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From a recent story about Google Fiber entitled "Good news for Google Fiber: Broadcast TV audiences are cratering faster than ever":
Google Fiber and its ilk may be the final straw that will break the back of broadcast television. Once high-speed video downloading becomes widely available, instant access to VOD services will make them even more appealing…
…What makes this possible is the complete paralysis of the broadcast dinos. All the majors are frozen in terror, repeating old behavioral patterns that turned self-destructive years ago. NBC spent the annual defense budget of Mauritius to promote "Ready for Love," a tired Bachelor clone. ABC is going to build its autumn slate on "Scandal", "Revenge" and "Betrayal," as well as a hasty spin-off of its fading "Once Upon a Time" franchise. ABC also handed Robin Williams a comeback vehicle. Sensing desperation, audiences are tuning out in disgust.
Not untrue, so far as it goes. And, without figures to hand so yeah pinch of salt, but I think the US network tv "hits" of last season, like REVOLUTION, would have been woeful cancellation fodder even four years ago. I don't know that the hit on Robin Williams is especially called for: the man's a giant, but I haven't seen the pilot of the show in question and I haven't completely forgiven him for PATCH ADAMS.
I'm kind of curious as to how it apparently took Google Fiber, in this writer's estimation, to make Netflix irresistible. In the office here at home, I've got about 20 mbps down and Netflix fairly rips along. Perhaps we're talking about a higher resolution stream or something.
I think it's worth admitting, now, that "television" has become one of those legacy words, like "phone," that we use to point at a thing, without really fully describing it. What do you mean, now, when you say "television"? HOUSE OF CARDS and HEMLOCK GROVE? HAUNTING MELISSA on the iPad? Serialised (periodical) narrative? Shot for a small screen? Maybe. It certainly doesn't mean what it used to.
(And, obviously, I'm only talking about scripted tv there. You could make an argument that "pure" television is presentational, or "reality," or documentary.)
The term is becoming protean. The scheduling of television has quickly become meaningless, and it's hard to describe to kids of a certain culture how there was once a time when you had to watch tv shows when they were broadcast, in realtime, because you might never see them again. Time was, the BBC wiped their own tapes. Now a significant number of people watch most of their selected BBC output in a timeshifted manner through the iPlayer.
When Amazon start commissioning drama series to follow their comedy and kid's slates, television is going to take a new turn. Not only are Amazon in a position to take chances, but they have possibly the best analysis in the world of what people watch and will pay money for. Just crunch down that DVD-box-set data by year and genre. Amazon could actually own genre drama television within eighteen months if they chose to, either by Nate-Silvering those numbers or simply by creating five times as many productive relationships with important creators than anyone else can.
Cable, both basic and premium, have gotten their whacks in, but the full-on "disruption" of American tv by deep-pocketed internet business is going to be really interesting, not least for what disrupts them.
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Note: this can be solved by hand. Those who will use the computer, give the others some time before posting the solution obtained this way. Tk you.


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The first speaker was Jeremy Johnson from Australia's Sovereign Hill, on 'Engaging with China: the new horizon for cultural and heritage tourism'. He talked about their research-led marketing program aimed at getting Chinese visitors to Sovereign Hill, which included marketing work in China, hiring Chinese-speaking staff, and developing tailored tours and experiences. They've also hosted Chinese student[?] teachers in their education department and organised touring exhibitions. They also had to deal with talking about racism in the past treatment of Chinese Australians in Sovereign Hill - their technique is apparently to 'tell it how it was', but because Chinese Australians were 'extraordinary contributors to society' it was easy to focus on the many success stories. In general, they've developed some experiences to meet the expectations of Chinese visitors, but still, 'the museum product has to be respected'.
Top quotes included:
- 'you must be able to answer the question "what would make someone visit your museum?"' - there must be a compelling reason to visit
- China is like 56 countries wrapped up into one. 'Saying you're going to China is like saying you're going to Europe'
- 'Develop a market strategy to deliver visitor experiences at the right price'. The best marketing strategy can be undone if visitor experience does not meet the promise. Cultural awareness training essential for all staff and volunteers. 'Bear in mind China isn't a democracy, not everyone gets access to Google'.
In the same session, people from the 'Smart Collaborations' project talked about conceptual frameworks for collaboration, with a focus on attracting and retaining visitors within an area - it was hard to see the slides, but it seemed to be about designing experiences for tourists. The top tip was: don't be afraid to use offers, vouchers, or other deals to attract customers; and capture data when getting people in.
The plenary talk before lunch was Stuart Dempster (JISC's Strategic Content Alliance) on 'Sustaining Digital Resources' [earlier report at Business modelling and sustainability, new one will go live there next month ?]. If the digital age is a game-changer for institutions, how can bricks-and-mortar organisations not only be on the web, but of the web. What skills, licensing need to be in place? They've been looking at business models, including the effects of economic downturn and government cuts. Funded projects must deliver value to users, not just driven by curatorial concerns; a key concern is how to generate new forms of income with integrity.
Tips for communicating value to adminstrators: have a seat at the table whenever decisions are made about digital resources; engage administrators early to develop shared sense of responsibility for the project; have an advocacy campaign with users outside the institution so you've got voices of support when needed; identify different types of stakeholders and work appropriately with each - identify champions if you can. Sustainable projects: empower leadership to define the mission and take action; create a strong value proposition; creatively manage costs; cultivate diverse sources of revenue; have a system of accountability. Collaborations need consensus, communication, capacity, trust, metrics...
After lunch, Alphonse Umulisa, Director General of The Institute of National Museums of Rwanda spoke on 'Repositioning Cultural Tourism'. Previously at the Museum of London, his job is to raise awareness about Rwanda's history and heritage sites - difficult when Rwanda's history is so painful. They're trying to look forward to the future, and forget the past, but even knowing where to start was hard. He said you can't learn history in schools in Rwanda - it's not taught - but you can learn Rwandan history in museums. The museums had to change from research institutions to learn how to attract tourists, and they had to get Rwandans visiting museums again. His talk was both utterly humbling - the Rwandan government's vision for 2020 is for every family to have a cow - and inspiring - his motto is: 'discover your museums, cherish your heritage'.
Tony Butler has posted his own notes from his inspiring talk on how the Museum of East Anglian Life transformed itself from a failing organisation to a thriving enterprise, and about his aim to make it a participative institution, a space for co-creation or to help people look at the world differently and to place the museum in the rhythm of daily life.
After my session on 'Entrepreneurship and Social Media', I went to a workshop on 'Smarter Museums' with Anne Murch (who prefers the concepts of resilience or entrepreneurship to 'sustainability'). The workshop covered the principles of a 'thinking environment': appreciation, attention, equality, incisive questions. We did a really interesting (and at first, challenging) exercise in pairs, where you had to either just listen, or just talk, for three minutes, before swapping with your partner. It's hard - if you're meant to be listening, you want to encourage the person talking, or if you're talking, you want to stop and let the other person have a go. We did it again later, and it was much easier. We were also asked to consider "if we knew that together we can have a thriving museum that provides the very best experience for our visitors, what would the org look and feel like? What is the shift we need to make to deliver this?", and the importance of diversity as both the identity of the people that are shaping the future plans and the ideas that are generated. A team that takes a 'diagonal slice' across and down through the museum can be effective - the people with least power are often most creative and least encumbered. Another suggestion for better meetings was to frame each agenda item as a question.
The event closed with the launch of the National Strategy Consultation by Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Cultural & External Affairs National Strategy Consultation, with a speech that was a lovely celebration of the contribution of museums and cultural heritage to Scottish life. The document itself outlines the context, guiding principles, vision, themes and objectives of the proposed sector consultation process, which will lead to the national strategy for Scotland's Museums and Galleries. (Interestingly, Australia is also running a 'Digital Culture Public Sphere' consultation for input into National Cultural Policy.)


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Memory detection is one of the cutting-edge areas of cognitive neuroscience research. So much so that at Stanford Law School, in conjunction with the Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society (SIGNS) and with support from Stanford Law School, NeuroVentures, and the Stanford Institute for Neuroinnovation and Translational Neuroscience, we're hosting a conference on Law & Memory on April 1, 2011, bringing together some of the leading scientists, practitioners and scholars in the area.
One of the speakers, Elizabeth Loftus will present her research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony and the problem of false testimony using neuroscience techniques. Bill Smoler, who is one of the leading litigators on false memory cases, will also speak, likely about the recent case he just won against a therapist for "planting" false adolescent memories of abuse, in addition to his other cases in the area.
