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Remove the Ads-For-Play system or bring back Free-to-play.
by SilverCruz » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:10 pm
shapesifter13 wrote: We feel that this move will be a positive for the game, as well as all current and future users. The botters will not want to spend real money in order to troll. Even if they do, they will be very limited in the amount of accounts they can make this way without committing credit card fraud.
This also means that every account has an inherent value to it, as being banned means you will need to buy the game to play again. Any user that is suspended for breaking the rules will have to actually think about what they are doing, because if they end up permanently banned they can't just make a new free account anymore. Better games in every facet should be much more common. We as developers can go back to trying to make a good game, rather than focusing on how to stop botters or how to rework reports to stop toxic behavior.
In the current day, the bolded text is a lie. Bad actors can create burner accounts and run ads to get Classic Tickets on them, use those Tickets to get into and wreck some rounds, eventually get the account banned, then start the process over again. That this doesn't work for Coven Tickets is why Coven is allegedly cleaner than the standard game, not that I'd know from experience.
I'm not too charitable in my outlook, so I'm inclined to believe the only reason free-to-play bad and ads-for-play good even though both lead to bad actors wrecking rounds is because free-to-play accounts wrecking rounds didn't make any money, but ads-for-play accounts wrecking rounds still brings in those ad bucks.
Thus, there are two options that aren't just staying in place.
The first option is to accept that if you give bad actors an inch then they'll take a mile and go back to free-to-play. The upside to this is that it allows honest players who might not be willing to spend on this game to once again come in and join the proceedings, adding a greater potential that the game's playerbase will perk up. The downside is that it will also make it even easier for bad actors to turn up, meaning that more babysitting would be necessary in order to close the holes that they exploit to mess things up in the first place, rather than just trying to kick people out for exploiting those holes without doing anything else about them.
The second option is to stop cutting any slack and get rid of Ads-For-Play. The upside is that this should oust the bad actors after a short while since the bolded part of the quoted text becomes true again, while the downside is that it keeps the potential for the anemic playerbase's growth restricted, indeed restricting it even more since I'm sure there are some honest players who rely on Ads-For-Play to stay involved, however scarce they may be.
Also, both of them would obviously imply no longer receiving those ad bucks unless Ads For Town Points were brought back or Ads For Coven Tickets were introduced. That's the price of doing the right thing, though.
I know what I'm doing, generally, but I have no grace at all when things start to spin out of control.
I'd like to address the latter part, but I wouldn't know the first thing about that.
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Re: Remove the Ads-For-Play system or bring back Free-to-pla
by Flavorable » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:01 pm
Seeing as free players need to link to a Facebook account nowadays, I don't think people creating multiple accounts is as easy as you claim.
Also, there is already a free Coven ticket system, so I'm not sure why there would be any changes for that.
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by dbpeanut » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:35 pm
Flavorable wrote: Seeing as free players need to link to a Facebook account nowadays, I don't think people creating multiple accounts is as easy as you claim.
One, creating a Facebook account is easier than a lot of people seem to think, this is why scam/fake accounts and blackmail accounts are still a huge issue.
Two, linking to a Facebook account is a flawed system, and always has been.
Three- don't get me wrong the free coven ticket system is nice and all, but is also flawed as it ultimately keeps Coven from having as many new players as it should. Because how would 1-5 games or even 20 of Coven realistically attract anybody? As good as Coven is, the most populated thing on Coven is full RNG and that can always go south quickly. Not like the normal modes can't as well.
It's kinda a similar situation with actual real free to play players. They have a very high chance to see the worst side of TOS. How many new players are you really getting off of that? I can only assume negligible.
What should be done is a method for Grandfather's and whatnot to get permanent Coven for free. Which would bolster the game decently well given how good Coven actually is.
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by Joacgroso » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:47 pm
dbpeanut wrote: Which would bolster the game decently well given how good Coven actually is.
This is the first time I see someone speaking good of coven in the forums.
In any case, I agree with SilverCruz. Allowing people to play for free makes the paywall pointless, since trolls can always come back and abuse their newbie immunity to ruin a lot of games before being punished.
I really think private lobbies are the best solution. Not only those would be appreciated by many old players (including myself), they could also be reworked to be the "demo" of the game. Basically make it so non-premium players can only play in private lobbies created by premium players. This way, free players can't ruin the games of premium players, unless they invite them.
Being able to play with friends will probably attract more people, especially the shy ones who don't want to play with 10+ strangers. To tempt more people into buying the game, you could restrict "free" lobbies so they can only have a certain amount of players. Maybe you could block some roles too. I honestly think that would help a lot, though I must admit I'm not a game developer so this suggestion may be naive in some way.
I still hope one day the game will have private lobbies. They would really help.
Also, please nerf vampire hunters.
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It is my understanding that you get up to 30 Tickets, period, and it takes enough games that it'd be too much hassle to just make a mess. I can't speak for the difficulty or lack thereof of making a Facebook account. Never done such a thing, and I have no intentions to.
dbpeanut wrote: One, creating a Facebook account is easier than a lot of people seem to think, this is why scam/fake accounts and blackmail accounts are still a huge issue.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd probably move over to Coven if it's lively enough, though a significant part of that is how stale Classic and Unranked are, and my minimal hopes that an old Ranked List will ever come back as a non-Ranked list.
by kyuss420 » Thu Apr 29, 2021 2:54 am
ads for play is a source of income for the business that is BMG.
