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Dating, if we're not doing it with intention, can be something we dive into with little clarity. We don't check the water's depth, surrounding currents or our ability to stay afloat. Before we know it, we're in the middle of the sea with nothing but a life vest, a whistle and none of those fish that everyone swore were waiting for you just below the surface. But what if dating didn't have to be like this? What if there was a way to do it differently that had nothing to do with playing games, pr…
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Jordanna Levin
Dating, if we're not doing it with intention, can be something we dive into with little clarity. We don't check the water's depth, surrounding currents or our ability to stay afloat. Before we know it, we're in the middle of the sea with nothing but a life vest, a whistle and none of those fish that everyone swore were waiting for you just below the surface.
But what if dating didn't have to be like this? What if there was a way to do it differently that had nothing to do with playing games, pretending to be someone you're not or playing the supporting actor to someone else's starring role?
Enter Jordanna Levin, bestselling author of manifestation bible Make It Happen, who's been there and knows a thing or two about the search for love. This is a book about dating, yes, but at its essence, it's about figuring out who you are, what lights you up and how you want to feel in love, whether you're testing the water for the first time, diving back in after a break or a long-time swimmer. Higher Love takes dating and flips it on its head, inviting you to get curious about the role you play in your own love story and helping you strengthen your personal vibration to attract the love that you deserve and are oh so worthy of.