False memory cases, and other challenges to witness testimony using research from neuroscience are showing up with increasing frequency in legal opinions. Much of the emerging neuroscience research in this area presents a general assault on the reliability of eyewitness testimony. The case today narrows the focus to the reliability of eyewitness testimony when the witness has a prior brain injury.
Brain Injury and Eyewitness Testimony
Valentin v. Mazzuca, 2011 WL 65759 (W.D.N.Y. 2011)
The petitioner, acting pro se, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the constitutionality of his detention in state custody as a result of a conviction on charges of robbery in the first degree. The petition was granted in part, and denied in part. The primary eyewitness in this case was an "innocent bystander" whom the trial court had ruled in related proceedings was so "unreliable due to lack of recall and a brain injury that he had suffered, that he should not be allowed to testify at any subsequent proceedings." The eyewitness had suffered an eight-year-old brain injury that caused him to suffer blackouts because of stress. When questioned about his brain injury, the eyewitness testified that it was not severe and that although he had not taken his medication on the day of the robbery, he had no seizure and did not black out. On appeal, the petitioner raises a Brady violation that the prior criminal history of the eyewitness should have been disclosed. The appellate court found that because the eyewitness testimony was already on such shaky grounds because of his brain injury, that failure to disclose his prior criminal history to the accused constituted a Brady violation that could have been the straw that broke the camel's back in his credibility to the jury.


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GWAR B-Q is all About the Beer, the Meat and the Music!!!
- July 9th, 2014 –
Human Scum! Your malevolent lords and masters GWAR command you to attend the 5th Annual GWAR B-Q – August 16th at Hadad's Lake (7900 Osborne Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23231) where we will personally stuff your ugly faces with fistfuls of beer, food and fun until you PUKE!! Along with our sponsors Mt. Baker Vapor, Brown Distributing, Cigar City Brewing, Genessee Cream Ale and Monster Energy Drink, we personally ensure all humans in attendance will have the time of their pathetic lives at what is shaping up to be the bloodiest bash of the summer.
GWAR Beer is legendary for being the GWARiest of alcoholic beverages (sorry, Irish GWAR bombs…). Cigar City Brewing has again teamed up with your Scumdog rulers to create a new, and limited edition GWAR BEER: a premium craft brewed "KILLSNER" (pilsner). Readily available at any and all GBQ festivities, this 5.55% high-octane beer will provide cool refreshment while scrambling your tiny brains. Enough of this stuff, and even you will seem appealing to the herd of tipsy sex cows milling about just waiting to molest you the instant you pass out in a pile of your own effervescent spew.
Who knew GWAR'S own BALSAC the JAWS O' DEATH was a culinary genius? His specially formulated GWAR B-Q Sauce has become harder to locate than Gor-Gor's leash, but plenty will be on hand at the GBQ! Spray it on your meat of choice – be it flank, rib, chicken or your own puffy forearm. BalSac recommends his own creation: the GWAR B-Q Meat Sandwich, a painfully scrumptious smoked pork butt that will leave you gagging for more! BalSac's culinary expertise and delectable menu will be fully realized upon the completion of the GWARbar, fulfilling a longtime dream of Slave Pit Inc. and founder, Dave Brockie. Throw it a "Like" on Facebook at facebook.com/GWARbar to stay up-to-date on the grand opening.
Speaking of Brockie, GWAR B-Q attendees will have a chance to pay respects to GWAR's founder and frontman at the memorial service taking place from 4:00pm to 7:00pm on Friday, August 15th at Hadad's Lake. Price of admission? Just a bucket of your tears! Pay tribute to Brockie in the manner of a viking warrior returning to Valhalla, as his alter ego Oderus Urungus is set ablaze upon the SS Boat. Be there when we send the Immortal Corruptor on his journey back home to Scumdogia and beyond.
The two stages at the GWAR B-Q will be packed all day with more brutal bands than you can shake your index and pinkie fingers at. Many of them have already sounded off in anticipation of the event:
• The Meatmen's Tesco Vee recorded a wet and wild video interview
• Kepone's Mike Bishop (longtime member of GWAR) gave this interview
• Goatwhore's Zack discusses popping the band's GWAR B-Q cherry here
• Iron Reagan's Tony talks about catching a falling BalSac in this interview
• Loincloth's Tannon drops an "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" reference here
• Venomous Maximus's Christian talks a lot about crack in his interview
• Fuckface Unstoppable's Jess goes caps lock on, ball hair off here
• Gritter's Adam gives the local perspective on GWAR B-Q in this interview
• Noisem discusses Colt 45 Slip 'N Slides and other next-level stuff here
• Revocation's Dave promises to be pissed and play fast in this interview
• Occulist's Jim says he saw Utah cop's gun drawn because of GWAR here
Rumor has it that one scale-tipping special guest is yet to be revealed. The world is not yet ready, but you're encouraged to keep an eye on gwarbq.com for announcements!
For a full list of announced acts, click over to gwarbq.com/bands.
Of course, the biggest news is that GWAR will headline this festival of human depravity. Those brave enough to attend will have the special, once in a lifetime experience of seeing old-school GWAR legends Slymenstra Hymen, Sexecutioner and Sleazy P. Martini back in action, performing on stage with the most dangerous band in the universe!
Sleazy exclaims, "You can rest assured your corpse will not be wasted as the utmost care will be used to supervise the mass slaughter of all participants, resulting in an orderly disposal and recycling of all corpses for the following year's GWAR-BQ. The meat has to come from somewhere! So be there to help feed the starving masses. Buy your tickets now and reserve your corpse a place at the top of the heap."
Details have been scarce about the GWafter Party, because frankly we didn't think anyone would be conscious or alive to attend it. But on the off chance we're wrong, zombies are directed to march to Bandito's Burrito Lounge (2905 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221) directly after the GWAR B-Q on the night of Saturday, August 16th. There, Mudd Helmut and Creep-A-Zoids will perform; re-animated corpses will gorge on Mexi-Cali food; and awkward conversations with well-known musicians will be had.
Five Richmond hotels that offer better accommodations than you deserve are willing to let you jump on their beds and stain their sheets red for a discounted rate. Holiday Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Homewood Suites all have special deals for GWAR B-Q attendees. So wash your pits, crotch and teeth before you get to the show just to have your chiclets loosened from you skull in the pit by a boot to the grill. Go to gwarbq.com/crashing-out/ for details and group codes.
Don't forget: Parking at Hadad's Lake is limited and single-occupant vehicles will be turned away at the gate! Shuttle buses will be running between local annex parking lots, the VCU campus and downtown Richmond straight to Hadad's Lake. Locations and schedules will be made available between now and eternity at gwarbq.com/transportation.
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Brewers win home opener in 10th
The Milwaukee Brewers came from behind to win their home opener Monday at Miller Park.
Jonathan Lucroy hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 5-4 victory over Colorado on Monday, ruining the first game for new Rockies manager Walt Weiss.
Rickie Weeks sparked the winning rally when he stole second after he was hit by a pitch with one out. Adam Ottavino (0-1) then issued an intentional walk to Ryan Braun and lost Aramis Ramirez to another walk before Lucroy ended the game with a fly ball to center field.
A big "Luuuuuuc" thundered down from the Miller Park crowd of 45,781 as Weeks came home with the winning run and Lucroy was mobbed by his jubilant teammates.
Ramirez also had a two-run double in Milwaukee's three-run eighth inning as the Brewers won on Opening Day for the first time since 2008.


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Today's project is super, duper easy and fun. We're going to make/embellish some hairpins.
This is a great project to do with younger people as well because it's really easy. (While my son won't be wearing one, he was really excited to help make them.) The reason for this project is that I've been wanting to wearing my hair (not my makeup) like these pictures I found on Pinterest.
Then I saw these clips at Anthropologie and while I was tempted to get some, I figured making them would be inexpensive and easy.
So I purchased some hairpins and clips at Hobby Lobby and I also stopped at an antique shop and picked up some vintage earrings. I invited my crafty friend over and we worked together. It's a good project to do with a friend, because there are two hairpins to make from each earring set - one for each person.
After the supplies were assembled we broke out the secret weapon - Aleene's SUPER Gel Adhesive. I love this glue. It holds so well - even metal to metal. What I like about it the most is that it has a little brush in it just like nail polish. (Let's just say I've had some bad encounters with little tubes of super glue and there's still evidence on my kitchen table.) This stuff is way easier to use because of the brush.
I used some wire cutters to snap off the back of the earrings.
We brushed on some adhesive and added the earrings.
You only have to hold the pin to the earring for a minute or two until it's really on there and dry.
This clip was originally blank on top, but I happened to have little leaf beads that fit right in it, so I glued them on.
