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If the 'Sunset to Sunrise ' schedule option for Night Shift is missing in iOS 9.3 on your device, then here's what you need to do to bring it back.
iOS 9.3 Night Shift is a great way to reduce the strain on your eyes, and help you sleep better at night, at least that's what Apple claims. And as you dive into the Night Shift feature itself, you'll come to realize that Apple has thrown in a bunch of options into the mix, allowing you to either kickoff Night Shift at a specific time, or schedule it from sunset till sunrise. But oddly enough, some people are noticing that the 'Sunset to Sunrise' feature is missing from the scene, with some complaining that the option was once there and has now made an exit for no apparent reason. Don't panic, everything is right there in its place and all you need to do is follow the steps written below to get things back on track again.
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5. Look for a toggle switch called 'Setting Time Zone.' Tap to enable it, or turn it ON in other words.
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Apart from the 'Sunset to Sunrise' option making a comeback, you have also learned today that little toggle switches that apparently don't mean anything can have a diverse affect on other features of iOS as well. We recommend users to refrain from going on a 'toggle off' spree, as the outcome can be uncertain in a lot of situations.
The 'Sunset to Sunrise' option is brilliant given the fact that the device adjusts itself for Night Shift mode without any sort of user intervention. After all, you don't want to change the schedule time from time to time knowing that days are getting longer during the summers, right? Of course not.
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Remember the lawsuit over the planned Mississippi factory that is supposed to build a "full family" of "affordable green cars" for Hybrid Kinetic Automotive Corp. starting in 2011 and ramping up to full production by 2015? The lawsuit was between Xiaolin "Charles" Wang and Rong "Benjamin" Yeung, the chairman and the founder of the venture, respectively, over who was working for whom. According to a local news report, the Chinese businessmen have settled their differences. The good news? Four prototype vehicles will be unveiled in August and a groundbreaking for the plant is scheduled for later in the fall. The bad – or at least confusing – news? Both men say they have their own plan to move the project forward. To add to the confusion, Wang's company is called Hybrid Kinetic Automotive Corp. while Yeung's is called Hybrid Kinetic Automotive Holdings. The Hybrid Kinetic Automotive website will be shut down in August. Yeah, this is going to go smoothly.
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Here's an update, now that the Focus ZX5 auto has passed 6000mls. It's mileage is now much more reasonable, hovering between 25 and 26MPG in my commute. A welcome improvement from 22 to 24MPG initially.
I guess that, unlike my other cars, which reached EPA mileage withing 1000mls, Ford engines seem to take longer to break in, about 5000mls.
Now all I have to put up with is driving a compact car... :blush:0
gaylecrab Posts: 3My 2005 Ford Focus was just totalled in a front end collision. The main point of impact was to the front end just to the left of center. The passenger fender is basically not there anymore, engine dropped, passenger headlamp missing etc. The hood buckled and broke the windshield. Yet, neither airbag deployed.
Has anyone else had this happen? I'm trying to reconcile a car that's totalled in a front end collision yet had no airbag deployment and am wondering if I understand how this all works.0
tom_o Posts: 1When I open the door to my 2005 Focus ZX5, I get a beeping sound as if the key were left in the ingition or the lights were left on. Is this normal?0
This is just some first hand advise on replacing the timing belt. I have a 2002 Ford Focus ZX5 (NON SVT) I recomend that you take this to a dealer, or the local shop that has connections with a ford dealer, or bring your own parts. I was advised there is no aftermarket timing belt for my car. In fact all the after market companies were unaware of the different timing belt. Good news, I got 133000 miles and there was minor cracking on the edges. But the Water pump serpentine belt and idler had to be replaced as well.
Gas miliage 29-32 miles per gallon (And I drive it hard)0
explorerx4 Central CTPosts: 13,012i have read this post a few times and i finally figured out what was bothering me about it.
car hit LEFT of center, but RIGHT fender smashed? :confuse:2017 Ford Fusion SE 2017 Ford F-150 Limited0
yanks3 Posts: 1I have a 2000 focus zx3 w/ the Zetec engine but i get less then 200 miles on a full tank. Any ideas on what the problem could be?0
tmp4 Posts: 1I wondered too. But perhaps the person meant the "left" side if one were facing the front of the car. The reference to the passenger side can only mean one side no matter which way you are looking at the car. Anyway, I had a similar experience recently (passenger side crumbled - no airbag deployed) and would be interested in knowinf if anyone had a thought as to why that happened (or didn't).0
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loolala Posts: 19I have the same car with 5 speeds, and my lowest mileage was 28MPG when it was new. It improved quite quickly after it got broken in. Now it has at least 30, but average 32mpg. Driving in the city is worst on mileage (my driving is 80% highway), but I can't see it being 200/tank. My EMPTY tank light came on about 280 when it's new, and for the last three/four years, it comes on when I hit 360 or even 370. The farthest I let it go on one tank was 425 miles on a road trip!
I do have my rear wiper stop working, and it's not the circuit breaker, but I don't want to spend time/money to fix it.0
Guys do you know if Ford is going to ever bring the European Focus ever here?
It can be found over here under the skin of the Mazda 3. And thankfully not under the ugly skin of the new European Focus.0
yeah i know, still i like the 4-Door Euro Focus more than everything Mazda and US Ford has... and come on the E-Focus is ugly?0
The 4-door Focus is OK (it looks like its stable-mate, the Volvo S40), but the 3 and 5-door ones are, IMHO, hideous.
Those curious about it can check the several body versions at http://ford.de/ns7/focus/foc_entdecken/foc19/-/-/-/-#0
evado Posts: 2Your foot falling asleep is caused by a lumbar disc issue at Lumbar disc at L4/L5 in your low back. Simply purchase a back support from any drug store or "relax the back" store which puts a curve in your low back, and your foot will no longer go to sleep. You may want to check out whether you have a bulging or herniated disc in your low back.