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Ordered this one off of CDBaby.com of all places. Never thought I'd see a KISS release on CDBaby! In truth, this is a Japanese import released through Japan's King Records label and Yume no Ukiyo ni Saitemina is collaborative effort between KISS and Momoiro Clover Z, a popular J-pop girl group in Japan. Why? As Paul Stanley, "Why not?" It's a great bit of PR and marketing though as this project was released right about the time KISS went on a brief tour of Japan.
"Yume no Ukiyo ni Saitemina" is a pretty catchy song. The music is especially good. Momoiro Clover Z handles the lead vocals while KISS helps out in the chorus. Then there's the cover of "Rock and Roll All Nite", which again features Clover Z on the vocals with a few musical nods to other KISS songs such as "Love Gun" and "I Was Made for Lovin' You". "SAMURAI SON" is a reworking of "Yume no Ukiyo ni Saitemina", featuring Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons on lead vocals, new lyrics and the Clover Z girls on backing vocals.
The "off vocals" versions are what you'd guess they are: instrumentals.
I know people will laugh at or hate this project because #1: it's KISS and #2: it's KISS teaming up with a Japanese pop girl group but the songs are actually kinda fun. It's a quirky one-off thing and it's not the band selling out or anything like that. They've been at this for 40+ years now, I don't blame them for wanting to try something different. And this is definitely different. If you're still longing for the days of Ace & Peter, then go back to your old vinyl record collection but I'm a fan of all eras of KISS and this is an odd yet entertaining release as far as I'm concerned.
The album comes in two different editions. One for KISS and one for Momoiro Clover Z. Of course I picked the KISS version. It's a pretty nice package with a clear slip cover, nice insert and cardstock featuring credits & lyrics and even the CD's artwork is pretty cool.
Wow. Despite the major success of Black Ice, which proved the world that AC/DC was still commercial force to be reckoned with and just as popular as ever, the band has had some tough times lately. Firstly, it was announced in September 2014 that founding member & rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young had permanently left the band and retired from music as he is battling dementia in addition to recovering from lung and heart operations he's had in recent times. It was initially reported in the spring that he was taking a break from the band, but in the fall it was made official that he has retired.
Despite this, the band decided to continue on. I really assumed that if one of the Young brothers ever had to leave the band for whatever reason, then the band would retire. I kind of admire Angus for wanting to continue on. Apparently, all of the songs for Rock or Bust were already written by Angus & Malcolm by the time it was first announced Malcolm was taking a break. I figured this would at least delay recording but their nephew Steve Young stepped in to play rhythm guitar on the album and he is now Malcolm's official replacement. Steve is no stranger to the band; he filled in for Malcolm on tour in 1988 while Malcolm was dealing with alcohol issues.
But it if that wasn't enough, just before the release of this album, longtime drummer Phil Rudd's house was raided in November 2014 and he was charged with "attempting to procure a murder, threatening to kill, possession of methamphetamine and possession of cannabis". The attempt to procure a murder charged was dropped but as of this writing he is still facing the other charges. It is not known at this time whether he is still a member of the band but recent band photos have not included Phil Rudd. Angus seems willing to give Phil a chance to deal with the charges but has stated someone will be drumming for them when they go on tour in the spring of 2015.
This is the first "new release" of a vinyl album I've ever bought. While I have a decent size CD collection, these days I mostly listen to music digitally. When I saw that this album wasn't up on Spotify and that it was $10-13 for either the digital album or the CD, I figured I might as well pay another $10 for the vinyl/CD bundle. I ended up buying this at Barnes & Noble of all places. I think all vinyl releases should include a CD copy. So now I have a vinyl copy, a CD copy and a copy burned to my computer/iPod. The vinyl cover is 3D lenticular artwork and features the AC/DC logo breaking through. The packaging is well done. One sleeve for the CD and booklet featuring photos, one sleeve for the record. It all has an old school look to it. They even used the old Columbia Records logo.
So how does the music fare? Well, it's AC/DC. If you like AC/DC, you'll like this album. We already know they have a formula and they're going to stick with it. I've spun Rock or Bust a number of times already (it's easy to do when the album is only 34 minutes long) and I definitely like it. I don't think it's as good as Black Ice, but "Rock or Bust", "Play Ball" and "Miss Adventure" are very good tunes with the first two definitely having that classic AC/DC feel to them. "Rock the Blues Away" is another good one that I can see going over well in concert. With further comparison to Black Ice, I think Brian Johnson's voice actually sounds better on this album.
While the album may not go down as an all-time classic in the band's catalog, it's certainly a "good" album that beats out stuff like Stiff Upper Lip and the band's output from '83-'88. If Rock or Bust is to be the last album the band ever records in the studio (I'm assuming there will be a live album to chronicle the Rock or Bust world tour), then it's a strong note to go out on.
And, hey, selling 500,000 copies and going gold in the U.S. within two months of being released is good note to go out on as well. Not bad for a rock band in their fifth decade, especially considering the state of the music industry.
Finally! An album with only eight tracks! Dave Grohl gets it. He's kind of an old school guy when it comes to rock, so I'm not sure it he did it on purpose but to release only 8-10 tracks on your album seems like a throwback idea to me (and always a good one). I'm always wary of any band that wants to put 15 or 17 songs on an album because you know just there's going to be tons of filler.
Plus, as I'm getting older, I'm finding I'm unfortunately devoting less and less time to listening to music so it's nice to see a fairly short album. Okay, so there's only one song clocking in at under four minutes (just barely, and the longest song is seven minutes long), but it's still nice to not stare at a wall of track list.
Sonic Highways almost seems more like a project in a way, rather than a band album. Does it sound like the Foo Fighters? Yes. But it's different in that the album was recorded in conjunction with a HBO series and each song was recorded in a different city with various special guests. The guest list includes Cheap Trick's Rick Nielson, Zac Brown, Joe Walsh and band-mates from Grohl's '80s band, Scream.
Not as star studded (IMO) as the Sound City: Real to Reel album, but in a way, Sonic Highways seems like an expansion of Grohl's Sound City documentary/album project.
As I said, the songs still sound like Foo Fighters, despite the fact "Something From Nothing" lifts from Dio's "Holy Diver"! The rest is what you'd expect from the Foo Fighters from this point and it stands as a worthy addition to the band's catalog but I think it falls short from being as good as 2011's Wasting Light.
I love this album's cover art. How awesome would it be to have that on a vinyl sleeve?
This self-titled effort is the Swedish band's fourth release (third on the Frontiers label) and delivers more of the sleaze 'n' glam metal goods. I'll admit, it took me a few spins before some of the songs really started to click with me but "Girls of the '80s" was an obvious standout for me from the get-go.
I've seen a number of people comment that "Psycho City" reminds them of KISS… Not getting that at all, although I do think the song is one of the best from the album. One song that does remind me of a band is "Ain't No Rest in Rock N' Roll", which has the band sounding a bit like an AC/DC clone.
Other highlights for me are "I Missed the Mark" and "All Looks, No Hooks". Great melodic hard rock that at times reminds me of Danger Danger, just not as polished.
I heard all three of the band's Frontiers Records releases. While I don't think the band has delivered a knockout release just yet, all three have been good. Nothing here matches the intensity and catchiness of "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" or "Church of Rock" (both from Riot Avenue) but this may be the band's most consistent album yet.
With a history dating back to 1992 and seven albums under their belt, Lonewolf are a French heavy metal outfit that plays in the traditional heavy/power metal style.
What initially grabbed me about this album was the cover art. It's an excellent piece of work. I don't think I had ever listened to Lonewolf before this album. There's a couple of other 'wolf' metal bands out there (Powerwolf, Wolf) and I haven't followed any of them too closely so I wasn't sure what to expect from Lonewolf. Judging by the band name and album title, I was hoping for a traditional heavy metal/power metal sound and that's exactly what they deliver, though their sound leans more towards power metal rather than old school heavy metal.
Cult of Steel is a melodic metal affair full of everything you'd expect from the power metal genre: galloping drum beats and speedy riffing and solo work. Jens Börner growly vocals give the band's sound a bit of an edge. Don't worry, he's actually a good singer and a good fit.
My complaint about this album is that many of the songs sound too similar. I had to check iTunes to make sure the song wasn't set on repeat. Those galloping drums and speedy guitars don't really change tempo at too much. That's a shame because when the band decides to play things slightly different, the album gets interesting with songs like "Mysterium Fidei" (well, at least with the song's intro) and "Funeral Pyre".
Lonewolf could benefit on the next go around by trying to get each song its own identity and not playing 'Power Metal 101'-type songs but this is a solid slab of metal and I'll be keeping my eyes peeled and ears open for what this band comes up with next.
I came into this album expecting more of the same from Apocalyptic Love. That is, an album that is solid but uneventful and not memorable at all. In fact, with 17 tracks and 77 minutes of music, I'd actually been putting off listening to this album for quite some time. I didn't want to devote the time to something I was afraid wasn't going to make a lasting impression anyway. You may ask yourself, "Why even bother listening to it at all then?" Well, because it's Slash. That's why.
Okay. So, my thoughts? Well, the album is indeed too long. All Music Guide's Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that the band "gives the impression that they continue recording because they simply don't know when they're done". He's not too far off the mark. I'm a big proponent of albums being 10-12 songs long. Once you're beyond that, in most cases you're really just putting down filler and that's the case here.
Luckily, the thing about an album that's 17 songs long is there's has to be a few good ones in there somewhere and there are. The first three tracks are pretty good until the album ventures into the land of Generica, then album comes alive again with "Too Far" and "Beneath the Savage Sun". Unfortunately, not much rest on the album has made an impression on me.
Personally, I'm still hoping that someday Velvet Revolver reunites or that Slash will go back to working with a different singer on each song just as he did on his self-titled solo debut from 2010 because I found all of that much more interesting and varied than what's been going on when Myles Kennedy is featured (as great of a singer as he is).
The first and last time I listened to a full album from this band was with their 2009 album Ravenous. It was a solid album, but when I listened to a few tracks from their Legions of Bastards follow-up in 2011, I guess I wasn't in the mood for these Swedish metal-heads because I'm certain I never listened to the whole thing.
With the release of Devil Seed, I decided to give these guys another chance and I'm glad I did. The first track I heard was "Killing Floor". I think it might've been made available as a streaming preview and it perfectly captures the traditional heavy metal vibe. It's a great way to close the album. As an opener, the instrumental "Shark in C Minor" sets the pace for what's to come with yet another fantastic wallop of headbanging metal. "Overture in C Shark" smoothly flows into "Shark Attack", which does not disappoint after the anticipation already built upon from the opening of the album.
I've seen some reviews stating this album is mediocre, but I'm digging it a lot. Much more than I thought I would. In fact, I think I like it better than Ravenous (which I can't even remember) and I seem to recall that one getting high praise.
Wolf are firmly in the camp of the "new wave of traditional heavy metal" (Enforcer, Cauldron, White Wizzard, Skelator, Skull Fist, etc.) but I'm finding them to be among the cream of the crop as I think they have a better grip on melody and are superior at writing metal-tinged ballads and mid-tempo songs.
9. Who Has the Right?
Well, it's no surprise that Sammy's latest release comes from Jimmy Buffett's record label as it seems like Hagar has tried to emulate elements of Jimmy Buffett over the last decade (right down to covering his songs and touring with him). As the album cover and title would suggest, Lite Roast is a laid back and mellow acoustic affair. What's notable is that Hagar's longtime guitarist, Vic Johnson from the Waboritas, is featured on the cover and the album is officially credited to them both.
Essentially, this is kind of a compilation of solo/Van Hagar tracks reworked acoustically. "The Love", from Hagar's 1999 album Red Voodoo is excellent in this setting. I think I might actually prefer this stripped down version over the original. It's also nice to see the inclusion of that album's title track as Red Voodoo holds a special nostalgic place in my heart. Yes, I'm nostalgic about a Sammy Hagar album that was released in 1999.
There's a couple of tracks that fall flat with me (okay, more than a couple). "One Sip" is from Hagar's Buffett-inspired Livin' It Up! album which was co-written with another Buffett emulator Kenny Chesney. That was an album I passed on and "One Sip" proves to me I was right. I doubt the original version is any better. "Sailin'" is also from that album is, frankly, a bland ballad. Van Halen's "Finish What Ya Started" holds up well, as expected, when given the full acoustic treatment. "Dreams" also sounds good here. MelodicRock.com said this version of "Dreams" is "horrible" but I don't get that at all. I think it holds up well.
Despite the spotty picks of tracks, one thing I like about this album is the production. It sounds like there's not a whole lot and I mean that in a good way. It really sounds like Sammy and Vic simply pulled up a couple of stools, started playing and recorded everything live. I'm not sure if that's what actually happened, but every track sounds like it was done that way in an intimate setting. There's no attempt to set the atmosphere with a piano or anything. Just a couple of guys with acoustic guitars singing.
I guess it's no surprise that I found myself most enjoying the songs that I already knew. Much of Hagar's solo work beyond Red Voodoo has been very uninspired and, dare I say, lazy (although I LOVE "Serious Juju" from Ten 13). Lite Roast is a mixed bag of varying quality coffee grounds. There's really only four tracks here that I think are enjoyable. The rest is kinda forgettable and boring. A Sammy Hagar acoustic album isn't a bad idea, it's just that the song selection is pretty poor. I'd like Hagar to revisit the acoustic setting at some point with the idea of doing a greatest hits package.
When I first came across this album, I wasn't sure what to expect. Either some type of cheesy heavy metal or perhaps something extreme? Well, while power metal is known for having quite a bit of cheese factor, I wouldn't call Bloodbound cheesy: the keyboards don't drown out the guitars and there's plenty of riffing, big anthems and frenetic drumming here.
While I'm not too familiar with the band, I can tell you that Bloodbound have been around for about 10 years and they hail from Sweden. Stormborn is their sixth album and if you're looking for a point of comparison, their music reminds me a lot Edguy, Avantasia, Dream Evil, Hammerfall, Manowar and Halford. "Made of Steel" sounds like it could've come from Manowar or Halford's Halford IV: Made of Metal album while "When the Kingdom Will Falls" sounds like it came right from one of Tobias Sammet's bands (Edguy and Avantasia… your choice). Patrik Johansson's vocals are similar to Sammet's as well but a little Halford comes through on songs like "Made of Steel" and "Satanic Panic".
I've listened to this album a couple of times and I can't help but think I've heard it all before but I don't mean that in a bad way. Many of these songs reminds me of other power metal bands. Bloodbound are not plagiarizing or ripping off other bands but their influences do come through. Anyone that is into good old fashioned power metal should be able to find plenty to enjoy on Stormborn. As for myself, going by this album alone, the band has gained a new follower and I'll have to see if I can check out their previous releases.


