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Under normal circumstances, I consider turning to a discussion of the weather to be a sign that conversation has failed. There are exceptions of course, for extreme circumstances, but by and large if you are making small talk about the weather with someone then it's bets to cut your losses and move on. Perhaps study up on a few more interesting topics for your next chance encounter. I also generally try to avoid putting a specific time stamp on the date on which something was written for Teleport City, as it rarely makes sense years or even weeks removed from that date. However, today in New York City it is almost twenty degrees. So to warm up, not only am I indulging in this brief time-stamped discussion of the weather, but I thought it was an appropriate day to prepare ourselves for breezy summer holidays. Now, whether you are driving along the Amalfi Coast in a Ferrari Daytona, hopping a jetliner to Monaco, or setting out to map a hitherto unexplored tributary of the Amazon River equipped with nothing but a machete, everyone knows the single most important thing to prepare before departure is your soundtrack. So we offer up to you some suggestions that blend both vintage and modern interpretations of music that will prepare you for whatever may occupy you during your warmer days.
Kava Kon — Departure Exotica
Modern interpretations of classic exotica and lounge aren't hard to find, though it is hard to find ones that are as good as the original source material. Many of them are either too modern and electronic-y (which is why acts like Tipsy and Ursula 1000 never quite clicked with me) or it's just surf guitar (good or bad) with loungy cover art. Kavan Kon, however, strike just the right balance between vintage exotica a la Les Baxter and Martin Denny and more modern downtempo grooves, managing to make the two styles work in perfect harmony. Swank and laid back, this is perfect jungle hut and thatched-roof beach bar music. Only one song — "Pyramid Point" — veers too closely into the realm of Hotel Costes type new lounge, but I can deal with that. You need something on your album to inspire the Russian girl in the slinky mini-dress to get up and dance with you, after all.
Reverb Syndicate — Operation Jet Set
Reverb Syndicate deliver pretty standard modern surf guitar music, influenced as is the usual case by everything from science fiction to spy movies to spaghetti westerns. I usually associate "jet set" with a lighter, breezier sort of music, but Operation Jet Set provides a pretty good soundtrack for cruising the more remote stretches of Route 66 or the American southwest (every bit as worthwhile as Monaco). Good music to spy to, so long as you don't mind being outed as a spy by all the disembodied spy music following you around. Most of it is pretty upbeat, solid if unspectacular. Not essential listening, but every holiday can use a little surf guitar, and The Reverb Syndicate will get the job done for you.
Ultra-Lounge — Jet Set Swingers!
The venerable Ultra-Lounge series on which so many of us spent so many dollars back at the turn of the century has been revived! The volume Jet Set Swingers! is, obviously, tailor made for our purposes here, collecting fifteen classic lounge, jazz, and vocal tracks paying tribute to jet setting international travel. It's snappy stuff, opening with Nat King Cole's "Madrid" and ending somewhere in the West Indies with Judy Garland (who hasn't had a weekend like that?). The tone is consistently upbeat and peppy — this vacation is nothing but fun, frolic, and champagne with no time for soul-searching or ennui. The Ultra-Lounge series has proven to be the "big gun" of American cocktail collections, and this is one of my favorites in the series. Perfect for sipping drinks, dancing, and passing the time in a space age airport departure lounge.
Tikiyaki Orchestra — Swinging Sounds for the Jungle Jetset!
Another nouveau lounge act that gets all the notes right. They meander smoothly between modern interpretations of the Martin Denny exotica sound and Hammond organ driven grooves, even throwing in the occasional theremin. All very cool and laid back. Seriously unserious hammock music for drinking out of a coconut on the porch of your beach-front bungalow in Bali. Like the masters from whom they draw inspiration, Tikiyaki Orchestra are obsessed with both Polynesia and that particularly 1960s Western interpretation of the Far East. If you're an exotica purist but still want to branch out into more recent attempts, then this is the music for you. There's not much intrusion of modern beats or electronics into the music. This is about as pure an interpretation of classic exotica as you're likely to find from a current musical group.
Mondo Lounge
It's entirely possible that these three volumes of classic jet setting grooves are not entirely legitimate in the legal sense. But you can't always worry about what is and isn't legal. In fact, you should rarely worry about what is and isn't legal, right? And in terms of pure breezy fun, you're going to have a hard time beating this collection of swanky songs from around the world. Volume one opens with Cordara Orchestra's classic easy listening relaxer "Jet Society," and from there we're being serenaded on our trans-global jaunt by everyone from Astrud Gilberto to Ennio Morricone to Ryoko Moriyama. Truly something for every situation: the cocktail lounge, the sports car, the airport, and of course, le boudoir. Gets extra points for including Alan Hawkshaw's "Girl in a Sportscar," possibly the greatest driving song ever.
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica — Third River Rangoon
More modern interpretation of exotica, falling somewhere between the exotica-meets-electronica of Kava Kona and the straight-forward vintage approach of Tikiyaki Orchestra. Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica is less about Polynesia and more about the "mysterious East," with a lot of grooves inspired by lounge interpretations of the Easts both Far and Middle. There's a good chance a couple of these tracks will summon a belly dancer. Watch out, though, because it might also summon an arm emerging from behind a stage curtain to fling a stiletto at you. Luckily, your subsequent chase of the assassin through the labyrinthine streets of The Casbah will have the perfect soundtrack as long as you keep this playing. The perfect album for slim-cut suits, Wayfarers, and fezzes.
Frank Sinatra — Come Fly With Me
Despite what people might guess, I'm not actually the world's biggest Sinatra fan. Even within the ranks of the Rat Pack, I place him below both Sammy and my personal favorite, Dean Martin. It's not that I have anything against Sinatra, at least not the way my Grandpa Harley does (he says Sinatra stayed home and hit on women while real men went off to fight World War II). It's just that Sinatra doesn't always fully reel me in. But when he does, boy does it work, and there's no disputing, at least to my ears, that Come Fly With Me is maybe the ultimate jet-setting album. It's basically a concept album, with that concept being you have an awful lot of money, free time, and access to very fine (but not the very finest — there's a lot to be said for the romantic aspect of things that are ever so slightly faded around the edges) hotels, bars, and cameras. Sinatra keeps it light and breezy most of the time as he takes you on a swingin' tour of the globe's most romantic and thrilling locations. Even if you're lukewarm on Ol' Blue Eyes, this album is essential.


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In the end, Walgreen /quotes/zigman/245520/delayed /quotes/nls/wag WAG says it did consider public opinion in deciding not to invert. But that's not the only reason the pharmacy chain didn't decide to relocate its headquarters overseas.
"Inversion" refers to transactions where a company buys a foreign enterprise and then changes its tax domicile to take advantage of lower tax rates overseas. While the U.S.'s high statutory-tax rate isn't really an impediment for businesses in some industries — those that can take advantage of various breaks and loopholes — it is for retailers and health-care companies. In 2013, Walgreen paid tax representing 37% of its pretax income.
The practice is also extremely controversial — one that President Barack Obama has called "wrong." The Treasury Department is examining ways to stamp out inversions.
In a statement, Walgreen put the onus more on the struggle to get a transaction to work than on public opinion. Companies need to structure their deals in a certain way to shift their domicile.
The option that Walgreen had — to buy the remaining 55% of Alliance Boots it didn't already own — would not have qualified for inversion treatment, the company explained. So they were left trying to find a different structure.
"We took into account all factors, including that we could not arrive at a structure that provided the company and our board with the requisite level of confidence that a transaction of this significance would need to withstand extensive IRS review and scrutiny," said Greg Wasson, the current CEO of Walgreen, who will have that role at the combined Walgreen-Boots Alliance.
"As a result, the company concluded it was not in the best long-term interest of our shareholders to attempt to re-domicile outside the U.S."
And yes, the retailer did take the public reaction into consideration. In its own dry words:
"The company also was mindful of the ongoing public reaction to a potential inversion and Walgreen's unique role as an iconic American consumer retail company with a major portion of its revenues derived from government-funded reimbursement programs."
According to labor-backed campaign group Change to Win, Walgreen derives about $17 billion a year in revenue from Medicare and Medicaid.
Looking at a transcript of the investor call, analysts really weren't hung up on the lack of inversion. Instead, they focused on the "reset" earnings outlook for 2016 — "reset" being the retailer's word for "lowered."
Walgreen is now targeting earnings between $4.25 and $4.60 a share, compared with the $5 a share seen in a FactSet-compiled analyst estimate.
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This diorama, located at the Ferrell Museum in Edgefield, depicts an Edgefield District pottery yard. The device at the lower right of the image was used to "churn" the clay and prepare it for throwing. Clay was then taken into the production facility where it was used to create jugs, vases, and pitchers. Once these pieces had air-dried, they were glazed and taken to the kiln, shown at left. Several pieces might have broken in each firing. These were tossed into a shard pile, as seen in the top left portion of the image.
The most famous pottery yard was called Pottersville. Owned by Abner Landrum, the village had as many as 150 residents – almost all of whom were slaves.


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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
An Impossibly Easy Response to the Error Theory?
So, someone produces an argument for the error theory and we're thinking of what to say in response. The following response shouldn't cut it, but would (I think) cut it on the prospectivist view: some subject out there has evidence according to which the actions that would maximize expectable value are actions that won't serve the agent's interests but would answer to the demands of traditional morality. And, so while there are parts of traditional morality that are wrong, it's nevertheless true to say of this individual that he ought to do what would best serve the interests of others and so has overall reason to do something other than what he has self-interested reason to do. It looks as if we can generate the sorts of reasons and obligations to act that the error-theorist thinks we cannot have out of nothing but ignorance and appearances. I think that's a defect of the view. Am I wrong about that?
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Umm, is this really you? I was told you had passed away?
- February 10, 2011 at 5:00 AM
Clayton -- Supposing you were willing to countenance different senses of 'ought', would this be a way of putting the point: The expected strength of objective moral reasons to help old people across the street, not screw over people to get ahead, etc. may be such that you morally ought, in the evidence-relative sense, to do those things, even if (unbeknownst to you) error theory is true?
If so, this strikes me as an excellent argument. Jake Ross provides something like it in his Ethics paper from 2006. Now, of course, this is a way of responding to the error theorist that is, as you put it, "eas[ier]" than proving that there are objective prescriptivities or whatever that big hand on the cover of Mackie's book is supposed to represent.
I suspect that whether you'll classify this sort of response as different and fishy or different but perfectly good will depend partly on whether you take the objective/subjective/prospective/etc. distinction to be a substantive dispute, or a conceptual distinction.
- February 10, 2011 at 5:51 AM
- Clayton said...
Anon @ 5:00,
It's me if you mean Clayton Littlejohn.
Who is this, by the way? Obviously, I'd be interested to know if people thought I had passed away.
- February 10, 2011 at 7:42 AM
A friend of mine told me she knew you and had spent the last couple of weeks by your deathbed. She said you were a professor at SMU, and kinda had an affair with her while you were engaged to some friend of hers. She said you are adopted and died of lung cancer. Is any of this true?
- February 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- Clayton said...
Hi Anon,
Some of that's true, but not any of the interesting parts (I taught at SMU and was adopted, but I don't think I've ever had lung cancer, had an affair while engaged, or been engaged.) Drop me an email (email@example.com) if you can provide me more detail.
- February 11, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Clayton said...
Thanks for the note. I've tracked down Ross' piece and hope to get a look at it next week. I was thinking about a view that denied that there were different senses of "ought" (well, it might agree that there are legal oughts, moral oughts, etc..., but not subjective and objective readings of "ought"). The oddity that worries me is the combination of views that I think Zimmerman had in his last book, which is that there's deontic value on the one hand and then there's what ought to be done which is a function of evidence concerning deontic value rather than deontic value.
This is something I'll have to come back to later, but I'll post if I get the chance to work on this.
- February 11, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- Kimberly said...
A very scandalous response to your response to error theory!
- February 12, 2011 at 12:14 AM


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I am new to this and while at Oklahoma Joes I saw a sign speaking of new players league. From what I understand it has already started. Are new people welcome even after the start date, are there fees involved, how long is the season, is there a website with more detailed information about getting involved in this or just show up at rosedale on Monday nights at 5:30ish. Sorry for the newb questions but this game is a blast and to play with others in an organized fashion would be splendid. Thank you for your time.
Is it too late to join this? I recently picked up disc golf at the suggestion of a friend who has gotten too busy to get out and play much. Leaving me with a small stack of unused discs. lol-Chris
Glad to hear that. I have not actually been out on a course yet to practice my driving so go easy on me.
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Jacob/OC. Post-Eclipse. Elizabeth Foster is your typical grad student. When she interns on a summer research project looking for dire wolves in the Olympic Peninsula, she finds more than she bargained for.
1. Let Sleeping Wolves Lie
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[Elizabeth POV]
"Okay... Explain to me what this thing is supposed to do again?" I eyed the bit of oddness I held warily. It looked a bit like a new age Christmas ornament. That is, assuming Christmas had anything to do with spider webs and feathers.
My roommate Katrina looked up from her textbook and sighed, clearly I was harshing her good vibe. "It's a dreamcatcher, Betts. It catches dreams." Oh great. Thanks, Kat. You really told me there.
"Oh, that's a relief. I thought it was a Wiccan tennis racket." I smacked my forehead. "Thanks so much for clearing that up for me."
"Hey, you're the one that keeps waking up with nightmares." She drew a smiley-face in the margin of her text with a pink highlighter. "I'm just trying to help. Insulting my religion isn't exactly the best way to thank me." Angry eyebrows were added to the smiley as an afterthought. Cute.
"What happened to Buddhism?" I arched an eyebrow, trying hard not to glance at the happy Buddha perched on top of the fridge. He creeped me out. No self-respecting god should look that perversely cheerful.
"That was last month." Well, I gave her that much, at least she could admit she was flaky. It was actually one of her more endearing qualities. She cooked, she cleaned, her music was (usually) not obnoxious. As long as she was happy with the condition of her immortal soul, who was I, the classic Agnostic, to judge?
Leaning on the back of the couch, I eyed the odd little thing I held again. It was pretty enough, typical of the sort of knick-knack you'd find in the dusty little bookshops Kat frequented. I'd been dragged into enough of them, mostly because as long as she didn't push her luck I didn't complain. That was sort of the basis of our friendship, cheerful neutrality. Kat and I had known one another since the freshman year of undergrad. I think she'd been dabbling in Judaism then. Most Religions majors thought of their work as a form of higher calling. To Kat it was a buffet. Try a little of this, and maybe a dab of that. My mom would have called her a hippie, with her long dark hair, broomstick skirts and John Lennon sunglasses, but I think Kat redefined the word and made it her own.
"Okay Kat, now that we've covered basic semantics," I said after a moment, "how does it work?"
Taking pity on my poor, unenlightened soul, she plucked the dreamcatcher from my hand and let it dangle from her fingertips. It twisted slowly, the crystal at its center catching the light. "You hang it above your bed. The nightmares are attracted to the crystal and become ensnared in the web." She made an appropriately mystical flourish. "The good dreams slide down the feathers, and into your head." Her fingers wiggled at me significantly. "Did you miss the class on this high school, Betts?"
"Hm." I took the dreamcatcher when she offered it back, regarding it thoughtfully. Well, I guess it couldn't hurt. "Are you sure it will work?"
She lifted one shoulder in a shrug and turned back to studying for her final. "Try it and see, Elizabeth."
Frowning slightly, I straightened and padded down the hallway to my bedroom, toeing the door closed behind me. Casper was asleep on my bed, a fluffy cloud on the dark blue, celestial-patterned bedspread. I snagged a thumbtack out of my desk drawer and knelt on the bed so I could stick the tack into the wall above it, trying to gauge how high I needed to go to prevent the dreamcatcher from becoming a cat toy. Threading the loop over the tack, I stepped back to admire my handiwork. Somehow it didn't look nearly as impressive, lost in a sea of white plaster. Oh well.
I glanced at the clock on the nightstand. Half an hour until Tae Kwon Do, which meant I had five minutes to check my university email. I sat down at the desk, flipped open my laptop and tapped the touchpad, watching my OSU wallpaper come up as it came back from standby.
I'd come to Oregon State as a freshman for their biology program. My undergrad degree was Bio with a minor in Zoology, and for a brief while I thought my destiny had been vet school. A part of me still hadn't quite given up on that, actually, but sophomore year always came back to haunt me. That entire spring semester had been rough, and none of it looked good on a vet school app. It was time to cut my losses and move on.
Let's see... Email from my boss, spam, spam... Tilting my head, I clicked on the last new message, skimming through it. It was a summer internship notice, odd because it was so late in the term, a research position in conjunction with the University of Washington. 'To study the re-emergence of the native wolf of the Olympic Peninsula.' Hm. My eyes flicked to the little wolf statue that sat next to my monitor, and I impulsively reached out to pat his head. Wouldn't hurt to run it by one of the profs tomorrow, get a feel for what they wanted. If nothing else, it would be nice to get out of Corvallis for a while. Summer time here had too many memories associated with it.
Speaking of which... "Crap, I'm going to be late." Five minutes had become fifteen, which left me barely enough time to stuff myself into my uniform, tie on my red belt and go scooting out the door.
The forest was an ancient thing, and it folded itself around me, holding me prisoner inside a brilliant green cage. There was no sky, no light beyond the odd, filtered half-light, and the ever-present chill crept into my bones, leaching deeper with every breath. I shivered, tried to find the path I knew I'd been walking only moments before, but it eluded me, sinking back into the primeval depths of the forest floor. Uneasy, I picked a direction and started walking, looking for some distinction to the trees around me, some sign I was going the right way.
A heavy stillness lay on the trees, with not even a rustle of leaves or the call of a bird to break the silence. The world seemed to be holding its breath, whether in dread or anticipation I had no way of knowing. All at once, the hair on the back of my neck stood up, a chill going through me. Something was watching me. I whirled, hands pulled up into fists, but there was nothing behind me. Teeth on edge, I searched my surroundings, but there was nothing to be found but more green.
Then a sound broke the stillness, carrying through the trees as though in some medieval great hall. A wolf's howl. It felt as though someone had dumped a bucket of icy water on me. I trembled, frozen with a fear I didn't quite understand. Breathing hard, on the edge of panic, I slowly turned to face the way I'd been heading.
He was huge, easily the size of a horse, with a thick pelt of a reddish-brown color. Like ground cinnamon. We faced each other, and his dark eyes watched me with a fierce, human intelligence. I was shaking so hard I could barely stand, reacting with the instincts of some distant ancestor that remembered what it meant to be prey. Shifting my weight, I took a step back... and the wolf pulled his lips back from teeth as long and sharp as daggers, and a growl like distant thunder rumbled to life in his chest.
I'm going to die. The thought had no peace, no mental images of meeting with long-lost family pets... of finally being held by Josh again. What screamed through me as the wolf leapt was how very much I wanted to live.
I sat bolt upright in bed, unseating an indignant Casper from the crook of my arm. I was shaking so hard it hurt, my heart racing in my chest. Twisting, I looked up at the dreamcatcher, and I could swear that for just a moment, the crystal at the center of it glowed.
I fell out of the bed, stumbling to the door and into the bathroom I shared with Kat. Twisting the cold water on, I flipped the lightswitch, staring into my own, haggard face. Wild, red-blonde curls were in disarray, the circles beneath my eyes almost the same dark blue of the irises. "It was just a dream," I muttered softly, filling my hands with cold water and splashing it on my face. Just a dream... and every time I closed my eyes, I could see that intelligent, preternatural gaze, trying to pierce into me as though it meant to turn me inside out.
Putting my hands over my face, I sagged back against the door, sliding down it until I sat on the bathroom rug. There was no way I could go back to sleep now. I knew with near-certainty that the moment I let down my defenses, the wolf would be waiting for me.
Fine. I'd just have to wait him out. Even wolves have to sleep sometime, right?
Kat found me slumped against the door the next morning, asleep with a contented Casper in my lap. Fortunately, what little sleep I had gotten that way was dreamless. While she showered and got ready for her morning class, I shuffled into the bedroom and fell into my desk chair. I had an Intro to Zo class I had to be ready to do an exam review with before lunch, I was going to have to pull myself together somehow.
Kat came through for me once again, drifting in with her hair in a towel and two mugs of the fragrant gourmet coffee she preferred. She set one by my elbow, then turned and leaned against the desk as she sipped her own. "You know, Betts," she began cautiously, "I realize sometimes the nightmares are worse than others. But... the accident was three years ago." She bit her lip. "I'm just wondering if you need to talk to someone."
"No." I shook my head, burning my tongue on the coffee.
"You know I'm just worried about you."
"I know." I sighed. "It wasn't about the accident last night, Kat. It was different." It took every ounce of control I possessed not to turn and look at the dreamcatcher.
"Oh." She had a way of packing a lot of worry into a single syllable. In a different situation, I might have laughed.
"I don't want to talk about it right now, I can't." I took another swallow of coffee and got to my feet. "I'm going to take a shower. If I miss you on the way out, I'll see you this afternoon." What a coward. Too afraid to tell her, even more afraid she might bring up the accident again. So I fled.
The shower felt good after my sleepless night. Casper jumped up between the two layers of shower curtain, walking along the edge of the tub and purring like a mini lion. I smiled, stepping under the spray to wet my hair. As soon as I closed my eyes, I could see the wolf again, staring at me with those eyes.
Gritting my teeth, I set my jaw... and glared right back at him.
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TWD: Stuttering/lag (Disc version)
edited May 2013 in The Walking Dead - PS3 Support
I bought all the episodes off psn but i wanted a disc version too share with friends. I tried playing through episode 1 off disc and encountered some rather off putting lag, and in some cases i would miss opportunities speak. I missed one speaking prompt and now clementine thinks i think shes dumb, which frankly broke my heart. In a game that hinges such prompts and quick input such lag can be a killer. I get some issues slip through the cracks but theres gotta be some solution to this right?
MattP ModeratorFormer Telltale StaffCan you please provide more information about your PS3.
Do you have an original or new slim PS3? What size hard drive do you have? How much free space do you have available on your hard drive?
I have slim i think. 80 gb about 7 gb free spac
I am in a similar situation, with a similar system. I bought the disc release and have had constant frame chugging. I was lagged through the last decision in episode 1, the ending maybe half hour of the first episode being the worst offender so far although it did not stop in episode 2.
I am tempted to return the disc version and opt for the digital in the future unless there is news of a patch in the works.
As whiny as that sounds, it's only because this issue is interrupting a fantastic experience. Thanks.
My point exactly thank you
MattP ModeratorFormer Telltale StaffCan you please upload a video of what you're experiencing? If you don't have access to an ftp or another host site, you can upload the video on youtube and make it private and send me a link in a PM.
I picked up Walking Dead Season pass from the PS store last night and have had the same problem. I've plenty of hard drive space (70/120gb), I'm going to try formatting and doing a database rebuild tonight to see if it fixes the issues.
The stuttering is annoying, but it's essentially unplayable when it freezes so long that I can't make a choice and then someone is upset with Lee for doing nothing. The other issue has been when the audio skips so much that I don't actually know what the character said and then I'm forced to choose a response and hope for the best. I find it only stutters when it's saving, but it's saving CONSTANTLY.
I will definitely send a video if I continue to experience issues, since I hummed and haaa'd over deciding to grab it for the PS3/Xbox/PC/iPad, and am choked that I seem to have made the wrong choice!!
I experienced similar problems, noticed it in Episode 1 at some points but it wasn't really distracting, but Episode 2 was almost unplayable because of the stuttering.
I also noticed, the lags occur when the game is saving (which it does A LOT!) so theres my question: I'm PS Plus Member and activated Online-Savegame Backups. Could that be a problem? The "saving" Status box, that appears all the time looks like a Playstation-UI dialogue, not like it's one from the game. So maybe it constantly backups the savegame online and thats the reason it's stuttering? Further, it seems like the Games are not installed on HDD so it constantly loads directly from the disc - could that be the problem? When I check the Download Content Section in the Main Menu it says "Installed" though...
Here some specs:
European Playstation 3 Slim (about 1-2 years old - not the new model)
Playstation is original, not modded
About 120 GB Total Space
About 30 GB Free Space
European PSN Account
Playstation Plus Member and Online-Game-Save activated
US Version of The Walking Dead Season One Retail Disk (original of course)
@in_vein: No PS+ account here. Still saves constantly. And it does show the "saving" box in the lower right, so I don't think PS+ is the issue.
Loading from the disc might be an issue for some (I generally install to the HDD when I'm on Xbox to avoid lag), but, as prev mentioned, my Walking Dead is downloaded and installed from the PS store, so not the issue for me.
Okay. I've played through Episode 2 with very little lag and no audio stutter. That's pretty promising to me, from what I've seen on the boards E2 is the worst culprit for lag issues.
What I did:
- cleaned up hard drive, mostly to shrink backup to fit on my USB drive (I deleted any save games I didn't care about & deleted all downloads)
- tried backup, which failed
- booted into safe mode, reset defaults & did file restore (step 2 & 3)
- tried backup again, still failed
- booted into safe mode, again, did database rebuild (step 4)
- tried backup ... This time it worked
- re-downloaded and installed The Walking Dead
- played on without issue
So, it looks like Sony's bad HDDs are at least partly to blame.
My specs:
North American Playstation 3 Slim (about 2 years old)
Playstation is original, not modded
About 120 GB Total Space
About 80 GB Free Space (after cleanup)
Rough guess of about 100 hours of playtime.
North American PSN Account (no PS+ subscription)
The Walking Dead Game/Season Pass downloaded via PS store
p.s. So glad I got it working. Episode 2 was insane, I'm anxiously downloading 3 - 5 now!
p.p.s. Telltale, please don't lock your save game files. Locked save files is one of the most frustrating & ridiculous things I came across while trying to backup my my PS3 in case I needed to do a full format. Thanks.
