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Nov 18 | More Postpaid Telephony Customers
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Mar 18 | No to Eliminating Roaming
May 13 | Guatemala: Cell Phone Use Grows by 6.7%
Oct 12 | 22.7 Million Cellphones in Guatemala
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4G Network Auction: Battle in Guatemala
After a resolution was issued for the reorganization of the 700 MHz band, Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala S.A. and the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office submitted appeals for revocation to the Superintendence of Telecommunications.
The controversy originated after Comunicaciones Celulares S.A.
Guatemala: Sanctions against Cell Phone Vendors
The Superintendence of Telecommunications prepares the procedure to start issuing sanctions of up to $25,800 from February 2020, to businesses that do not have a registry of mobile terminal equipment and SIM cards.
The regulations have been in force for years, as on October 9, 2013, Decree 8-2013, the Mobile Terminal Equipment Law, came into force, which mandates the creation of the Registry of Mobile Terminal Equipment and SIM Cards Dealers, both under the responsibility of the Superintendence of Telecommunications (SIT).
Business Sector: Short Telephone Number Auction
On November 14, the Superintendence of Telecommunications of Guatemala will auction a short number, which is used by commercial entities to provide advertising services, information, assistance and services.
So far, 56 four-digit telephone numbers have been auctioned in the country and the next one to be made available to companies will be 1710, which may be used as a routing mask to an eight-digit number.
Mobile Telephony Grew Less in 2018
After the number of users in operation in Guatemala grew 9% between 2016 and 2017, during the period between 2017 and 2018, the increase was only 2%.
According to the statistical bulletin of the Second Semester - 2018, prepared by the Telephony Regulation Management of the Superintendence of Telecommunications (SIT), between 2017 and 2018 the number of users in the country increased by 481,038, going from 19.9 million to 20.4 million.
More Postpaid Telephony Customers
In Guatemala, at the end of the first half of the year, customers with postpaid plans from telephony operators increased 12% compared to those reported at the end of 2017.
According to statistics from the Superintendence of Telecommunications (SIT), the increase in the number of postpaid plans registered during the first six months of the year is mainly because of the increase in customers reported by the operator Claro, since between December 2017 and June 2018 increased from 329 thousand to 490 thousand.
Guatemalan Telephone Market Figures
Between 2016 and 2017, the country registered a 9% increase in the number of lines in operation, rising from 18.2 million to 19.9 million.
According to figures from the Superintendency of Telecommunications (SIT), the number of prepaid mobile phone lines also registered an increase of 9%, rising from 17.2 million in 2016 to 18.8 million at the end of 2017.
No to Eliminating Roaming
Unlike Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, Guatemalan authorities did not sign the agreement that seeks to eliminate additional fees that are charged for roaming services.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications took part in the Assembly of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (Citel) which was held in Buenos Aires, but the Guatemalan institution has not yet given the reasons why it did not sign the agreement in favor of eliminating charges for roaming services.
Complex Scenario for Radio Electric Spectrum
The legal obstacles that are preventing the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones of Guatemala from tendering the AWS frequency may not be solved in the short term.
The Telecommunications Authority has announced that by June it plans to issue tenders for a part of the radio spectrum, specifically for private communication frequencies and UHF links. But the most anticipated auction for the three local operators, the AWS frequency, still hasn't made any progress since 2015 due to the 16 appeals processes that have not yet been resolved.
Guatemala: Project to migrate to Digital TV revives
Although a date for the changeover has not yet been set, the Telecommunications Authority has presented a preliminary project to define the transition to digital TV.
Harold Cancinos, operations manager at the SIT, told Elperiodico.com.gt that "...
Guatemala: Phone Lines Returned to State
In response to approval of a new tax of $0.65 per telephone line, operating companies have returned 6 million lines to the Telecommunications Superintendency.
Representatives from Claro, Tigo and Telefónica each returned 2 million inactive numbers with the aim of adjusting their internal policies to adapt to the new tax which will come into effect next year. The chief of the Tax Collection Authority, Omar Franco, assured Elperiodico.com.gt that "... Companies will have to make the necessary adjustments in order to estimate how much income will be as a result of the new tax. We did not know that this tax would end up being approved in the 2015 Budget. Congress considered and approved a levy based on the 23 million lines assigned, now that this figure has been reduced it will have to be re-estimated. "
Guatemala: Cell Phone Use Grows by 6.7%
During 2012, mobile telephony saw a total of almost 21 million users, an increase of 6.7% compared to 2011.
According to statistics from the Superintendency of Telecommunications (SIT) in the past 9 years, mobile telephony has grown by 556%.
Possible Modifications to Telecommunications Act
In Guatemala and proposals arising from the recently passed amendment to the Communications Act, which extended radio concessions for 20 years.
In light of the act coming into effect, deputies in the Transparency Commission are preparing a bill relating to the issue of transparency, Deputy Carlos Barreda, a member of the panel, said "We must establish that the usufruct be delivered through an auction or implement a public payment for its renewal. "
The Business of Radio Spectrums in Guatemala
The extension for another 20 years, without any fees, of the concessions for radio frequencies, will deprive the Guatemalan State of millions in income, and removes market transparency.
While in other countries concessions for the use of radio frequencies provide state coffers with many millions of dollars, in Guatemala, Congress has passed legislation extending licenses that are currently in effect for another 20 years, without any costs to the concessionaries, who in addition at the end of the period of usufruct, may renew them again.
22.7 Million Cellphones in Guatemala
Of the total numbers assigned, 26 million, 22.7 million are mobiles and only 3.3 million landlines.
At the end of the first half of 2011 there were 20.2 million registered numbers. Up until the end of August 2012, the Superintendency of Telecommunications (SIT) had delivered 26.03 million, 5.83 million in just over a year.
21 million cell phones in Guatemala
From 3.1 million lines in 2004, mobile telephony in Guatemala has increased sevenfold, amounting to to 20.7 million lines at the end of 2011.
In the second half of 2011, more than two million new users were added to the market, making the number of users around the country at the end of December 2011 20.7 million, according to the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT).
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In an unexpected move, Germany's top court has slightly slowed down the drive towards the European Union:
German court halts ratification of Lisbon Treaty
AFP – June 30, 2009
Germany's top court on Tuesday said additional national legislation was needed before the EU's Lisbon Treaty could be ratified, further delaying its adoption across the 27-member bloc. "The ratification document of the Federal Republic of Germany may not be adopted until the sufficient legal groundwork for parliamentary participation as foreseen in the constitution has been laid," the Federal Constitutional Court said. "If one wanted to summarise this result, one could say: the constitution says 'yes' to the Lisbon Treaty but demands that parliament's right to participation be strengthened at the national level," the court said.
"The court is confident that the last barrier for adopting the ratification document will be cleared."
The treaty — which aims to streamline decision-making in the EU and give the bloc a stronger voice on the world stage — must be ratified by all 27 member states before it can come into force.
Although the treaty was approved by a large majority in both houses of the German parliament, the country's president Horst Koehler has held off on the final ratification step pending the judgement.
So far, 23 out of the 27 countries in the EU have ratified the document. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.3ec79e2e7a25748f4b9623ac728de663.101&show_article=1
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The Eski Imaret Mosque was formerly the Church of the Monastery of Christ Pantepoptes, or, the "All-Seeing Christ." It is located in a historic neighborhood at the summit of the city's fourth hill, and in close proximity to the Zeyrek Church Mosque. The monastery was built by Anna Dalassena, the mother of Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118), who later retired to an apartment in the monastery. The monastery buildings were handed over to a Benedictine sect during the Latin invasion in 1204; and then were used to house an Ottoman soup kitchen (imaret), hostel (zaviye) and madrasa after the Ottoman conquest at which time the church was converted into a mosque. The Turkish name of the church translates to 'old soup kitchen' and refers to the soup kitchen at the former monastery. The complex was damaged in fires that swept the shores of the Golden Horn, and the church - which remained - housed the dormitory for a Koranic school in the 1950s. The church is today used as a mosque. It has been restored twice: once in the 1970s by Architect Fikret Çuhadaroglu; and again during an unauthorized restoration in the 1990s.
The Eski Imaret mosque has not been well studied, despite its significance as the only documented 11th century church in Istanbul. To counterbalance the sloped site, the church rests on a cistern, which creates a level platform. It has a Greek cross or cross-in-square plan and is composed of a nave with four vaulted cross-arms around a dome, a sanctuary to the east and an inner and outer narthex to the west. Entered from the west, the outer narthex consists of three bays that are cross-vaulted on the sides and domed at the center. When remains of the broken minaret, attached to the outer narthex for centuries, were removed in 1990, the structure of the uncovered wall revealed that the outer narthex was an open portico until enclosed during the Late Byzantine period. Three archways, one in each bay, lead into the inner narthex, which is slightly narrower and has semi-circular niches at either end. The inner narthex has an upper gallery with lower ceilings, which opens into the nave with triple arched windows. Covered with a dome at its center, the upper gallery has the unique feature of rooms attached at either end that have windows pierced into the barrel vaults of the cross-arms. The nave is as tall as the lower and upper galleries of the inner narthex, and its loftiness is enhanced by the tall drum of its dome. Four piers that support the dome partition the nave into three aisles. The north and south aisles lead into small clover-shaped chapels to the east, that link to the sanctuary. These chapels are designated for the functions of prothesis and diaconicon, respectively. Marble moldings, cornices, and doorframes are the only remaining traces of the original interior.
Exterior views of the church-mosque are obscured by apartment buildings that close in on all sides. Its undulating roofline, obscured by a single flat roof in Ottoman times, was rebuilt in the 1970 restoration. On the east façade, the side chapels are clearly distinguished from the nave and the sanctuary with their lower height and sloping flat roofs. There are occasional decorative brick details on its exterior walls. In 1990, the ground level was lowered on the east, south and west sides of the church, to alleviate moisture problems. The Eski Imaret Mosque is constructed of brick and stone; the brick tiles on its roof are a unique feature among the churches and mosques of Istanbul.
Dünden Bugüne Istanbul Ansiklopedisi. 1993. Istanbul: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfi. Vol 3, 203.
Ebersolt, Jean and Adolphe Thiers. 1913. Les églises de Constantinople. Paris: E. Leroux, 171-182.
Mathews, Thomas. 1976. The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul: A Photographic Survey. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 59-70.
Müller-Wiener, Wolfgang, 2001. [Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls. Turkish]. Istanbul'un tarihsel topografyasi : 17. yüzyil baslarina kadar Byzantion-Konstantinopolis-Istanbul. (translated by Ülker Sayin). Istanbul : Yapi Kredi Yayinlari.
Ousterhout, Robert G. 1991-92. "Some Notes on the Construction of Christos ho Pantepoptes (Eski Imaret Camii) in Istanbul," Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Etaireias 16, 47-56.
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I am a truck driver who works every Monday morning to Thursday evening on the road.
I am either driving or sleeping on the road and my truck only stops for fuel or food or unloading at destination.
Because of this I can only run on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I am training for mostly 10k's and would like to get to a sprint triathlon by November.
I don't want to overtrain and get injured, but, I need to work hard.
You are in a difficult position and it is hard to find any suitable running advice that can really make a difference.
Given the three consecutive days I only see a possibility for a hard-easy-hard approach. The hard days need to be really hard, so either long or tempo/interval. If you do tempo/interval in the morning, then you might want to squeeze in an easy run at night, just for the extra kilometers. So make it a real tough day and make it really count.
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You are limited with what you can do in only three days, but I hope this helps a bit.
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(1) "Borrower" means an individual who receives the proceeds of a refund anticipation loan.
(2) "Facilitator" means a person who processes, receives, or accepts for delivery an application for a refund anticipation loan, delivers a check in payment of refund anticipation loan proceeds, or in any other manner acts to allow the making of a refund anticipation loan.
(3) "Lender" means a person who extends credit to a borrower in the form of a refund anticipation loan.
(4) "Refund anticipation loan" means a loan borrowed by a taxpayer based on the taxpayer's anticipated federal income tax refund.
(5) "Refund anticipation loan fee" means a fee imposed or other consideration required by the facilitator or the lender for a refund anticipation loan. The term does not include a fee usually imposed or other consideration usually required by the facilitator in the ordinary course of business for services not related to the making of loans, including a fee imposed for tax return preparation or for the electronic filing of a tax return.
(4) registered with the commissioner as a facilitator under Section 352.003.
(3) any person who acts solely as an intermediary and does not interact directly with a taxpayer in the making of the refund anticipation loan.
(2) a processing fee for each location included on the list furnished under Subdivision (1).
(b) The commissioner shall prescribe the processing fee in an amount necessary to cover the costs of administering this section.
(c) After the December 31 deadline, a facilitator may amend the registration required under Subsection (a) to reflect any change in the information provided by the registration.
(d) The commissioner shall make available to the public a list of facilitators registered under this section.
(e) The commissioner may prescribe the registration form.
(B) the estimated annual percentage rate for the loan, calculated using the guidelines established under the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1601 et seq.).
(3) include, for each stated loan amount, the estimated annual percentage rate for the loan, calculated using the guidelines established under the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1601 et seq.).
(c) A facilitator who advertises or markets refund anticipation loans in Spanish shall offer any borrower the option of receiving a Spanish-language printed disclosure and loan contract. A facilitator who negotiates a loan with a borrower in Spanish shall offer that borrower the option of receiving a Spanish-language printed disclosure and loan contract.
(2) receive and investigate complaints against a facilitator or a person acting as a facilitator.
Sec. 352.006. REVOCATION OF REGISTRATION. (a) The commissioner may revoke the registration of a facilitator if the commissioner concludes that the facilitator has violated this chapter. The commissioner shall recite the basis of the decision in an order revoking the registration.
(b) If the commissioner proposes to revoke a registration, the facilitator is entitled to a hearing before the commissioner or a hearings officer, who shall propose a decision to the commissioner. The commissioner or hearings officer shall prescribe the time and place of the hearing. The hearing is governed by Chapter 2001, Government Code.
(c) A facilitator aggrieved by a ruling, order, or decision of the commissioner is entitled to appeal to a district court in the county in which the hearing was held. An appeal under this subsection is governed by Chapter 2001, Government Code.
Sec. 352.007. ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY. The commissioner may assess an administrative penalty of $500 against a person for each knowing and wilful violation of this chapter.
Sec. 352.008. PREEMPTION OF LOCAL ORDINANCE. This chapter preempts a local ordinance or rule regulating refund anticipation loans.


