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Texas A&M hopes rise in recruiting rankings leads to success on the football field
Brent Zwerneman, Staff writer
Since Jimbo Fisher arrived almost exactly four years ago, the Aggies have secured multiple top-10 classes and several five-star pledges.
Sam Craft, FRE / Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION — Life is about losing and moving on, Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher said this season. Before A&M fans clutch their collective hearts, allow the veteran coach to explain.
"Listen, you always hate to lose guys, but that's what the world is," Fisher said of replacing players who are turning pro early or out of eligibility. "You step up and move on, and other people step in."
The players Fisher has stepping in over the past few years continue to lift the Aggies' talent level to where A&M should, at some point, contend for an SEC West title — at least based on recruiting rankings.
"This program has definitely changed, and the culture here has changed as well," said defensive lineman DeMarvin Leal, one of the standout players exiting before his eligibility expires. "It's the place to be, honestly."
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The recruiting rankings back Leal's boast. And while coaches rarely specifically address such rankings — often claiming to pay little attention to recruiting website lists — Fisher could not help himself recently when addressing A&M's anticipated 2022 haul.
"We may recruit the No. 1 … we're going to recruit an unbelievable class this year," Fisher said.
He was responding to persistent reports from a couple of national media outlets that he was a leading candidate to replace Ed Orgeron at LSU, a job that eventually went to Notre Dame's Brian Kelly.
"We're going to recruit a heck of a class … we're building special things," Fisher said. "(A&M) has invested in the program, and we're building a culture."
With the early signing period starting Wednesday, Fisher's fourth full class at A&M is ranked third nationally via 247Sports.com. The class currently includes 21 pledges, and Fisher intends to sign a full class of 25 prospects.
Fisher already set the program mark with three consecutive classes in the top 10 from 2019-21, a first since online rankings became part of the recruiting landscape around the turn of the century. A&M never has finished No. 1 overall, and its highest online ranking was No. 4 in 2019 under Fisher — his first full class at A&M.
Brian Perroni, a national recruiting analyst for 247Sports, said the Aggies for the first time might even enjoy a "position of luxury" in perhaps not being able to sign all of the highly ranked players interested in the program.
As of Saturday, too, A&M had received the verbal pledges from four five-star players: quarterback Conner Weigman of Bridgeland, receiver Evan Stewart of Frisco Liberty, defensive lineman Walter Nolen of Powell, Tenn., and defensive lineman Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy of Lakeland, Fla.
Aggies' commitments
PLAYER SCHOOL POS. HT./WT.
Bryce Anderson DB Beaumont West Brook 6-0/190
Deyon Bouie DB Bainbridge, Ga. 5-11/185
Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy DL Lakeland, Fla. 6-3/280
Hunter Erb OL Haslet Eaton 6-6/305
Donovan Green TE Dickinson 6-4/235
Ish Harris LB Pilot Point 6-3/195
Martrell Harris LB The Woodlands 6-2/215
Jarred Kerr DB Lexington 6-0/185
Chris Marshall WR Fort Bend Marshall 6-3/195
Theodor Melin Ohrstrom TE Sweden 6-6/245
Ethan Moczulski K Mead, Wash. 5-11/185
Le'Veon Moss RB Baton Rouge, La. 6-0/190
Mark Nabou OL Seattle 6-4/330
Walter Nolen DL Powell, Tenn. 6-4/325
Jadon Scarlett DL Argyle 6-2/265
Evan Stewart WR Frisco Liberty 6-0/175
Malick Sylla DL Katy 6-6/230
Bobby Taylor DB Katy 6-1/180
Noah Thomas WR Clear Springs 6-5/180
Conner Weigman QB Bridgeland 6-2/208
PJ Williams OL Dickinson 6-4/265
Since 2000, A&M has signed 20 five-star prospects via 247Sports, a quarter of those, not including the 2022 prospects, under the relatively short tenure of Fisher, who arrived on campus four years ago this month.
From 2000-11 under coaches R.C. Slocum, Dennis Franchione and Mike Sherman, A&M signed six five-star prospects, and never more than one in a year. Not coincidentally, A&M has not won a conference title in either the Big 12 or the SEC since 2012 this century.