I'm experiencing this stutter and lag too. To be precise, while Episode 1 had sound issues and lag initially, it smoothed out. Episode 2 is virtually unplayable though, it lags every 2 or 3 seconds, and the sound is constantly glitching and repeats phrases while skipping dialogue.
Though I'd love to try and do what Kahlusha said they did, I can't say I find wiping my PS3 and going through backing up files or replacing the consoles hard drive, for a game that I feel should work smooth in the first place, to be a solution. I hope that doesn't sound rude... but I find it weird that a console game of all things isn't working properly on a console.
I'm curious if the 360 version has similar issues? I have a 360, PS3, and gaming PC, and somehow picked the wrong version of this game apparently.
fryods wrote:I can't say I find wiping my PS3 and going through backing up files or replacing the consoles hard drive, for a game that I feel should work smooth in the first place, to be a solution. I hope that doesn't sound rude... but I find it weird that a console game of all things isn't working properly on a console.
You don't actually NEED to do a backup to do the file restore or rebuild database steps. It's recommended, just in case something goes wrong, but not at all required as the file restore & database rebuild (not to be confused with system restore) will not delete saved files. Check PS3 forums regarding safe mode for more info. I obviously do not want to be responsible for misinterpretation or loss of data.
But I completely understand where you're coming from. It was something I was willing to do since I have noticed extended load times in another game recently, so figured it would be worth a shot. Being a developer myself, I hate to blame devs for a problem when it MIGHT be a hardware issue. I'm still not entirely sure if this is Telltale's problem or Sony's, but I'm mid-episode 4 now and have had zero issues since my troubleshooting.
Thanks for the advice Kahlusha! Just Restored Database and Filesystem and started Episode 3, experienced only 1 Lag in the "Previously on..." Intro but apart from that everything runs smooth and stable. Great!
Cheered too soon...still got some lags and stuttering...it IS better than before though
Ah, I got you, definitely worth a shot to do that then. I appreciate it!
And I don't really think it's their fault, it's likely a combination of factors, and considering that not too many people are posting about this issue, it must be fairly limited in scope.
I'll edit this with the results I get. I'm hoping at least to get much fewer stutters like in_vein.
Thanks again!
Edit: Did the restore in safe mode and it's still just as bad as before.... Guess I'll see if I can get in touch and maybe get the game for 360 instead?
I recently received The Walking Dead collection on Blu Ray for the PS3, and I'm loving it!
I finished the first 2 episodes, but there is a persistent problem I'm having with the game: it lags very frequently. There are always a few seconds of loading in between scenes, and sometimes the audio plays first and then the character animation follows without sound. It really breaks the immersion for me, and is a problem when rapid actions are required after scenes.
I'm wondering if this is something other PS3 players encounter and if this is specific to Blu Ray (i.e., if players that have it downloaded it via PSN have this problem). If it is, would TTG consider adding an option to install the game to the harddrive?
I had the same experience with the disc version I bought this weekend. Great game but the lag, especially in episodes 2 and 3, is really bad. I've seen reports from other people having the same issues with their disc version as well. BTW, I have the original asian slim PS3 320GB with around 38GB free space.
DjNDB ModeratorI'm wondering if this is something other PS3 players encounter and if this is specific to Blu Ray (i.e., if players that have it downloaded it via PSN have this problem). If it is, would TTG consider adding an option to install the game to the harddrive?
I merged your thread with this one.
I bought all the episodes off psn but i wanted a disc version too share with friends. I tried playing through episode 1 off disc and encountered some rather off putting lag, and in some cases i would miss opportunities speak. I missed one speaking prompt and now clementine thinks i think shes dumb, which frankly broke my heart. In a game that hinges such prompts and quick input such lag can be a killer. I get some issues slip through the cracks but theres gotta be some solution to this right?
Hey, I'm wondering if you had the same lag with the downloaded psn version as with the disc version. If not, seems like an option to install the game would solve a lot of these issues.
Registered to say I'm getting the same thing also. I've only played episode 1 but the constant pauses were almost game breaking. Especially the part where Lee has to choose between either Carly or... that other dude... (forget the name) at the pharmacy. The game would freeze frame and when the game jerked back into action again I would either have a split second to decide or sometimes it would unfreeze right into a restart screen thinking I didn't make a choice.
And during the last scene of episode one, almost all the voices were out of sync. Someone would hold a conversation with Lee during a freeze frame then unfreeze and skip to the character mouthing everything in silence.
I'm not sure if I should start episode 2 or wait because having to chug through another episode like that would be disheartening. The PS3 is only a few months old and it's the 160Gb Slim, not one of those Super Slims though.
Registered to say I'm getting the same thing also. I've only played episode 1 but the constant pauses were almost game breaking. Especially the part where Lee has to choose between either Carly or... that other dude... (forget the name) at the pharmacy. The game would freeze frame and when the game jerked back into action again I would either have a split second to decide or sometimes it would unfreeze right into a restart screen thinking I didn't make a choice.
And during the last scene of episode one, almost all the voices were out of sync. Someone would hold a conversation with Lee during a freeze frame then unfreeze and skip to the character mouthing everything in silence.
I made an account on these forums for this exact reason. I got the gamestop collector's edition for christmas, which includes the disc based game. Plus everything you listed above I had the exact some problem with. I though Clementine was going to die when the game freeze framed for a good 10 seconds as a walker (or in this case, crawler) went for her in the pharmacy. Not to mention I didn't even get a chance to answer whatever it was she said in the final scene. Usually it would wait and load whatever the options were within the framerate issues, but not in that instance.
I wanted this game, because I've heard great things, but now I'm also wonder whether or not I should continue onto episode 2 or wait for a possible fix/patch to come out.
EDIT: PS3 is 120g slim, but not the newest slim. It was sent to me by Sony after my original 60g fat ps3 had the yellow light.
Hey, I'm wondering if you had the same lag with the downloaded psn version as with the disc version. If not, seems like an option to install the game would solve a lot of these issues.
A few issues sure but nothing as game breakingly frustraing as the disc version. Nothing that rendered the game unplayable.
I agree an install option would probably fix most everything though i doubt its as simple as that.
I'm curious if the 360 version has similar issues? I have a 360, PS3, and gaming PC, and somehow picked the wrong version of this game apparently.
Both the 360 and PC versions have their share of stuttering issues. I was offered the game on Steam and got similar hicups during quick time events.
I also bought the PSN version yesterday and met the same problems during episode 1. I even had one "game over" because the screen froze for a full second while I was trying to move the reticle on my target during a QTE (parking lot sequence).
FYI: the PS3 safe mode is *not* recommended to fix game issues, it is only meant to repair the OS in the event it becomes corrupted.
I have heavy shuttering on my ps3 (original 60 gb)
Tried the first 2 episodes, by the end of the second one when it was raining the game shuttered real bad, same with episode one by the end.
When is a patch coming out.... or to the very least let us install the game or dowbload it.
Any news on patch for the ps3 retail version? Are people working on it? Pls dont leave legit customers hanging
As i told in my previous post i have a 60gb fat ps3... heavy shuttering on episode 1 and 2, lip sync is off and audio and movement from characters are off too
Pls help
Hello? Any help? Anyone?
Is this forum working? Is the thread closed? How do I contanct tell tale games?
5 days in the forums asking for an answer and nothing... come on ppl get your act together i need help here the game gitches hard at least a: "were working on it" could help.
terrible customer service
I have now restored my ps3 to try and play this game- losing all of my game data- it is still completly unplayable. It is therefore not fit for purpose in my opinion- if a patch is not released or if means of downloading a copy for free are not made available I shall be requiring a refund. This product should not have been released in the state it is in. Please reply- or at least give me telltales customer service number
I have a 320GB PS3 slim NTSC version, recently purchased the disc base "The Walking Dead"
I have about 100GB of free space. The game plays fine till you get to the end of episode one. Then the audio/video doesnt sync up. The audio will be way ahead of a serious video lag. So bad that you have about 2 seconds to make a choice when the video catches up. At the end of episode 3, it gets really bad when the zombie horde gets on screen, its so choppy and the animations are so broken up that you cant really tell whats actually going on. From what I have read on various forums, this is effecting the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions across the board. This is my first telltale purchase and I'm a little concerned about purchasing any further telltale games. What I have played of the game with out problems I have loved so far.
Same here why would a buy a season 2 if i can't even finish season one come ppl get your act together, or at least give us a press release that youre working on it.
I just made an account on these forums to post on this topic. I just read on Polygon.com that TellTale is giving out XBL codes for people who purchased the disc based version. I thought maybe I was the only one experiencing the problems with lag and loading but when I saw that article I figured I wasn't. I mean after all this game has been getting SO MUCH praise and I couldnt wait to play it. I know it has to be able to load multiple scenarios at once but a GOTY contender CANNOT be as laggy as mine is. I am loving the game so far but episodes 2&3 especially are PLAGUED with SLOW LOADS and LAG. Its virtually unplayable and I am stopping until something is fixed or TellTale gives me a PSN code. Will that even fix it? This game is amazing and intense so far and I am loving it but the problems, unless fixed, have made me regret buying it.