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A number of courts, government departments and other organisations in each state have very kindly provided photographs for use in this booklet. They are acknowledged in the captions below each image.
This publication was made possible by generous grants from the Victoria Law Foundation, the Sentencing Advisory Council of Victoria, the Judicial Commission of NSW, the Law Foundation of South Australia and the Law Society Public Purposes Trust of Western Australia.
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Reports and feature stories of crime and punishment are constantly in the news. Criminal law, law enforcement, criminal prosecutions and sentencing of offenders generate a great deal of public interest.
Television, newspapers and radio, thrive on reporting serious or emotive criminal cases, especially if well-known people are involved, whether as offender or victim, or even both.
Matters of crime and punishment fascinate the public because criminal behaviour is often raw, startling and - for many people in the community - extremely unsettling and disturbing.
Crime, and the way it is reported, can affect the psychological well- being of people and indeed influence their everyday lives.
The high level of interest may also partly reflect the community's experience with the fictional treatment of crime and punishment through television, cinema, books and magazines. Australian television is saturated with "cops and robbers" shows – Australian, American, British and sometimes even European ones.
For many people these programmes are pure entertainment, but they may also affect people's views about crime and punishment in the real world. Many people are surprised to discover that the Australian judicial system does not mirror the one they see on television and the movies. They have watched American legal dramas on television and understandably think our courts operate just like American ones. In fact, they are very different in many respects.
Sentencing seems to attract more interest than any other aspect of the criminal justice system. When a person has broken the law and has caused harm or distress to others, the community expects that the sentencing process will punish that person appropriately - that "something will be done".
News reporting of sensational crime cases and "cops and robbers" shows on television, particularly from overseas, can give an inaccurate impression of the way the justice system really operates in Australia.
Australia used to torture prisoners with some of the harshest punishments imaginable. We subjected convicts to hangings, brutal floggings, or solitary confinement in chains and iron masks. One aim was to reform criminals so they would never offend again. But we slowly learned the inescapable truth; brutal punishment creates angrier and more violent people.
Today, sentencing laws are designed to be much more effective as well as humane. They allow courts to impose financial penalties or loss of freedom ranging from life imprisonment to having to complete unpaid community work several hours a week. They may also provide for offenders to be diverted to treatment or other programs designed to prevent them from re-offending.
The Chain Gang – early historical drawing of Australian convicts. Image: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.


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The real reasons for the tragic demise of the British pub industry
It is hard to see what could rescue the pubs industry, the taxes and rules that have done so much to hurt the industry can only get worse
Photo: AP
By Allister Heath
12:10AM GMT 10 Dec 2014
It isn't actually a new phenomenon. Ever since anybody can remember, the British pub has been in slow, tragic decline. The number of public houses per capita most likely peaked in the late 19th century and has been falling ever since, with only one minor and temporary exception.
When it comes to absolute numbers, there were 99,000 pubs in 1905 but just 77,500 by 1935, as a result of a series of government policies including deliberate suppression, restrictive opening hours, stringent regulations and higher taxes, many accelerated by the First World War.
The industry saw a temporary recovery after the Second World War. By 1969, there were 75,000 pubs in the UK, a number that fell gradually to 69,000 by 1980, finally slipping below the 60,000 mark for the first time 11 years ago.
The decline subsequently accelerated dramatically: there were still 58,200 public houses in 2006 but just 48,000 last year, an 18pc collapse in just seven years. The worst year for the industry came in 2009, when various public policy and behavioural shifts combined with the Great Recession to shut 52 pubs every week. Today, the carnage continues but at the slightly lesser rate of 31 closures a week.
So who and what is killing the British pub? The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has the answers, and the culprits are not the greedy, supposedly useless pub companies that so many people love to hate so obsessively. Its new report by Christopher Snowdon is chock-a-block with fascinating facts and reveals how a variety of powerful forces including tax, regulation and cultural change are destroying one of Britain's most iconic industries.
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Simply blaming big corporations is daft, as ever. It makes sense to look at closures and openings - and to devise a net closure statistic - to gauge which part of the pubs industry is thriving and which isn't. The IEA report calculates that between December 2005 and March 2013, net closures represented 16.5pc of the PubCo sector and 14.6pc of the independent sector. In other words, because PubCos don't open many new pubs, they have been slightly more likely to shut pubs on a net basis than independents. In practice, the figures are remarkably similar. They certainly do not suggest that PubCos are a key, or even a significant, reason for the demise of the industry. Around 19,000 of Britain's 48,000 pubs are run by PubCos such as Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns; but both parts of the industry are struggling roughly equally.
As it happens, there is a good case to be made that previous intervention in this sector was a mistake and that the PubCos should never have been created. In the past, breweries used to own most pubs and used them to sell their own products. The 1989 Monopolies and Mergers Commission ruling - that the old, vertically-integrated system was anti-competitive - was, with the benefit of hindsight, a great mistake. So too was the government's decision to introduce the Beer Orders in response. Sometimes, markets are messy and produce seemingly strange outcomes that don't fit the efficiency criteria beloved of mainstream microeconomists – but the alternative created by clumsy top-down government intervention can easily be worse. That said, beating up today's PubCos doesn't make any sense at all.
So what is going on? There has certainly been a massive backlash against alcohol in the UK, with per capita consumption declining by 18pc since 2004, one of the most interesting figures that I have come across in a long time. But that alone is only one of the many reasons why the pub trade has suffered so badly. The decline in alcohol consumption has been driven primarily by a slump in beer sales: in 2003, the average adult drank 218 pints per person; by 2011, they consumed just 152 pints, an astonishing 30pc drop.
To make life even harder for pubs, it is in the "on" trade (licensed premises) where the collapse has been spectacular, rather than the "off" trade (primarily supermarkets and off licences). Over the 10 years to 2013, per capita sales in the latter were down 16pc - but they had slumped by a shocking, catastrophic 54pc in the former. As Snowdon puts it: "Britons are not just losing their taste for beer, they are losing their taste for beer in pubs in particular."
Taxes have been one key problem. Planning rules that push up the cost of operating pubs - especially when compared with supermarkets - haven't helped either. The recession and falling real wages have hit pubs disproportionately hard. Yet the one factor that correlates most closely with the accelerating decline in the pub industry is the smoking ban.
There is plenty of international evidence for these sorts of effects, as well as the experience of what happened closer to home. As Snowdon points out, the number of pubs fell by 11pc in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales within the first four years of their bans, even though they were imposed at different times and during different economic climates, suggesting a remarkably similar impact.
It is hard to see what could rescue the pubs industry. Politicians and activists are obsessed with beating up the PubCos. The tax and rules that have done so much to hurt the industry can only get worse. Combined with the fact that we are falling out of love with beer as a nation, expect the pubs sector to shrink yet further over the next few years.
Dave Lewis's struggle
It will get worse before it gets better at Tesco. Investors for whom this comes as a shock haven't been doing their homework. The company is in a terrible state, as has been apparent for months now. Even some of the most basic retail skills it once mastered so superbly were allowed to wither in recent years, and almost everything it does now needs to be improved, sometimes dramatically. Head office is being forced to dictate endless changes which, in a better-functioning organisation, would be delegated to stores or area chiefs.
It will take years to turn Tesco around fully, such is its size, complexity and global nature. Change will require a vast amount of expenditure and there will be plenty more disappointments along the way. Dave Lewis is clearly the man to do this; his decisions to date have been eminently sensible. The markets shouldn't even begin to try to judge him until this time next year.
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Vorsitzender des Vereins war bis Juni 2011 Hermann-Josef Scharf, dieser wurde von Otto Bernhardt abgelöst. Dem DSFI und dem Unterstützerkreis gehören u. a. Rita Süssmuth (CDU), Gerhart Baum (FDP) und Horst Teltschik (CDU) an.