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Alfons Thys (Borgerhout, 1874 - Brugge, 1916) lag in de Belgische stad Brugge aan de basis van de heropleving van de diamantnijverheid, meer bepaald de slijperij. Hij was gehuwd met de diamantslijpster Maria Magdalena Kuyten.

Alfons Thys was in Antwerpen en Boom reeds actief in deze branche en als zoon van een natiebaas was hij bemiddeld om aan uitbreiding te doen. Brugge werd uitgekozen omwille van de lagere lonen die daar dienden betaald te worden.

Slijperij
Zijn diamantslijperij was sinds 1909 gevestigd in de Wantestraat te Assebroek en het stelde maximaal 150 werknemers te werk. Na zijn overlijden in 1916 nam zijn echtgenote de leiding over, maar het was pas in 1919, na de Eerste Wereldoorlog, dat de handel terug opstartte. Toen het later beter begon te gaan, kwam er verzet vanwege de vakbonden, die eisten dat de lonen op het niveau van Antwerpen zouden komen. Het bedrijf verloor zijn beste werkkrachten, omdat deze zelfstandig werden of in coöperatie gingen werken. Sommige meestergasten waren trouwens reeds eerder een eigen bedrijf begonnen.

Ondertussen was zijn zoon, Frans Thys (°1902), ook in het bedrijf gekomen, maar trok na de crisis van 1929 naar Brussel voor andere activiteiten. Nieuwe pogingen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog mislukten en de gebouwen werden verhuurd aan een onderneming van bromfietsen. Later werden de gebouwen verkocht.

De laatste Brugse diamantslijperij sloot haar deuren in 1970. Bijna alle bedrijfsleiders uit de sector hadden in het verleden banden met het bedrijf van Thys, hetzij als meestergast of werknemer, of ze hadden er opleiding genoten.

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Diamantmuseum (Brugge)

Diamant
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The Community Environmental Council (CEC), Cachuma Resource Conservation District (CRCD), and Ted Chamberlin Ranch have been awarded a major statewide grant to scale-up and expand a regenerative agriculture research pilot underway on the Chamberlin Ranch in Los Olivos.
The award comes from the California Department of Food and Agriculture 2017 Healthy Soils Program, which aims to build soil carbon. This practice effectively pulls excess carbon from the air and stores it instead in the soil – reducing agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Sigrid Wright, CEO/Executive Director of CEC, hailed the grant as "a huge win for our community," commenting on the urgent need to seek ways to rapidly drawdown excess carbon and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, which recent disastrous events in our County have made even more relevant.
The collaborative project between CEC, CRCD and Chamberlin Ranch is officially titled "Scaling Up Carbon Farming on Central Coast Rangelands," and assesses the feasibility of compost application on grazed rangeland to increase soil health and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. This site is one of a dozen from around the state of California, and has been selected to demonstrate that simple land management tools can yield a wide range of soil and water benefits, while at the same time capturing excess carbon from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change.
Together with a large, diverse set of local and international partners, CEC, CRCD and the Chamberlin Ranch will use the grant over the next three years to 1) integrate compost application into a working ranch, 2) garner support for wide-scale adoption of carbon farming practices on agricultural land, and 3) show the potential for the agricultural sector to become both more resilient in the face of climate change and a leader in climate change mitigation.
This month CEC, CRCD, Ted Chamberlin Ranch and its partners held a kick-off event. Dignitaries – including Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joan Hartmann – ranchers and other stakeholders gathered at the Ted Chamberlin Ranch to learn about the grant program and other opportunities to scale up carbon farming practices.
Over the next three years, multiple field days will be held at the Ranch to bring diverse awareness to these opportunities, setting the groundwork for large-scale adoption of carbon farming practices in Santa Barbara County and beyond. The initial phase of work on Ted Chamberlin Ranch was sparked in part by work with the Santa Barbara County Food Action Plan. The initial research phase was funded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Santa Barbara Foundation's LEAF Initiative.


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Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, has asked Nigerians to disregard the rumours of a coup, stating that there would be no military putsch in the country.
Shettima stated this on Friday in Abuja after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Profoturo Foundation, the Northern Nigeria Governors Forum and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.
Shettima said, "The democratic process is here to stay, believe me. All these rumours of coup is a thing of the past because I think there will never be a coup in this country, never again.
Speaking on the MoU, the governor said it would rekindle the hope of millions of northern youths who were walking the streets without focus.
"This MoU will go along way in rekindling hope for better tomorrow in the millions of youths in Northern Nigeria who are aimlessly walking the streets without any focus, 14 million of them was the last count," Shetimma stated.
The MoU will enable Profoturo, a global charity organisation based in Madrid, to provide free and quality primary education, values and life skills to vulnerable children in Northern Nigeria using new and affordable technologies.
The governor noted that the MoU would foster inter-communal and inter-faith dialogue and understanding.


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Emile Smith Rowe could finally be set to make his Bundesliga debut this weekend when RB Leipzig face Wolfsburg on Saturday.
The talented midfielder, who made a big impression for Arsenal during the first half of the season, joined the German side on loan in January.
Following in the footsteps of teammate Reiss Nelson who headed to Hoffenheim in August, the 18-year-old has had to bide his time on the sidelines so far due to a groin injury.
The issue has kept him out for longer than expected but he has now returned to training.
Speaking ahead of this weekend's game, head coach Ralf Rangnick revealed that there is a good chance the youngster will be in the Leipzig squad for the very first time.
"He will more than likely be in the squad for the first time," said the German. "He's trained all week, and gives us another option.
"He's shown in training why we took him on loan.
"He's got a brilliant mixture of good physique, speed and an unbelievably good shooting technique.
Arsenal teenager Emile Smith Rowe.
"If the game allows it, it's possible that we'll bring him on."
Smith Rowe has been left impressed by the fans in Germany so far and claimed last month that he's looking forward to taking to the pitch for the very first time.
"I can't wait to play in front of the fans," he said (via Bundesliga.com). "I think it will be really good.
"Obviously the stadium is really big and it's a great atmosphere. When I first went to one of the games, the fans were just always singing.
"Obviously that happens at Arsenal as well, but over here it's just crazy."


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Obituary – Pritchett, Lila Marie (Loula)
1936 Graduation Edition
Perry Daily Journal
Lila Marie Loula
– daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Loula, was born July 1, 1918, in Perry, Oklahoma. She attended school in District I and Perry High School.
While a student in Perry, she was a member of the 4-H club and the glee club.
Miss Loula is interested in nursing and music. Next year she expects to take nurse's training.
Lila Marie (Loula) Pritchett
July 1 1918 – June 25, 1988
Mrs. Paul (Lila) Pritchett, 69, 1102 Fir avenue, died at 7 a.m. Saturday at Enid Memorial hospital where she had been admitted Thursday.
Arrangements for services were pending at Brown Funeral home in Perry.
Born July 1, 1918, in Perry, she was the daughter of Frank R. and Tillie Loula. She attended Highland rural school and was a graduate of Perry high school. She was married in 1937 to Paul Pritchett, who survives.
Mrs. Pritchett was a member of the First Christian church and member of the Christian Women's Fellowship. She also had been active in homemakers clubs.
Survivors other than her husband, Paul, of the home include two sons, Kenneth Pritchett and Hal Pritchett, both of Perry; one daughter, Paula Thompson, Fort Worth, Texas; her mother, Mrs. Tillie Loula, Perry; and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


