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Seb1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Nintendo Master (http://www.nintendo-master.com)
We are French and are currently putting a new version of our website: Nintendo Master, from the company WeeBe. It's a community about Nintendo and their News.
Our audience is predominantly young boys (between 12 and 25 years).
Title : Nintendo-Master.com
Sub-title : Vivez toute l'actualité Nintendo !
It's easy!
We are currently conducting a new version of our website. The survey design is attached to this contest, and the corresponding PSD, if necessary.
Our goal: to improve the website's logo, and do something that integrates better with this design, highlighting one or two aspects (without using official artwork, creations only): Nintendo, community, news, .... The logo should be absolutely dominated red (the same red as that used for the current logo, Attached to this contest).
The logo should be the focal point of design. If you have no idea for the logo, take on the current model, and make it more "Web 2.0" and compatible with the design.
> Indication : I don't want a "old-style" logo :-) (my website is not a retrogaming website but a news and community website :))
In addition to the logo, I would appreciate a creation in the background: behind the logo and on his right (to fill the empty space to the right of the logo). This setting may represent the Nintendo universe, as in this image: http://www.nintendo-master.com/vf/i…s/top2.png (mario castle, landscape, etc., wholesale and behind the logo / on his right, your creation! web 2.0 style, etc.).
Important notice : I don't want a banner ! But elements of Nintendo universe witch are disposed behind the logo and arround, to improve the design :-).
Notice: In "DESIGN FINAL" PSD, I added a green layer to show where I want to find the creation. This creation could also be reused in posters official website, why not ...
Other idea : The creation (the universe of Nintendo graphics) can be rounded if you prefer : to be behind the logo, go to his left and right.
Exemple of nintendo universes :
> Only a few elements : Peach Castle ?, rounded mountains that are behind the logo? (This is just an idea), cloud ?, one or two blocks ? etc :).
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Game On! Sports Schedule for February 4, 2013
The Super Bowl is over and March Madness is a solid month away. Welcome to February, when regular season NBA and NHL games dot the sports landscape before pitchers and catchers report to give a hint that baseball season is on the horizon.
The San Jose Sharks, who, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, are one of two teams not to lose in regulation this season, take to the ice to keep their hot play going when they travel down south to face the Anaheim Ducks. Anaheim has also played well in the young season and currently sits four points behind San Jose in the NHL's Pacific Division.
Here's a look at all of today's sports action. All times Eastern.
Orlando at Philadelphia 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Clippers at Washington 7 p.m.
Chicago at Indiana 7 p.m.
Detroit at New York 7:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Miami 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Oklahoma City 8 p.m.
Portland at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Sacramento at Utah 9 p.m.
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25 (NOTE: Rankings as of press time)
Notre Dame at (6) Syracuse 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Carolina at Toronto 7 p.m.
Dallas at Colorado 9 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
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The favorite word of Houston-area lawmakers when they speak on the House floor is … Houston.
But beyond that, each of the 12 House members who represent a piece of the Houston metro area have diverse priorities.
For instance, NASA (not surprisingly) is used quite frequently by many legislators, including Rep. Steve Stockman, Rep. Pete Olson, and Rep. John Culberson. These congressmen are huge advocates for space and science issues, including Stockman who sits on the House Science Committee and has a space center in his district.
Can you guess which lawmaker's top vocabulary focused on border security? Rep. Ted Poe's most used word was illegal, followed by Mexico, illegally, border, and cartels. As chairman of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade subcommittee, Poe frequently visits the Texas-Mexico border and advocates for increased border security.
But some Houston lawmakers aren't only talking about the issues they care about. For some, their words reveal a bit of their personal side. Though Rep. Bill Flores, a member of the Natural Resources Committee and an energy advocate, he also shows his Aggie pride while speaking on the House floor.
With the help of the database from CapitolWords.org, we have compiled a slide show listing the 10 words they've used most often while speaking to their colleagues.
Note: Rep. Randy Weber is not included in this analysis because Capitol Words does not have data on his frequent vocabulary.


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nationalization, acquisition and operation by a country of business enterprises formerly owned and operated by private individuals or corporations. State or local authorities have traditionally taken private property for such public purposes as the construction of roads, dams, or public buildings. Known as the right of eminent domain, this process is usually accompanied by the payment of compensation. By contrast, the concept of nationalization is a 20th cent. development that differs from eminent domain in motive and degree; it is done for the purpose of social and economic equality and is usually, although not always, applied as a principle of communistic or socialistic theories of society. The Communist states of Eastern Europe nationalized all industry and agriculture in the period following World War II. Under the Labour government of the period 1945 to 1951, Great Britain nationalized a number of important industries, including coal, steel, and transportation. In non-Communist countries it has been common practice to compensate the owners of nationalized properties, at least in part; however, in the Communist countries, where private ownership is opposed in principle, there usually has not been such compensation. Nationalization of foreign properties has occurred, especially in developing nations, where there is resentment of foreign control of major industries. Instances include Mexico's seizure of oil properties owned by U.S. corporations (1938), Iran's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1951), the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company (1956) by Egypt, and Chile's nationalization of its foreign-owned copper-mining industry (1971). Such expropriations raise complex problems of international law. In some cases disputes over nationalization are settled by adjudication, with the expropriated parties obtaining compensation for their former properties, if only in part. In other instances, where no compensation is offered, severe strain in international relations may arise. The International Court of Justice ruled (1952) in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company dispute that a concession made by a state to a foreign corporation is not an international agreement and is subject to the law of the conceding state—meaning that investors must assume the risk of nationalization in the country in which they invest, and developing nations have held that nationalization is a right implied by the UN Charter.