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I really like Vallum Killometer. . A 1 RotV build is a challenge to make interesting when going with the symmetrical route, it pushes for asymmetry. And I think asymmetrical maps are too scarce around heroscapers; they pretty much always are more of a feat to make balanced/competitive than perfect or almost perfect-symmetry, and for that, I think a lot of people are afraid to try to make them. They also seem to require more time in making, with them you can't just spit out a map and dub it "competitive" just because each side is the same in symmetry. It's always a treat to see them for me, I find them much more interesting most of the time.
I also like that there's a random treasure glyph to the left, they're sometimes forgotten about.
It reminds me of a mixture between GameBear's Common Ground and your Dry Season, both great 1 RotV maps. Again, cool map.
When I finally get around to starting a map thread (right now my problem is I have a mac and am at college, I know there's a way to get windows on a mac but I'm not that great with computers and haven't tried getting it yet, I think I'm just going to wait and use my grandma's PC whenever I go home, then upload them from there), one of the first maps I'll post (I have 3 or 4 maps so far) is a 1 RotV map, can't wait to share it.
I've spent a bunch of time crunching what people like and don't like about @GameBear 's single Rise map Common Ground and my single Rise map Dry Season, and this is what I've come up with.
I really like Vallum...It reminds me of a mixture between GameBear's Common Ground and your Dry Season, both great 1 RotV maps. Again, cool map.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. And I'm glad to see you made the connection before you saw my intention. I must have succeeded at least a little bit.
one of the first maps I'll post (I have 3 or 4 maps so far) is a 1 RotV map, can't wait to share it.
Looking forward to seeing them, especially the single Rise.
I've made some updates to Vallum.
I shrunk the platforms on levels 4 and 3 around each ruin to make the real estate there more valuable, and expanded level 2 to provide more room to maneuver around them. I added a narrow bridge between the two hill to improve movement between them, but kept it small to keep the two hills tactically separated. I added a subhill to each side of the lower hill, to add a strong stance there to keep that part of the map attractive in the shadow of the taller hill. Finally I added some water to the edge of the map to push action in towards the hills.
I've spent a bunch of time crunching what people like and don't like about @GameBear 's single Rise map Common Ground and my single Rise map Dry Season, and this is what I've come up with. To spice it up I've kept it superficially asymetric, but both sides have equal access to everything and play evenly. It has quite a bit of property on the highest level, but with the ruins cutting it in half it doesn't just become a plateau of slaughter. The power glyph is far enough afield to draw attention away from the tall hill (I liked it best with strong glyphs like Astrid, Gerda or Valda, but not enough to make it a fixed glyph), and the treasure glyph is easy enough to get to without decommitting from the high side that it tempts heroes (and I made the trap very low impact to avoid disincentivizing it, unlike some of my previous traps). The routes past the ruins are open enough that a single squad of Rats can't tie the whole thing up, and I've also accounted for hiding Rae-rae (Rise version can't cover the glyph from behind the ruin), and Zelrig and other ranged double basers can get to the top on OM1, but require a second OM to threaten the opposing SZ. I know there's more that I can't think of right now, but I'll fill it in as I remember.
Looks very schmexy Killo. I particularly like the "mini-hills". I'll make sure to give it a whirl.
Except now I have to rebuild it.
I particularly like the "mini-hills".
It took a long time for me to settle on where to put them. I kept trying to work them in nearer the tall hill, until I realized they'd go a great distance towards solving the problem you mentioned of the lower hill lacking draw. Now they're a good (but not great) Raelin/dragon/whoever perch over there: the gigh ground and glyph is too far for Raelin I to cover, and if you park a dragon or something similar there they cover a relatively limited chunk of map, thanks to its proximity to the SZ, ruins, and the edge of the map.
And, as always, I'd love to hear how the updates play.
Cool. I'll have to see if I can get a chance to build it. Thanks for keeping at these RoTV maps, Killo!
If it sees some action and is well enough received mebbe I'll add it to your "must play" list.
And just in case I forgot, belated thanks for your BoV-eye input on Dry Season; I considered it a lot when working on Vallum.
Hey Killometer, how does Perilous Paradise play competitively (particularly for Heat of Battle)?
"elvenwizard9." Now that's a username I've not heard in a long time.
Sorry so slow to respond, elvenwizard. I've actually never played it as a HoB map, but I've played it a lot as just straight 1-on-1 kill 'em all, everything from 200 to 1000 points, and I'd be perfectly happy lining up on either side in a competitive format.
Though as I consider it, in a HoB format its standard start zones might be dead zones-it's really designed as a clash-in-the-middle map, with a lot of interesting terrain and options there, with relatively plain SZ regions to allow rapid deployment. Possibly removing or adjusting the ruins and/or moving the glyphs out to there would help mitigate that. I'll dwell on it and let you know if I come up with any improvements for that format.
Dunno. Requires more thought than I'm up for at 1 in the morning.
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I'll see how it plays - looking forward to getting it built this week!


My son's and my daughter's feet both grew 2 full sizes this summer! So, we went out this week to do some back to school shopping for them. Back to school shopping….loading kids up with paper, pencils, notebooks, a new backpack, shoes, and some new clothes. It strikes me every year, but this year in particular, that the options are slim for clothes that girls can actually wear to school. My daughter's school has a dress code – no tank tops, no shirts where you can see your tummy if you raise your hands, and the more difficult one to comply with…shorts that are long enough to reach your fingertips when your hands are at your sides. This year it was nearly impossible to find clothes in stores which would comply with the dress code.
Just yesterday on the radio I caught a small part of an interview with someone talking about just that. But what she said next was powerful!
Because — "Dads are the ones who should guard the sexuality of their daughters".
I can't tell you the woman's name to give her credit, and I wish I had heard more of the interview, but those words stuck with me. Dads, that is a big calling today when the stores are selling clothes that barely cover their body parts, when girls see things like they did on the VMA's this week, and when they are living in a culture that does not urge them to guard and honor their bodies. Please let them know that you love them and that it is because of your deep love and respect for them that some things just aren't ok. Please don't make mom do it all of the time just because she is also a female and can "relate". They need to hear from you – from a man in their life who wants to protect them in all ways.
Dads are hard-wired to protect their families. That means not just physically, but from all things that could cause them pain. Help your daughter guard and honor and protect her sexuality. She needs you in this area. She wants to hear from you that she is beautiful and that you want to do anything you can to protect her! Tell her something different about who she is than the rest of the world seems to be screaming at her. This gets tougher as your girls get older, but if your daughters are young – start now and they will know what to expect in later years.