Every 2nd suggestion/feedback thread you make, is asking a business to reduce their income sources or provide their products for free. You must start to understand that while this is a simple game for us, for BMG its a (very) small business.
I mean, if you dont want to support a small business, dont. They will not listen to the playerbase on decisions they make on how to run their business and nor should they. Its their business and their decisions on how to run it, as its thier money, time and resources they are investing in it. Keeping the business afloat and profitable will always take priority over keeping customers happy if customers are not willing to pay for their happiness.
Here we have a playerbase, that pays very little....Theres no way to whale up, theres no way to spend $500 - $1000 per month (and even devs from those kinds of games hardly listen to their customers), So keeping profitable is a tough job for such a small game....
Idk, Joacagroso seems rich, maybe he can email the devs and offer them $500 if they implement private lobbies for him.....see if they come back with an actual figure of exactly how much it will cost to implement.... I forget the email, but I would pay em $100 cash to fix that fucking Pirate bug thats been ruining my CL games......wonder if theyd take it
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by dbpeanut » Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:47 am
kyuss420 wrote: ads for play is a source of income for the business that is BMG.
I always have a hard time figuring if you're being real or not, but we all know that ad money is only worth it in large amounts. By no means are they having that many people to justify having an ad to play system.
They also aren't having enough new players to justify having a reduced entry system.
There's a reason the game was more popular when it was free to play- it was more accessible, meaning even with all the issues that happened, the game had more chance to take off or gain traction.
Which is why the Facebook connection system is flawed- ESPECIALLY MODERNLY.
Not to shit on anybody, but Facebook appeals to older people, and even if it didn't, having to connect a social media account to something you may not enjoy prevents people who would otherwise play from playing.
For all the things people like to say about "this game needs more money " or "they don't get enough funding to do X Y or Z", nothing shot them in the foot more than when they went pay to play. There's a set amount of things current players can buy, and even if there wasn't, there's a set amount of things people will buy.
For example, willing to bet Kyuss here doesn't buy town points just for scrolls or taunts. More willing to bet they use merit points if they even want to get anything like that.
So you want the game to make more money? Attract new players. That's the only solution that will work for this game.
by Joacgroso » Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:11 am
kyuss420 wrote: Idk, Joacagroso seems rich, maybe he can email the devs and offer them $500 if they implement private lobbies for him.....see if they come back with an actual figure of exactly how much it will cost to implement.... I forget the email, but I would pay em $100 cash to fix that fucking Pirate bug thats been ruining my CL games......wonder if theyd take it
As I said in my previous post, maybe my suggestion was naive. But is it really that expensive to implement a lobby system? Among us has one and it isn't exactly a high budget game. This is the only multiplayer game I know where players have no way of playing exclusively with their friends, unless they happen to have 14 friends.
dbpeanut wrote: For example, willing to bet Kyuss here doesn't buy town points just for scrolls or taunts. More willing to bet they use merit points if they even want to get anything like that.
You are talking about the person who brags about having every item in the game because they logged in every day to use the cauldron. They will probably tell you that they don't buy TP and that they can get every "premium" item for free from the cauldron, since it can't give them anything else.
Joacgroso wrote:
Oh I figured he barely spent anything on the game. Most people don't, because they don't feel like it's a worthwhile investment.
However, there are people like me who have a heftier price tag on the game, I've personally spent around $30 on the game total. Which included me buying the soundtrack.
It's funny how people who's definitely spent the least want people to spend the most money though.
by SilverCruz » Thu Apr 29, 2021 2:10 pm
It's a "source of income" that is a very direct contradiction of the stated reason they had for leaving straight free-to-play in the first place, and could easily be replaced with Ads For Town Points or Ads For Coven Tickets (neither of which would allow people to get in for free and wreck rounds, with Ads For Coven Tickets being the closer parallel since it's using ads to circumvent a one-time paywall) regardless of whether they went back to free-to-play or just terminated Ads-For-Play. Try again.
Maybe they should listen to me when I say they should just open a donation box and see who's actually invested enough in this game to support it without getting anything in return.
And yeah, of course the playerbase pays very little. Cosmetics are extremely weak in this game because they're never the center of attention. Nobody cares what skin you use or house you have when they've seen it all a hundred times, and the center of attention is a chat box in the bottom left corner of the screen. If all the visual elements of this game were removed, it'd still function perfectly. BMG is not entitled to being paid just because they made a game. This isn't a work of passion, it's a product that relies on a server to function, so it's their responsibility to figure out how to handle themselves. Again, that donation box would be a good litmus test of how much people actually care about this thing in its current form.
Okay, buddy. Find that email and pay up. We'll be eager to hear back from you on how that went.
Oh and by the by, private lobbies would be dirt cheap because the brunt of the workload is already done in the form of the public lobbies, most of it would be a copy-paste job.
by kyuss420 » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:45 am
yea idk if you were around in the weeks/months before they went p2p, but it wasnt fun, especially in classic. If you think leavers and throwers ruin games now (which i have seen you complain about recently), it is really nothing compared to having 7+ bots in every lobby. The decision to go p2p was made after all their efforts at keeping the bots out, failed.