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Sherman's successor at A&M, Kevin Sumlin, once told a couple of reporters from recruiting services: "I'll give you guys credit. Usually the five-star guys are really good. Guys who are ranked No. 1 (in the nation) at their position? They're usually pretty good."
Ten of A&M's pledges to date are on offense and 10 are on defense with one kicker in the class, and Fisher has been presented with a late challenge of keeping the highly ranked class intact, especially on defense: The departure this weekend of defensive coordinator Mike Elko to Duke as the Blue Devils' new coach.
How quickly Fisher hires a defensive coordinator might impact the class' numbers, but as he's also previously said he can't rush a hire so important to A&M's overall success.
Meanwhile, the No. 25 Aggies (8-4) are preparing for the Gator Bowl at 11 a.m. on New Year's Eve against No. 17 Wake Forest (10-3). A&M took a step back from last season's No. 4 finish in the final Associated Press poll, and, moving forward, fans will expect A&M's final rankings to better mirror the top 10 finishes in recruiting Fisher has strung together.
Fisher won a national title in his fourth season at Florida State in 2013, so he knows what it takes to be the last team standing in early January.
"This place deserves a great football team," Fisher said of A&M, which hasn't won a national title since 1939. "We're doing everything in our power to make it that way."
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Brent Zwerneman is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering Texas A&M athletics. He is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and Sam Houston State University, where he played baseball.
Brent is the author of four published books about Texas A&M, three related to A&M athletics. He's a four-time winner of APSE National Top 10 writing awards for the San Antonio Express-News, including a second-place finish for breaking the Dennis Franchione "secret newsletter" scandal in 2007.
His coverage of Texas A&M's move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012. Brent met his wife, KBTX-TV news anchor Crystal Galny, in the Dixie Chicken before an A&M-Texas Tech football game in 2002, and the couple has three children: Will, Zoe and Brady.
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With the recent announcement that the science fiction British television series, Doctor Who, will have its very first female doctor in Jodie Whittaker, a mixed set of responses have appear throughout social media and not everyone is happy. Some people have expressed outrage about the idea that the Time Lord can be played by a woman and ridiculously argued that the Doctor has to be male because women can't be doctors. To make matters worse, there's an actual #nursewho hashtag.
Newsflash #1: doctors can be female. Newsflash #2: nurses can be male.
This comes on the heels of the online dictionary persona's genius trolling of President Trump. Since Trump's inauguration, the dictionary's official Twitter handle has doubled its audience to over 550,000 followers. Between fact checking and grammar fixing, they have been kept very busy.
So kudos to the reference giant and keep on keeping us all informed and corrected.


Complexity, self-organization and the origin of life: The happy liaison? | Origins of Life: Self-Organization and/or Biological Evolution?
The spontaneous assembly of amphiphiles into micelles and bilayer membranes, as well as the dynamical self-assembly properties of nucleic acids, suggest that selforganization phenomena played a role in the origin of life. However, current biology indicates that life could have not evolved in the absence of a genetic replicating mechanism insuring the stability and diversification of its basic components. This does not imply that explanations on the appearance of life should reduce themselves to the issue of the emergence of RNA or its predecessors.


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import io.renren.entity.ScheduleJobLogEntity;

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 * @author tangty
 * @email tianyaTTY@gmail.com
 * @date 2017年7月5日 下午6:43:36
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public interface ScheduleJobLogDao extends BaseDao<ScheduleJobLogEntity> {

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Chernobyl, the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, the Three-Mile Island explosion, and more. How well do you know your history regarding man-made environmental disasters?
Educational YouTube channel 'List 25' has created a top 25 list that's sure to leave you wondering how it's possible for humanity to have screwed up so many different things all around the same time-period.
What did you think? How many of those did you already know, and how many were new? It's a sad fact, but in the next 50 years, most of those will likely be replaced by disasters we've yet to experience.


