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The resignation of Father Maguire as pastor of the Sportsman's Hall Parish was a great disappointment to the congregation, and the fact that he left behind a debt of $242.83 added bitterness to disappointment. The reaction of the congregation was to take the administration of the properties of "Sportsman's Hall" and "O'Neill's Victory" into their own hands. They were convinced that the various pastors had bungled the farming operation. And so it was that a petition to the Pennsylvania State Legislature was drawn up and signed by nearly all of the members of the congregation requesting it to vest the management of the two tracts of land in a board of trustees. Father Maguire was able to get a counter-petition drawn up and had this protest sent to the Legislature but it was to no avail. The petition from the congregation was granted in an Act of Assembly, dated March 7, 1821. The actual text stated that the pastors had abused the trust placed in them by the last Will and Testament of Father Brouwers, and so the two tracts of land were put into the hands of a board of trustees – five were named. It would not be until eleven years later (1832) that this Act of Assembly would be reversed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In the meantime Father Maguire's successor as pastor of the Sportsman's Hall Parish would be called upon in 1821 to face the challenges of the trustees appointed by the State Legislature.
The fourth resident pastor of the Sportsman's Hall Parish was Father Terrence McGirr, D.D. Little is said about his actual appointment to the pastorate, most probably because Bishop Henry Conwell was only in the process of taking over the Diocese of Philadelphia after it had been without a bishop for over six years.
When Father McGirr arrived in March 1821, Father Maguire's brother still occupied the parish house and retained possession of the tracts of land – in the name of Father Maguire. For this reason Father McGirr lived for several months in Youngstown, a hamlet two miles away along the "Pennsylvania Turnpike" which followed the Forbes Road. And, when Mr. Maguire vacated the parish house, Father McGirr moved in and assumed managements of the tracts of land, without paying much attention to the board of trustees. He also engaged his brother, Bernard McGirr, as farmer. The trustees, at first, showed surprise at their pastor's independent actions but did not protest because of the favorable first impression that he had made on him. The trustees, however, gradually began to insist on their supposed rights and made it very unpleasant for Father McGirr, whose impetuous nature was beginning to manifest itself.
Throughout his tenure, Father McGirr was faithful to the performance of his pastoral duties at the Sportsman's Hall Parish, and he continued the practices of Father Helbron and Father Maguire in making missionary visits to other parts of Westmoreland County, and to Armstrong and Butler Counties as well. In 1822, Father McGirr decided to erect a small church, 26 ' x 44 ', under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on a plot of land near the settlement known as New Derry, which was about six miles north of Sportsman's Hall. Father McGirr's intent was to serve the Irish Catholic farmers and coal miners who had settled in this area. And, although Father McGirr held services occasionally in this rough hewn church, it never developed as a separate parish, but became part of Saint Martin Parish, which was founded in 1856. Another place visited by Father McGirr was Saint Patrick Church in Cameron's Bottom, Indiana County. This Church had been founded from Loretto by Father Gallitzin in 1820. There was something predictive in Father McGirr's visiting Cameron's Bottom, since he would minister to these people in his later years 1834 until 1842.
Father McGirr, during his nine-year pastorate at Sportsman's Hall Parish, continued the practice of recording baptisms and marriages in the book that had been initiated by Father Helbron and continued by Father Maguire – later printed as Father Peter Helbron's Greensburg Register. But it is regrettable that Father McGirr's recordings were defective and difficult to read.
Father McGirr left the parish in the late autumn of 1830 and journeyed to Loretto to be with the only confidant he appeared to have, Father Gallitzin. It was in these Allegheny Mountains that Father McGirr was to spend the last twenty-one years of his life. Father Gallitzin made sundry attempts to get Father McGirr back into active ministry. It appears that Father McGirr spent the remainder of his life on a farm along the Ebensburg-Wilmore road. He lived there with his brother, who managed the farm under his direction. This closing decade of Father McGirr's life was evidently quiet and undisturbed, and he died peacefully on August 11, 1851 – over eleven years after the death of Father Gallitzin.
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yesterday I finally met up with my cp group and prof lau for dinner at Oriole Cafe. I first read about this cafe from ladyironchef's blog, and then again on ieatishootipost. It seemed like a pretty good place to meet, plus it is centrally located at Pan Pacific Serviced Suites.
However, it is kind of nearer to 313@Somerset and we should have taken the MRT exit towards 313@Somerset instead of towards Triple One Somerset. A pretty small yet cosy cafe, I lilke the lighting (though Prof Lau had problems seeing because the words on the menu were tiny and the lights were too dim, haha).
their sofa seats are pretty small, accommdating only 2 to 3 persons. there isn't much seating in the cafe, and people tend to stay very long to chit chat. So please make reservations first before heading down!
gh and I were the earliest and we waited some time for the rest. the menu selection is pretty narrow and moderately priced.
mushroom ragout, asparagus, puff pastry. This was really really good!
it was a nice little outing where we exchanged many little stories. soon, this small group will kind of be disbanded, with sasi going back to thailand to work at the P&G there, and natalie possibly going to the States to do her masters (but I don't think she will end up doing so :p).
this is my best group thus far in university. Despite not knowing each other (I only knew gh), fate kind of brought us all together and we embarked on a project on the NUS Arts Festival.
we had lots of weekend and late night meetings, because of our timetable clashes. However, everyone was committed to the project and really put in alot of hard work. That is the difference between this group and other project groups. We were not exceptionally smart, however, we really put in alot of effort and our hard work paid off.


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Can Rest of the World Learn From Africa?
Is there a future where harvesting energy is an integral component of activity and nature?
Ask yourself: why do we build massive grids, pipelines, power plants, and refineries? Why do we mine coal and drill for oil thousands of miles away when sun supplies energy right to our roof – or to a PV-surfaced backpack for that matter?
Can the first energy option be local and the second option be massive, centralized systems, instead of the other way around?
Granted, practical technology for storing solar or any renewable energies is just coming available. We can build better buildings and cities, learn new ways of living and working to manage energy use. It's not only about solar, batteries, and diffused energy supplies. It's a mindset.
Can we learn from Africa? Africa is burdened by poverty and low technology. Yet is lack of high technology and heavy ancient infrastructures actually making them smarter, more resourceful, and ultimately could they show us something new?
In 10, 20, 30 years, could they be growing food, making clothes, building cities regionally, and supplying products, services to other parts of the world? Based on simply changing their energy supply – actually an improvement over no electricity at all – could Africans build stable, sustainable nations?
Even in some small way, is there something that developed countries can learn about living sustainably from people who are freshly adding electricity to their daily habits? If we were just adding power to our lives and cities, what form would it take?
I admit, I am taken by the use of cell phones to buy well water. http://bit.ly/qBbKx. And now the possibilities of energy at the exact spot that you need it. It's Just-In-Time resources, instead of Always-Running resources. That's a far more sustainable model. While we can't emulate it, our commitments to industry are far too great today, can we learn from it, at least at the residential, personal level (breakdown: http://bit.ly/2ky3tK)?
Could Africa pave the way towards a balanced planet?