Buttons also work well for this project. You just have to use ones that don't have a loop on the back. I had my assistant select some for me.
I am excited to wear them now. The redish-brown one looked so cute in my friend's blonde hair.
It's a great five minute project with fun results.
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Re: Which State/Province?
One of my boys/dogs/homies/brothers/etc. goes to school in CA, I'm a little jealous of you guys hoggin all the country's heat.
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One of my boys/dogs/homies/brothers/etc. goes to school in CA, I'm a little jealous of you guys hoggin all the country's heat.
Orlando, FL area here. The absence of ice is nice this time of year...although it did get down to a bone-chilling
49 Degrees Fahrenheit.
49 degrees? That's a heat wave! I think we MIGHT have gotten to 1 or 3 above 0 in the past few days....
49F has been the average night temp for my area of L.A. - cold enough to see your breath and wish that the air wasn't stealing the heat that you just siphoned from the house, but warm enough to remind you that you don't live in Russia. It's been on and off warm during the daytimes; we've been having a lot of rain and/or clouds as of late. I want to see snow before winter ends, though - I haven't seen snow for 6 years.
Hell you could take some of mine, I've had enough of it.
i live in wonderful cincinnati, ohio where is a cool -13 degrees with wind chill
I live in Tucson, Arizona baby. It actually snowed here and stuck a few years ago. But snow in the valley is very uncommon. It can get to the freezing point in winter, but theres seldom any moisture for snow. And summertime is 110 degree time. With monsoons.
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All of you with your "no snow over here", shut up. I am sooo jealous. I am in Montreal, that's in the province of Quebec, in Canada for those who don't know. Our winter is an intense pain, and right now I am chicken from it, to the point of even avoiding going out as much as I can. Now how lame is that?
Why won't you just share a little of your eternal sun? We want some over here.
I have been living in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years. It hasn't dropped below 48 in the day time here and it's sunny. The winters are really mild where I am but they are having serious snow storms up north right now.
Tokyo sounds cool.
i live in virginia the most boring state in u.s.a.
Virgina's nice, it's pretty. And it's definitely not the most boring state. That would be somewhere like Missouri or Iowa or something. Kansas and Oklahoma are pretty boring too. Just field after field after field, not even many trees or hills to break it up. Just endless stalks of corn. At least in Virgina you have trees and mountains and lakes and rivers and stuff.
Haha Saskatchewan is the most boring province in the world. There's a saying goes that if you lose your dog, you can see where he's running for 5 days. In case you don't know Saskatchewan, it is ridiculously flat.
I dunno, around here puts you to sleep pretty easily. Sure there are mountains and hills, but there is no such thing as "grass". At least, green grass. Or trees. Just cactus as far as the eye can see.
I live in Montana and it is cold here!
Wow. We have a few people from AZ here (I myself included). Next time there's a event we should meet up lol.
Virgina's nice, it's pretty. And it's definitely not the most boring state. That would be somewhere like Missouri or Iowa or something. Kansas and Oklahoma are pretty boring too. Just field after field after field, not even many trees or hills to break it up. Just endless stalks of corn. At least in Virgina you have trees and mountains and lakes and rivers and stuff.
nah virginia is kinda boring actually, i've been there. people hang out at wal-mart for fun the further you go down the east coast.
I lived in Kentucky for a while, and I remember hanging out at Wal-Mart. There's nothing else to do, really.
The midwest is pretty boring to. Trust me, I lived in South Dakota for 8 years, and in one of the larger cities too! Yeah theres lots of touresty things to do in the summer, but after a while you relize you've seen everything and been all over the Black Hills ten times, you really start to crave the big city. We moved 10 years, and honestly, I don't miss it. Tucson isn't a really big city...but its a lot bigger then Rapid City! Theres not much to do here either though....
I've never lived in South Dakota, but I think it's beautiful. Course I like wastelands, so the badlands are one of the most beautiful places I've seen. (they do stretch into MT)
I agree though that the tourist things where you live can get old. I live fairly close to Glacier Park but I've never been there. I should one day though, just to say I've been there.
Tucson, in Arizona? I don't really like Arizona much, it's too hot.
And just cause I complain of nothing to do doesn't mean I want to move to a city. This is the biggest town I've ever lived in. It has a little mall, a Wal-Mart, a K-Mart, a Target, and a Borders! Plus a theater! I'm used to Wal-Mart being it. Maybe a little one or two screen theater. Most the time just a church and a post office and maybe a little general store. That's where my mom is now, church-postoffice-generalstore. I usually hate being around people so how I ended up here I don't know. I'm not really sure I could handle living in a big city. It seems exciting, like sometimes when I'm in Salt Lake City I almost think I could stand living there again. (lived there for some years as a little kid)
Besides I have lots to do now. A job that keeps me away from home and life, and then when I get home I have my sewing or video games or messing around on the computer, or cleaning which never seems to get done, or cooking, or anything. You find things to do. Make hobbies. When I was a kid and didn't understand that, I wanted to move somewhere decently sized. Now that I understand I would almost want to move up to where my mom is, even after all the struggling to move away from that sort of life. Now, I have hobbies, I have things to do, books to read, journals to write, walks in the woods to take, things I just don't have time to do anymore BECAUSE I live in a city. I don't like people, and I don't need them. I haven't any friends in RL other than Zivi, my husband, and I don't really want any.
Glacier Park
Been there, some odd 14 years ago or so. I guess its a good thing too, I've heard that within the next few decades the glaciers will completely vanish. Still, I wouldn't want to live there though.
Yes, Tucson in Arizona (is there any other Tucson elsewhere?), where the summers are long and hot, and it almost never rains. Actually, I like the heat. No I wouldn't want to be out walking around when its 110 out, but I like summer more then winter. Cause I hate cold weather.
I don't think there's any Tucsons anywhere else, but you never know.
I prefer to be too cold than too hot. And I love rain. But, if everyone liked the same things it would be way too overpopulated in one area and everywhere else would be deserted. It's good for some people to like heat and others to like cold.
I live in Rhode Island, s right now its getting cold. It doesn't really bother me I guess I prefer the cold over the heat. Even though I lived in Florida for 8 years. I absolutely hated the summers. Too hot, I did like the rain though It kinda makes you think.
Do you think you could have a white Thanksgiving? I've never seen one of those in North Carolina. In fact, the only time I've ever experienced a white Christmas was back 1984 when I went to visit my grandmother in Michigan.
oh i had a white christmas back in 2006.
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STOCKTON - The promise of high-quality dirt racing and an appearance by one of NASCAR's most recognizable stars brought a huge throng of fans to the grand opening of Stockton's new motorsports facility.
STOCKTON - The promise of high-quality dirt racing and an appearance by one of NASCAR's most recognizable stars brought a huge throng of fans to the grand opening of Stockton's new motorsports facility.
A sellout crowd of 10,572 filled the Stockton 99 Dirt Track at San Joaquin County Fairgrounds on Friday for the World of Outlaws event. The big attraction of the night was three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart.
The track was built on the infield of the fairground's horse racing facility, and promoter Tony Noceti signed Stewart to try to turn the track's debut into as big an event as possible.
The reserved and box seats were sold out several days ago, and track officials set up extra general admission seats and standing-room-only areas to deal with the late surge.
"We're thrilled," Noceti said. "We tried to put together a positive event, and the community responded."
Danny Basto of Stockton arrived with his family to see his second Outlaw event.
The first one was in Las Vegas, and Basto was happy he didn't have to travel far for this one.
"It's very exciting, and I think the track looks nice," Basto said. "It's great it's in town and I can bring my whole family."
Eunice Steves of Manteca is a longtime NASCAR fan and decided to go with her friends to the Outlaws, a national dirt-track series that competes in 28 states and three Canadian provinces.
"I love car racing," Steves said. "I'm a big NASCAR fan, so (Stewart) had something to do with it. And I've seen and enjoyed dirt racing."
Stewart qualified for the Sprint Cup event in Fontana on Friday afternoon, flew to Stockton Metropolitan Airport and arrived at the track just before practice.
A large group of people gathered around his pit area and gave a rousing cheer when he emerged from his trailer and jumped into the car for the first time.
Prior to the races, there was a festival in front of the track featuring a car show, vendors and live music.
Contact reporter Scott Linesburgh at (209) 546-8281 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/sportsblog.


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A man was struck by a car Wednesday night while walking across Main Street in Boiling Springs and had to be taken to Carolinas Medical Center, according to Boiling Springs Police.
Boiling Springs Chief of Police Randy Page said 63-year-old Marcus Dedmond was crossing South Main Street around 7 p.m. at the crosswalk when Angie Guffey turned from East College Avenue onto South Main Street and struck Dedmond.
