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Corsair Obsidian 650D: Transmuting Graphite to Obsidianby Dustin Sklavos on 7/29/2011 1:05 AM EST
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The Sorcerer - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkNZXT Gamma and now Shinobi. Both brilliantly made cases for that price. Get a good set of fans and that's all one needs for a mid-end gaming rig.
Just a question, wouldn't filling up the HDD bays and doing the required cable work (SATA Power connectors and SATA cables) give more clear idea about how good the cable management should be? MATX layout boards are bundled with shorter SATA cables, whereas a full-fledged atx motherboards (Like...890GPA UD3H) comes with bit longer cables.
Its been a very long time since I got my hands on those prebuilt systems with "slim" unit linueups, but back in the days negative pressure enclosures were nicely made and well thought construction to hold the adds-ons nicely. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkI can actually comfortably say cable management in the 650D will still be stellar even if you load the whole thing up. Why? Because internally it's nigh identical to the 600T and I did exactly that with my primary machine. Reply
randinspace - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkWhy doesn't Corsair just produce a model that comes with one of their popular (?) water cooling units? Reply
AlexKitch - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkI'm a big fan of this case but had such problems getting my hard drives into the hard disk bays. I felt like I was about the snap them every time.
Also, make sure you get the update to this case which upgrades the fan controller and mounts the front intake fan on rubber standoffs rather than the original screws - this solves a lot of noise/resonance problems. Reply
darckhart - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkwhat's the model number for the "update?" Reply
AlexKitch - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkCorsair's website has it listed as product SKU# CC650D-FANKIT . When I bought the case, it had already been included in the box (but not fitted) Reply
Locklear - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkThe front fan is a real offender in noise. Something to do with the pitch of the fan-blades in combination with the front mesh. Just built a new comp with this case, and switching the 200mm fans with Cooler Master Megaflows worked wonders on noise. The annoying "whirling" disappeared completely. The fan change will come at a slight price though. You have to sacrifice one drive cage and move the other to the middle position in the cabinet due to the added 10mm depth on the megaflows (200x30mm). Using other 200x20mm fans should also work fine. Reply
rbg08 - Saturday, July 30, 2011 - linkGood to about this fix. I own this case and just yesterday ordered a Xigmatek XLF-F2004 White LED Black Case Fan (200x20mm) on sale from Newegg to match the fan on my Dark Knight-S1283W CPU heatsink. I was debating whether to install it in front or on top. Sounds like I may decrease noise as well by mounting it in front. Reply
malignate - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkThis is my biggest complaint about this case since I've set it up! If you do a search on youtube for 650d and noise, there is a video demonstrating this problem. I went back and forth with Corsair on a solution and the best they could come up with was to send me another fan. As mentioned, it has to do with the combination of the fan and the front mesh.
I tried replacing the front fan with the XIGMATEK CLF-F2004 White LED fan, which is also 20mm so it still fits without drive cage modification. This took some adjustment because the fan screw mounts on the fan are facing for an exhaust fan, not an intake fan. I ended up using wire ties and attaching it to the front mesh. Not pretty but it still works. Unfortunately, this fan has the same problem with this case but is slightly muted. I think I'm going to have to go the Cooler Master Megaflow route and move the hard drive cage as has been recommended by others. This is a ridiculous design flaw for a case that costs this much and seems otherwise well thought out. Corsair needs to fix this. Reply
flong777 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkI own the 650D and the case is not noisy - nor does the Anandtech review reflect excessive noise. I don't think that I have the updated fan kit either. No case that moves air is going to be entirely silent. Read the reviews on the Fortress FT02.
People should not be misled into thinking that this case is noisy. I mean if you are really sensitive about noise, turn the fans to low and you will have trouble hearing the system at all.
With the fans on low I hear my CPU cooler but not the case - I have the Noctua NH-D14 cooler. Reply
mscrivo - Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - linkyou're crazy if you can't hear the noise. I just bought one of these cases, and 2 days in, its driving me nuts. Its more than audible, especially compared to my old P180B. Reply
ooostephen - Saturday, January 14, 2012 - linksame here. i tossed some 'vent filters' used for air conditioners, in the front, and that made a noticeable diff. it also helps keep the dust out. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkEven if the cooling worked well, this would be a killer for me. It looks ugly, and most mobos are coming with a header now for an internal connection making the kludge obsolete. Reply
LtHawkins - Saturday, July 30, 2011 - linkI just built a system and got around this by connecting the USB3 expansion panel that came with my motherboard to the mobo header, then connected the 650D USB3 connector to that, but I'm keeping it all internal - I tucked the panel into one of the external drive bays that I'm not using. Won't work for everyone, but if you have a spare drive bay, theres no reason to have wires come poking out the back of the case. Reply
Locklear - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkSeem to remember Corsair stating that they would release a substitute frontpanel which has usb3 internal header connections instead of the current one. This one will be available on their web-shop. No idea about the timeframe though. Reply
darckhart - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkfree replacement? or paid? i hate how some charge you for something that it should have come with in the first place. (i'm looking at you evga and your high flow brackets for the 580s) Reply
Locklear - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkAs far as i remember it's not a free replacement, as it's not a defect. The case (and all other cases with usb3 front ports i know of) was designed like this because internal usb3 headers on motherboards were not that common when it was designed, so they opted for a "universal" solution instead.
There are ways to work around the problem with things like this http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/accesso...
But I agree.. It's not the ideal solution. Reply
Goty - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkSolution for negative pressure: simply turn the exhaust fan in the top of the case around. I built a PC for my father in this case and it works just fine. Reply
Wieland - Saturday, July 30, 2011 - linkThat will get rid of the negative pressure, but it will introduce other airflow problems, inefficiencies.
That intake will be right next to the only exhaust so a lot of the air it blows in will go straight back out of the case. This cold air will take up some of the capacity of the exhaust fan and make it less efficient.
The top fan is oriented almost directly opposed to the airflow coming from the front of the case, and the opposing airflows will probably create some dead zones. If you have a big tunneled heatpipe cooler oriented front-to-back (like my Kingston XT-1264), it will push air around and away from it.
With that big open vent on the top and positive air pressure there's bound to be some recycled hot air. The fan filter they removed will now be an absolute necessity to keep out dust. Reply
EJ257 - Thursday, August 11, 2011 - linkI have the HAF932 with a similar fan setup. I really think the big fan on top is a great idea because the heat likes to collect near the top of the case. I turned the back fan around so its acting as an intake too and I haven't had issues with it. So now the airflow is front/back intake, top exhaust. Reply
HilbertSpace - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkThis case is great once you get rid of the 200 mm fans (far too loud). I replaced the top 200 with two 120 mm fans running at 500 rpm, replaced the back 120, and front 200 mm with a 140 mm fan (this requires your own mounting solution as there are only mounting points for 200 mm fans).
Not it's nice and quiet - on par with my old Antec Solo case (similar to Sonata). I only hear a slight bit of air movement noise.
The side window panel can be replaced for $20-25 with a solid one from Corsair's website. Reply
Aikouka - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkI own a CNPS9000, and I'm curious how you like the 9900? My biggest gripe on the 9000 is that I believe they were phasing out the product at NewEgg, and all I could get was one with a silly green LED. At least my PC is fast and furious (and cool). ;) Reply
varneraa - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkI'm not familiar with the cooler you are using, but I wonder if you could significantly improve the thermals by orienting the cpu cooler to exhaust through the top of the case and then have the rear 120mm fan pull air into the case. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkI actually tried that with my 600T and it made virtually no difference, so it's reasonable to assume that wouldn't help the 650D either. Reply
Meghan54 - Friday, July 29, 2011 - link"...it doesn't change the fact that you're exhausting more air than you're bringing in."
Did you even read what you wrote, Mr. Sklavos? Do you think, using the fans that come with this or any other computer case, that you can create a negative pressure inside the case in relation to the outside atmospheric pressure? And in the above quoted line, you seem to imply that the case can be imploded due to the fact that a partial vacuum is being created inside the case, since you're saying the fans are exhausting more air than comes into the case.
Of course, that is utter bullshit. Why?
First, the case would have to be completely air tight to have the "more air out than In" phenomenon to occur. Second, the fans must be capable of tremendous static pressure to actually suck more air out of a case than moves into the case. Given what the author has said, eventually the case would implode as an end result of all that "negative pressure" being created and given enough running time.