bigmike4 Posts: 3ford finally made an attractice focus zx5 wagon in 2007,with the handsome body package and sunroof.really sharp. should ford continue to sell that vehicle in 2008-2009 until the euro focus arrives.as they did with the 2 door escort,when the focus arrived.?0
Since I want a ZX5 SES I will be scouring the certified used listings for a 2007 when I get ready to buy late next summer. Thank you Ford (NOT) for dropping the hatchback from the line so that I have no choice but to buy used. I would much prefer to buy at end of year clearance prices with a fat factory rebate piled on. Anyway, I'd like to ask buyers rather than sellers what was the cost for extended warranties actually purchased on these, and how much extended warranty they got for their money. Thanks in advance for any comments.0
I realize that a live fitting will be the real indicator, but I'm looking for general info right now since my buying window will be open late next summer. So, who knows how well the ZX5(SES) adapts to two drivers when one is 5-10 and the other is just 5 feet. Will the seat adjustment accommodate the smaller driver and how tiresome is it to adjust back and forth between the two driving positions. Forward and back is no biggie, but if there's a height adjustment necessary to switch between the short female and average male then how much of a pain is that?0
My 2002 Focus ZX5 adapts very well. Although all the seat adjustments of mine are manual, the seat goes up and down as well as forward and back. (the up and down on mine is a crank that turns easy under the seat that you can operate while sitting down Im not sure how the new ones have changed. Mine has 167,000 miles on it, and im still on the original clutch. The only maintenance done has been wheel bearings on the front and front sway bar bushings. I have done timing belt and with that serpentine belt and water pump.0
Thanks for sharing your experience. That's a pretty good rec. I'm driving a '97 Escort LX Wagon, very similar ancestor but several inches longer, and also pretty reliable. Timing belt and water pump at 120k miles just because it was time (better already at the shop than on the road), and no other major repairs except for a couple of emission system sensors. Biggest nuisance with this design is the too short brake service interval, because the front rotors build up too much hear and warp, causing shudder at freeway speed slowing. Now it has almost 150k miles and I'm looking to replace it next summer. Also still on original clutch. Sigh, next one will be AT because the wife won't learn stick.0
I've had mine for over 2 years and 24000mls and I have to say that I haven't taken it to the dealer for any repair whatsoever so far (knock on wood). So, it seems that the Focus is a pretty mature design and it shouldn't hit one hard in repairs.
Thus, although I can't say how it's going to be in the long run, I'd say to skip warranty extensions.
But if you're really set on buying it, keep in mind that it's quite negotiable. For example, I got one for another car for about 1.5% of its price ($500) with a $100 deductible for 72000mls or 6 years.
Thanks for your input. I wouldn't consider an extended warranty if I were able to buy new, but since [mean old] Ford has dropped the ZX5 and I'm not quite ready to put out the money I will be compelled to buy used. My perspective on extended warranties changes with the number of miles already logged by unknown drivers under unknown conditions. Nevertheless if I get the right price on the right vehicle (inspected of course) the extended warranty will be secondary if not expendable.0
hollyl12804 Posts: 1I have a 2002 Ford Focus ZX5 which I purchased after my 2000 Focus SLE was totalled. I loved the first one, but am having problems with the window regulators on this ZX5. I've replaced all of the regulators once, and two of them twice! One of the switches (the button you press to make the window go up and down) was also replaced this last time. Overall I love the focus but am seriously annoyed with these window issues. My mechanic told me that Ford decided to "update" the regulators, which I assume is because they had so many complaints about the old ones failing. I'm wondering how many people out there have had this problem?0
darkeratreyu Posts: 1I have the same issue! My two rear windows just make this grinding noise when i press the button, then the window just dropped into the door, and the guy at the ford dealership wanted to charge me $600 to fix it! His terrible attitude didnt help sway me into paying it either0
PF_Flyer Pennsylvania Furnace, PAPosts: 8,444Power windows are usually a pretty expensive fix. Motors and regulators aren't cheap and I bet you're looking at 2+ hours of labor as well. A number like $600 for repairing two windows (without knowing exactly what the problem is) is not all that surprising
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Here is the cradle I built for my daughter, and just like the crib I built for her brother 3 years ago, it is 3 months behind schedule :)
Not entirely my own design; the legs and feet are borrowed straight from George Nakashima's iconic Conoid Chair, and the joinery ended up being much stronger than I anticipated. The cradle design is heavily influenced by Scott Morrison's Maloof style rocker cradle, which is an amazing piece of art. I became obsessed with Scott's design and kept trying to figure out how to turn it into a dedicated cradle while meeting all the child safety requirements.
I used the Sam Maloof finish by Rockler and the results are amazing. My amateur photography skills and the phone camera pictures truly do not do it justice.
I have been woodworking for 3 years now and this project was a huge part of my learning curve. My first project, which got me into woodworking, was a mission style crib for my first child. Now I can do round pieces :)
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#1 posted 04-28-2016 10:21 PM
wow! gorgeous!!
any regrets that it doesn't 'rock'?
i would be terrified a leaky diaper would damage the beautiful finish
#2 posted 04-28-2016 11:39 PM
Beautiful. very nice craftsmanship!
#3 posted 04-29-2016 12:51 AM
That's very beautiful and unique.
#4 posted 04-29-2016 04:13 AM
Thank you very much guys.
I will be posting pictures of the crib soon.
I did think long and hard about making a rocking cradle. I was even second guessing myself as I was nearing the end of the build, but in the end, it was too much of a design challenge (for me) to make this "rock" safely without drastically changing the way it looks or putting big rockers on the bottom.
This design allows the feet to slide perfectly under our bed like a co-sleeper.
#5 posted 04-29-2016 10:47 AM
Your craftsmanship is gorgeous! Beautiful work!
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#6 posted 04-29-2016 01:27 PM
That is the most beautiful and amazing crib I have ever seen. The complexity and craftsmanship is fantastic.
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#8 posted 04-29-2016 02:20 PM
This cradle is such a nice piece and is beautifully done.
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#9 posted 04-29-2016 02:59 PM
Just jaw dropping. I can only imagine the work it took to make that top rail flow so smoothly….......not only curved but bent up and down as well. My goodness gracious!
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#10 posted 04-29-2016 03:44 PM
I'm in agreement with everyone else – fine work indeed.
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#11 posted 04-29-2016 05:44 PM
Wonderful work.
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#12 posted 04-30-2016 12:42 AM
Exceptional work. Cradles are so rewarding when they are made for family. A heirloom piece for sure. I built a cradle for my grandson two years ago, which was inspired by Scott's cradle. I also want to build Scott's cradle rocker one day. Congratulations on the build.
-- Steve, South Carolina, http://www.finewoodworkingofsc.com
#13 posted 04-30-2016 12:57 AM
Nice work. I've got to say, you sent me to Scott Morrison's website, and looking at the piece that inspired you and the one you made, I prefer the better definition of the curves in your work to the almost formless symmetry of the original. If I were to try a project along these lines, I think I'd use your work as a starting point, rather than his (though he's got some beautiful stuff on his website, don't get me wrong).
#14 posted 04-30-2016 12:13 PM
Thank you all for the kind words of encouragement. My wife and I are still trying to figure out the best place for the cradle to live when it is not being used. I will probably convince her to put it on permanent display by one of the windows in our formal living room :)
Steve, I did come across your cradle when I was looking for design ideas. I was very impressed by how you were able to reverse engineer an existing design with so little guidance being available, and of course the amount of work and patience to make it look so elegant.
#15 posted 04-30-2016 01:53 PM
Amr, you are on your way to being a master craftsman. That cradle is just over-the-top great!