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How is Mr. Redlegs getting ready for Opening Day? By having a little April Fools' Day fun at Cincinnati Children's!
The Cincinnati Reds mascot made short stops all over the medical center, causing mischief and leaving paper copies of his signature mustache wherever he went. The day began in the Child Life activity center, where Mr. Redlegs invited a couple of kids to play during the center's closed hours.
Mr. Redlegs signed fake April Fools' Day autographs, penning the names of some of his favorite ballplayers on Reds gear and handing out the bogus signatures to unsuspecting fans. He also made a special lunchtime request in the cafeteria for his favorite ballpark foods, but to no avail.
In the afternoon, Mr. Redlegs got a chance to see what it's like to be a patient in the Radiology Department, but his oversized baseball-shaped head presented a challenge with the CT scan. Radiologists also performed X-rays on Mr. Redlegs' throwing arm and legs. The images revealed what we already knew – that baseball is in Mr. Redlegs' bones – but we also discovered a silly secret hiding just underneath those red stockings: cork!
Before heading home to Great American Ball Park, Mr. Redlegs had one last appointment in the Sports Medicine clinic. Researchers let Mr. Redlegs test out the motion analysis system in the Human Performance Laboratory. Finally, Withrow High School softball players led Mr. Redlegs in stretches to get him in shape for the 7th inning of all this year's home games.
Thanks to the Cincinnati Reds and our friend, Mr. Redlegs, for having some fun here with us before Opening Day! Search hashtag #MustacheMischief on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to look back at photos and video from the April Fools' Day visit.


When Wendy Booker, a 60-year-old suburban mom, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 12 years ago, she threw herself a "pity party," then quickly moved on: She began running marathons and mountain-climbing. In April 2011, Booker became the first person with MS to reach the North Pole — the first stop in her Polar Trilogy attempt, with the South Pole and Greenland next. But Booker's biggest quest is to motivate others facing challenges.
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Starring the voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders, Pierre Coffin (the voice of every single minion). Directed by Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda. (2015, 91 min).
Minions is better than it probably had a right to be. These Tic Tac-shaped critters from the Despicable Me franchise may be funny and endearing in small doses, but giving them their own spin-off feature film seems like an exercise in overkill (not-to-mention a cynical excuse for pumping out merchandise). After all, Scrat the Squirrel remains the only amusing part of the increasingly-awful Ice Age series, but while he's a terrific peripheral character, 90 straight minutes of his antics would be like hearing your four-year-old repeatedly telling the same knock-knock joke and expecting the same response every time.
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During the Talend Connect, Talend presented its product roadmap and future innovations, including real-time data integration.
Talend's CEO Mike Tuchen spoke with Jim Cramer of Mad Money about the importance of companies becoming data driven.
Barron's spoke with CEO Mike Tuchen ranging over a bunch of topics, but with particular focus on cloud computing.
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Picture it: A giant Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom, a couple hundred people, and that persistent buzz that precedes every conference, as organizers try to wrangle and the audience willfully ignores them. Then over the din, a recorded voice asks everyone to rise for the singing of the national anthem. We all stand, and I look around for the flag, which I can't find until I realize that it's appeared at the front of the room. On a screen.
In all its giant, HD glory.
I should say, first, that this was a fantastic event featuring major speakers (and yes, me). So the event coordinators' fine judgment was not in question. They were just being current, and I seemed to be having an existential crisis about it.
It might've been Whitney Houston's Super Bowl version of the anthem playing, but I was so thrown off by the whole display that I couldn't really focus on it. The point of view in the video was swinging and swerving, as though the cameraman (or woman) was doing one of those glamor shoots where he runs all around getting different angles and shouting things like "Yes! Right there! Just like that!"
But this wasn't a Real Housewife we were watching; it was the flag. The Stars and Stripes. The old Red, White, and Blue.
Now, it's possible I'm biased. We said the pledge and sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" every morning at Stillmeadow Elementary School. And I did play Columbia, "Gem of the Ocean"—the heroic female representation of the United States immortalized in song, in case you aren't from the 19th century—in the third grade play. So I do have some long-held love for Old Glory that's only deepened by the fact that I'm a naturalized citizen. But while I may know all her nicknames, I'm hardly one of those people with an American flag in every window; patriotism is like godliness, I think—the more you talk about it, the less I believe you.
Why, then, did this video bother me so much? The image was still majestic, and we were all experiencing it together. But it felt like watching the President on The View—it's cool that it's possible, and you get why it's necessary, but it just feels wrong. As Americans, there is perhaps no greater symbol of our connection to each other and to our country than that piece of cloth, and if it's too much now to find or produce a real, live flag, well, why even say the pledge or sing the anthem at all? Let's all just like America on Facebook and get on about our business.
If that sounds like Chronic Tech Fatigue Syndrome, it probably is. Sometimes I think if I hear the word "technology" one more time, I'll die of boredom—it's good, it's bad, it's social, it's advanced, it's exploding, it's exploding our brains, it's...taking over the world! Whatever it's doing, it's here, and I'd venture to say, for the most part, it's positive. Some aspects have flourished so fast that we don't yet have a handle on them—we may soon decide, for instance, that iPhones aren't proper pacifiers for toddlers—but that'll come.
There are some things, though, that technology shouldn't mediate—a few special parts of human existence that I hope will always be best experienced in real life. We all have our own list, I bet, and mine's simple: first meetings, baseball, and believe it or not, the flag.
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Assessments of family members abroad and the need to avoid cultural relativism
AuthorHannah Perry
In the recently reported case of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v D & Others [2014] EWHC 3901 (Fam), a father living in sub-Saharan Africa applied for an assessment to be carried out in his country of his ability to care for his children (who were living in England).
Initially, the local authority proposed sending a social worker to the father's country to assess him there, having discussed his circumstances with him over the telephone. However, having then considered guidance from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB), the local authority decided this was too dangerous.
Hannah Perry of TV Edwards, on behalf of the father, identified an independent social worker based elsewhere in Africa (and who has dual nationality) who was willing and able to assess the father in his country. The court had to decide whether to order an assessment in the father's country (despite the FCO and CFAB advice ) and, if there was not to be an assessment there, what else could or should be done to assess the father as a possible career in his country for the children.
The judge applied the test of whether the assessment was 'necessary' and made it clear that this test cannot be considered without looking carefully at the facts of the case. He underlined the need to avoid cultural relativism and stated; 'The fact that a family member may live in a country where there are high levels of crime for example, or terrorism, corruption, or civil unrest will undoubtedly be relevant to the overall evaluation of the factors set out in s.1(3) of the Children Act 1989, but to my mind they will rarely, if ever, be determinative in and of themselves. It is the care offered by the individual that weighs most heavily and not the challenges faced by the State in which he lives. In any event these will often be facets of the child's own cultural inheritance.'
The Judge decided against sending the independent social worker to assess the father. However, he also decided that other options could be considered. He therefore looked at the children's history, likely future needs and decided that their needs and their time-scales could not be catered for if the court agreed to the father's caring for the children in his country. The judge also decided that it was at that stage, when the court was considering the children's overall welfare, that the court had to consider the conditions in the father's country as part of the overall balancing of the factors in the Children Act 1989 s1(3) welfare checklist.
The father's application for assessment was refused.
TV Edwards' solicitor Hannah Perry represented the father.
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First Black Woman Confirmed to New Jersey's Supreme Court
Fabiana Pierre-Louis, the daughter of Haitian immigrants and a former federal prosecutor, was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the state's highest court.
Pierre-Louis is a partner in the Cherry Hill office of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, specializing in white-collar crime and government investigations, according to the firm's website. A graduate of Rutgers University Law School, she practiced for nine years in the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark and later as attorney-in-charge for Trenton and then Camden.