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Why Call of Duty's zombie mode shouldn't have happened and almost didn't
By Brian Crecente@crecenteb Feb 4, 2015, 3:30pm EST
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Call of Duty's infectious take on zombie warfare was "lightning in a bottle," "a signature moment for the franchise," a reinvigorating, beloved bit of surprise development.
It was also almost killed once it was discovered.
"When you think about it, Call of Duty zombies shouldn't exist," said Mark Lamia, the studio head of Treyarch.
Lamia took to the DICE stage this week to talk about the birth of the-now expected cooperative zombie mode in every release of Call of Duty.
The mode bubbled up during the second year of development of 2008's Call of Duty: World at War, during what could only be described as the least opportune time possible.
In 2008, Treyarch was given their first shot at a two-year development cycle on a Call of Duty game. World at War was designed to be a gritty, dark World War II game, the third such one created by Treyarch. World at War came on the heels of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a game that launched the franchise into the modern era.
It was also a turbulent time in the studio, Lamia said.
"We were still struggling to find our voice," he said. "We still lacked confidence. We wanted World at War to be a turning point in the franchise, we wanted to establish our house style. We were determined to make a very different Call of Duty, leaning into the darkness of war, making what we would become the grittiest World War II game of the franchise."
On top of that, the studio was working with a lot of new technology and design challenges, Lamia said.
By the second year in development, the team was behind schedule, stressed out and crunching hard.
And it was from that stew of stress, sky-high expectations and increasingly difficult goals that something unusual happened.
"Imagine my surprise when i learned that a small team had started taking our cooperative work and were prototyping new modes," Lamia said. "Imagine my surprise again when I found this team starting prototyping a Nazi zombie mode, and then finding out people from other departments had starting pitching in to help out."
Lamia gave a bullet point list of all the reasons this was bad:
The team had tough development goals
It was new technology
They were behind schedule
They were crunching
It was a late stage innovation
Unscheduled
There were expectations they game would be a best seller
It was an established franchise
Zombies as a genre were clearly already off the radar
"When I first heard about it, I was like 'We're what?'" he said. "As studio head the classic management thing would have been to insist that the team stop getting distracted and to focus on delivering what we were supposed to deliver.
"Some felt I needed to make that decision then or jeopardize development of World at War. I almost did and it would have been the biggest mistake of my career."
Instead, Lamia said he "calmed down" and played the game.
Once he did, he said, he knew he had to get the mode into the game.
They thought it would be a disgrace to the franchise.
Instead of trying to push the mode on Activision and other stakeholders, he let the game's popularity spread organically through the development team, then to Activision and finally to executives, all of whom were "infected" by the game's fun.
"It reinvigorated my studio and it was going to introduce a great new addition to the franchise," Lamia said.
While everyone who played the mode seemed to love it, there was still some internal pushback at the idea of including it in the game.
"Some people in the franchise leadership were opposed to zombies and the idea," he said. "They thought it would be a disgrace to the franchise.
"There was a fear of doing something so off with such a successful brand. It was inconceivable and arguably irresponsible."
Even the marketing and public relations staff, who also thought it was fun, wouldn't touch it.
"Any attempt to market a Call of Duty zombie game would have been impossible," Lamia said. "We would have been a laughingstock. They would have thought we jumped the shark."
So they made a deal: no marketing of the mode, and it would be an Easter egg in the game, only available after beating the campaign.
"This choice may have truly been the planting of the seed of its success," Lamia said. "Making it an out-of-the-way experience that not everyone would get but only the most committed, the faithful would experience first."
It's always OK to innovate.
Because of that decision, the hardcore fans of the franchise were the ones who helped spread word of the mode. And because that was so fan-driven, it created a level of communication between developer and player that helped shape the future of the mode, Lamia said.
When zombies became so popular that fans asked for the mode to be unlocked immediately, Lamia said they knew it was a success.
"We knew we had something special, that we had captured lighting in a bottle," he said.
The result of the experience didn't just introduce a new mode to the franchise, but also changed the way Treyarch interacts with fans and make games.
A big lesson was that it's always OK to innovate.
"It's OK to touch a butterfly's wings, just don't do it with sticky fingers," he said. "Zombies proved to us there are meaningful and significant opportunities in even the most established franchises in entertainment."
The bigger lesson:
"We learned to follow the fun, to listen to fans and develop a dialogue," he said. "The conversation we have with our fans continue to impact us to this day. To our fans around the world, we look forward to carrying on that conversation with you in the future."
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Supreme Court To Consider FCC Indecency Case In 2009, the court used administrative law to uphold the FCC's decision to fine Fox for broadcasting a live event in which the singer Cher used the F-word while accepting an award. The justices ducked the censorship issue, specifically reserving it for another day. That day has now come.
Singer Cher accepts a lifetime achievement award at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the Billboard Music Awards show in 2002. Her use of an obscenity in her acceptance speech led the FCC to fine broadcaster Fox.
Dirty words return to the usually staid Supreme Court Tuesday. For a second time in three years, the justices are hearing arguments about a Federal Communications Commission regulation adopted during the Bush administration that allows the agency to punish broadcasters with stiff fines for the fleeting use of vulgar language.
In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that broadcasters could be punished for airing sexual and excretory expletives during prime time when children are more likely to be watching. But that was then and this is now. Then, a handful of TV networks were the sole purveyors of TV fare, and now there are hundreds of TV channels.
Today's case involves yet another change. Even after the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling, the FCC regulated with a relatively light hand, punishing only repeated use of vulgar language.
Then in 2003, singer Bono used the F-word at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in expressing how delighted he was to win. That was apparently the straw that broke the Bush administration's back, and the FCC adopted a new, more punitive approach. It started fining broadcasters for even fleeting and isolated use of vulgar language.
The test case was the Billboard Awards broadcast a year earlier by Fox. Singer Cher accepted her prize by saying, "I've also had critics for the last 40 years saying that I was on my way out every year. So f- - - 'em."
The FCC cited Fox for indecency, and the network went to court, claiming unconstitutional punishment of speech and a violation of the laws governing how agency rules are made. When the Supreme Court ruled on the case in 2009, the court voted 5 to 4 to uphold the penalty, basing its decision on administrative law. But the justices ducked the censorship issue, specifically reserving it for another day.
That day has now come. The case is back before the court after a federal appeals court in New York said the lines drawn by the FCC cannot be justified in today's multichannel world, and that the rule amounts to discrimination based on the content of the speech. The Obama administration appealed that ruling, leading to Tuesday's arguments, which very likely will mirror parts of the arguments two years ago.
Last time, for instance, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that the FCC had not fined the networks for airing Saving Private Ryan, even though the movie is filled with expletives, but a PBS documentary about jazz was punished because some of the musicians interviewed used expletives.
"One of the problems," said Ginsburg, "is that, seeing [the rule] in operation, there seems to be no rhyme or reason for some of the decisions that the commission has made."
Chief Justice John Roberts observed that under the commission's rule, it could punish the network for airing Cher's comment during the live broadcast, but it would not punish the network for reporting her comment on the morning news. He also questioned the efficacy of the FCC rule in a multimedia era.
But the Bush administration's solicitor general, Greg Garre, replied that under the court's precedents, broadcasting is unlike other media outlets and subject to a different standard.
Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the 1975 precedent, interjected at that point. "Wasn't the rationale for the lesser standard largely the scarcity of the frequencies?" he asked.
Then-Solicitor General Garre responded, "Broadcast TV is, as Congress designed that to be, the one place where Americans can turn on the TV at 8 o'clock and watch their dinner and not be expected to be bombarded with indecent language."
It would be a remarkable thing, he said, to adopt the world that the networks are asking for, "where the networks are free to use expletives ... 24 hours a day, going from the extreme example of Big Bird dropping the F-bomb on Sesame Street, to the example of using that word during Jeopardy! or opening the episode of American Idol."
Carter Phillips, the lawyer who represented the broadcasters, got significant blowback from some of the court's conservatives. Chief Justice Roberts strongly suggested that context matters, especially when the viewers are children.
"It's one thing to use the word in, say, Saving Private Ryan, when your arm gets blown off," said the chief justice. "It's another thing to do it when you are standing up at an awards ceremony."
Phillips responded with incredulity. "You can't seriously believe that the average 9-year-old, first of all, [won't be] more horrified by the arm being blown off."
The chief justice replied that in the Cher case, the swearword is completely gratuitous, and in the Saving Private Ryan case, it is not.
A decision in the Fox indecency case is expected by summer.
The audio of this story, as did a previous Web version, incorrectly says that the Supreme Court ruling regarding prime-time language was in 1975. It was actually in 1978.


Fire is a natural and vital component of most western forest ecosystems. In the dry forest types, such as ponderosa pine, fire was historically present as a frequent, low-intensity disturbance. Fire is necessary for the health of the forests, and the forests have evolved to depend on fires to clean out underbrush and maintain biological diversity. Dead trees serve as important wildlife habitat and contribute to the nutrient cycle, and patches of dead trees allow for forest succession. Even stand-replacing fires have historically occurred at some level in almost every forest type in the West.
The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of management over the past 100 years. The primary factors that lead to the current forest conditions include logging large trees, fire suppression, and livestock grazing. Since the beginning of the 20th century all three of these factors have been present in our forests, and all continue today.
Logging operations have historically removed the largest trees. Unfortunately, large trees (especially ponderosa pine) are fairly well adapted to fire, and are able to withstand low-intensity fires. On the other hand, the young trees that replace the cut trees are relatively highly susceptible to fire, and serve as fire ladders, allowing the fire to reach up into the canopy of the forest.
Apparently the problem with Bush's "Healthy [cough, gag] Forest Initiative" is that it has extremely open-ended definitions (not unusual for this crew), and favors using private logging companies to, er, clean up the forests (see above for why that's bad). Seems to me we're only going to subsidize an industry without reducing the threat of fires when we should be learning the lessons of a century of forest management. Further, we probably need to stop allowing our communities to build up in fire-prone areas.