Page said Dedmond, from Ellenboro, had the right of way.
He said the injured man was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center and then taken to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
A hospital spokeswoman said Dedmond was not listed as a patient as of Thursday afternoon.
"At this point there are no charges," Page said. "Charges will probably be pending."
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Over the last week it has emerged all is not well with the Ivory Coast midfielder after his agent complained the player was not respected enough by the club's hierarchy, even suggesting the 31-year-old was unhappy his recent birthday was not marked properly.
Dimitry Seluk said last Tuesday he rated Toure staying at City as "50-50" and the player's comments about PSG will only increase speculation he is looking to move on.
"Given the goals of Paris, how could you not be interested in a club like that?" Toure told France Football.
"PSG have become one of the strongest teams in Europe
It would be an honour to one day play for a club like that
If I can be of service..."
In the interview, the midfielder did little to play down suggestions a summer move could be on the cards.
"Given the magnificent season Manchester City have had, everyone talks about me and everything is open," he added.
"My agent, Dimitry, is hanging on the telephone and he knows what he has to do, I have complete confidence in him.
"Nobody knows what can happen tomorrow, my attention is on the World Cup and we will see afterwards.
"Yes, I have said I would like to finish my career at Barcelona
You never know because football moves quickly, you never know."
Seluk reiterated his view from last week that Toure should be offered a job on City's backroom staff when he finishes playing.
"A role at City after his (playing) career? Of course
Like Real Madrid have done with (Zinedine) Zidane, for example," he said.
"Zidane played there and afterwards began working for the club.
"Yaya will need a club in the future
We do not want more money or a longer contract, anything like that, just the right attention.
"More attention on Yaya, and that he feels happy at the club, that is the most important thing.
"I will tell you one more time, we do not need more money."
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1051 postsSWBF Dev Team › EA Community Manager
Just a quick one this. We're currently working through our backlog and was wanted to get your insight.
If you could list your top 5 issues that you experience or quality of life changes you'd like to see, what would they be?
If you could list your top 5 issues that you experience or quality of life changes you'd like to see, what would they be?
-passionate strike animation speed increase & original 210 damage
- Obi-Wans dodge needs to be more like anakins. He has a weird pause at the end of his dodge
- Leia has a flash grenade that does no damage & her player icon is shown when enemies are flashed & it doesn't highlight enemies by default
- dodging & being teleported back to my previous location.
- Vader isn't granted 155 damage like he's supposed to with focused rage.16
181 posts MemberHonestly for me my Number 1 would be the new Heroes Versus Villains mode. I want the old one with the targeting system put back into the game. Could play that for hours and was my favourite more. With the new one, I'm just playing one round to do a daily challenge and then quitting, often closing the game afterwards.
Other issue: 2) The glitch in HvV that prevents character switching half the time, 3) Loading into empty lobbies, 4) Matchmaking (can we have an option to turn this off so we can play through a playlist?), and 5) Daily Challenges (these should be the same for everyone so you can use them to drive players to certain game modes.)Xbox Gamertag: Brad Cafe21
100 posts Member1. For me the team balancing system still needs some improvements, too many times the top 5 board at the end where it's all people from the same team showing lack of balancing
2. Make it so that parties of players are visible to solo players, so they are at least aware before they are going to be 1 vs.20 for the next match11
899 posts Member1) Lack of Private Matches
2) Lack of Extraction Maps
3) CS & GA minimum player required to high
4) Kashyyyk HvsV(strike and blast are fine just Heroes and Villains mechanics and human error) map is a liability
5) lack of 4th abilities for most heroes and villains. Since those slots are unusable for heroes they should get something for them.What does DX in my name stand for?7
3728 posts MemberBad matchmaking
Obis push goes into cooldown when you walk
Saber Tracking
Spam when duelling
Vader is op12
June 18, 2019 8:35AM edited June 2019Just a quick one this. We're currently working through our backlog and was wanted to get your insight.
If you could list your top 5 issues that you experience or quality of life changes you'd like to see, what would they be?
1) Gives Anakin some little buff, cause right now his skill just heal people. Passionate strike need a faster animation. HM need to do more damge if they shoot at you, that was the mechanic of the skill. ( cap it to 200 ) Retribution needs a 3 sec cc or 2 sec cc and 300 damage.
2) Nerf Vehicles. The Stap with the middle ability, it can oneshot heroes. AT-ST can oneshot heroes with one missile.
In certain maps, vehicles just ruin the fun. When you are on Crait, and you're playng as resistance, it's unplaayable.
4 AT-ST spam, and you just pass the whole game dying over and over, until the last phase. ( Maybe just increase the cost and decrease the BP you can do with them, so it will not be spammed )
Also, lightsaber heroes are completely useelss against the vehicles, because as soon as they approach vehicles, they die, even if they are not shooting you. They just need run over you.
3) Nerf Wookie bomb. It deal 400+ damage, and in certain point like, second second and third phase Theed, or last phase kamino, is just a spam of wookie's bomb. The overload ability of B2 and Wookie needs to be nerfed. A Wookie warrior with overload can two shots Vader. Same for B2, i was Luke, and he just 100/0 me with overloard in 2 sec.
4) Matchamaking is bad. You rather stomp, or get stomped.
5) Nerf the stinger pistol vs heroes. 6 shots and you can almost kill a hero.20
3995 postsModerator › SWBF Senior ModeratorJune 18, 2019 8:36AM edited June 2019-Top thing for me is saber hit detection and the lunge effect. Too many times i'm at a distance from someone and they basically teleport forwards a couple of metres to strike me. Equally if you're attacking someone and they are near an edge you'll often get pulled with them off.
-Iden's stun not working as well on Anakin/Obi Wan vs other heroes.
-Obi Wan's mind control shouldn't stop the ability to roll, especially with the length of it.
-Staggering.. The whole unable to do anything if getting attacked is annoying. Maybe 2 saber strikes and then your block activates? A happy medium?
-More extraction maps. Amazing game mode and great fun. But maps needed and i'd play it a lot more.
Bobas air recovery is to fast btw. These days you pretty much have to ignore boba21
2859 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 8:38AM edited June 2019- Server Lag seems seriously out of control with this latest patch.
- Likely tied to the first, however, dodging, be that as a saber or a blaster, is down from 50% odds to 20% odds of actually working, without getting magnetsabered back in.
- Decent server one minute, obscure south african village server after EOR MM does it's magic.
- Yoda. Seriously start playtesting your own stuff. Essentially invulnerable to practically everything, and needs to only dodge once, to get his full stamina back. Impossible to defeat as a Blaster Hero, unless he either really sucks beyond having any business in multiplayer, or you, as a blaster, get extremely lucky. We're talking hitting the Vegas lucky 7 millionaire roulette lucky.
- Obi Wan. That mind trick. Seriously. See above. Wake up.
[leave it out with the "slap the guy who thought of this" stuff, there's no need ~Rtas]Post edited by EA_Rtas onHeart of darkness beateth, Ultima
Iron enigma treateth, Ultima
Shielding light retreateth, Ultima
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The fact is that if you're running it's because you suck, and the game shouldn't pander to players who suck.
"I have never died to a Finn"4
June 18, 2019 8:40AM edited June 2019- Server Lag seems seriously out of control with this latest patch.
- Likely tied to the first, however, dodging, be that as a saber or a blaster, is down from 50% odds to 20% odds of actually working, without getting magnetsabered back in.
- Decent server one minute, obscure south african village server after EOR MM does it's magic.
- Yoda. Seriously start playtesting your own stuff. Essentially invulnerable to practically everything, and needs to only dodge once, to get his full stamina back. Impossible to defeat as a Blaster Hero, unless he either really sucks beyond having any business in multiplayer, or you, as a blaster, get extremely lucky. We're talking hitting the Vegas lucky 7 millionaire roulette lucky.
- Obi Wan. That mind trick. Seriously. See above. Wake up.
What platform do you play? cause in PC Yoda it's not hard to kill.
Edited quote to reflect change~RtasPost edited by EA_Rtas on4
7565 posts Member
1002 posts MemberOT heroes suck in GA
HvV TDM is terrible
Xbox lag, especially in CS
Aim drift
No content for GA, SA, or Extraction5
73 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 8:51AM edited June 2019- Matchmaking is bad for groups of people.
- Vehicles are too op. A speeder can literally use their middle ability that can bring their health down to below 100, if not kill them, in barely a second. Vehicles need a nerf on their abilities.
- Obi-wan's dodge ability doesn't feel right when compared to other force-heroes.