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Humanity Editorial Transition
May 14, 2018 by The Editors
The founding editorial collective of Humanity—Nehal Bhuta, Nils Gilman, Nicolas Guilhot, Samuel Moyn, Joseph Slaughter, and Miriam Ticktin—is pleased to announce that, after ten years, its members are stepping down. To take the journal into the future, a new editorial collective has formed. Our transition has already begun, and the official switchover from one collective to the other takes place in the new year. We congratulate and welcome the members of the new editorial collective, who are already open to contact and open for consultation:
Ayça Çubukçu is (from fall 2018) associate professor in human rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the codirector of LSE Human Rights. She is the author of For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (Pennsylvania, 2018) and a number of articles which have appeared in the London Review of International Law, Journal of Human Rights, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and parallax. Before coming to LSE, Çubukçu taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee for Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. She co-edits Jadaliyya's Turkey Page and is the co-editor of the LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press.
Tobias Kelly is professor of political and legal anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out ethnographic and archival research in Israel/Palestine, the United Kingdom, and at the United Nations. He has published two monographs: Law, Violence and Sovereignty Amongst West Bank Palestinians (Cambridge, 2006) and This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture and the Recognition of Cruelty (Pennsylvania, 2012). He is currently working on two separate projects. The first examines the relationship between violence, poverty, and human rights activism. The second looks at claims of conscience and their role in the history of human rights and humanitarianism. He received a doctorate in anthropology from the London School of Economics, and has worked at the Institute of Law of Birzeit University, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University.
Angela Naimou is associate professor of English at Clemson University. She received her doctorate in English from Cornell University, where she was a Mellon Graduate Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities and won the Dean's Prize for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (Fordham, 2015), which won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize for outstanding contribution to the study of the contemporary arts and was a finalist for the William Sanders Scarborough Award from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture of any period. Her current book project, tentatively titled Refugee Futurity: Global Forms of Refuge and Refusal, examines how refugee and diasporic writings reconceptualize contemporary practices of migration, refuge, and asylum.
Vasuki Nesiah is a legal scholar who teaches at the Gallatin School, New York University. She has published on the history and politics of human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal law, international feminisms and colonial legal history. Her three primary research projects include one that is focused on the politics of race and international criminal law history, another analyzing debates regarding reparations for colonialism and slavery and a project on international feminisms and war/conflict. Her recent publications include a co-edited volume, A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law (Cambridge, 2017) and articles such as "Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to Empowerment" in Janet Halley et. al, eds., Governance Feminisms (Minnesota, 2018), and "The Escher Human Rights Elevator: Technologies of the Local," in Sally Engle Merry and Tine Destrooper, eds., Human Rights Transformation in an Unequal World, (Pennsylvania, 2018). She has been core faculty in Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) since 2010. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she has also continued as an active participant in this global scholars' network for over two decades. She is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and Brooklyn, United States.
Timothy Nunan is a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter and Freigeist fellow at the Center for Global History of the Free University of Berlin. His work focuses on the history of Russia and Eurasia–Central Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan–in an international context. He is the author of Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (Cambridge, 2016), and his present project explores the encounter between the Soviet Union and the international socialist movement with Islamism during the Cold War. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Jessica Whyte is senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. She is a political theorist whose work integrates political theory, intellectual history and political economy to analyze contemporary forms of sovereignty, and governmentality. She has a particular interest in the political stakes of mobilizing the category of the human, and in the way claims to protect humanity are bound up with rationalizations for abandoning certain lives and for state-sanctioned killing. She has published widely on human rights, humanitarianism, and neoliberalism, and on contemporary European philosophy. Her first monograph was Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben (SUNY, 2013). Her forthcoming book, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, will be published by Verso in 2019. She is currently working on a three-year Australian Research Council-funded project, "Inventing Collateral Damage: The Changing Moral Economy of War," which aims to provide a novel philosophical account of the invention of the discourse of collateral damage.
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Kazim Abidi May 29, 2018 at 2:00 pm
I WANT TO WRITE A DISSERTATION OR MPhil on Sociology Historiography of Human Rights. I live in London; Can you recommend anyone in the field.
I am proposing that scholarship and human rights have a single origin.
Plesse email me. Thanks.
My proposal is below but you dont have to read it.