TellTale giving Xbox owners a solution to Walking Dead Disc Lag?!?
What about us PS3 users?!?
Indeed what about us ps3 owners.
how come i been here for 10 days and i cant even contact a spoke person. Who run this? Customer services are hands down one of the worst ive seen.
i need my game fixed, a replament or a refund please
I'm starting to wonder if this game was even tested on a PS3 before they put it into production or was the before Christmas release more important than potentially selling a pile of junk. Thank god I rented this from red box with a free promo code. I'm sure red box will have to deal with this mess as well. Hopefully red box pulls it and somehow creates a mess for telltale to teach these people not to hire amateur design developers and then use their customers for user acceptance testing. What a joke. The little consumer may not be able to fight back, but a big corporation like red box will surely be able to stick it to you guys real good. And answer your customers on this post for crying out loud, have some integrity when you fudge up. Telltale signs of mediocrity...
Same thing for me.
here's my experience. I hope it can help to patch the game quickly.
- I played psn version of episode 1: no problem
- i bought the disc version, keep the save file from the psn episode 1, delete the episode 1 psn game
- then i played episode 2 disc version. lots of lags, sounds & videos..
not very playable.
ps3 slim 300 gb
160 gb free!
sytem version 4.31
also I'm worried to see you don't post a message to keep people informed.
I don't play the game for now..I wait to know about a patch or at least a free psn correct version to continue the experience.
so please keep us, your customers informed as soon as possible.
So I just signed up here to join the ranks of the others who bought the retail disc for ps3 and now cannot get through the end of episode 1 and most of episode 2 due to horrific lag issues.
PS3 Slim / 120gb (only 20 gb used) / unmodded / all console updates completed
No save file issue in the first 2 episodes for me but the same freezing and lag others here are describing. I had to stop playing as it was freezing everything on screen for a good while and eventually catching up but then not giving enough time to select my choices. I have not played further than midway through chapter 2 due to this issue so i do not have feedback for those yet.
Please let us know what we can do to address this issue as i very much would like to play this game i spent money on. Thank you in advance for your prompt response.
Same problem here,
Slim - 320gb
everything updated
Random stuttering....
Waiting for a fix to continue playing, finished just the first act, missed some conversations because of the random "lag bug"
Yes, I got the disc version, yes the lag at the end of Ep. 1 was terrible and the start of ep. 2 was not much better. And there was still lag throughout the game, as with the end of Ep. 3 HOWEVER (and maybe this is just me being wishful and projecting) I did manage to remedy the lag a bit. It certainly wasn't as bad as it was before I did it, so it's something.
There is a setting in the PS3 when you hold down the power button a few times that will eventually send you to a menu where you can "ps3 restore database". NOT "restore PS3" because that will wipe out everything. But "restore database" takes out any corrupted files and, yes, the game does play better. There's still lag, but better. At least for me. And I have an old, old 80 gig model.
Here, this guy explains it better than me. Remember "ps3 restore database". Doesn't wipe your PS3, makes it better.
For those that don't know, the PS3 has an operating system capable of restoring damage to the hard drive's file system/database - these can get damaged when the PS3 is shut off completely (pulled the plug while playing/power outage), when a game crashes (RDR, Skyrim, GT5, PSHome, etc), or when the system hangs when trying to do something and you soft reset. (stuck in the PS3's underwhelming web browser, etc). In addition, if you install and delete many games, applications (Netflix, Hulu, PlayMemories, Qriocity, etc), even videos and music this can also fragment your hard drive, thus slowing down your system.
By restoring, you can get your hard drive to start loading and playing games more smoothly, which results in less freezing, faster data retrieval (think defragging), and can also speed up the time it takes to sync trophies (yeah, if it's taking you more than 2 minutes to sync trophies your HDD is in need of this maintenance).
What to do:
1.) Turn off PS3 so the red light is on.
2.) Hold and keep holding the power button. The console will turn on, and eventually turn off again.
3.) Once off, with the red light on again, press and hold the power button. You will hear one beep, another single beep after that, and then two beeps in a row. After the two beeps, let go of the power button so it doesn't turn off again and you'll end up in the system recovery menu.
From here there are a few options. Now this is important, "DO NOT CLICK ON 'RESTORE PS3". That will wipe the hard drive clean. You don't want that.
What you want is the other two options:
A) "Restore PS3 Database" (this might take a little time be patient).
"Restore PS3 File System" (your bootup code, restoring is almost instant).
These two options will not delete any content on your HDD, but it will nuke all your sent and received messages as well as music playlists you have, and if you edited track information on any mp3s, say you renamed them all to something less ambiguous than "track 01", the names and other altered data will revert. (seriously, get a keyboard) For any messages you want to save, I would suggest sending them to another account you have, then send them back later.
Do this and you'll notice a significant improvement on your performance in proportion to how much you use the machine. Keep in mind that any hard drive intensive game like RDR, Skyrim, GT5, PSHome, PSN downloads, etc will make a mess of your hard drive over time, so restoring the database at least will tidy it up and reorganize files to faster access. If you have a 300gb hard drive and your drive is almost maxed out you're probably going to want to do this twice a month.
So issue with lag persists but now im getting a game freezing issue where the game literally has frozen but still has background audio and full menu functionality. Also had the same issues happen on another ps3 (fat model) but at different game locations. I took video of this issue and am tempted to throw it up on youtube to see if we can get some hits and get Telltale to respond on this issue. At this point i would just be cool with them giving us the xbox solution on the ps3 (as i do not think they will patch this issue based on the 360 appeasement/ resolution). Again, still a fan loving this game but would very much like to see some kind of acknowledgement from ttg on this. If i find any new info or testing results i will post them here.
Update: was able to restart the system and relaunch saved game. This seemed to resolved the freezing issue. But still getting the lag and choppyness ( tends to only be happening during large action sequenses or areas with lots of sequintial choice events). But frozen screen issue is no longer persisting.
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If you were to ask eight-year-old Nicky Lentz what he wants to do for a living when he gets older, he wouldn't have an answer for you. However, the Chestnut Hill resident would most likely remember minute details of your conversation with him — even months later. This is because Nicky craves auditory stimulation.
Words, sounds, and conversation are the eyes that Nicky uses to see the world since losing his vision at the age of just six months. Recently Nicky turned his love of language into the short story, "New Friends," a tale describing Nicky's appreciation for his fictional new friends and their exploits building houses together.
Nicky, who is totally blind, enjoys using his white cane to walk solo to Starbuck's for tea. He loves teddy bears, is learning to swim and is in second grade at St. Lucy's Day School for Children with Visual Impairments, 4251 L St. in the Lower Northeast, part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He loves school and his teacher, Kathleen Cleaver.
Spurred by the urging of teachers at the St. Lucy's Day School, Nicky submitted his story to an annual writing contest created by The National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division, where he was awarded 3rd place in the elementary division.
Writing an award-winning story is impressive, but Nicky's ability to overcome a life-threatening illness and a visual disability makes his award even more rewarding. Eight years ago, doctors at Chestnut Hill Pediatrics discovered that Nicky had a tumor in his brain when he was four-months-old. The early diagnosis saved Nicky's life. But two months later, Nicky lost his sight as a result of the brain tumor. Nicky continues to undergo chemotherapy treatment, but doesn't let his physical disabilities dampen his spirit.
"He's very gregarious, definitely a character," explained Suzanne Lentz, Nicky's mother. "Anyone who knows him would say he's a character. He likes talking with adults. He can't see their faces, but he can remember their voices. At times he can be shy like any eight-year-old, but he likes to make people laugh, so he can be overly dramatic to provoke an audio response like laughter or a chuckle or something."
Ready and available adults aren't always around to give Nicky audio feedback, so he also uses technology for his benefit. Books written before 1932 are now in the public domain so people have been recording them for free. As a result, Nicky has taken a liking to listening to books on his iPad such as "Huckleberry Finn," "Tom Sawyer," "Heidi" and "Little House on the Prairie."
"His vocabulary is quite large since he listens to those books on tape from the past," Suzanne said. Nicky is also gifted in math, which his mother attributes to his talking calculator, one of the few toys she has found that is totally accessible without sight. "He also loves playing store and is excellent at sorting coins tactilely," she said.
Having a wide vocabulary and knack for conversation makes writing stories a natural fit for Nicky, although his talent makes him relatively rare among blind children. According to the National Federation of the Blind, 90 percent of blind children are not taught to read. This is because there is a dearth of Braille teachers and adequate training. Reading and writing offers Nicky a chance to create all the dialogue he desires without needing somebody else to be present.