Privatization, the reverse process, has become widespread, however, with socialism's loss of credibility. Great Britain sold off many of its public companies, such as British Telecom; France sold 65 state-owned companies in 1988; and the collapse of Communist dictatorships in E Europe and the Soviet Union has inspired large-scale privatization in some of the nations in that region, in some instances after distributing government shares to the public. Housing has also been privatized on a large scale in Britain, and privatization has been proposed for public housing in the United States. Developing nations, too, have begun to privatize. In the United States, the term has also been broadly applied to the contracting out of the management of public schools, prisons, airports, sanitation services, and a variety of other government-owned institutions, especially at the state and local levels.
See J. Margolis, ed., Public Economics (1969); G. L. Reid and K. Allen, Nationalized Industries (1970); T. Prosser, Nationalized Industries (1986); E. D. Sclar, You Don't Always Get What You Pay For (2000).


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Keeping brothers and sisters together within the foster system should get easier because of a campus of homes quickly taking shape in Palmetto.
Two buildings in the planned eight-home community are expected to be completed this month as a collaboration that began in 2006 between the nonprofit Guardian Angels of Southwest Florida and Florida Baptist Children's Homes comes to fruition.
Floyd Price, a board member of the Guardian Angels and self-described "snooperintendent" of the project, said the group initially faced much uncertainty.
"We started out as a board with no money, no property and no knowledge of how to operate or build a foster family home," he said. "Just to have seen this thing come together, my standard comment is 'We just need to stay out of God's way,' and He keeps providing things we didn't know we needed."
Homes on the eight-acre site can accommodate six children each so that siblings can remain under one roof or at least be neighbors. The new concept includes a similar Florida Baptist campus under construction in Gainesville and group homes in Marianna and Tallahassee.
The Manasota campus evolved from informational lunches hosted by the Guardian Angels in 2006. President Bobbie Price, who is Floyd's wife, recalled support from the Department of Children and Families and the Safe Children Coalition as their effort began.
"We have wonderful partners in the community," she said. "They have just opened their hearts to the need and it has allowed us to do more than we thought we could."
Each house should be about 4,000 square feet. Cabinets and baseboards installed in late January were among final touches. Each house cost at least $250,000, and site development was another $325,000. A pond had to be approved through the Southwest Florida Water Management District. All of the bureaucratic details mean the other homes will progress as they can, she said.
"It's an expensive undertaking, but one God has been with us every step of the way," said Price, noting financial help from annual Manatee Memorial Hospital Auxiliary grants. "How large the campus grows will depend on how the need presents itself and the money.:
Statistics provided by Sarasota's Safe Children Coalition illustrate that the need is paramount. The coalition, an umbrella organization with 49 licensed homes and 137 children in Manatee County, is among 128 foster homes serving 370 children in Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties. They are among 7,500 foster children in the state, according to the Department of Children and Families.
Efforts by the Florida Baptist Children's Homes to address that need in the three local counties resulted from the Guardian Angels reaching out to the Lakeland-based organization and forming a successful partnership.
"They had this passionate group of citizens wanting to care for children in their community and wanting them to be in Christian homes," Jennie Ard, director of community ministries at Florida Baptist, said. "They have been involved in the fundraising and the building and the awareness, and we have the programs and licensing in place to be able to run them."
Along with hiring a part-time family support counselor, Florida Baptist's main goal now is finding foster parents to live in the homes. The parents would live rent-free, be responsible for utilities and must be able to take in children of any age, from infants to teenagers.
The importance of keeping sibling groups together was apparent to foster parent Eric Williams after a recent continuing education conference.
Williams and his wife, Vicki, are fostering their second child through Florida Baptist, 1-year-old Lucas, for whom they have started adoption proceedings.
The Sarasota couple previously fostered another boy before he was reunited with a sibling. They also have a 6-year-old biological son, Danny.
"It's a challenge to be able to find foster parents who will take in multiple siblings, and it's so important to be able to stay together with a biological sister or brother," Williams said. "We were told it's a much greater possibility for longer health if they're with a blood relative. They have a much greater opportunity for success."
As Williams faced the prospect of moving from fostering to adopting, he said ties naturally develop between parent and child. Even if those ties are temporary as foster children move to other homes, he said, the greater goal must be remembered.
"These children have to be able to learn to attach at a young age," Williams said. "When you go in to be a foster parent, you're doing it for the child, you're not doing it for you. You're going out on a limb emotionally, and hopefully you'll help that child develop long-term."
Bobbie Price shares those goals as she watches the Manasota campus take shape. She said the sense of anticipation about it is heightened as the community has stepped forward to help.
Churches have provided meals, diapers and babysitting she said. Sinks and granite for countertops were donated. Other organizations, including Southeastern Guide Dogs, are eager to become partners.
"A lot of the community wants to help once they're in there," she said. "It's a great thing."
New homes keep siblings together
Keeping brothers and sisters together within the foster system should get easier because of a campus of homes quickly taking shape in Palmetto.


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Hello! So yes, it's been awhile, right?! I'm happy to report that Ty and myself are alive and doing very well. I'm currently a counselor to at-risk youth and their families 45+ hours a week, which has become one of my new passions. Balancing that with being a single mother to a very sweet, energetic child the last 2.5 years hasn't left me with much free time for the blogging world!
Another reason why I'm so busy is that we started homeschooling/unschooling this year! Tyler is in "Kindergarten" though his brain and development have been all over the place, so learning at home has been an easy solution to ensure that he's getting both the challenges that he needs and some special attention where he deserves it as well. It wasn't an easy decision to make, and truly a scary one at first, though I find it's working well for both of us. Teaching Ty is what I've been doing all along, so why not continue?!
Ty has been especially focused on the areas of Math, Science, and Geography this year. We've also been working on feeling identification and coping skills, as well as a good amount of physical activity (especially gymnastics), as I truly believe in developing the whole child, not just academics!
As always, you can also find activities (counseling activities included now as well) via my Pinterest boards: https://www.pinterest.com/peaceparenting/ It's amazing to see how many hits this blog continues to get, and so many of them are thanks to pinners on Pinterest!
I can't rule-out an occasional post about a topic or two here on this blog, so if you're following, you could certainly stay put. For now, I wish you all happiness and love, and perhaps I'll see you over on Instagram! :)


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Nick Anderson doesn�t believe in coincidences. He believes everything happens for a reason.
That�s why it was so hard to pass up the next chapter of his life � and even harder to say goodbye to Kinston High and its football program.
Nick Anderson doesn�t believe in coincidences. He believes everything happens for a reason.
That�s why it was so hard to pass up the next chapter of his life � and even harder to say goodbye to Kinston High and its football program.
Anderson, who coached the Vikings to the state 2AA title game in 2011, announced on Friday that he is leaving to take a teaching and head coaching position at George Washington High School in Danville, Va.
Kinston went 30-10 in Anderson�s three-year tenure, making him third on the school�s all-time wins list behind Sam Green and Ralph Holloway, who each finished their careers with 37 wins.
Even before the 30 wins Anderson, an Alamance County native, always wanted to find a teaching and coaching job near home. But it never happened.
Instead, the now 31-year-old who arrived at Kinston in the summer of 2010 by way of Greenville Rose, found work near Greenville, which became his second home while he attended ECU.
So to Anderson, who recently became a father, it�s no coincidence that his parents recently relocated to the Danville area, and that a high school known for its football program needed a new head coach shortly thereafter.
It�s all by God�s design.
�Number one is family. I�ve always been a big family man, and it came in two parts. Half of that is moving closer to my parents, and the other half is my wife and my child and the financial standpoint of that,� he said. �We�re trying to build a future for our son.
�I�m big on things happening for a reason. God�s got a plan for everyone.�
After spending the first five seasons of his coaching career as an assistant with the Rampants, Kinston gave Anderson his first head coaching gig and did so with little room to plan.
Anderson was hired in early July 2010, and had less than a month to implement an entire new offense.
Kinston, a little over a half-year removed from its first trip to the regional finals, had no problem adjusting. The Vikings went 10-3 in Anderson�s first season and finished tied for second in the Eastern Plains 2A Conference. They also reached the second round of the state 2AA playoffs.
The following season Anderson coached Kinston to the most successful public school season in modern Lenoir County football history. His team went 13-2, ran the table in league play and played for its first-ever state championship on Dec. 3, 2011.
While the Vikings came up short for the 2AA title in a 21-14 loss to West Stokes, it was still a season of dreams for the team and its coach.
It�s been three seasons full of dreams, actually. And a hard three seasons to say goodbye to.
�It�s giving me cold chills just thinking about them. There�s been some very great times at Kinston. I�m really going to miss being there,� Anderson said.
�It was so hard to stand there today and tell those kids that I wasn�t coming back. That�s something I�ll always remember � how hard that was. This place, these kids, it�s so special.�
Anderson will take over for Bobby Martin, who left George Washington High in February after one season, and will be the school�s fourth head football coach in the last five years, according to the Danville Register & Bee.
The Eagles went 8-3 last season and won the Western Valley District championship, according to the paper.
Anderson said the schools, Kinston and George Washington, are similar in terms of the type of football they play and the type of players each has.
He also likened Danville, which borders North Carolina about 15 miles northeast of Reidsville, to Greenville.
Next season, instead of his family driving two-plus hours to watch his team play, it�ll only have to drive a few short minutes.
�A lot of it is very similar to Kinston, and that�s kind of what is so great about this whole deal,� Anderson said. �We�re just excited about getting up there and taking with us everything we�ve learned at Kinston, and just converting it a little bit, to Virginia.�
Now that Anderson is leaving, Kinston is left making plans for his replacement.
Athletic Director Perry Tyndall said that as of now the assistant coaches and players will continue their offseason workouts, and when the time comes he and Vikings Principal Angela Bryant will begin the process of looking over resumes and conducting interviews.
Tyndall was saddened to hear the news that his friend is leaving, but understands completely.
�I hate to see Nick leave, he�s done a good job here, but I can�t fault him for bettering his family. He did a lot for our program,� Tyndall said. �Now we�ve got to move on and figure out what to do next.�
Anderson feels that whoever takes his place is walking into a great situation, both program and school wise.
�It�s just an appetizing job. It�s just a great job,� he said.
Anderson�s departure means the area will have three new head football coaches next season � all in one conference.
Greene Central relieved former coach Ken Grantham of his duties last November after five seasons, and former South Lenoir coach Tim Jenkins resigned in January to take a teaching and coaching job at East Duplin.
Grantham took over for Jenkins at South Lenoir, and the Rams hired former North Pitt defensive coordinator Allen Wooten to replace Grantham.
The new Eastern Carolina 2A Conference will consist of Ayden-Grifton, Greene Central, Goldsboro, Kinston, North Lenoir and South Lenoir.
Anderson said he never thought of leaving the Vikings until looking at what, if anything, was available in the area his parents were moving to.
There was, and it�s now time for Anderson to go home.
�I�m just big on that God has a plan and he�s going to continue to guide you on the track that he wants you to go. He�s going to open doors for you. It�s not by coincidence, or anything like that,� he said.
�There�s a reason there were never any job openings where I grew up. God didn�t want me to go there. He wanted me to go to Kinston where I could get used to big-time athletes so when this job opened up, and my parents moved up there, I�d already be ready.�
Ryan Herman can be reached at 252-559-1073 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @KFPSports.


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England's David Wetherill was born with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare genetic disorder that restricts the growth of his bones. Just 23 years old, he's much shorter than average, lacks a full range of motion in his limbs (he can barely bend his legs, and requires crutches to walk), and suffers severe joint pain and fatigue after the slightest bit of exercise. He made this incredible shot on Friday night, diving to his right, off his crutch, to return a shot from Thomasz Kusiak and send the crowd and announcer into conniptions.
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The White House Council on Environmental Quality, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has announced the winners of the 2011-2012 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators. Eighteen teachers from around the country are being recognized for their exceptional work as leaders in the field of environmental education in formal school settings. Award recipients and their local education agencies will receive monetary awards and commemorative plaques to help support and encourage their use of environmental education in their classrooms and schools.
"To earn this prestigious award, each educator demonstrated teaching skills and innovative use of environmental education that connected students with the world around them in ways that will strengthen their education for years to come," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Their lessons have put creativity and innovation, community engagement and leadership into practice, teaching students about civic responsibility and environmental stewardship. We are fortunate to have such educators in our schools today."
The Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators recognizes outstanding K-12 teachers and their local education agencies across the United States for excellence in integrating environmental education into their lessons and connecting students with their communities and the natural world.
This program recognizes and supports teachers from both rural and urban education settings who make use of experiential and environmental opportunities that utilize creativity and community engagement to help students develop a sense of civic responsibility and stewardship in ecosystems. This year's winning teachers' programs range from field studies in watershed and wetland science in New England to the study of clean energy sources in Colorado and ocean and climate science in Texas, forest ecology and trout studies in the Pacific Northwest and water resource management projects in the desert.
"The educators who have earned this honor are demonstrating leadership and excellence in environmental education, and are harnessing the innovation and imagination of our students," said Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "These teachers are encouraging our nation's future leaders to take responsibility for being good stewards of our environment, and preparing them to succeed in the 21st century."
Recipients of the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators include:
- Lizanne Cox, New Haven, Conn., Common Ground High School
- Ed Lindsey, Old Town High School, Old Town, Maine
- Patricia Lockhart, Hubert Humphrey PS 57R, Staten Island, N.Y.
- Aaron Baker, Randolph High School, Randolph, N.J.
- Rebecca Sanders, Crellin Elementary School, Oakland, Md.
- Robert Carroll, Plaza Middle School, Virginia Beach, Va.
- Deborah Wasylik, Dr. Phillips High School, Orlando, Fla.
- Frank McKay, Exploris Middle School, Raleigh, N.C.
- Sandra Vander Veldon, Fox River Academy, Appleton, Wis.
- Howard Hill, Highland Park High School, Highland Park, Ill.
- Clifford Strain, Flour Bluff ISD – Middle School, Corpus Christi, Texas
- Bradd Schulke, East Mountain High School, Sandia Park, N.M.
- Denise Scribner, Eisenhower High School, Goddard, Kan.
- John Broda, Buffalo Ridge Elementary, Cheyenne, Wyo.
- Sally High, Pagosa Springs Middle School, Pagosa Springs, Colo.
- Riccardo Magni, Pioneer Valley High School, Santa Maria, Calif.
- Mike Town, Redmond High School, Redmond, Wash.
- Deidre Bingaman, Donnelly Elementary School, Donnelly, Idaho
More information about the winners: http://www.epa.gov/education/teacheraward/winners.html
More information about this program: http://www.epa.gov/education/teacheraward


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Many of you knew that I was planning to write a "holy shit Shakti finally went nuts" fic. Well, I did.
And because I'll be asked about my pretentious titles.... There are five "afflictions" that prevent a human being from pulling away from the everyday world that only causes suffering and ignorance. Abhinivesha is the hardest to get rid of because it's your survival instinct. Abhinivesha is essentially one's will to live, the human tendency to cling to life even though the material world is nothing but a pile of illusions and lies. Because it's the instinct to cling to an unhelpful world... it's traditionally not a good thing.
Random yoga aside, there's a link to the fic and anyone with comments is encouraged to post them here.


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Man pleads no contest to burning girlfriend's son
Edward Myers faces jail time if deal is approved in Butler County
A 37-year-old western Pennsylvania man has pleaded no contest to helping burn his then-girlfriend's son with flammable nail polish.
Edward R. Myers, of Saxonburg, had been scheduled for trial Wednesday, but instead entered the plea Tuesday as part of a plea agreement with Butler County prosecutors.
Myers' 15-year-old son last year was ordered to juvenile detention after he was found to have set 7-year-old Daniel Podskalny on fire after Myers threw nail polish onto the boy. Podskalny suffered third-degree burns to his face and chest.
The (Tarentum) Valley News Dispatch says a judge must still approve the plea agreement, which calls for 15 lesser charges to be dismissed.
If the deal is approved, Myers faces four to 12 years in state prison when he's sentenced Aug. 26.
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In its first appearance in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge for autonomous robotic ground vehicles at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville, Calif., TeamCASE and its self-driving robotic car DEXTER finished in the top 20 out of an initial international field of more than 80 competitors, beating schools such as Caltech, Georgia Tech and Princeton.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) uses wholesale marketing and media techniques to motivate high school students to want to learn about science and technology. The national championships of the FIRST robotics competition teams up professional engineers with high school students from across the country.
The Institute on Navigation hosts an anual autonomous lawnmower competiton which tests teams of students abilities build a robot that can mow an obsticle-strewn course by itself. The CWRU Cutter autonomous lawnmower is Case Western Reserve University's response to the challenge. The project incorporates: network communication and synchronization, data acquisition, sensor interfacing, vision processing, signal processing, artificial intelligence, system control, and robotic actuation. CWRU Cutter took 1st place in 2009 and 3rd place in 2008.
In conjunction with the annual Engineer's Week, the Case School of Engineering invites teams of high school students to participate in the Lego Robot Competition and the Engineering Challenges Carnival. Middle school students are allowed to watch, but not compete in the Lego Robot Competition. The Carnival is opened to all--from preschool to adults--but activities are geared toward middle school.
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Volume 35 Issue 2: (Feb/Mar 2012)
Star Wars: The Old Republic
John Gaudiosi
Issue: Volume 35 Issue 2: (Feb/Mar 2012)
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Make no mistake about it, Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from acclaimed developer BioWare is nothing like Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts' Star Wars Galaxies of the same genre, which, after more than eight years, officially shut down this past December. And for fans of everything Star Wars as well as MMO gamers, that's a good thing.
Electronics Arts-owned BioWare has redefined the role-playing game (RPG) genre with each new title it rolls out. Starting in the early days working with the Dungeons & Dragons license, the game studio obliterated the need for pen and paper by immersing players in that fantasy universe with Baldur's Gate. In fact, BioWare has a strong history with LucasArts and with Star Wars, having worked with George Lucas' games division on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic in the console space several years later. While the developer has expanded more recently into original IPs, such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age, the game maker has showed that it understands licensed material. And there's no bigger license out there than a certain galaxy far, far away.
Star Wars: The Old Republic takes place thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader and 300 hundreds years after Knights of the Old Republic. The Republic and Empire have signed a tenuous truce, but they're at each other's throats. It's within this volatile setting that BioWare allows players to take center stage and become a hero. Because this is a BioWare title, the MMO game has been designed to tell emotional stories involving evolving characters.
Star Wars: Old Republic pushing MMO game graphics to a new umiverse—and one that is familiar to players.
To bring these ambitious goals to life, BioWare turned to new technology. One of the impressive developments actually enables all the characters, even the player character, to speak, making The Old Republic the first fully voiced MMO title ever created. The game features several hundred thousand lines of dialog and several thousand unique characters with which players will interact. Technology Drives The Force
According to Emmanuel Lusinchi, associate lead designer, there are two pieces of technology that really helps Star Wars: The Old Republic come to life. The first is the studio's complete voice-over dialog system. "Fortunately, we've had plenty of experience with voice-over at BioWare, with games such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age, so we were able to rely on well-established processes and technologies [such as lip synching]," he says. More important, the group was able to realistically assess how much work this was going to entail—and how much money it was going to cost—before committing to this approach.
"It is truly a monumental task dealing with a quantity of assets rarely seen in game development and with a very rigid production pipeline. You need to schedule around real actors, some of them in foreign countries," Lusinchi points out. "However—and here's the important part—this tech, even though it is not particularly new or particularly complex to code, really brings a sense of immersion to the game. Well, to a certain extent anyway, because what we've found, and what all players know, is that an uninteresting dialog is still uninteresting with full voice-over. So that's a place where the technology is an enabler, but the creative part is still what really matters in the end."
The second technology that drives the new game is more subtle, according to Lusinchi, and that's the phasing system. Star Wars: The Old Republic is both defined by its story and, since this is an MMO, by its multiplayer interactions. Unfortunately, story and multiplayer do not always play nice with each other, and it's sometimes a struggle to balance one with the other.
The scale of The Old Republic universe, with its thousands of characters, required BioWare to balance
aesthetics with gameplay.
"The example we used while developing the game was the confrontation between Luke and the emperor in Return of the Jedi," explains Lusinchi. "That particular experience would have been somewhat spoiled if the player was in a room full of other players, either queuing up and waiting for the emperor to respond, or each confronting his own emperor in view of all other players. A traditional way to handle this type of situation is through instancing, whereby a new version of an area is created for each group that enters it. While instancing does a fine job of isolating the player and his or her group mate from the rest of the MMO population, it does too good of a job and makes it easy for the players, in an instance, to feel entirely disconnected from the rest of the MMO world."
BioWare instead developed "phases," which are simply instances that do not require a loading screen, so the player barely notices that he or she is entering or leaving one. This allows the developer to keep players connected to the general population, while also allowing them to enjoy their own story moment without exterior interference. From the players' perspective, they just happen to enter a room that seems quieter than the rest of the world. This is a case whereby technology allows the developer to bring the player's story to life, even in a crowded multiplayer environment.
Building an MMO Galaxy
With its background in the PC and console gaming space, whereby a game is developed, followed by supplemental downloadable content and then sequels, adjusting to the MMO game space was quite a challenge for the studio. In fact, BioWare's Austin, Texas, facility had to rethink game design to accommodate an always-evolving game story line and persistent world.
"The sheer scale of Star Wars: The Old Republic is what impacted the creative process the most," says Lusinchi. "In previous BioWare titles, a designer would do many tasks. In The Old Republic, because of the amount of content that had to be created, we had to introduce a much more focused and specialized workforce. So now we have designers who specialize in specific areas—PvP (player vs. player), for example."
There's no question that developing this game has been a learning process for the studio. Lusinchi says that his team dealt with the kind of technical challenges that every MMO developer must face, such as the limitations of the client/server architecture. He hopes that one day network latency will no longer be an issue; but until that time, BioWare still has to design aspects of the game that will be especially resilient to lag. Furthermore, to be sure that the game is playable for the widest audience, the BioWare team had to develop for the lowest possible PC specification. Nevertheless, all things being equal, Lusinchi believes an MMO that can run on more machines will be more successful than one that can run only on a few nuclear-powered top-end computers.
"One of the greatest thing we got from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic console game was the setting," explains Lusinchi. "It's great to know that, yes, we can in fact create a game thousands of years before the events of the movies, and yes, it is okay to make everything, from clothing to ship design, oddly evocative of the stuff from the movies."
Of course, there are quite a lot of design ideas the artists are evolving from Knights of the Old Republic, such as the light-side and dark-side progression, as well as from other BioWare games, like Mass Effect's conversation wheel.
At a high level, console games and MMOs have different processes, and there is a great contrast in workflow. So having the background in building critically acclaimed and commercially successful original and licensed RPGs was a good launching point.
"With this MMO game, our technology groups tend to be more isolated and focused on their area of expertise," says Lusinchi. "This allows them to perfect the systems they are working on, so they can test and then implement them into the game once they are ready. Meanwhile, we tend to keep all the creative types together. There's a lot of collaboration and constant communication that's needed to ensure quality and continuity. They're completely opposite approaches, but it works."