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The Best and Most Popular Ways To Hack Someone's Instagram
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"Hacking" someone's social media account has been a concept for a long time, even back when Myspace and Friendster reigned supreme. This hasn't changed one bit with modern social media such as Instagram, and if you're reading this, you're probably looking for a quick and dirty, automated way of getting into someone's account.
Funny word, that, "hacking." It comes with so much weight, evoking fanciful images of computer geniuses breaking into servers and stealing passwords.
1. Automated Tools
2. Reset Password
3. Phishing (Creating Fake Instagram App)
4. Keylogging
5. Social Engineering Skills
In truth, however, outside of a few data breaches by actual evil geniuses, or critical programming bugs, very little hacking actually involves exploiting the social networks themselves. After all, these companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure the security of account-holders' data.
The reality is that there's no real way to just drop someone's Instagram handle into a box and magically get their password and other details. However, by taking advantage of your target's gullibility or lack of personal security—rather than Instagram's system integrity—you can get access to their account.
In this article, we take a look at effective ways to hack someone's Instagram account, including some automated tools that can simplify the process.
Getting Instagram account information is easy with automated tools. There are plenty of them out there that provide the functionality you need to hack into an account.
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Some of these tools are positioned as child monitoring and safety software, but let's be frank about things—they could just as easily be repurposed to perform spying duties, and get Instagram account information.
Many of these tools offer keylogging capabilities, which allows them to record all the keystrokes made on a device. If installed on a computer, for example, they'll be able to read every single time that the keyboard was used, and what letters or numbers were pressed. If you sift through the logs, you may catch an Instagram password somewhere along the way.
Some tools actually have functionality specific to Instagram that allows them to directly read DMs and all links that are sent and received from a specific account. With such a feature, you won't even need to hack into Instagram.
There are also tools that use brute-force methods to crack account passwords. These are the closest you'll get to the actual hacking that is depicted in movies. Most of these basically try thousands of entries from lists of common passwords, and hope that one works. Others use more advanced techniques such as rainbow tables, which aim to reconstruct a password from encrypted hash data.
The simplest, non-automated way of attempting an Instagram hack is to use the "Forgot password?" feature that allows any user to change their account password if they've forgotten it.
Before you begin, you'll need to already have access to one of three account access methods that your target uses. Either their email address, Facebook account, or phone will do.
When you're ready, go ahead and navigate to www.instagram.com, and enter the login screen. You'll be faced with this:
Click on "Forgot password?" as indicated, then in the field that appears, enter your target's username, phone number, or email address. Alternatively, click on "Log in with Facebook."
If you used the target account's username or email address, then you have to have access to their email account. Check their email for a message from [email protected], which includes a big blue button that links to a password reset page on Instagram. You'll be asked to enter a new password from here.
If you used the target's phone number, you'll need to have access to their phone and the credentials needed to unlock it. You'll receive an SMS from Instagram with a link to reset their password. Do the same as above.
Choosing to log in Facebook is fairly straightforward. You'll be directed to the usual Facebook login screen. From here, input your target's Facebook username and password, and you'll have access to their account immediately.
This method is pretty much foolproof and will bypass two-factor authentication except in the case of Facebook login. However, it requires a lot of knowledge and access to the target in the first place. It's definitely not ideal if you're hacking someone you don't know. It's also not recommended if you're part of a very small set of people with knowledge of or access to these accounts, because you immediately become a suspect.
You might have heard the term "phishing" in the past. It's one of the principal ways by which malicious entities actually do get login credentials—not by fancy technological means, but by tricking people into revealing these details.
Phishing is the act of disguising fake emails, websites, and other communication channels as legitimate and official, then sending them to unsuspecting users to lure them into providing private information.
For example, a user who receives a fake email, ostensibly from Instagram, might be directed to a seemingly legitimate login link. They'll input their username and password into the fields, and then rather than getting logged into Instagram, whatever they input will be sent straight to the hacker.
So how does phishing work for Instagram? How do you create the pages or emails necessary to trick users?
There's a whole bunch of websites out there that make the process really easy for you. Most of them allow you to automatically create a website that looks exactly like the login screen of your chosen social media network. From there, you'll be given a link that you can send to your target, which will entice them to enter their details.
To give an example, we'll use one of the more effective sites out there, www.z-shadow.co. Start by heading to that site and creating an account. You may need to disable any ad-blocker software, as some of the site functions stop working if you're running one.
From here, you'll be faced with this screen:
Enter "Instagram" into the search box on the upper right, and you'll find this:
Click on the "English" button, and a text box will pop up containing a link. Copy this link, or click the button on the right of the text box to copy it straight to the clipboard.
This is what that link looks like:
It looks exactly like the Instagram login page! Of course, if you look at the URL up top, it's definitely not Instagram. However, most people fail to check their address bars before they input their personal information, so it's still very possible for someone to fall for this trick.
The next step is to send that link to your target. Make sure to start a natural-sounding conversation and sneak the link in as though you're showing them a picture from someone's private profile. It should be something that won't arouse suspicion when they're met with an Instagram login screen. You can also reduce the chance of detection by using a URL shortener such as https://bitly.com/.
The minute they input their login information, they'll be directed to a different page without being notified of anything wrong. However, their information will actually be recorded to your z-shadow.co account. In fact, if the z-shadow.co page is open when they input their information, you'll get a notification, consisting of a bell sound, that tells you that you've got a hit.
To view the passwords that you've successfully phished, click on "My Victims" in the top menu bar.
You'll be greeted with this list:
The username and password will be revealed in plaintext to you, along with the exact date and time that the information was inputted. You'll also get the victim's IP address for your reference.
Each of these entries will be deleted 15 days after they're received, so make sure to save the information immediately, so that you don't lose it.
The effectiveness of phishing is often dependent on the packaging, so to speak. You need to create a narrative that will make it reasonable for your victim to expect an Instagram login link. Once they've taken the bait, though, the accuracy of the Instagram phishing page's appearance will definitely get them.
Keep in mind that this method will fail if your target is somewhat aware of security practices, and checks the URL before they input anything.
In addition, if your target uses two-factor authentication for their Instagram login, then the username and password will be useless on their own unless you have access to their phone.
Ah, the keylogger. One of the great fears of paranoid security geeks for so many years, the humble keylogger has gained almost mythical status in the public perception of hacking, even though it's relatively difficult to deploy if you're not a malware developer.
Keyloggers are little bits of software that constantly run in the background of a target computer or mobile device. They record, or log, every single button press that is performed while the keylogger is active. They may then record these presses locally to a file on the device, or send it to a server or the hacker's computer.
We mentioned keylogging in some of the automated tools above, but here, we describe keyloggers as software solely designed to log keystrokes.
Most people encounter keyloggers in the wild through malware. The malware makes its way to a target computer via an email attachment or some other infection vector, then installs itself and starts sending information back to the creator.
Alternatively, many public computers which allow unsecured application installs could have keyloggers running in the background, installed by malicious individuals looking to harvest login information. This is one of the reasons why you should avoid entering your account details on public computers.
Using a keylogger is simple enough, though most of them are paid apps. For this method, you need to have access to the target's device. Purchase any of the following tools:
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You'll get a secure download link to each of them after your purchase is complete. Use this link on your target's device to download it there.
Launch the app and it will start running in the background, beginning its clandestine collection of data. You'll be provided with detailed reports on every keystroke made. It might seem like a lot of information to sift through, since every text, web browsing search, and random button press will be recorded. However, more advanced keylogger software can mark certain events such as Instagram login sessions, and provide notifications accordingly.
Using a keylogger requires you to have access to a target's phone, so it's definitely tricky to pull off. In fact, if you already have critical access that allows you to handle their unlocked phone, you can already do a lot of things with their Instagram account, such as view their DMs.
The username and password you get from a keylogger won't work if your target has two-factor authentication. However, if you have access to their unlocked phone, you can use their two-factor token to log in, after you acquire their login information.
Keyloggers are also not going to be particularly useful by themselves if the user already has their Instagram account signed in on their browser and app, since they'll never need to enter their password.
We previously mentioned that "very little hacking actually involves exploiting the social networks themselves." This is because the vast majority of hacking involves social engineering, or manipulating humans into sharing private information. If that sounds like our description of phishing, that's because phishing is a subset of the greater whole of social engineering.
Social engineering can involve anything from calling a target and pretending to be someone from an authoritative body to ask for a username and password, to calling up customer service and providing just enough information to successfully pass as someone else, allowing a hacker to reset passwords or get more information.
Social engineering, therefore, isn't a single method to acquire your target's Instagram information, but a variety of social tools and manipulative techniques that you can use to get that information.
You can also use social engineering to enhance the effectiveness of other methods we've described. For example, with phishing, you can combine the phishing login page with a fake email for a job offer, which includes an (fake) "Instagram link" to a company Instagram.
It might even work, albeit with much lower success, with the "Forgot password" method. You could call or text your target and say that you accidentally sent your password reset link to them. Then, send the "Forgot password" request to your target's phone, and ask them to forward the message to you. You'll receive the link and you can use it to reset their password.
For keyloggers, you may want to manipulate your target into entering their Instagram password somewhere, because if they're automatically logged in to everything, then the keylogger will never have an opportunity to see the password typed. Try sending them articles or fake chain letters about Instagram accounts being hacked and exposed, which will encourage them to enter and change their passwords. Your keylogger will be able to read the replacement password that they'll use.
Social engineering pits your own manipulative skills against the gullibility and security readiness of your target. Sometimes, it'll take a perfect storm of you being a genius, and them being a total idiot, to make it work.
Hacking Instagram accounts isn't going to be easy. You'll need a lot of access methods, techniques, patience, and a heaping serving of luck to get anywhere. It also depends on how "hard" your target is, how tech-savvy they are or how prone they are to manipulation.
One of the best ways to improve success is to combine several of these methods together, as no single method is foolproof. Combining the email access you get from an automated tool, with a "Forgot password?" request to your target's email, can get you easy access to a password reset method. Using social engineering to get phone access and then tying two-factor authentication to a third-party account that belongs to you is another method.
Each of these methods has its own strengths and limitations, and you need to cover all your bases if you want to be effective. You also need to remember that if you're trying to hack the Instagram account of someone you personally know, you are at risk of discovery and being exposed any time you slip up with these methods. If you send someone a fake link to an obvious phishing site, and they notice it, you're going to be in trouble.
These methods are also very difficult to use with people you don't know. In fact, the only way to get them to work is to use some long-term social engineering to gain their trust. At this point, you're better off aiming to be a good friend and becoming close enough to actually ask for their login details.
And of course, it's nearly impossible to perform these techniques on someone with whom you have no communication. The same goes for your own Instagram account if you've accidentally locked yourself out and are looking for a way to hack back into it.
But if you're able to use these methods effectively, with all the conditions, access rights, and required information on hand, you'll be able to take control of your target's Instagram accounts without a hitch.
Once you're in, it's important to do your work without causing too much of a fuss. Don't upload or delete photos or send messages to other people.
This doesn't apply if you're trying to take control, of course. If you plan on taking over your target's account and keeping it out of your their hands, don't forget to change the alternate email address, phone number, and Facebook account associated with it so that they won't be able to reset everything back. Once you've done this, there's almost nothing they can do to secure it again, short of contacting Instagram itself.
Congratulations, you've just learned five solid ways of hacking Instagram accounts, which are still viable in 2020. Stay out of trouble!
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RDA AIIMS against phased manner plan for trauma service for non-Covid patients
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) administration is mulling over starting an AIIMS trauma centre for non-Covid patients in a phased manner as the daily fresh Covid caseload has substantially decreased in the national capital. Declaring the centre dedicated for Covid-19 treatment in March 2020, the trauma facilities were shifted to the main AIIMS building.
The Resident Doctors Association (RDA) had written several times to the AIIMS administration to start the trauma service as the Covid caseload has decreased now. In a recently held meeting with the RDA, it has been proposed to start the trauma centre for non-Covid patients in a phased manner.
However, the AIIMS RDA has raised objections over the phased manner plan for the trauma centre. An RDA official told IANS that they are receiving as many traumatic patients as during pre-Covid times. They have provided us just two to three wards to start the service which is not enough to handle all patients, said the RDA officials.
"In a recent general body meeting held by AIIMS administration, it was decided to allocate some general wards at Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre (JPNATC) to cater to trauma patients. Emergency, Operative and ICU are three pillars of trauma care. Unavailability of these will result in an increase in preventable deaths. AIIMS administration in a recent decision has, however, denied the availability of emergency, ICU and operative care services to trauma victims at JPNATC" the RDA official said.
The RDA says that the issues regarding trauma care prevalent at Main AIIMS such as delays in emergency operative intervention, transfer out of moderate to severe injury patients, etc, will remain the same.
The official said during pre-Covid times there were total 264 beds, including 38 ICU beds at the Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre; post-Covid it has been decreased to 95 beds, including 18 ICU beds. "Several buildings at AIMMS are fully unoccupied during the pandemic times where Covid services can be started", said the RDA officials.
The RDA official said the RDA has requested AIIMS administration to restore trauma facilities at JPNATC in total.
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Consumerization of the Enterprise is Happening, Stop Fighting It
by David Spark October 28, 2011 1 min read
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Whether you like it or not, consumerization of the enterprise is happening. Employees are using digital products they've found or purchased on their own, and using devices like iPhones, iPads and Android and cloud services like DropBox and Gmail to conduct company business. But many of them feel that IT's answer to "Can we do this?" is usually "No."
"You could resist it and say no and miss out on great opportunities," observes Tom Gillis, VP and GM Security Technology Business Unit for Cisco.
Gillis got in front of the company's security discussion of consumer products and services coming into the enterprise. Now Cisco has an "any device" policy for its employees. They're perfectly happy with iPhones, Androids and more on their networks.
Gillis advises the same for others. Get in a more proactive position. If you're in security, lead the discussion. Don't react. These new technologies allow for significant productivity enhancements. Deal with the issue upfront because it's very difficult to inject security into these solutions after they've been used in a haphazard fashion.
It's been a boon for Cisco, says Gillis. By allowing for consumerization within Cisco,the company has lowered costs by an estimated 25 percent and increased user satisfaction by 200 percent.
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 * 开始执行请求
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function startTask(jsonObj, completeCallback) {
	switch(jsonObj.type) {
		case 'get' :
			return getRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback);
		break;