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COLORADO AVALANCHE 3 VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2 (COL 2-0) – OT
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Recap: The Golden Knights needed a win in Game 2 to tie up the seven game series in Colorado. The Avalanche opened the scoring again early in the 1st period. Vegas answered back six minutes later with a game-tying power play goal from Alec Martinez. Colorado was awarded four power plays in the period and converted one to take a 2-1 lead after the opening 20 minutes.
Trailing by one goal the Golden Knights came out strong in the middle frame. Vegas controlled the puck and took some quality shots on net. Midway into the 2nd period Reilly Smith tied the game 2-2 with a nifty backhand. It was Smith's second of the postseason and it couldn't have come at a better time.
The 3rd period was tense and tight. Vegas carried the play throughout most of the final frame pressuring Colorado on a power play opportunity. The Golden Knights couldn't score but held momentum heading into to overtime. Unfortunately, Vegas took an early soft slashing penalty in overtime and Colorado took advantage.
With their 3-2 defeat to the Avalanche, the Golden Knights trail the seven game series 2-0. The series shifts to Vegas for the next two contests. The Golden Knights will have a chance to get within one with a win in Game 3. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 PM PT. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: The Golden Knights got themselves in a bit of a hole early as the Avs jumped all over them in the 1st. However, from that 1st intermission on, the Golden Knights followed the blueprint to beating the Avs to a tee. They were excellent getting the pucks in deep, great in puck management and had excellent sticks in the neutral and defensive zones. They wound up with a ton of opportunities, finished a few, but in the end, just could not beat the post or Grubauer enough. There's absolutely nothing to hang your head about in that game except for the final score, which unfortunately at this time of year is all that matters. The Golden Knights know what they can do now and despite the two game deficit, they are not down and out. (Analysis by Ken)
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Ken's Three VGK Stars
*** Nic Hague
** Alex Tuch
* Reilly Smith
I agree, the call was soft, and it definitely does not need to be called in OT.
But, c'mon guys. Patrick Brown took a clear 4-minute penalty in the last 5 minutes of the game. Blame the posts, not the refs.
— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) June 3, 2021
DeBoer calls the OT call soft and then says he can't blame the refs because the Avs were embellishing calls the entire night.
VGK deserve so much better than 2-2 right now. They are playing absolutely brilliantly and it just hasn't gone it… yet.
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I thought we dominated the 2nd and 3rd period, we just didn't get a break. We can skate with these guys, it could of been 6 to 2. Our defense was really stellar. I must say, Stone looks way off, he's got no speed, he's surviving by instinct, by his hockey sense, something going on their. Smith is amazing and Tuch looks awesome too. I thought about it, Graves is out their enjoying himself, Janmark is out. IMOP, he's an actor, flopping on the ice, pulling a Dustin Hoffman, he's a fraud. I'm not over that whole situation yet. Our backs are against the wall, we need to take the 2 games in Vegas or it's over.
VGK got themselves into trouble in the 1st by remaining to try those long line passes into the neutral zone. The 1st goal was fluky, but a result of poor VGK play. The 2nd goal, the PP resulted in AVS gaining their zone again by yet another horrid long pass attempt thru the neutral zone. VGK finally cleaned that up after the 1st. Piets cleaned it up after being absolutely putrid in that 1st period as well. He needs to continue to play like he did after the 1st,
Max had a clean break away and took a poor shot. Tuch had the same and really took a poor shot. Notice the theme? You always hear announcers say how great VGK opponent goaltender is playing. Nonsense, Grubs was good but unskilled shooting made him look better than he was.
However, VGK played well enough to win and has to continue what they did from 2nd period to end of game. Yes, that slash call was soft, but I think it was Brown who clearly cross-checked a guy right in the face which should have been a double minor, so these things have a way of evening out.
When VGK does play the right kind of game, they tend to OVER THINK their shots. I'm not sure why this is, but they clearly do that.
When you get 2 clean break aways on a goalie, you gotta put one in the net, and that was the difference. When you hit a post, you MISSED THE SHOT, PERIOD – that's just part of hockey, always has been , always will be.
VGK will probably lose this series, but if they play their correct game, they do have a shot, Many teams come back being down 0-2 after losing both games on the road. However, if VGK org wasn't so arrogant and went with MAF in that game with COL near end of year, we likely have home ice, notwithstanding Lehner's very poor play in that Minn game – if that game goes to overtime, we win President's Cup and we might be up 2-0 now.
Poor decisions in hockey really cost you because the talent level between the best and worst teams in the league is closer than any other major sport, so those poor decisions in hockey tend to be greatly amplified this time of year.
Avs have more talent than VGK, but it's a lot closer than most might think – BARELY. What they do have that we sorely lack is skilled shooters.
Well said Howard! Star power is what the Avs have. Snipers, speed demons, and silk. Hope Vegas can come back. We shall see.
Agree, the call on Smith was weak, the guy dropped his stick than threw a fit, doing a Dustin Hoffman. In a playoff game in OT, that was a blown call. Good point on the Brown missed call. Anyway, your correct, we should of buried a shot, we had so many chances.
So, how many come on here and blame the officials for this loss??? Who's going to be the first to say the penalty on Smith was weak and that cost us the game??? Fact is, it was the correct call. As much as I hate to say it, the officials has to make that call. VGK has 5 or 6 chances to get to the puck and clear after shots but COL out hustled them to the lose puck. VGK also had a PP at the end of the 3rd and couldn't put the game away. This loss is on them not the officials!!!
Now, just need to regroup and come back at home and win. We've shown them we can play with them, now we just have to show them we can beat them!!! Too many stupid penalties in that game!
Daryl,
Great comment its enlightening to see a Vegas fan with knowledge about the game and not going on emotion.
Daryl – how many times have you seen borderline calls (like that one) not get called in OT – let alone a playoff OT??? I have been watching/playing hockey for the better part of 25 years and I have seen many just like that one…. not get called in OT. Was it technically correct, yes. But more often than not, the officials have a tendency to swallow their whistles in OT unless the infraction is really blatant. You can point to posts, or not capitalizing on opportunities, but that PP awarded to the AVS directly led to the game winning goal.
Agree 100%. Most people on this blog are not really Knight fans, their from other parts of the country like NY, Boston etc… Their constantly trashing everything we do, be it calls or personnel moves, blown calls or coaching decisions. You see how when you question a weak slash in OT, they call us whiners and complainers. Most of these people here are masquerading as Knights fans, their frauds.
Good one Mark…. so basically if you want to be a VGK fan you must live in Vegas and you must wear your homer goggles 24/7. The officials are out to get us, we never get any calls, and we are always getting screwed!!!! Good to know.
DOC (Go Knights Go)
Of course you are right Mark and many real fans agree with you.
Just know things are being worked on right now, to bring a new site on board by next season.
It will be a place for real fans to gather without the negativity, political & racist crap that dominates here.
That's all I can say right now, but have hope and root positively for our Knights! 🙂
If you don't agree with Doc… if you don't think VGK is the best every and the only reason they lose is because the officials are out to get them…. then you are no real fan!!!! Straight from the old man's mouth!
Sounds like Doc is getting a true liberals message board togather… so they can monitor and decide what you are allowed and not allowed to say. Censorship at it's best! How boring is that site going to be. It will be funny to see. Everyone agrees so there is no back and forth, no discussion, just one person making a comment and all the others saying they agree. LOL
Of course the little man won't be part of any new site and he is already jealous of that, or why would he even comment on it.
You'll never see a comment from him or any of his type. This I can guarantee! Yahoo!!!!!!!!
Awwww…. Doc is afraid of being made to look stupid so he isn't going to let anyone with an opinion that doesn't match his join the site. That's ok, we won't have to worry about all this inside info that has been wrong the entire time!!! You probably won't be around by the time this so called site is up and running!!!
This new site will have like 5 posters on it…. and all 5 will talk about how great Lehner really is, how great PDB is, how these GMs haven't made a bad decision yet and how great VGK is and nothing needs to change!!! Doc is still living in lala land…. his meds must have kicked in.