To create each of the game's 19 planets, such as Tatooine, in The Old Republic, the process starts with finding the answers to important questions like: Why does the team want to add it to the game in the first place? What do they want to express with this planet? How will it be different from the previous ones? What will it bring to the players? What's the story? Once this is roughly established, the team leads come together and go into their different groups to work on the specifics and their specialties. The so-called secret sauce, maintains Lusinchi, is in how that all comes together and becomes something as great as some of the iconic Star Wars planets, like Hoth, have turned out.
"To create a character class, it is important to distinguish the role-playing aspect of the class—its story, essentially—and the gameplay role it fulfills," explains Lusinchi. "Each one of our classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic has an intricate and extensive story, so this is not something we can create on a whim. We tried to imagine what class would please the players the most, and at the same time, have the most interesting stories. Once we pick the classes, we think about how they'll play in the game and how we can integrate their story and their progression from the Origin Worlds all the way to our end game. After all that is done, we play, we play again, and then we play some more."
The environments in the MMO are rich and varied and extend to 19 different planets.
Since The Old Republic allows players to pilot a wide variety of spaceships through the galaxy, bringing those vehicles to life was an integral part of the gameplay. The process to bring these spaceships to life, which was mostly a visual endeavor, rests in the hands of the artists. They started with concepts of the exteriors and interiors for each class and then build 3D models of each craft. However, because there are a lot of Star Wars and science-fiction fans in the office, including Lusinchi, the artists had to deal with plethora of opinions, tips, and suggestions from everyone on the team.
Star Wars Forever
BioWare has worked closely with George Lucas' teams to bring relevant aspects from the Star Wars film universe to the game, including the iconic music. And, not surprising, LucasArts had to approve everything that went into the game—from the graphics to the sound. No question, maintains Lusinchi, the game developer's existing relationship with LucasArts on past games results in a smooth workflow in so far as approvals were concerned.
"Fortunately, we have a good relationship with them, and BioWare has experience in setting a good workflow with IP holders, so the entire review process is more or less transparent to most people working on Star Wars: The Old Republic," notes Lusinchi.
As technology improves, including the internal game engine BioWare employs, new challenges are bound to occur, and they have.
"As we got closer to shipping the game, our engineers were trying to squeeze more and more performances out of the game engine, and as they were doing so, they were coming up with a clearer understanding of exactly what the creative folks could get away with," explains Lusinchi. "So, during that phase, we got new rules on just how many creatures, or visual effects, or, well, anything really, we could have in any given area. The key was to be ready to be adaptable."
For fans who have been waiting years for BioWare to make Knights of the Old Republic III, this MMO game will deliver that experience, as well as parts IV, V, VI, VII, and more. The always expanding game world should keep players busy for years to come.
John Gaudiosi is an East Coast writer who has been covering video games for nearly 20 years.
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14 out 15 in the NL in pitching.Nope. Will not.
Nothing was "lost" about this season at the beginning. Heck, it's not lost now. I simply refuse to accept that foisting horrible baseball on the team and fanbase to save a few dollars and hold back a guy that was clearly ready to help this team be better than it has been was worth it. I just don't.
This whole things hasn't been about money. Jock made a good point on that, as they have carried Cueto all year, not worrying about his "Super 2" status. No, this has been about inflicting Corey Patterson on the fan base. It has been about bending over backward to preserve Jr.'s feelings as he ruins this team in RF. It has been about watching plentiful at-bats wasted in the 1st and 3rd spots in the line-up, and balls go falling gently into RF in front of the statue that is Jr., for reasons that have nothing to do with money, and everything to do with prolonged horrible baseball judgement and deference to guys that the manager is familiar with and respects.
No more, no less.
So, yeah, "about time". And then some.
I don't expect Bruce to "save" this team or this season, I simply expect him to be a marked improvement over the absolute dreck that has been passed off as major league caliber and has held him in AAA against all logic and reason for two months.
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- Lecture by Dr. Justin McDaniel of the University of Pennsylvania. "Affixing Gold to Ghosts: An Introduction to Buddhist Art in Gold, Stone, Wood and Plastic." Traditional research on Buddhist Art has primarily concentrated on the study of Buddhist images, stupas, manuscripts, and murals produced by the elite before the nineteenth century. However, Buddhists in Southeast Asia today interact with Buddhist statues in very different ways.
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- Buddhist Mandala sand art demonstration. Take part in this hands-on project! Work with Meg Ventrudo, curator of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, to create a one-of-a kind work of art.
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RodK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 120 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a small owner operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company using hot water extraction cleaning. We have been in business for 6 years and would like an image upgrade with our logo. Our focus is on residential home carpet and upholstery cleaning. We occasionally take on small commercial cleaning jobs, apartment carpet cleaning and the like. We also clean rugs on location, vehicle interiors, leather and related services such as applying protectant and pet stain treatment. Our service is competitively priced for the market and guaranteed as "The Most Thorough Cleaning You've Ever Seen or Its' Free!". More than half our business is repeat and referral based. We strive to be a friendly, relationship oriented company. We do this by sending out monthly newsletters to our clients, setting up maintenance plans for them and the like.
Our target market is primarily home owners of middle to upper-middle income. These families often have children and pets and want attractive, clean homes but don't have the time or don't want to bother cleaning their own carpet. Much of our contact is with the "woman of the house". Our main selling points to this market is showing that we are trustworthy (use testimonials), our cleaning is thorough and guaranteed, and it is dry within several hours.
Want a logo that uses our company name, Dry Advantage Carpet Care. Thinking creative, contemporary, professional.
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Guido Beck (August 29, 1903 – October 21, 1988) was a German physicist born in what is now the Czech Republic. He studied physics in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925, under Hans Thirring. He worked in Leipzig in 1928 as an assistant to Werner Heisenberg. A combination of the troubled political climate of Europe in the 1930s, his own restlessness, and the Nazi persecutions in Germany, made the Jewish-born Beck a traveller. He had a profound impact in developing physics in South America.
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I was going to start this yesterday, but I figured it would probably have been too soon. Then I remembered how early some other series threads were opened.
Also, the WI squad is expected to be named on Wednesday.
The 16 I would like to see...
BC Lara (capt)
RR Sarwan (vc)
CS Baugh (wk)
CH Gayle
WW Hinds
S Chanderpaul
D Ganga
DS Smith
MN Samuels
OAC Banks
M Dillon
VC Drakes
DB Powell
FH Edwards
CD Collymore
D Mohammed
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Caldera Plush Luxury Estate Hybrid Mattress by Stearns and Foster – Queen
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Caldera Plush Luxury Estate Hybrid by Stearns & Foster – Queen The Stearns & Foster Lux Estate Hybrid is a new milestone: a distinct half foam/half spring mattress on the leading edge of innovation and, at the same time, thoroughly grounded in tradition. The Caldera Plush Luxury Estate Hybrid is designed for sleepers who are looking for an enveloping softness with deep support. Bases/foundations sold separately. Measurements (Mattress Only) Queen: 60″W x 80″L x 15″H Construction PrimaCool® Lux-Stretch Performance Cover with TENCEL™Double stretch knit fabric that's soft, moisture-wicking, and breathable. Features FlameGuard® and a blend of silk and wool fibers for a cooler night's sleep PrimaCool® Elite Gel Memory Foam with Cooling materialsEffective at removing excess heat, helping to keep you cool throughout the night Advanced Adapt™ FoamCombines conforming comfort with ease of movement PrimaSense™ Gel FoamCradles the body and promotes cooler sleeping IntelliCoil™ AdvancedAdapts to any body for the perfect level of support PrimaCore™ Gel FoamThe foundation layer of Gel Foam that provides more underlying support to the Gel Foam layers above it, dispersing your pressure points, helping your stress fade away Features PrimaCool® Lux-Stretch Performance Cover with TENCEL™- High-loft, double stretch knit fabric wicks away moisture and regulates temperature with durable fibers- TENCEL™ is an eco-friendly fiber used in athletic wear for its moisture-wicking, breathable properties Advanced Adapt™ Foam- The Advance Adapt™ Material has a high density and substantial feel, excellent for pressure relief and is an all around better feeling material than any other similar products and is produced exclusively for Stearns & Foster- Slower response provides an indulgent comfort without sacrificing any ease of movement IntelliCoil® Advanced- Coil-in-Coil design features a cone-shaped innercoil to provide the perfect combination of conformance and support. Progressive spring rate allows for a spring that adapts better to your body, giving you a smooth transition into the mattress- Offers a more customizable response as it adjusts with the appropriate amount of support for each person PrecisionEdge™ System- Two rows of densely packed coils around the edge of the entire mattress- Provides edge-to-edge conformability.- Dual stage spring that is exclusive to Stearns & Foster means that coils have a softer response on the top and a firmer response as the coil compresses- These coils were tested twice as long as previous collections and still outperformed them Stearns & Foster Brass Air Vents- Allows the mattress to breathe, letting air flow and regulating heat for a more comfortable night's rest Compatible Foundations and Bases (See Related Products) Traditional Flat Standard/High Profile Foundation – 9″A durable boxspring base for your mattress in a coordinating fabric. Traditional Flat Low Profile Foundation – 5″A durable boxspring base for your mattress in a coordinating fabric. The low profile is simply a matter or preference which can assist with many issues including making the bed lower and easier to get into. Ease Adjustable BaseThe head and foot of the Ease Base independently adjust with a wireless remote, creating virtually unlimited ergonomic positions. Return to laying flat with the touch of one button. Designed to be placed on the floor or on your existing frame. With additional accessories, sold separately, you can configure the legs of the base higher or lower. Reflexion 4 Adjustable Massage BaseThe head and foot of the Reflexion Base independently adjust with a wireless remote which features 3 pre-programmed position memory settings. Stress-ending massage options allow you to choose the zone and intensity of your relaxation experience. With additional accessories, sold separately, you can configure the legs of the base higher or lower. Reflexion 7 Adjustable Massage BaseWith even larger range of motion than the Relexion 4, The Reflexion 7 lets you control the position of your bed, lifting your head and feet, as well as select pre-set memory positions for relaxing and sleeping. It also includes two-zone massage with multiple choices for wave intensities. Additional features underbed lighting to make finding the bed in the dark easy as well as 2 USB charging ports and 2 AC charging ports to reduce cords that and strung across the floor and keeps your lights and devices charged and close at hand. Whether you're sleeping, reading or watching TV in bed, Reflexion 7 puts you in control.


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By Emmanuel M. von Arx, KF16, Guayaquil (Ecuador)
My host and Kiva´s partner organization Banco D-MIRO provides over ten different types of microloans to borrowers in and around Guayaquil: among them loans to finance housing improvements, school expenses, medication, and loans awarded specifically to employees, young people with a great idea but no experience, and – as Ecuador´s only microfinance institution – discount loans for HIV-positive micro-entrepreneurs.
I am the first to attest, that all these loans have found enthusiastic and committed takers. Yet, one borrower group beats them all: the well over 400 disabled borrowers of Banco D-MIRO, whose deep commitment and payment discipline has turned "their" loan type – called Producto Creer ("Product Believe") – into the most successful and inspirational product of D-MIRO´s extensive spectrum. The delinquency rate of Producto Creer is by far lower than that of any other major micro-loan type of Banco D-MIRO, which means that borrowers of Producto Creer are better at paying back their monthly rates than any other client group!
Specifically, by the end of October 2011, Banco D-MIRO´s entire loan portfolio had a delinquency rate (here defined as PAR1, or the total outstanding amount of loans with repayment delays beyond 1 day) of 2.67%, whereas Producto Creer shows a PAR1 of 1.91% – a number that´s extremely hard to beat! People at this bank certainly didn´t expect such an impressive outcome when, in April 2010, they first introduced a special discount loan product for physically disabled clients. The bank may have been encouraged by the success of another pioneering discount loan product that had been introduced in September 2007: the Producto Vida ("Product Life") – a discount loan for HIV-positive entrepreneurs about which I wrote in this blog post.
So much for the numbers, but how is the reality in the field? Why are D-MIRO´s borrowers with a physical disability such incredibly good payers and clients? How and in what do they work? What are their main successes and challenges in life? No loan officer within D-MIRO is better suited to answer me these questions than Nahin Alvarado: his focus is on HIV positive and disabled clients and he was already my guide during an earlier visit to an HIV-clinic in one of Guayaquil´s largest public hospitals. When I ask him to join him in the field, he immediately agrees to take me to "Asoplejica" – an organization for the disabled that Nahin visits every month to educate its members on their financial options and specifically on Producto Creer.
After a ten-minute car ride to Los Esteros, a rough neighborhood west of downtown Guayaquil, we stand outside the headquarter of Asoplejica where I ask Nahin for his personal take on the low delinquency rate of borrowers with Producto Creer. Spanish-speakers please jump right ahead to the video – for all others, Nahin´s response to my question was: "Our experience has been very positive. Other financial institutions in Ecuador marginalize these disabled clients who are aware that only we [Banco D-MIRO] give them an opportunity to obtain a loan; so they are very faithful to us. To that extent, the delinquency rate is extremely low." I follow up, asking: "Lower than for regular loans, right?" "Yes, we have a delinquency rate that is much lower than that of regular loans." Here´s all this in Guayaquileño-colored Spanish:'
As we walk into the building, we are immediately greeted by the organization´s receptionist, who introduced herself as Mariuxi. She has just wrapped up a discussion on the day´s schedule with Emilio, the President of Asoplejica. Emilio immediately comes towards us in his wheelchair, inviting Nahin and me to sit down with him for a talk: he is amazed to hear about my Kiva Fellowship and is even more surprised when I tell him how Kiva connects over 640,000 idealistic Kiva lenders with over 668,000 micro-entrepreneurs around the world. He spontaneously exclaims: "I hope that one of my past loans with Banco D-MIRO has been funded through Kiva!" [Back at the office I double-check: while none of Emilio´s past loans was listed on Kiva, chances are good that future loans of his will appear on Kiva.org.]
Emilio recounts for me his loan history: "I have been a client of Banco D-MIRO for the last four years. Every year I take a higher loan which I then invest in my one-man taxi business, paying it off during the following twelve months. My first loan was on $1,500, followed a year later by one of $2,000. I hope my next loan will be on $5,000." I ask him about his taxi business and how exactly he invested his first loan. He answers: "The first thing I bought were the papers for my taxi to make it legal. This was not cheap and cost me about $300. But it was a good investment: if you have a taxi that´s not legalized, the police can stop you anytime. And as a paraplegic driver I feel that I am more vulnerable to police harassment than otherwise. I also use my loans to pay for gasoline and repairs that cost me between $4 and $6 a day. My daily fare income with my little taxi is about $20, so I have a daily surplus of $15 which easily pays for D-MIRO´s low interest rate." [The yearly interest rate for Producto Creer is about 16%, as opposed to 26% for regular loans.]
Our talk is interrupted by Javier, a white-haired elegant man with joyful eyes who rolls into the room on his wheel-chair. He looks strangely familiar to me and it´s not until the next day that I connect the dots: Javier´s photo features prominently on many of D-MIRO´s promotional materials, including the bank´s homepage. Apart from being one of D-MIRO´s favorite role models, he is also Asaplejica´s Secretary. Furthermore, he works two jobs: from his home he sells homeopathic health products which are popular in Ecuador as a way to fight just about anything, from obesity and hair loss to cancer and bad luck; and in the building of Asoplejica he also has a workshop space where he works as a serigrapher, creating beautifully elaborate stencils to screen-print T-shirts and paper. His current loan with Banco D-MIRO is $1,000 which he pays back with his monthly income of $450 to $900 from the sale of his prints and health products. When asked whether he has ever had any trouble paying back his loan, Javier emphasizes to me the importance of credibility when doing business: "Your credibility is key when it comes to doing good business. And I believe we disabled entrepreneurs have more to lose, simply because we don´t have that many options – so we always give our very best and work as hard as possible to provide excellent customer service. The same is true with my bank loans. I don´t know of any other bank but D-MIRO who would give me a loan, so I am extra careful to pay it back on time and reward their trust."
I ask Emilio and Javier to tell me more about their organization: Asoplejica. Its name stands for "Hemiplegics´, Paraplegics´, and Quadriplegics´ Association of Guayas Province" and has over 200 associates, all of them physically disabled. It also has its own Facebook profile. Asoplejica was founded almost 30 years ago by a group of disabled men and women who used to get together after their rehabilitation therapy at a public hospital in Guayaquil. All their activities and operations – including the salary of two paid employees (one of them Mariuxi) – are being paid for through public fund-raisers, such as raffles and bingo. Among the services the association provides to associates are physical therapy, homework assistance to children, and – most importantly – pure and simple companionship. To explain what he means by companionship, Javier invites Mariuxi, Emilio, Nahin, and me to gather around the office computer where he shows us photos of Asoplejica´s last Christmas celebration. It was definitely a very merry Christmas among the members and their families… Walking back to Nahin´s car a quarter hour later, I feel as if I am leaving behind a group of friends.
In these times of economic and social turmoil, Banco D-MIRO´s Producto Creer may be a much needed reminder that it may pay off for banks to do the morally right thing. Please consider making a loan to one of D-MIRO´s clients on Kiva.
Emmanuel M. von Arx is a Kiva Fellow working with Banco D-MIRO in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Banco D-MIRO focuses on clients who have long been excluded from the traditional financial system for reasons that include culture, sex, race, poverty, disability, and illness. To learn more, please visit Banco D-MIRO´s partner page on Kiva or become a member of the lending team of Banco D-MIRO, the only provider of special financial services for disabled and HIV-positive clients in Ecuador.