The writing contest created by The National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division is unique because judges score contestants on story content and quality of Braille. This subtle yet important rule forces entrants to be conscious of their Braille and rewards those who have mastered the many contractions used in Braille.
"When you are first learning Braille, Braille looks like a side of a pair of dice," Suzanne said. "A Braille cell has six spots on it. You have to learn to feel Braille to check your work. As you get older, each letter of the alphabet also has a shorthand contraction. How advanced one's brailing is based on how many contractions they know, and using those contractions correctly.
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One of the most frustrating aspects about Nicky's blindness is not being able to do the same activities as his brother Jack, 12, and sister Daisy, 10. Jack and Daisy enjoy sports, but Nicky isn't able to participate in most physical games. One of the biggest problems is that there aren't enough readily accessible activities for blind people. Many games and activities for young children require supervision and parental support. For Nicky, being active and independent is an important goal.
"He's gained a lot of independence in the last nine months," Suzanne said. "He is now able to walk a great distance without me or his dad leading him by the nose. He swims and is learning to ski and canoe. We don't help him swim, and he can swim one lap in about four or five minutes."
"We are all impressed and delighted with Nicky's creativity and Braille skills," said Robert Leslie Newman, president of the NFB Writers' Division. "We are so proud of Nicky," added Jim Antonacci of Willow Grove, a long-time St. Lucy's volunteer and president of the NFB of Pennsylvania (42 S. 15th St.).
Nicky will receive a cash prize of $5 and the chance to be published in "Slate and Style," the quarterly literary magazine of the NFB Writers' Division: www.nfb-writers-division.net/
Nicky's taste of writing success has given him a spark to continue. Although he doesn't have a favorite type of story to write, the general process is rewarding. When asked if he plans to write more stories, Nicky replied, "Oh definitely, like 10 of them!"
Ed. Note: The Local tried to obtain a copy of Nicky's award-winning story to print in the Local, but we were told it is only available in Braille and can only be read by people who know Braille.


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VIA spins mini-mobo disk array
Big disks, small package
Taiwanese x86 chip and mini-motherboard maker VIA Technologies has launched a rack-mounted disk array based on its own Mini-ITX motherboards.
Disk arrays are getting more and more brains to do thin provisioning, data replication, flash copy, and all kinds of other high-end functions that companies want - and are willing to pay lots of money for. But sometimes, all you want is a box of disks and a controller that lets it talk to a network. Sometimes, you want to burn as little juice as possible - and you don't want to shell out much dough. Enter the NSR7800 disk array from VIA.
The 2U chassis has room for eight 3.5-inch SATA-II disk drives, which are not hot-pluggable but are nonetheless front-accessible in the array. They have locks to keep people from messing with them as well as blinky lights to show you what's working and what isn't.
The disks, which scale up to 2 TB each in capacity, are attached to a Mini-ITX motherboard made by VIA. The Mini-ITX is usually for embedded applications or small PCs. This particular board has a 1.5 GHz VIA C7 x86 processor and has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, which connect it out to the network. The Mini-ITX board has a Mini-PC port, which allows hardware virtual private networking or antivirus modules to plug in, and VIA also has push-button backup and recovery options available for the unit, which makes it easier for SMBs with limited IT departments (or none) to do backup and recovery.
The NSR7800 array supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (the documentation said Windows Server 2007, but we know what you meant) as well as Windows Home Server and unspecified Linuxes. VIA has already launched a similar network disk array in a tower configuration, called NSD7800 Networked Storage Server.
This is essentially the same box in a tower configuration, with some differences on the Mini-ITX configuration. The machines have a skinny 1 GB of DDR2 main memory, but this is enough for what is essentially a file server if the load is not too heavy.
VIA has not announced pricing for either machine.
While the Mini-ITX form factor has found a niche on the desktop (especially among cheapskates who like to tinker), this type of mobo has not made its way into the data center. Maybe a few data closets here and there. (Like my own, for instance, where I have a cluster of these servers running Linux). But like VIA, server maker Rackable Systems is giving the idea a try with its MicroSlice cookie sheet servers, announced in January.
It would be interesting to see more tier two vendors play around with Mini-ITX boards and their smaller relatives: the Nano-ITX and the Pico-ITX. There are a number of Mini-ITX board suppliers, which offer support for x64 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices as well as VIA's C7 x86 clones, and there are even some ARM and PowerPC boards out there.
Intel's Atom chips are also a natural for these boards, given their low power consumption. But they don't have a lot of oomph either, so in many cases companies will have to get lots of them. The beauty is that even with many more machines, the power efficiency of such modestly powered boxes can exceed fewer numbers of faster and hotter x64 servers. ®
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shrad necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 97 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Synapp6 (a play on the word synapses)
We (my business partner & I) have been inspired by technology companies like 37signals and Freshbooks to create fun, simple technology application for typically boring tasks. Our company is creating apps to make payroll and scheduling of employees in small businesses an enjoyable experience.
I am fun, quirky and yet, practical. I find misplaced inappropriate comments hilarious. I prefer infographics over powerpoint slideshows because it is a one pager with a story to tell. I prefer the type of humor that makes me think rather than slapstick or anything 'Jackass' related. These are the elements of our business culture i.e. we are a little cheeky, a lot innovative and consider fun part of our value proposition. Corporate stuffy workplaces do not inspire us. Our company culture is work hard, play hard.
Once our logo is picked, we are open to contracting the designer for our website design as well. And, we will be more than happy to credit the designer with creating the logo, wherever it makes sense to do so!
Small businesses (potentially up to 100 employees) in the following industries,
- Restaurants
- Retail
- Hospitality etc.
We are looking for the type of logo typically designed for web 2.0 or 3.0 technology companies. The kinds with a great font (wordmark) with an integrated design (like Freshbooks with the green leaf or Tweetdeck with the twitter bird in the yellow tweetbox). Also, some of the ones we have liked best can be found at the link below that shows 30 Logo designs that actually say something....
While we do want to have fun with the logo, we also have to demonstrate a certain maturity especially since payroll is typically considered one of the most sensitive areas of any business. So please factor this in while evaluating design ideas.
The name Synapp6 was chosen because we are integrating a few elements of administration that are disjointed. Think synapse of a brain that allows connectivity between different points.
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I gained a few more streaks of gray in my beard, mainly due to taking my oldest out shopping for Homecoming dresses. (I'm not sure I'm ready for her to go to formal dances just yet, but she is in high school* now...)
And I also gained a few more patches of gray dealing with random BGs, as well. This post is dedicated to those numerous runs, trying to eek out enough Conquest points to get another piece of Grievous gear.
- The toon with the highest health is a Rogue.
- You check out the list of toons in the BG and discover you have no healers.
- The other side has a premade and your side is already arguing over strategy.
- Nobody stays back on defense in Alterac Valley.
- Your entire team runs to the mid in Eye of the Storm.
- You're Alliance and you port into Strand of the Ancients. (Nuff said.)
- The BG starts and half of your team is AFK.
- Nobody targets the enemy healers.
- Nobody stays back to defend the Farm/Stables during the initial rush.
- In a 10 or 15 player game, 5 or more of your players are Rogues.
- A player ports in and declares "You all suck but I'm here, so we'll win." (Never tempt people to throw a game just to spite you.)
Oh, and the title quote? That came from an Isle of Conquest game wherein a few of us were talking back and forth about capturing and recapturing the Quarry and Refinery. The Warrior who said that also was bitching about the fact that the Horde was ahead of us in breaking down the gates, and he didn't make the correlation between the Horde having both the Quarry and Refinery and being 30% closer to breaking down the gate...
*For those not familiar with the U.S. educational system, high school or secondary education is Grades 9 through 12, roughly age 14/15 through 18. Attending a college/university is technically optional, but highly encouraged.


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Moms with Style
A curious thing happened to the mother-of-the-bride on the way to the wedding. She disappeared.
At least, the style of her clothing did.
Retailers and designers are noting that 21st-century mothers of the bride – a time when 50 is the new 40 – are no longer interested in long chiffon jackets or beaded jackets over A-line skirts. The shift means that some boutiques, such as Mary Linn's Bridal in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Swoon Bridal in Reno, Nev., are doing away with mother-of-the-bride lines in favor of bridesmaid looks. Bridal manufacturers are even dropping the name from their labels.
"We got rid of our mother-of-the-bride line last fall," says Michelle Depoali, owner of Swoon. "For us, bridesmaid's lines have gotten so much cuter and fit the bill."
Designer lines, such as Amsale Bridesmaids, are what resonate with Swoon's customers, says Depoali. Amsale Bridesmaids dresses in chiffon and jersey in body-skimming styles are popular looks, she adds.
"The dresses are floaty, glammy and the sophistication translates well for 25-year-olds to 65-year-olds," Depoali says, noting that Noir by Lazaro is a line that she's considering to stock.
With nary a mention of mother-of-the-bride in its name, Collection 20 (C20), a six-year-old collection from Watters Inc., caters to moms' interests in showing off their best assets, whether it's a strapless dress to reveal toned arms or tighter styles to show off shapely figures, says Maria Prince, vice president of Dallas-based Watters. The company even launched another collection, Encore, last April, geared to wedding events like rehearsal dinners, and the lace styles also are a hit with mothers, she says.
"All we hear from moms is that they don't want to look like a grandmother of the bride," Prince says. "Moms today have a youthful style sensibility."
Retailer Dillard's promotes a number of conservative-looking mother-of-the-bride dresses on its website, but it's also stepping up the sass factor with lace sheaths by Adrianna Papell and Tadashi mesh gowns with front slits. Nordstrom's mother-of-the-bride section showcases short sequin and lace dresses by Kay Unger and one-shoulder styles from Lauren by Ralph Lauren.
One thing that hasn't changed is a mom's respect for her bride's wishes in terms of what she should wear. "Most mothers are conscientious of what their daughters think, and they don't want to look inappropriate," Depoali says.
What they're embracing are bolder colors. Beige gowns are out, says Prince, but blue tones, vibrant shades of purple and coral are in. Textured dresses, such as combinations of lace and taffeta or chiffon, are a key trend at Tustin, Calif.-based Enzoani's Love collection, says Vivian Ramirez, marketing coordinator for Enzoani. Trench coats are a fun way to accessorize and up the glamour while drawing attention to tiny waists, she says.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation in the Michigan Senate would overhaul regulation of the state's alcohol industry.
Sen. Howard Walker said Thursday the bill he introduced this week would eliminate outdated regulations and increase the size of the industry. The Traverse City Republican wants to let microbrewers have off-site tasting rooms and to allow more resort liquor licenses and beer and wine festivals.
One change would make it harder to prosecute those who sell alcohol to someone who's intoxicated. The bill says stores and bartenders would have to "knowingly allow" an intoxicated person to be served rather than simply "allow" it.
The legislation incorporates many recommendations unveiled last summer by Gov. Rick Snyder's Office of Regulatory Reinvention.
Beverage producers and police and school groups opposed some changes.
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mnp13 wrote:I opened the bill today, and let's just say that they have a customer for life.
They were here for three hours, starting at about 4, so that's well into "evening rate" and they charged 2 hours day rate.
The controller was pricy, but not much can be done about that.
It sure wasn't free, but it was less than half of what I was expecting. YAY!
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SEATTLE -- Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a DNA vaccine they believe could last for years and supplement the flu shot.
"This is a new concept in flu vaccines, it's going to be the new wave of vaccines, the 'Universal Flu Vaccine', it's our future coming down the line," said Deborah Fuller, UW Professor and Lead Flu Researcher.
Fuller said her team at the University of Washington's Department of Microbiology have been working on the vaccine's development for more than 10 years.
Their findings were just published last month in PLOS ONE.
Fuller said the DNA vaccine begins by tackling the flu's biggest challenge - mutation.
The flu can outsmart a flu shot, that's because the virus's genes are constantly changing or mutating.
Fuller said flu shots typically are 40 to 60 percent effective from year to year.
Scientists have to guess what the flu will look like, typically nine months before flu season - and sometimes scientists guess wrong.
"Now and then they get that wrong, and there is a mix match like there is a little bit this year, and the vaccine is a little less effective than what it would be if it was a complete match," Fuller said.
The new 'universal' vaccine isolates genetic components of the flu virus that do not mutate or change from year to year to teach the body to recognize and attack it.
The UW research team also developed a way to deliver the DNA.
They designed and produced a 'Gene Gun', which releases a painless puff-like injection of DNA into the skin, which goes directly into the skin cells. They're working on a prototype for clinical settings.
Once injected, those cells and DNA create the 'universal' vaccine in a patient's body, instead of a petri dish.
The body creates the antibodies to fight back.
"Your own skin cells end up producing these antigens and stimulate the immune responses," Fuller said.
She said testing on primates revealed 100 percent protection against previous circulating influenza virus.
When the team introduced a new flu strain, the 'universal' vaccine induced an immune response too.
Fuller called it a new direction of vaccine research.
She believes the 'universal' vaccine could eventually eliminate the need for yearly flu vaccinations.
Fuller said once a genetic code for a pathogen is known, scientists could design and produce a 'universal' vaccine in three months.
She believes the vaccine would be useful should a deadly pandemic strain of the virus emerge.
The 'universal' vaccine needs more testing, including human clinical trials.
The team hopes it could hit the market within 10 years.


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uoutside needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 108 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
We're a new web media company focused on providing our audience with the most interesting ways to enjoy the great outdoors on the west coast. Whether it is the local park, the national park, the ocean, lake, and mountains we've got the inside story for you. Delivered fresh every day of the work week, we provide ideas for the products, people, and places to go in the outdoors. We're environmentally conscious of what we consume and do, but we also have fun and enjoy our back yard.
You find us at the ski hill in the winter, but you'll also find us on the ocean surfing in the winter as well. We're on your mountain bike trail, in your rivers and lakes and we're always looking for the next adventure. We wear Patagonia, we go to ski and surf shops, we've climbed mountains, rock climbed, and rappelled down into gorges.
We live in cities but we spend our weekends and evenings getting outside. We care about our environment because we're passionate about spending time in it.
We're not the X-games crowd, we're not completely roaming around the globe surfing or skiing on an endless winter or summer. That said, we've taken weeks or even months off to do it, and we'll do that again. We're a band of people who care about being outside, who care about our environment, who are passionate about being active in the outdoors both because we love the rush of what we do, but also because we love the outdoors.
We feel connected to nature, we sleep under the stars, we're comfortable on a mountain, in the ocean, on a glacier, or in a river. We shop at REI and Wholefoods.
We're interested in incorporating the domain name into the logo, as we believe it is a relevant component of the message of what we're about. In addition it is our belief that portraying imagery that is reflective of the outdoors is very important (examples would be: Mountain, Wave, Lake, River, Tree ) we're not interested in a "leaf" as a logo.
We're open to creativity, and would consider images that are reflective of specific sports that would be transferable to specific section or that rotate (examples would be: Skiing, mountain biking, surfing, running, hiking, climbing, etc....)
Examples of logo's that are aspirational are: patagonia.com, quiksilver.com, Lowe Alpine, Mountain Smith, Burton, etc...
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Names Steven J. Adolph, president, Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet
Chicago-based outdoor kitchen manufacturer Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet has named Steven J. Adolph its president. Adolph brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, branding, and leadership experience as a senior executive for leading global consumer brands such as Equal, NutraSweet, Roundup, SentrySafe and Cat's Pride. He also served as CEO of Australia, New Zealand and Asia for home medical equipment provider Invacare. Adolph has a bachelor's degree from Duke University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business.
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The breathtaking effect of fine art printed directly onto brushed aluminum is unique and exquisite, creating an upscale presentation of art that will enhance any contemporary home. The 3mm brushed silver aluminum is a composite material (ACM) made of two sheets of aluminum with a solid polyethylene black core. Each aluminum art is finished with a 2" Black frame with hanging hardware.
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Senior FX – Scanline VFX (Vancouver. Immediate)
Scanline VFX Vancouver is hiring for a Senior FX Artist
Current projects in production: Batman v Superman, Pan, The 5TH Wave, Ben-Hur, King Arthur, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Independence Day 2
This position is for those available IMMEDIATELY through Summer.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
· Ability to execute a broad range of VFX tasks including look development, lighting objects, modeling, texturing, animation and rendering
· Proficient in 3dsMax
· Must be able to work under the guidance of a CG Supervisor or VFX Supervisor to achieve desired level of aesthetic quality and technical accuracy
· Proven development skills
· Strong sense of compositions, light and color
· Develop and produce realistic representations of FX design, i.e. smoke, fire, water, particles, using computer-assisted design (3dsMax) software for feature films or commercials
· May adapt existing images or plates
· Prepare graphic elements of subjects to be rendered using multimedia software, imagine processing, layout and design software
Education, Experience and Skills Required:
· At least 4 years live action visual effects experience
· Experience training in multimedia design with an emphasis on Visual Effects
· Working knowledge of the following software: V-Ray, Thinking Particles (*IDEALLY*) and/or Particle Flow
· Some working experience and knowledge of shader writing, and lighting
· Creative ability and artistic talent, demonstrated by previous work
· Possess strong technical skills and ability to learn new software quickly
· Experience compositing a plus
· Solid knowledge of principles of 3D
· Must have the ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned VFX Tasks
· Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines
To apply for any of our open positions, please submit your info, cover letter, and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio through our jobs portal at: http://scanlinevfx.applyfirst.ca/jobs/SVFX62-sr-effects-vancouver-late-summer-and-fall-start-dates
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Anthony 'Nino' D'Onofrio
Hometown: Boston, MA
United States Sports Academy degree: M.S. Sports Management '97
Current Position: For the last four years, D'Onofrio has served as the Golf Tournament Planning Executive at Every Brand Apparel. The company is a single-source operation that provides golf tournament apparel, tournament prizes and hole-in-one insurance for over 450 golf tournaments around the country.