- Chewbacca is useless right now in Galactic Assault and Capital Supremacy due to the lack of damage that he deals with his bowcaster from a far distance. His health on kill card also needs to change to where if he kills a trooper or a hero in any way, he gains health back instead of just his grown slam because he's most likely going to take a lot of damage when in that animation so he's losing more health than he gains.
- We barely get any credits when playing Capital Supremacy. I was 1st place in all 3 of the scoreboard categories and was in a 20-30 minuteish game and got only 365 credits. I have to play 1-2 hour games just go get 900 credits max when I can play a Galactic Assault match for 10-15 minutes and get over 500 credits and more.3
2324 posts Member1 - Server lag and delayed hits/damage. It is really annoying when it happens and it happens a lot (even in small modes). We had tons of servers at release, and now we only get 1/2 per continent (if any).
2 - Custom card loadouts. I think that would be one of the best QoL improvements you could add. Right now, switching cards in the middle of a match is slow and sluggish so I feel like a lot of people don't really experiment with card loadouts.
3 - More Extraction maps. Seriously, there have to be some way to repurpose the current GA maps to add at least 2 maps for each missing era (PT and ST). That would give the mode as many maps as SA, and it should help bring some players back to the mode if you also cross-promote it with some kind of event.
4 - More SA maps. Same as before. At some point Dennis teased atmospheric maps. That should help with assets and you can re-use some old objectives or make new ones that follow similar rules (like a ticket count to start in phase 1 before the enemy "summons" a capital ship, for example).
5 - Change Hero Starfighters into a TDM mode like you did with HvV. It would vastly improve the mode and I am sure a lot of people would start playing it. It is a dead mode and you should try to revive it.May your heart be your guiding key.5
7835 posts Member
- I would like the target system back as a separate mode (preferably with Choose Your Path changed back and a new achievement added that's basically the reworked version).
- The pre-order skins returning in a permanent fashion (I understand why they aren't, but I'm hoping it clears up).
- I'd like the Community event rewards (including the Princess skin) to become available outside of one specific event (having events repeat yearly could be a good way to fix this).
- I would like the stamina changes reverted, or at least give saber heroes a simple punch.
- I would like the AT-TE to return to how it was at launch, since facing them as a Droid has become unrewarding and unsatisfying.
Never forget1
967 posts Member1. Need Rogue One DLC
2. Need More New Maps for HvV (Bring some from Blast Mode like Naboo Palace, Crait over) and GA (Felucia)
3. OT and ST Needs to be represented in CS
4. New Weapons Especially and Requested Skins Needed
5. Old HvV Target System - There must be an Option available for players who have enjoyed this mode since the beginning11
1: Not enough Extraction maps. As Sullust is missing from BFII multiplayer, would be great if both BF2015 Sullust Extraction maps were ported over for Extraction, Blast, HvV and Arcade. Extraction only needs 4 maps in rotation, is a brilliant and perfectly balanced small trooper mode, and would add a new (essential) planet to the game. Trooper appearances would also change when playing on these maps.
2: Lack of Rogue One content, specifically Scarif, Krennic and Jyn. All and any content is good content, love how this game is only improving and hope it continues to do so, but literally the only thing that would disappoint me about BFII is if this map and these two heroes don't make it to the game - they're essential. Troopers would change appearance when playing on Scarif, and Jyn and Krennic could at least have one additional appearance each. A RO drop would also be a great chance to add a new weapon for each class (you can't release a shooter game and not release new weapons post-launch).
3: Allied vehicles and stationary turrets (not officer and heavy turrets) appearing on the minimaps as the enemy when firing needs to go. Don't know how the bug hasn't been fixed already.
4: Move Strike to 'Operations' and delete Ewok Hunt. Strike has always felt out of place under 'Assault'. 'Assault' looks bad with four tiles and Ewok Hunt is just dead weight. Aerial should also not be able to carry cargo in Strike.
5: You've gotta give Luke at least one more hero skin, either Farmboy or Bespin, doesn't matter which. There's at least 5 or 6 that he should have that hopefully comes eventually (Farmboy, Bespin, Pilot, Endor, Yellow Jacket), but he's the most iconic hero in the game that completely lacks a variety of skins. And hero skins are fun and something players would grind credits for or even buy with real dosh. Heroes in GA / CS should also cost 6k credits, not 4k.
1419 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 9:21AM edited June 2019- heroes grayed out in select screen during 10sec timer (you already know about it)
- not having multiple star card layouts
-getting stuck in between objects and sometimes even on flat surfaces or rocks especially on hoth
-force select screen/hero campers to automatically spawn after being in the select screen for more than 30 seconds in order to prevent people from not helping the team and waiting for a hero
-remove daily chestPost edited by jordi1337 on2
1621 posts MemberReduce jetpack speed and increase accuracy of Boba's blaster4
238 posts Member1. Stop friendly vehicles showing up as enemies on radar
2. Tweak the Hero selection process in GA so more players with BPs get to spend them, and there is more variety in the heroes played in a given match. There are too many matches where one player keeps respawning as the same hero, and too many games where lots of players lurk on the selection screen rather than playing. The current system encourages bad play and repetitive hero choices. There are lots of ideas on this board of different ways to achieve this.
3. Better matchmaking for GA
4. More maps for GA and SFA.
5. Fix Xbox server lag2
799 posts MemberMore extraction maps please. Great mode, let down by lack of maps
Saber tracking needs to go, swings hit that should have missed when dodging and drags you back into combat you have dodged away from.
Block stops working for no reason when stamina isn't empty.
Abilities not working on targets even if not blocking. Abilities cancelling during animation and going on cooldown.
Light side/dark side balancing in GA/CS and HvV separately. LS is at a huge advantage in GA with Yoda and Finn buffs, WW imploders and Reys insight. In HvV though, DS has the advantage.7
553 posts Member- Fix the lag in the servers. This is the main problem.
- Remove Saber Tracking.
- Remove the Daily Crate and change it by just rewarding us 500 for login.7
868 posts Member1) Content : No Rogue One. I dare say one of the best films in the saga. It would not require much, but two heroes and a Scarif GA and/or CS are minimum. Please, before the end of support.
2) Content : Heroes lacking iconic/major skins. Some heroes are cross-era and should get at least one skin from each era (not countig Chewbacca). I would then give priority to themed skins that match maps we have in game.
3) Quality of life : No presets, for star cards, weapons and skins. Yet would make selection much faster.
4) Content : Extraction maps
5) Quality of life : Client-side skins. Would bring immersion for those who seek it and give you more freedom to make unique skins.5
June 18, 2019 9:50AM edited June 2019I don't usually pick fault with this game as it has improved DRAMATICALLY and I've enjoyed the content and the updates. But, if I had to pick:
1. Lack of extraction maps. I loved extraction in BF 2015.
2. Lack of more 'mission type' games e.g. Death Star mission (loved rescuing R2 ) and Scarif. I enjoyed the flying as part of a mission instead of it just being blasting.
3. Some Heroes/Villains need a touch of buffing - Leia needs added bonuses to her abilities eg a better shield and improved grenade and Chewbacca needs to be more of a tank....he's a massive Wookie! Phasma's weapon needs to do more damage as does Boba's.
4. A little more concentration on the original era and please, ROGUE ONE! Krennic was SO good.
5. Be able to choose a map to go onto.....9
527 posts Member1. You took away our african server...now we are forced to play on EU server with a lot of lag (220ms) I bought this game specifically because it had a local server.
2. Your anti-cheat on pc is not working good enough and cheaters that gets reported does not get banned.
3. The magnetic sabers that pulls you back and the broken dodge roll
4. The ion torpedo on heavy does not always work. When you activate it and try to hold right mouse button to lock on target it does nothing and you have to deactivate and activate it a couple of times...by then you are usually dead or the target is gone.
5. Server Browser, this EOR nonsense does not work half the time.6
Already, Rogue One and Extraction seem popular...8
2202 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 9:54AM edited June 20191. Reinforcement Spam in Blast
Basically it's become a rat race to get reinforcements before the other team. Blast should have been a trooper only game mode or weapon DPS for reinforcements needs to be normalised to that of the trooper classes (Blast only).
2. Hero Spam in GA
Too many heroes on the battlefield at any one time. There also needs to be a risk vs reward penalty for hero players who lose their hero. They shouldn't be coming straight back into the match as a hero or worse the same hero.
3. AT-AT targeting and orbital strike bugs.
Bit of a personal bugbear for me. Why does orbital strike not function like BF2015? It was far superior. Also the targeting for AT-AT is off, I believe you may have tweaked the MTT to improve its targeting but the AT-AT is a frustrating play right now.
4. Quality of Life
Create a party tile for the smaller game modes. The tile would effectively enable a random mix of smaller game modes; Blast, Strike, Extraction and Ewok Hunt.
I should add here that the tile is not a replacement for individual game modes, simply a random play list for those who want to mix it up.
5. Useless Trooper Star Cards
There are many of these across the board, Homing Missile is one such example. You'll need to do a deep dive into each trooper class and get feedback from the community in order to take this forward.4
1208 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 9:54AM edited June 2019@F8RGE I only have few...only with the skywalkers...
Luke Skywalker
- needs recharge speed increase on repulse and/or push.
- repulse and push needs to stop being random abilities when it comes to actually working...they need to connect. This is an issue SINCE launch and now it's June 2019...so it's time it gets looked into.
Anakin Skywalker
- the [removed] nerf he got for heroic might is unfair imho. And now why even bother with charging animation for it? Why not make it exactly like Luke's repulse...pull it off and be done with than standing there? It's more like a death sentence in any mode. Not only that move is STILL bugged...ANY force move or shock move at the beginning of HM will get semi-stuck...prolong the animation...making him take even more damage.
Example in beginning of this vid >> https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/psy3d/video/75985264
- What's the point of retribution or even charging it when it's only 2 seconds? Since his major nerf it's pretty hard to stay alive...and after all that the player is rewarded with a 2 sec 360 choke that frankly does nothing. Pre-nerf this was a way to catch and punish Boba trolls....now it does nothing and more over the push at the end of the move even ensures safety of Boba!
Thanks for your time reading my post.Post edited by EA_Rtas on1
2 posts Member1.) Most important for me is the fixing of matchmaking, right now 80% of the machtes end in a total domination match either for my team or the enemy team.
2.) Reduce the AT-ST amount on Crait to max. 2
3.) Give Grievous a slight movement speed buff
4.) Increase speeder prices
5.) Increase hero prices to 50002
1113 posts Member1. no infantry mode
2. No new weapons
3. More maps in general
4. Infantry vs heroes is too limited.
Would like more options than just
a stinger pistol.
5. more customization for the other
2313 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 10:05AM edited June 20191. lacking amount of new maps
2. no era or map selector
3. saber hit detection
4. offline trooper customization possibilities
5. grievous ability bug, where he spins in circles
Thanks for asking us!
Edit: first point also focuses on Startfighter Assault and not only on ground battles.Post edited by jo_achim747 onWanna read how Starfighters could be introduced to CS in a fair manner? Read-up on it here: https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/153390/how-to-properly-introduce-starfighters-to-cs#latest
Want to support Starfighter content in general? Help us here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/evnc78/starfighters_reborn/4
- Fix the lag in the servers. This is the main problem.
- Remove Saber Tracking.
- Remove the Daily Crate and change it by just rewarding us 500 for login.
If they remove the saber tracking, they will remove the immunity from the roll aswell, otherwise, you will not be able to hit someone with your lightsaber.4
3943 posts Member1. lack of private matches
2. spam of heroes and enforcers in GA/CS. cool down times need to come back so the same heroes are not spammed all the time though all heroes being 4K has helped some.
all reinforcement classes need to be put at 2 on each side biggest offender right now is the wookie warriors im not joking when I say with max wookies there is a thermal imploder going off like every 2 seconds especially if there are officers recharging them and god forbid they are in a group communicating it just becomes a unwinnable game at that point more then it all ready was.
3. only thing keeping heroes annoying right now is no cool down time otherwise they are actually weak in GA they dont even feel like heroes often times you turn a wrong corner and your just kind of dead or you will push and your teams not with you and your a hero and yet somehow you just cant do anything about it and you just die.
remove them off radar unless they are attacking or if they are sprinting they can show up after X amount of time. if this change is not good enough id also suggest making it so all saber heroes have 150 base damage vs any infantry by default.
4. the dark side needs a team buffer in GA right now light side has 3 and dark side has none I would suggest Krennic with a health buff like last game and rework Dookus expose weakness to be an AOE effect large enough to have a good effect on a team fight.
I would also suggest a jet pack hero for the light side in the future so both sides have a jet pack hero maybe Sabine or Rex.
5. sense Anakin has a 4th ability I think everyone else needs one either that or a trait.Dont act a fool and you wont get called out. PSN: DarthOdium- old PSN: unit900000 Xbox gamer tag: MetaltronXII3
1237 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 10:19AM edited June 20191) hero abilities not working always.
2) blocks not working if multiple enemies are spamming their abilities.
3) impossibility to dodge if multiple enemies (saber heroes) are spamming their attacks on you
4) saber-tracking (cough cough Rey), and stun lock of course
5) lack of a large scale trooper-only mode and new weaponsPost edited by Cadoth on4
366 posts MemberMy only big issue with this game is the gameplay mechanic with lightsaber heroes. It's so badly done that i have no idea how you could improve it without big effort.
Maybe you should have made it more like it is in Battlefront 2005 where you can run and swing at the same time.
Beside of that, Battlefront 2 is a pretty good game in my mind. It made me stay for over 2000 hours until now and i still have much fun playing it.
More content would be very welcome of course too (Rogue One etc.)1
1683 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 10:37AM edited June 2019not enough players in GA servers, getting a bit harder to find games, but will find one eventually.
both US servers.
can you shut virginia and only have oregon
I'm sure you know Oregon catchment is very large - the entire Asia Pacific Oceania plays there
Why? because of catch 22. nobody can find games in Asia Pacific Oceania so nobody plays there so nobody can games there. At least have some server browsing or some way of people playing in their nearest servers instead of needing to use Oregon.
But if cannot, shut down Virginia!1
493 posts MemberMy top issue is the removal of the target system. There is no reason not to have both modes available. I used to play hvv all the time and am upset that you removed it. It was my favourite mode and my main reason for playing thia game. I really don't think you should remove something from the game that has been in it for so long. If you can add Cs with no issue them you can have both versions of hvv with no issue and ensure that we're all happy.
There are tons of threads and comments on this forum of players expressing their upset for the it removal but not valid reason has been given to justify its removal.3
1) Please get rid of the lightsaber stagger and "magnetic sabers" and also balance the rolling (especially on troopers who shouldn't be able to dodge lightsabers so easily; heroes are fine with the current roll IMO)
2) Fix the force powers not registering correctly. This applies especially to Yoda's Unleash, Luke's Push & Repulse and Kylo's Pull. Also, Anakin seems to often ignore the effects of Force abilities even when not blocking or using HM or Retribution.
3) Please, please balance the vehicles in GA. I find it super annoying that a speeder or an AT-ST can wipe out all of a hero's health. I worked hard to get that hero and then some guy who got literally 1 kill can spawn as a speeder and destroy me. Please remove the damage dealt to heroes from being stepped on or run over by a vehicle (you did this with speeders in BF2015) and also nerf the speeder's Laser Barrage and the AT-ST's Anti-Vehicle Rocket against heroes. Perhaps make the vehicle's health work the same way as a hero's health i.e. they can only regenerate x amount of health after taking damage. And finally, make the vehicles cost more (more than reinforcements IMO) and be more counterable as a hero (especially as a lightsaber hero).
4) Please remove heroes from radar in GA and CS (or at least make it like it is in Hero Showdown). I would like to be able to flank around enemies as a hero.
5) A nice QoL change would be a pop-up that lets a player spawn as a hero once they have enough points without having to respawn (like it was in the OG Battlefront 2), also let other players who have enough points queue for a hero. This would hopefully reduce the amount of players sitting in the spawn screen, desperately mashing the button to spawn in as a hero once the other person dies. Also, let me keep my hero from phase to phase in CS!
[ 6) Let parties of 4 players play matches of Hero Showdown together. It was supposed to have been added with the squad system rework, but never did. ]0
700 posts MemberJust one little thing.CHANGE THE MAP ROTATION! Change it back to the old way, back when it was by era, that way I would know "oh I would love to play on kamino, but here's geonosis but kamino is after geonosis so I'm going to play on geonosis so I can play in kamino next." But now "is kamino after this" so please change the GA map rotation back to era7
80 posts MemberThanks for asking! Not sure what qualifies as "quality of life" but these are my top 5 currently:
1. More extraction maps
2. New weapons
3. :Pre-made Load-outs/or ability to customize slots for star cards (e.g., I'd love to have trip mine replace the shock grenade)
4. Better match making
5. Specialist binocs sometimes don't register enemy's5
345 posts Member1- server browser/map voting : because it seems that there is no more map order and i want to skip some too
2- new extraction and GA maps
3- The glitch in HvV that prevents character switching half the time
4- matchmaking : last week , we were 4 guys on the same team on GA and one of us was pushed in another team on another map.