I propose to analyse, study and develop an understanding of the connection between the practice of history/sociology and Human Rights. I want to examine the relationship on two levels: an indirect contribution or a direct contribution to human rights.
I will start by tracking the course of the craft/historiography in recent history and showing its close relationship with sociology. I will illustrate the contemporaneity of history. From this and the acknowledged dynamism of sociology I will build the case of the necessity of the 'existent' that is the fundamental shaping force of humanity and humanities and science brought about by the mode and study of both subjects. Also to illustrate their independence in many ways outside conscious action.
Following this illustration of function and Being, I will then try and introduce Human Rights, the evolution, presence and history of the ethics of society. I want to show the dialogue between human rights and sociology and present-day human consciousness.
Although it is quite open that historical change and Rights are quite closely connected I will try to show how a subject needs to reinvent itself to anchor change- self and Other. Some of the trends are in place to support and actualise historical change and the societal such that the mechanical set-up of a text itself lends itself to change in society. A text acknowledges support for change but new trends guide change as well as demanding change. This means how we see ourselves is apparent in two ways, through direct intellectual demand and Being/history, that is the invisible structure of text which is imbued with humanitarian change. Ethics is a structure and a ready-made text, available for change and growth- an enlightened-norm, a basic everyday thought. There is then 1. a canvass and 2. a craft/ debate that supports and breathes life into the world. The argument then is that just because history/ sociology is not scientific or a philosophical thing per se it does provide humankind with the apparatus for change and understanding- Im am not playing on the terms 'social science' I am implying that there is an intellectual bedrock that these subjects work in which outside science and art. I want to align historical change, in structure, with history and awareness and humanitarian change. Society and social science and humanitarian studies will all be addressed in this debate. I want to look at structure per se of the way historical essays present themselves, what components of a text are always changing, what components are new, what the writer changes and introduces, style and message.
I will look at Humanitarianism, Human Rights and who practices it and creates it, how it is studied by those that practice it. How it is received and moulded by society. How human right has evolved and developed and metamorphosed; how it functions in a private and public realm. Human rights in nations, cities, villages and AT HOME, society and family. Those that facilitate it and necessitate it. How it enters in different historical paradigms.
There are many routes to solve this question of human rights; I will try and address them all such that people can understand the relationship between history/sociology (particularly as a working art) and Human Rights.

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We were being serious when we wrote our title. Captain Crunch has a new Cotton Candy Crunch flavor… and it's basically candy!
The sweetened corn and oat cereal now has pink and blue puffs as they have introduced a new dessert to all cereal lovers! Yes, we said dessert… because isn't it?
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WE'VE heard of a "Chinese wall" between editorial and advertising, but this is ridiculous. Last Friday, the New York Times illustrated a review of the French movie "Shall We Kiss?" with a shot from the picture showing a fully clothed man with his hand on a fully clothed woman's breast. But just a week earlier, reports Post film editor V.A. Musetto, the paper had rejected an ad for the movie with the exact same photo. No wonder the salary-slashing, staff-trimming Times is so hard up for cash.
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Fox & Friends Guest: African-Americans' Real Enemies Are Black Elitists, Not White Supremacists
Former NFL Superbowl champion Burgess Owen appeared on Fox & Friends Friday morning to discuss the rise in viewership of NFL games, which the Fox News show attributed to the decline in national anthem protests. The protests have waned since they were started by NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
Rather than discuss the NFL directly, Owen, who is now an author, railed against what he sees as the enemies of the African-American community in a segment that seemed to catch even the Fox & Friends hosts off guard. Owen was asked why he thinks NFL ratings have gone up recently.
"Well, it is going up because Americans do what we do best. We move on," Owen said. "When we think we've won a battle, we move on and build our lives and build our future and live the American dream. What we have to remember and this is, I think, the biggest take away from the last two years, we are in the fight for the heart and soul of our nation."
"We fight for our American … the Judeo-Christian values and fighting against an evil force of socialism and Marxism that destroy everything they come close. The NFL has been changed forever and people don't realize. There used to be a place we come together, no matter what our political persuasion was and there was unity because we had God, country and we had family."
"The Marxists and socialists have made this so we have young people coming out of these environments, they are anti-American, they are anti-white, they are anti-capitalist and this is the message that now is going around the world and throughout our communities – that this is a place that's not for black Americans. That's what they've accomplished the last three years," Owen claimed.
Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade mentioned Reverend Al Sharpton, Colin Kaepernick and Rihanna among people who had supported the protests, before throwing the conversation back to Owens to discuss socialism.
"We have been on attack for over 100 years. It's an ideology that is actually as evil as it comes," Owens said. "It destroys our belief in God, family. You look at the American black community, which once led our country in the commitment to marriage and commitment to education, to entrepreneurship, when I was growing up. That has turned totally upside down because we have these black elitists, particularly, the ones you just mentioned, that care less about our communities. They care about their profits and their profitability and their prestige. And that's what elitists do. That's what socialists do. They care less about the American – the black community. If they would, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today."
"I have watched as I have grown up the impact of the socialists. Our greatest enemy is not white supremacists. It's black elitists. Those who live the American dream, who get a job for $100,000 a year as politicians and come out of there as multimillionaires."
"They betray their own base, the people who believe in them, they give them up to get their ideology in place," Owens said, before promoting his book. "At the end of the day, it's all about education. Education. 'Ignorance and free can never be-' -Thomas Jefferson. We need to educate ourselves and realize we will need to fight for the heart and soul of our country. And we do that by knowing who the enemy is and it's not each other, it's the socialists, Marxist and liberals that are destroying our country."
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I colour treated my hair six times last year and ended up with damaged, frizzy hair, so this year my goal is to bring back some strength and shine to my hair. I was introduced to Hair Recipes earlier this year and I have to say – you need this! Hair Recipes is a haircare brand that harnesses the power of ingredients found right in your kitchen to help improve the texture of your hair. In the products, you'll get the benefits of Egg, Beer, Wheat Germ, Lemon & Chamomile found in the Hair Recipes shampoos, combined with the Egg Yolk conditioner to create beautiful, strong hair.
I received a set of products for dry, dull, tired hair, and it was exactly what my hair needed. This bundle contains the Egg & Cognac Shampoo, the Egg Yolk Conditioner, and a bottle of Jojoba Oil for hair and scalp. The Egg & Cognac Shampoo is a thick shampoo that lathers very thickly, cleans extremely well, all without stripping. A little bit goes a long way, and even though I wash my hair once every 4-ish days now, I find that it still has enough power to wash off all the grime, grease, and my dry scalp flakes out of my hair. It never feels too harsh though, which is good because I don't want a clarifying shampoo to damage my hair even more.
The Egg Yolk Conditioner is a thick, creamy conditioner that coats my hair really well and leaves it feeling ultra nourished. I am completely addicted to this product because it replenishes all the lost moisture from my hair, without weighing it down. My hair just ends up feeling stronger, like you know in those hair commercials where they swish the head around and the hair looks so sleek – that's how I think my hair looks!
My usual hair routine before trying Hair Recipes has been shampoo, conditioner, and apply some kind of hair serum or oil, but with the Egg & Cognac Shampoo + Egg Yolk Conditioner combo, my hair has been so shiny, and healthy, even without the use of any hair serums or oils. The jojoba oil I received in my package is great for dry hair and replenishing dry scalp as well. I haven't use this on my scalp, just because I don't want my hair to turn into a greasy mess, and a little goes a very long way on the ends of my hair. Even then, I rarely use this because the shampoo and conditioner alone are enough.
Just so you don't think I'm full of raves for haircare products – right before I received this bundle from Hair Recipes, I was using another salon professional haircare brand I received and I absolutely despised it. It was designed for coloured and damaged hair, but it was so lightweight that I felt like I didn't apply any conditioner, and the shampoo was also such a lightweight that it didn't clean my hair properly… I only used that set of products maybe 3-4 time before switching to Hair Recipes and I won't be looking back at all.
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That jojoba oil sounds very interesting! I'm still on the lookout for a good scalp oil.
Do you find that your scalp gets greasy quickly if you use a scalp oil, regardless of how well you wash it off?


The following is a glossary of Ingress-related terms. It includes both official terminology and agent slang, and contains links to the relevant articles on Fev Games where applicable.
The maximum distance from which you can perform most interactions with a portal (40 meters).
(proper noun) ("A Detection Algorithm") An artificial intelligence developed by the NIA. She has historically been seen as being affiliated with the Resistance.
(verb) To use an ADA refactor on a portal.
A social gathering that takes place after an anomaly. Some may be organized by Niantic; these will always be cross-faction and will usually feature official announcements. Local agents may organize their own afterparties, which may be cross-faction or faction specific.
The faction with which a particular agent, portal, link or control field is affiliated.
(said of a portal) To drain XM from an opposite-aligned agent's reserves in retaliation for hacking or attacking it.
An image which represents an agent. It is surrounded by an octagon with a number of segments equal to the agent's level. Your avatar is visible at the upper-left of the scanner screen. An agent's profile screen shows their avatar at the upper-left.
(said of Niantic) To terminate an agent's account. Banning occurs as a result of violating the Ingress terms of service.
An agent whose name is composed entirely of the following characters: l (lower-case ell), I (upper-case eye) or 1 (one). Some agents choose barcode names to make it more difficult for their identities to be distinguished from that of other barcode agents. However, as the practice affects both factions, it is less effective for confounding the enemy, and is sometimes viewed as being engaged in by spoofers and other cheaters with the intention of making people less confident about which agent they're reporting to Niantic.
The maximum distance at which an XMP or ultra strike can inflict damage. Resonators within the blast radius will receive damage, and portals within the blast radius may have one or more of their mods stripped. Blast radius varies by the weapon's type and level.
A link created with the specific intention of obstructing enemy links.
Software that facilitates automatically performing actions as an agent. Botting is against the Ingress terms of service and risks getting your account banned. It is also extremely unpopular with other agents.
The lowest core medal tier. Bronze medals do not contribute to leveling.
The opposite of destroy; to deploy resonators or mods, or to create links or fields.
A temporary state in which a portal can no longer be hacked by a particular agent that has hacked it multiple times. By default, a portal is burned out if the same agent has hacked it four times within the last four hours, though multi-hacks can increase the number of hacks before burnout occurs. Burnout is per agent; other agents can still hack the portal.
The grid of 11 points on which glyphs are drawn.
To deploy a resonator on an unclaimed portal.
A user interface widget found in the scanner that permits an agent to select an item by swiping left and right.
An area where the Ingress scanner app displays regional scoring. Each cell has a unique name. You can view scoring for your current cell by selecting the Scores tab in the OPS screen. There are 24,576 cells worldwide, although some are in uninhabited areas.
An unstable variant of exotic matter.
A moment in time when the MU total for each faction is taken for each cell, used for regional scoring. A checkpoint occurs every five hours, and there are 35 checkpoints per septicycle. You can view the time until the next checkpoint under the Scores tab on the OPS screen.
A group of portals that represent potential objectives during a phase of an anomaly.
Many agents sending COMM messages to one agent. This is often to congratulate that person, such as to wish them a happy birthday.
The second-lowest rarity. Items which can be found at common rarity include heat sinks, multi-hacks, and portal shields.
A period of time following a single hack in which an agent cannot hack the same portal again. By default, the cooldown period lasts five minutes, though heat sinks can reduce this time. Cooldown is per agent; other agents can still hack the portal.
Physical items planted at a specific location. They typically include passcodes (often encrypted), valuable anomaly intel, and/or materials that reveal aspects of the back story.
The natural decline of resonator XM over time. Resonators lose approximately 15% of their XM per day. Recharging can counteract this decay.
(by extension of sense #1) The destruction of resonator, link, or control field; or the neutralization of a portal; due to resonator XM decay.
To extract passcodes from posts and other materials released by Niantic.
To act to prevent the neutralization of a portal that is under attack by enemy agents. This is done by deploying, upgrading or recharging resonators; or installing mods.
To use a resonator or mod on a portal. Also: install. [articles: deploy resonator, install mod] For consistency, the Fev Games Ingress Guide uses "deploy" for resonators and "install" for mods.