Coven wasnt affected much by the swarm of bots because of the paywall, and as soon as the move to p2p went ahead, the bot problem soon disappeared. So removing the bots was the push behind P2P, not removing the odd idiot who makes a new FB account every 3rd day because his account got banned
by dbpeanut » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:59 am
kyuss420 wrote: yea idk if you were around in the weeks/months before they went p2p, but it wasnt fun, especially in classic. If you think leavers and throwers ruin games now (which i have seen you complain about recently), it is really nothing compared to having 7+ bots in every lobby. The decision to go p2p was made after all their efforts at keeping the bots out, failed.
I can tell you right now, that their attempts to stop the bots only failed because they never made a single concrete solution. All their solutions were, were band aids when they needed gauze.
And if you played AFTER the game went pay to play, you'd know that going pay to play still didn't fix anything. In fact, we had bot issues for up to a year until it finally stopped.
You wanna know why it stopped? The game died. Lost all momentum that it had gained from YTers and Coven.
Bots made to ruin people's games only exist to ruin people's games. And if there aren't as many people playing the game as before, they're not interested.
It's dirt easy to create new accounts. I have 3.
The only difference is that they don't see value in trying to ruin a game that's already ruined itself.
If people want to ruin the game, they have a path of no resistance to do so. There's easy access to fake emails, easy access to fake phone numbers, easy access to fake Facebook accounts and sure as shit easy access to TOS.
They don't have to put in effort.
Because of how they create accounts, they even have brief immunity to the rules that normally stop them- at least if what trial peeps say are true. And even if it didn't, it takes 20m to file a report. Do you know how many games you can ruin in 20m plus how much time it takes to respond to a report? At least 3, definitely more though.
If people want to ruin the game, there has been nothing put in place to stop them. The only thing stopping them is there's barely anything to ruin. Keep that in mind.
by Joacgroso » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:02 am
In any case, proposing solutions seems more productive than just bashing the game. I was lucky I never encountered bots, though I have faced many gamethrowers and having a game without a leaver/thrower is almost impossible. Out of my last 26 games, only 4 had no toxicity whatsoever (toxicity includes leavers).
But I think the situation could be improved a lot of they implemented what I already said, and also if new accounts lost their punishment immunity (though with the first suggestion, this wouldn't be needed). It would also help if the devs created some exclusive cosmetics for people who gained a certain amount of TR and advertised them ingame.
by dbpeanut » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:11 pm
Joacgroso wrote: In any case, proposing solutions seems more productive than just bashing the game. I was lucky I never encountered bots, though I have faced many gamethrowers and having a game without a leaver/thrower is almost impossible. Out of my last 26 games, only 4 had no toxicity whatsoever (toxicity includes leavers).
Apologies for being heated, but honestly it's incredibly frustrating to propose solutions or identify problems and for mods and the like to dismiss them or insult you over them.
That being said, I think your solution would work very well.
My solution could be simplified as going F2P again, removing the brief immunity to rules and making reports file 5-10m after a game to reduce the possible amount of games one person can ruin.
Simultaneously, updating filters and the spam catcher would help catch bots more effectively or make it harder for that to be a method to ruin the game.
And if monetary value is an issue, making exclusive cosmetics only available after X amount of games or exclusive deaths/death cards (IE- instead of saying someone died by Mafia, say they were shot for betraying the family, or something along those lines.) would likely increase the amount of spending older accounts would do.
Also, more cosmetics with exclusive animations or features such as the Werewolf and Beezlebub would likely increase purchases as well.
All that being said, none of this matters if the game does not attract more people. And as of the typing of this message, the thing they have been teasing has failed to be revealed or have a substantial impact.
by Joacgroso » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:27 pm
I don't think filing reports quicker will help at all. Reports usually take days or weeks in order to be completed, since there are lots of cases to vote on and only a handful of jurors. Encouraging people to participate in the obscure trial system would help. It's a shame that the system isn't advertised ingame.
If we want to reduce the impact of trolls, a possible solution would be not allowing them to start new games until the game they just left ended. This could backfire considering that some people leave after dying without doing anything wrong. But it's still an option.
I have no idea about how to deal with the bot problem, since I'm not a programmer.
Selling custom death announcements sounds interesting, but it may confuse newbies and the game is already pretty confusing. It may work, though. Another cosmetic ideas I just had are last will/death note designs, some fonts for speaking in the chat and maybe new UIs.
I think private lobbies for free accounts/going f2p + some publicity (maybe youtubers) would help to bring some people here. The game has potential. Just look at the amount of among us videos where they give roles to the players. That's clearly something people like.
by SilverCruz » Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:40 pm
Sooo let's take everything you say at face value. Don't go back to free-to-play and just get rid of Ads-For-Play. Problem solved. I really don't care which one happens, but I'll just say that I'm not convinced that the health of this game is more important to its creators than the ad bucks.
That moment when everything they've been teasing is basically TOS 2 Electric Boogaloo, but they still haven't learned from this game.
Also, why are they releasing another game instead of fixing this one?
Yeah this game is dead meat and BMG is going to go under sooner rather than later.
All that talk about "it's a small studio!" and they weren't even paying attention to this game in the absolute slightest. What a joke.
I'm just sad. But I don't think we should be angry at the devs for not wanting to be tied forever to a game they don't care much about, especially since it probably doesn't make a lot of money. I don't intend to defend or justify anything, but it must be pretty discouraging getting backslash for every decision you make.
At least once the game dies I will have something very similar to private lobbies.