If the incident happened away from the puck or play then I would 100% agree with you. Difference is the COL player was reaching out to try to make a play on the puck. He had one hand on the stick and Smith had both hands on his when the slash happened. Sorry, but I completely disagree with you!!!! To me, it was way to obvious not to call. Again, if it were anywhere else when it happened then I would agree.
And trying to blame the officials for the loss is absolutely pathetic!!!! That was a HORRENDOUS PK for VGK. They were out hustled to every lose puck. They lost because COL wanted it more. It's that simple
That call maybe gets called 50% of the time in regulation. I see it differently. On the outcome of the game… it's not on the refs. Nowhere in my post did I blame the refs. That call, by the rulebook, is the correct call. Just saying that it does not get whistled all the time and even less so in OT in the playoffs. And the PP led directly to the goal. And yes, bad luck and a bit of scrambling in our own zone when we had chances to clear on the PK also cost us. Bottom line, the call was correct…. but in the pantheon of penalties… that is a total softie.
We just disagree…. to me, that call gets made almost always when a player is making a play on the puck. It's the calls away from the puck, especially when vying for position, the call doesn't get made.
How could you get in any rhythm in the first period. We had 4 penalties and 1 PP which was 10 minutes of the first period. So half the period was a waste. Vegas got what they deserve to think you can play a team as good as Colorado and commit penalty after penalty and expect to win not realistic. It's a shame as well as we played without a true center is amazing in it's self and to waste 8.8 on Petro instead of a center we desperately need is on management not DeBoer. Listening to the hockey channel on the radio every talk show host said the same. They put it this way Vegas always likes to get that shinny new toy. As we all know how can Karlsson, Stephenson, and Roy or what ever center plays on the third line compare with many of the other teams. That's the sad thing we play so hard and so close with inferior centers all self induced. Oh well our division isn't very good so we'll make the playoffs again next year but please no more of this Stanley Cup nonsense. We have no cap space a goalie that god only knows where he's at, a D-Man over 30 that's not worth half the money, and don't be surprised if Fleury goes back to the Penguins.
I'm not giving up on Petro, but he's not worth 4.4 million the way he's playing now, more like 1.1 million, I mean he looks lost. It's pathetic, disheartening. Something going on their, same with Stone, he's disappeared other than smart defense, it's baffling.
You don't deserve anything in playoff hockey, you earn it.
You don't whine like a bitch like DeBoar.
You win the right way.
That's hockey.
Where is Lehner? Did he split the scene (I'm the eff outta here!) from Denver and is now hitch hiking across America? …………………… crickets ………………………….. more crickets …………… anyone?
I think I just passed him on the I-10 near Phoenix….
I wondered that too. He had a bad game, but if you are the 25m man, aren't you expected to at least suit up and look like you learned a lesson or two and ready for the next game? I am glad Logan was there, but Vegas made their bed,now they should have to lay in it. Is this normal for a goalie to go missing like this? Fleury had to sit on the bench for most of the playoffs last year despite all that nonsense which lasted more than one game. And when PDB was asked who was starting in the net, he said something like "you know, but I am not going to say it". So goofy.
Haha, awesome Julie! You are spot on with your post!
TwoPipes
Coach Debbie sure got whiny after the loss. I mean, a crosscheck to the face of the Avalanche captain by Brown would have been a death sentence but I guess Debbie ain't countin' that. This is the same guy whose team (Sharks) torched the Knights after getting an undeserved gift in the form of a major penalty that never happened a couple of years back. Cry me a freakin' river. I never liked the hire and I especially didn't like the firing that got him there. If I'm Foley, I'm embarrassed by the total loss of composure in Game 1 and the whiny-B excuse making after a tough loss in Game 2. You have to bury your chances when you get them. Colorado did and the Knights, who had many stellar opportunities, came up Code Fail. I love our team but beating the Avs four out of five with two of those at Ball Arena? I guess I can dream.
I noticed it was Petro who was way out of place causing the first goal to happen. Then, I noticed Roy waited too long to get on Jost who scored the second goal. I didn't see the third. It seemed Petro got better in the second period. I don't know the incentive for him if he has a "no move" clause. He can just eff-up when he feels like it and make more Honda commercials.
F*cking power plays.
F*cking posts.
F*CK … F*CK … FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard Santomauro
Bust decisions.
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#7 Putridangelo
Failed to get a better goal scorer.
Doc sums it up well. Any sign of Nosek so maybe someone can win a face off on the PK and clear the zone instead of allowing CO to spend almost the entire PP in the VGK zone? CO is scoring on 50% (yes 50%) of their playoff PPs. Not good.
Sorry for the "F" word, not like me …. but:
Just no other way I could convey my disappointment, in yet another game we should have won.
Not dead. Not on lie support, yet, but close.
The VGK lacked aggressiveness and gave up too much space and time on that OT goal. Not much challenge at all, allowing CO room to skate and pass at will to set up that game winner.
I'm not going to sugar coat this. The ONLY way Putridangelo gets out of my dog house is to have the game winning goal and a + rating in every single game remaining in round 2. Worst decision ever by VGK FO to sign him. Great for HONDA though.
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The slash called against Smith was a make-up call by the refs because they missed the double minor against Brown. They were looking for anything to call and made it when the opportunity presented itself.
MAF SA% the last four games – .880, .900, .875, .769. Oh, I know. It's Lehner's fault. And it's BeBoer's fault. MAF earns $7 million a year for this kind of performance. The other guy, Grubauer, his SA% is .951 and .960 and his team is up 2-0. For $7 million, the Team deserves a goaltender putting up at least .920 SA%. Remember that San Jose game? This big money guy isn't there for the big games. Time to stop idolizing this guy.
Nice cherry picking of stats. 2021 playoffs total for MAF. 8 games. 4-4 record. GAA 1.82 SV% .924 SO 1. I'll take that every day and twice on Sundays. MAF did not face a ton of shots last night, but most were pretty quality. I discount entirely the Lehner game. Grubauer is outplaying Fleury by virtue of posts (5 last night) right now. Both goalies, I'd say are playing pretty darn good. I expect this series to continue to be close and both goalies continue to be excellent. It will be decided by mistakes and capitalizing on opportunities.
There is more to a game and performance than stats. Yes, MAF probably should have stopped that last shot but how many high danger chances does VGK give up? How many high danger chances does VGK generate? Comparing MAF to Lehner, how many soft goals does one give up compared to the other? Grubauer has a SA% of .951 because VGK takes 1000 shots but only about 2 or 3 really good shots.
People who use stats only are the ones who usually don't watch games and use the box scores as their arguments!!!
"Fleury, Grubauer, Vasilevskiy announced as 2020-21 Vezina Trophy finalists …"
You're right MAF sucks! LMFAO!
Your credibility just like the turd headed for Metro Sewer …..
Exactly!!!
" You probably won't be around by the time this so called site is up and running!!!"
You continue to show what a despicable person you are!
Be proud!
And remember the group I told you about, that you didn't believe? It's grown much larger and you are a big part that drives this new site. People feel so dirty and icky just reading your posts. Thank you for your help!
Sry if you took my post the wrong way… I wasn't saying you would be dead, I mean you won't be around. You will get tired of everyone showing how delusional you are that your will just go away. You talk about real fans but let's face it, you are the one who isn't a real fan. You live in lala land. You only want to hear positive things and you only want to hear things that you agree with. Have fun with than new site. Like I said not much to talk about when everyone agrees with one another. That must be some great conversations. I'm happy here where there is back and forth conversation with people who actually know something about hockey.
And it's that other site has grown so much as you stated, why are you still here???
You dumb idiot. I said GROUP not site.
And now you are trying to get out of the horrible thing you said.
24 others, that contacted me, know what you said and meant!
You cannot hide your extreme ugliness, pal.
I can give a shit what you and your goonies think. Unless you are hurting someone else I don't wish others dead. I have no reason to back track at all. If what you said really mattered then you might have a point. So you can keep up with your make believe emails all you want. Have fun with your groupies. Maybe you can find new ways to defend Petra and Lehner and keep blaming the officials for VGK losing.
24 people contacted you???? Damn you are on some good meds. And yeah I meant that exactly how it sounded. I've never met someone so delusional as you. It's actually somewhat comical