5- get killed by a speeder that moves a 0.0000001 mph
3922 posts MemberJune 18, 2019 11:15AM edited June 2019-Improve saber hit detection
-Improve dodge (sometimes after you dodge you get sucked right back by lightsaber hits)
-Do something about reinforcements and hero spam in GA (increase BP cost for them)
-Additional hero balancing is needed (see balance threads regarding this)
-Improve Matchmaking
-Fix ability bugs (most notably force abilities not working sometimes)
-More Extraction maps
Its not 5 issues but still
''The difference between a fall and a sacrifice is sometimes difficult, but I feel he understood that difference, more than anyone knew. The galaxy would have fallen if he had not gone to war. Perhaps he became the Dark Lord out of necessity to prevent a greater evil''5
1) Remove the stagger from being hit by lightsabers, and remove being teleported backwards if a lightsaber hero hits you. To balance things out nerf the roll (on troopers especially, they shouldn't be able to dodge lightsabers so easily)
2) Fix Force abilities not registering correctly; this applies especially to Yoda's Unleash, Luke's Push & Repulse and Kylo's Pull. Also, Anakin seems to often ignore the effects of Force abilities, even when not blocking, dodging, using HM or Retribution.
3) Please, please balance the vehicles in GA. I find it super annoying that a speeder or an AT-ST can just wipe out all of a hero's health in seconds. I worked hard to get that hero and then someone with literally 1 kill can get a speeder and destroy me and there is nothing I can do (especially as a lightsaber hero). I suggest: 1) Removing the damage dealt to heroes from being stepped on or run over by a vehicle (you did it with speeder in BF2015). 2) Nerfing the damage dealt to heroes by the speeder's Laser Barrage and the AT-ST's Anti-Vehicle Missile. 3) Making the health of vehicles work in a similar way to the health of heroes i.e. they can only regenerate x amount of health after taking damage (300 would be a good spot IMO) and no HoK for vehicles!!! 4) Increasing the BP cost of vehicles (for the power they hold on the battlefront, I would price them higher than reinforcements) 5) Making vehicles more counterable as a hero (especially a lightsaber hero).
4) Remove heroes from showing up permanently on radar in GA and CS. Either make them show up like every other unit, or make them show up every x seconds (like in Hero Showdown). Also, fix friendly vehicles showing up as enemies on radar.
5) A nice QoL improvement would be to have a pop-up allowing players to choose a hero once they have enough points without having to respawn (similar to the OG Battlefront 2) and also have a queue system for players with enough points for a hero; this would hopefully reduce the number of people waiting in the spawn screen mashing a button to get the hero once the other person dies.1
1850 posts Member1 ) A definitive solution for the lag problems (Xbox).
2 ) More maps. This is the content more important. The new maps/planets must be launched minimum in CS & GA modes (both). Make specific maps to revive the abandoned modes of Extraction (now only 2 maps), Hunt (only 1 map) and starfighter assault.
3 ) New weapons!! This is a shooter game!! Minimun 2 new guns to each class. Star cards with new accesories would be welcome (ex: bacta bomb, ion neutralizer, astrodroids, etc) too.
4 ) A big quantity of new skins to unlock together with a new skins system that it would allow a great diversity of options like:
- Change male to female.
- Helmetless clone troopers with face selection.
- Helmetless stormtroopers, with face selection.
- More alien skins and variations (like twi'leks of diferent colors).
- Some legendary skins of heroes are missing.
(A evolution of Battlefront 2015 skin system)
5 ) Are missing a big quantity of vehicles, special units (reinforcements) and heroes. Specialy in Clone Wars era.
1592 posts MemberYoda's saber swings are bad. His unleash should receive some type of buff.
Vader needs to be better in GA. Buff his force choke against infantry.
Obi wan is bad, very bad. Consider giving him the ability to walk/run while blocking.
Unrelenting advance needs to deal more dmg or make grievous able to run while using it.
Dooku's lighting stun range needs a buff, fix dooku's duelist animation bug.
Luke force powers need to be buffed against heroes. He needs more skins btw.2
8 posts Member1. Saber tracking / dodges not working (getting teleported back into an enemy strike)
2. Abilities not working
3. lightsaber/meele stagger
4. lack of weapon variety and star card balancing: Some choices are very very clearly better than the rest
5. Friendly vehicles showing up as enemy on the radar5
203 posts MemberJust a quick one this. We're currently working through our backlog and was wanted to get your insight.
If you could list your top 5 issues that you experience or quality of life changes you'd like to see, what would they be?
1.Have Luke Repulse work like heroic might.
2. Have obi wan push down the same thing.
3. Make Han run with sharpshooter.
4. Take out mathmaking please. It doesnt work at all.
5. Please raise the stamina for palpatine a little bit. Its gone so quick.5
538 posts MemberJust a quick one this. We're currently working through our backlog and was wanted to get your insight.
If you could list your top 5 issues that you experience or quality of life changes you'd like to see, what would they be?
How about a whole Hotfix patch dedicated to fixing Grievous @F8RGE1
957 posts Member1. Please, do something about lags (PC) and saber tracking. It often ruins the experiance.
2. Do not buff Anakin. He is finaly not ruining GA while being still powerful. You can consider speeding up passionate strike animation but that would be it. I'm glad I can play him without feeling guilty.
3. Old heroes need some love. Leia, Lando, Luke, Chewie need some tweaks. Make her grenade more useful. Lando could use some damage buff. Chewie will be much better when he gets normal HOK card but will it be enough when it comes to GA? I'm not sure but let's see. Increase Repulse and Push damage against heroes. Luke could use 250 health regen. Give him some skins, cause right now the most iconic Star Wars hero is the most ignored character in the game.
4. We need a new content that isn't Clone Wars related. A lot of us are tired of it. There are other eras too...
5. Consider adding more weapons to the game. Having only 4 per class is making trooper gameplay boring.
It's far more important than new reinforcements (at least in my opinion, but I'm sure i'm not the only one).9
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According to a front-page story Monday, I'll be singing the "The Seven Days of Christmas" this year. At the total cost of $78,100 for gifts listed in the Christmas carol -- according to the annual PNC Wealth Management estimate -- any true love I have probably won't be able to afford all 12 days.
According to a front-page story Monday, I'll be singing the "The Seven Days of Christmas" this year. At the total cost of $78,100 for gifts listed in the Christmas carol -- according to the annual PNC Wealth Management estimate -- any true love I have probably won't be able to afford all 12 days. Just scanning the breakdown of prices, I'm guessing the seven swans a-swimming ($4,200), nine ladies dancing ($4,759), 10 lords a-leaping ($4,285), 11 pipers piping ($2,213), and 12 drummers drumming ($2,398) already have been crossed off "The Twelve Days of Christmas" wish list. At $600, my true love is likely to lose the four calling birds, as well. "I'm getting him six geese a-laying ($360), three french hens ($45), two turtle doves ($40) and a partridge ($15), why would he need more birds?" my true love probably will ask the pet-shop clerk, before compromising. "How much are four parakeets chirping?" The story said five gold rings cost $395 this year. Don't be surprised if we get gold-plated. And the pear tree ($150)? Think crab apple. We could get a painting of eight maids a-milking ($47), but it might not be an original painting. It'll probably just be a print. Tough All Over I want to stress that this is all just an educated journalistic guess. What I write is not the opinion of any of our true loves. It is not meant to imply that our true loves are even the slightest bit thrifty. And certainly, it's not intended to make them say, "All right, if you think I'm so cheap, why don't we get rid of the geese, doves, hens and partridge, too? And while we're at it, we can put the maids, the rings and the pear tree in layaway, too, until you apologize. Try singing 'No Days of Christmas' and see how you like it." All I'm trying to say is what business analysts have been talking about since Black Friday was over last week. We're all spending less. Specifically, we spent 3.5 percent less than we did last year on Black Friday, although they didn't break it down into individual bird purchases. The meaning behind the statistics, of course, is that once we get beyond the mandatory video game, cologne and tool purchases, there doesn't appear to be a lot of money left in any true love's pocket for even one piper piping, much less 11 of them. For the Best Maybe that's good. Do we really need a small orchestra of pipers? Or would our true loves give them to us, and then we'd just stick them out in the garage? Every time we drive in, they'd start piping, making all that racket. We'd have to say, rather ungratefully, "Hey, pipe down." Then they would sit quietly on shelves, with drummers not drumming, ladies not dancing, and, of course, the lords who haven't leaped in years. We should applaud inflation. It's what keeps us from having to explain to our true loves what we did with the partridge after we never planted the pear tree. Reach Canton Repository Living Editor Gary Brown at (330) 580-8303 or email@example.com.