		case 'post' :
			return postRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback);
		break;

		case 'upload' :
			return uploadRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback);
		break;

		default:
			console.log('不支持所提供的方式');
	};
}
exports.task = startTask;

/**
 * GET请求
 */
function getRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback) {
	return request.getAsync({
		url : get_url(jsonObj),
		form: jsonObj.params
	}).spread(function(httpResponse, body){
		var err = null;
		if(httpResponse.statusCode != 200){
			err = new Error("请求失败");
		}

		return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);

	}).error(function(err){
		console.error("unable to get, because: ", err.message);
		var body = null;
		var httpResponse = null;
	   //handle error here
    return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
	})

	// request.get(
// 		{
// 			url : jsonObj.url,
// 			form: jsonObj.params
// 		},
// 		function(err,httpResponse,body){
// 			completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
// 		});
}

/**
 * POST请求
 */
function postRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback) {
	return request.postAsync({
		url : get_url(jsonObj),
		form: jsonObj.params
	}).spread(function(httpResponse, body){
		var err = null;
		if(httpResponse.statusCode != 200){
			err = new Error("请求失败");
		}

    return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
	}).error(function(err){
		console.error("unable to get, because: ", err.message);
		var body = null;
		var httpResponse = null;
	   //handle error here
    return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
	})
}

function uploadRequest(jsonObj, completeCallback){
	var up_file = jsonObj.pwd + '/file/' + jsonObj['params']['filename'];

	var formData = {
	  // Pass a simple key-value pair
	  name: 'pic',
	  // Pass multiple values /w an Array
	  filename: fs.createReadStream(up_file)
	};
	return request.postAsync({
		url : get_url(jsonObj),
		formData: formData
	}).spread(function(httpResponse, body){
		var err = null;
		if(httpResponse.statusCode != 200){
			err = new Error("请求失败");
		}

		if(httpResponse.statusCode == 302){
			err = new Error("目前的测试上传地址有问题,请求失败");
			err = null;
			console.log("目前的测试上传地址有问题,请求失败");
			body = httpResponse;
		}

    return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
	}).error(function(err){
		console.error("unable to get, because: ", err.message);
		var body = null;
		var httpResponse = null;
	   //handle error here
    return completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, completeCallback);
	})

	//
	// request.post({url:'http://service.com/upload', formData: formData}, function optionalCallback(err, httpResponse, body) {
	//   if (err) {
	//     return console.error('upload failed:', err);
	//   }
	//   console.log('Upload successful!  Server responded with:', body);
	// });

}

/**
 *	返回格式转换
 */
function completeCallbackAgent(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body, callback) {

	if (err) {
		body = null;
	}else {
		if(httpResponse.statusCode == 200){
			body = JSON.parse(body);
		}
	}

	callback(jsonObj, err, httpResponse, body);
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


£30m is a lot of money to consider. Here, it's what Windows Phone UK claims children are accidentally spending in the game without their parents' permission. This is, of course, nothing new to the gaming industry. Or is it?
The gaming industry has almost always been a capitalist, commercial-driven industry. The largest titles are AAA games with massive studios designed more for profit than enjoyment. This is why there is such a lovely indie community. But within these games, be they online or not, there have always been additional fees. You can buy the game from a local dealer, or you can buy a new and shiny edition for more. You can pre-order the collector's edition, or buy a second version because it's a new limited edition. In game benefits for collector's editions, and bonuses for payers of extra-fees are just some of the ways these companies try to get more money from us.
Last millennium closed with a troublesome app, I'm sure you remember it, RealArcade. It was a tagalong program usually installed unintentionally as a third party offer through WinZip or something else completely unrelated. It played like a jukebox. You opened it up and found access to classic games like Bejewled, some clones, or Popcap games like Insaniquarium. Well, that company since evolved into Big Fish Games which sprouts game series such as Drawn, and the Mystery Case Files. This company has recently entered into the currents of social networking. Keep this in mind.
Zynga is a company we should all be familiar with by now. They produced FarmVille on Facebook. FarmVille is a game where players set out to build and upgrade a farm. That's it. However, there is a level system that ranks you. Hence, competition, and each new feature to speed up experience gaining is locked until you reach a certain level, hence, a slowed down game play. This is another example of social network gaming. But more important is the energy system. We'll come full circle to monetization in just a bit.
Game commentary website and community Penny Arcade host the brilliantly popular Extra Credits. Season 5, episode 4 is about energy systems and claims they abuse their gamers. They functionally limit the player from their namesake, that is to say, from playing the game, but offer a quick-fix real-world payment turnaround to bypass this downtime once the energy has been spent. Along with a competitive structure of hyper-hindered advancement these payed bypasses become an insidious and abusive treatment of players. No longer would many Game Studies communities consider the program a "game".
The same series, Extra Credits, in Season 2, episode 25 speaks of microtransactions in generalities. They posit that microtransactions are a result of bad commercial practice that is propagated by consumer ignorance. They explain that the first and foremost difficulty, revealed through a consultation with gaming industry giant EA Games, is the fundamental perspective that the consumers are the enemy, to be overcome by the corporate business.
Free-to-play games require a free-to-play environment. Driving the community to purchase microtransactions limits the lifespan of the game. In an online game, as Extra Credits explain, players are content. The community is what propagates the lifespan of the game.
Second, they suggest players be allowed to obtain every type of currency in the game. Even real-world currency. There is no reason why this would hinder corporations, and gives players a solid reason to play.
Third, never sell power. Unbalancing a community is a good way to poison it through unsafe monetization.
Lastly, never divide your community, as can be done through not following the previous suggestions. A healthy community is a propagating community which is a pleasurable end-goal for both consumer and creator.
Of course, microtransactions aren't a purely insidious construct. They have their role in the industry as well and can be done in a completely healthy manner.
DLC, for example, is a great way to expand your game into multiple facets. This lets players test the waters and see if they want to plunge all the way into your world.
Personalization is never amiss for in-game transactions. So long as they have no functional boon they can be used to promote culture and community within the game. Players like to express individuality. Without the ability to customize their characters, this creative facet withers. With access to personalization perks their uniqueness and identity can thrive, and can propagate not only the community, but also the personalization pack.
Microtransactions aren't an inherently terrible thing. They do, however, have a great potential to be used wrongly, as we're seeing with companies like Zynga, Supercell, and Big Fish Gaming. Monetization of video games isn't a crime, either. What a crime is the administrative perspective that consumers are the enemy. Monetization with the community to build the community is the way to a broader, and more positive experience for consumer and creators alike.
Author: Jason Falls is a gambler. He loves to share ideas for gambling on various blogs. He writes this post for Butlers Bingo.