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February 22, 2005 - Budget Cuts on Housing for Disabled
The Bush administration is quietly proposing to stop financing the construction of new housing for the mentally ill and physically handicapped as part of a 50 percent cut in its housing budget for people with disabilities.
The proposal, which has been overshadowed by the administration's plans to shrink its community development programs, affects what is known as the Section 811 program. Since 1998, Section 811 has helped nonprofit developers produce more than 11,000 units of housing for low-income people with disabilities.
The proposal echoes public poly of decades ago when the federal government retreated from building public housing in favor of providing vouchers under programs like Section 8, which allows poor tenants to redeem those vouchers with private landlords.
This time, the federal government would discontinue financing housing for people with spinal cord injuries or psychiatric illnesses who are not necessarily homeless but may live in nursing homes or psychiatric hospitals.
Under the 2006 budget proposal, the capital allocation would be eliminated and the overall budget would shrink by a little less than half, to $120 million from $238 million.
By relying exclusively on vouchers, the federal government would essentially be lumping these people with able-bodied Section 8 recipients in competing for some of the same apartments.
Section 811 has existed for three decades, first as part of the Section 202 program for the elderly, and then, starting in the 1990's, as its own program. Since 1998, HUD has awarded $83 million to New York State, out of $1 billion nationwide, to nonprofits, according to the Technical Assistance Collaborative, a national advocacy group.