In addition, D'Onofrio recently was named the Race Director of the 2014 Gulf Coast Interstate Relay, which passed through Daphne and had a transition stop at the United States Sports Academy. He will continue to manage the event, which is two races in one weekend – a cycling relay and a running relay.
GCIR is the largest relay in the South and one of two in the country to cross four states. Cyclists and runners compete on the same course – 263 miles from New Orleans, LA to Pensacola Beach, FL. For more info on the Relay, visit http://www.gulfcoastinterstaterelay.com/.
Alumni Network: "My experience at the Sports Academy was great, and I'm still friends and remain in contact with a lot of fellow students, including my roommate Scott Novack. I'm also friends with professor Dr. (Fred) Cromartie."
Prior Positions: D'Onofrio taught health and physical education at the high school level in Massachusetts for 10 years and coached ice hockey, cross country and softball. He also was the Marketing Director for Skating In-line Hockey Association in Colorado Springs, CO. In 2008 and 2009, he was Director for Sebastian's on Broadway Golf Tournament to benefit Flutie Foundation for Autism.
Personal: D'Onofrio has two daughters Isabella (8) and Mia (6).


text: In response to growing international awareness of Nazi atrocities, the Nazis decided to allow a Red Cross investigation committee to visit the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Elaborate measures were taken to disguise conditions in the ghetto and to portray an atmosphere of normalcy. This footage, showing an orchestral performance, is part of a German propaganda film made following the Red Cross visit to Theresienstadt.


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I think the very idea of god makes the concept of free-will invalid.And if you still think that there is some space for free-will with god,then the very concept of god becomes invalid!
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I've had a handful of debates wih theists and was successful with some of them in convincing that their belief makes no sense,with this logic.
Oh yeah,it's not easy.People are emotionally attached to it than rationally.
"Our emotions are deep and unconscious and tend to have more power over us than our rational minds.Once an idea plays to our imaginations we look around for things to support it,happily disregarding things that don't fit the pictures we have in our mind." -Derren Brown
You will find three types of people there.
1.People,no matter what you say will turn deaf to it.They are convinced about their faith beyond any thinking.They have blind faith.They are the true believers.They are adament,they won't budge.It's impossible to convince them because they won't listen to you in the first place.
2.People,who don't believe in god privately but (almost)no one else knows about it.They show up as religious for profit/fear/social reasons.It's also impossible in this case because you can wake up a guy who is sleeping not the one who is pretending to be sleeping.And I believe majority fall in this case.
3.People,who have genuine reasons for their belief.Their reasons may be personnel,rational or even scientific!
It is this 3rd group of people that is targetable if you have enough resources and knowledge with you.
By the way,I don't go targetting people.I don't like it either.Ironically its they who approach me and most of the cases were through friendly debates.
Here's a good recent link concerning freewill. Guess what? Freewill is an illusion and god still has nothing to do with it.
Thanks for the link.And that was the first part of my question.But its just a theory,right?And any theory is subject to correction.If you really don't have freewill what is the value of your life?If freewill is an illusion then so is life!Without freewill life becomes meaningless and with the idea of god it becomes simple to prove it.
Without freewill life becomes meaningless and with the idea of god it becomes simple to prove it.
Not sure I follow you through here. So you argue that without free will life has no meaning, I follow you there. But I don't understand "with the idea of god it becomes simple to prove it"; it almost reads like you're saying that if we allow for a universe with a deity it's simple to prove the existence of free will, but I may be misreading you.
You got me wrong on the second part.I meant to say,the idea of god(rather definition of god) leaves no space for freewill and hence makes life meaningless.
Ah! Thank you. :)
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The New Orleans Saints have signed second-round draft pick Stanley Jean-Baptiste to a four-year contract, the team announced Saturday.
Jean-Baptiste, a cornerback taken with the No. 58 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, will add immediate depth to coordinator Rob Ryan's defense, which only ranked behind the Seahawks in total passing yards allowed last season.
With a 6-foot-3 frame and impressive vertical ability, Ryan will be looking to use Jean-Baptiste's size to take on a division chock-full of tall wide receivers. Jean-Baptiste had the best vertical jump (41.5 inches) among cornerbacks at the NFL Scouting Combine in February.
The Saints significantly shored up their secondary in the offseason by signing perennial Pro Bowl safety Jairus Byrd. The team also added veteran Champ Bailey to their personnel to play alongside returning starter Keenan Lewis.
With Kenny Vaccaro returning from a fractured ankle and set to play a more defined role in Year 2, Sean Payton's Saints outfit should be primed to make a run at the NFC South title.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" plays the post-draft version of the game "What's More Likely" and breaks down all the latest news.


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Let us fast-forward to 2011.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Uh Oh: Dissent is unpatriotic again
Let us fast-forward to 2011.
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I think the point being made in the clip is that Republicans are being inconsistent with their stance: with their guy in office, criticism was unpatriotic, but with the other guy in office, it is now acceptable. Again, the hosts are pointing a Republican inconsistency.
However, what Sen. Ackerman said was rooted in political bitterness. He could have been more generous by complimenting the Republicans for their dissent. But that would not have scored him any political points with the Left.
- March 26, 2011 10:19 AM
- Darren said...
It may not be cheering for the wrong team, but it's definitely racist :-)
- March 26, 2011 11:22 AM
- Darren said...
No, anonymous, you're entirely incorrect. It's not patriotic or unpatriotic to dissent, but rooting for your own country to lose *is* unpatriotic. There were plenty on the American Left who were rooting for us to lose, at least in Iraq; I don't see any of us on the Right rooting for us to lose--whatever that means, because we *still* don't know the mission--in Libya.
- March 26, 2011 11:24 AM


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7 Ways to Freshen Up Your Beauty Routine
New year, new you needn't mean a shopping spree. You can rejuvenate your beauty routine with just a few small changes. To start, clean out your makeup bag, wash your brushes, and get to know what's really inside your products. That and more, above.
If you don't do anything else to shake up your beauty routine this year, at least start with a clean set of brushes. Wet them with warm water, use Dr. Bronner's Organic Pure Soap ($7) to wash the bristles, and let them dry flat on a towel, overnight.
Yes, masks can be expensive, but they last forever and offer dramatic results. You'll be glad you have one stocked in your medicine cabinet when you need a last-minute boost. Our favorites? Tata Harper's Resurfacing Mask ($55), Renee Rouleau's Triple Berry Smoothing Peel ($85), and Clinique's Turnaround Instant Facial ($37).
If color cosmetics intimidate you, try investing in cream formulas. The sheer formulas let your skin show through for the most natural look and they're easy to both blend and build with just your little finger. Try Revlon's Illuminance Crème Shadows ($6) on your eyelids and Bobbi Brown's Pot Rouge ($26) on your cheeks.
There are a lot of scary ingredients listed on the labels of your hair, skin, and makeup products. We're not saying you have to avoid all of them (we certainly don't), but it helps to know the key buzzwords—and why they're buzzy. Then you can decide for yourself.
Parabens, by the way, are preservatives found in everything from toothpaste to shampoo that may or may not (but probably the former) be linked to breast cancer thanks to their ability to mimic estrogen. And sulfates, the thing that makes soap and shampoo lather, actually strip your skin and hair of both its protective barriers and moisture.
Pictured: Beautycounter's Never List, click here to learn more.
When was the last time you really cleaned out your makeup bag and medicine cabinet? Get rid of any mascaras purchased more than six months ago, the red lipstick that's not quite the right shade, and the broken eyeshadow palette—trust us. You don't have to buy new products, but it's easier to enjoy the ones you really love when they're all you see.
You never know what you're going to get when you check into your hotel. These days your shower's as likely to be stocked with Aesop as it is with something that will leave your locks dry as straw. To avoid the latter, invest in the travel-size versions of your favorite shampoo, conditioner, and cleanser (or travel-size bottles in which to house them) and being away from home will be significantly more comfortable. Try Flight 001's 4 Pack Bottle Set ($12).
If you've admired second-day texture from afar, but can't quite bring yourself to skip shampoo and conditioner, start experimenting with products. We'd recommend jumping on the mousse bandwagon, for starters. Our favorite formulas are Shu Uemura Kaze Wave ($38) and Dove Whipped Cream Mousse ($5). Click here to learn how to use them.