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New Report on Auto Industry's Alleged Forced Labor Links Hints at Increased Enforcement
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CFIUS Determines It Has No Jurisdiction Over Fufeng Group's North Dakota Corn Mill Project
USA - January 26 2023 Last December, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) determined that it did not have jurisdiction to review Chinese…
Ellen L. Aldin, Timothy J. Keeler, Jennifer L. Parry
FCC Bans Approval of New Telecommunications Equipment for Entities on the Covered List
USA - December 21 2022 On November 25, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "the Commission") issued an order banning the authorization of new equipment sold by…
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Secretary Raimondo Remarks on the Past and Future of the US-China Economic Relationship and US Efforts to Outcompete China
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National Defense Authorization Act Includes Provision Restricting US Government from Purchasing Chips Manufactured by Certain Chinese Companies
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GoodReads Summary: Muck?! Uck! YUCK!
gets stuck in the muck?
by The New York Times!
WARNING: This book may self-destruct if used to teach a lesson.
"…The rat chased the cat.
The rat chased the cat with the baseball bat.
What I Think: I'm a huge fan of The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow but only recently read The Cat on the Mat is Flat. I enjoy both but this book seems to be a bit wordier and tongue twistier and a little bit more thinkier. I noticed that I had to talk to Peanut about what was happening in the stories more than I did with The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow.
This book is another wonderful rhyming book. It's full of silly stories and some slime and muck and swill so it's super perfect for kids who think ick is funny.
who lived in a bog.
Writing Prompts: Choose a word family and try to write a story with as many of the words in the word family as you can. Be sure to make it super silly!


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TIDAL Announces Exclusive Deal for Students, Military, and First Responders To Kick Off 2022 Using SheerID
Select audiences can enjoy TIDAL HiFi Plus for $2 or TIDAL HiFi for $1
"Our campaign for students, military, and first responders is another step towards introducing more music fans to TIDAL with ad-free access to our catalog of over 80 million songs." said Angelo Sasso, SVP of Customer Engagement at TIDAL.
PORTLAND, Ore. (PRWEB) January 12, 2022
Today TIDAL announced a new limited-time offer for students, military, and first responders to enjoy three months of TIDAL HiFi for only $1 or three months of TIDAL HiFi Plus for only $2. This exclusive campaign is running now through January 31, 2022, and students, military, and first responders can claim their offer on the TIDAL website today.
"Our campaign for students, military, and first responders is another step towards introducing more music fans to TIDAL with ad-free access to our catalog of over 80 million songs and expertly curated playlists in the best sound quality available," said Angelo Sasso, Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement at TIDAL. "We are proud to support these communities with these exclusive deals for our TIDAL HiFi and HiFi Plus plans, which offer innovative ways for fans to support their favorite artists."
Here are details of the limited time offer:
Students can experience 90 days of TIDAL for only $1. After the promotional period, keep listening for $4.99/month and your payment method will be automatically charged.
Military can experience 90 days of TIDAL for only $1. After the promotional period, keep listening for $5.99/month and your payment method will be automatically charged.
First Responders can experience 90 days of TIDAL for only $1. After the promotional period, keep listening for $5.99/month and your payment method will be automatically charged.
How To Verify
Students, military, and first responders must first verify their status through SheerID, the identity marketing platform used by hundreds of leading brands. The online verification service takes just a few minutes and once completed, verified users can claim their offer and start listening to their favorite artists.
"We're excited to continue to partner with Tidal to reward specific populations with Tidal's HiFi service", said Anjanette Hill Mendoza, chief customer officer at SheerID.
Interested new users can read this step-by-step guide to better understand how to claim this exclusive offer from TIDAL and verify yourself through SheerID.
About SheerID
SheerID is the leader in identity marketing. With SheerID, brands identify and acquire consumer communities — such as the military, students, teachers, first responders, and more — with personalized offers, gated by instant verification from the largest set of authoritative zero-party data worldwide. SheerID verifies over 2.5 billion people via 9,000 authoritative data sources; provides global insights from hundreds of the world's leading brands, and never shares or sells customer data. As a result, the world's biggest brands — including Amazon, Home Depot, Spotify, and T-Mobile — rely on SheerID as their identity marketing partner. Founded in 2011, SheerID is backed by Arnold Venture Group, Brighton Park Capital, Centana Growth Partners, CVC Growth Partners, and Voyager Capital. For more information, please visit SheerID or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About Tidal
TIDAL is an artist-led global music and entertainment streaming platform that aims to create a sustainable, artist-first and fan-centric business model for the music industry. With innovative experimental features like direct-to-artist payments and fan-centered royalties, TIDAL is empowering artists to redefine their place in the music industry.
Available in 61 countries, the streaming service has more than 80 million songs and 350,000 high-quality videos in its catalog, along with original video series, podcasts, thousands of expertly curated playlists, and artist discovery via TIDAL Rising. TIDAL is available in Free, HiFi, and HiFi Plus tiers, with the HiFi Plus membership offering access to immersive audio features like Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) recordings, Dolby Atmos Music, and Sony's 360 Reality Audio recordings.
TIDAL is part of Block, Inc., a global technology firm creating better tools to expand access to the economy. For more information, please visit http://www.tidal.com.
Matt Tatham
Head of Public Relations, SheerID
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Sade Ayodele
Head of Global Communications, TIDAL
press@tidal.com
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When it comes to fitness and losing unwanted fat weight, Summer is a motivating time for most people,including myself. Unfortunately, this Summer I got off to a bad start adding unwanted weight via body fat. Like most people, I tend to store fat in and around my stomach, belly and waist area. Last week I decided to put myself on the Fat X Program, a.k.a the FX 12 to get rid of that unwanted belly fat and regain my six pack abs. I completed Day 8 on Sunday and decided to take a progress picture before completing fat burning FX workout 8.
As you can see in the picture, I seem to have burned off most of the fat and unwanted weight I slapped on in the last few months, but there is still more to go. My goal is to get the best results on the FX 12 for me yet. Here is a before and after picture of my last Fat X Project using the FX 12 I completed a few months ago.