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With more than twenty years of culinary experience, spanning the continents, Chef Umit's passion for culinary arts has taken him to many Michelin-rated kitchens around the world: The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey, The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai, Castel on the Hudson in New York City, La Colombe Restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, and Savoy Hotel in London. His most recent journey brings him far from his origins in Cape Town, South Africa to the golden coast of California at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara. As Executive Chef, Kaygusuz oversees the entire culinary operation for the seventy-eight acre resort.
Fostering the belief that "life is simple, keep it simple," Chef Umit creates his menus as a foundation to build on. "I am inspired by Mediterranean and French cuisine since they have played a strong role in my background. I love to experiment and combine this cuisine with elements of North African, Indian, and Asian cooking styles" says chef Kaygusuz.
Coupled with his Grand Diploma from Cordons Bleus, his degree in architecture combines to make Kaygusuz an artist in constructing dishes to delight any palate. Inspired by his beloved grandmother, who is also a chef, Umit plays tribute to her work ethic he learned alongside her in the kitchen, and creates every dish with love, respect, and knowledge. When Umit is not in the kitchen, you can find him traveling to the Far East and African countries. Keeping to his beliefs of simplicity, he enjoys tasting wine with different types of cheeses and cured meats.
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Cait's Cozy Corner : The Best Places To Shop In Store And Online!
The Best Places To Shop In Store And Online!
Hello people of Cait's Cozy Corner!! My name is Cailey and I run a fashion and beauty blog called the Moda Muse Blog! I am a merchandising, apparel, and textiles major and I am going to be a sophomore in college. I have always had a love for fashion so I started a blog to share my passion with the world! Today I am so excited to talk to y'all about my all time favorite stores to shop at. I would like to think I am pretty knowledgable on where to shop online and in stores after all of my shopping experience (not sure if this is a good or bad thing lol). I will be giving you an inside scoop on the BEST stores, so keep on reading!
This online shop is AWESOME!! They have the best on-trend items from each end of the budget. My favorite thing about ASOS is that you can shop for specific occasions. Lately I have been looking under the "Vacation style" to find some awesome summer pieces. I highly recommend you check out all of the different categories on their site to find the perfect pieces for a special occasion/event! This is a great website if you are looking for anything from a staple piece to add to your wardrobe or a unique dress that no one else will have!
This is another one of my go-to online shops. This may be one of my favorites because it is SO AFFORDABLE!! When I say it's affordable, I mean that you can literally find any on-trend item for under $20. Although their products are made in China and some people get sketched out about that, I think it is so worth the risk! Every piece that I have received from them looks exactly like the picture. You can also see reviews on many of their items, and if you're lucky even a picture of what the piece looks like! If you are a bit nervous to purchase something, just pay the few dollars for "insurance" on your purchase. This means that they will send you a return slip to send any pieces that didn't work out back. Another tip is to get the items that say "priority dispatching" if you can! This means that they will ship out faster than the rest (I mean, who doesn't want that??). Seriously, once you are done reading this post go check this site out! I recently purchased 11 items for $170, which is a steal.
This one may be a no brainer (since everyone knows and loves this), but Nordstrom is the bomb.com! It is the best place to online shop. You can find anything and everything on this site. For me, I don't enjoy shopping inside a Nordstrom store (unless it is the shoe section). There is just too much to look at and not enough time! Once you go online it is so much easier to navigate and find what you are looking for. When it comes to special events, Nordstrom is the place to look! They have such wide selection of products. From high-end brands like Gucci, Kate Spade, and more you can find such stunning pieces. Nordstrom will forever be a go-to online store for me!
I may be a bit biased since I work here, but DANG! Anthropologie will alway be one of my favorite stores to shop at in-person. I have never been one to shop on the website because when it comes to their pieces, I would much rather try them on right away. Not only that, but the store also is always smelling amazing, the people are so kind and helpful, and it an overall great environment to shop in. There is always an Anthropologie in practically every city I go to when I travel, which makes it so easy to shop in-person. I highly recommend stopping in a store near you. They have the best basic pieces, but also some fun and unique pieces (can usually find some on sale)!
Alright I am going to be honest with y'all. I am not a big fan of Macy's anymore. When I go in Macy's, at least the one where I live, it is always so unorganized and I can never find anything. I am still going to talk about it and put it on my favorites list for only one reason. Free People. That is all I have to say! Their Free People selection is always "on-point" and usually has some pretty good deals. I have rarely purchased any pieces from an actual Free People store because I can always find Free People products way cheaper at Macy's. If you are a fan of Free People or the whole "boho" look then go check out the section in Macy's! You can thank me later.
You guys may be thinking why I listed this as one of my in-store favorites when Nordstrom is one of my online favorites, but trust me they are so different! If you have been inside a Nordstrom Rack store you know that it is like the holy grail of stores. You can find Kate Spade, Tory Burch, Free People, and many more brands for an awesome deal. I am always finding myself here when I am on the hunt for some shoes. They have insanely good prices on shoes, in my opinion. I have purchased many shoes from Nordstrom Rack and some accessories here and there, but they also have awesome clothing pieces if you go in on a good day! The other week I went in and came out with two of the cutest dresses ever. I got an awesome Free People dress that is still currently being sold at full price, but I paid for way less. I also found an awesome maxi dress that is going to be my go-to summer outfit when I can't seem to find something to wear. You should go check out a Nordstrom Rack if you have one near you, because it is so worth it if you find something!
I hope you guys found some new stores to shop at after reading this post!! I loved being able to share some of my favorites with you! Check out Cait's post on my blog at themodamuseblog.com !! Hope you lovelies have a great day!


