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You don't have to be in San Francisco to be a successful entrepreneur!
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit just completed a powerful, insightful--but most importantly--real keynote at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW).
During the hourlong presentation, Ohanian shared the story of how he and his co-founder were rejected from the inaugural cohort of Y Combinator, only to be offered a position in the accelerator if they would ditch their idea and come up with something else.
In a twist of fate, they decided to scrap the company they had been working on and showed up at Y Combinator with little more than a t-shirt and a name. "I wouldn't have made the t-shirt first," Ohanian laughed with the audience when asked what advice he would give his younger self.
"Don't do it the way I did. I had the logo design and t-shirt made before I really had the idea for the company fleshed out."
Ohanian went on to encourage the audience of entrepreneurs by telling them that you don't have to be in Silicon Valley to be a successful entrepreneur. He cited examples of young founders he is mentoring and has invested with as well as average Reddit users who have built platforms and community in unexpected places from Chattanooga to Oklahoma.
The most potent words for Little Rock (and communities like ours) came at the close of Ohanian's remarks. "Search for the unfair advantages that only your City has to offer," he encouraged the New Orleanians. He told them to leverage the culture that only New Orleans can offer and harness technology in new and innovative ways to bring it to market.
How Little Rock is Leveraging our "Unfair Advantage"
This advice is consistent with the direction The Venture Center is going with the VC FinTech Accelerator. Because of the foundation in FinTech that was laid here in the 1960's, we can now leverage that expertise through powerful collaborations with our friends at FIS.
Little Rock, we are standing at the precipice of one of the most exciting periods of our development as a community as we push forward the legacy of FinTech in our State through emerging FinTech innovation.
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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
One of the big themes that this final season of Burn Notice has been trying to sell us on is the idea of Michael having split loyalties. And so far, I haven't really taken the bait. Nothing I've seen has convinced me that Michael would ever side with James if it came down to a decision between being loyal to James' League of Shadows and staying with his friends and completing the mission. No matter how much Sam and Fi would bitch "You're changing and you don't even see it." In fact, the extreme measures that Michael had to go through last week when he killed Steele should have erased any good feelings (if they existed) he might have had toward James and Sonya. Especially considering how Sonya wanted to take out an entire base full of innocent people.
But "Tipping Point" did its damnedest to shift Michael over to James. And, for the most part, it did a great job. Not everything went down smooth, but bringing Garret Dillahunt's Simon into the mix was a good, quick way to show just how dirty the CIA, and Strong, were willing to play in order to get James. It might not have totally sold me on Michael siding with James, but it did a hell of a job in making both Michael, and the viewer, disgusted with the "good guys."
This entire episode was pretty much one big firefight, with James and Sonya acting as sort of an incredible two-person wrecking crew on the ground; usually using nothing more than hand guns against helicopters and assault rifles. Oh, and there was that one grenade launcher that took out the SUV. But yeah, if you were looking for hundreds of bullet casings falling to the ground, this was your episode. And while Simon might not have had a ton of screen time, he was effective. "Guys like us, we're weapons," Simon told Michael, revealing that the CIA let him out of prison almost immediately after Michael put him there. And their fight was freakin' awesome. It's been a long while since we've seen Michael take on a guy one-on-one, and that slow stab to Simon's chest at the end was brutal.
I don't think Michael can overlook the extreme measures James is willing to go to, collateral damage-wise, when it comes to completing missions, but there are elements to his organization that he embraces. During this long, drawn-out shoot-out, Michael found James to be a supportive ally who practiced what he preached. After killing Ben for leaving Fiona behind, it was refreshing to discover that James lived by that code himself. Not only did he head into what he thought was a dangerous situation to rescue Michael, but he legitimately mourned the soldiers he lost.
Also, there were some cool moments of tension involving Fi constantly being given mixed signals about whether or nor she needed to storm Madeline's house and take out James' guys. Because doing it unnecessarily would blow Michael's cover and send them all to prison. And speaking of blown covers, Michael, in a last ditch effort to save Sonya from James' wrath, confessed to working undercover. It was certainly a big moment, and perhaps the episode should have ended on the confession, because the stuff that followed felt a little rushed. Not bad, mind you, just hastened. After the confession, James almost immediately began putting all the pieces together, realizing that Michael was wavering with regards to his undercover work. "No man is that good a liar," James accused, recognizing the "loyal subject" side of Michael a bit too quickly.
But it still worked for the most part. And it sold us all on Michael riding the fence. Because he was disillusioned with Strong for using Simon. I mean, Michael will make he right decision in the end, but - and he even mentioned this himself at the top of the episode - "the way you get a person to beleive you care about them is to actually start caring about them." If he didn't sympathize with James a little bit then his cover would have been blown long ago. He's in the mix now because he's making a connection. And he does care a great deal about Sonya. Actually, I was happy to see them both have sex again. It seemed odd that, if they were supposed to be a couple, they'd only done it once.
One thing I would like to know now, is what James' organization is responsible for? What atrocities have they committed? Strong's been after them for almost a decade, so they've had to have done some nasty things, right? Could it be that everything they've done has, in a sense, been a slap in the face to the CIA? Are they only wanted because they're exposing and exploiting corrupt elements of global espionage?
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler, IGN at mattfowler, and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.

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Florida Public Land Hunting Changes:
New WMA dates, deer harvest reporting coming!
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) scheduled 14 public meetings throughout the state to receive input from Florida hunters on proposals affecting deer hunting.
Nine of the meetings will be about potential changes to hunting season dates on wildlife management areas (WMAs) to align them with recent changes to the state's hunting zones.
The remaining five public hearings will cover the possible implementation of a deer-harvest reporting system as a tool to further develop future harvest management goals.
The FWC wants to collect as much public input as possible to see if changes are needed before formally presenting the rule proposals to the Commission. If approved by the Commission, the changes could take effect as early as the 2011-12 hunting season.
Several of the meetings to discuss possible changes to WMA hunting season dates have already been held at the following locations: April 21 in Panama City, April 27 in Dania Beach and April 28 in Plant City.
Remaining meetings scheduled for May include:
Tuesday, May 4 - Ocala
Marion Co. Extension Auditorium
2232 N.E. Jacksonville Road
Wednesday, May 5 – Naples
Edison State College Conf. Center,
Building J, Rooms 103 and 104
7007 Lely Cultural Parkway
Thursday, May 13 – Tallahassee
Tallahassee Automobile Museum
6800 Mahan Dr.
Wednesday, May 19 – Orlando
Bass Pro Shops
Outdoor World Orlando
5156 International Dr.
Tuesday, May 25 – Milton
Santa Rosa Co. Admin. Center
Commissioner's Board Room
6495 Caroline St.
Thursday, May 27 – Jacksonville
University of North Florida
Board of Trustees Room 1058
12000 Alumni Dr.
Meetings regarding the proposed deer harvest reporting system will be at the following locations:
Thursday, May 6 - Dania Beach
International Game Fish Assoc.
300 Gulf Stream Way
Thursday, May 20 - Ocala
Marion County Extension
2232 N.E. Jacksonville Road
Tuesday, June 1 - Lake City
Columbia County School Board
372 West Duval St.
Wednesday, June 2 - Plant City
Plant City High School
One Raider Place
Tuesday, June 8 - Tallahassee
Tallahassee Automobile Museum
6800 Mahan Dr.
All meetings will be from 6-8 p.m. (local time) and will follow a "town hall"-style format, with FWC staff making a presentation, followed by a public question-and-answer session with FWC staff. After the group discussion, the public will be able to address individual FWC staff members one-on-one.