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Zero Trust Network Access: Build Your SASE on a Solid Foundation
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By Jason Georgi
Category: Secure the Cloud
Tags: SASE, zero trust
By Jason Georgi, Field CTO, Prisma
Applications moving to the cloud and increased user mobility are changing the way networking and network security services must be delivered. Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk believes that the future of network security is in the cloud, and has been driving this change for the past few years with Prisma Access, the industry's most comprehensive SASE. In this ongoing series, Palo Alto Networks thought leaders explore the core tenets of an integrated, effective SASE solution, and more broadly, its implementation and implications.
Network architecture is evolving. This is especially true when considering that applications are in a range of locations and it's not always going to be practical (or sensible) to send traffic back to the corporate data center or HQ for security. In today's always-on, internet-based world, users and apps are everywhere, and the lack of visibility and enforcement are introducing new security problems. These challenges are compounded when network architectures have to evolve to ensure a better user experience. To protect your business, as network architecture evolves, so must the security model.
Users, Apps and Data: the Recipe for Zero Trust Network Access
Proxies may seem like an easy solution to control and secure access to cloud apps, but if you're like most organizations, you have some apps that cannot sit behind a proxy due to the protocols they use. If these apps are protected by a firewall, why use different protections in different areas? This question is especially relevant if you're looking to "lift and shift" applications from your data center to a public cloud service. Your security approach needs to be able to inspect any application's traffic, regardless of the protocols in use. Organizations need to apply better control and stronger protection with full Layer 7 content inspection in order to gain complete visibility into where users are connecting from, what applications they are using, what they are doing with the applications and what data they are trying to access. No proxy can do this.
Therein lies the need for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). By applying the Zero Trust mantra, "Never trust, always verify," organizations can ensure proper user context through authentication and attribute verification before allowing access to apps and data in the cloud or data center. A true ZTNA approach requires full content inspection to identify users and ensure policies can be applied to restrict access and ensure proper behavior once access is granted, regardless of application type. This allows organizations to minimize data loss and quickly mitigate security issues or threats that may arise. Trusting what happens within the session once access is granted by policy is not Zero Trust, it is a recipe for disaster, especially when granting access to unmanaged devices, third parties, and unknown bad actors.
All-in-one ZTNA Solutions Don't Exist
Many products today claim to solve ZTNA through software-defined perimeter (SDP), identity access management (IAM), browser isolation (BI/RBI) or other solutions. However, these point solutions don't address content inspection. Organizations can experience a false sense of security when traffic is sometimes inspected and sometimes not. To achieve full content inspection and consistent protection, organizations must make sure that they define their requirements properly. This results in more solutions that organizations must customize, manage and maintain, adding to the complexity of an already difficult task. So how can organizations achieve ZTNA without adding large bundles of non-integrated security products?
Network Architecture Has Evolved: Introducing SASE
As the world has evolved and extended to the cloud, so must network and security architectures. Utilizing multiple point products not only makes management and visibility difficult, it also creates security gaps; more policies to manage means more opportunities for misconfiguration. We believe these challenges are being addressed by a new model Gartner has developed, combining networking and security services into one cloud-delivered platform, called "secure access service edge," or SASE (pronounced "sassy").
According to Gartner, "By 2023, 20% of enterprises will have adopted secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), ZTNA and branch firewall as a service (FWaaS) capabilities from the same vendor, up from less than 5% in 2019."
To that end, Prisma™ Access, by Palo Alto Networks, is a single, comprehensive solution that provides all of the networking and security services that organizations need in a SASE architecture designed for all traffic, all applications and all users.
SASE with a Side of ZTNA
Simple policies and easy management are key for a SASE solution. Prisma Access is based on the key ZTNA principles, extending them across all the services within a SASE solution. By identifying and controlling users, devices and applications, irrespective of where they are, organizations can benefit from using a single cloud solution for ALL of their connectivity and security needs.
Read our Applying Zero Trust to Cloud Environments whitepaper to learn more.
Gartner, The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, Neil MacDonald, Lawrence Orans, Joe Skorupa, 30 August 2019


Apple touts privacy and shows off HomeKit at CES.
How important is privacy for Apple?
Battery replacement program cost Apple some sales, but not as many as China's bad economy.
Tim Cook focuses on health tech for Apple's future.
Apple vs Qualcomm takes an unexpected turn in Germany.
HomePod hits China this week.
Netflix "The Greatest Party That Never Happened"


Infrastructure which concerns only two NATO members and is financed by mutual agreement between them (e.g., facilities required for the use of forces of one NATO member in the territory of another). See also infrastructure.
DIT experts will attend the event to promote bilateral infrastructure trade and investment opportunities between the UK and India and advise on the ease of doing business in the UK's housing and real estate sectors.
The OBA is the first piece of bilateral infrastructure between the two great countries of Colombia and Ecuador.
When he visited Tanzania last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping continued to stretch the finance gap enjoyed by China when he signed off some 19 bilateral infrastructure development deals for both mainland Tanzania and the isles of Zanzibar, conservatively estimated at $800m.
He suggested both sides draw up a plan for trade cooperation, and take effective measures to offer reliable policy, financial and security guarantees to major bilateral infrastructure projects.
The main issues on the agenda of his talks with Serbian PM Cvetkovic were the major bilateral infrastructure projects including the gas network connections Sofia-Dimitrovgrad-Nis, and Dupnitsa-Nis.


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A Better Mac OS X Archiver
December 17, 2008 | technology
Several weeks ago, I ran across a small OS X tool called The Unarchiver—a free replacement for the built-in BOMArchiverHelper.app utility that Mac OS X uses to extract zip archives. The Unarchiver goes beyond BOMArchiveHelper, handling more file formats (including 7-zip and StuffIt), including better internationalization support, and having a more Finder-like interface (multiple simultaneous extractions are in a single window). I've been very happy with it. If you run OS X and deal with archives...
Pownce is Dead
December 1, 2008 | technology
I've long preferred Pownce to Twitter. It allows longer messages, has better uptime, has a better API, allows you to send links, photos, and files in addition to text…basically, it was just better in every way. The Copilot team made heavy use of Pownce during our Hair on Fire sprint, and continued to use it until we adopted Laconica internally. So I was deeply saddened to learn that, in a mere two weeks, Pownce will be no more. I guess Twitter's where I'll be now, whether I like it or not....
Thanksgiving Computing
November 27, 2008 | technology
Just remember: nothing says traditional Thanksgiving like the Honeywell H316 Pedestal "Kitchen Computer".
Dropbox on the iPhone
I've been a big fan of Dropbox, a completely seamless remote storage solution, since they first had their closed beta. They provide two gigabytes of storage for free, have native clients on Mac, Windows, and Linux (including 64-bit!) that Just Work™, and have a ridiculously clean website that makes seeing a history of changes, and even restoring deleted files, wonderfully simple. Recently, Dropbox has been getting some love for how awesome it is, and as I was poking through Hacker News comments...
Phones and Bovines
Would we recommend the Storm? If you're locked into a contract with Verizon, want a touchscreen phone, and are willing to put up with an OS that moves like a tranquilized yak, then yes the Storm is for you. Not exactly the rousing endorsement that Verizon and RIM were hoping for, I think, but consistent with what I expected. Verizon is utterly terrified of giving up any control over its cellular network. That may seem like a good idea in the short term, but with T-Mobile and AT&T making...
Announcing Fog Creek Copilot OneClick
October 7, 2008 | programming, technology
I'm proud to announce that we've just shipped Fog Creek Copilot OneClick. You can read about the details at the new Fog Creek Copilot blog, Air Traffic
An Apple a Day Brings a Blue Screen Your Way
September 11, 2008 | technology
I love OS X, and in general find Apple's software on the platform extremely high-quality, but when it comes to running Apple's software on Windows…well, it's an entirely different ballgame. Safari uses its own widgets, windows, and font rendering, which makes it look utterly out of place on my desktop. QuickTime for years simply looked bizarre, using a window to hold just the menu bar, and then other windows to hold the movies. iTunes uses Windows-native font rendering and some native widgets,...
Google Continues Quest to Index All Atoms
September 8, 2008 | personal, technology
Google has begun digitizing old newspapers, making certain old Onion stories a bit less funny. I hope it goes without saying that I love technology, but…at the same time, there's something I used to find infinitely more gratifying about having to use card catalogs, paper indexes, and microfiche. That romantic nostalgia makes me keep my diaries in Moleskines and sketchbooks, causes me to allow piles of books to keep refuge in my apartment, strikes fear into my heart when I see the disturbingly...
Congratulations, Microsoft!
September 8, 2008 | programming, technology
You have successfully discovered Morphic. Can you discover Smalltalk too, as long as you're at it?
Because We're So Original
September 4, 2008 | technology
In other news, Honda takes a cue from Microsoft and makes a unique car that totally doesn't borrow any ideas from any of its competitors. Keep on bringing that innovation, Honda.


More Scenes from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Everette (George Clooney) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) discover that Pete (John Turturro) is still alive.
O'Brother, Where Art Thou? Is a Coen Brother's film roughly based on Homer's "Odyssey." Taking place in the deep south in the 1930's the film tells the story of three escaped prison workers and their journey for a buried treasure. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations.