as good as dead. End of Discussion.
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Originally posted by Jonoku
This is fantasy. Erikson was fired because there was no more work for him to do at Swotor since there aren't going to be any more expansions and 'stories'. And the reason there will be no more expansions or 'stories' is because the development team, of which he was a senior, customer-facing executive, screwed up the world's surest bet: make an MMO using the SW IP off the back of Bioware's reputation and EA's money.
If Erickson is now saying 'Oh, I left because they wouldn't pay me the money I deserved' then he is as delusional as the time he told us 'Oh, no-one really wants a true flight sim because I don't remember Han and Chewey going about mining, do you?' (of course, this bald hipster douchebag forgot to mention that mining stations and mining ships were in fact crucial element of both Kotors, but that's beside the point). And if hs is ineed going around trying to peddle this bull, then it's symptomatic of his arrogance - and the stupidity he ascribes to us, the people he wanted to buy and play his game. Well, he's all gone, and we're still here.
No, Erickson is out of his ass - like Georg Zoeller who had to leave the industry to pursue 'new opportunities in the Philippines' or Ray Muzyka who is quitting games forever to devote his life to 'speciality beers'. Erickson, like them, has been canned and deservedly so. Any sofwtare or development or games company that ever picks him up is deliberately swallowing a poison pill.
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"Top Flight Security of the world, Craig."
At this rate, maybe SWTOR will get shutdown in a year due to being a pile of poo and SOE can bring back SWG and give us a "Real" SW MMO".
Originally posted by noncley
I disagree, EA is full of shit. Daniel did his part on the game, and he did well. Is he at fault for failing at the PvP part of the game? heck no, because he isn't the guy working on that part of the game, he worked on story. It isn't a fantasy that Daniel may say that, its a possibility. I would say its most likely the case and other reasons too.
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Originally posted by noncley
It cracks me up how fanboys see developers. Now while distributors can make crap call's like pushing for DLC and what not, the fact is, Bioware was going bankrupt, EA saved them, gave them a job for 5 more years before they failed with mass effect 3 and then finally put the nail in the coffin with SWTOR, most expensive mmo ever, unfortunately all that money went to b actors and not too content. And no matter how good a writer is(I'm not claiming erickson was a good writer), he cannot write a thousand stories and have them all be good, thats like asking Stephen King to write 20 top selling novels in a year.(hell even stephen king can screw up a story, what was the whole point behind the giant space turtle in IT?)
Bioware had as many flops, as they had hits, but fan's see only the great when trying to think irrationally on a forum, especially when they are trying to explain how EA is responsible for everything from TOR, to Global warming. They flopped harder than ever on their dream of what MMO's should be with TOR, and for that, they are getting canned faster than tuna. EA funded TOR with no constraints, they let them run rampant with no supervision and they got burnt. If anything I hate EA for not doing some market testing of mmo players, and hiring some outside blood to be involved with developement. I've never seen a poll about what should be in mmo's with Voice acting at the top of the list(or even included on the list of options), yet some how it was the fourth pillar that all mmo's where missing?
Funny thing is, every other mmo started to scramble to get voice acting on everything lol
BTW, I haven't seen anything on D Erickson claiming that they wouldn't pay him his money, I think that the poster of that fact is using made up facts to back his assumptions.
Originally posted by william0532
I never said it was a fact, nice assumption :). I was just bringing up possibilities in my head, I just said it because its a reason I'd leave for, for more money.
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Originally posted by Jonoku
Oh, I see^ maybe you should edit your post to reflect your "opinion of why he left" cause your post states it as fact. You can add a ...."maybe he left because EA didn't pay him the money he wanted."


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EVE, where have you been all my life ??
Not sure why I skipped taking a look at this game all these years, instead dabbling in those fantasy MMO's from EQ to AION and more all flavors inbetween .. but never even tried it, despite being a sci fi and naval combat fan.
Well I just started a trial account earlier last week, and I have already upgraded to a full account. This game is amazing !
The big thing right now is the sheer wow factor, I have never felt so overwhelmed or like such a complete noob in a game to this degree before, but that just satiated my appetite.
I now understand the draw of the sandbox ... and the amazing feel of a wide open (and amazing world)
It also seems the game is healthy and drawing in new players right now (which is a good thing), it seems there is still opportunity for new players like me to have a place in the game.
I have 10 million questions right now, but lovign every second of my time in new eden, and cant wait to get back in game.
Some basic stuff
1. At what point in your carrer shoud one seek out a corp, whats the best way to find one ?
2. I have seem some racial threads, I rolled Gallenete based off of story line (and supporting chars to maximize skills) reading some threads about them being useless.. should I reconsider or is that just preference ?
3. I am already seeing where multiple chars have advantages (parallel skill training for example, mining, contracts, combat) can other races trade from the get go, or does it make sense to make chars of same race ? also are multiple accounts accepted or frowned upon ?
Thanks !
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The only luck I had today was to have you as my opponent.
played for 2 years. excellent game. sadly it didnt fit in with my other MMO and work. :(.
many players with capabilities to plex like to have multiple accounts since its...basically free. so its not frowned upon, no.
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Joined: 7/02/04
Get into Eve University as quickly as possible, they'll help with the basics, I've been a player shortly after they added the very first Battleships, so, been playing for 7 years now.
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Joined: 12/23/08
1. As soon as possible, either find a corp thats doing what you like doing, join a learning corp, or find some friends and make your own corp. (Look out for corps with high tax rates though, that can stunt your development as a pilot, unless they provide you with free ships and skills)
2. Personal preference, you can train any skill in eve if you have the isk for the skillbook and the prerquisites to learn the skill.
3. Again thats personal preference and mulitple characters are an accepted part of eve, some say they are even required.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
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Joined: 9/23/08
1) I guess that depends on what your 'career' is. It really boils down to your play style and persona.
Hitting some corporations focused on teaching new players - ie. EVE University, are safe bet, imo.
How to find a good corp? Interview and 'data mining' are the best tools imo. Talk to recruit officers, ex-members, observe their forum posting history, track their activities, etc.
Need to say most of it is hard to do with no or little game experience.
2) Gallente suffer of poor game balance.
Gallente use 2 weapon platforms - hybrids and drones. Drone boats are very much fine - great overall versatility although drones some inherited disadvantages. Problem are hybrid guns that just plain suck - hybrid boats are lacking a place and role.
3) To make it clear, unless for role play reasons, racial choice is just cosmetics. You can train any skill and use any ship or weapons you want.
Multiply accounts is a convenience like in any other game - you do not have to rely on other people, you can get access to skills you want 'sooner'.
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O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Join a Guild as soon as possible.
Head to the EVE RAdio chat channel...and listen to EVE Radio, because it is cool.
Read up on the game. The game is huge, complicated, and awesome.
Presently, I am the CEO of a small mining operation.
I have two accounts, one with an ORCA one with a Hulk. Both are mining vessals.
I am presently working on training all six of my characters in Planetary Interaction.
However, I also do exploration, and sometimes do missions.
That is the "care bear" route
There is also the PVP griefter route...which is just as valid.
I also have a pirate, but he has been sitting on ice for a while, since i am working on getting my business up and running.
I will probably get into trading and manufactoring next.
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Thanks for all the great replies so far, I have been researching my butt off .. and there is a LOT of info out there. downloaded the ISK PDF and going through that and will check into EVE university.
my initial interests are mining and military (escort) but I am sure that will develop over time/
I actually had a near brush with a pirate traveling multi-jumps through unknown territory to pick up some items I found cheap .. quite and adreneline rush .. and that was nothing,.. I cant wait :P
There is SO much to this game !
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Glad your enjoying your first few days, but, wait until you get into your first fleet pvp battle. then the rush will get really intense )
GREAT GAME just dont think your gonna be able to pvp at all since most of the players that do pvp have been playing for 2 or more years solid and will have well over 3-10 million sp points thus they will have way better stats then you can get and you will always be behind them....The game is great for those with paintence to play all there lives but if you want a game with some casual player base eve is not for you.....
wich is sad cause when I played it when it launched there was so much possibility, but after the epic space battle against concord naval police where the gms actually nuked and banned players for griefing and lowering security space on an epic scale I gave up.....some sand box...
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Originally posted by Chivalry1978
This post is a little deceiving. Yes, people who've played longer will always have more SP than you, but that's not a game breaker. If a person with 500 million SP engages you piloting a ship that only required 4 million SP to max the ship out, then all you are fighting against is 4 million SP.
It's a really good idea to pick a ship that you want to master, and train ALL of the necessary skills to max the ship out. A lot of new people rush to jump in a battleship and still get owned by a small frigate...everytime. How? The newb in the battleship has no skills invested in his ship, while the frigate pilot has he Ph.D. in his. Just because you can sit in it doesn't mean you can fly it.
Originally posted by bossalinie
And your post is also decieving....First battleship are needed for level 4 missions, Two the only way a firgate can do those is if its a tech two frigate which fully decked out will take a month or so before a player will be able to do the same as he can do in a week's time.....
Eve has been repeatedly awarded so many awards yet shunned by so many players...I played for years before I bored became bored with it....and every few years I come back only to see nothing has changed much...sure new ways to do something but some rather core things still are not there for the casual gamer....so take it as it is if your a casual gamer that wants a fair chance in game then eve is not for you if you want to get spanked by 80% of the community before you actually can kill some one one. then eve is perfect for you.....
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No, it isn't.
First, L4 are not needed.
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EVE is also the only game where you can "max out" your character without ever leaving the station you started at ;)
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Originally posted by Chivalry1978
From this i am guessing when you played EvE you were one of those who were Griefing the day old newbies in what is basically the newbie starting area which is why the police there are designed to always win at killing your ship. Its well known that surviving against such an attack by police is a bannable offence as its against the rules to exploit the game where it can be. Such as killing newbies in safe space and surviving police retaliation through an exploit of a bug, or spawning free moon minerals through a unknown bug. So fact is you are just angry that you got caught out.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
Originally posted by HYPERI0N
Actually that had very little to do with it. We were told in a bout 20 forum post from the devs that if we wanted more lo sec space in game we would have to create conflict in lower areas to decrease security levels thus increase the level of ships in the roids for ratting purposes. So yeas we came in with about 200 ships many of which were doing nothing but shield and armor repairs on our bigger ships and we took out the police the navy and 2 gm ships before all were console command killed.
The fact of the matter is we played within the context of the rules set out to us in a sandbox enviroment and were punished for it. We were not exploiting any glitches or flaws. We may have said no to a 10 request of gms to stop such actions. And we may have argued for some 40 pages on the forums post to which the gms contradicted what they originally stated was do able and the true nature of the game to be a sandbox game....
So yes while we may have plunged a great amount of highsec space into low sec space as well pk and pod kill a bunch of players as well as gms doing full well what was allowed in the sandbox system only to be punished by a need to keep people from changing games....The sad part is this action is still done today but not in the grand scale that we once did it. Hell now a days killing new players is about as common in eve as buying a plex. Why is it that if what we did some 6 years ago is so wrong that they actually banned many people, myself not included in that, that they allow it to happen now a days yet make no effort to create any sort of balance or way for newer players to even compete against other players. The fact that the game is so inbalanced to any player who has not been in the game for 2-4 years, still exist with no hope of ever changing.
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To OP, I joined Eve 3 Months ago, and I also love the game for the complexity it offers. My path so far has been to get my skills up to a level where I can deal with level 4 missions easily in my amarr Bs. Went amarr because I love the look of laziest battles. Now that I have a good income stream I am doing exactly as suggested above, I am now levelling an alt to max out skills in 1 particular type of ship. This is going to take months, and it is great to see him evolve. Also setup skills for PI and manufacturing and hauling on the side to mix it up. A wee tip- if you are missioning get a no Tia for salvaging ASAP, takes away a lot of the tedium.
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Originally posted by Bladestrom
Looks like that paragraph went under the autocorrect scalpel. :) Level 4s are a great source of extra income, especially if you have a corpmate or alt as a salvaging sidekick.
Hey, as a new player, which of the holiday gifts did you enjoy the most? From the choose-a-gift section, which gift did you end up picking?
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Here is a good description of how it is further down the line. Good reading. http://eveoganda.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-banter-31-rollercoaster-thrill.html
You can please some MMO-players all of the time and you can please all MMO-players some of the time but you can't please all MMO-players all of the time.
Eve University bud. Like NOW lol.
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Tonight's Hillside-Southern 7:30 football showdown at Durham County Memorial Stadium is a win-win for fans and players alike, officials from both high schools say.
Technically a home game for Southern, former Spartans athletic director Avery Bryant, who scheduled the game before departing his AD post in July, said County Stadium offered "a bigger, safer environment" for the game. "Since it's our home game, we can choose to play it wherever we want," Bryant said. He added that traffic access at Southern is limited and with a large crowd expected Friday, might have caused problems — thus the safety concern.
Another issue for Southern (0-0), according to football coach Adrian Jones, is the size of the Spartans' stadium — and Hillside's stadium, too, for that matter.
"Every year we play, we have to turn people away, both at our place and at theirs," Jones said, referring to Hillside. "You hate to turn people away from a game like this."
Hillside AD Bobby Hill, a former Hornets football coach himself, said the move of the Southern home game is nothing new, citing a couple of such games that were played at N.C. Central's O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium. Hillside (1-0) played Southern at County Stadium in November 2008 in a second round 4-A state playoff game, in that case because of damage to Southern's home field.
"This is a community game," Hill said. "It's a big game with a lot of interest and playing at County Stadium makes this game accessible to all the community."
Jones said the fact that tonight's game is Southern's opener — the Spartans had an open date on Aug. 23 — could be advantageous.
Hillside, which beat state No. 5-ranked New Bern 27-24 in overtime Friday on the road while ranked No. 23 itself, has the advantage of having played a game and ironed out some early season wrinkles.
But Southern has seen tape of that game.
"It's always a plus to be able to watch film on the other team," Jones said. "It's easier for the kids to visualize what they're (Hillside) doing."
While the teams are no longer members of the same conference — Southern has been reclassified to the 3-A ranks and now plays in the Big Eight Conference, while Hillside remains a member of the PAC-6 4-A — tonight's game is a big one.
"It's always a big game in terms of bragging rights," Jones said. "But it's a seeding thing in the playoffs as well. I'm happy to still be playing them (Hillside)."
Hillside coach Antonio King said that while the game means a lot to fans and players alike, in fact it no longer has anywhere near the importance it did when Hillside and Southern battled annually for the top spot in the PAC-6.
"What does this game mean? Nothing. It's not a conference game, not like when it was between us and them for the conference title and it was a legitimately big game," King said. "I know it still means a lot to a lot of people, though."
Both teams have oustanding skill position talent, particularly on offense.
Southern junior quarterback Kendall Hinton has held a scholarship offer since last fall from Duke coach David Cutcliffe, who's renowned for his work with outstanding quarterbacks including NFL stars Peyton and Eli Manning. Wide receiver Maurice Trowell has committed to N.C. State and running back Will Cameron holds a scholarship offer from West Virginia. Slot receiver/running back Jordan Brown, a sophomore transfer from Northern where he started as a freshman, is another standout.
Hillside counters with a pair of skill players among the most sought-after in the nation by college coaches in four-star senior prospects Trevion Thompson, a wide receiver, and Donté Thomas-Williams, a running back. Each starred against New Bern on Friday. Junior quarterback Nas Forte-Ferguson is new but has star potential throwing the ball.
"They're pretty good on offense, and so are we," Jones said. "Their real strength is up front on the offensive and defensive lines. We're both big and strong on the lines. This is going to come down to a battle of the trenches."
Those lines are big ones for both teams, particularly on offense. Hillside will start tackles Emanuel McGirt (6-5, 260) and Rashawn Henderson (6-2, 225), guards DaQuan Brown (6-2, 295) and Marcus Pettiford (6-5, 255) and center Brandon Thompson (6-1, 315). Southern will counter with tackles Devonta Lynch (6-2, 275) and Noah Chase (6-5, 296), guards Eric Allen (6-2, 273) and Christian Howze (5-9, 240) and center Khalif Dean (5-10, 245).
On the defensive front, Hillside will field defensive ends Khalon Howard (6-2, 225) and K.J. Covington (6-0, 200) and tackle Teshaun Dawson (6-2, 250) and Markus Crutchfield (6-0, 230). Southern answers with ends Isaiah Ross (6-0, 186) and Tahj Spivey (6-1, 215) and tackles Douglas Satterfield (5-11, 210) and Tyler Herbert (6-2, 275).
One of Hillside's key concerns tonight will be stopping Hinton. The Hornets had their hands full trying to contain New Bern quarterback Michael Hughes Friday. Hughes broke free on five long plays totalling over 190 yards — more than half New Bern's total offense on the night. Hinton, too, is an explosive signal caller.
King said he thought the Hornets' defense should be better prepared to handle Hinton after facing Hughes, and recognizing it needs to focus better, pay attention to details and seal the deal with strong tackling, keeping big plays to a minimum.
"We had our hands on (Hughes) a lot, but didn't always bring him down," King said.
NOTES — Bryant has been replaced as AD by top Southern football aide and boys' track coach Darius Robinson. Bryant remains on the school's faculty and as head baseball coach. ... Adrian Jones laughed when it was posed to him that AD Robinson, his defensive coordinator, now doubles as his boss. ... "When it comes to football, Adrian is still my boss," Robinson said, also laughing. "It's a give-and-take," Robinson added, saying that he and Jones are friends — as well as colleagues — for life. ... In this week's MaxPreps.com statewide rankings, Hillside is No. 11 and New Bern No. 12. Southern, a 3-A program, is ranked 75th overall. MaxPreps is the official online partner of the N.C. High School Athletic Association.
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EPP406 - Professional Identity and Curriculum Work
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Student must be enrolled in course E377, D351 or D347
E377 students must have completed or are completing their Senior Health and Human Development Curriculum Studies
D347 students must have completed or are completing their Secondary Curriculum Studies B for their 2nd teaching method area.
D351 students must have completed or are completing their Secondary Curriculum Studies 2B for their 1st teaching method area.
|Unit chair:
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Students must have passed EPP305 & must have passed three units in EPP101, EPP102, EPP203, EPP207, EPP304
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15 hours – 3 day intensive
This unit includes 35 days professional experience - 10 days (EPP406A) and 25 days (EPP406B) in a secondary setting.
This is the sixth of the six units in the education studies major. This unit is the final Education Studies Major unit. The unit engages with the transition from student teacher to teacher. Curriculum theory as teachers work is engaged with particular emphasis on curriculum as community and complexity. The students will revisit their professional stance as it has developed from the beliefs articulated in Year 1 through to this final stepping off point. Ethical and legal imperatives in teachers work will be addressed. This will be taught in intensive mode occurring pre ¡V professional experience, during and at the completion. Students will be involved in online communication with staff and peers as they develop their final professional portfolio entries.
This unit includes 35 days professional experience - 2 days per week for 5 weeks and a 25 day block in a secondary setting. During these days the preservice teacher will:
- undertake an orientation to the school environment
- plan units of work/whole class program for a class at junior and/or senior levels of the school using an appropriate format for extended planning as discussed with supervising teachers
- teach lessons for a class at junior and/or senior levels of the school; the equivalent of 2 50 minute lessons per day (one in each method) over the 20 week period.
- observe lessons: equivalent of 1 50 minute lesson in each method, per day, over the duration of the placement.
- become fully involved in the life and operations of the school, as per a beginning teacher
- conduct 3-5 parent/student/teacher interviews.
- keep a journal (electronic and/or hardcopy) in which evidence of their planning, observations, collected documents, participation in school activities and reflections are kept. Pre-service teachers will be expected to share their journal with their supervising teachers and appropriate University teaching staff.
The purpose of the 25 day block is to demonstrate the ability to teach for a sustained period of time and consolidate teaching skills. The Deakin ATA should be undertaken during this period. At the conclusion of this placement, the supervising teacher in conjunction with the University teaching staff will be asked to complete the report and indicate whether the preservice teacher is 'Ready to Teach'.
Professional decision making and communication task 40%
Authentic Teacher Assessment 60%
Hurdle Requirement: Assessing the professional experience
For students enrolled in School of Education courses, the professional experience component is assessed primarily by the class-based teacher who advises the Unit Chair. Satisfactory completion of the Professional Experience component is compulsory in order for the student to progress.
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Okay, as you probably know, dh has taken my bp a few times already. It seems to have jumped a little from my baseline already at about 9 wks pg so we decided to check it over a few days and see if it really is my new norm. Nothing high enough to qualify as hypertension (baseline of 100's/60's with increase to the 120's/80's), but it makes me wonder just the same. Last pregnancy we attributed the start of my BP increase to the end of my hyperemesis but I don't have that this time around.
So here is my question...I know that a rise in BP in the second trimester is not a good sign and that hypertension before 20 wks is a sign of chronic htn, but where do I sit? I meet neither of these criteria, atleast not yet. Is it common to have a rise in BP in the first trimester?
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WVU Falls to Marshall in Rubber Match
BECKLEY, W.Va. – The WVU baseball team fell 6-5 to Marshall in front of 2,103 fans on Tuesday evening at Linda K. Epling Stadium.
The Mountaineers (30-23) dropped the season series against the Thundering Herd (20-31) after splitting the first two games earlier in the season.
Marshall tied the game and took the 6-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh with a two-out two-run double by Alfredo Brito off the right field wall to score Isaac Ballou and Gray Stafford.
Ballou led all batters with three hits, three runs and two doubles, while Nathan Gomez, Eric Escobedo and Brito each recorded two hits and two RBIs for the Thundering Herd.
West Virginia was led offensively by sophomore second baseman Billy Fleming and redshirt senior right fielder Chris Rasky with two hits apiece.
A pair of two-out RBI singles by West Virginia and Marshall allowed each team to score one run in the first inning. Redshirt junior designated hitter Matt Frazer scored junior third baseman Ryan Tuntland from second base to give WVU an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, while Marshall's Nathan Gomez scored Ballou.
Junior center fielder Kevin Cohen drew a bases loaded hit by pitch to put WVU ahead 2-1 in the top of the second, followed by a double off the left field wall by Fleming, extending the Mountaineers lead to 4-1.
Ballou scored another run in the third inning, while Gomez scored on an Escobedo single in the fifth inning, cutting the Mountaineer lead to 4-3.
Rasky gave WVU an insurance run and a 5-3 lead in the seventh inning with a two-out double to right center field, scoring junior first baseman Ryan McBroom from second base.
Freshman right-hander Brock Dykxhoorn (2-1) made his first start in two weeks and allowed three runs on seven hits in 5.0 innings for the Mountaineers. Junior right-hander Josh Harlow (0-2) allowed three runs on three hits in 1.2 innings to take the loss.
Marshall starter Alex Thackston (1-3) gave up four runs on two hits with two walks and one strikeout in 1.0 inning. Ryan Hopkins (4-2) earned the victory for Marshall in 0.1 innings, while Josh King picked up his sixth save of the season.
The Mountaineers will close out the regular season this weekend against Big 12 foe Oklahoma State at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater, Okla. Thursday's opener will begin at 7:30 p.m., Friday's game is set for 7:30 p.m. and Sunday's finale will be at 4 p.m. Friday's matchup will be televised by Fox College Sports.
All three games can be heard on the affiliates of the Mountaineer Sports Network with the Morgantown affiliate WAJR 1440 AM serving as the flagship station.
Men's Basketball: Bahamas Preview
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Ginger Bailey was the first item on the commissioners' Jan. 15 agenda and she explained the purpose of the Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax and the importance of the continuation of the one-cent tax.
Before the ESPLOST was approved by Jones County voters in 1998, schools were funded with bond issues and it took decades to pay off the debt. In contrast with the ESPLOST, the buildings are paid for by the time they are completed.
Clifton Ridge Middle School, Dames Ferry Elementary, Wells Primary School, the renovation of the Califf Complex to house the ninth grade campus, and Turner Woods Elementary were all paid for with the one-cent sales tax.
Since 2002, schools have not received a dime from the lottery or from the state for technology. ESPLOST funds have funded new computers and software and have purchased new buses.
Bailey emphasized that the ESPLOST is not a new tax but a renewal of the tax that has been in existence since 1999. She said Gray Elementary has been a good school, but because of its age, it is no longer eligible for any state funds.
"It needs to be replaced but without the ESPLOST, we cannot build the school," she said.
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My mom, Kelly, gets Helen all the time at Starbucks. Not just once or twice, but nearly 80% of the time. And she doesn't have an accent.
My first name, Reine, has some weird ones. I get Ree-Ann quite often (actually second to Renee and Rain). Um, my name doesn't have an A in it...
I know a Kylah who gets Kayla; a Kylie that gets Kaylee; a Cayenne who gets Cheyanne; Markeisha who got Mackenzie (No joke!); an Aurelia who gets Ariella; a Tanajah who gets Tawn-uh-shuh, and a heck of a lot more.~lucy reine~~ celestine eira ~ mary simona ~ elizabeth echo "ellie" ~ eleanor maeve "lena" ~ vivienne isla ~ celia matilda "cici" ~ catherine aiko "rin" ~ elsa verity ~~ jasper red ~ evander lachlan 'evan'~ kai nicholas ~ ezra link ~ avery thomas ~ michael satoshi "mischa" ~ finn jeremias ~ ezekiel hayden ~ alexander rowan "sacha" ~
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September 12th, 2013 03:54 AM #10
I'm Angel. My whole life almost every time I introduce myself to someone they go "Oh Angela" and I'm already shaking my head. "No, it's just Angel."
Then I get a weird look. "But isn't it short for Angela?" "No, it's just Angel." Then they usually immediately start trying to call me Angie.
I once had a sub in high school who, and I am not kidding, spent half a class arguing with me about my own name. She insisted I was Angela and that it was a typo on the list. She went so far as to tell me I didn't know my own name and that no one would be dumb enough to name someone just Angel because it wasn't a real name.
I had this same conversation in college with my first German teacher who had moved from Germany not that long ago but it was more like "You know Angel isn't a real name in Germany. Your mother wouldn't have been allowed to name you that. It would have had to be Angela since that's a proper name."
I also had a "Angel? Not Angela? Is that your birth name?" conversation in college.
I've also been called April WAY more than you would think. I've also been called Ashley a few times. As a matter of fact, April is what people tend to say when they've only just met me and can't be bothered to remember Angel 5 minutes later. After 3 years at the daycare my boss was still calling me April sometimes and my husbands grandparents called me April the entire 5 years we dated.http://www.amazon.com/Angel-Blackwood/e/B00SARZLFY -- My Amazon Author Page
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As a Jemima, I get 'Jemma' a LOT. There's a whole syllable that people are missing! And the spellings can be truly atrocious. I've had Jemma millions of times, but also Jemimah, Gemima, Jemymah... it's horrible!
I've taken to introducing myself as 'Jemima, like the puddle duck'; or 'Jemima, like the doll on PlaySchool' and then people get it right 95% of the time, which is nice!
My twin sister Gretel gets a lot of 'Greta's; and also some interesting spellings. Grettle (like kettle I suppose), Gretal, and Gretyl, to name a few. She now sometimes introduces herself, 'Gretel, like Hansel and Gretel'. We have very story-book names! I love it though; I would never change my name.Jemima
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Sasha Dobson's Journey Out Of Jazz And Into Songwriting
Originally published on Sat June 29, 2013 2:44 pm
Smith Dobson was one of the most sought-after pianists of the Bay Area when he died in a car crash in 2001. He was part of a musical family — his wife, Gail, a jazz singer; his son a drummer. His daughter, Sasha Dobson, was a scat singer who followed the family's jazz muse until her dad's tragic death.
Then, Sasha picked up the guitar, started playing in her friend Norah Jones' band, and now she has her own solo career; Aquarius, her first album of original songs, has just been released. Click the audio link to hear her conversation with NPR's Lynn Neary, and read on for highlights, including some that didn't make the radio version.
Interview Highlights
On leaving jazz behind
"It's actually still pretty hard for me, because I get so much energy from that music, and I don't know how to be a part of both worlds. Especially these days, you really have to title yourself to move forward in your career. But I wish to do both forever. I still love that music; I still harbor a torch for that knowledge. I just don't quite know how to filter it into what I'm doing now. It's just not my way anymore, especially socially. Picking up the guitar really opened up my life socially in a totally different way."
On Puss n Boots, her country trio with Norah Jones
"We were just comrades, you know? Pals on the scene. We both lost touch for various reasons. And one day years later we ran into each other, and that was it. I mentioned that I was thinking about playing guitar, and she was like, 'Oh, my God, me too.' ... Most of the covers that I would offer up were old jazz numbers, and most of the covers that Norah would offer up were more like Hank Williams and so on. [Country music] was maybe something that we embraced first because it's simple in its chord structure; you can dive in. That's part of the reason I love guitar, is that I only needed to know a few chords."
That's Smith Dobson playing "Body and Soul."
Dobson was one of the most sought-after pianists of the Bay Area when he died in a car crash in 2001. He was part of a musical family - his wife Gail, a jazz singer, his son, a drummer, his daughter, Sasha Dobson, was a scat singer. She was following the family's jazz muse until her dad's tragic death.
Then Sasha picked up the guitar and started playing in her friend Norah Jones' band. Now, she has her own solo career. "Aquarius," her first album of original songs, has just been released.
SASHA DOBSON: (Singing) I've got to make it all right. And I'm trying to make it all right. I'll do what I'll do. I'll make it through. I'm trying to make it all right.
NEARY: Sasha Dobson joins us from our New York bureau. Welcome to the program, Sasha.
DOBSON: Hi. Thank you.
NEARY: Good to have you with us.
DOBSON: What an amazing introduction and surprise.
DOBSON: Holy moly. How great to hear that.
NEARY: Well, you know, you've called this album, in quote, "a documentation of the journey since my father died."
DOBSON: Right.
NEARY: What happened after your father died, and tell us about that journey.
DOBSON: I mean, it's been 12 years. I was thinking about it today. It's like, you know, the process of evolution, it's not simple when you're going through all the changes but, you know, it's taken some time to reach this place. It wasn't like one day I decided I'm not going to sing jazz anymore.
NEARY: Well, you were a scat singer, right?
DOBSON: I still am.
DOBSON: Most people don't know it but, you know, I was and I use that improvisational tool for songwriting for sure.
DOBSON: (Singing) (Unintelligible)
NEARY: So, I could hear the scat singer in there.
DOBSON: You can? I love it.
DOBSON: That means a lot.
NEARY: Yeah, I can.
Well, how hard was it for you to leave jazz behind? Was it something you wanted to do or just something that your father just sort of thrust you into?
DOBSON: You know, it's actually still pretty hard for me because I get so much energy from that music and I don't know how to be a part of both worlds. You know, especially these days, you really have to like title yourself to move forward in your "career," quote, unquote, you know. But I wish to do both forever. I mean, I still love that music, I still harbor a torch for that knowledge. I just don't quite know how to filter it into what I'm doing now. It's just not my way anymore and especially socially. You know, picking up the guitar really opened up my life socially in a totally different way.
DOBSON: (Singing) The day we met was the day you left. The day we met was the day you left for good.
I'm not prolific in that I just want to spew out a bunch of songs and words. It has to come from the heart and I have to want to sing it. And I have jazz ears and a harmonic mind, so it can't just be songs, it has to be something that inspires me to sing.
DOBSON: You are like a melody, twists and turns through every key. Ah, ha, ah, ha, ah, ha, ah, ah.
NEARY: How did you start playing with Norah Jones? Did you know her or...
DOBSON: Nora and I knew each other, you know, I was singing jazz from the second I got here. I moved to New York when I was 17 and very headstrong. I had already spent years singing jazz with my parents. And Norah and I shared some of the same gigs, like, at the same clubs - jazz gigs - back in the day when we were 19. And this was before, you know, what happened to my dad. It was before her record came out, her first record. We were just comrades, you know, pals on the scene. And we both lost touch for various reasons. In one day, you know, years later, we ran into each other and that was it.
NEARY: I wanted to play a little bit of a duet...
DOBSON: Oh, sure.
NEARY: ...with you and Norah Jones. And this is from an album that Norah did with various artists.
DOBSON: Right.
NEARY: And this song called "Bull Rider." Let's listen to that.
DOBSON: (Singing) Well, first off, you gotta wanna get off bad enough to wanna get on in the first place.
NORA JONES: (Singing) And you better trust in your lady luck. Pray to God that she don't give up on you right now.
SASHA DOBSON AND NORA JONES: (Singing) Live fast, die young, bull rider, hey, hey.
NEARY: So you were just two country gals, huh?
DOBSON: Oh, my god.
DOBSON: It's funny, you know, when that came out just because I guess you could call us country gals, but boy, it's hilarious because it sure is a what I was raised singing, you know, or playing even. I mean, honestly, I think for me, country was maybe something that we embraced first because it's simple in its chord structure and, you know, you can dive in. That's part of the reason I love guitars, that I only guitar is that I only needed to know a chords.
DOBSON: (Singing) I want the sunshine around me always, swimming to a simple life, like my days of California.
NEARY: So this album is called "Aquarius." Why?
DOBSON: Well, my dad was an Aquarius. You know, I grew up in California so I definitely had some of that like new-agey(ph) stuff lingering. But I'm not like an astrology freak. You know, I think of the Age of Aquarius - a time of people coming together and evolving into a different awareness. And certainly, going back to my own personal experience of knowing my dad for a short period of time, I just felt like it made sense to call the record that.
NEARY: Well, good luck with your future evolution.
DOBSON: Thanks, man.
NEARY: Sasha Dobson, her new CD is called "Aquarius."
DOBSON: (Singing) Oh, Oh, oh...
NEARY: This is WEEKEND EDITION FROM NPR News. I'm Lynn Neary. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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PHOENIX -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be in southern Arizona Tuesday to tour the border. Napolitano recently declared the border is as safe as it has ever been. Patrick Bray with the Arizona Cattlemen's Association said ranchers will tell you that just isn't so.
Dangerous drug and human smugglers have been able to elude ground sensors and cameras.
"They know when the cameras are operating and where they're at," Bray said.
Bray also noted that barbed wire fence is all that separates Arizona ranches from dangerous smugglers on much of the border. He's calling for more boots on the ground to protect ranchers.
"The people moving the drugs are animals," said Bray. "They have no regard for human life or the law. Since last February one rancher has had 17 drive-through's on his property, where the smugglers cut the fence and drive a vehicle through and make it to the highway.
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Come visit us during berry season on the Bonavista Peninsula.
Hike Skerwink or one of the other 5 trails in the recently developed Hike Discovery Trail Network, which lead to awe inspiring rock formations, beautifully built lighthouses and coastlines with views that will stop you in your tracks. Photograph the Root Cellar Capitol of the world in Elliston or take a peak over the edge at the Dungeon Provincial Park in Bonavista. See if you can find the Devil's Footprints in Keels or marvel beneath the Arches at Tickle Cove.
Visit some of Newfoundland's abandoned, but not forgotten, outports with captain Bruce Miller on his Rugged Beauty Boat Tour in New Bonaventure as he brings his own personal stories of these disappeared communities to life. New Bonaventure has also been nicknamed "Hollywood East" as it was used as the primary setting for movies such as Random Passage, The Shipping News and The Grand Seduction.
The historic sites of Trinity will remain open until the Thanksgiving Weekend. These seven buildings, all within walking distance of the Artisan Inn transform the town into a living museum experience. Drop into the forge to talk to the town's blacksmith or pop into the cooperage to watch the local cooper make fishermen's lunch boxes amongst other fine crafted products.
In the evenings, relax and put up your feet on the Twine Loft deck and pass the time capturing that perfect picture of the setting sun (the best sunsets on the Bonavista Peninsula happen in October!). Sip on a Newfoundland beer or perhaps a martini with gin crafted from iceberg water. We know it can get chilly being right on the water, so we have cozy blankets on hand to keep you warm.
For dinner, guests will experience a candle lit multi course meal in the Twine Loft dining room, prepared by the local cook in our open kitchen. While it is a set menu, a fish and meat option will always be offered and vegetarian and gluten free options can be prepared by advance request. Our well-trained local staff will be happy to answer your questions about the area and help you plan your next day.
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Glucagonoma is a very rare tumor of the islet cells of the pancreas, which leads to an excess of the hormone glucagon in the blood.
Glucagonoma is usually cancerous (malignant). The cancer tends to spread and get worse.
This cancer affects the islet cells of the pancreas. As a result, the islet cells produce too much of the hormone glucagon.
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Jensen RT, Norton JA. Endocrine tumors of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 32.
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Apple announced today that Scott Forstall, senior vice-president of iOS, and John Browett, recent SVP of retail, are leaving the company. Forstall, who came to Apple from NeXT when Steve Jobs returned to the company, will stay on until next year as an advisor to Tim Cook. John Browett sounds like he's leaving far more immediately. Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, Craig Federighi, and Bob Manfield will be divvying up a lot of their duties. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said in the press release:
We are in one of the most prolific periods of innovation and new products in Apple's history. The amazing products that we've introduced in September and October, iPhone 5, iOS 6, iPad mini, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod touch, iPod nano and many of our applications, could only have been created at Apple and are the direct result of our relentless focus on tightly integrating world-class hardware, software and services.
While it's impossible to separate fact from fiction from simple politicking, Forstall had reportedly been a strong personality at Apple, and was rumored to have been butting heads with Jony Ive, among others, over the direction of Apple design. He was also in charge of the troubled launches of both Siri, which suffered repeated network and reliability problems, and iOS 6 maps, whose geographical data issues turned into a public relations problem for Apple. The press release certainly reads more as a welcome for Ive in his new roll than anything resembling a grateful farewell to Forstall for his work to date.
Jony Ive, longtime SVP of Industrial Design, will take over Human Interface across Apple.
His incredible design aesthetic has been the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple's products for more than a decade.
Eddy Cue, promoted to SVP of Internet and Services following the ill-fated MobileMe launch, which take on Siri and Maps.
This organization has overseen major successes such as the iTunes Store, the App Store, the iBookstore and iCloud. This group has an excellent track record of building and strengthening Apple's online services to meet and exceed the high expectations of our customers.
Craig Federighi, who took over OS X following the departure of Bertrand Serlet, will also take on iOS.
Apple has the most advanced mobile and desktop operating systems, and this move brings together the OS teams to make it even easier to deliver the best technology and user experience innovations to both platforms.
Bob Mansfield, who left his post as SVP of Hardware Engineering, only to return as SVP of [nothing specified] will now lead a new group called Technologies.
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Apple will conduct a search to replace Browett as the head of retail. Browett was the subject of controversy recently when cuts to Apple store staff and rumored shifts in priority led to some embarrassing publicity and backpedaling.
[In] the interim, the Retail team will report directly to Tim Cook. Apple's Retail organization has an incredibly strong network of leaders at the store and regional level who will continue the excellent work that has been done over the past decade to revolutionize retailing with unique, innovative services for customers.
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I want to agree with you, but I live in LA off of the most used street in town and it can't find my address. It still has some major issues.
Jack Welch - "If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near."
Apple is NOT letting this happen. So, that's good news.
Apple needs to spark a "next chapter", now that dominance in premium mobile products has just about run its course.
They better not let the customer experience on the retail side suffer though. That is usually the beginning of the end. Ask CompUSA.
I can only hope this means some much needed UI updates for iOS but I doubt it.
Forstall would be gone because of the Maps and Siri issues and apparently he didn't get along with Ive and others.
Browett isn't much of a concern because he was a new hire and he did a poor job handling the retail sector by reminding the poorly paid employees that they are poorly paid and overworked.
I think the departures shortly after Tim Cook was appointed CEO were of more importance but this core group gaining more power within the company could be a bad sign. But that's something that won't become apparent for a few more years.
They are talented but if these and the previous departures are due to anyone not fitting in with this group being shown the door it can lead to an echo chamber within the company where they don't accept being challenged. Combined with Apple's notoriously ineffective board members and you can end up with problems as the company faces challenges in the future.
I'm not saying that this is the case but it could be a possibility and something to watch for. Why is Bob Mansfield back to heading a department after Apple announced his retirement? He's been another source of rumours suggesting that the engineers couldn't work with Dan Riccio and demanded that Mansfield be retained. Turnover is natural within companies but where are people going to find more opportunity than Apple?
@nod_scene - I think that's precisely what you can expect. With someone else signing off on the UI, we may see more risk and adventure in the iOS visual design language, which is my no means poor, but it is dated and in need of keeping with the pace of it's hardware evolution. This pretty much cements the end of skeuomorphism at Apple.
Exactly... as does OSX and any cross-polination between the two. I know this has all been fairly new, but for Apple, it has been incredibly sloppy up until now IMO. It's like the various software teams weren't even talking to one another or looking across the isle at the other's apps at this point. They also seem to have forgotten what they spent years learning about UI at points. They need to pull together, so I see this as a good sign.
Good I'm glad forstall is leaving. He stirred the pot too much according to rumor, and didn't back his s**t up that he said obviously as Rene stated. As for the rest of the company, I believe everything's OK. Apple continues to be an EXCEPTIONAL company and continues to release innovative, quality products. They may not be as innovative as some of you critics like, but for me and millions of others -I am very satisfied with all of the apple devices and software and I actually like the look of the software and how it is similar to real world things. Android has that stale "file and systems" look if u know what I mean, not trying to knock android but just comparing it and how fun and easy the iOS and OS X interfaces are. I feel apple will keep doing big things for years to come. Those of u that say things like apple is slipping and who call innovative things like Siri a flop are completely wrong, for what Siri is it could've been a hell of a lot worse (go use Samsung galaxy S3 and play with "S" voice...) and I think Siri is maturing into a smart little assistant and she always gets what I say right. Some people will always hate on apple those are the same people who are always gonna say "don't conform man" and I think that's stupid if that's the only reason u jump on android or any other OS ... It should be about what works for you and don't knock apple just cause it works for most of the worlds' population.
As an investor I'm concerned. Too much turn over in Sr. management is bad for business for a winning company. The road ahead is going to get rougher for a while.
3 loosing quarters (not saying they lost money, but they're acting more like a normal company) could me a much lower share price. I think we might see AAPL back to $480 by this time next year.
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Sat, May 26th, 2012, 11am to 11.45am PST – we will be broadcasting LIVE! (as long as the internet connection is strong enough)
Join me for this LIVE netcast celebrating my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast". This event is being broadcast from 11 to 11.45am PST on Sat May 26th, 2012 from San Francisco, CA.
Please stop by if you're in the SF embarcadero area:
I'm starting to netcast for the first time again since I conceived of and executive produced 'Fiber' back in 1995, before ISDN or T1 were available! 'Fiber' was the World's 1st online fashion show event ever, and it was broadcast over copper phone lines to the Mbone at UC Berkeley, CA, and then out to the world!
Thanks for joining me here and for helping me celebrate my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast"! Love you all xo, ani
New Year's Day 2012 I took a trip out to Pasadena's Rose Bowl to help with the Donate Life float for the Rose Parade, which was on Jan 2nd this year. Donate Life is an amazing organization that raises awareness so we stick that pink dot onto our driver's license, to help save lives by being an organ donor. My dad was a kidney recipient, so this organization rings very close to my heart.
This is the beautiful finished float. The folks sitting on it are the stars of the show…family members of donors from 2011. The stories I heard yesterday were so moving, and I broke into tears numerous times. One woman's 9-year old daughter had gone to the hospital for an ear infection. The hospital misdiagnosed and mistreated her (not uncommon), and she died. Her mom was proud to share how her daughter lives on in others, literally, and that her daughter has saved many lives by being a donor. You can see the portraits of each donor on 6 clock faces, a total of 72 donors are honored.
My good friend Vicky is a 'red jacket' and one of the team leaders on this huge project. She's been here working on the float for weeks from early morning until 11pm. A huge undertaking, whew.
We are all misting the flowers with water before the float is moved outdoors for judging. It was gorgeous in Pasadena, 80 degrees!
Everything on all of the floats in the Rose Parade are all organic! This means only living materials like flowers, leaves, seeds,…all put on by hand.
Look at this detail….mustard seeds painstakingly glued onto the surface. Wow.
Beans and flower petals have all been attached by hand.
This is the bed of roses underneath the clock with the moving hands at the front of the float.
Look closely and you can see each of these red roses has a wish tied onto them.
When the float moved outside into the sun, all the colors popped so brightly! You can see the driver of the float inside the open door. The driver can't see a thing, and is guided by audio by someone outside the float.
At one point, everyone held hands in a circle around the float. It was very moving. And even the judges teared up and cried when they talked with the donor families and heard all the incredible stories. Today, I discovered (since I don't have a TV to watch the parade myself) that our float won one of the top 3 trophies and the craftsmanship award for outstanding showmanship and dramatic impact over 55 feet! Yeah! I also heard that floats cost about a half a million dollars to build! Great exposure and for a wonderful cause.
This was one of the best, most memorable New Year Day's of my life. What a way to spend the 1st day of the new year. Plus, I felt like it was in honor too of my dad, who was so very blessed to have had a kidney transplant, which helped extended his life another 10 or 12 years. I learned that a liver lives for 100 years, so even after someone passes from old age, a liver can be donated to help another person live. Amazing.
I've chosen to be an organ donor for as long as I can remember, and I hope you will also consider joining me in helping save lives so someone else may live one more day! For more information check out Donate Life.
This was the beautiful view of the rose gardens as we arrived at the NetKal Gala event….. gathering of Asian Americans in entertainment.
Styled by my favorite fashion designer Linda Loudermilk of all time, plus…she's all about luxury eco! Makeup and hair by the best artist ever, Dorit Genazzani.
The beautiful Lisa Ling (Oprah Winfrey Network, Our America) and her husband Dr. Paul Song.
Bryan Tee from Fast and the Furious. I can count all of 2 Asian actors in film. At least they're representing! Yeah.
From the TV show Dexter, actor C.S. Lee. Okay, this makes 2 Asian actors…one TV, one film, so far. I can think of one more Asian male from TV. Hopefully, you can too.
The NetKal Gala was held at USC at the Annenberg Center.
The event was catered by my friends at Good Gracious Catering. I met Pauline and Joanne at Sunset Magazine's annual Celebration weekend event last spring, where I was invited along with Chef Rick Bayless (Frontera), Candace Nelson (Sprinkles), and Govind Armstrong (8oz Burger). So impressive they included vegan raw along side these TV celebrities.
The food was presented beautifully. And, my friends hooked me up with a vegan meal, of course!
Check out this space, there was a pool and water fountain in the center. It was cold that night though. The ladies were all freezing in their cocktail dresses. I had my coat on for dinner. Dinner was accompanied by performances by 3 Korean pop stars. Sort of made me giggle. USA and Korea entertainment is very different. An incredible event. And great conference the following day with discussions and inspiration for ways to encourage more diversity in the media. Some said it'll take a few years. I'm not holding my breath though….
Thank you Nathan Nowack for these gorgeous photos. Please visit Nathan Nowack for more photos from this event.
Old school friends came down from San Francisco last weekend to host the most wicked day of dance, tunes, and great vibes…and it was the best day I've enjoyed in a while! DJ's Solar (above) and Galen (below) are both Sunset and Pacific Sound crews. (I used to have a multimedia studio back in the day in SF, and we threw a historic NYE party in 1995 together with Sunset). When I lived in SF, all I would do is dance for exercise. It's the best workout ever! Plus, Solar cooks, and of course loves Raw Food!
Here's Galen. These guys still look the same as they did back in the early 90′s! And they put so much love into their music, you can feel it. We agreed dancing, good music, and raves are what keep us young! I was just up in SF a couple months ago, and went to the Sunset boat party hosted on a ferry that sails the Bay from 6 to 11pm. A perfect way to finish off the weekend, always.
Since I'm usually in bed by 10pm, this daytime party in the park was exactly what I needed! The sun was bright and warm in Van Nuys where we all laid out picnic blankets, brought food, and danced up a storm. Galen, Solar, and the Sunset Crew are known for their outdoor parties on Sunday afternoons. They've been hosting them for probably over 20 years now! We'd all end up at Sunset parties after a long weekend. Great way to taper down off the weekend.
Another great thing about partying in the park is that Kanga can join in too! She laid down in the middle of the dance floor early on, and made folks dance around her the rest of the afternoon. She loves to be in the center of everything. She was very popular, and calm, but, …..no parking on the dance floor Kanga!
My lovely lady friends, and Max the dog. Maria's the beautiful blond, and is the talented photographer who took the cover photo on Ani's Raw Food Asia.
Galen spun last, and brought in the sunset while pumping the dance floor. He and Solar both motivated me to go to their after party downtown, which started past midnight, …..and it went to dawn! A Sunset, and then sunrise event! (Small world too because the party ended up in a warehouse space owned by Thomas, who has assisted me in my raw food kitchen!)
Thank you Sunset, Solar, and Galen. Come visit us in LA again soon, and host more outdoor parties for us…please! I miss great SF tunes, the Sunset sound, and vibe. I'd head to SF for their Halloween Boat Party, except Mom's coming to visit me in LA. Thanks for bringing your tunes to LA for us to enjoy! Love you guys! xoxo
To celebrate completing my book, I spent the day on my bicycle. Rode it about 25 miles to and from the ocean, and I was stoked the sun finally came out…even in Santa Monica (which seems to always be overcast, foggy, and cold compared to West Hollywood). While I was in Santa Monica, I stopped at the beach by the pier, where there's an adult playground with ropes to climb, balance beams, parallel bars, and a row of rings to swing on.
Since I'm a monkey (Chinese year of the Monkey) I was drawn to the rings. It looked hard, but it really doesn't take strength, but rather, finesse. You just have to get enough momentum, rocking back and forth, to swing and grab the next ring. That said, my hands were killing me, and I was on the kiddie set of rings! The adult set are really high up, and scary. But, perhaps I'll give them a try next time I visit the coast.
Whenever I find myself West of the 405, which is a rarity, I make sure to stop into see Juliano at Planet Raw for his kick-ass chocolate shake….that revs up my cycle back home. Yesterday, I enjoyed a burrito at Better Life Cuisine, and spent a couple hours catching up with Dr. Z, who owns that building.
Back in WEHO, I stopped at Beverly Juice Club for my favorite green juice shake blended with frozen banana and sunflower seeds (no added sweetener). Had hoped to get to my favorite Koreatown Sauna, but ran out of time. Instead, met my friend and his puppy at the park with Kanga, and they had a great doggie play date together. Then, met up with my brother, Max, for dinner later in the evening.
A great day it was celebrating life, love, health, sunshine, and ….with good friends and family. I'm blessed.
Labor Day marks the weekend my Rhodesian Ridgeback, Kanga, and I rescued one another….9-years ago! How time flies. (and yes, I cake sunblock on my face, as you can see).
Kanga had been at the Humane Society for over 2 weeks, and no one adopted her. Surprising, since she is a beautiful specimen of this breed. Plus, she came fully trained, so someone had spent a lot of time and energy with her. She was skin and bone, and 50+ pounds underweight with kennel cough and dusty fur. Poor baby.
Luckily, a truck intercepted 20 dogs on their way to get euthanized, and brought them back to a no-kill shelter in Portland, OR called Family Dogs NW. This was where I found Kanga early the very next morning. I applied the same raw food principles to Kanga as I do for human healing, and over the next month or two she gained 50 pounds and regained radiant health on a Raw Food diet. You can read more about her journey in Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, where Kanga has her own dog food chapter.
My brother Max saw this photo of Kanga and said she looks like she's "mugging". I had to ask him what the heck that means. Max said "mugging = posing, like rappers do for pics". Hahaa. Yup, Kanga is a superstar, and very popular too. Folks always stop us to pet her, especially young children.
Kanga's from Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and the Sahara so she loves the sun, warmth, and sand. She hates water, but it was so hot out that Kanga got her paws wet. I love dog beach because here she can roam off-leash, and run free to play with other dogs.
Kanga and I love laying in the sand and soaking up the sun. It's never hot enough for us, and soaking up sun is one of our favorite past times. I'm happy I got to take Kanga to Huntington Dog Beach yesterday on the final hot day of the summer (it was 90 F) to celebrate her 9-year Bday and Dogversary with me. Thank you Kanga for being my family, love, and for hanging out with me for the past 9-years! I love you.
Watch my debut on Los Angeles TV with ABC 7′s Health Coach Lori Corbin. I show her 5 raw food recipes that have gone mainstream including my Zucchini Pasta (featured in Food Network Magazine), Nut Mylks (like Almond Milk), Green Smoothies, Kale Chips (from Ani's Raw Food Essentials), and Seaweed Chips (from Ani's Raw Food Asia).
Watch the 3-minute video, and learn how raw foods helps with weight loss too!
I was honored to have been invited to speak on a panel with superstars (from left to right above) Rachelle Carson Begley (married to Ed Begley), Sophie Uliano (NYTimes best selling author), Izabella Miko (actress), Carly Harrill (blogger ghost writer), Karen Stewart Brown (fashion designer), Kris Willey (host of WotGG), and Alexandra Spunt (author).
The focus of this panel was how we came into our careers. I explained how I used to work in a corporate environment that was not recycling, was wasting energy, and was using styrofoam cups for one 4 ounce shot of water. I realized my raw food catering and the weekly events I was hosting (to feed myself good food) was a successful business. So, I decided to leave corporate America to focus 100% on my prepared packaged foods, catering, and events. I followed my bliss because I believed raw foods helped people feel better and healthier. It also helps us tread lightly on our Planet.
This event was held in Culver City, Los Angeles, CA on Saturday May 14, 2011. These beautiful photos are courtesy of photosbyKailas.com. Thanks Kailas!
The 1st stop along my book tour for Ani's Raw Food Asia was at Santa Monica Place at Artisanal LA on April 16, 2011. Here are 4 short videos from my talk, Q+A, and book signing:
1) Ani's Raw Food Asia – I love organic, local, seasonal foods
2) Ani's Raw Food Asia – Probiotics, Happiness, Longevity
3) Ani's Raw Food Asia – Easy ways to add more raw to any diet!
4) Ani's Raw Food Asia – Recipe inspirations and sources for protein.
I had so much fun celebrating the pre-launch of Ani's Raw Food Asia at Artisanal LA in Santa Monica.
All of these beautiful photos were taken by the amazing Sherman Lee. Thanks Sherman!!
It was a weekend full of local and seasonal gourmet foods (though way too much bacon! – what's up with bacon these days?) and great expert panels and talks.
I love this fish eye photo, it was a full crowd with great people old and new to raw foods and the raw food diet and lifestyle. Thanks to the wonder woman organizer Shawna Dawson for all her support, for announcing my talk over the loud speaker, and for putting me and Ani's Raw Food Asia in their printed program.
Q+A is my favorite part of my appearances because I get to listen and interact with my new friends.
It's always so nice to have my brother Max and my family with me at my events.
This lovely lady kept asking me about how to learn to make raw food. I say if you're interested in making food, you have to learn how to make all foods first. Then you can translate it into raw food prep.
Libby drove all the way up from San Diego with her friends just to grab an early copy of Ani's Raw Food Asia.
Please check my homepage and also my calendar of events for upcoming events and stops along my book tour. Hope to see you all very soon. xoxo
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