Recently we showed you a teaser that Bodega had posted for an upcoming collaboration. Now we've got full details.
Bodega has teamed with Vans Vault on their third collaboration for a whole new version of the Authentic LX. The low profile sneaker, a stalwart for skaters, surfers, and BMX riders, is done up in fleece for two different pairs, called the "Fleece Pack." Both pairs feature two-tone gum soles, round woven laces, and branding on the tongue and sock liner.
You can see the pairs in action in their lookbook that follows Marty Walsh of Geekhouse Bikes as he builds a custom bike frame. They chose Marty to show off the shoe because Bodega prefers to stick with people who are admirable for what they do, rather than for pure aesthetics. Plus, Marty makes and rides bikes, making the "'BDGA Sports" branding fit perfectly.
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Today's Senate races in Georgia will reach the end of Act II in the 2020 election structure with the climax of action. Late tonight, the crisis will occur in counting rooms across Georgia as Democrats figure out how many votes they need to win two US Senate seats and fulfill their vote quotas. This will mean the end of Senator Kelly Loeffler. Americans, left or right wing, will lose nothing. Loeffler is just a facsimile of a woman that the GOP appointed to the august chamber of Congress.
Loeffler has no political history. Loeffler has no family. Loeffler had no record of supporting right wing causes (candidates like Romney, yes). Loeffler does have a wealthy husband. She married the CEO of her employer in 2004. This is how she was appointed by Gov. Kemp to the position of US Senator. This appointment was over the suggestion of President Trump to elevate Rep. Doug Collins to the Senate. In the event she loses, he one year in the Senate will be remembered for her stock purchases and sales after being briefed about covid but before the public was aware of covid risks.
Loeffler is not the only failed female pet of the GOP. Former Senator Martha McSally never won an election to the glorious office of Senator but was appointed by Gov. Ducey. McSally (ed: shown in essay image) is a once married, then annulled, spinster in Arizona who was appointed as US Senator for Arizona after losing her '18 election to Sen. Sinema. It is purely this writer's opinion, but in the race of two childless women, Arizona's voters may have merely picked the more realistically feminine choice. McSally followed the Arizona party line for positions, and distanced herself from President Trump in '18. Similar to Sen. Ayotte of New Hampshire, she suffered a close defeat where her anti-Trump stance likely cost her the margin of victory.
McSally was a two term Congressman before being appointed. Loeffler was a donor or more accurately, a donor's ambitious wife. The GOP was feeling the influence of #MeToo and worried about the suburban female vote. These appointments were meant to stave off slippage with those voters. Both failed. While people mock the minority puppets of the left who are in no way representative of the voting blocs they represent, this is the same situation on the right. These are childless women put into office to address via a gender checkbox a voter bloc. These women both lagged President Trump's results.
The argument cannot be made that Trump hurt them as he outperformed them. The argument can be made that there is something off-putting about them. Something people cannot quite put their finger on, but they know it is wrong. Loeffler's biography reads like an AWFL, just for the GOP, and McSally, well, it is hard to put a finger on it. The GOP elects women, and this is something the right wing media has trumpeted in the wake of November's election. The GOP even has higher profile women, with few matching Sarah Palin's visibility in the '10s despite not holding any office. Gov. Noem of South Dakota has like Gov. DeSantis become an anti-Cuomo or anti-Newsom figure with the handling of covid.
If there is a contrast and it is something people would feel uneasy discussing, it might be that Palin and Noem are attractive moms while Loeffler and McSally are not. Sen. Kamala Harris may be in line to become the first female president in America, but even her own party rejected her. She is another childless, ambitious creature of a state party machine. The uncanny valley is something used to describe the problem of robotic or CGI representations of humans. The valley is where a robot is very close to human but there is something just off that repulses us. It might be something we feel when we see these figures in politics as well.
A facsimile is something made to be the same as the original. You make something like the original, but it is not the original. These are GOP Inc creatures in female form, but it doesn't work. Part of Palin's appeal was that she was a regular mom and that she was sexy. That was also fuel for the left's anger. Even though left wing, white women hated her, they still asked for her hairstyle in '08-'10 (The Palin). She had it all with a career, a husband, many children and good looks. AOC has this as well where the energy she creates for both her side and her opponents has some foundation in her attractiveness and femininity. We will see if she has one kid as Clinton did and Clinton's protégé who was groomed for future high office, Huma Abedin, did.
Another essay would look at why the GOP reacted so strongly to the female issue while suppressing any populist energy downticket. The GOP did not groom MAGA nationalist or populist candidates, and simply let the next guy in line get nominations. The GOP reacted to criticism about the female voter bloc, but left the populist $20 bill on the street. They couldn't even use facsimiles of populists like they do with these women to wave in front of voters.
This points to a future where these female figures are going to have to appeal to the old energies of being the mother of us all and sex appeal. A bureaucratic regime is going to be a matriarchal longhouse seeking consensus. That does require a matriarch who while being the mother of the family was also once a desirable maiden to be paired with a warrior. Same applies to men as former presidents Clinton and Obama were smart enough to enter marriages for political viability. Politicians are the salesmen and saleswomen for the regime. They push the marketing for the donor class to implement their desired goals. The experiences of Loeffler and McSally are market testing for the GOP. Facsimiles of women just won't cut it.
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Electrician says:
It's all fake, save for The Virus and my Brahmin-like intellect,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.
This editorial is offensive in that it implies that childless women are unlikable. Having children, or not having children, does not contribute to likability. A genuine personality, the feeling of approachability and strong conservative values are what makes a GOP candidate likable. It has nothing to do with whether or not a woman has children.
Your mom says:
Let me guesss. Barren?
I agree with you – Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton both have kids – nuf said….
lilruse says:
lmao cope more
PC says:
As a married woman (and proud home-maker for over 30 years) who could not have children, but has been blessed with 24 nieces and nephews – I am very concerned about the long term future of this country. I am a devout Christian and Trump supporter (or a far right "extremist" – as the lefties would call me). I think there are women that have had children – like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi – that are just horrible people – just as there are women that have not had children – like Merkel -that are horrible people. So – drawing the conclusion that someone who does not have children does not care about true Conservativism and the long term future is not valid. It's peoples general ethics, values, integrity, who are also pro-life, God-fearing people who support Trump and his agenda are who we need to be our warriors!
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Linda Camp says:
Good grief! Whether a woman has children or not has nothing to do with it.
waterlily1234 says:
If this is meant to be a serious piece, it is one of the most sexist, offensive things I've encountered in a long time. It doesn't take much to pop out kids. Just ask a lot of involuntary fathers. But maybe "Henry" is "Henrietta." Whatever, I wish I hadn't wasted my time. I suspect it's just click bait, and I won't be back for more. I should add that "Henry" didn't say anything about trans "moms," and their political viability. Shame, as that will be the trend.
Octavian says:
Haven't seen a Sun piece get brigaded quite like this before, absolutely fascinating. I suppose that means congratulations are in order, this publication is clearly on its way up.
I don't think women belong in positions of political power. Period.
stallard0 says:
Baseit & Knoxpill'd.
adamantia says:
Who is that in the picture? Also the women freaking out in the comments are funny. I think the article is mostly right, but perhaps not the entire story.
Henry Delacroix says:
Look at the name badge. That is a young Martha McSally.
Русский Человек says:
A bureaucratic regime is going to be a matriarchal longhouse seeking consensus. That does require a matriarch who while being the mother of the family was also once a desirable maiden to be paired with a warrior.
But that's where you are wrong. Matriarchy is antithesis to fertility, since in the ideal matriarchy, full polygamy, there is no concept of family and thus no mothers, let alone pairs. Expect more infertile women in the government instead, since these types of women are just better eunuchs: they have all perks of puppets with no investment in the future, but won't ever stray into any kind of self-indulged narcissism not approved by the current authorities.
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During the band's early years, In Flames had a varying group of musicians recording with them, including many session musicians. By the release of Colony (1999) the group had established a stable lineup. Their sixth studio album Reroute to Remain (2002) showed the band moving toward a newer style of music that moved further away from melodic death metal and closer to alternative metal. This decision was criticized by fans of the group's heavier metal sound; however, it increased the band's mainstream audience and bolstered their album sales. As of 2008, In Flames had sold over 2 million records worldwide.
Since the band's inception, In Flames have released thirteen studio albums, three EPs, and two live DVDs, their latest release being their thirteenth studio album I, the Mask in 2019. In Flames has been nominated for three Grammis Awards. They won two of these nominations; one for Soundtrack to Your Escape (2004) in the "Hard Rock/Metal of the Year" category, and one nomination for their following album Come Clarity (2006) in the same category.