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Mount Snowdon Climb Barefoot
15 year old twins, Callum and Freya Roberts, have climbed two of Britain's highest peaks, Scafell Pike and Snowdon to raise money for Amigos, a Barnstaple based charity who support Ugandans to work their way out of poverty with dignity.
The hike up Scafell Pike took 9 hours to complete and the climb up Snowdon took 6 hours. The Snowdon ascent was far more challenging as they undertook it barefoot!
Freya said "The Snowdon walk was painful and we have a few bruises on our feet. It was a relief to put our boots on at the summit before the long climb down"
Callum said "We prepared for the challenge by walking barefoot on Exmoor and we applied surgical spirit to our feet for 2 weeks before the climb. We didn't realise how difficult it would be as the ground was very rough but we are really glad we did it" `
The twins are students at Pilton Community College and they will be visiting Uganda in October as part of a charitable school trip. They have visited Uganda when they were 10 years old with their parents when they went to meet their Amigos sponsored child and his family. They are looking forward to seeing them again as well as meeting and working alongside students at the Kira Farm Training Centre.
"We have been saving up for ages to pay for the cost of the trip ourselves. We have done this by saving our pocket money, Saturday and holiday job wages, Christmas and birthday money and we have sold lots of our old possessions"
Family and friends have sponsored them to climb the mountains and they have managed to raise £1549 which will go directly to Amigos for the great work that they do. They are still collecting donations on their Virgin money giving page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/callumandfreya4amigosBack to news


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June 27, 2017
Renaissance Austin Hotel
Glass Oaks Ballroom
9721 Arboretum Blvd, Austin, TX 78759 (Map / Directions)
There are unique challenges to leading and supporting the work of K-12 STEM. The STEM Leadership Summit will immerse attendees in collaborative experiences focused on the unique needs of STEM teachers and learners. Topics will include:
- T-TESS in the STEM Classroom
- Building an Inclusive K-12 Computer Science Pipeline
- Leadership in STEM schools: Principal Panel
- Math Pathways: Practical Strategies for Preparing ALL Students for Post-Secondary Success
The STEM Leadership Summit will be co-located with the 2017 TRC Annual Meeting. All Leadership attendees will also participate in the following events with Annual Meeting attendees
- Luncheon featuring Dr. Penny Schwinn, Deputy Commissioner of Academics, TEA – Texas STEM priorities in the era of ESSA
- Showcase and Reception celebrating Texas STEM Superheroes – teachers and TRC projects
- Dinner featuring inspirational Keynote Speaker Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night, her memoir of going from homeless to Harvard. Click for a bio of Liz Murray (PDF)\
- 8:30 – 9:00 Registration/Coffee
- 9:00 – 11:45 Sessions
- 12:00 – 1:45 Luncheon Keynoted by Dr. Penny Schwinn, TEA Deputy Commissioner
- 2:00 – 4:30 Sessions
- 5:00 – 7:00 Celebrating STEM Superheroes Showcase and Reception
- 7:00 – 9:00 Dinner Keynoted by Liz Murray
Eligible Attendees
Participants will include superintendents, principals, curriculum specialists, teachers, professors and professional development providers who are interested in leadership in STEM. Attendees do not have to be TRC or WeTeach_CS participants.
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Certificates stating 12 hours of Continuing Professional Education hours (CPE credits) earned will be sent electronically after the participant has completed the online course evaluation. Participants should receive the certificate two to three weeks after the event. Any questions about certificates should be directed toward the contact person listed on this page.
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A block of sleeping rooms is available to book for our event at the Renaissance Austin Hotel at the Austin state rate. Rooms must be booked and confirmed by June 12, 2017 or until sold out—whichever happens first.
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — A gunman clad in all black, with a ballistic vest strapped to his chest and a military-style rifle in his hands, opened fire on parishioners at a Sunday service at a small Baptist church in rural Texas, killing at least 26 people and turning this tiny town east of San Antonio into the scene of the country's newest mass horror.
The gunman was identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing. Mr. Kelley, who lived in New Braunfels, Tex., and had served in the Air Force at a base in New Mexico, died shortly after the attack.
The motive of the attack was unclear on Sunday, but the grisly nature of it could not have been clearer: families gathered in pews, clutching Bibles and praying to the Lord, were murdered in cold blood on the spot.
Mr. Kelley started firing at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs not long after the Sunday morning service began at 11 a.m., officials said. He was armed with a Ruger military-style rifle, and within minutes, many of those inside the small church were either dead or wounded. The victims ranged in age from 5 to 72, and among the dead were several children, a pregnant woman and the pastor's 14-year-old daughter. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history. At least 20 more were wounded.
"It's something we all say does not happen in small communities, although we found out today it does," said Joe Tackitt, the sheriff of Wilson County, which includes Sutherland Springs.
Sheriff Tackitt and other officials said the gunman first stopped at a gas station across Highway 87 from the church. He drove across the street, got out of his car and began firing from the outside, moving to the right side of the church, the authorities said. Then he entered the building and kept firing.
The authorities received their first call about a gunman at about 11:20 a.m.. Officials and witnesses said Mr. Kelley appeared to be prepared for an assault, with black tactical gear, multiple rounds of ammunition and a ballistic vest.
"He went there, he walked in, started shooting people and then took off," said Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas congressman who represents the region and who was briefed by law enforcement officials.
When Mr. Kelley emerged from the church, an armed neighbor exchanged gunfire with him, hitting Mr. Kelley, who fled in his vehicle. Neighbors apparently followed him, chasing him into the next county, Guadalupe County, where Mr. Kelley crashed his car. Mr. Kelley was found dead in his vehicle. Officials said it was unclear how Mr. Kelley had died.
At the church, he left behind a scene of carnage. Of the 26 fatalities, 23 people were found dead inside the church, two were found outside and one died later at a hospital.
In nearby Floresville, hours after the attack, Scott Holcombe, 30, sat with his sister on the curb outside the emergency room at Connally Memorial Medical Center. They were both in tears. Their parents, Bryan and Karla Holcombe, had been at the church and had been killed.
"I'm dumbfounded," Mr. Holcombe said. "This is unimaginable. My father was a good man and he loved to preach. He had a good heart."
His sister, Sarah Slavin, 33, added: "They weren't afraid of death. They had a strong faith, so there's comfort in that. I feel like my parents, especially my mom, wasn't scared."
A parishioner, Sandy Ward, said that a daughter-in-law and three of her grandchildren were shot. Her grandson, who is 5, was shot four times and remained in surgery Sunday night. She said she was awaiting word on her other family members.
Ms. Ward said she did not attend services on Sunday because of her troubled knees and a bad hip. "I just started praying for everybody who was there" when she learned of the shooting, she said.
At a news conference on Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott said that he and other Texans were asking "for God's comfort, for God's guidance and for God's healing for all those who are suffering."
President Trump, who was in Japan on a trip to several Asian countries, called it a "horrific shooting."
In a time of crisis, he said, "Americans will do what we do best: we pull together and join hands and lock arms and through the tears and sadness we stand strong."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were helping in the investigation, which was being led by the Texas Rangers.
The shooting unfolded on the eighth anniversary of the attack in 2009 on Fort Hood in Texas, when an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, killed 13 people in one of the deadliest mass shootings at an American military base. Major Hasan carried out his attack in an attempt to wage jihad on American military personnel.
The death toll on Sunday also exceeded the number killed in 1966 by a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Charles Whitman, who opened fire from the school's clock tower in a day of violence in that ultimately killed 17.
And the shooting on Sunday occurred more than two years after Dylann S. Roof opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in June 2015, killing nine people, including the pastor. The motive in that attack was racial hatred — Mr. Roof, a white supremacist, plotted an assault on a black congregation — but no motive has been established by the authorities in the shooting in Sutherland Springs. The First Baptist Church is predominantly white, and Mr. Kelley is white.