Joacgroso wrote: I'm just sad. But I don't think we should be angry at the devs for not wanting to be tied forever to a game they don't care much about, especially since it probably doesn't make a lot of money. I don't intend to defend or justify anything, but it must be pretty discouraging getting backslash for every decision you make.
It's reasonable to be sad, but what makes this worse is that they're clearly trying to go toe to toe with Among Us, without knowing exactly why Among Us lives.
It's simple really, even though BMG got backlash for everything they did, it was really more for the lack of communication and understanding.
Bluesloth or whatever, literally canceled Among Us 2 to continue supporting the current game which people enjoyed, and keeps communication with the community rather than assuming what they want.
I wouldn't say I'm angry. It's more of a "Well, that figures." kind of position for me. I was off in what exactly was coming, but I still got more or less what I expected. Something that won't help this game.
dbpeanut wrote: It's simple really, even though BMG got backlash for everything they did, it was really more for the lack of communication and understanding.
To be fair, some decisions seemed to be supported on the forums but BMG still got backslash for implementing the changes. I'm thinking about going p2p and changing ranked's rolelist.
Completely fair, but keep in mind that P2P was supposed to be a temporary fix, and was never supported by the brunt of the community. Whereas the ranked rolelist change highlighted flaws with certain roles more than ever before.
That being said, ultimately they kept no real communication.
The sad part is that no change will ever be supported by the brunt of the community because those people don't visit the forums. Many of them probably don't know this place exists.
I agree that the communication could have been better.
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Quick turnaround, but no 'two-for-one' Masses as Christmas falls on a Monday
By: The Catholic Post - December 15, 2017 - Featured Article
People exchange a sign of peace during Christmas Eve Mass. (CNS file/Daniel Soñé)
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although Christmas this year is the day after the fourth Sunday of Advent, Catholics looking to count a Sunday evening Mass Dec. 24 for both that Sunday obligation and Monday's Christmas Mass obligation will have to think again.
The U.S. bishops already saw this coming at the beginning of the year and said Catholics should attend separate Masses for the two days.
A newsletter issued in February by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Divine Worship noted that a "two-for-one" Mass cannot occur in the very rare circumstances when two of the six holy days of obligation — the feast of the Immaculate Conception or Christmas — fall the day before or after Sunday.
"When consecutive obligations occur on Saturday-Sunday or Sunday-Monday, the faithful must attend Mass twice to fulfill two separate obligations," the committee said.
OBLIGATION LIFTED FOR JAN. 1
The reason Catholics might consider the idea of receiving dispensation from a Monday Mass likely stems from the U.S. bishops' vote in 1991 to lift the obligation to attend Mass on holy days of obligation that fall on Saturdays or Mondays. But that vote was only for three of the six holy days: the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Jan. 1; the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15; and the feast of All Saints, Nov. 1.
A week after Christmas, Jan. 1, 2018, also falls on a Monday, but is not a holy day of obligation.
But Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, hopes the faithful of the Diocese of Peoria will still make Mass a priority on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.
"I encourage all Catholics to give proper honor to our Most Blessed Mother and to God's Mercy at the beginning of the New Year," Bishop Jenky wrote in the calendar listing of his 2017 Festival Letter.
The U.S. bishops' divine worship committee agrees, hoping that that Catholics would want to go to Mass two days in a row, saying: "It would be hoped, of course, that Catholics foster a love for the sacred liturgy and hold a desire to celebrate the holy days as fully as is reasonably possible."
The bishops' committee also has looked ahead to when this will happen again. In the next 12 years, Christmas will fall either on a Saturday or a Monday four times and the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, will fall on either of those days three times.
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Paulist Father Larry Rice, director of the University Catholic Center at the University of Texas at Austin, said he hasn't heard anyone ask about a dispensation for the Christmas liturgy, but he suspects some will try to combine the Sunday and Monday Masses. They also might go to the Saturday evening vigil for Sunday and the Sunday vigil for Christmas, which is OK.
A big challenge for parishes this year will be decorating for Christmas liturgies, especially parishes with afternoon Masses on Sunday that will only have a few hours to turn the church over from Advent to Christmas.
He said the big challenge for parishes this year will be decorating for Christmas liturgies, especially parishes with afternoon Masses on Sunday that will only have a few hours to "turn the church over from Advent to Christmas." Another challenge will be getting volunteers to help set up churches for Christmas Eve.
Some parishes are moving up the time of their Sunday Masses on the fourth Sunday of Advent to accommodate the quick turnaround.
Father Rice told Catholic News Service the rare event of a Monday Christmas "sounds to me like an opportunity to simplify, although Christmas isn't generally a time people are looking for that."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Portions of this story were supplied by Catholic Post staff.
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Baltic Dry Index Marks First Yearly Gain in Three Years
Dec 24 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index posted its first annual gain in three years on Thursday as iron ore shipments to China bounced higher, despite a hit to shipping activity due to the coronavirus pandemic.
* The Baltic dry index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, was up 4 points, or 0.3%, at 1,366, its highest level in over eight weeks.
* The index firmed by 3.1% this week, marking its third consecutive weekly rise.
* For the year, the overall index has gained by 25.3%.
* "China forges more steel than the rest of the world combined, and even during this unprecedented pandemic, the nation is set to break a nine-year record with iron ore imports increasing this year to above one billion tonnes," ship broker Intermodal said in a weekly research note.
* China's iron ore imports are playing a significant role in seaborne trade dynamics and the capesize freight market in particular, Intermodal said on Tuesday.
* The capesize index rose 27 points, or 1.4%, to 2,006, peak since Oct. 28 and posted its second consecutive weekly rise, at 11.3% this week.
* The index has firmed about 2.9% this year.
* Average daily earnings for capesizes, which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, were up $224 at $16,633.
* The panamax index fell 8 points, or 0.6%, to 1,325. It weakened 5.5% this week but gained by 18.6% for the year.
* Average daily earnings for panamaxes, which usually carry coal or grain cargoes of about 60,000 tonnes to 70,000 tonnes, were down $75 at $11,926.
* The supramax index edged down 8 points to 1,039. It jumped by 44.7% this year.
* The Baltic Exchange will not publish data for the main index from Dec. 25 – Jan. 1, 2021. (Reporting by Bharat Govind Gautam in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)
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The University and Colleges Union has ruled out further strike action in FE colleges in the near future, despite an ongoing dispute over pay.
The union's further education committee met on January 24 to review feedback from branches and discuss the next steps in its campaign.
The committee decided not to pursue further strike action at this stage, but is going to consult with branches with a view to building support for the next round of negotiations.
A spokesman said: "Although UCU remains in dispute over the 2013-14 offer, negotiations around the 2014-15 claim are about to start and we are currently consulting with sister unions to agree this year's claim.


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Q: SAN Transfer using VMM 2008 R2 without clustering OK - I admit - I'm a newbie at this - but I've made great headway and have one last hang-up to implementing our virtual infrastructure.  My issue has come down to doing a SAN transfer between 2 hosts.  My infrastructure exists as follows:
1 - MD3000i iSCSI Storage Array
2 - Windows Server 2008 R2 Hosts with Hyper-V
1 - Windows Server 2008 with VMM 2008 R2
Each VM Guest is assigned to 1 LUN
My Configuration for SAN transfer followed this doc:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb740748.aspx
I am trying to setup the hosts to do a successful transfer.  I have the SAN transfer feature working - however my hang-up is this.  When using VMM 2008 R2 to do a SAN transfer between 2 hosts the wizard asks me to pick a storage location on the new host.  If I am doing a SAN transfer where my VM Guest resides on its own LUN - how come I have to pick a storage location?  I simply want the LUN dropped on one Host and moved to the other.
I proceeded with picking a storage location and what this essentially does is create a junction point on my "D Drive" that has a link to the volume where the LUN was setup on the new host.  This does not seem to be an efficient process because now my "D Drive" will have all these "pointers" to the volumes where my guests reside.
I hope this makes sense - please help as this seems to be the last hurdle we have before truly implementing our Virtual infrastructure.

A: No, this is how it works. You are strongly advices to set up a cluster and use clustered shared storage (so you ahve only ONE LUN for ALL the VM's). But without that.. yes, you get junction points. That is how it is sure that the same path can be used for all items.

A: I have to agree with TomTom. Set up a cluster. My previous unclustered, two-node Hyper-V setup was nothing compared to my current clustered, with SAN storage and SCVMM 2008 R2.
World of difference! And the sooner you can set it up the better, so you don't have to fragment your production SAN storage or anything.

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Influence of organic diets and probiotics on an experimental Flavobacterium psychrophilum infection in rainbow trout fry
Lone Madsen, Hans-Christian Ingerslev, Mette Boye, Inger Dalsgaard
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is the dominant fish species produced in Danish aquaculture. The annual production in freshwater is around 30.000 tonnes, the organic production currently accounting for approximately 1 %. There is no production of organic fry, as the classification organic can only be given to fish that have been treated with antibiotics no more than twice in a lifetime. This is hard to achieve as recurrent disease outbreaks, especially with Flavobacterium psychrophilum, are seen during the fry stage. A study from 1998 showed that approximately 1/3 of all Danish rainbow trout fry died due to infections with this bacterium [1]. A further challenge for production of organic fry is that diets with high plant contents cause enteritis and injury to the intestine, which in the end will affect the overall health status of the fish and result in a higher risk of disease following exposure to pathogenic microorganisms.
The aim of the Danish project OPTIFISH is to optimize growth and survival for organic cultured rainbow trout. OPTIFISH investigates how organic vs. non-organic diet types as well as diets with or without probiotics affect the intestine, the intestinal microbiota and survival rates of rainbow trout following exposure to pathogens. The project consists of several work packages, among them the backbone of the project, namely the feed experiments with fry as well as sampling from the different diet groups. The samples will be used for studies of the bacterial microbiota in the fish by e.g. traditional bacteriology and molecular methods (16S rRNA PCR combined with next generation sequencing) as well as for the immunological investigation of the intestine by gene expression studies by quantitative RT-PCR. Fish health will be investigated by experimental exposure of fry to pathogens, e.g. F .psychrophilum.
In the current experiment four diet types were tested on fry, a conventional type (Inicio®, BioMar A/S) with and without probiotics, as well as an organic type with and without probiotic. Bactocell® (Lallemand) was used as the probiotic. Studies were done in triplicates, whereas the sampling and experimental infections were done in duplicates.
The rainbow trout were fed the different diet types from first feeding and onwards. Just before first feeding yolk sac fry were sampled for reference. Thereafter sampling was done when the fry had been fed for at least 10 days, just before experimental infection with F. psychrophilum as well as 5 and 26 days after infection. Until the fish reached average weight 5 g two more samplings were done.
An experimental bath infection model with F. psychrophilum was used [2]. A 48 hour old bacterial culture of the strain 950106-1/1 was diluted to 107 CFU/ml in bore-hole water and the fish were exposed to this dilution for 0.5 h. Thereafter the fish were moved to 100 l aquaria. During the whole feed experiment the water temperature was 12 °C.
The bath exposure challenge experiment was terminated after 35 days. The cumulative mortalities were less than 10 % in the groups exposed to the bacterium, whereas no mortalities were seen in the controls.
A traditional bacteriological examination of the microflora in the fry was done by taking out samples from inner organs for detecting potential pathogens as well as samples from the intestine to examine the intestinal microflora. Tryptone yeast extract salts (TYES) agar [3] was used for isolating F. psychrophilum. The random sampling done 5 days post bath exposure infection showed that F. psychrophilum could be isolated in 1 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry and 4 of 10 fry, respectively, in the four different diet groups, in total 27.5 % of the sampled fry. In all cases apart from one the bacterium was only isolated from the spleen. When the random sampling was repeated 26 days post infection, a total of 3 of 40 fish hosted the bacterium (each fish sampled from a different group), corresponding to 7.5 % of the sampled fish. The isolation site this time was spleen and kidney. F. psychrophilum was not isolated from the control groups.
The conclusions based on this study are that bath exposure under the given conditions resulted in low mortalities in diet groups no matter if the fish had been fed diets that were organic or conventional nor if the feed had been added probiotic. No significance in mortalities was seen between the diet groups. The bacteriological examinations showed that the bacterium had entered the fish, as it was found in inner organs in one fourth of the sampled fish 5 days post infection, but it seems that the fish were able to clear the infection, because the cumulative mortalities after 35 days were less than 10 percent in each group. 26 days post infection only 7.5 % of the sampled fish still harboured the bacterium.
Further analyses include next generation sequencing of samples from the diet groups and comparison of all data.
The OPTIFISH project is aiming at a production of a more robust and healthy rainbow trout fry/fingerling, so the production of organic fry can become a reality and the result can be a higher production in organic aquaculture.
Program and abstract for the conference Flavobacterium 2012
Flavobacterium 2012: The 3rd International Conference on Members of the Genus Flavobacterium - Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Duration: 5 Jun 2012 → 7 Jun 2012
http://web.abo.fi/konferens/flavobacterium2012/
Flavobacterium 2012
Madsen, L., Ingerslev, H-C., Boye, M., & Dalsgaard, I. (2012). Influence of organic diets and probiotics on an experimental Flavobacterium psychrophilum infection in rainbow trout fry. In Program and abstract for the conference Flavobacterium 2012 (pp. 88). Åbo Akademi University.
Madsen, Lone ; Ingerslev, Hans-Christian ; Boye, Mette ; Dalsgaard, Inger. / Influence of organic diets and probiotics on an experimental Flavobacterium psychrophilum infection in rainbow trout fry. Program and abstract for the conference Flavobacterium 2012. Åbo Akademi University, 2012. pp. 88
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The cumulative mortalities were less than 10 % in the groups exposed to the bacterium, whereas no mortalities were seen in the controls.A traditional bacteriological examination of the microflora in the fry was done by taking out samples from inner organs for detecting potential pathogens as well as samples from the intestine to examine the intestinal microflora. Tryptone yeast extract salts (TYES) agar [3] was used for isolating F. psychrophilum. The random sampling done 5 days post bath exposure infection showed that F. psychrophilum could be isolated in 1 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry and 4 of 10 fry, respectively, in the four different diet groups, in total 27.5 % of the sampled fry. In all cases apart from one the bacterium was only isolated from the spleen. When the random sampling was repeated 26 days post infection, a total of 3 of 40 fish hosted the bacterium (each fish sampled from a different group), corresponding to 7.5 % of the sampled fish. 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The samples will be used for studies of the bacterial microbiota in the fish by e.g. traditional bacteriology and molecular methods (16S rRNA PCR combined with next generation sequencing) as well as for the immunological investigation of the intestine by gene expression studies by quantitative RT-PCR. Fish health will be investigated by experimental exposure of fry to pathogens, e.g. F .psychrophilum.In the current experiment four diet types were tested on fry, a conventional type (Inicio®, BioMar A/S) with and without probiotics, as well as an organic type with and without probiotic. Bactocell® (Lallemand) was used as the probiotic. Studies were done in triplicates, whereas the sampling and experimental infections were done in duplicates.The rainbow trout were fed the different diet types from first feeding and onwards. Just before first feeding yolk sac fry were sampled for reference. Thereafter sampling was done when the fry had been fed for at least 10 days, just before experimental infection with F. psychrophilum as well as 5 and 26 days after infection. Until the fish reached average weight 5 g two more samplings were done.An experimental bath infection model with F. psychrophilum was used [2]. A 48 hour old bacterial culture of the strain 950106-1/1 was diluted to 107 CFU/ml in bore-hole water and the fish were exposed to this dilution for 0.5 h. Thereafter the fish were moved to 100 l aquaria. During the whole feed experiment the water temperature was 12 °C.The bath exposure challenge experiment was terminated after 35 days. The cumulative mortalities were less than 10 % in the groups exposed to the bacterium, whereas no mortalities were seen in the controls.A traditional bacteriological examination of the microflora in the fry was done by taking out samples from inner organs for detecting potential pathogens as well as samples from the intestine to examine the intestinal microflora. Tryptone yeast extract salts (TYES) agar [3] was used for isolating F. psychrophilum. The random sampling done 5 days post bath exposure infection showed that F. psychrophilum could be isolated in 1 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry, 3 of 10 fry and 4 of 10 fry, respectively, in the four different diet groups, in total 27.5 % of the sampled fry. In all cases apart from one the bacterium was only isolated from the spleen. When the random sampling was repeated 26 days post infection, a total of 3 of 40 fish hosted the bacterium (each fish sampled from a different group), corresponding to 7.5 % of the sampled fish. The isolation site this time was spleen and kidney. F. psychrophilum was not isolated from the control groups.The conclusions based on this study are that bath exposure under the given conditions resulted in low mortalities in diet groups no matter if the fish had been fed diets that were organic or conventional nor if the feed had been added probiotic. No significance in mortalities was seen between the diet groups. The bacteriological examinations showed that the bacterium had entered the fish, as it was found in inner organs in one fourth of the sampled fish 5 days post infection, but it seems that the fish were able to clear the infection, because the cumulative mortalities after 35 days were less than 10 percent in each group. 26 days post infection only 7.5 % of the sampled fish still harboured the bacterium.Further analyses include next generation sequencing of samples from the diet groups and comparison of all data.The OPTIFISH project is aiming at a production of a more robust and healthy rainbow trout fry/fingerling, so the production of organic fry can become a reality and the result can be a higher production in organic aquaculture.
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The album was co-produced and recorded by multi-instrumentalist Ben Brodin, who has been important to several careers of musicians within the Saddle Creek label. Stream it in full and purchase the album for $7. Also, her album release party will be held on October 13th at AS220 in Rhode Island. Click the flyer to see the Facebook event.


This apartment of 41 m² (about 441 ft²), built in 1982, in a building of 5 floors contains 2 rooms including 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and 1 toilet. It is equipped with a living room of 19 m² (about 204 ft²), with a balcony, with a cellar and with a parking lot. It's located on the 1st floor with a lift. Heating : individual electric. Others : intercom.


She absolutely loves sharing her love, her practice of yoga. It is very humbling for her to be a part of someone`s yoga journey and it gives her joy to connect with people who share same passion. She has 10years of experience teaching dance all over the world. She knows how to hold a space full of people, provide a safe space for people to practice and engage with them throught the class.


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If You are in need of an Armoire then you have found it this Antique armoire has plenty of storage and you will adore the Chinese look solid wood mahogany finish to go with your decor.
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Take this Victorian Cottage Style light blue vanity home to enhance your bathroom with beauty, your decor will be remarkably attractive you will receive compliments from all of your family and friend.
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The course is designed to study the methods that American lawyers use in your chosen profession. The seminar will review basic concepts in common law reasoning, the response of legislatures who pass statutes when they are dissatisfied with the substance of the common law, the use of administrative agencies and their delegated power to supplement broadly worded statutes with detailed regulations, and the way judges interpret statutes and regulations.
This course will examine the most salient questions facing lawyers in international and cross-border legal practice, including why international and cross-border lawyering is functionally distinct from lawyering in purely domestic contexts? What unique skills and knowledge are needed to be an international lawyer? Which ethical rules apply to attorney conduct in cross-border settings? What happens when attorneys are subject to multiple different ethical obligations or when (as is often the case) it is uncertain which rules apply? What special professional and professionalism challenges arise in advocacy before international tribunals? What specialized communication and cultural skills are needed for operating in a cross-border and multi-cultural legal environment? What are attorney obligations in light of client bribery of foreign officials or violations of foreign law? What special rules apply when representing or opposing governmental entities? What are the obligations and limitations in attorney aid to clients in evading law through international arbitrage?
This seminar explores how law defines and shapes America's complex relationship with its largest, most lethal, and perhaps most misunderstood institution: The Armed Forces of the United States. The seminar will address the legal and policy issues arising from the military's organization, composition, and wide variety of missions; the merits of an all-volunteer force; the military's response to changing norms regarding race, sexuality, and gender, including the challenge of sexual assault; the concept of civilian control of the military and its relationship to military effectiveness; the role of lawyers in the military; and the unique nature of military society as reflected in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The seminar also gives students the opportunity to write on a topic related to the military specifically or national security more generally. Students will present research papers on topics relevant to the seminar and, circumstances permitting, will have the opportunity to witness actual military justice proceedings.
This course introduces students to contemporary debates over the interpretation of the Constitution. The revival of originalist theory in recent decades has reanimated discussions over how the Constitution should be interpreted. The arguments for different approaches are sophisticated, and the stakes are high, since the resolution of important constitutional questions often turns on what interpretive method is used. Each student's semester culminates in a research paper on an original topic related to constitutional interpretation. For the final four sessions of the semester, the class becomes a workshop in which students comment on each other's paper drafts.
This course examines the contribution of the judiciary to political governance in comparative perspective. It focuses on the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice, which is the highest court of the European Union. It also takes into account selectively judgments of other constitutional courts. It seeks to explore the function of judicial review in modern democracy through a study of judicial decisions in selected areas. It examines the relationship between the judiciary and the other organs of government and the role of courts in protecting the citizen. It focuses on the following areas: federalism, the protection of human rights, the principles of democracy, non-discrimination, equality, proportionality, legitimate expectations, and fair hearing; Locus standi, remedies for the protection of constitutional rights, and the liability of public bodies and state agencies.
The seminar will utilize a separation of powers analysis to examine federal regulatory and legislative practice. Topics covered will include congressional investigations, federal regulatory agency jurisdiction and procedure, and areas of federal criminal law that are most relevant to legal practice in Washington, DC. The seminar's primary focus will be those areas of Washington legal practice in which administrative and regulatory law, federal criminal law, politics, and public relations intersect to create special problems and challenges for attorneys in government and private practice. A "case study" approach will be used to analyze these topics from both perspectives, examining the legal obligations and professional responsibilities of both government lawyers and private counsel. Highlights of the course include analysis of the Watergate, ABSCA, Iran-Contra, Whitewater, and Clinton-Lewinsky scandals.
This seminar explores the class action device, tracing its historical origins from the earliest forms of aggregate litigation through various amendments to Rule 23 and passage of the Class Action Fairness Act. Although other non-class aggregation techniques are discussed, they are addressed only for comparative purposes. The unique nature of representative litigation and the special issues that arise during the course of a class action are the subject of discussion and student presentations during seminar sessions. Considerable discussion is devoted to the roles of the various "players" in a class action: the qualifications of the class representative, the qualifications and interest of class counsel, and the fiduciary role of the district judge.
This seminar will investigate basic themes in constitutional jurisprudence from the perspectives of legal and political theory. A tentative list of topics includes separation of powers, the rule of law, sovereignty, democracy, civil and religious liberties and constitutional interpretation. This seminar will emphasize theoretical, as well as historical, dimensions of these topics, and also consider some of their contemporary implications.
The objectives of this course include an examination of the interface between law and the arts with an eye to both theoretical and practical implications and a striving to identify creative and serviceable solutions to the problems that have frustrated the growth and harvest of the creative effort. The investigation will be directed toward subject areas that reflect functional divisions within the arts; i.e., the visual arts, dance, music, the literary arts, and areas such as television and film. The course includes a mandatory overnight field trip to New York City at the students' expense.
The purpose of this seminar is to facilitate discussion and understanding of the role law has played in both the subordination and promotion of the rights of people of color in America . Subjects for discussion will include race and the American criminal justice system, hate speech and the First Amendment, affirmative action policies, and the quest for effective schools.
The Supreme Court, including procedure and practice, principles of adjudication, and history, as well as the topics of the current term are studied. Students are required to present analyses of current cases as well as an analytical paper on approved topics of constitutional law.
The inexorable paces of globalization and interdependence over the past few decades have made the need for international cooperation among states more acute. The role of the United Nations, the premier global intergovernmental organization, in these processes has become more relevant, as has that of international law in general. Notwithstanding the critical voices that have sometimes questioned the relevance or usefulness of the world body, and international law itself, on the basis of certain perspectives and points of view, the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies continue to have a considerable impact around the world, in such areas as the use of force, conflict prevention and resolution, refugees, human population displacement and forced migrations, humanitarian action, human rights, international trade, and economic and social development. These considerations, among others, make the study of the United Nations and international law more important today than it has ever been.
The seminar will address international trial investigative techniques, tribunal jurisdiction and procedure, and areas of international civil and criminal law that are most relevant to legal practice before international tribunals.
This seminar is designed to improve students' understanding of the theoretical and policy justifications underlying the prosecution of white collar crime. Students will examine current issues in the debate over corporate criminal liability, prosecutorial discretion, the use of plea agreements to achieve structural reform of corporations, and the federalization of crime. In addition, the class will examine white collar crime in particular industries such as health care and securities regulation. Students will examine these issues both theoretically and practically by reviewing law review articles, Department of Justice policies, pleadings, and case studies on some of the most notorious white collar crime cases in recent years.
This seminar examines selected aspects of international financial, securities, and banking law. It covers broadly four areas: First, it provides elements of financial law. This includes legal aspects of banking, securities, and money; the objectives of regulations and supervision; an overview of US regulation; and the public and private law of international monetary obligations. Secondly, it examines aspects of international financial and securities regulation. This includes an examination of the financial crisis of 2008 and the regulatory reforms resulting from it; selected comparative aspects of regulation in the US and the EU through a detailed discussion of legislation and case law (e.g. institutional structure, insider trading, rating agencies). Thirdly, it discusses economic and monetary union in the EU and the eurozone crisis. Finally, it provides an overview of the law of the IMF and the international financial architecture.
This seminar explores constitutional law differences in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
This Seminar will examine the testimonial privileges that permit or require professionals, family members, individuals, companies, and governmental actors to withhold testimony in furtherance of a competing public interest. We will evaluate the policy considerations justifying these privileges, the burdens they impose, and the relative competence of courts and legislatures to recognize and define them.
The course involves the study and analysis of the core United Nations-sponsored international human rights treaties with the following objectives: understanding the history and development of human rights protection in the post-UN Charter era; examining the substantive content of the major international human rights instruments; and measuring the relative compliance of the states that have ratified them. The course will assess the impact of these treaties on the enjoyment by the citizens of the various state parties of the rights provided therein. Particular attention will be paid to claims about the apparent decline and/or stagnation in the enforcement of these treaties in the post-Cold War period, especially in the last decade.
The Individual Research and Writing Seminar is used to meet the Upper-Level Writing Requirement for the J.D. degree.


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