It's anonymous. It's ephemeral. It's PostSecret optimized like FarmVille.
I have a secret to tell you: There is a mobile app you've probably never heard of that gets 2.5 billion page views a month, substantially more than all of CNN. It's called Whisper, and the youths just love it.
Here's how it works. Anyone can post an anonymous message to the service in the form of an image macro: text overlaid on a picture. When you open the app, you see six such images. Each one has a "secret" on it. You can respond to a message publicly or privately, choosing a public anonymous post or a private pseudonymous chat. Users don't have a public identity in the app. While they do have persistent handles, there's no way to contact them except *through* the messages they post. The app is PostSecret, optimized like FarmVille.
Fascinatingly, when you open the app on the phone, you can post and see public messages, but any time you want to see an archive of your own activity, you have to enter a four-digit pin number. So even if your phone were to fall into the wrong hands (i.e. parents), the posts and messages would still be hidden from view.
For the past couple weeks, I've been playing with Whisper. It is not for me. In fact, I hate it. It's like being granted telepathy, but there's a catch: your superpower only works in middle school bathrooms. UGH. Every mating strategy a 14-year old has ever thought of is now anonymously displayed for one to thumb through. If you've ever worried that our technologies are changing kids, Whisper answers unequivocally: "Nope, just as annoying as ever."
My first post (left), and the two replies it netted (Alexis Madrigal).
On the other hand, this app is fascinating. It's the social experience of the street ported to the web, without all the persistent, real-name trappings of other networks. The kinds of interactions it allows people to have are closer to what happens at a mall or county fair than anything else on the Internet: A person you know nothing about says something, you reply, and that can continue or end. That's it.
You get the idea. This isn't where you get your world news or conversation about David Foster Wallace or even Gilmore Girl-level dialogue. This is id.
But man, what I wouldn't have given for this app as an angsty teenager! I would just hold it up to my face and sigh into it. Then I would snap a picture of myself doing that and post it with the text, "My secret is I want to get away from this place with a girl who understands me." Then I'd wait.


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Terrell Forney, Reporter
Tags: Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Local, Education
35 private Jewish schools to benefit from $645,000 security grant
Governor hopes to provide more money for security at mosques, public schools
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – With reports of anti-Semitic incidents on the rise across the state of Florida, Jewish day schools are getting some help through a new wave of funding.
Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday visited Brauser Maimonides Academy near Fort Lauderdale, one of 35 private Jewish schools in Florida that will benefit from a $645,000 security grant.
Lawmakers passed the measure earlier this year.
The money will be used to install security cameras, bulletproof glass and alarm systems and provide security officers at the facilities to help thwart potential attacks and keep students safe.
"We've seen the threats in these schools over the last year," Scott said. "It's wrong, it's disgusting. No one should be worried about going to a school and wondering if they're safe or not."
"We want to make sure our students get a safe space to learn every single day -- that they can come to school without fear, so for us it's a big issue," Rabbi Yossi Kastan of Brauser Marimonides Academy said.
The governor said he hopes lawmakers can eventually provide more money for security measures at other learning facilities at mosques and public schools across Florida.
Terrell Forney
Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.


When working with patients and customers, I have heard it countless times: "I'm to busy" or "I just do not have the time". I talk about the changes they can make or go about things differently. However, they revert back to those reasons. From one perspective, these reasons make sense. We all have stuff to do. We all wish we had more time. We all feel overwhelmed and overworked at times.
However, at the root of it, WE ARE NEVER TOO BUSY. I hate to be a cliché here. But, we all have 86400 seconds in a day. Every single person on earth has the same amount of time to take advantage of. However, we have a choice to decide on how to use that time! I have been reflecting on this a lot lately. How did we become so busy? How did we become so overwhelmed? Why is it that most people cannot manage their time well or be the most productive they can be?
From experience and observation, I have learned that we are a DISTRACTED society. Over the last few years, we have gained access to an unlimited amount of activities to take our time away from us. We have countless choices of TV shows, books, websites, restaurants, video games, and cell phone apps just to name a few. We sabotage ourselves out of doing the work and important activities required to make changes and settle for distractions. It's so much easier to turn to social media or watch a movie instead of working out or making a diet plan.
I am not a saint when it comes to this. I had a difficult time writing this post today. I found myself scrolling through my social media and watching videos online instead of writing my thoughts down. I took a nap this afternoon. I wasted time and can't get it back. However, I recognized that I slipped up. I am committing myself to limiting time and money wasters, as should you!
I recommend that you "Add Through Subtraction." We all have the same amount of time given to us daily. We cannot pay attention to every single thing and think we will accomplish it all. Make sure you're using your time wisely. How you ask? First, recognize where you have extra time in your day. Do you tend to mindlessly browse social media for hours on end? Do you watch TV once you get home from work until bed time? Do you tend to oversleep when you not have anything planned for your day? Chances are that you do. Next, reflect on what you are willing to take out of your life. Consider cutting social media down to fifteen minutes a day. Or, choose to watch only one TV show at a time. Or, limit your sleep time only to the recommended eight hours.
On a side note, you can apply "Add Through Subtraction" to other aspects of your life. Feel tight on your money? Take a look at your expenses and cut anything that you don't use or isn't necessary. Viola! More cash in the bank. Feel as though you have friends who waste your time or are not reliable? Or, are you pulled in a million directions by having a large group of friends? Cut the ones who do not support you or make time for you. Then, you can put more time into the friendships that actually mean something to you. Sound harsh? Maybe. But, in reality, you are making yourself a priority and making your friendship a privilege, not a right. Only you can decide how to use your time and resources. Make sure you're using them wisely. Above all, Eat, Move, and Improve!


Ankle sprains are the most common injuries for athletes. It seems as if most of us suffer these twists of fate sooner or later, and they tend to recur with annoying frequency and at the most inconvenient of times – as in, just when we're getting back to full speed on the basketball court or soccer field.
Most sprained ankles are just bad luck such as when a basketball player goes up for a rebound and lands on someone's foot, or when you step off a curb wrong.
And if not properly treated and rehabilitated, ankle sprains can leave behind weakness and instability in the joint long after the initial swelling disappears.
It's been estimated that at least 24,000 sprained ankles occur every day in America and that they comprise some 45 percent of all sports injuries.
And being a well-conditioned athlete does not seem to help prevent these injuries. In fact, approximately 70% of college basketball players surveyed in one study reported a history of ankle injury.
WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I WAS IN AN CAR/AUTO ACCIDENT ?


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David Paul Deavel
Chesterton's Return
How GKC subverts the subversives.
A prophet is never welcome in his own hometown. For a long time after the tumult of the Sixties, G. K. Chesterton's writings seemed to have lost a welcome anywhere, except, perhaps, among the detective fiction enthusiasts who have kept the Father Brown tales in circulation continuously on both sides of the Atlantic. According to Denis J. Conlon, an English literary scholar who has specialized in Chesterton for many years, much of Chesterton's work is still out of print and hard-to-get in his own merry England. A friend of mine studying in Rome a few years ago told me that the English and Irish Catholic seminarians he met almost universally regarded Chesterton a pre-modern, pre-Vatican II embarrassment. The situation was about the same in America for a long time. As of 1985 there were probably fewer than ten of Chesterton's books in print, and those were, aside from his detective fiction, mostly published by small and often obscure Catholic presses.
The situation was bound to change, however, as this particular prophet still had his faithful remnant, about thirty-five of whom (at most) met throughout the Eighties and early Nineties in Milwaukee every year and exchanged news and views in a little rag called the Midwest Chesterton News. On the more scholarly side, Ian Boyd, a priest and literary scholar, had since 1974 been running the Chesterton Review, a literary quarterly that printed forgotten pieces by Chesterton as well as scholarly essays on his life, thought, and interlocutors. Ignatius Press, a small but growing outfit run by Joseph Fessio, SJ (one of Joseph Ratzinger's doctoral students), decided to publish a collected works with scholarly introductions and footnotes that will eventually number roughly 50 volumes. And newly emerging publications like Crisis, New Oxford Review, and First Things quoted Chesterton incessantly and sometimes ran articles about him. He even began popping up in Christianity Today, where he had fans in Philip Yancey and Charles Colson.
Here one might briefly note the role of Christian rock in the revival of Chesterton in America. One of the younger people traveling to Milwaukee in those lean years was a young Baptist named Dale Ahlquist. While in college in the late Seventies, Ahlquist spent some time at the home of his sister and then brother-in-law working for the summer. His sister's husband, the so-called godfather of Christian rock, was the late Larry Norman. Norman found Ahlquist reading a book by C. S. Lewis and asked if he was familiar with Chesterton. Upon discovering that he wasn't, Norman cryptically remarked that after reading Chesterton one doesn't even "need" Lewis anymore.
Chesterton's "transgressive" tendencies simply transgress the wrong orthodoxies. Who, Plato might have asked, can successfully transgress the transgressors?
Ahlquist didn't immediately read Chesterton. But three years later he brought The Everlasting Man to read on his honeymoon trip (no giggling, please—his wife brought Les Misérables). Ahlquist's love of Chesterton was born shortly thereafter. After several years with the Midwest Chesterton Society, Ahlquist spotted a need. In 1996 he founded the American Chesterton Society (ACS) as an umbrella group to help local societies share resources far beyond the Milwaukee range. The Midwest Chesterton News gave way to Gilbert: The Magazine of G. K. Chesterton (now Gilbert Magazine; I am, full disclosure, a contributing editor). After a late-Nineties appearance on EWTN, the Catholic television network, to talk about his own recent conversion to Catholicism, Ahlquist and Chesterton impersonator John C. "Chuck" Chalberg began the "G. K. Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense" show on the same network (a show which has been reviewed favorably in The New York Times of all places). By 2001, ACS had become a full-time job for Ahlquist, who was speaking all over the United States and increasingly beyond. The annual Milwaukee meetings had moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, and by 2008 attendance topped seven hundred. The number of local groups grows annually: recent kick-offs include societies in Boston and Atlanta. Chesterton references abound, from Ravi Zacharias in his Veritas Forums to Christopher Hitchens' Atlantic reviews to Mike Huckabee's speeches. In 2008, the centennial of Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday, The New Yorker featured a critically admiring piece by Adam Gopnik. Not letting le hyperpower get a step ahead, the Parisian quarterly L'Atelier du Roman devoted their entire fall 2008 issue to Chesterton ("Le dieu bien tempéré de Chesterton"). Chesterton books in print now number over eighty, many containing material never before collected. It's not just Catholic presses doing all the lifting, either. Reformation Press put out annotated editions of Orthodoxy and Heretics. GKC's return to prominence seems nearly complete, at least in America and maybe France.
"Nearly" is the key word. As the above may indicate, Chesterton's return has been—appropriately, considering he died in 1936—from the ground up. Academic attention to Chesterton has been almost nonexistent, due in part to his Catholic Christian fervor and in part to his rejection of the literary modernism that has been sacrosanct in academic circles for so long. Chesterton's "transgressive" tendencies simply transgress the wrong orthodoxies. Some say he put a jolly, boozy, smoky halo around Christianity. One wonders which part of this halo was most offensive. Who, Plato might have asked, can successfully transgress the transgressors?
The answer, according to Adam Schwartz (whose father, the late Joseph Schwartz, founded the journal Renascence and was one of the central figures in the Milwaukee Chesterton days), is that in the early 20th century, Christians, in particular Roman Catholics, did do so quite thoroughly—and were recognized by everyone, secularists included. In The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson & David Jones (CUA Press, 2005), Schwartz chronicles the spiritual journeys of four prominent Roman Catholic converts, seeing their rebellion in the context of their conversions to a mode of Catholicism he refers to as the "Italianate model": "hierarchical, focused on the papacy, and acutely conscious of its separation from the British mainstream." While the four figures were different in temperament and work, Schwartz studies in depth their common faith and their fight against modern, secular life.
Schwartz, a historian by training, is not merely a capable scholar, but seems to have read everything by and about each of his subjects without succumbing to the temptation to load his text and footnotes with extraneous undigested research notes. What he does include is often fascinating, such as Hannah Arendt's 1945 declaration in The Nation that "as far as polemics go these Catholic converts or neo-Catholics have come out as victors." He clearly shares the general outlook of his subjects without special pleading. His style is scholarly without the attendant jargon and bloating, lively without flippancy, and at times clever. He refers to "these self-styled guerrillas of grace" sharpening their spiritual and imaginative swords "on the rock of Peter, hoping that what they considered their contemporary crusades would make them swords of honor."
This last phrase, an allusion to Evelyn Waugh's war trilogy, brings up one major criticism. Schwartz's chapter on Graham Greene is an intriguing attempt at understanding a man nobody seems to understand, perhaps even the intrepid Norman Sherry. But he strains too far in arguing that Greene maintained a lifelong "fundamental orthodoxy." Schwartz buys into Greene's claim that what he had lost were simply "beliefs" (which concerned "propositions about the transcendent") while his "faith," a matter of "metarational experience," had continued to grow. The later Greene, denying doctrines left and right while continuing his compulsive promiscuity and persistently weird leftish pontificating, seems almost a parody of modern liberal Catholicism, despite his affection for the Tridentine Latin Mass. Catholic? Yes. Orthodox? Hardly. Schwartz eschews Waugh because of his personal "eccentricity," but Waugh, whose artistry was arguably greater and his eccentricity largely posing, should have been the fourth in this party.
Chesterton, a half-generation older than the others and an inspiration to all of them, dominates the book. The chapter on Chesterton renders moot James Thompson's 15-year-old judgment that Chesterton's spiritual biography "has yet to be written." It may not be the final word, but Schwartz puts together all the pieces of Chesterton's religious thought and shows how they shaped his cultural criticism in a way not done before. Chesterton's conversions, to theism, Christianity, and finally Catholicism, are viewed as an "unfolding" without blurring the events, people, and "careful, often anguished, deliberation" that accompanied each phase. Schwartz also corrects many of the long-perpetuated mistakes in Chesterton's biography, such as the idea that Chesterton's youthful spiritual crisis was more attributable to loneliness in London than to the nihilistic ethos he encountered. Schwartz persuasively argues that Chesterton's beliefs and cultural criticism were rational, not simply reactions to adolescent trauma.
Mark Knight's Chesterton and Evil (Fordham University Press, 2004) similarly sees Chesterton's career as a unified whole, but focuses on his earlier fiction. The book progresses through the Father Brown stories and the other novels, but each chapter feels like a warm-up until we arrive at chapter four's discussion of The Man Who Was Thursday. Chesterton's privative view of evil and his literary decision to always show it for the nothing it is explains part of his rejection by the modernists. Knight chooses to view Chesterton in the company of writers like Wells, Conrad, and Kafka, comparisons that bring amusing small insights. But Knight, unlike Schwartz, has a much more soporific academic prose and attempts some contemporary philosophical references that look like filler. In the end, this is a book one consults rather than reads.
One suggestion from Knight is particularly welcome: look at Chesterton's early fiction more seriously. That has been made easier by Ignatius' twenty-fifth volume: Collected Works Vol. VII: The Ball and The Cross, Manalive, The Flying Inn (2004). Iain Benson's introduction, more readable than Knight, establishes Chesterton's approach to evil in these "novels of inconvenience": laugh at it.
One sees that same approach in Chesterton's Early Poetry (Inklings Books, 2004). Michael Perry introduces this collection of Greybeards at Play, The Wild Knight and Other Poems, and The Ballad of the White Horse by noting Auden's judgment that Greybeards "has some of the best pure nonsense verse in English" and that Chesterton was "essentially a comic poet." Indeed, even in the most "serious" poem in the collection, The Ballad of the White Horse, one hears Chesterton responding through King Alfred to his secular, academic critics, "mild as monkish clerks" (l. 257), who will one day be "ordering all things with dead words" (l. 254). Whether the academy notices or not, jolly GKC's words still live.
David Paul Deavel is an associate editor of LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture and a contributing editor to Gilbert Magazine.
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Alfonso Peña Boeuf (Madrid, 23 de enero de 1888-Madrid, 1 de febrero de 1966) fue un ingeniero de caminos y político español. Durante la dictadura franquista fue ministro de Obras Públicas, siendo también durante esta época procurador en las Cortes franquistas y miembro del Consejo Nacional de FET y de las JONS.

Biografía
Nacido en Madrid el 23 de enero de 1888, cursó las carreras de Ingeniero de Caminos y Ciencias Exactas. Con posterioridad sería docente de la Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Madrid, en la que estudió. Como ingeniero, formó parte de la escuela de Juan Manuel de Zafra, uno de los impulsores del entonces novedoso hormigón armado en España, impartiendo los conocimientos sobre el nuevo material desde las aulas y adoptándolo en obras como el acueducto de Tardienta. Es también uno de los fundadores del Instituto Técnico de la Construcción y de la Edficación, institución pionera en España de la investigación científica aplicada a la construcción.

Peña Boeuf, simpatizante de la antigua monarquía alfonsina, colaboraría con las autoridades franquistas tras el estallido de la Guerra civil. En octubre de 1937 se le encargó la realización de un plan de Obras Públicas, proyecto que redactó durante el transcurso de la contienda y que vería la luz en 1939 como «Plan General de Obras Públicas», el hoy informalmente nombrado como Plan Peña. Para la realización de los proyectos de obras hidráulicas recuperaría en buena parte el Plan Nacional Hidrográfico de 1933.

En enero de 1938 fue nombrado ministro de Obras Públicas del primer gobierno franquista, cargo al que también se uniría el de jefe del Servicio Nacional de Ferrocarriles. Considerado una persona de perfil «técnico», durante su etapa ministerial se centraría en la reconstrucción de las infraestructuras destruidas por la contienda.

En 1939 se publicó la Instrucción de Carreteras, con la clasificación de las carreteras en nacionales, comarcales y locales y normalizando las características de éstas (dimensiones, radios de curvatura, pendientes máximas, etc) y de los elementos de señalización. Bajo su iniciativa también se produjo la nacionalización de la red ferroviaria de ancho ibérico. El 24 de enero de 1941 se aprobó la «Ley de Bases de Ordenación Ferroviaria y de los Transportes por Carretera» por la que todas las compañías de ancho ibérico que operaban en el Estado español fueron reunidas en una sola empresa estatal, RENFE.

Continuaría ejerciendo como ministro de Obras Públicas hasta su cese el 18 de julio de 1945.

Posteriormente sería nombrado presidente del consejo de administración de RENFE, cargo que desempeñaría entre 1952 y 1957.

Falleció en Madrid el 1 de febrero de 1966.

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Fue miembro de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales desde junio de 1934, institución que presidió desde el 11 de junio de 1958 hasta su fallecimiento. Previamente había ocupado los cargos de bibliotecario, entre 1939 y 1944, y vicepresidente, entre 1944 y 1958.

Distinciones
 Gran Cruz del Mérito Militar con distintivo blanco (1943)
 Gran Cruz de la Orden de Carlos III (1945)

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Procuradores de las Cortes franquistas
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Políticos de España del franquismo
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Caballeros grandes cruces de la Orden de Carlos III
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Again, they are a game company, not some evil organization that feeds on human suffering and hates people who gave them money for years. Attributing malice to any of this is idiotic, it is at worst misguided.
I qualified my "malicious" statement by saying "if they understood the American market". Since they obviously don't, it was just a business decision that, from our perspective, just felt that way.
What puzzles me a bit there that they are not "just reusing the IP". They are advertising MxM with Statesman.
... and I cannot find any reasonable enough reasons for that move.
Easy. Capitalization on the huge success of American superhero movies. It's the only western superhero product that they have IP for.
Just trying to make a buck on a "trend".
If they wanted to capitalize on "the superhero trend", shutting down their big superhero game right after the biggest superhero movie in decades, doing absolutely nothing with the IP for five whole years, and then bringing a couple of NPCs back as glorified cameos in another game seems like a really roundabout (read: stupid) way to do it.
I agree with princezilla here - I don't see any "malice" per se, in what NCsoft does.
There's an old adage, something along the lines of: "Never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by sheer ignorance and stupidity".
With respect to the North American gaming market, NCsoft makes the proverbial "box of rocks" look like Einstein.
I can't speak for anyone else, but that "plumber" would never come near my home again, and in the same way, NCsoft will never sell a product to me again either.
Frankly, they should stick solely to the Korean marketplace, where they seem to have at least a small vestige of a clue.
PS> @downix -- interesting commentary, thanks for sharing it.
You missed out: The Punisher, Spider-Man 2 (won an Oscar as well), Blade Trinity, Elektra, Fantastic 4, X-Men: Last Stand, Ghost Rider, Spiderman 3, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer all being released whilst CoX was alive, but before the MCU starting.
And that is just the marvel side.
And this is all before 2008 (The Dark Knight was 2008), so midway through the games lifespan.... we were not exactly "hurting" for Superhero films, with almost 4 per year at this stage.
Does this remind you guys of something?
Yeah the Superhero craze didn't really explode until Avengers hit. There were some good and very successful movies before it but it wasn't a full blown phenomenon until after it blew open the box office and a few records in the process.
Frankly, I wouldn't care who made CoX2 as long as it was out there and as awesome as (if not better than) the original. I WANT MY CITY BACK!!!
This has been my attitude for years, with the addendum that at this point a sequel would be better than bringing the old game back as it was at shutdown. We've already lost all of our characters and adds ons so recreating the setting and style of the game using the newest tech and with the advantage of a fresh start rather than having to continue to try and build off a core designed barely out of the 90s would allow for possibilities that the old dev team only dreamed of.
The Asian MMO market is considerably different from the Western MMO market. There, players would get together with their friends, go down to an internet cafe, and game together as a group. Asian MMOs are very heavily group-focused, to the point where most of the content can't be done solo once you get out of the starting area. And they make most of their money from microtransactions, a cash shop selling a steady stream of gear and buffs; you can't make yourself a god with the cash shop, but you can buy the things to make your grinding smoother and faster. And that was the fundamental problem with CoH. Look at what Paragon Studios did at the end with its version of loot boxes. You didn't get anything that significantly improved on what you could get in game. Everything that mattered in the game came from what you did in the game -- even at endgame, unlocking and upgrading your Incarnate abilities was something you couldn't get from a cash shop, and the majority of what you could get was entirely cosmetic -- new costume parts. There was nothing for NCsoft to monetize, no steady stream of income from a cash shop tied to their NCCoin currency that fed directly to them. It flew in the face of everything that all their experience with MMOs told them that an MMO should be. 'City of Hero' flopped so badly in Korea after all the work put into localization because it didn't play like an Asian MMO; you didn't have to group up to do content, and bringing more people didn't make it easier -- it just scaled up your opposition. You could be a solo hero or villain. All NCsoft saw was an MMO that didn't work the way they expected an MMO to work, and which couldn't be twisted into the 'right' kind of MMO without destroying it. But it was turning a profit. So NCsoft threw a secret project at Paragon Studios to make the studio as a whole lose money, which let them pretend to be virtuous about trimming out unprofitable subsidiaries.
Problem there is, CoH was still making money in North America. Obviously not in the Asian market, but there was still money to be made here. They just decided that pulling the plug to devote resources to one of their other losing propositions was the better way to go. Fair enough. However, throwing roadblocks in front of the folks who wanted to do something with a property they don't appreciate; well, I think that is where a lot of folks get the impression there might be a little malice involved. True, or not, it's an easy conclusion to arrive at.
Uhhhhh... That's not true. They had released archetype specific enhancements. They had also released upgrades for enhancements. I remember buying more than a few.
Also like most other Asian MMOs they had monetized costume parts. Asian MMOs commonly rake you over the coals for costume parts (especially modifying your costume).
I sometimes get the impression that NCSoft resents or simply don't get that its American customers won't always respond the same way as its Korean customers. I recall the Forbes article a little while back that gave me the impression that NCSoft was kind of baffled about much of its failure in North America with the recent exception of "Blade & Soul." I thought it was kind of suspicious that Paragon Studios and CoX wasn't mentioned at all in that article. Though amusingly the four comments posted by readers all brought it up.
Problem there is, CoH was still making money in North America.
The GAME was making money here. Paragon Studios, the organization NCSoft had to support/run the game wasn't. They really shut down Paragon more than they shut down the game -- a corporate reorganization that cut off an "oddball" piece of the enterprise.
To keep the game up they would have needed some support and that would have needed somebody to pay attention to it, the money wasn't enough to tempt them and the easiest from their perspective was to kill it.
Well, I'd love to have a crystal ball to tell me why, if they have no faith that it could ever work in the Asian market, are they not willing to give someone in the western market a chance to make something of it. The recent weak effort to use the most recognizable character from the game to promote one of their other losing properties demonstrates, at very least, that they remember they have CoH in the vault, and that there might be some way to make some bucks with it. They just seem unwilling to accept that the only way it will really benefit anyone (including them), is in its entirety. Not in small, worthless pieces.
Sorry, let myself slip into righteous indignation mode again. So easy to do when it comes to our beloved CoH.
None of this happened until long after "City of Hero" had crashed and burned in Korea, though; NCsoft was looking at a game that had already failed in their primary market, and even with the additions that Paragon Studios made to the cash shop near the end of the game, it would still have been nothing like the constant stream of microtransactions from players; the IO being an enhancement you'd never outlevel breaks the Korean MMO model, which relies on a continual gear upgrade process to fuel the cash shop.
WoW has heirlooms that boost as you level, up to a certain level, which you can upgrade 2x to get to top level. This is to ease leveling for established players plowing through the content for the forty-leventh time. You can pay real cash to jump right to 100, where the most recent expansion begins.
We don't know but IOs would probably be fixed to 50, and leveling stuff would stop at 50, if the cap had ever been increased with an expansion. These are meant to aid fast leveling through ancient content, or are "best in slot" stuff...for the current content/level cap.
That stuff never drags on past it, and we don't even know for CoH what they would have done, but turning old great stuff into replacment table legs on next expansion is tried and true.
City of Heroes sidestepped the whole level cap enhancement deal with the Incarnate system. basic leveling stopped at 50, where the Incarnate system started and made further power increases "level-less", so to speak, by slot unlocks for the incarnate powers. I haven't really seen many games go that route. Most of them just increase the level cap, to the consternation of a great many players with level capped characters.
Star Trek Online also has power progression beyond the level cap without raising the level cap.
How about a game without levels.
Your exprience gains more powers or stengthens exist powers.
You vs enemy would need a way to tell you, going against Lord Recluse after just starting the game might mean insta-squash for you.
Anyway, you just keep gaining powers and strenthening exist powers.


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A special Fallout themed Monopoly set has been officially announced by Bethesda, and its release is expected to coincide with the Fallout 4 launch date in November.
Details of the board game first emerged when a Shacknews journalist published on Instagram a picture of its contents box.
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A novel solar cell reported this week by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) in California selectively cranks out electricity and hydrogen. Panels of these hybrid cells, a novel integration of photovoltaic and electrochemical devices, could simultaneously meet real-time energy demand while socking away hydrogen to back-up solar, hydro and wind generators and to fuel hard-to-electrify equipment such as airplanes.
Yuriy Pihosh, a University of Tokyo research scientist who was not associated with the reported work, calls LBL's design "simple and innovative." Pihosh says it could have "huge impact" on the commercialization of solar hydrogen, which has been one of the holy grails of renewable energy for several decades. In fact, it could be crucial to the transition to carbon-free power that climate scientists say must occur by mid-century to head off the worst impacts of climate change.
What has held solar hydrogen back is the low efficiency of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells that split water and release hydrogen gas. Most efforts to date focus on tandem designs, in which PEC cells get a boost from an adjacent PV cell connected in series. However, electrical mismatches and contacts between the PV and PEC devices wastes much of the PV cell's energy, and hydrogen output remains limited.
The HPEV cell manages its dual function feat by adding a third electrode. The PEC electrode atop the device uses as many electrons as it can to produce hydrogen, while dual PV electrodes allow leftover charges to deliver electricity just as they do in standard solar cells.
Dual back contacts are already well-honed technology applied in high-performance PV panels by San Jose-based Sunpower, where they eliminate the top-face electrode strips that block some light from penetrating into the cells. "It's well-known stuff. We're just putting the puzzle pieces together in a different way," says Segev.
Segev and colleagues illustrate their design's energy boost by simulating an HPEV cell using PEC materials that, as Pihosh showed in 2015, can convert 6.8 percent of sunlight to hydrogen. In Segev et al's simulation the HPEV cell turns out the same amount of hydrogen, but also converts another 13.4 percent of the available solar energy into electricity — essentially tripling the total energy conversion.
The device should also age gracefully according to Segev, which is important because PEC materials are struggling to match the multi-decade robustness of PV materials. (The PEC cells whose efficiency best Pihosh's rely on short-lived catalysts and fail within a few days.) Segev says that HPEV cells whose hydrogen output fades should simply produce more power, thus cushioning the loss.
Better still, the HPEV cell can be electrically modulated. "You have a reservoir of charges and you can choose if you want to direct it to hydrogen production or to electricity depending on the cost of electricity right now," says Segev. That functionality could be crucial for 100-percent renewable power grids such as those that Hawaii's utilities are mandated to build. When demand surges or wind power falls off, hydrogen cogeneration plants equipped with HPEV cells could boost their power output by half to keep the grid balanced.


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She is trained in Kathak and Dastangoi - Urdu storytelling and is an alumni of FTII + NID.She has been a corporate leadership trainer, educator and consultant in Innovation and storytelling for last two decades.And has done storytelling performances in Chandigarh, Jaipur and Kumaon literature festival performances and many such events.
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During his stay at IGNOU, of which he went on to become the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, he worked actively in the production of educational content. The School of Computer Science, which he was heading, produced the first entirely animated video on ' Computer Virus'. He was actively involved in 2-way video-conferencing using the EDUSAT system for both IGNOU and AIMA.
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Do you say what you think or do you keep silent?
I tend to say what I am thinking even though it sometimes would be better to stay silent. It gets me in trouble at times. What kind of person are you?
Depends on my mood, sometimes I become sarcastic so I avoid saying it out to prevent chaos.
I am mostly silent type person and very rare to say something not unless it is necessary to say it.
I'm a very quiet person but when it comes issues that need to be dealt with, I prefer to say my mind. Like you, I get into trouble and I always end up in an argument with my family and then we agree to disagree. Outside my family, I prefer to say what I think and walk away if it looks like it is going to be a bad argument.
I always feel this burn in my heart when I know that I was supposed to say something. Like I've betrayed myself and I find myself going back to simply put things straight. Although I determine often whether the situation requires me to be kind and if not, I do right by myself.
I say what I think sometimes. I say what I think especially at work because I already studied what are the techniques that works on me. I already know the problems I am facing. Even at home, I say what I think. I think sharing what I know will able to give ideas to others and they might agree with me. If they disagree with me I am open to ideas and will keep that ideas in mind. I only stay silent on some things that I know but I am not sure of, like different situations or problems I don't want to get involved with. I sometimes become silent when I am hurt. I don't want to say what I think because it could only prolong the pain and I can hurt some people with what I am feeling so I better shut off and just reliever the pressure in doing things that will make me happy.
I think I operate the two principles because I do both speaking out and keeping quiet when necessary. I speak out when I'm about to be oppressed or suppressed by other people or situation.
I don't think it makes sense to be quiet when one should speak up,if everyone should do that then the world would be chaotic since things will be going wrong and people will all be quiet and paying blind eyes or playing dumb.
I keep quiet on things that doesn't concern me and inconsequential, talking for just talking sake makes one come off as a very lousy person and I don't need to be tagged as one.So I do the two according to my mood and the situation I face.
It depends with the matter at hand. At times I might decide to remain silent if the matter doesn't hurt me so much. Also, I might remain silent because I don't want to be involved in issues. You might say something small and it might land you somewhere you never expected. But then, whenever the matter hurys e and cannot be comfortable, I tend to air out my thoughts so that I'll be at peace. The only problem with me when I air out my thoughts, am very short tempered and might end up starting an argument which will never end.
Over the past six months, I have had very hard time with the roommates I was staying because of very petty issue. I opted to remain silent for all those months and where I am at the moment, at I can say have changed. I now know how to live with people around me.
There are times i hold back what i think and there are other times i let it all out but it depends on the mood i am in and the situation i find myself. If i am in buoyed mood and the subject of discussion on ground is intriguing for me to contribute i will do so but if it's idle talks like gossip and meaningless conversions i will keep the gates of my mouth shut and be spectating those doing the talking. But if i am not in the mood to talk and i find myself in a situation whereby somebody is trying to take advantage of my muteness, i will be forced to speak up to let the person know that because i choose to be quiet doesn't make me an idiot. I can also say what i think if i discover that those that are voiceless that can't speak for themselves are been molested verbally.
It's really unfair to say or judge my own character by myself, I prefer people telling me the kind of person I am. But if I was forced to give an answer, I'd probably say am the quiet type who prefers to stay silent on certain or most times depending on the situation.
I've come to understand that a vast majority of people do not like being told the truth and in most cases you get hated for always being the one pointing out the facts to others. In other to stay relevant and make people feel very comfortable being theirselves around you, i think it's best to stay silent most of the time as long as being silent doesn't affect you negatively in the given situation. By exercising such, you get to learn and know more about people and their different behavioral personalities.
If the question was to be rephrased and asking about me being silent to myself or others when it has to do with me making choices that affects me in anyway, I'd rather speak up and say my mind than keep silent.
How long I can keep silent with a person I love?
How can you say if that person is beautiful or not?


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Q: Button rounded border on hover not working I have a button and I used animation to show borders when hovering over that button. But borders work perfectly on top and bottom but on left and right there are not showing properly.
I want borders to be rounded as here:

My Outcome:

button {
  position: relative;
  border-radius: 100px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

button::before,
button::after {
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 2px;
  position: absolute;
  transition: all 0.2s linear;
  background: #fff;
}

span::before,
span::after {
  content: "";
  width: 2px;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  transition: all 0.2s linear;
  background: #fff;
}

button:hover::before,
button:hover::after {
  width: 100%;
}

button:hover span::before,
button:hover span::after {
  height: 100%;
}

.btn-3::after {
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  transition-delay: 0.6s;
}

.btn-3 span::after {
  transition-delay: 0.4s;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}

.btn-3::before {
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  transition-delay: 0.2s;
}

.btn-3 span::before {
  transition-delay: 0s;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

.btn-3:hover::after {
  transition-delay: 0s;
}

.btn-3:hover span::after {
  transition-delay: 0.2s;
}

.btn-3:hover::before {
  transition-delay: 0.4s;
}

.btn-3:hover span::before {
  transition-delay: 0.6s;
}
<button (click)="openDialog()"
        class="extended-fab-button btn-3"
        mat-fab color="primary">
  Test File
</button>

A: If you remove your border-radius: 100px; rule, then your button will have the shape you described as desirable in your question.

button {
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
}

button::before,
button::after {
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 2px;
  position: absolute;
  transition: all 0.2s linear;
  background: #fff;
}

span::before,
span::after {
  content: "";
  width: 2px;
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  transition: all 0.2s linear;
  background: #fff;
}

button:hover::before,
button:hover::after {
  width: 100%;
}

button:hover span::before,
button:hover span::after {
  height: 100%;
}

.btn-3::after {
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  transition-delay: 0.6s;
}

.btn-3 span::after {
  transition-delay: 0.4s;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}

.btn-3::before {
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  transition-delay: 0.2s;
}

.btn-3 span::before {
  transition-delay: 0s;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

.btn-3:hover::after {
  transition-delay: 0s;
}

.btn-3:hover span::after {
  transition-delay: 0.2s;
}

.btn-3:hover::before {
  transition-delay: 0.4s;
}

.btn-3:hover span::before {
  transition-delay: 0.6s;
}
<button (click)="openDialog()"
        class="extended-fab-button btn-3"
        mat-fab color="primary">
  Test File
</button>

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Rihanna will be the recipient of a coveted award during BET's Black Girls Rock 2016, taking place Friday, April 1 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey.
The singer, who will be given the Rock Star Award, took to Instagram to express her gratitude. "Thank you @BlackGirlsRock for this years' Rock Star Award!! #BlackGirlsRockBET," she wrote.
The singer joins a slew of famous faces being recognized, including Gladys Knight, who will receive the Living Legend Award. Also being honored are TV mogul Shonda Rhimes, The Walking Dead actress Danai Gurira, actress and activist Amandla Stenberg, and Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors, among others.
Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross, the ceremony will air Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 8 p.m. ET on BET.
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