But we all know case fans do not have very high static pressure output curves and neither are computer cases air tight. Therefore, the air exhausting from the case exactly equals the amount of air entering the case, nothing else can be happening.
Where does the air get into the case, then? Between the optical drives or drive covers, around the side panels, through the rear venting.....all avenues of air infiltration or exhaust, depending on how the fans are arranged. You can have every single fan blowing into the case you want, you won't have tremendously increased positive pressure, if any at all, because the air will escape via every seam, crack and crevice it can find. And even using ultra high output fans, I doubt anyone's seen a case either implode from too much negative internal pressure nor explode from too much positive internal pressure.
Honestly, about all one can do is direct the movement of air within a case with fan air flow, not increase internal air pressure in any meaningful amount, especially given what are typically used for case fans (low noise, low rpm large fans.)
Simply, put a lot of fans blowing into a case and you'll have exhaust of the exact same amount of air put into the case from every seam, crack, hole, and crevice found in the case. Put a lot of fans exhausting air from a case and you'll have an equal amount of air entering the case through the same cracks, holes, crevices, and grills in the case. Our fans are not strong enough to either create a partial vacuum or partial positive pressured environment within any steel/aluminum/plastic enclosure that leaks air around and through multiple seams found on every case.....they're not air tight. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Saturday, July 30, 2011 - linkWow...now that is some physics rage. Reply
Casper42 - Monday, August 01, 2011 - linkWay to go all agro on an assumption.
The case will implode?
Did we read the same article?
Here is the deal Mr Wizard, if you Push more air into the case than you exhaust, you get leakage coming out of the case in places you might not want. If you pull more air out of the case than you push in, then you get the same leakage in reverse. You have air sneaking in places you were not intending. This is exactly what you are saying in that the case is not airtight.
The problem with both of those is 2 things as I see it.
1) You stand a higher chance of recirculating hot air back into the case
2) Your fans have to work harder due to the unbalanced airflow.
I don't think number 2 is a big deal, as you rightfully mentioned that today's craptastic PC fans don't stand up well when it comes to large amounts of static pressure so the impact of such pressure on fan rotation and resistance is negligible at best.
But the problem with air coming in or leaking out from places you dont want is one that should be rectified. And as I read it, thats really what the writer was trying to say.
IMHO, the best way to design a case to deal with airflow is to push in more air than you have FANS to exhaust it, put the exhaust fans in strategic locations near things that need to be extra cooled (CPU, GPU and PS) and then leave some perf'd areas of the case on the exhaust side of the design to allow the excess pressure to leak out gracefully without building static pressure. Reply
ckryan - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkIn the conclusion you state a desire to see more intake air going straight to the tower. I would submit there is one prime example of this, the Lian Li PCA05 NB. The intake fan is on the back, blowing air in directly to the tower cooler which is like two inches away. With a Noctua U12 SE2 I don't even use a push fan, just one pull fan. The exhaust exits out the front, and all of the fans line up. If your primary concern is CPU temps, this is your case. GPU temps are not great however, though a reference style cooler helps. The good new is the GPU can't heat up the CPU even if the card puts all the heat into the case.
On the other hand, there is something to be said for large, intelligent cases with good cable management - an area where the PC A05NB falls directly on it's Taiwanese face. Reply
Casper42 - Monday, August 01, 2011 - linkI have jimmy rigged a similar design but done it in reverse. Install a 120mm intake across 3 5.25" bays that shoots air right into a Zalman 9700 and then the rear 120 is exhaust. I refer to this as the upper zone because my GPU cuts off all the air the lower front 140mm is pulling in. With the GPU exhaust and some missing slot covers the 140 blows across the drives and GPU and creates a lower zone that is also pure front to back as well.
With one case I had to put packing tape over the holes in the side panel that were for traditional "top down" coolers like the retail CPUs come with. Reply
marc1000 - Monday, August 01, 2011 - linkthere is one thing i've been pointing on the comments of some case reviews here at anandtech: we can improve the thermals by turning ALL fans into intake fans, and let the hot air go out of the case by his own way on every opening. I did this in my case (a custom small micro-atx) and it worked great, but I do not have others cases to test, so this is my suggestion to people who can actually test cases.
turn the back fan of this corsair to an intake fan, and maybe even the top fan too. let the cold air force out all hot air. I believe this would make a noticeable difference.
regards, Reply
malignate - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkI'm not sure if others had this issue but I had to file down the inside of the front panel where the external 5.25 drive bays are so that my dvd and blu-ray drives would properly fit. Before that, the space was so tight that it took me at least 15 minutes to manipulate the front panel until it snapped over everything just right. If it was only a mm or 2 wider, that would make a huge difference in the ease of handling the front panel.
I'd also love this case to have just a bit more room behind the motherboard tray for wire routing. Once you start adding a lot of components, it can get pretty tight back there with the various cable routing. The biggest offender of this is probably the motherboard power cable, which has an additional wrapper on it. I've heard others suggest that the front panel connectors also make it a bit crowded in that space. Either way, these modifications would make it that much easier to handle.
I don't have much to say about air flow problems as that seems to be covered well in this article and the discussion.
They need to fix the front fan/mesh interaction noise problem. It is so distracting! You can see a demonstration of it by searching youtube for 650d and noise. Reply
flong777 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkI own the 650D and my temperatures are far cooler than the ones that you post for this case. Everything in the case stays around 40C except my XFX 6950 which hovers between 50C - 60C and the fan rarely goes above 30%.
My build is:
2600K - not overclocked yet - hovers around 40C under load
Noctua NH-D14
AsRock Extreme 4 Gen 3 mobo - Stays below 40C under load
2 x 4 GB DDR3 1600 Gskill RAM - Stays below 30C under load
Corsair HX 850 PSU - never runs at high fan, it is silent
XFX 6950 two-fan GPU - Stays between 50C - 60C under load with the dual fans set automatically to 30%
My ambient temperature is 83Fhere in Arizona. I really can't understand the temperatures of your system. The 650D is a very good cooling case IF you remove the top HDD cage.
If you remove the top hard drive cage (this leaves you three bays for your build) then the front intake fan blows a direct path over the motherboard, the GPU and the CPU. This improves temperatures a great deal - probably 3C-5C difference.
Really, who is going to need more than three storage drives, four if you include the hot-swap bay? With the exception of a few power users, the setup I use if very functional for most people AND you get a major bump in cooling performance.
Really, it is kind of commonsense. If you leave the top HDD cage in then the front intake fan blows directly into it and it reduces the efficiency of the case air flow greatly. I am surprised more reviewers don't catch this. You have to use your head a little bit Anandtech when you review this case. Reply
GodelNoodle - Saturday, August 27, 2011 - linkThanks VERY much for this comment, flong777! I'm still trying to decide on the case I'll choose for my next PC, and I've been strongly considering the 650D. I'm just a little worried about heat and noise, and it seems like the Level 10 GT does a much better job on both counts (but I like both the price and the aesthetics of the 650D far more).
I don't have one, though, and from the pictures in the review, I'm having trouble picturing how removing the top drive cage would help. It looks like the fan in the front panel doesn't extend anywhere near the top drive cage, so I can't see how removing it would affect convection all that much.
Did you mean the bottom drive cage, or am I missing something? Does the intake fan extend higher up than it seems? Is there another fan up there in the front? Is the frame on the fan open at the top, perhaps, allowing for the fan to blow upwards a bit?
Thanks. Reply
mfarlow - Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - linkOver the years I've built quite a few PCs. Each time I've had to access my current case, and determine if an upgrade was in order. During that time I've also built PC's for family members and friends, and each time had to select a suitable case based on their needs and budget. So I've had an opportunity to identify what is important to me in selecting a case.
I've had my last case for close to 7 years now, as it more than met my needs. It was a Thermal Take Tsunami mid-tower case. I selected that case primarily for looks and features. It fell somewhat middle of the road in performance, but excelled in features that were important to me, and had aesthetics that made sense for where it would be used. It was a luxury case, and served its role quite well. If it wasn't for purchasing a new GPU that was too long to fit, I probably wouldn't have even considered a new case.
So I found myself catching the upgrade bug. My aging Core2Duo, while capable seems to be falling behind the pack, and it's time for a new build. I wanted another mid-tower, but something with a little more room than the old Tsunami (which was quite spacious for it's time) to accommodate today's larger graphics cards. I also wanted a case that would last me for several years, and one that I wouldn't feel the need to upgrade anytime soon.