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On August 10 2015 the Supreme Court issued its ruling concerning an appeal of the lower court's conviction of Shufersal, one of Israel's largest retail chains, along with its former executives. They were convicted of breach of merger conditions and attempting to engage in a restrictive arrangement. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions and most of the sentence determined by the Jerusalem District Court. In the framework of its analysis of the arrangement under review – and beyond what was necessary for adjudicating the case at hand – the Supreme Court outlined a new legal approach towards vertical arrangements, overturning a longstanding and highly criticised precedent. Under the interpretation of the law adopted in Shufersal, vertical restrictions such as exclusivity or resale price maintenance agreements will no longer be automatically condemned as restrictive arrangements; rather, they will be reviewed based on their probable impact on competition.
This decision – which in effect adopts an opinion that had been expressed by certain judges in previous Supreme Court rulings and was widely supported by academics – arguably creates a more efficient and balanced antitrust regime. However, while the ruling corrects what many see as a longstanding flaw in Israel's antitrust law, it creates an entirely new set of questions which have yet to be answered.
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The distinction between horizontal and vertical arrangements is fundamental to many antitrust regimes. In Israel both arrangements were treated similarly for many years as far as the definition of a 'restrictive arrangement' under the Restrictive Trade Practices Law 1988 was concerned.
The definition of a restrictive arrangement comprises:
- Section 2(a) of the law, which prohibits engaging in arrangements that, based on their probable effects, may prevent or decrease competition between the parties to the arrangement or between a party to the arrangement and a third party; and
- Section 2(b) of the law, which outlines restrictions that create an irrefutable presumption of harm to competition (eg, restrictions on price, profits, the amount or quality of products sold and market segmentation).
This means that an arrangement which contains a restriction on one of the matters listed in Section 2(b) (ie, price, profits, market allocation and quantity or quality of assets or services) renders the arrangement illegal, regardless of its effect on competition. Section 2(b) does not differentiate between horizontal and vertical arrangements.
Under the law, it is illegal to be a party to a restrictive arrangement which:
- is not exempt under a statutory or block exemption;
- has not been approved by the Antitrust Tribunal; or
- has not received an exemption from the need to seek the Antitrust Tribunal's approval from the antitrust commissioner.
In the standard-setting case Tivol v Shef Hayam, the Supreme Court ruled that horizontal and vertical arrangements are subject to the irrefutable presumption of harm to competition set under Section 2(b). Instead of differentiating between types of arrangement and applying a nuanced approach due to the understanding that vertical restrictions are typically justified and may at times be pro-competitive, the court determined a formal test which asked if the arrangement fell under one of the presumptions of harm to competition. Thus, most vertical arrangements – such as exclusivity arrangements, resale price maintenance, most favoured customer provisions and many others – were regarded as illegal restrictive arrangements.
Since the ruling in Tivol, there have been many failed attempts to minimise the severe implications of the court's broad interpretation of the law. For instance, in Extel one of the Supreme Court justices criticised the ruling in Tivol and proposed to exclude vertical arrangements from the scope of Section 2(b), but was unable to garner support from the other justices. The general director enacted several block exemptions for certain vertical arrangements that were generally not seen to be anti-competitive. These attempts did not change the fundamental problem resulting from a wide condemnation of vertical restraints.
The Supreme Court decision in Shufersal overturned the Tivol decision regarding vertical arrangements, holding that Section 2(b) will apply solely to horizontal arrangements and vertical arrangements will no longer be automatically condemned as restrictive arrangements for technical reasons; rather, they will be reviewed based on their probable effects on competition in accordance with Section 2(a).(1) The ruling is supported by an abundance of academic literature, including work published by the retiring antitrust commissioner, which has called for such a change for some time. The court further noted that its ruling brings the Israeli antitrust regime closer to that of the United States, which generally applies a rule of reason test to vertical restraints.
While it may initially seem that the ruling clearly delineates the new legal order, it has made the existing legal situation less clear. The decision leaves room for the argument that some vertical arrangements – such as those with significant horizontal characteristics – are still subject to Section 2(b). This question was left open by the court to be determined in the future. Another question left unanswered is which competitive standard should be applied to vertical arrangements under Section 2(a) of the law. Further, the requirements of the block exemption set in place partly to lessen the categorical prohibitions of Tivol appear to have become a source of confusion:
- Now that vertical restrictions are subject to an effects-based test, what is the relation between the effects-based test of Section 2(a) and the requirements of specific block exemptions for certain types of vertical restraints?
- If a block exemption for a specific type of restraint does not apply, can parties to such a vertical arrangement argue that the arrangement is in fact permitted because it is not a restrictive arrangement under Section 2(a) of the law?
- Should the block exemptions become safe harbours providing certainty that an agreement is legal?
These and many other questions have yet to be determined.
Arguably, the Supreme Court decision is the most important judicial antitrust law decision in over a decade. It is likely to have sweeping implications for local and foreign firms that engage in vertical arrangements, such as exclusive supply, distribution and franchising agreements. However, as noted above, the decision has left significant questions unanswered. It is expected that the lower courts and the Antitrust Authority will address these questions in the near future, in an attempt to shape a more coherent and complete legal regime with respect to vertical arrangements.
The landmark ruling in Shufersal also constitutes the first instance in which a defendant has been convicted of breach of merger conditions, as well as the first instance in which such a defendant has been sentenced to prison time. However, the precedential aspects of the ruling that relate to the use of criminal enforcement against corporate executives in antitrust cases have been eclipsed by the abrupt and significant change in law.
The scope and impact of the Shufersal decision will be revealed in future and it depends on how the Antitrust Authority and the courts implement it.
For further information on this topic please contact Shai Bakal or Nava Karavany at Tadmor & Co Yuval Levy & Co by telephone (+972 3 684 6000) or email (email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com). The Tadmor & Co Yuval Levy & Co website can be accessed at www.tadmor.com.
(1) For the court's decision in Hebrew, please see www.antitrust.gov.il/subject/148/item/33752.aspx.
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Kanye West believes his daughter North is like royalty – just like Prince William and Duchess Catherine's son Prince George.
The 'Heartless' rapper claims his five-month old child should be considered royalty and an equal to the young prince, the first born of Prince William and his wife Duchess Catherine.
In an interview on Power 105's Breakfast show, Kanye said: "My daughter is in a position of a level of royalty like the prince and princess in London."
Kanye, 36, also claimed the motivation behind his 'Bound 2' music video – which features a topless Kim Kardashian – was to mock the "white trash" popular culture that is presented to the world every day.
He said: "I wanted to take white trash T-shirts and make it into a video. I wanted it to look as phony as possible. I wanted the clouds to go one direction, the mountains to go one direction, the horses to go over there … because I want to show you that this is 'The Hunger Games'. I want to show you that this is the type of imagery that's been presented to all of us. And the only difference is a black dude in the middle of it."
The video has already attracted worldwide attention, and actors James Franco and Seth Rogen created a spoof of the promo that went viral earlier this week.


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HFMD is caused by viruses that belong to the Enterovirus genus (group), including polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, echoviruses, and enteroviruses.
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After a harrowing and likely traumatic experience last month, I have no choice but to once again adopt the title of 'activist.' The events of February have convinced me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that we as a country will never be safe as long as karaoke exists.
With a name coined by the Japanese to describe the difference between a professional singer (such as Lindsay Lohan) and the average bar-going howler, karaoke has permeated our iron-clad cultural defenses and worked its way into a weekly gig at any number of local bars. Armed with midi-like instrumental tracks and binders filled with the cream of the 80s crop, the call of karaoke evokes sirens (in the Homer sense) and sirens (in the Ambulance sense); alluring and ear-piercing, all at once.
But most dangerous is the fact that karaoke is an equal-opportunity activity. It can be performed at any time, in any number of places, by any person who chooses. While this appeals to scads of songsters the world around, I fear that they do not understand the gravity of the situation. Fortunately, government intervention is warranted. Karaoke falls within the criteria of those things the government has to sworn to shield and protect its citizenry from; namely:
a. Anything that, though fun for many, would prove harmful to others
b. Anything that, though fun for many, would prove harmful to abusers themselves
c. Anything that, though fun for many, would have been discouraged in 1956
And though it's difficult to say how Ike and the baby boomers would've received the activity, one thing is indisputable: at any given moment karaoke, like Paris Hilton in an F-14, has the potential to inflict an astronomical amount of harm to a group of innocent and unsuspecting bystanders.
Nowhere was this more evident that at Manhattan's "Second on Second" and its mid-February karaoke contest. A flyer in the bar's window promised an iPod to the winner and I, perpetually convinced that I can do anything, expertly, immediately guaranteed victory to myself. I spent the next week practicing Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" at very low volumes while watching the music video, and when game night came around, I felt ready. So ready, in fact, that I dressed exactly like Springsteen had in the video. This, as has too often been the case, would prove to be a terrible, terrible idea.
Arriving at the bar with an unfortunately-large group of friends and my Springsteenian outfit concealed beneath a hoodie, I sidled into a corner booth and waited for my time to shine. When the first round began, a typical karaoke mix emerged. The eventual winner, Sara, had a voice that could stop a bullet mid-flight or calm a rabid jackal. The rest of the semi-finalists effortlessly carried their tunes. Even the MC and judges crooned with the best of them.
Then, on the other side of the spectrum, were a couple of painful, no-talent hacks. Or rather, just me. Other people were not good, sure. But I was bad. Real bad. And not in the funny, "what an entertaining character!" sense. No, it was bad in the "this man is going to die penniless and alone" sense, and standing there awkwardly in a soaking, unbuttoned white collared shirt certainly didn't help.
I still don't know what happened, and thus refuse to accept blame for the meltdown. I knew that song cold. I had the confidence. And the sleeves of my shirt were rolled well above my prairie-like biceps. But in the end, I was that jackass standing in front of the room dressed as Bruce Springsteen, showcasing to the world that I had actually prepared for this event and still performed that terribly. At that moment, one thing became very clear: I am not strong enough to coexist with karaoke.
That's why we need to rid the world of this disastrous pastime. Everyone says "it won't happen to me," but it can and it will. It happened to me. I practiced singing and dancing in my room for a week. I wore a costume. I dumped a glass of water on myself mid-performance to simulate sweat. I sang with all the musical quality of a dying air-horn. And I paid $10 to be allowed to do all this. Yes, I fell victim to karaoke.
And I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.
After a harrowing and likely traumatic experience last month, I have no choice but to once again adopt the title of 'activist.' The events of February have convinced me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that we as a country will never be safe as long as karaoke exists.


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Could Lego be trying to poison our children's minds, turning them into their own personal Lego angry army?
A new study out of the University of Canterbury's Human Interface Technology Lab examined how Legos influence children during a vital emotional development stage: their playtimes. Statistically speaking, there's an average of 75 Lego blocks for every person alive, so a study of this specific toy is quite relevant. Led by Christoph Bartneck, the team examined over 3,600 Lego figures dating from 1975 to 2010. They then had each face ranked by an outside group, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, to create emotion rankings based on the display on the figure. "Happy" faces triumphed, with "angry" close on its heels. Bartneck then looked at historical trends that shows the angry faces on the rise, especially with the battle and war themed sets increasingly offered from the toy manufacturer.
What does this all mean? With anger and fear on the rise in our Legos' faces, as well as more conflict based themes full of weapons, there's a concern that children will mature and associate negative emotions with their memories of childhood playtime. [via Wired]


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The present paper investigates structural response and buckling of long unstiffened thin-walled cylindrical steel shells, subjected to bending moments, with particular emphasis on stability design. The cylinder response is characterized by cross-sectional ovalization, followed by buckling (bifurcation instability), which occurs on the compression side of the cylinder wall. Using a nonlinear finite element technique, the bifurcation moment is calculated, the post-buckling response is determined, and the imperfection sensitivity with respect to the governing buckling mode is examined. The results show that the buckling moment capacity is affected by cross-sectional ovalization. It is also shown that buckling of bent elastic long cylinders can be described quite accurately through a simple analytical model that considers the ovalized prebuckling configuration and results in very useful closed-form expressions. Using this analytical solution, the incorporation of the ovalization effects in the design of thin-walled cylinders under bending is thoroughly examined and discussed, considering the framework of the provisions of the new European Standard EN1993-1-6.
Bending of cylinders; normal stress components σv, responsible for ovalization
Moment-curvature path for elastic cylinders; two-dimensional analysis
Ovalization-curvature diagram for elastic cylinders; two-dimensional analysis
Ovalization response of inelastic cylinders under bending loads: (a) moment-curvature path and (b) ovalization-curvature diagram; arrows (↓) denote the first yielding points
Finite element analysis of elastic cylinders: (a) m−κ path and (b) detail at bifurcation point; the arrow (↓) shows the buckling point predicted by the analytical solution 7
Buckling mode of an elastic cylinder under bending
Numerical results of the imperfection sensitivity of elastic cylinders under bending (detail at bifurcation point)
Reduction of maximum moment and its corresponding curvature in terms of imperfection amplitude
Buckling of a thin-walled cylinder (r/t=50.5(32))
Imperfection sensitivity in the plastic range (r/t=120 and σy=483 MPa); symbol (◆) denotes the first yielding and symbol (◼) stands for the bifurcation point as it is calculated with the employment of Hill's comparison solid concept
Localization of deformation (r/t=120 and σy=483 MPa) and finite element analysis of a three-wavelength segment: (a) entire m−κ paths and (b) detail at bifurcation
(a) Finite element analysis results showing the progressive onset of inelastic localization in bent cylinders and (b) wavy pattern at the compression zone just after localization
Variation of moment capacity in terms of slenderness parameter defined in Eq. 5; numerical results and reduction factor χ(λ)
Ovalization of cylinder cross section; describing ovalization with Eqs. 1,2 (a represents the ovalization amplitude)
(a) Tube element and (b) deformation parameters (displacements and rotations)
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Update: this guide is out of date! I'll be writing a new series for Cataclysm.(Previously: Part 1)
So with the first post in this series in-hand, you've started working on the list of pre-raid gear you're trying to acquire. You're ready to run heroics - and lots of them! - but you're unsure of your spec, rotation, and pet choice. Maybe you've heard that Survival is a good tree to spec into as a new 80, but what talents should you take? Which glyphs? What should you do when Lock and Load procs? All these answers and more below, in the
Survival Hunter PvE Primer!
To begin with, I'll expand a little bit on the notion that "Survival is a good tree to start with." This is true in one way and untrue in another. It's true because a SV hunter's primary damaging ability, Explosive Shot (or ExS), doesn't factor base weapon or ammo damage into its damage-done equation. This means that it's not as limited by weapon as Marksmanship hunters are; a SV hunter's damage output scales more evenly with their gear considered as a whole. It's untrue because the SV rotation is actually a little more complex and it has an ability proc to deal with. When Lock and Load (LnL) procs, you have to react to that proc correctly before resuming your rotation. And the word "rotation" isn't even really accurate any more, merely convenient! Hunters, like most DPS classes these days, operate by assigning priorities to various abilities and always using the highest-priority available ability.
More on that in a bit, though. First, the spec. For a new hunter just starting out and running a lot of heroics, I would recommend this spec: 0/15/56. Here's what you're getting with that spec:
- 5/5 Improved Tracking is a free 5% damage that all hunter specs should be taking.
- Trap Mastery and Survival Instincts are the only 2nd-tier talents that actually do more damage: the only thing that matters for a PvE hunter.
- Resourcefulness is required because it decreases the cooldown of Black Arrow (BA). BA not only gives you temporary free 6% damage, it's where you get your LnL procs, and those are an extremely important part of your damage. I think the reason you'll occasionally see hunters without this talent maxed out is because they didn't read the last sentence in the tooltip.
- Lightning Reflexes and Expose Weakness are defining talents for the tree. Survival hunters have truly insane amounts of agility, and a quarter of that agility turns into free AP. 2/3 Expose Weakness is, however, sufficient: even a hunter in poor gear will see something like 80% buff uptime with two points in this talent, and the remaining point is better spent elsewhere.
- Noxious Stings is another talent new and inexperienced hunters skip. The reality is that few other talents in any tree (or for any class) have returns as high as Noxious Stings'. A few moments reflection is good enough to see this. If you're pulling 2k DPS on a boss without Noxious Stings, you would be pulling 2060 with it. 3 points in improved aspect of the hawk, for example, will never get you 60 DPS, and Noxious Stings just gets better the better your gear is.
- 3/3 Thrill of the Hunt (TotH) and 2/3 Hunting Party (HP) are mostly good for hunters running a lot of five-man dungeons. A good tank/healer team that chain pull the instance (getting it done faster) can also run their DPS out of mana pretty quickly, so the efficiency from TotH and the replenishment from HP are good for everyone. Once you're regularly raiding 25-mans, you'll shift those points to other talents, but this is the best place for them for now.
- The talents from the Marks tree are required for every hunter spec, with the possible exceptions of Go for the Throat (GftT) and Aimed Shot (AiS). Beast Mastery hunters can choose to regenerate pet focus by other means and so may skip GftT. Aimed Shot is a matter of preference. I prefer to have an instant-cast healing debuff as part of my rotation. Many hunters, however, prefer to put that point into Improved Aspect of the Hawk (IAotH), and that's perfectly valid.
- The glyphs are fairly standard. Glyphing Serpent Sting (SrS) means you waste fewer GCDs re-applying SrS for the Noxious Stings benefit, allowing you to spend those GCDs on abilities that actually do appreciable damage. The ExS simply provides more crit for your most damaging ability. The Kill Shot (KS) glyph isn't ideal for 5-mans, but there aren't any really suitable replacements. Minor glyphs are matters of convenience and, in my opinion, the feign, pack, and mend pet glyphs provide the most of it.
Whew, ok! So that's spec and glyphs. Now what? Oh right, that thing about assigning priorities or whatever. Ok. Here's the thing: "rotations" have pretty much disappeared from WoW since the vanilla/BC days. No one just memorizes a sequence of abilities and uses them in exactly the same order for the entire length of a boss fight. How it works these days is that you figure out which abilities do the most damage, and then use your abilities in that order. The priorities for a SV hunter look like this:
What this means is that if, for example, KS had no CD and no restriction on its use, you would just mash your KS button the entire time, because that would do the most damage. KS has both a cooldown and restrictions, though, so if you can't Kill Shot, you use ExS. If you can't ExS and BA is off of cooldown, then you put BA on the boss, and so on all the way down the line. There are a few things that are possibly confusing about this priority, so I'll address each of these in turn.
The first thing that trips up a lot of hunters is that ExS comes before BA. "If I used BA first," the new hunter says, "won't my ExS do 6% more damage and wouldn't that be better?" The answer is that yes, that particular ExS would do 6% more damage but you're delaying the firing of that ExS by 1.5s (the length of the GCD) in order to do so. Over the course of an entire boss fight, you're going to lose several Explosive Shots if you try to set them up with a black arrow. Think of it this way: ExS has a 6 second CD and BA lasts for 15 seconds. Either way, you're getting in at least one ExS with an extra 6% damage. If you use BA before ExS, you're electing to get 6% more damage on a single ExS use instead of firing more total Explosive Shots. Firing another ExS will always do more damage than 6% of one.
The second possible point of confusion is the Aimed vs. Multi Shot entry. Aimed and Multi Shot share a cooldown, so this line is basically saying "if you've specced into AiS, use it now. If not, use Multi". The only caveat here is that if you're clearing trash or fighting a boss with adds or multiple components (think Grand Magus Telestra), then a Multi that will hit multiple targets will do more damage than an AiS. Against a single target, AiS will always do more damage, especially if you've been able to stand still long enough to get the Sniper Training buff.
The third and last thing to note is Serpent Sting. All this line means is that, if SrS has fallen off the boss, now is the time to re-apply it. Much like BA vs. ExS, the extra 3% damage is worth speccing for, and it's more important than another Steady Shot, but anything else is more worthwhile, because those things have cooldowns and SrS/Steady Shot do not.
A mod like Watcher (discussed in a previous post) and some time on a training dummy can help get used to the priority system. You'll find after a while that it's really not too difficult to maintain, except for one little problem: Lock and Load.
The thing that makes this proc interesting is that ExS is actually a 3-second DOT (Damage Over Time effect). The GCD is only 1.5s, which means that if you just mash your ExS button three times when you get an LnL proc, you'll overwrite the last tick of the DOT when the new ExS lands, meaning an overall loss of damage. A lot of hunters realize this and try to compensate by putting things like an instant-cast AiS in between Explosive Shots. The problem with this is that hunter shots have a travel time - they actually travel through the air before they land on the target and apply their effect.
The upshot is that you only need to wait half a second, a full second less than the global cooldown. That is to say, the correct way to deal with an LnL proc (where "correct" means "the way that does the most damage") is this:
ExS > wait half second > ExS > wait a half second > ExS
All of this, of course, sort of neglects one of the defining elements of the hunter class: the pet. Sadly, there's not a whole lot of choice between pets for raiding hunters right now. Most hunters you see in Dalaran will have a wolf at their side, and pretty much the sole reason for that is Furious Howl. In (if I remember correctly) patch 3.1, they changed things such that the AP gain from the wolf's howl stacks with other AP effects such as Blessing of Might. The free 320 AP from the wolf overrides all other pet abilities in most cases, although certain raids will have certain exceptions. For most hunters, though, your best bet is going to be a wolf. I would recommend speccing your pet like this. There is of course more to pet management in a raid, especially during bosses with lots of targeted AoE, but that's a subject for another post.
This almost brings this post to a close. The last things to consider are gems and enchantments. I'll address this in more detail in part 4 of this guide series, but your guiding principle is agility. By far your most numerous gem should be the Delicate Cardinal Ruby, to the point of ignoring socket bonuses. Very, very few socket bonuses will be worth as much damage as the 10 agility you would be losing if you used a purple or orange gem to get them. When choosing between enchants, if an agility option is available, you should take it.
That just about covers it! Don't sweat the little stuff too much - your damage will improve quickly at this stage, both with gear and with improvement in managing our abilities. Raiding guilds will appreciate the effort and research you've put into your class, and any competent mid-level raid guild would rather have a recruit with a gear deficit rather than a skill deficit. Have fun!


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The forecast looks great for franchise owners in 2014. The total output of franchise establishments is expected to increase by $38 billion, which will be an increase of 4.7 percent. In addition to these great output numbers, the total number of franchise establishments will increase by 12,915. This will amount to an increase of 192,000 jobs.
All of these positive KPIs point toward a continued growth that turned around in 2012 after three down years. There are four sectors that are going to have a 5% or greater increase in output, which are business services, lodging, quick service restaurants, and real estate.
The food and hospitality sector is expected to dominate the overall employment distribution in 2014. It is expected to make up 65% of total employment for franchises.


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SACRAMENTO -- Inmates are dying from inadequate medical care at the state prison in Monterey, even under the watch of the federal courts, a team of experts reported Friday.
The reviewers told U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson that care in the Salinas Valley State Prison is "incomplete and fragmented" and "callous," with major abuse of opiates, nurses accused of pilfering drugs, and doctors who ignore patient needs. Clinics were described as "filthy," and emergency medical treatment was performed in hallways, the report stated.
The 106-page report notes that more than half of the physicians are under some sort of professional monitoring, that nurses accused of diverting drugs are still employed in the mail room, and that the prison has gone through four chief medical officers in four years, the current one being part-time.
It chronicles the deaths of several patients, including a man whose heart infection went untreated, and the case of a prisoner with back pain who became progressively paralyzed from the waist down yet received only a catheter. The report also documents cases where doctors ordered pain medications for prisoners to be cut off without seeing those patients.


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I haven't, nor would I ever, get this critical of Stephen Colbert. Journalist he isn't. Powerful pundit? Yes. But he's more cultural icon than legitimate or profound thinker (not to say he isn't intelligent, but at best he bats around the conservative/liberal nonsense with satire).
Many of the right people, today, are patting Stephen Colbert on the back for his interview with the Wikileaks founder. He is being congratulated for his moral seriousness, for breaking character to attack someone who, apparently, has really crossed the line.
He has interview many who were involved in the apparatus of enacting the Iraq war, or who lent their considerable influence to the war effort. He has interview, that is to say, the people who created the material conditions where the victims of this attack were placed in harms way, where the soldiers involved were placed in danger of losing both their lives and their moral integrity. That's war, I'm told; you shouldn't wage it without being willing to risk atrocity.
That's a problem in American society in general, which this blogger identifies in his full post. We're shocked by the horrors of war, but quickly hide behind yellow magnet ribbons on our car. Sure, we Support The Troops. We may oppose the war, but damnit! We love our troops. Love 'em lots.
However, when it comes to condemning the people who put those soldiers in that Apache, who have ruined the moral compass of our soldiers with almost a decade of war. Who have so degraded our young men that they mock the dead and dying. No, never. We'll ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers with serious psychological problems – the walking wounded – but never raise our voices in protest to those in power who ruined them.
Or…. as this blogger puts it…
Yet despite the fact that Colbert has had ample opportunity to react to the people who are directly responsible for such devastation, he has never been so animated when confronting them. He's never broken character to attack those who threw this country and its soldiers headlong into war while enduring none of war's horrors. He's never gotten so visibly offended. He's never taken such an obvious stand…


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On Rush Limbaugh's radio show Tuesday, a 13 year old caller named Patrick complained that he was forced to read "liberal magazines like Time and Newsweek" in school which explained the globe was getting warmer. The caller said he was skeptical of the science because "my parents have always been skeptical of it." Limbaugh then offered the following encouragement to the caller:
RUSH: Patrick, this will be a good lesson. There are liberals everywhere. You may think that just because your town is conservative — there are liberals. They're hiding in the shadows, and they are lurking there, and they're around and the odds are that many of them are in the school system. You'll probably at some point probably have to watch [Al Gore's movie], unless your parents and other parents find out about it and demand, "If you're going to show this movie, you better show the Great Global Warming Swindle and put the other side to our kids out there." Well, congratulations. I'm glad you called and told us this. This is the kind of thing that gives us all encouragement for the future. Here you are at 13, already aware of when you're watching propaganda. That's great.
How Orwellian is that!? Denounce propaganda as you spew it. Hmmm....the "other side".... why are people so goddamn preoccupied with distilling every issue to "sides"? If an asteroid doesn't destroy our civilization, then this dangerously oversimplified dualistic worldview will.
Okay....back to work. I need to do some evil scientific research. I wonder if Rush considers Sedimentology a liberal journal?
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As reported by Censor.NET citing Radio Svoboda, this was said by a member of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) Roman Symkiv.
According to him, the agency found that the origin of the funds posted by Nasirov's spouse and father-in-law was legitimate. He also said that it was State Fiscal Service's job to check whether all taxes related to these funds were paid.
March 2, NABU and SAP agents arrived at Feofania hospital to serve an indictment for criminal offence against Ukraine's chief taxman Roman Nasirov. The doctors barred the investigators and prosecutor from entering the ward saying Nasirov had allegedly suffered a heart attack. SAP head Nazar Kholodnytskyi said the decision to launch procedural activities into the case was made due to possible Nasirov's departure abroad and elimination of evidence. A video footage of Nasirov being served an indictment in Feofania hospital has been posted online.
SAP accuses Nasirov of taking unreasonable decisions on restructuring rental fees for the extraction of minerals, which helped Ukraine's fugitive MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko implement corruption schemes he is being charged with. This had led to 2 billion hryvnia damage to the state ($74 million). Onyshchenko said the investigation would "prove nothing: there were no money in my relations with Nasirov."
Later, NABU said it was preparing a bail hearing inquiry regarding Nasirov. The detainee's lawyers say that Nasirov's health deteriorated and he underwent another surgery. SAP head Kholodnytskyi said he doubted Nasirov's diagnosis.
March 3, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suspended Nasirov from office pending investigation. Myroslav Prodan was appointed acting head of the State Fiscal Service.
Nasirov said in an interview he had cooperated with the investigation since mid-2016.
Tax and customs service chief Roman Nasirov was first taken to the courtroom on March 4.
However, after he was examined by a doctor, the judge ruled to postpone the meeting to choose a preventive measure against Nasirov until the next day. On March 5, after the judge refused to adjourn the session again, the defense demanded his recusal, and the hearing halted.
Meanwhile, Automaidan activists gathered outside the courthouse to stay overnight and prevent Nasirov's possible escape. In the morning, more activists began to arrive at the court building.
After the session started, the court denied the disqualification of the judge and rejected a forensic examination of Nasirov's state. During the meeting it became known that Nasirov has the citizenship of Great Britain and Hungary.
As a result, after 3 a.m. on March 7, Judge of the Solomianskyi district court of Kyiv Oleksandr Bobrovnyk, partially granted the motion of the prosecution, having remanded Nasirov in a 60-day custody, until April 30, 2017, with the possibility to be released on a 100 million hryvnia bail. It should be noted that the prosecution wanted the bail to be set at 2 billion hryvnia. Ex-deputy prosecutor general David Sakvarelidze said at the rally outside the courthouse that the Presidential Administration required the court to reduce Nasirov's bail to 10 million hryvnia. In turn, Poroshenko said he was not advised on the progress in the proceeding against Nasirov.
March 13, the court dismissed the appeal against court decision to impose pre-trial detention against Nasirov with the right to post 100 million hryvnia in bail. The prosecutor's petition to increase the bail amount up to 2 billion hryvnia was also dismissed.
March 16, Nasirov was released from custody after his spouse and father-in-law posted a 100 million hryvnia ($3.7 million) bail.
Related materials: Trial of Nasirov
New order of secret assesment of prosecutors developed by PGO, - Lutsenko
SAP appeals against court decision to release Okhendovskyi without bail
Court releases Okhendovskyi on his own recognizance until Feb. 13. PHOTOS+VIDEO
Kyiv District Administrative Court judge nabbed while receiving $10,000 in bribe, - SAP. PHOTOS (updated)


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When I first started writing for TechRaptor at the beginning of 2015, I was keen on attending any interesting gaming events in my area. When I heard about a game developer expo that was going to have 75 indie developers all in one place, I jumped at the chance to attend it.
I was heading to one of Playcrafting's quarterly expos. This three and a half hour event would have dozens of indie video game and board game developers showing off their current and upcoming projects in various states of completion. I sat down with Playcrafting's CEO and Co-Founder Dan Butchko to find out more about the event, its purpose, and its history.
TechRaptor: Tell me about Playcrafting.
Dan Butchko: Sure, so Playcrafting started back in 2009 as the New York Gaming Meetup. My co-founder started it just as a way for developers to meet other developers, show off games that were being made, and it really pre-dated a lot of game communities that have now also kinda sprung up throughout New York.
TR: When you started Playcrafting it was basically just small events?
DB: My co-founder started it just as a regular event. I think it started with probably ten people or so. They would meet once per month, have a demo night, and show off games they were working on. So the first 2 1/2-3 years of its existence, Playcrafting, which was at that point the New York Gaming Meetup, was just a monthly demo night. At bars, they had it at General Assembly a couple of times.
TR: Like a game dev Fight Club?
DB: Kind of, yeah. [laughs] And at some point the relationship with Microsoft came up because someone who eventually moved on to work for Microsoft was part of the original meetup. So for the first couple of years it was literally just a monthly demo night, maybe a talk here or there. And then my co-founder decided he wanted to start diversifying the events, maybe offering a little bit of what we called "deep dives" back then which would be the education side.
TR: When I looked into this event, I actually saw an article by one of the developers here who said, "I went to Playcrafting events and made these games based on the events."
DB: Oh, was that Glenn [Orzepowski]? It Happened In Outer Space?
TR: I think it was. There was an article that showed all the stuff, and that's really interesting and now he's showing off a game that's probably gonna go to market here. That's the whole chain of events.
DB: I haven't even gotten to that part yet, yeah! For the first several years it was mainly just events and then it was rebranded as the New York City Games Forum. I think it was 2012 or so? We started offering some educational panels which we called "deep dives" and a quarterly playtest night which was the precursor to what we call an Expo now. I was brought in about a year and a half ago to really take it from being that core meetup group which at that point had already had 4,000 members. We had gotten an e-mail list going. So when I was brought in we re-branded it as Playcrafting. We made it into a new website, fully-fledged, events and education for game developers. So now what we do is each month is we have about eight classes, one or two workshops, and we also do multi-week courses. All around game development. Everything from coding and software, art, audio, voice acting to writing, business, legal, crowdfunding …
TR: Marketing?
DB: We just had a marketing one last week. As long as its game-focused, we offer it. We've really just let the community dictate what they want to see. We're focused on both game development itself and helping developers become successful business owners. A lot of higher-ed focused communities that are all around games solely as art or making games that are different and that kind of thing – we encourage that as well, but a big focus of ours is to help make developers successful business people.
TR: There's been a rash of stories lately in the gaming press about developers saying, "I've made this great game and nobody bought it, I quit." The charitable thing to say is that some of them had thrown really immature tantrums—
DB: On Twitter or something? [laughs]
TR: Yeah. Which would not be something somebody would do if they had taken even a basic level marketing and PR course. Places like Digipen and stuff, do they have [marketing and PR] courses?
DB: Well the other thing is too, with higher ed … there's such a barrier for entry.
TR: Tuition, boarding, physically going there. So the general concept is lowering the barrier?
DB: Much lower.
TR: What is the barrier to the entry? Someone like me walks through the door. I want to start making games. What do I have to do to get into Playcrafting?
DB: Sure. There's no application process. Anybody can join. Obviously it's paid content. We have what we call "Classes" which are one-offs on weeknights. Usually we'll do them on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's $25 per person. A quick two to three hour burst of information.
TR: Do you ever do anything more long form?
DB: Yeah. We have full-day workshops which are typically on a Saturday. That's $150 per person but you're there for seven to eight hours for the day.
TR: Someone could make a game in that time, cradle to grave.
DB: Yeah.
TR: Have you actually done that? Make a game, cradle to grave, in eight hours?
DB: Yes. We call that workshop "Release Your First Game."
TR: Basically a little game jam.