The authorities said Mr. Kelley used an Ruger AR-15 variant — a knockoff of the standard service rifle carried by the American military for roughly half a century.
Almost all AR-15 variants legally sold in the United States fire only semiautomatically, and were covered by the federal assault weapons ban that went into effect in 1994. Since the ban expired in 2004, the weapons have been legal to sell or possess in much of the United States and sales of AR-15s have surged.
Ruger's AR-15s made for civilian markets sell for about $500 to $900, depending on the model.
Mr. Kelley grew up in New Braunfels, in his parents' nearly $1 million home, and was married in 2014. Why he chose to attack a church 30 miles away is one of the questions that remained unanswered.
Sutherland Springs in Wilson County is about 34 miles east of downtown San Antonio, in a slow-paced region where church-going is a common part of the Sunday routine. The church marquee on Sunday needed updating from last week, reading, "Join Us, Fall Fest, Oct 31, 6 to 8 PM."
The unincorporated community has a population that numbers in the low hundreds — the 2000 census was 362, according to the Texas State Historical Association. The preliminary death toll would amount to about 7 percent of that population.
Joseph Silva, 49, who lives about five miles northeast of Sutherland Springs, said the police had instructed his family and neighbors to stay indoors. He described Sutherland Springs as "a one-blinking-light town."
"There is a gas station and a post office," he said. "That's about all there really is."
Mr. Silva said he had been approached by a woman who said she had two loved ones at the church who were shot. "There are a number of individuals just weeping and just wanted to know what's happened to their loved ones," he said. "Everybody is pretty grief-stricken. Everyone's worried."
Hours after the shootings, the one-story church was sealed off to reporters, with yellow tape posted around the church grounds. Far beyond the town, the shooting shocked people throughout Texas, a state that is home to some of the biggest churches in the country.
The First Baptist Church of La Vernia, about seven miles away, wrote on Facebook that it would open its doors from 5 to 7 p.m. "There will be pastors and leaders present to pray with you or to talk, and the altar will be open for us to fall at the feet of Jesus," the church wrote.
First Baptist is a little church, albeit a tech-savvy one. The service at the church last Sunday was posted on YouTube, one of several posted there. Videos posted online show lyrics to the hymns appearing on television screens with parishioners playing electric guitars and a sign language interpreter translating the songs.
The video of last Sunday's service begins with a rendition of a song called "Happiness Is the Lord." Then the pastor, Frank Pomeroy, told his parishioners — 20 to 30 were visible in the video — to walk around the room and "shake somebody's hand."
"Tell them it's good to see them in God's house this morning," Pastor Pomeroy said.
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a Wilson County commissioner. He is Albert Gamez Jr., not Gamaz.
David Montgomery reported from Sutherland Springs, and Christopher Mele from New York. Reporting was contributed by Susan Anasagasti, Maggie Astor, Christina Caron, C. J. Chivers, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Adam Goldman, Matthew Haag, Anemona Hartocollis, John Ismay, Natalie Kitroeff, and William K. Rashbaum, and Jack Begg contributed research.


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If you have been in the MMORPG world for any length of time, chances are you have heard of Allods Online. Especially if you have looked into free version of games like World of Warcraft then this game will pop up. But for a game released in 2011 can Allods still hold a candle in 2017?
If you don't want risk wasting the hours downloading and playing Allods only to find out you hate it, don't worry, we did it for you!
So what does Allods have to offer? Let's make a quick summary:
- 8 races
- 10 classes
- Bright, beautiful fantasy style graphics
- Lots of quests
- Talent tree, crafting, etc.
- Open world
- Auto questing
- Tab targeting
- Free to play and subscription servers
Allods Online is a decent game.
Character designs are fun and there are quite a variety of classes and races to choose from each with distinct and vibrant looks.
The graphics are solid, from the characters to the towns to the foliage everything looks pretty polished and realistic for an MMORPG.
The audio is well done, and the mechanics feel fairly smooth.
Allods Online is ONLY a decent game.
The quests are very basic and with the ability to auto path your character to them they feel even less important than they normally would.
After an hour of playing I was losing interest, although the game is good there was no lasting hook to keep me interested or coming back for more.
I would put my character on the auto path, it would run and chase the ball of yarn, I would go do something else online, come back when it arrived, do the kill/collect as needed, auto path back, do something else online, and then just click complete.
The quests are not original, the characters you deal with in them are not stunning, and the lack of skill or thought needed to complete them makes the entire game feel mind numbing.
The powers that you learn early on don't take any thought in order to use them correctly. All of the enemies that you are faced with are easy to defeat and you will only die if you purposely stop attacking. If you have played other popular titles in the MMORPG genre then Allods online will feel very familiar, if not an almost exact replica.
Off to a good start!
I will say that the beginning was very enjoyable for me. I started in a flying ship, had to defend it as I the learned controls, and then it ended up getting destroyed by a giant beast despite my efforts and I was teleported to another area.
And then a big let down.
I was excited because the story seemed highly prevalent at the beginning and I was disappointed as soon I was met with quests that I skimmed through and a new journey that seemed to have nothing to do with where I just came from.
Mostly similar…a little different.
Although many possible ideas in MMORPG world have been done and it would be hard for any developer to come up with a completely new idea, Allods online feels like they never even tried. Rather than reinventing the wheel…or trying to make a new vehicle all together, Allods take the same wheel and, well…changes the color slightly?
- Instead of just controlling your characters movement with keys you can also click on the screen or auto path
- The game mechanics are simple and like other MMORPGs
- There is an emoji system which is fairly unique to gaming, although not new in plenty of other areas online
- The user interface is easy and will feel scarily familiar if you have played World of Warcraft
- Nothing in the game (story, graphics, controls, UI, enemies, quests, battles, etc.) feels unique to Allods
Good for first timers, snooze for MMORPG players.
If I had not played any other MMORPGs before, I have no doubt that I would have enjoyed Allods. As a free alternative to other popular titles I believe it is a good option if you don't want to pay a subscription or purchase fee.
What Allods does it primarily does them well, aside from a few glitches while auto-pathing, the game felt smooth while I was playing.
Decent free game, I would never pay money for.
At the end of the day, Allods is worth playing for a free option of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft. It runs smoothly for the most par, has many of the play options that are popular, has good graphics and characters.
The downside is that there is nothing new or unique about Allods to make it stand out, addictive, or significantly better than other options currently on the market.


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Show of loyalty
, October 23, 2017
The National Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in Abu Dhabi and Dubai participated in the "One Million Signatures of Loyalty to the Nation" initiative, a national initiative launched by the Al Dhaid Cultural and Sports Club in cooperation with the Emirates Vision Media Network and the Happiness Ambassadors Volunteers.
The aim of the initiative is to gather one million signatures on pieces of material distributed to government agencies and public and private sector institutions over next three months. The "One Million Signatures of Loyalty to the Nation" initiative was launched at the General Civil Aviation Authority and was welcomed by officials, employees and clients of the General Civil Aviation Authority. Both Emiratis and residents alike have decorated the piece of material with messages of love and support for the UAE.


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Peter Diamandis—visionary, scientist, innovator, CEO, storyteller and wizard—will explain how technology breakthroughs are blazing trails that will lead to innovations that, until now, have been the stuff of sci-fi books and movies. You'll learn how these inventions will help you overcome the challenges of everyday living and lead to more exciting and fulfilling lives.
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Email Marketing Page Layout - Divide It Into Thirds
The "Rule of Thirds" describes the rules of art and design which also works for an opened e-mail. Basically imaginary lines are drawn dividing the page into thirds both horizontally and vertically.
When you place important elements of your composition where these lines intersect, it is more pleasing to the eye. In addition to using the intersections you can arrange areas into bands occupying a third or place things along the imaginary lines.
Good places to put things include a third of the way up, a third of the way in from the left. You get the idea. Using the Rule of Thirds helps produce nicely balanced, easy on the eye copy.
Thus, an opened e-mail is divided into thirds: a top, a middle and a bottom with the top containing a headline and salutation, a middle containing the body of letter, and a bottom or footer containing the call to action and signature.
Writing headlines may be the most important copy writing skill. Most writing designed to persuade sinks or swims right out of the gate. Readers make snap decisions based on a quick scan of the top of the page. More often than not, they'll simply move on to something else unless your copywriting skills have been put to use crafting an excellent headline. A great headline can also communicate a full message to its intended audience and it absolutely must lure the reader into your body text.
The opening or lead paragraph's purpose it to give you the basic facts while persuading you to read more. The first sentence in an opening paragraph is called the lead sentence and it must be written to intrigue or make the reader want to read more. Often this means that the lead sentence needs to be slightly controversial or different to entice the reader to read more. This is often called the "hook".
Your offering's uniqueness needs to repeated through the body of your copy---this is what makes the reader take action. The benefits of your offering are placed in the middle of the e-mail or the paragraph that follows the lead.These benefits may be best presented as bullets:
- three to five bullets will suffice
- benefits must crisp, clear, and tangible
- they must be written in the reader's language
One more thing: only one subject per e-mail. Respect the reader's busy schedule and get to the point but make it only one point. Customers tend to scan e-mails, and if several propositions are presented, even the hook will go unnoticed.
The call action (CTA) of your e-mail tells the reader what to do and what to expect after they do it. It tells them what is in it for them? Marketing messages that support a product or service purchase should direct the reader to the CTA; this could be a landing page where they can "buy now" or "learn more". When the call to action is to direct the reader to get the full story at the website, you need to tell the reader not only what to do but what he can expect by doing it.
John Bradley Jackson brings street-savvy sales and marketing experience from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. His resume also includes entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate trainer, philanthropist, and consultant. His book is called "First, Best, or Different: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Niche Marketing".
Check out his website at: http://www.firstbestordifferent.com or his blog at http://www.firstbestordifferent.com/blog
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KASMs were Rachel Mary Callaghan, Gemma Fleet, Scott R. Walker and Rory Brattwell.
They formed in late October, 2007 and after 2 months together as a band KASMs flew to New York to play some shows, self released a 6 track EP that sold out in 2 days! They were then been signed up by exciting new London based independent label Trouble Records (Crystal Castles, An Experiment On A Bird In the Air Pump, Koko Von Napoo) and their first album has been licensed by desire.
KASMs have been in a variety of bands: Sin o the East, Wolfie, Aum Sahib. Even Rory was in the short-lived NME favourites Test Icicles, although Rory vehemently denies his involvement in such rubbish and thinks that if he keeps changing his name people won't make the connection.
I guess you could say KASMs sound is Punk/Gothic but even though some of KASMs' music is quite dark it's also very energetic and this translates to their intenses live shows,
Their influences are pretty varied, starting with dark, pulsating, rhythmic bands such as 80's San Francisco Rough Trade band Trial, Crash Worship, Live Skull plus more well known dark 80s stuff such as Bauhaus and Death in June. However, their sound is probably closest to the late 90s Deathrock scene which centred around bands such as the Vanishing, Subtonix and Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes, all of which are big influences on the band.
2009 was a fantastic year for KASMs so far: a first album produced by Rory (producer of numerous London bands like S.C.U.M., An Experiment On A Bird In the Air Pump, White Rose Movement, Male Bonding, Koko Von Napoo, Favours For Sailors, Televised Crimewave), rave reviews in the UK press (NME, Artrocker, ID, Time Out, The Guardian…), a European tour with The Gossip this spring at Beth Ditto request and slots at some of the bests Summer festivals like Reading, Leeds, The Offset or 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch.


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The Government's recent overhaul of the e457 visa was met by the Australian public with bouts of criticism and contentious discussion from both the general public and the Australian Workers. Standing to potentially close pathways to permanent residency for over 15,000 migrants annually, data suggested that as a consequence, foreign workers were opting to reject Australia as a work destination.
In response, media outlets focused on the opinions of high-level institution executives, such as the Association of Australian Medical Research Institute and ASX100 listed companies in relation to the e457 visa changes… and that's great.
But what about the opinion of the Australian worker? In understanding the changes and the reason for coming about, it's vitally important to understand if Australian workers even believed migrant workers on e457 visas had a positive impact on Australia's economic prosperity, to begin with!
LiveHire's fortnightly SMS survey is generated to present an insight on Australian workers views regarding popular political, economic, and social topics. So, to understand the reactions to e457 in context, our most recent survey asked the following question to our Australian Worker Database:
"Do you think migrant workers on e457 visas have a positive impact on Australia's economic prosperity?"
Our data concluded in a 56% swing to the "Yes" camp, with only 44% of respondents stating "No".
This unique perspective and insight are both crucial and intrinsic to understanding the complex and ever-evolving behaviour of Australian Workers, and future and past decisions in relation to the future of the e457 visa.
At LiveHire, we work with the media to generate Australian worker based surveys on request. If you're interested in sourcing or citing LiveHire for a past, present, or future surveys, please contact us at [email protected] .


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Rooms and Spaces
Meeting Rooms
Ten meeting rooms, six are complimentary to Dedicated Desk members and the other four can be booked by members or external clients for a charge. These meeting rooms are high-tech with high-speed Wi-Fi and easy connectivity to large screens for presentations or screen sharing and video conferencing.
The Clubspace on the top floor has fantastic views over the Thames and the City, seen through panoramic glass walls. In the centre is a striking copper bar surrounded by cafe tables, sofas and chairs where all members can relax, meet and network. There is a fully equipped catering kitchen and the whole floor can be hired for receptions or presentations.


text: NEW YORK – On the night his countryman Pau Gasol was taken with the No. 3 pick in the 2001 NBA Draft, Ricky Rubio stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. in his native Spain watching the proceedings on television."My mom was like, 'Go to bed,'" Rubio said Wednesday at the Westin Hotel in midtown Manhattan. "Now I'm here." Sporting shaggy hair and a few days stubble on his 18-year-old face, the 6-foot-5 Rubio met a throng of media and declared it his dream to play in the NBA after competing professionally in Spain since he was 14. "I want to play in the best league in the world," Rubio said. Though most experts predict that Rubio will be among the top two or three picks taken in Thursdays' draft, Celtics GM Danny Ainge doubts that Rubio can make an impact as a rookie. "I don't see Rubio being that dynamic player now," Ainge told radio station WEEI. "I think he's got a lot of potential. He's a very flashy player. He has a great mind for the game and he's a terrific passer. I don't see him — just physically, and because he doesn't shoot the ball very well — I don't see him having an impact as a rookie." Though Rubio will probably be long gone by the time the Knicks pick at No. 8 — unless they trade up to grab him — he said he would love play in New York. "They are the No. 8 pick," he said. "If they go up it will be exciting to go to New York." He added: "I would be a dream to play in Madison Square Garden." Rubio praised Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni's seven-second-or-less philosophy and said he'd love to play in it. "He loves to run," Rubio said of D'Antoni. "He lets the player be free." Rubio said New York is only "six or seven" hours from Spain by plane, but seemed to indicate a preference for the warm weather of California, which is more akin to his homeland.He worked out only for the Sacramento Kings and several Sacramento writers followed him to New York. Whoever selects Rubio will have to negotiate his complicated buyout clause with Spain's DKV Joventut. One report indicated it could cost an estimated $4 million to $6.6 million to get out of Rubio's contract. Rubio is scheduled to earn just $175,000 next season with the Spanish club. NBA teams can pay up to a maximum of $500,000 to free players from overseas contracts. "The (buyout) clauses are disproportionate to his salary — abusive clauses," Rubio's father, Esteban, told ESPN.com. "We want to know, if he really left, whether or not he'd have to pay these amounts. It's fair for DKV Joventut to get paid a certain amount of money, but what they want to collect is out of proportion with what Ricky earns." "My agent is working on that," Rubio said Wednesday. "I'm not thinking about my buyout." After the Los Angeles Clippers pick Blake Griffin at No. 1, Rubio could go as high as No. 2 to Memphis. Memphis GM Chris Wallace told The Memphis Commercial-Appeal that his separate meetings with Rubio's agent, Dan Fegan (in Los Angeles), and Rubio (in Barcelona) were "cordial" and "productive." Still, reports have surfaced that Rubio doesn't want to play in Memphis, but Rubio didn't go that far. Asked what would happen if the Grizzlies picked him, he said: "Then I will play with my friend Marc Gasol. If Memphis takes me, Memphis takes me. But we will see what happens [Thursday]."Oklahoma City picks at No. 3 and a Yahoo! Sports report said the Thunder has hired a Spanish law firm to assist with Rubio's buyout in case Oklahoma City drafts him. Sacramento chooses at No. 4 and Rubio clearly likes the idea of playing in the warm weather and on the West Coast. Minnesota has the No. 5 and 6 picks in the draft, but Rubio didn't sound too enamored of playing there. "My mom is worried because she doesn't like the cold weather," he said. Wherever he lands, Rubio said his mother and possibly his 12-year-old sister will join him. His mother will cook for him. "I love pasta," he said. As for adjusting to life in the U.S, he said: "I have to improve my English." Rubio refused to take a shot at Brandon Jennings, the American point guard who spent a year playing in Italy and said of Rubio after a workout in Sacramento: "I think the dude is just all hype." "He's a really nice guy," Rubio said of Jennings. "He loves the Italian food." Jennings, who also met the media Wednesday, retracted his comments about Rubio after a recent workout with the Knicks. "I think I got a little carried away with it, I was having too much fun with it," Jennings said. "He's not all hype. The kid has more experience than everybody in this draft because he's been playing [professionally] since he was 14, so he's a great player. He did his thing in the Olympics. Overall, he's a great person. I know him, we did a photo shoot together, so no disrespect to Ricky Rubio."Rubio models his game after NBA point guards Jason Kidd, Steve Nash and Chris Paul and hopes to emulate them in the league. "They love to run and make their teammates better," he said. "If they make an assist, they make everybody happy and that's very important."


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While traveling back home from Skyros island in Greece, I thought of explaining why I've chosen to spend more time taking pictures and making videos than gambling or investing, which are my main fields of expertise. Filming while packing and getting prepared for the trip turned out a stressful situation, as was editing this very… Continue reading
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Film Title: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Year: 1927
Studio: Artlee Pictures
Silent or Talkie: Silent
Genre: Horror
- Marie Ault
- Arthur Chesney
- Ivor Novello
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock began his movie career when both he and the century were in their early twenties. His first film-related job was as a title writer for Famous Players-Lasky in London. By 1923 he was a scenario writer for Gainsborough Pictures, then an art director (as well as continuing to work as a scenario writer). In 1925 he was offered is first chance to direct a film, The Pleasure Garden which was made in Munich and then, also in Germany, he directed The Mountain Eagle. [The Pleasure Garden exists only in fragments, and The Mountain Eagle is considered a lost film.] Returning to London in 1926, he began work on his third picture—and the first that he considered to be a "Hitchcock film"—The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.
The first shot of the film is a tight close-up of a woman's face, screaming in terror. We soon learn that she has become the 7th victim of a serial killer dubbed "The Avenger" by the London press because he leaves a calling card with those words inscribed within a triangle pinned to each victim. From the scene of the crime we watch the mechanics of the press as it disseminates the gruesome details of the murder to the population at large. It seems that this killer strikes only on Tuesday nights, and that his victims are always fair-haired young woman. In the background we see the ominous and reoccurring image of a theatre marquee advertising the latest musical comedy: "To-Night: 'Golden Curls'".
Hitchcock's cameras then take us inside a typical London rooming house where we see the Landlady (Marie Ault), the Landlord (Arthur Chesney—and if he looks familiar that is because he is the brother of popular British character actor Edmund Gwenn who Hitchcock would use to marvelous effect in his 1956 film The Trouble With Harry), their fair-haired daughter Daisy (June), and her boyfriend Joe (Malcolm Keen) who is a police detective. "A lot of use you are, Joe—letting him get away every time," Daisy's father complains. Suddenly and simultaneously the lights dim and there is a knock at the front door. Papa goes to plug a coin into the gas meter while his wife goes to answer the door.
Enter The Lodger (Ivor Novello). He is dressed in dark clothes, with a dark scarf wrapped around his neck covering his mouth, and he is carrying a small bag. This is exactly how an eyewitness to the latest murder described the killer! He inquires about the "Room To Let" sign and the landlady takes him upstairs to see the room. It is satisfactory, but The Lodger asks to have a half-dozen paintings of young girls with fair hair hanging about the room removed as they get on his nerves. As the story progresses, everyone but Daisy finds the new lodger to be a bit . . . well, queer. When Joe hears of the paintings being removed he says, "Anyway, I'm glad he's not keen on the girls." The landlady responds, "Even if he is a bit queer, he's a gentleman." Later Joe tells Daisy, "Sorry I lost my temper Daisy, but there's something about him I just can't stand." Just who is this Lodger?
Hitchcock and Eliot Stannard (and certainly an un-credited Alma Reville, Hitchcock's new bride) based their screenplay on a best-selling novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, which had also been adapted into a hit play, Who Is He? Even as the film was shooting, the studio executives were nervous. Hitchcock's use of German Expressionist filming styles and Soviet editing styles, which he picked up first-hand when he was working on his first two films in Germany (Hitchcock spent some time with F.W. Murnau on set while he was filming his film The Last Laugh), baffled these guys. They decided to shelve the film. A few months later they decided to take another look. With Hitchcock's blessing and participation they invited Ivor Montagu, who would ultimately receive credit for editing and subtitle writing, to take a pass at the film. A few more short shots were filmed and inserted, and some light editing and reworking of title cards was accomplished. The studio arranged a screening of the film for London exhibitors and almost overnight the film was being praised as the best English film to date. Hitchcock was on his way to becoming "the master of suspense" and would remain one of the most admired and popular film directors in the world for fifty years.
Film historian Patrick McGilligan describes The Lodger as "emblematic". I think that's a good place to start in any discussion of the film. So many of the themes, characters, set pieces, and sequences that appeared and were explored in all of Hitchcock's suspense films from his first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) to his last film Family Plot (1976) make their first appearances in this film. Smart, independent, blond heroine? Check. The Wrong Man? Check. Staircases, shadows, overhead shots, and extreme close-ups? Check. Police ineptitude? Check. Climactic chase sequence? Check. Hitchcock cameo? Check.
Hitchcock is not remembered as an "actor's director" and his famous "actors are cattle" quote is overused, out of context, and certainly uttered more for effect than sincerity. After all, Hitchcock used so many actors who willing worked for him, again and again, and their work in Hitchcock films is remembered as some of their best. The Lodger is no exception. Ivor Novello was a hugely successful star of the London stage at the time. His matinee idol looks brought him legions of female fans. The studio had signed him to a contract and Hitchcock, although always savvy about the commercial appeal of stars in his films, now had a problem. How in the world was he going to present this handsome leading man to his adoring public as a potential serial killer? This was before the days of anti-heroes and such. Without giving away the development of the plot, Hitchcock, turning a drawback into an asset, succeeds brilliantly (he'd face a similar problem with Cary Grant in Suspicion and the result there was not nearly as successful). There are some sly references to the famously gay Novello's off-screen life as well. Although most non-show business types would not get the references, the film insinuates that the character might be gay. The use of the word "queer" was not part of the common vernacular as slang for gay at that point, but show business and literary types would have recognized it as such by the mid-1920s. Hitchcock uses Novello's willowy, androgynous appearance to keep the audience guessing about The Lodger: is he or isn't he The Avenger?
Probably the two most well remembered sequences from the film are The Lodger's initial appearance, and a scene where some of the characters are looking up at the ceiling as The Lodger paces in his room above. But this is a silent film so how to visualize what characters are hearing? Hitchcock has the ceiling dissolve, and we see The Lodger pacing from the characters' point of view below! There's also quite an effective sequence where the camera shows us The Lodger quietly leaving the rooming house at night with an overhead shot of a stairway and a white, gloved hand gliding silently down the banister. The climax of the film involves a thrilling chase through the fog-shrouded streets of London with the camera's point of viewing constantly changing. All very Eisenstein-type editing.
It is not difficult to see why The Lodger made such a big impact on its initial release. There really had been nothing like it either in England or the United States. Paul Leni would begin to bring his own style of German Expressionist influences to American screens with The Cat and the Canary (1927) and The Man Who Laughs (1928), but Hitchcock was really in the vanguard in 1926 while making The Lodger. Films such as Murnau's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and The Last Laugh (1924) and Eisenstein's Battleship Potempkin (1925) had been little seen outside of Europe. Looking back over Hitchcock's entire body of work to his first suspense film, it almost seems like with The Lodger Hitchcock emerged full-blown as a unique and exciting artist.
On Video
The release of The Lodger as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Premiere Collection" of DVD releases at long last gives home video enthusiasts the opportunity to see The Lodger in a form that approximates the film viewers first encountered in 1927. There are many, many cheap releases to DVD and VHS of The Lodger that are pretty much unwatchable. This release features a print that has been through extensive restoration and now is part of The National Film and Television Archives. The original title cards have either been restored or recreated. The print is sharp with quite a bit of grain, which those unfamiliar to films of this era may find distracting, but is in truth a correct representation of the film's original look. It also features two musical soundtracks. The first is a 1999 full orchestral score by Ashley Irwin (presented in a Dolby 5.1 mix), which appropriately captures the tone of the film. The little five note theme that plays every time the theatre marquee appears flashing "To-Night: 'Golden Curls'" is incredibly creepy. The 1997 score by Paul Zaza is considerably less successful. Featured extras include:
• Commentary with film historian Patrick McGilligan. Mr. McGilligan starts out quite dry and stilted, but he becomes more comfortable and relaxed as the commentary plays out. It is a very informative look at the film itself and Hitchcock's influences and how the film has influenced many other films. Unfortunately he sometimes does not comment on the action on screen and even fails to point out Hitchcock's first cameo appearance!
• The Sound of Silence: The Making of The Lodger is an excellent look at how the film was made and features comments by many, many film historians, filmmakers and critics.
• 1940 radio adaptation of The Lodger directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Hitchcock Interviews: Audio Interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and François Truffaut
• Hitchcock 101: a short interview with Hitchcock's granddaughter about taking a college Hitchcock film class and receiving help from her grandfather writing her papers.
• Still Gallery
With this release of a newly restored The Lodger at last home video viewers have the chance to see this landmark film in a spectacular new transfer and accompanied by a great orchestral score. The extra features are plentiful and interesting. If you are a Hitchcock fan or a fan of classic films in general this is one you'll want to add to your collection.
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Jim Keeshen, Seth MacFarlane, and The Family Guy Pilot
Jim Keeshen's ET 2 Storytelling class for Spring 2006, taught at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment and Technology, uses eCollege's eCompanion for the purposes of supplementing its ground course with online material. Inside eCompanion, under the course syllabus, Jim Keeshen has a short biography about himself. Here's a screenshot of the bio:
And here's a closer view of the bio:
In Jim Keeshen's Course Syllabus page for Santa Monica College, he alleges the following: "Jim Keeshen started his animation career producing animated Sesame Street shorts on counting numbers and pronouncing letters from the alphabet." Now he alleges that he was "developing ideas and producing animated shorts for Sesame Street." In his resume, he claims that he "started his animation career during his studies at UCLA by animating a few scenes" for Sesame Street. Clearly, he's elevating his position to sound more important.
The same is true pertaining to his statements about the Academy of Entertainment and Technology. In his course syllabus, he alleges that in "1997 the Academy of Entertainment and Technology was started at SMC and Keeshen was asked to help set up the curriculum and advise on hardware/software purchases. He became the first full time professor and chair of the Academy." His resume reflects this information. However, he is now claiming that in 1997 he was "offered a full-time professorship to establish and run the Academy of Entertainment and Technology."
Did he in fact establish the Academy as he claims? According to our blog article, "A Brief History of the Academy of Entertainment & Technology," it was Piedad Robertson and Darroch "Rocky" Young who established the Academy with the help of project directors Joan Abrahamson and Dale Franzen. Regardless of who really established AET, Keeshen should not brag as SMC, under the California Public Records Act, has failed to disclose the documents filed to the California Postsecondary Education Commission that would reveal exactly how AET received its status as an educational center in 1997.
But the most blatant misrepresentation Jim Keeshen makes in his ET 2 Storytelling Bio is that he not only "produced" the pilot for Fox's Family Guy, but that he also "directed" it. Here's a screenshot close-up of this false statement by him:
Did Jim Keeshen produce and direct the pilot for Family Guy? Not according to the official Family Guy credits listed at the end of the pilot pitch VHS tape that I watched. Here's the screenshot from our blog article entitled "Family Guy Pilot Credits."
As the credits clearly reveal, Seth MacFarlane was not only the executive producer, he was the sole creator, writer, and director. Jim Keeshen and Jim Keeshen Productions are listed as the producers. So, Jim Keeshen clearly did not direct the Family Guy pilot. However, despite this fact, he is now publicizing that he directed it to his ET 2 Storytelling students. He is allegedly doing this to elevate his position on this project and to circumvent credit that belongs solely to the show's creator, Seth MacFarlane. Since Jim Keeshen produced this pilot and distributed the VHS tape to students at AET who worked on the project, he cannot claim that this is a mistake on his part. Rather, it is an outright and deliberate lie in conscious disregard to both his faculty ethics and SMC's academic integrity to uphold the truth in education.
What Jim Keeshen fails to disclose to his students is his bitter history with not only Seth MacFarlane, but with Fox Broadcasting, all of which can be viewed in our Family Guy Index. As previously revealed, Keeshen sued both Seth MacFarlane and Fox. In the Answer of Defendant Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox alleges that Jim Keeshen and Jim Keeshen Productions are barred from recovery, in part, by the Statute of Frauds, the Doctrine of Unclean Hands, the Doctrine of Impossibility, the Doctrine of Frustration of Purpose, the Doctrine of Fraud, negligence, and by the fault of Plaintiffs and its failure to satisfy conditions. Fox further alleges that "Plaintiffs have materially breached their obligations under the alleged contracts." Seth MacFarlane's answer makes many of these same allegations against Keeshen in its defense.
But Jim Keeshen wants to have his cake and eat it too. While falsely laying claim to directing the Family Guy pilot pitch, he turns around and verbally defames and slanders Fox in his ET 18 Storyboarding class. According to a confidential witness, on or about February 22, 2006, Jim Keeshen was passing around scripts of the Family Guy to his students. Were these scripts illegally obtained from Fox after Fox allegedly fired Keeshen? We are not sure. But we are sure that he made the following statements to his students or words to this effect: "Here's another script.... Who has the scripts?.... There's a piece of shit for sure. That's Family Guy. Here's another piece of shit. Family Guy. If you tell me that you watch Family Guy and you love it, I will fail you from this class."
Given the fact that the Family Guy is one of the most popular animated shows on television, he would have to fail most of his students. Regardless, it was highly unprofessional of Keeshen as an instructor to make these kinds of statements to his students. There was simply no justification other than the fact that Keeshen wished to intentionally paint Seth MacFarlane's animated masterpiece in an unfavorable light to his students.
The last question that remains is that who wrote this bio for Keeshen given the fact that it is written in the third person? If we take a peek at the internal eCompanion email list for ET 2 this semester, we see the following names at the end of the list:
Well, what do we have here at the end of the list, but none other than Barbara Ziering. Now, this is a very uncommon name, so it is safe to assume that this is the same Barbara Ziering that we have discussed many times on the SAVE SMC Blog. Ms. Ziering not only worked in various capacities for Jim Keeshen Productions, her name is credited in several places on the Family Guy pilot. She also was at one time an instructor at the Academy of Entertainment and Technology and now teaches at Otis College of Art + Design. On the Otis webpage, Ziering credits herself as "Supervising Animator with Jim Keeshen Productions."
So, since she no longer teaches at AET, how did she manage to be assigned to the ET 2 Storytelling course as a student? Is she acting as Keeshen's teaching assistant despite the fact that she no longer is affiliated with Santa Monica College? Who authorized her into the eCollege third party vendor online software for SMC's course? If she did in fact write Jim Keeshen's bio for this course, she would have known by virtue of her involvement in the Family Guy pilot that it was MacFarlane and not Keeshen who was the actual director of this pitch.
Also notice that Jim Keeshen is again plugging his Day of the Dead short animated film. This gives validity to Keeshen's statements that "Right now I'm just using them so that I can finish my film" and "Lying is better than not lying." Should Keeshen be allowed to use a publicly funded educational institute for his own self-serving purposes and to make false statements to its student body? Who will intervene in SMC's pantheon of administrators to stop this kind of abuse and have this false information removed? Or should Fox Broadcasting and Seth MacFarlane step in to set the record straight? Only time will tell.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
We Need a Measure of Enlightened Self-interest
In the other posts I've made on this subject, I tried unsuccessfully to argue CCP should not consider the business model as RMT. But the definition of RMT is as hard a rule as any I've seen. Boiled down to its essence, no one, anywhere, for any reason, is allowed to make real money by giving ISK, no matter how convoluted the process, except CCP - period. I see now it was a mistake to try and debate this with people who consider the definition black and white. I was doomed from the beginning because the definition is intractable.
I understand the RMT rule is there for a very good reason. Botters who create ISK by the literal boat load just to offload it through RMT damage the economy of EVE Online in ways only Dr Eyjólfur Guðmundsson probably understands. CCP gains nothing from it, nor does the community. We could lose everything because of it. The history of MMO economies succombing to RMT bares this out.
But that's RMT which provides no value to the developer, the game or it's community. It's traditional RMT. It is destructive because it takes and does not give anything in return. It is a parasite, and a dangerous one to be sure.
But not all parasites are dangerous. Some parasites form a symbiotic relationship with their host, which benefits both species. Your gut is full of beneficial bacteria without which you would die of malnutrition. Now, if they get out of control they can, and do, cause harm. But when in balance they are as necessary as the food they help digest.
SOMERblink is like those beneficial bacteria. How many of you reading this have played blinks? Did you have fun? Did it enhance your EVE Online experience? Was it something you've never seen done so well in any other MMO? Was it best in class? If you answered no, I submit that is a personal bias. SOMERblink is all those things though it may not be for you. It adds value to our community through the enjoyment thousands of other players, myself included, get from it every hour of every day. It may be an RMT scheme, but it is a beneficial RMT scheme to the community as a whole, and CCP still get's their payment from it courtesy of the GTC fee. And since CCP can control the supply of GTC, the damage to the game is controlled. What SOMERblink managed to do did no more damage than $5 PLEX on Amazon or all the buddy programs CCP has run in its entire existence. It's a controllable process, and I say anyone who simply yells, "it's killing the game!" because it's RMT are doing more harm through their intractable bias than SOMERblink.
In their hatred of all things RMT, they gleefully lit a bonfire and cheered as it roared. Those who resented the success of SOMERblink fanned the flames. Were they the illicit competition, or merely those malcontents who lacked the vision, skill and dedication to do it themselves? Regardless and by damn, they weren't about to let anyone else do better. Their black and white interpretation of the EULA and the ToS was the fuel firing their incendiary diatribes.
And what's more the pity, others took up the torches they provided and followed them. They focused on the narrow black and white definition and failed to see the greater good in it. "It's RMT, kill it!" they cried. That's all they cared about. But did that particular parasite have a beneficial or destructive relationship to the host? They did not care.
So CCP killed it. Like a broad spectrum antibiotic, the EULA and ToS cannot tell the beneficial from the harmful. That needs to change. If CCP wants to grow the EVE Universe as they say they do, they have to understand and encourage the beneficial while only killing the harmful. They have it within their power to not only do this, but also to control it. We do not live in a black and white universe. We only harm ourselves by insisting we do. There needs to be a mechanism that encourages our community to extend themselves and develop sites like SOMERblink. If you think doing something like that is easy, you are wrong. It takes more than a pound of proverbial flesh and people deserve compensation for that flesh. Without a real world reward structure, such first class sites will not happen and we as a community will be lesser for it.
CCP has a choice, as CCP has always had a choice. Keep all the marbles for themselves and the self-limited benefits that come with them, or broaden their PLEX system to include GMT referral marketing, the like of which SOMERblink used, and have a more healthy, vibrant community. That's the reward for the effort. Such a system must be selective, and sites deemed unworthy should be excluded. Sites deemed worthy should possibly have to pay a fee or even submit to auditing. The system also needs to take into account the reason for the site's existence. Is it for the benefit of the community first? If it isn't, does the good outweigh the bad?
This is not an easy thing to decide, and will undoubtedly create more controversy. Overcoming that will require fortitude and a vetting system rational players will accept. Perhaps the CSM would be the best panel of judges to determine if a community site qualifies for referral privileges. They will need guidelines though, and as in all things, that is CCP's purview. But it is an attainable goal. Once complete, when accusations of RMT arise again, perhaps we can then judge by a measure of enlightened self-interest, rather than abdicating reason to benighted black and white definitions.
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Firstly, Someblink doesn't run to bring fun to the community. It runs for profit. They don't give a crap about the community. Their entire system is build around making people feel like they've somehow won, while on average, only paying out about 80% of what is paid in. The GTC reward money just made everyone feel more like a winner by injecting isk, but if you look at it realistically I guarantee you'd see that most people lost isk overall.ReplyDelete
Secondly, aside from the fact it is RMT, handing out isk with their purchases gives them an automatic advantage over other community sites that don't rake in trillions of isk from stupid people who don't understand that "the house always wins". With Somer offing a isk incentive, and veing able to hold to that for pretty much ever, other community sites don't get as many sales, which in turn means their running costs suffer. There's only so much they will be able to personally lose before they have to pack up shop. The removal of this RMT puts everyone on a level playing field. Now who you buy your GTC through isn't the site that offers you the most, it's the site you want to support, the way it should be.
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 1:43 AM
I did not get the feeling that this was really about SOMERblink - aside a level of Tall Poppy Syndrome. I'm not sure it was really about RMT. It seemed more just the next excuse to attack CCP. CCP should keep in mind that they won't be placated with this "win" - they will just be fervently looking for the next excuse.ReplyDelete
Somergate is only a disaster if you look at the forum. The rest of the community is blinking like crazy xDReplyDelete
Giving community sites a spotlight will always be controversial. Sadly, you can never be sure if the people behind them are really honest or are only preparing the next big heist. But, I'm ok with that. Eve is a harsh place ;-)
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 2:05 AM
If you want to direct your ire at something, there are far more worthy targets. Think of all the EVE tools CCP have shutdown because they charged a (usually very small) real world fee.ReplyDelete
I agree this is a missed opportunity for CCP. I think this falls in the same category as not having some kind of 3rd party business model for people to develop apps for EVE for real money. And similar to the pain Rixx is going through with not being able to sell EVE t-shirts. Next they will Ban all the PL players who wear PL shirts at an EVE event.ReplyDelete
If feels like they have been ignoring this issue for years and are clearly losing exposure and good will from all of this.
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 6:12 AM
Despite arguing for the position in your final paragraphs you seem to forget that what enraged a number of people was not that this was occurring but that there was absolute radio silence from CCP. If they decide this is permissible then they should modify the ToS and EULA to establish guidelines on how to establish this sort of parasitic existence. It may be real politic and "cool" but don't do this sort of thing with wink-and-a-nod backroom deals.ReplyDelete
CCP do seem to have gone a bit potty on this one.ReplyDelete
What would happen if one of those lucky people who were managed to get a Nvdia GPU a year ago for ISK, then sold the hardware on Ebay?
In CCP's eye's this would be RMT ...
Daft really.Replies
- RammsteinNovember 4, 2013 at 8:41 AM
No, it wouldn't. That's more analogous to CCP deciding in a few months to run an official CCP program which is basically SomerBlink, but in-house--which I believe CCP would do in roughly 0.0012 milliseconds if it weren't for the troubling legal issues that would raise for them. Issues not from Somer, but from governments who will ignore smaller sites like Somer but would take amiss to CCP offering that same service themselves.Delete
Let's not forget that this is the real issue here. CCP has to keep the gambling away from themselves because of the laws of the various countries they operate in, but keeping the gambling away from themselves means that it becomes 3rd party RMT, instead of first party RMT, which isn't really regarded as RMT at all--i.e. PLEXes and subscription fees.
- RammsteinNovember 4, 2013 at 8:09 AM
"Botters who create ISK by the literal boat load just to offload it through RMT damage the economy of EVE Online in ways only Dr Eyjólfur Guðmundsson probably understands."ReplyDelete
"SOMERblink is like those beneficial bacteria. "
I have a feeling that you don't have any proof that SOMERblink isn't used as a money laundering site by RMT botters. Normally we'd be talking about whether Somer's critics had hard proof that he was doing so, not about whether his defenders had proof that he wasn't. But RMT is different. It's not allowed, by the rules, because it's too hard to regulate with a normal standard of proof. CCP realized that allowing a certain kind of RMT to evade this tighter regulation would mean that eventually other RMTers would also switch to this kind of RMT, and that's exactly what was happening. I understand that you think Somer was a valuable community resource...I don't, I think lame gambling sites are lame gambling sites, no matter how they are dressed up. But I don't think that difference matters, even if I agreed that Somer was a valuable community resource, it would be difficult for me to believe that Somer's old business model could continue to exist without helping the "evil" kind of botters too much, and I believe that this is what motivated CCP's changes, not a 'community outcry".
In summation, I would argue that enlightened self interest is exactly what has led us to a strict black and white definition for RMT, due to the nature of the beast, and that your presentation of them as opposites is a false dichotomy. Look again at your metaphor:
"Like a broad spectrum antibiotic, the EULA and ToS cannot tell the beneficial from the harmful. That needs to change."
You are aware that the current most relevant situation in antibiotics is not medical science developing 'so many' new antibiotics, allowing us to target the nasty bugs with less side effects; but instead medical science developing more and more broad spectrum antibiotics, in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving pathogens which threaten to return us to a pre-antibiotic regime of amputation and death? Your analogy is perfect, but it demolishes your argument instead of supporting it.
"...or broaden their PLEX system to include GMT referral marketing, the like of which SOMERblink used, and have a more healthy, vibrant community"ReplyDelete
Did you mean GTC (game time code) referral marketing? If so, that currently exists. CCP did not say that GTC sellers like Markee Dragon cannot have affiliate programs that give a sales commission to player-run websites/organizations. All they stated is that those players cannot give ISK or other in-game items as a bonus for purchasing the GTCs. That's it. So SOMERblink can continue to make real world money. Probably just not as much as before.
One of the main things taking away the bonus does is to put websites like Dotlan on an even playing field with the gambling websites like SOMERblink and EVE-Games. I would argue that a website like Dotlan is a lot more valuable to much more of the community than SOMERblink, yet Wollari makes nothing from GTC sales (according to a tweet) because no one clicks on the links to buy GTCs. Is this because the gambling websites were paying out ISK and Wollari can't? Perhaps Dotlan might get some affiliate sales money now that SOMER won't be giving out that bonus anymore. I think that's what you want, but letting SOMERblink violate the EULA and do its RMT trick probably hurt that goal.
- ChaninaNovember 5, 2013 at 4:35 AM
IMO CCPs decision to stop this bundling of GTC with in-game extras is the right one. SOMER does still get their money through the affiliate link. But they are not able to to sell of the ISK they have for more attractive "GTC + ISK" bundles. That was simply cashing out their in-game profit.ReplyDelete
But this is only one part of there business. The Blinks can continue and all the money they earn with ads or affiliate programs is theirs. I haven't seen numbers on that but it should be enough to cover server costs and license fees coming in. Combined with the in-game profit they make they don't have to pay money to run their accounts. They can game for free and provide content to the community, thats how things should be.
"I see this as a tragedy for EVE Online and the community, not a victory." I neither see a victory here nor a tragedy. A process to get reward for a community service (the affiliate program) has been refined and clarified.
If SOMER decides to close business it is not because their business model didn't bring enough in-game revenue.
"The community" is a bit more complex than you allow. It's no accident that GSF specifically was vocal in criticizing SOMERblink: They saw something big and powerful and growing, which could, and to an extent did, influence the metagame through the sheer amount of ISK it had. I'm not saying that this was the sole motive of every Goon who posted by any means, but there was a strong undertone of not wanting an RMT competitor, or RMT-funded competition.ReplyDelete
That, in a nutshell, is the problem with community spotlights in a game like EVE: it's nearly impossible for CCP not to put their thumbs on one metagame or another: even the community spotlight on Red Frog Freight was probably not the best day that PUSH Industries has ever had, right?
Also, what Rammstein said about the nearly endless difficulty of regulating RMT, even if some instances appear benign or well-intentioned.
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 8:19 AM
The rule is ironclad because of real-world banking regulations. If CCP allows in-game currency to turn back into real-world money in any fashion whatsoever, they open themselves to the possibility of real-world banking and other financial regulations. What happens to everyone's precious scamming and emergent gameplay then?ReplyDelete
Anyone who scoffs.. CCP is wise not to take the chance that some overzealous government will decide to start sticking its regulatory fingers into gameplay, especially on the justification that RMT could be used to launder money for real criminals or terrorists. No, it doesn't matter how hard or impractical that would actually be. Such considerations never hinder politicians looking for a controversy to be on the right side of.
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