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Request URI Handling in HTTP: A Primer
There's a pretty simple convention in place for handling requests for files, directories, and indexes on a web server. It works pretty well, and it is definitely worth understanding what happens and why, if you don't already.
This came up today in the context of a question about Snap, I figured I should write about it. This topic isn't particularly advanced, so it is likely to be nothing new if you already know HTTP fairly well. But I couldn't find a reference to point to, so I'm writing it down.
Web servers have to be pretty flexible when it comes to handling requests for files. People might type any of the following URLs:
- http://example.com
- http://example.com/
- http://example.com/somedirectory
- http://example.com/somedirectory/
- http://example.com/somefile.html
- http://example.com/somefile.html/
So what should happen in response to each? And why?
This post covers the basics. Remember that we're only talking about basic straight-forward file serving here. Once you throw in custom code and server-side programming, things can change a lot. But a solid understanding of the basics is a stepping stone to understanding the things built on it… and all of HTTP is built on the metaphor of serving files from a web server. Then here we go.
Case 1:
This is the easy one, because it's not up to the web server at all. If a user types the URL http://example.com, their web browser is required to send the request with a request URI of "/", as if they'd placed a slash as the request URI. This is a matter of HTTP syntax; because request URIs are not quoted in HTTP, there's no way to send an empty one.
Case 2:
In this case, as well, the request URI sent by the web browser will be "/". So what is a web server going to do with that?
Most people, I think, know this answer. The server finds the root directory of content it expects to serve. (On many UNIX web servers, for example, this might be called /var/www, but server configuration is a whole different topic, and there are many reasons it might be something else.) Since the request was for the entire directory, it typically tries to find a file that represents an index of all the content in that directory.
Web servers can be configured to look for this content under many names, but a common one is "index.html". A server will generally have a list of such index names, in order of preference: perhaps index.html, followed by index.htm, and so on. If one of these files exists, the server sends its contents as a response to the request.
Notice that typically, the client (that is, the web browser) never actually gets told that it is receiving a file named index.html. Instead, it just knows that it sent a request for the root directory (the request URI "/") and got back some HTML. It does know that it's HTML, because of the Content-type header in the request, but it doesn't get sent the file name.
If no index.html or similar file exists, then the server has a choice about what to do next. Historically, web servers generated on the fly a list of all the files in the directory, formatted as HTML, and served that in response to the request for the directory. However, in more recent years, the obfuscation-based security movement has made that less common, so it's more common to get back an error message letting you know that the server doesn't want to tell you what's in the directory. The error is often 403 (Forbidden), though it's sometimes 404 (Not Found) as well.
Case 3:
Here, the request is for "/somedirectory", a directory inside of the top-level.
(Note that in practice, the decision of what to do should be made based on whether there's really a directory and/or file with that name, not the presence or absence of an extension. I've included the extension above just to give a hint to the reader — you — that one request is for a directory while the other is for a file.)
Ideally, the server would like to find an index file of some sort to serve for this subdirectory, just as it did in the previous case. But we have a problem. If the server gives back some HTML in response to the request URI "/somedirectory", the user's web browser will think that's a file! Remember, we don't rely on extensions to decide what's a file or a directory. Also, remember that the web server doesn't ever tell the client the name of the file it's actually sending; it just sends the content.
Now, maybe you think it doesn't matter if the web browser thinks it's asked for a file and is really getting a directory. But in fact it does, and the reason is relative URLs. Suupose you were writing the index.html file that belongs in somedirectory, and you wanted to refer to an image alongside the file. You'd probably drop that image inside of somedirectory as well. But if the web browser gets back this HTML and thinks that it requested a file called somedirectory instead, then it will not know to ask for "/somedirectory/image.png". Instead, it will ask for "/image.png", thinking the image is sitting in the directory alongside a file called "somedirectory". This is not going to work.
For this reason, the web server does not immediately send back the index.html or similar file in somedirectory. Instead, it sends a redirect. This response (using response code 302) informs the browser to come back and ask again, but this time use "/somedirectory/" as its request URI. Note the slash at the end: that's what tells the web browser that this is a directory, and not a file.
It's now the browser's job to re-request the file with the right URI, so the server sends a redirect, and is done.
Case 4:
In this case, the browser has sent a request for "/somedirectory/". Perhaps it got here by following the redirect from the previous request, or perhaps the request URI was correct from the beginning. In either case the response is just like Case 2. The server will look for a file called something like "index.html"… but this time, it will look inside of somedirectory to find it. If it doesn't find an appropriate index file, once again it may or may not try to generate one.
Case 5:
Now the request is for "/somefile.html", a file. This is the easy one. The server will find the file with that exact name, and send its contents back in the response. (Note that I'm assuming somefile.txt is a file. It's entirely possible to create a directory with that name, in which you'd follow the instructions for case 3 instead, and send the redirect.)
Case 6:
Finally, suppose a user requests "/somefile.html/". That is, the request is for a file, but there is a slash at the end of the path.
You might think we should just send the file; it's pretty obvious what the user wanted, even if they've said it oddly. But there's a problem with that. Just like in case 3, the web browser looks at that trailing slash and decides that somefile.html is a directory name. Then if it refers to images, style sheets, etc., the browser will try to request something like "/somefile.html/image.png". That's not going to accomplish anything useful. So it's incorrect to serve a file with this URL.
We could send a redirect again, like we did for directories, but that's less common in this case. Directories can be typed without a trailing slash because people do it a lot. On the other hand, hardly anyone habitually adds a trailing slash after their file names. So instead, we should just fail with a 404 (Not Found) response code.
So What?
Understanding the above conventions is important because when people design URLs for web applications, they should keep in mind how browsers expect pages to behave. Remember that the trailing slash decides how a web browser will resolve relative URLs. As such, it's actually a significant part of the public interface of your application.
Quite a few times, this is gotten wrong. Snap, for example (which by the way is my current favorite foundation for building web applications, so don't think I have anything against it), got this wrong in its file serving code, and the conversation I mentioned above was with regard to making it work. Even more significantly, a large number of web frameworks provide request routing, but ignore the question of whether content should be served as a file or a directory. For dynamic content, either one works… but you do need to keep in mind which one you choose and how your static resources are chosen on that basis. Though you can work around this using all absolute paths or the HTML "base" tag, this throws away a good bit of how relative URIs are supposed to work.
So it's good to understand these conventions, and understand how web browsers are interacting with your application.
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Coincidentally, three of yesterday's major news stories bear directly on recent controversies over the threat (real or imagined) of political violence. First, nine members of a "Christian militia" were arrested, following an FBI investigation, for plotting to murder police officers. The arrest was accompanied by much hoopla, with Eric Holder calling the group, Hutaree, "a dangerous organization that today stands accused of conspiring to levy war against the United States." I don't know how dangerous they were, but one thing we can say for sure is that they were not Christians. What they were, is crazy.
The second story is that of Norman Leboon, arrested for threatening to murder House Republican Whip Eric Cantor in a YouTube video. By the end of the day it had emerged that Leboon is an Obama donor, a left-wing-activist–he was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Verizon for cooperating in the government's anti-terror efforts–and, reportedly, a Muslim convert. As a conservative, I find it tempting to speculate that Leboon could be an excitable liberal who was roused to violence by Barack Obama's exhortation that "if they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun." But that would be a cheap shot. Leboon, like the Michigan militia group, is bonkers.
Insanity is randomly distributed across the political spectrum. There is no cause so pure but what a crazy person (or several) can fasten onto it and purport to be acting in its name. It is wrong to try to make political hay out of such random nutcases, as the Democrats have been doing of late–without even waiting for the nutcase to appear!
The third relevant story is the bombing of Moscow's subways by Muslim terrorists. Not coincidentally, this was the only one of the three that involved actual rather than hypothetical violence. And, while the perpetrators have not yet been identified specifically, in all likelihood they were not crazy, at least not in the sense that we associate with people like Norman Leboon. Rather, these terrorists were no doubt members of a movement–a real movement that commits real terrorist acts.
It is important not to blur the distinction between organized, persistent and deadly political violence such as took place in Moscow and the random but always-possible violence that can be perpetrated by a single nut, or small group of nuts. It might make some of us (Eric Holder, perhaps) feel better to pretend that the threat of Islamic terrorism is no different from, and little greater than, the danger posed by the Hutarees and Norman Leboons of the world. Unfortunately, it isn't true.
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