DB: Yeah. We basically transform the attendees into a dev studio. There's no requirement for entry as long as you pay the fee and register online.
TR: So somebody could come in with literally no idea what they're doing.
DB: Right, right. And by the end of that session you have a game with your name on the credits in Google Play. Which is really, really empowering for people that are completely new to game development. Like I said, it's all about lowering that barrier for entry. So that comes in experience, cost, demographic, etcetera.
TR: That's something that's really been speaking out to me. You look at something like Minecraft. Six or seven years ago, nobody has any idea what the hell Minecraft was aside from maybe a couple hundred people on 4chan [and online forums]. And that's where it started and now it's the third best-selling game of all time. That's a guy who probably spent zero dollars on advertising. He just had a game that was reasonably priced. He didn't care if people pirated it. So I think how many people don't have marketing skills and how many [games like Minecraft] are out there and people don't know about it.
DB: Well that's the problem. It's kind of like—and this is a very grim comparison—I like to use the comparison of how people have a fear of plane crashes. You get in a plane and you're terrified because when a plane crashes that's what you hear about on the news. But you hear about it on the news because it's rare. And that's part of what we're trying to with Playcrafting. A lot of developers get discouraged because they hear those stories, they see Indie Game: The Movie, and they say, "I wanna do that! And if I just make a game and put it out there, it's gonna catch on!"
TR: I've been [looking at some of the games at the Fall Expo] and I saw games the ran the gamut from, like … this is something that will be on top sellers on Steam when it comes out, probably, or at least it looks like it could be. And I've seen games that are a couple steps away from using nothing but Unity Store assets and it's obviously their first game. Here. Complete range of it. That's what surprised me.
DB: I'm glad you pointed that out. That's what I like to do when we have our bigger events because I like having a huge variety of experience levels, genres, even quality of the games. Some of those games are not even remotely finished. Some of them are released. That's why we call [these events] Expos now. Some developers are using them to just promote.
TR: I just got a general idea of what to check out and I'll let the event and the devs speak for itself.
DB: And that's the thing… frankly, I'm running a business at the same time here. If I on the business side and also community building side, if I want to grow something I need to be not just tapping into people that already know what the coolest new things are on Steam for example. I want to tap into the parent and child that play Candy Crush Saga on the subway and don't even consider themselves "gamers". So having a diversity of games, a diversity of developers… we did a huge event here two weeks ago with Square Enix.
TR: And [I've seen] board games, too. So Playcrafting isn't strictly …
DB: It's not strictly digital. We're open to all types of games—digital, card games, board games. We've done live game stuff before.
TR: How broad would you do that? Would you run a workshop that was like "How To Write A Choose-Your-Own Adventure Book?"
DB: That's why it's cool that we were started as a meetup. Because even though we're now like a fully-fledged business it's fully audience-determined.
TR: So if enough people ask for it, you would do it?
DB: If we have a class on it, and a lot of people show up I would repeat that class. I mentioned two of the educational pieces we do so far, there's classes and workshops. If something is doing really well as a class it becomes a workshop.
TR: So that's your model. Classes for downstreaming information, workshops for actual hands-on [instruction]. But [workshops] are harder so you don't want to commit to doing those if you don't have interest. So you use the classes to gauge interest?
DB: Right. And then the newest level that we have which is gonna be expanding next year is our eight week courses. We now offer here at [Microsoft's Times Square location]—and we're getting some more partners in the area to host us as well—an eight week course. Learning in Unity in eight weeks. You build four games with a developer that is actually making games in Unity which is really helpful. So you're learning from local developers. You're supporting the local development community directly. The barrier for entry on all levels is lower.
TR: Twenty-five bucks.
DB: For the [one day] classes. For the [eight week] courses, it's $2,500. If you compare it to higher-ed, you can just take that one thing and that will be it if you want. There's no application process. We want as many people to take these things as possible so we work out payment plans with almost every single person. We just want as many people making games and learning how to make games as possible.
TR: Do you have anything along the order of scholarships?
DB: We [don't], I think mostly because haven't had like a full curriculum.
TR: Nothing super expensive [like university].
DB: Yeah. I think starting next year that's something we'll have. I want to get through a full year of multiple courses per quarter. Again though, it's all dictated by the community. So these courses have just taken off and there's been waitlists and waitlists each time so that tells me we need to have more of that Unity course and start trying out some other topics.
TR: Now this particular event where we are now [Microsoft's Times Square location], this is Microsoft space.
DB: This is Microsoft, yeah.
TR: Are you always hosted in this space here, or do you bounce around?
DB: 95% of the time, all of the educational pieces I mentioned and the events are here. We'll do classes and courses in the smaller conference rooms and then we'll have the bigger events in a larger space. Most stuff is hosted here, every now and then we'll have it at other places. One thing I would say that the takeaway should be aside from the [low] barrier for entry and the community-building side [is that] our main goal here is help turn gamers into game makers and game makers into successful business people. If there's one line to take away, that's it. Because if you make a great game and nobody plays it then you're not gonna make another game and it's a loss to the game community. It's about helping make sustainable developers over time and tapping into gamers. People who are generally interested in games.
TR: Okay, at this point I have a couple of direct questions for you. Real rapid-fire.
DB: Go for it.
TR: Do you have any kind of free or open-house events just to try and get people interested or does everything have flat fees?
DB: We have really great sponsors. We do sponsored content. Anytime we bring a big sponsor on it's all with the education piece in mind. I'm never gonna take a sponsor and have them give a pitch to a bunch of people. We do free sponsored classes which are actually classes. It's not just pitch events. And those are free. We also have free events from time to time. We just did a Square Enix event two weeks ago with the developers of Tomb Raider and Just Cause. Huge event and that's a great way to get people in the door that are just generally interested. And we do free info sessions for our larger courses, too.
TR: In your opinion, do you feel Microsoft's involvement in your company is signifying a greater commitment to gaming from them?
DB: Absolutely.
TR: Would you be willing to say that [Microsoft] explicitly said as much or was it just generically that they're interested in what you're doing? Was it that they like your idea and they're supporting it, or they like your idea and also this is a gaming thing and they really want to push back into gaming?
DB: It's kind of both. I put some really great stories on the website about completely new developers that we've helped get making games and get their games onto Microsoft platforms. This is something I would love to do with Sony and other [companies], too. If anything, Microsoft is extremely helpful community-wise and it's more that I—on behalf of developers through Playcrafting—dictate what we do on the Microsoft side. It's more filtered through us and through me instead of them saying, "You need to get us like five developers." There's no official structured pipeline. It's more that [we] have this space, we would like to have more games on our platforms, yes. But if you have games that you're making on iPad, on iOS… we've even had some Playstation games in here before. They've been super open to the community and they're not at all invasive which I really appreciate about them.
I'd like to extend my thanks to Mr. Butchko for an interesting interview about a company that is helping new people get into the gaming industry. I'll be having more interviews from some of the developers who were present at this event coming in the next few days.