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M. Night Shyamalan's "Glass" Wrecks The Box Office Continuing Shyamalan's Hot Streak After Brief Slump
Bridget Hill Jan 20, 2019 8:11 PM PDT
Source: DreadCentral.com
According to a report from the Star Tribune, M. Night Shyamalan scored another big win at the box office following his string of bad luck which began with The Village in 2004.
While many of his movies were financially successful, several of them were disliked by critics and audiences, bringing M. Night's Shyamalan's career to a bit of a stand-still, or perhaps better put – an underperformer, beneath previously set expectations.
The Happening is one of those movies. Starring Mark Wahlberg, critics generally believed the principle behind the film was interesting and had a lot of potential, but was executed poorly and bogged down by less-than-optimal writing and performances.
Thankfully, Shyamalan went on to score a critical and financial success with his movie starring James McAvoy, Split, regarding a young man with multiple personalities who kidnaps young women. The movie was both successful and hailed by critics, especially, for the great acting from James McAvoy.
Thanks for the shout out @hollywoodreporter and thanks to everyone who went out to see @glassmovie movie over the MLK weekend in America and the normal weekend across the rest of the world. A lot is made of the box office returns but they're just an indication that bums are on seats. A lot of movies these days struggle to find a crowd at the theatre and to know so many of you went out to watch this weekend is the greatest reward/award this actor could hope for. All the best tell your friends. James #glass #movies #split #brucewillis #samualljackson #sarahpaulson #shyamalan #hollywoodreporter #boxoffice
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This past weekend, M. Night Shyamalan scored his fifth #1 movie with Glass. The blockbuster film has exceeded expectations and done quite well. Thus far, it has earned approximately $40.6 million in just ticket sales alone.
Over the entire movie weekend, Universal Pictures believes M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie will pull in near $50 million. Interestingly, reviews weren't perfect for the Glass.
It's the last movie in the franchise, beginning with Unbreakable, Split, and now Glass. The first, Unbreakable, became somewhat of a cult-classic over the years, and there's no doubt Split will also hold the test of time.
It's clear that Shyamalan is back after struggling at the box office and with his audiences for the last few years. His movie, Sixth Sense, was one of the biggest films of the 1990s and brought a widely hailed performance from Bruce Willis. Since then, Shyamalan has become known for mysterious, ambient, suspenseful, and unexpected plot-lines and twists.
Night's last movie, Split, outdid its commercial expectations as well, opening with a $40,000,000 as well as $278.5 worldwide. Now, M. Night is back with Blumhouse Productions. The director supposedly had added $20,000,000 to Glass' budget.
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High Fives, AI, and Connecting the Dots: MailChimp's VP of Design on What Business can Learn from Design
Good design is good business. But how do the strengths of a designer-founded business actually play out in the office and with the client? And what can we learn from that?
By Emily Ludolph	Photo by Karin Schneider
It's no secret that good design is good business. But what does it actually look like when a designer executes a business model? What happens when designer-founded companies like Airbnb and MailChimp bake design thinking in from the start? Recently, an audience of entrepreneurs, designers, and creatives, gathered at the Northside Festival to visualize the future of business and design. "Design has become 'the big D'," says Festival Director Brian Quinn, "The future is the designer who's not the last person you talk to and say, 'make it look pretty' but the first person you integrate to figure out how it all works."
Gene Lee, the VP of Design at MailChimp, sat down with Droga5 Group Design Director, Devin Croda to discuss what happens when you put designers in charge of operations, how data will drive the future of design, and when you should give or withhold a high-five.
Not every company starts with a design founder, so we gathered a few design tips and operational tenets from Lee so you can integrate 'the big D' into your business.
Solve an original pain point.
The thing all designers have in common is they see a vision of the world as it could be. What designers can particularly excel at? Looking concurrently at opportunities at the experience and the business level and asking 'what are we trying to solve?' Lee predicts the trend in design-led business modeling, like Airbnb, Square, and Pinterest, will only grow. "Steve Jobs said, 'Design is not how it looks, but how it works,'" Lee points out. "The latest trend in design is not how it looks but how it leads."
Give high fives.
Often you just want to hit one simple, utilitarian button and be done. But sometimes, Lee points out, there's as much emotion as function in a button click. Like the terror you feel when you're about to send an email to 5,00 people. Lee advocates mining the design journey for emotional moments and crafting acknowledgments of those emotions. "You're about to push the button to send. And you start to sweat…So, we dialed up that emotional side," he says. MailChimp's users see an illustration of a perspiring hand about to press a big red, apocalyptic looking button. As much as you acknowledge tension, acknowledge celebration. After sending, MailChimp sends the 'Freddie high five' to celebrate. Keep an empathetic eye out to acknowledge emotion and dial up the design to match.
If your clients are experimenters, your employees need to be as well.
"We have a bunch of designers who are just tinkering," says Lee on MailChimp's culture of experimentation with no explicit ROI. Sometimes that leads to serendipitous uses, like the time a designer pulled his old video game design out of the proverbial parts bin and MailChimp used it to promote their new Postcards product. But often, the value add isn't so clear. But most importantly, Lee points out, MailChimp's customers are mostly small businesses who differentiate based on personal touches, so MailChimp spending time on internal experiments is an empathic way to connect the business with their community.
Start with fat-free design.
There's a downside to having so many cooks in the design-led kitchen: you can get lost in the emotional craft of animations and high fives. Your polar star should always be the mindset of the user. "The goal is to get rid of everything that doesn't add to what the user is trying to do," says Lee. Trim the fat of storytelling that doesn't relate to the ultimate goal. You can always go back and add more high fives later.
MailChimp's design process begins with sketching ideas by hand. This is what resulted when MailChimp added the ability to create Facebook Ads through MailChimp. The purest storytelling icon–the slingshot in the top left corner–was chosen from the brainstorm. Image c/o MailChimp Design.
To lead like a designer, strategize around the customer experience (CX) versus the user experience (UX). "When we talk about business, I lean on that CX layer of connecting the dots," says Lee. Instead of zeroing in on UX (how customers use the product) and then layering customer support and marketing on top, bring designers and engineers in product, marketing, and customer service under one roof. The result blends operation and execution to create a unified focus on the experience. When designers aren't siloed into different parts of the product journey, it's easier to spot where a customer needs an elegant tech solution and where they need a high five.
Anticipate is the future.
Lee sees the future of design landing at one intersection: data and AI. Those two factors will come together in one key offering: anticipation. "The days of just showing data are over; it's too static," says Lee. Right now, most companies behave like Google Maps when the app tells you it will take you 20 minutes to get home. Future-oriented companies will combine that data intelligence with AI customization to anticipate what your needs will be when you get there. In the same way, designers need to embrace the push of tech to incorporate data and AI to create experiences that anticipate, versus respond to, customer needs.
More Posts by Emily Ludolph
Emily Ludolph is a director at West Wing Writers. She has published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Artsy, Airmail, Eye on Design, JSTOR Daily, Quartz, Narratively, TED Online and Design Observer.


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Q: Create UDP to TCP bridge with socat/netcat to relay control commands for vlc media-player The UDP - must listen on port.
The TCP - must connect to a server.
I tried netcat and socat.
nc -v -u -l -p 3333 | nc -v 127.0.0.1 50000

socat -v UDP-LISTEN:3333,fork TCP:localhost:50000

Both work -- they delivered the message -- but the line is not ended.
VLC will only take the command if I close netcat/socat.
I monitored the connection with sockettest and the messages are one after another in the same line, like this:
playpausestopexitadd

I need the line to be ended so that the message transmitted looks like this:
play
stop
exit
add

Maybe the packet is not ended?
I am wondering if nc or socat have options to send the packet/end line after a certain amount of time.
If I add \n to the output as suggested by @roaima, I get play\nstop\nplay\n on a single line.

A: I suspect your problem is more because whatever sends the UDP packets is not adding a newline character the commands (as in they should send "play\n" and not just "play").
In any case, if you want a new TCP connection to be created for each of the UDP packets, you should use udp-recvfrom instead of udp-listen in socat:
socat -u udp-recvfrom:3333,fork tcp:localhost:50000

Then every UDP packet should trigger one TCP connection that is only brought up to send the content of the packet and then closed.
Test by doing:
echo play | socat -u - udp-sendto:localhost:3333

(which sends a UDP packet whose payload contains the 5 bytes "play\n").

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