My needs were (in order of importance)
- Build Quality
- Ease of Use
- Aesthetics
- Features
- Performance
- Cost
Actually cost and performance were pretty important, but I had a range that any case would need to fit into before being considered. Once within that range, those became less important.
As I searched around, reading reviews, and doing my research, the 650D stood out for build quality, ease of use, visual appeal and features, but it was slightly over my budget. I understood it wasn't the best performer in it's price range, but performance numbers were good enough for my needs. I was actually set to pull the trigger on either a 600T (available for about $150), or a CM690II (for about $80). The 600T had everything I wanted, except I wasn't sold on the looks. The 690II had a great price, but was significantly lacking in features. I was really leaning towards the 600T when I came across a special selling the 650D for $140! At that price point I couldn't find another case that had the features, build quality, and looks that I wanted. Yeah I know there are a lot of great cases in that price range, some that perform much better than the 650D, but they all looked like gamer cases, and I needed something a little more professional looking.
So here I sit with my new 650D. I yanked my existing components out of the old case, and rather quickly loaded them into the new one. The build went incredibly smooth, cable management was a snap, and I was really impressed with the overall attention to detail on this case. From the center stand-off, to the appropriately placed tie-downs, everything seemed like it was gone over with a fine tooth comb. Not once did I find myself wishing something was designed differently. I ended up with a very clean build, all done in about 1/2 hour.
Now I know my old Tsunami wasn't a high end performance case. I was seeing about 27C idle on my CPU with that case, which is perfectly reasonable for an OC'd C2D. In the new case, my temps are now idling at 14C. That is a huge difference! I turned the case fans down to their lowest settings, and idle temp bounced up to 15C, still 12 degrees cooler than my old case. The reviewer looked at a number of very well performing cases, and the 650D wound up in the middle of the pack. I'll take middle of the road among the top performers any day.
There's been a lot of talk on here about fan noise and the need to replace the fans. I'm baffled by these comments. At the lowest settings my case is almost silent. Honestly I have to look at the top exhaust fan every now and then to make sure it's actually running. I'm sure there are even quieter fans available, but I see no need for them. If it wasn't for my CPU cooler, this build would be suitable for my HTPC, it's really that quiet. You can find YouTube videos showing just how quite this case is, if you are concerned by the comments posted here. Many people on other sites have commented as to how quiet this case is.
The 650D has an elegant look that fits right in with my office decor. It has exemplary build quality which I know will hold up for many years to come, probably outlasting a couple more builds. The case is an absolute delight to build in, with everything very well thought out, there's even a small stash in the bottom for hiding unwanted PSU cables. I'm actually looking forward to getting my new components in and having another go at building in this case.
If like me, you require a more professional looking case, appreciate lots of features in your case, and are OK with a case that performs better than good enough, I think you would be more than happy with the 650D. I wouldn't pay over $150 for the case, as there are other options at that price point that offer a better value, but in the sub $150 range this case fits my needs quite well. Reply
mfarlow - Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - linkSorry I mentioned the wrong numbers for my CPU temps. They were 47C originally and fell to 32C after the case swap.
Also I'm wondering if the reviewer may have been somewhat underwhelmed by this case having spent so much time already with the 600T. I know that I often appreciate more the features of a new case, when those features are new to me. If I had the 600T for some time, and bumped up to this case, I think I would feel a little less excited about the case. Kind of like upgrading your 2008 car to the same care only the 2009 model. Reply
bwebmasta - Monday, May 07, 2012 - linkThe more I read reviews, the more I see emotion and personal views mixed in. I also have noticed more of a "shock value" or "wanting a laugh" statements made too much as of late also. People make decisions to buy or not buy things due to reviews to a degree, and this review is not on point in several respects.
The cooling in the 650D stock fan temps are around 25-29C using a closed liquid cooled solution such as the H100. The fans do the job and perform. Yes, the fans are noisy but that can easily be changed by using fans such as Noctua, Fenix, or Typhoons. I went with Noctua's at the top in a push-pull and Fenix 200/120 blue LED fans for the front and rear. I wanted less noise and the LED to match my build theme. However, the stock Corsair fans are adequate, but temps will vary according what cooling solution used.
On the USB issue, that is another easy solution get a Fenix 3.0 adapter. Simple, and as mentioned earlier this case came out when most MB's did not have a 3.0 header. Corsair should update the case now, and would well take heed to do so.
Overall, the 650D is a well thought out case, good fans, and excellent cable management. Many reviews praise this case and several awards were given for the design and functionality, so obviously something was done right. This case also can easily be bought for $150, and a rebate for $15 was offered at the time of my purchase I was very pleased with the price. Sure some things could be better, but isn't that with anything? Something could always be improved. Reply


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"I can confirm a small number of employees were laid off today," a company spokesman said, without providing additional details.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that the company had fired its U.S. sales chief and that more layoffs were expected.
The cuts come after the Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker said last month that it had formed a special board committee to review strategic alternatives, which could include partnerships or an outright sale of the company. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the company is looking to conduct a speedy auction process that could be over as soon as November.
News of the layoffs was first reported by Canadian technology blog Cantech Letter.


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Topic: Insurance + Clinical Trial with Theraspheres Y-90 (not SIRS)
Hello all,
My boyfriend John has the option to begin a clinical trial therapy of Theraspheres for CC (only available in 5 centers across the country) or go with the more standard SIR Spheres.
We are concerned about insurance issues. We have been told to expect problems getting SIR Spheres approved, and even more issues getting Theraspheres approved since it is still not FDA approved for CC.
These treatments are incredibly expensive, so we really do have to have coverage first. I am wondering if any of you have had experience with getting Theraspheres approved or insurance and clinical trials, and/or any advice. Thanks so much for your help!


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Did you manage to pick up the Ronnie Fieg x Asics Gel Lyte III 'Selvedge Denim' that dropped at Kith locations for their first year anniversary release? The instant sell-out sneakers were a hard grab as per usual thanks to the constantly growing Fieg-fanbase. Pictured here is a slightly altered pair that was cooked up prior to the release featuring a two-tone setup on the denim upper. Do you think that this subtle difference pushes this pair over the top of the retail version? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned to see if Ronnie Fieg gets back on the Asics Gel Lyte III soon.
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German-Moroccan Side Event "Climate Change - Challenge for Preventive Diplomacy"
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(Speech of the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Guido Westerwelle at a German-Moroccan Side Event during the General Debate of the UN General Assembly "Climate Change - Challenge for Preventive Diplomacy" in the German House)
Your Excellency Mr. Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson,
Distinguished colleague Minister El Othmani,
Dr. Pachauri,
Distinguished colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I thank you for joining us to discuss the security implications of climate change. I am particularly grateful to my esteemed Moroccan colleague for co-hosting this event.
During this intense week in New York, we had to deal with many current crises. But conflict prevention is nothing of less importance.
We are all conscious that the impacts of climate change will increasingly influence our agenda. Climate change is a so-called "non-traditional security threat". As complex as this threat appears, we have to develop a new collective approach.
Dr. Pachauri highlighted the need to manage security risks posed by extreme weather and climate events requiring better disaster preparedness.
For a rising number of UN member states, global warming and the impact on sealevels, fresh-water resources and food productivity is becoming a threatening factor.
Climate change has become an aggravating factor for forced migration in the Sahel and in parts of Asia. The livelihood of millions of people, the economic development of countries, the very existence of islands is in danger. The poorest countries in the world are again the most vulnerable.
Ladies and Gentlemen, In July last year, during the German presidency of the Security Council, we had an open debate on this topic. The Council agreed on a Presidential Statement highlighting the potential security implications of climate change.
Climate change does affect how we live on our planet. The best remedy against it is mitigation. But some countries fear that thiswill have side-effects.
If we want to succeed, we must address the concerns of those who are still skeptical. Climate-protection and economic development are not contradictory.
Protection of our climate and sustainable economic development go hand in hand when you bring new technologies into effect.
Germany is prepared to do so, with some of the most advanced energy, water and environment technologies in the world.
With our German energy policy, the socalled"Energiewende", we have embarked on a challenging path.
Our economies and our climate will benefit from increased resource efficiency, technological progress and better energy security that will come with the
transformation of our energy mix.
No nation can win the battle against climate change single-handedly. We need a global approach.
Let us look for new partnerships with vulnerable countries. But let us also involve the big emitters into the process. And let us find win-win-situations for all concerned.
We have to focus on specific projects.
An enhanced role for the UN could contribute to achieving this goal: Several Pacific small island states as well as my British colleague William Hague suggested
asking the UN Secretary General to appoint a UN Special Envoy on Climate and Security.
One example for a ground-breaking new instrument is the Green Climate Fund, which might become the centerpiece of climate finance in the future.
Germany stands ready to support this new institution and has submitted a very attractive offer to host the Fund in the city of Bonn, our sustainability hub and my hometown.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Climate security is possible with structural changes of our economies and with a transformation of our energy systems. Climate security is possible with preventive planning for coastal security and with freshwater management. International governance has to be adapted to new circumstances. These are tasks for Foreign Ministers.
I urge you as Foreign Ministers and diplomats to engage in this geopolitical change-management to achieve Climate security.
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So is anyone playing ArcheAge? It seems pretty emergenty and sandboxy.Guild Wars 2:
Main character name is Seigous Bearheart. I also play on Duke Witherheart. And Lindenheart.
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02-08-2014, 10:46 PM #63just like mastering chess: another game meant to be explored over half a lifetime; as opposed to the casual entertainment found in checkers. there is plenty of viability for both types of games. a lot of people appreciate a challenging level of depth and opportunity for personal growth. not all games need to be easy. the ones we are currently discussing are not checkers.. most of the people who enjoy them fell in love with them back in uo, or asherons call, or shadowbane: each basically an updated version of the competitive sandbox, where decisions can have dire consequences and lasting effects; and they have been playing them for years... they are chess.
however it seems like you also havent checked out darkfall in quite some time, from what ive heard the barrier to entry has been drastically reduced.
Obviously there was a big player skill gap there as well as experience points, and it's difficult to gauge the effect of each. I don't mind a game taking time to learn, but when it basically forces me into virtual serfdom to achieve my goals I don't see the point.
My idea was to go explore the seas, find remote islands, maybe live on one like a hermit. When the game got over its initial release problems, high pricing and struggling to convince people it wasn't a giant scam, I picked it up to try out. Probably a year or so after release, so I'm sure it's changed a lot since then - though making a replacement 'sequel' and forcing people to buy it to keep playing seemed like a bit of a dick move to me.
Anyway, what I found was that firstly, houses were fixed locations and difficult to obtain. Not exactly unexpected, but disappointing, and it meant no dilapidated shack on a desert island. Secondly, building any kind of boat takes considerable investment and for anything other than a raft, the backing of a clan to use their town facilities. Obviously a proper boat should be a fairly big undertaking, but why nothing like a one man fishing boat, given the draw of exploration? Even a raft wasn't easy to make, and attempting to do so introduced me to the massive grind involved in the game.
Before I could learn to make rafts, I had to learn to chop down trees. This involved standing in front of trees for hours, generating far more wood than I'd actually need for a raft. There was no real player involvement in this process, it's like Eve's mining except it was a requirement for skill progression, and there was no option to skip it, gain money by other means and buy what I needed.
I think it's not just the grind itself that bothers me, but for a game that promised to be so revolutionary - and I'm sure in many ways it was if you get past the early stages - it fell into some of the worst habits of MMOs. A world that doesn't make sense, where tedious exercises in making numbers go up were an essential part of the new player experience, where you have to pick a thousand useless plants to find the one magic plant that will summon a horse, where you have to sell random crap to NPCs to buy new abilities. I was there precisely because I wasn't happy with other MMOs, yet my experience of it wasn't much different from the various free to play Korean MMOs I tried.
Darkfall also suffered from some really bad PR around release - hard to say how much basis there was for the accusations flying around, but the developers certainly didn't come across as the most trustworthy or reliable bunch. There also seems to be an unhealthy sense of elitism among both the developers and the community - most noticeable in the lack of a free trial and the high subscription cost. I guess it's easier for them to manage as a gated community, and they may have legitimate concerns about abuse of trial accounts, but it certainly doesn't entice me to go back when free to play is becoming the standard and even Eve dropped its sub prices.
shadowbane is another story, one that i have played much more recently, but given the time period in which it was in its heyday, the only complaint i could possibly imagine would be some minor engine inadequacies; which the advances in server technology between then and the emulator now have solved.
that thousands of players can design, build, and demolish over a hundred of each others cities in one giant rpg world is amazing.
hell, the sheer variety permitted in shadowbane, and yet how balanced it is, is an astonishing feat of design.
i would be extremely curious to hear your faults with this one.
Shadowbane's PvP was fun, on the rare occasions I got to fight someone of a similar level. It worked well, it had a nice pace and a nice variety in character progression and skills. Maybe I would have stuck around and persevered through the PvE if I'd joined at a time when it was a growing game, but when I played the majority of players were max level and it simply wasn't possible to join in with their fun as a newbie. Encounters with high level players outside of town were rare, as they presumably gravitated towards higher level zones, but the ones I did have were entirely one-sided - what are you supposed to do against someone who can kill or disable you in a single hit, and moves faster too?
It always makes me sad when I hear bout people playing with friends who AREN'T on the same page instead of finding strangers or non-gamers to pull in; people who talk about that ONE player who always has this way of playing that bothers everyone else. I think part of it is the accessibility of games like DnD. They're complexity is superficial; once you have a character sheet and a GM who knows the rules, it's very straightforward for everyone else to move along and play. One nice side effect of more narrative-driven tabletop systems is that they put the whole one-the-same-page-ness of playing the game front and center and keep players from moving too far into the game without realizing that they sort of all need to actually want to play the game together.
No system is going to do that perfectly for everyone, but games like DnD allow you to, at least temporarily and especially with inexperienced GMs, bury yourself in the numbers and forget about the rest of it until it's already a problem.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
I wonder sometimes whether folks that say things like this have just had completely different experiences than I have (possibly because their standards are completely different, possibly luck, possibly some of each), or whether it's just that their tolerance for bad experiences is much, much higher. Either way, I've found life's too short to put up with the staggering volume of obnoxiousness one has to sort through to hit the occasional good experience out of playing with strangers.
MMO's are not about making friends, you are hiring employees.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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As mentioned above, sometimes my gaming buddies just want something entirely different out of the game. No amount of liking them is going to make me like what we're playing and/or get me what I want out of the game. So I could pack up and go home or I could try and find people willing to play games in a way that I like better or at least in a way I can comfortably meet in the middle.
The best way I've found to meet people I specifically like playing games with is to a) try playing games with all of my friends and b) try making friends with people who already play games and finally c) try getting acquaintances into games to see if they're good gaming buddies, friends, or both.
I don't see how the concept of meeting people who you like to play games with by, well, trying to play games with them could be a profoundly alien concept to you. Of course it goes wrong sometimes. When that happens, you stop playing.
There are so many people I like and even like playing games with that I could never play DnD with and that holds the other way round, too. There are people I enjoy hanging out with but wouldn't want to live with, people I like talking to but wouldn't want to watch movies with, and so on and so forth. I have very few all-purpose friends with whom I can do anything and say anything--I had thought that was quite normal to have few such friends and as such that it was normal for gamers to need to look a little afield to find gaming company.
There are so many ways to filter strangers, too! Friend-of-friend references, having a conversation with them, playing a short game first ... I don't really see that as a "staggering amount of obnoxiousness." How the hell else do you end up with friends in the first place? Did they just spring out of holes in the ground? :P
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You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
Extroverts are weird. :)
I have a few "all purpose friends" as you'd call it, and spend my very limited gaming time playing stuff with them because I enjoy their company. Why on Earth would I seek out people to play games with that I didn't want to hang out with? For me, half the point of playing a multiplayer game is hanging out with people whose company you enjoy.
There are people I like to have in depth arguments and discussions with and people I like to "shoot the breeze" with and so forth. As with conversations so with other things--there are people with whom I can enjoy playing games; they aren't necessarily my favorite people. Different social situations bring out different aspects of people. Do do something specific with you, I only have to like the side you present while doing that thing. I can't imagine how I would ever find people who enjoy doing everything I want to do with other people; I've only stumbled across them very rarely and it's easy to stumble away from them as life carries us separate ways.
To each their own. For my part I wouldn't ever get to play games if I didn't actively seek people with whom to play them. Not all of my friends want to play games but there are an awful lot of people out there who would play games with me to our mutual pleasure if I could only find them. So I look for them. One way to think of it is less that I have a higher tolerance for unpleasant interactions and more that I have a stronger drive to enjoy the games; they're both equally possible, two sides of the same thing--I'm not going to let a dearth of friends who will play these games with me stop me from getting them to the table. I care a lot about experiencing the games in particular; if I just want to hang out with cool people who are dear to me, I'll just hang out with cool people who are dear to me; I can get that urge satisfied without playing games.
P.S. Complete tangent. Extrovert/introvert is an utterly useless descriptor in my experience. Most of the people I know have such a mix of traits from both sides of that paradigm that it doesn't even really work as an axis. I have a great deal of social anxiety, and a great need to be around people. I'm quite happy doing my own thing, and while I'm happiest in the right crowd of people I'm saddest in the wrong crowd of people and my decision making process always leans toward the solitary even if, in hindsight, it would have been better to make the other decision. I have a very hard time reaching out to other people, starting conversations, and so forth but my desires to play games or share ideas or learn things or what-have-you boils over and pushes me past that when I get too starved. My social discomforts are largely generalized and internal, though, so compared to some of my friends, I find dealing with strangers less dramatically different from dealing with people and with a couple of my friends who are disposed just so, this leaves me better at dealing with strangers than them despite being overall less comfortable with other people.
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You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
I care a lot about experiencing the games in particular; if I just want to hang out with cool people who are dear to me, I'll just hang out with cool people who are dear to me; I can get that urge satisfied without playing games.
03-08-2014, 02:08 AM #72I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
You ruined his point by putting it in context thats cheating -bull0
just a note that im not ignoring you Kelron; thank you for the in-depth response. i am just very busy at the moment, and only seem to be able to find time for gaming/forums in extremely short spurts. ive started writing you a more meaty reply, but every time i sit down to finish it something "more important" pulls me away. also, re: darkfall, i recognized that i am debating on behalf of a game that i havent played in years, so i asked a couple friends who are still playing to chime in, and we all agree that unfortunately when you chose to jump in was probably when the game was at its worst; and according to them it has changed DRASTICALLY. so i have a new computer in the mail that will actually be able to do the game justice, and after i check out the new and improved unholy wars youll hear back from me. mebe sooner re: shadowbane.
good conversation: how to do a sandbox game right is a fascinating and deserving topic. thanks again.


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New Yorkers are tussling over the question of whether to legally punish purchasers of counterfeit goods instead of simply the purveyors. Well, why not?France and Italy do it already. And though brands have had success going after the purveyors of false stock, it's a bit like a Hydra: cut one head off, and ten more pop up in its stead. This theory says cut off the demand, and the heads just wither and die on their own. Makes sense, no? Theoretically. I do see some stumbling blocks though.
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The skin care industry is fast approaching a watershed moment in the treatment of aging skin. Increasingly, scientific evidence suggests that many of today's trademark treatments may actually exacerbate the conditions they're designed to treat in the long term, thanks to a phenomenon known as inflammaging. This previously unknown consequence poses a challenge to product developers who must adapt their formulations to meet shifting consumer demands or risk losing their shares of the market. As the concept of inflammaging goes mainstream, it may result in a widespread change in the professional skin care industry.
First coined by University of Bologna professor Claudio Franceschi, PhD, more than a decade ago, inflammaging began as a theory linking underlying inflammatory changes to the causes of most age-associated diseases. Since its inception, research continues to present convincing evidence taking this concept from theory to fact.1–3
The term "inflammaging" is used to describe the aging phenomenon induced by chronic, persistent inflammation. Most people are familiar with the visible inflammation that can be seen on the surface of the skin, with redness representing a sign of infection, irritation or discomfort. However, inflammation can also be invisible. All skin—and certainly weakened or aged skin—is subject to inflammation, even at low intensities. It is this underlying inflammation that ultimately exhausts the body's defense system, dismantling key youth-sustaining skin structures, and resulting in collagen and elastin degradation, as well as a breakdown of the skin's barrier function.
The inflammaging process involves a highly complex chain of events, by which acute inflammation gradually gives way to chronic, or silent, inflammation. To understand how to combat inflammaging, skin care professionals must first understand the inflammatory cascade of reactions that erode the skin's structure, ultimately manifesting in the form of deep wrinkles, hyperpigmentation and flaccid, inelastic tissue.
Inflammation is the body's response to cellular aggression or injury. It represents a defense mechanism designed to heal cells from injury and protect the body from the consequences of that injury. Cell injury may occur due to trauma, genetic defects, physical and chemical aggressions, tissue death, foreign bodies, immune reactions and infections. Inflammation also facilitates early tissue healing and repair, and allows the body to restore itself to a normal form and function.
Acute inflammation. It all starts with acute inflammation, which is characterized by rapid onset and short duration. Generally associated with redness, swelling, pain, warmth and loss of function, acute inflammation manifests with the oozing of fluid and plasma proteins, and the emigration of white blood cells, or leukocytes. Of the five types of leukocytes that the body produces, it is primarily the neutrophils that make an appearance during acute inflammation, producing the whitish-yellow pus characteristic in wounds.
Chronic inflammation. In contrast, chronic inflammation is of prolonged duration and manifests microscopically by the presence of two different categories of white blood cells, known as lymphocytes and macrophages. Lymphocytes function as "killer" cells, disabling and destroying infected tissue, such as tumors or infected cells, while macrophages literally consume cellular debris and pathogens. Together, these aggressive forms of white blood cells can result in the scarring of connective tissue and tissue death.
The healing of an injury is a complicated process. It starts as soon as the injury occurs and can take nine months or more to complete. There are three phases to the healing process: the inflammatory phase, the proliferation phase and the remodeling phase.
During the inflammatory phase, pro-inflammatory proteins enter damaged areas, causing swelling as tissues push apart. Following this, white blood cells, including macrophages, begin the proliferation stage by cleansing the wound and jump-starting the repair process. During this stage, the wound contracts and receives the oxygen and nutrients vital for regeneration. Lastly, the remodeling stage is characterized by the production, organization and remodeling of collagen to strengthen the wound.
However, even after the wound has healed, the resulting scar tissue is more vulnerable to injury and deformation than the original tissue. Science now shows that repeated injury leads to the chronic state of inflammation known as inflammaging.4
Today, the direct link between extrinsic skin aging and inflammation is well-established and documented. Elias and Feingold demonstrated the reciprocal effect of many chronic inflammatory diseases—such as psoriasis, and atopic and seborrheic dermatitis—on the stratum corneum barrier, which maintains healthy hydration levels in the skin.5,6
The integrity of this barrier is maintained by metabolic balance, such as the synthesis of collagen fibers, and the replacement of old and worn out fibers, by enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and is regulated by tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMPs).
Inflammaging destroys this balance, decreasing cellular metabolic activity and collagen renewal. Externally, the skin loses its suppleness and elasticity, and becomes flaccid. It is also known that inflammaging generates reactive oxygen species (ROS), causing age-accelerating oxidative damage, which further perpetuates a chronic, pro-inflammatory state.7
Inflammaging can be prevented—and even reversed—by using a wide spectrum of topical products formulated with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant ingredients. In addition to inhibiting the key mediators of inflammation and aging processes, these ingredients should help reinforce, protect and boost the antioxidant response system.


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It's hard to know what stretches the bounds of credulity more about the current state of Mexico's national soccer team: that it happened at all or that it is happening now.
Think back to last summer. Mexico was in Wembley Stadium in London, standing on the top podium at the Olympics, hearing its national anthem echo through one of the sport's cathedrals, beaming with the satisfaction that it had finally arrived on the world stage.
It all seemed so promising, so ascendant, the two under-17 World Cup titles, the semifinal run in the under-20 World Cup, the Olympic gold medal, a senior national team led by Manchester United's Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez. And it all went so horribly wrong.
Less than a year later, El Tri comes to the CONCACAF Gold Cup at a crossroads it could have never imagined. It has won just twice in 12 games in 2013. Fans are chanting "Fuera Chepo," demanding that Coach Jose Manuel de la Torre be fired. Qualification for the 2014 World Cup, for decades an assumption, has become an iffy proposition with four games to go.
"People can get impatient, that's normal, because they always want to see their team win," de la Torre told Fox Sports. "This happens in every country. And we know that the only thing that keeps people calm and happy is that their team wins."
The Gold Cup, which El Tri opens Sunday against Panama at the Rose Bowl, was supposed to allow de la Torre to examine fringe prospects in a relaxed atmosphere with little at stake. Instead, it's become a referendum on his job with a bunch of guys who have no incentive to play for him and, in some cases, won't.
After a crazy June of three World Cup qualifiers followed immediately by the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil, de la Torre let the first-teamers return to their pro clubs. Now a half-dozen members from his initial 23-man Gold Cup roster are out, too, either due to injury or "injury."
That includes midfielder Fernando Arce and goalkeeper Cirilo Saucedo of the Tijuana Xolos, along with forwards Omar Bravo and Oribe Peralta.
"El Tri B," as it has been dubbed, had a pair of Gold Cup tuneups in Mexico last week against second-division Cruz Azul Hidalgo and perennial first-division doormat Queretaro. Lost both, after which de la Torre lamented his team's "basic errors."
Panama doesn't have its full roster either, but it should have five or six starters from the team that tied Mexico 0-0 in qualifying last month in Panama City. And it doesn't have the burden of expectation that the tournament's two-time defending champion carries.
Still, it's Mexico, a nation blessed by the region's top domestic league and deepest talent pool. The problems may be between the ears more than the lines.
"Mexico will always be a strong team," said U.S. captain DaMarcus Beasley, who has spent the last two years with Puebla in Liga MX. "Obviously they've hit a little bad patch. But you can never count out Mexico. I'm sure it will take them one game and they'll be back on their feet again."
"I don't think it will be too long before we see Mexico scoring goals again and playing the kind of soccer they can play."
CONCACAF Gold Cup
What: Biennial championship for men's national soccer teams in the CONCACAF region. Mexico won in 2009 and 2011.
When: Sunday through July 28.
Where: 13 cities across the United States, beginning with the Rose Bowl on Sunday. The U.S. opens Tuesday in Portland. The semifinals are at Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas, and the final at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Who: 12 teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Format: Three first-round groups, with the top eight teams advancing to single-elimination quarterfinals. The semis are July 24, the final July 28.
Group A: Mexico, Panama, Canada, Martinique.
Group B: El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago.
Group C: USA, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba.


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The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that lawyers who participate in a fee-sharing agreement must obtain written client consent before the referral is made. Saggese v. Kelley, et al., 445 Mass. 434, 837 N.E.2d 699 (2005). This requirement is to satisfy the professional ethical requirements of Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.5(e). The Supreme Judicial Court noted its ruling means the primary responsibility for compliance falls on referring lawyers. It specifically ruled, however, that lawyers to whom the client is referred are not absolved of all responsibility. This means lawyers receiving referrals under fee-sharing arrangements are responsible for ensuring that prior written client consent has been obtained. The court also stated that failure to comply will not render the contract unenforceable per se, but may subject both lawyers to disciplinary action upon division of a fee.
The case presented the court with an oral fee-sharing arrangement between a referring lawyer, Saggese, and the two attorneys who received the client, the Kelleys. Saggese referred a number of clients to the Kelleys over a few months' period, one of whom was the client in this case. At the end of this few months, Saggese made it clear to the Kelleys that he expected a referral fee of one-third of all fees received in cases he had referred to them. The Kelleys made a series of payments to Saggese, noting they were for referral fees on each check.
The client here was not made aware of the fee-sharing arrangement until after her case had been decided, some two-and-a-half years later. At that time, the arrangement and surrounding issues were explained to her. She was told that the fee would not be split if she objected. The client sent a letter a week later authorizing the referral fee payment.
Among other legal theories, the Kelleys contested paying the referral fee because the contract was void as against public policy. Specifically, the Kelleys argued the arrangement violated the terms of DR 2-107(A)(1).1 The court examined DR 2-107(A)(1), which was in place when the arrangement was made, and Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.5(e)2 that went into effect while the Kelleys worked on the client's case. The court found both rules were intended to protect clients from unreasonable fees. Neither rule, however, was intended to prohibit fee-sharing arrangements. The court found it material to its decision that actual client consent had been obtained, albeit after the fact. For this instance, after-the-fact client-ratifying consent was adequate, although not preferred. The holding specifically states that client ratification obtained after the fact will not suffice where the fee-sharing arrangement is made subsequent to issuance of this opinion.
The court acknowledged that both the current and former rules are unclear as to (1) who should disclose a fee-sharing arrangement to the client, (2) when the disclosure should be made and (3) when consent from the client must be obtained. The court's concern was that a client, if presented with a fee-sharing arrangement after the fact, might not feel comfortable suggesting changes or disagreeing once representation had begun. To avoid any possibility of the after-the-fact client acquiescence, the court imposed clear requirements for all future fee-sharing agreements.
As a result, all fee-sharing arrangements formed from Nov. 30, 2005 forward must be disclosed to the client before the referral is made, and the client must agree to the arrangement in writing. Ensuring disclosure has been made and written consent received is the responsibility of both the referring and receiving attorney. The referring attorney has primary responsibility for making disclosure and securing written client consent. The attorney receiving the client must be certain the requirements were met before commencing representation. Failure to comply may subject both the referring and receiving attorney to disciplinary action upon division of a fee.
Of course, experienced counselors to the bar have for years strongly recommended written fee agreements prior to representation commencement. Lawyers who heed this recommendation can comply with this new mandate by adding suitable language in an appropriately prominent way to their written fee agreement forms. That language might read:3
The Attorney advises Client that the fee for legal services paid by Client will be divided with [INSERT NAME OF ATTORNEY AND FIRM] to pay [INSERT NAME OF ATTORNEY AND FIRM] for its participation in the services to be provided to Client. The amount charged to Client will be governed by this agreement and the amount paid to [INSERT NAME OF ATTORNEY AND FIRM] for its participation will come from the amount charged according to this agreement. Client consents to the referral to and joint participation of [INSERT NAME OF ATTORNEY AND FIRM] in the representation of Client and the division of the fee.
End notes
1. The Canons of Ethics and Disciplinary Rules Regulating the Practice of Law, S.J.C. Rule 3:07, Canon 2, DR 2-107, 382 Mass. 773 (1981), states: "(A) A lawyer shall not divide a fee for legal services with another lawyer who is not a partner in or associate of his law firm or law office, unless: (1) The client consents to employment of the other lawyer after a full disclosure that a division of fees will be made…. (3) The total fee of the lawyers does not exceed reasonable compensation for all legal services they rendered the client."[back]
2. Rule 1.5(e) of the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct, 426 Mass. 1315 (1998), states, in relevant part: "A division of a fee between lawyers who are not in the same firm may be made only if, after informing the client that a division of fees will be made, the client consents to the joint participation and the total fee is reasonable." Comment [4A] to rule 1.5(e) states that the rule is "substantively the same as former DR 2-107." Id.[back]
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Tennis-Courier wants attitude change on
Courier said on Wednesday he expected to use the same team that beat Brazil 3-2 in their first-round tie, and wanted John Isner and Sam Querrey to show more "street-fighting" spirit in the April 5-7 matches at the Taco Bell Arena.
The U.S. captain, a fiery competitor during his playing days, feels Isner and Querrey both have a tendency to show negative body language when things are not going their way.
"I don't love that in any player, let alone players that play for the United States. I'm more of a believer of faking it if you're not feeling good than showing someone that you're down," Courier said during a conference call.
"I know everyone's different. You can't expect everyone to just immediately snap-to when you ask them to put up a little bit more of a street-fighter front.
"But I'd like our guys to be more street fighters on our team. I like them to walk around with their chests out. Sam and John can absolutely bulldoze almost any player on tour if they're playing well.
Besides attitude, Courier hopes the altitude can be another element in favor of the U.S., underdogs against 2010 Davis Cup champions Serbia who are led by Djokovic, who won this year's Australian Open for his sixth grand slam title.
Boise sits at 2,700 feet (824m) above sea level.
"Primarily our team is an aggressive team. We like to serve well. The players that we've had playing singles and doubles (the Bryan brothers) for our team all are big servers, tend to be tall players in general," said Courier.
"(In) altitude ... the ball travels through the air a lot faster. This is mid-level altitude. But the ball will move through the court, bounce higher, get onto the players quicker. It's typically pretty good for an offensive player."
Courier said his team needed every edge going against Serbia.
"They're one of the best squads out there, clearly. When you have the number one player in the world, that's a nice place to start," the captain said.
"We know it's going to be difficult with Novak. He's setting the standard right now. But Davis Cup is Davis Cup, and hopefully our guys will be able to step up. They'll certainly be underdogs on paper and be ready to let it fly." (Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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Noel reclassified, remember. He's probably one of the youngest players in the draft.
I'm a Wolves fan (was huge KG fan, hence my screename) hoping they get Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Wouldn't mind Shabazz.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...ng-draft-picksAccording to a source, Cleveland offered the No. 1 pick, Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters to try and land Minnesotas Kevin Love. But new Timberwolves president Flip Saunders wont move Love.
"I have just been more than a little suspect of all the trades since the Willy (Scott Williamson) cash grab. That one left such a bad taste in my mouth that even a 1985 Dom Pérignon couldn't cleanse it." -- Creek14
All i'm really interested in is hoping Matthew Dellavedova gets picked up
Melbourne to Cincinnati - September 1st - 12th 2013
Here's my updated 2 round mock draft for your viewing pleasure. Granted, this isn't necessarily how I'd like for it to go, just trying to play the role of prognosticator.
Round 1.
1) CAVS - Alex Len (C)
2) MAGIC- Nerlens Noel (C/PF)
3) WIZARDS - Anthony Bennett (F)
4) BOBCATS - Otto Porter (SF)
5) SUNS - Victor Oladipo (SG)
6) PELICANS - Trey Burke (PG)
7) KINGS - Ben McLemore (SG)
8) PISTONS - C.J McCollum (G)
9) T-WOLVES - Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (SG)
10) T-BLAZERS - Lucas Nogueira (C/PF)
11) 76ERS - Cody Zeller (PF/C)
12) THUNDER - Shabazz Muhammad (G/F)
13) MAVS - Sergei Karasev (F/G)
14) JAZZ - Michael Carter - Williams (PG)
15) BUCKS - Shane Larkin (PG)
16) CELTICS - Dennis Schroeder (PG)
17) HAWKS - Steven Adams (C)
18) HAWKS - Giannis Adetokunbo (SF)
19) CAVS - Reggie Bullock (F/G)
20) BULLS - Kelly Olynyk (C/F)
21) JAZZ - Gorgui Dieng (C)
22) NETS - Tony Mitchell (F)
23) PACERS - Jamaal Franklin (G)
24) KNICKS - Ricardo Ledo (G)
25) CLIPPERS - Mason Plumlee (C/F)
26) T-WOLVES - Rudy Gobert (C)
27) NUGGETS - Allen Crabbe (SG)
28) SPURS- Glen Rice Jr. (SG)
29) THUNDER - Jeff Withey (C)
30) SUNS - Tony Snell (F/G)
Round 2.
31) CAVS - Tim Hardaway Jr. (SG)
32) THUNDER - Alex Abrines (SG)
33) CAVS - Isaiah Canaan (PG)
34) ROCKETS - Archie Goodwin (2G)
35) 76ERS - Lorenzo Brown (PG)
36) KINGS - C.J Leslie (F)
37) PISTONS- James Southerland (SF)
38) WIZARDS - Mike Mascala (C/F)
39) T-BLAZERS - Erick Green (G)
40) T-BLAZERS - Deshaun Thomas (F)
41) GRIZZLIES - Nate Wolters (G)
42) 76ERS - Andre Roberson (SF)
43) BUCKS - Vander Blue (SG)
44) MAVS- Myck Kabongo (PG)
45) T-BLAZERS - Livio Jean-Charles (F)
46) JAZZ - Jackie Carmichael (PF)
47) HAWKS - Ray McCallum (PG)
48) LAKERS - B.J Young (G)
49) BULLS - Nemanja Nedovic (SG)
50) HAWKS - Bojan Dubjevic (F/C)
51) MAGIC - Pierre Jackson (PG)
52) T-WOLVES - Solomon Hill (SF)
53) PACERS - Erik Murphy (PF)
54) WIZARDS - Carrick Felix (G/F)
55) GRIZZLIES - James Ennis (SF)
56) PISTONS - Raul Neto (PG)
57) SUNS - Grant Jerrett (PF)
58) SPURS - Marko Todorovic (C/F)
59) T-WOLVES - Augusto Lima (PF)
60) GRIZZLIES - Colton Iverson (C)
"I have just been more than a little suspect of all the trades since the Willy (Scott Williamson) cash grab. That one left such a bad taste in my mouth that even a 1985 Dom Pérignon couldn't cleanse it." -- Creek14
I'm not that interested in the draft, but I'm not sure where to put this so I will put it here. I am very interested to see how Chris Paul and Doc get along. Paul hasn't had a great coach (Byron Scott, Monty Williams, and Vinny) and has a reputation of being very tough on teammates and coaches alike.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
Just a couple of my thoughts.
There were times when Alex Len was the most dominant player in college basketball last season. There were other times where he was nonexistent. I would still take him #1.
So let me get this straight, a guy who has 0 offensive game, relies on athleticism, and coming off a massive knee injury is being debated as the #1 overall pick. Nothing against Noel but I sure wouldn't want to be making that decision.
Olidapo would be considered a steal of many drafts. Can you consider a guy a steal if he goes in the top 5?
Cody Zeller is guy who will be drafted on size and athleticism but he has been know to play small. Could be very good in an up and down offense. I wouldn't touch him if you wanted to play a half court game.
Is Olynyk falling because of Adam Morrison's NBA tank job? Guy seems like a matchup nightmare. Dirk anyone?
Boston and Brooklyn discussing a blockbuster deal that would send Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to Nets, league sources tell Y! Sports.
Now that's what I'm talkin' bout!
I dont care, Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. Hes in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.
Len -- Likened to Zydrunas Ilgauskas, a solid, but not a franchise center for the Cavs for many years.
Noel -- True, his offensive game has a long way to go, and he may never come close to becoming Alonzo Mourning part 2. That stated, Noel may well be another Larry Sanders, which is still as valuable as an Ilgauskas, especially to the Cavs, who ranked near the bottom in defensive field goal percentage.
Oladipo -- An upside as high as any in this draft.
Bennett -- See Oladipo.
McLemore -- If McLemore truly is the lights-out shooter and can't miss prospect some pundits claim that is, he has to at least be considered here.
Porter -- If the Cavs are serious about making the Playoffs next year, Porter not only fills a pressing team need, but also is considered to be the most NBA ready player in the draft. His upside, however is considered limited. The Cavs could then grab one of the big men that are certain to fall to #19, because many teams are starved for PGs and wing players. That, IMO, is why Olynyk seems to be projected to drop in the draft.
I doubt that Adam Morrison's disappointing NBA career comes into play here. By all accounts, Morrison's aloof personality was mostly to blame for his downfall, as he was unable to adjust to life in the NBA.
As for Zeller, IMO, he'll be fine in a half court setting so long as he can consistently hit the outside shot. That stated, he is better suited for an up-and-down game, as you stated.
"I have just been more than a little suspect of all the trades since the Willy (Scott Williamson) cash grab. That one left such a bad taste in my mouth that even a 1985 Dom Pérignon couldn't cleanse it." -- Creek14
Well. This is different.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
I am hoping Larkin falls to Knicks but I think Hawks take with one of next two picks
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
Noel not number one? There might be a reason the Cavs are as bad as they are sans the LeBron years.
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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Now, If I'have used all 3 charges, and the spell is unusable, I would like the macro to use Swiftness Potion instead.
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An area of low pressure will get stuck in Texas and will bring 2 to 5 inches of rain throughout with isolated amounts up to 7 inches.
Tuesday will be rainy and cool with 1 to 3 inches of precipitation area wide. The ground will get saturated so any additional heavy rain can easily produce flooding. Bayous and Creeks can easily handle 3 to 4 inches of rain but if we get more that will be a concern.
Some of our smaller watersheds like Halls Bayou and South Mayde Creek need to be monitored because the smaller watersheds fill up faster. We'll get street flooding with some fairly deep ponding. Driving will be inconvenient at the least and possibly dangerous as the rain amounts pile up.
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The Bert Newton award for the Dag Turned Cool
South Yarra, which got its long-lost dining mojo back thanks to the Claremont Street/Yarra Lane revival and the arrival of Mama Baba, Two Birds One Stone and Claremont Tonic. Who said developers were a bunch of nuffies?
The Bob Dylan A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall award
Pete Evans for sparking a hail of Twitter derision after revealing his diet of ''activated almonds'' to Sunday Life Magazine. Even if it's true, Pete, why publicise it?
The Best Soundtrack award
Virginia Plain. Even if it wasn't named after a Roxy Music song, the vinyl collection and the rockin' DJ put it head and shoulders above the percussive junk plaguing dining land.
The Benny Hill award
Baby, the first Melbourne restaurant to commission neon signs in shapes suggestive of genitalia. The new vertical (lady) garden?
The Mick Jagger award for Remaining Cool Well Beyond The Usual Use-By Date
France-Soir for keeping its packed-to-the-rafters mojo after more than a quarter century. A night out here still feels special, even though you know you've seen it all before.
The Above and Beyond the Call of Duty award
Cam Smith and Matt Steadman for their 3RRR radio show, Eat It, for which they have volunteered their time to discuss all things food for the past 25 years (Sundays at noon).
The Weeping and Wailing award
Annie Smithers, for the announcement that she's selling her eponymous restaurant that spawned the Kyneton dining boom and helped encourage the idea that eating in country restaurants was not a waste of time. Get in quick.
The Lost in Translation award
Hihou, the gorgeous, Tokyo-style bar of Simon Denton, Taka Omi and Miyuki Nakahara, in the space formerly known as Verge where beautiful service, moody lighting and great drinks and snacks can have you channelling your inner Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
The Careful We Might Lose Her award
Pascale Gomes McNabb, the Melbourne native who's designed some of our most unique and iconic spaces (Cumulus Inc, Cutler and Co, Stokehouse) and is now doing most of her best work interstate, particularly in Sydney (Claude's, the Bentley).
The Best Argument for Daylight Savings award
Demitri's Feast, the normally breakfast and lunch Greek joint on Swan Street, Richmond, that opens Thursday to Saturday nights in summer with a glass case full of excellent seafood and marinated lamb and chicken that's tossed onto the grill, kissed with little more than quality produce, lemon, garlic, sea salt and olive oil.
The Refuse To Die award
Vin Cellar, for bobbing up again under new ownership after being read the last rites.
The Deja Vu award
The Meatball and Wine Bar. Anyone been to New York's Meatball Shop? Now you don't need to.
The Sign of the Times award
The Builders Arms, which had to stop using its courtyard due to a smoke complaint from neighbours. Makes you long for the good old days when all people had to whinge about was noise pollution.
The Advanced Hair (Yeah-Yeah) award
Matt Preston for the new MasterChef-inspired conservative coif that seems to have more to do with the show's ratings ambitions than with Preston's cravat-flaunting personality.
The Jumping the Shark award
Dude food. Enough already.
The Sad Farewell award
The Brix. And we're all the losers.
The David Bowie C-c-c-c-c-changes award
The Melbourne Pub Group, for taking over the beloved Prince of Wales and inviting a storm of fury over suggestions the band room is not long for this world. At your peril, Julian Gerner.
The Where-Have-You-Been-All-Our-Lives award
Mark Best, for coming south and gracing us with Marque-lite - sorry, the Pei Modern.
The Eat Streets of Shame award
Melbourne City Council, for refusing to renew permits for food trucks at Docklands. Surely something that makes people want to go there is a good thing?
The Taking-the-Geek-Out-of-Greek award
George Calombaris, whose intended downsizing of the Press Club made front-page news, and who is soon to launch the test case ''souvlaki is the new burger''.
Honourable mention: Shed 5.
The Welcome Back From Holidays award
Paul Mathis, who probably needs another five years' sabbatical after opening six new businesses in a rather busy couple of months.
The Who's Cooking the Dinner award
MasterChef: The Professionals, which lured a shed-full of the industry's illuminati to a Friday-evening taping featuring the mercurial Marco Pierre White. But surely their kitchens can't run without them?
The Melbourne Weather award (sponsored by the Bureau of Meteorology)
Trocadero, which launched its open-air terrace with a glittering party driven indoors by cold, sleet, rain, hail …
The Making Us Proud award
Frank Camorra and his MoVida compadres, for taking Sydney by storm.
The Weight Watchers award
Darren Purchese, whose salted-caramel ice-cream (Connoisseur brand, in your local supermarket freezer section) makes home-made desserts that much better.
The Ned Kelly award
The male baristas of Melbourne intent on outdoing each other in outlandish displays of facial hirsuteness. Just keep the whiskers out of the lattes, please.
The Americanisation of Our Culture award
The slider. It's just a small burger, people.
The Naomi Wolf Prize for Unintentional Irony
The Newmarket's Cellar Bar. The one-time dive bar home of schnitz'n'tits welcomes burlesque artists to spice up Paul Wilson's Mexican molecular degustation. You say potato, I say potat-o.
The Frequent Flyer award
Neil Perry - although we hear he's got a nice little deal with an airline.
Honourable mentions: Shaun Presland (Sake) and Guillaume Brahimi (Bistro Guillaume).
The What Not to Name Your Restaurant award
Henry and the Fox, which recently lost head chef Michael Fox. Runner-up: Brooks, although we hear sommelier Matt Brooke is happy in the role. Thank-you very much.
The Short-Lived award
Greg Malouf, who ditched MoMo for sunny England, retained the Petersham Nurseries' Michelin star then but announced his departure.
The Wannabe Rockstars award
Andrew McConnell, Daniel Wilson, Jesse Gerner, Karen Batson, Raph Rashid and all the other chefs signed up for the Big Day Out's inaugural Chow Town. Living the dream, guys.
The Christmas Will Be Interesting at Your House award
Andrew and Matt McConnell, the brothers who independently claimed more Gertrude Street real estate with the Builders Arms (on top of Andrew's Cutler and Co) and Casa Ciuccio. Throw cousin Jason McConnell into the mix with San Telmo, on the doorstep of Matt's city gaff Bar Lourinha, and backyard cricket could get nasty.
The ''It Better Be Bloody Good'' award
Mamak, the happiest kerbside queue in Melbourne after the famed Sydney roti specialist decided to grace us with its presence.
The Third Person award
George Calombaris, for constantly referring to himself as ''GC'' on Twitter.
The Shortest-Lived Excitement of the Year award
The Argus, in Hepburn Springs, which all-too-briefly rocked the Casbah with chef Ryan Sessions and managerial svengalis Frank Moylan and Melissa Macfarlane.


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ENMORE Park Seniors made the long trip to the west Devon course of Saunton and on this testing links course, came away with a stunning but unexpected victory by 4½ matches to 3½.
More used to their parkland features than the challenging East course of Saunton there were some fine scores - Iain Stewart and Mark Saxton posted a fine 5 and 4 victory, whilst David Pascoe and Graham Pain won by 3 and 2, as did Merv Slocombe and John Parker.
Jess Lawrence and Ray Hancock were one up whilst Jim Symcox and Paul Waplington carded the half point.
Club Night last Tuesday was won by Ashton, Stroud-Lewis and Stote with a score of 68.
They narrowly edged out runners-up Flack, White and Walker who also had 68 points.
In third, with 65 points, was the team of Morley, Phillips and Coombs.
Last Wednesday's Midweek Medal was won by Tim Coombes with a nett 68.
This was also good enough to see Tim claim Division One, ahead of Kieron Windsor in second and Jake Webber-Cadby in third.
Division Two was won by Chris Johnson on countback from Tim Ramsey, both finishing with nett 71's.
In third, after a nett 74, was Barry Webster.
June Symcox won the Club Medal with a nett 71.
Following June in the Silver Division was Kathy Salway with a nett 73, one ahead of third placed Rose Jarvis.
The Bronze Division was won by Julie Blumgart with a nett 74 to finish three ahead of the field.
In second, after countback, was Marilyn Turrell with a nett 72 and Jackie Bull took third.
Tuesday's Seniors Team Challenge for the Bob Burton Cup was won, on countback, by The Strawbies with 83 points. The team, consisting of Webster, Martin and Strawbridge, edged out Team Kes who were runners-up, with The Youngsters in third.