The opposite of build; to use weapons to eliminate resonators, mods, links and fields. Agents are sometimes heard to say that they are "destroying" a portal, but really they mean the resonators, mods, links and fields attached to it; the portal itself is neutralized, not destroyed.
To hack an enemy portal.
(said of portals) To grant one or more items as the result of a hack.
(said of portals) To deposit the portal key that was used to create a link on the ground when said link is destroyed.
One of the two factions. The Enlightened faction generally believes that XM is beneficial to mankind and that the Shapers are benevolent. They are represented by the color green.
(noun) A cluster of portals. Farms tend to be heavily contested because controlling them makes it easy to quickly hack a lot of items for your inventory without retaliation.
(verb) To perform many hacks—often at a farm (sense #1), but sometimes at a single modded portal—with the objective of significantly increasing one's inventory, or keys to specific portals.
A picture drawn with control fields.
Another application by Niantic Labs. Missions may require you to open a waypoint in the Field Trip application.
First Saturdays are Niantic-sanctioned events that take place on the first Saturday of each month. They are intended to help agents (especially new ones) connect with each other, as well as provide some friendly competition. First Saturdays are hosted by Fev Games. See the Ingress events page to see where upcoming First Saturday events are being held.
An event where high-level agents quickly build a farm and burn it out before enemy agents arrive to destroy it.
A command which caused the scanner to discard its local cache and request updated data from the game servers. This was sometimes used to resolve problems with inaccurate representations of game state in the scanner. The option to do this has been removed from Ingress Prime.
Slang term for Enlightened (green being their faction color).
(said of a portal) Describes a portal that has eight resonators deployed on it. Deploying a resonator in a portal's last empty slot is referred to as fully deploying or powering the portal; this grants you 250 AP and allows the portal to be linked.
(said of a link or field) A link or field which fails to go down when one if its anchor portals is neutralized. These ghost links and fields remain up until a cleanup script run periodically by Niantic notices and removes them. This used to be a much more common problem than it is today.
The next step up from megafield, a control field at or approaching continental scale.
A symbol that is part of the Shaper language. Shaper glyphs are emitted by portals during the glyph hacking mini-game.
The third-highest core medal tier. Gold medals are required for levels 9 through 13.
Suffix which refers to combining Ingress with another activity. Mostly used to refer to your transportation: cargress, bikegress, busgress, etc. The term beergress is also often seen. Please be wise with combining Ingress with other activities. Don't drink and drive, and don't drive distracted.
A portal owned by an agent for the purpose of obtaining the Guardian medal.
The practice of seeking out an agent's Guardian portal and neutralizing it, with the intention of denying that agent a Guardian medal. Opinions were mixed within the Ingress community with regards to this practice. Some agents considered it to be poor sportsmanship, while others considered it a legitimate tactic. Using an automated script to assist with Guardian hunting was much less popular, as it constituted a violation of the Ingress Terms of Service and was considered cheating. On 2 April 2018, in response to guardian hunting tools within both factions, Niantic retired the Guardian medal.
A question sometimes asked by new Ingress agents, due to their not understanding that Ingress requires you to actually get up and leave the house.
(said of a portal) Not vulnerable to flip cards. Portals are immune for one hour after a flip card is used on them. Using a flip card on an immune portal wastes the card.
A massively-multiplayer augmented reality mobile game in which two factions compete to control real-world locations.
The current version of the scanner.
An official, in-universe YouTube series hosted by Susanna Moyer. Its content is considered to be canon lore, though not necessarily without spin. The show is currently on hiatus.
See: deploy. For consistency, the Fev Games Ingress Guide uses "deploy" for resonators and "install" for mods.
Storage space within the scanner where items are kept.
A virtual "ticket" to send an invitation to another person to become an Ingress agent. They are rather pointless, as most agents have more invites than they'll ever use.
The company that sponsors transmuters.
(proper noun) Roland Jarvis is the originator of the Enlightened faction. If an agent accepts his invitation to join him after the tutorial, Jarvis patches his/her scanner to operate for the Enlightened.
(verb) To use a JARVIS virus on a portal.
The path where a planned future link will be. The term is often used in the context of planning or executing an operation.
(verb) To establish a link (sense #1).
The maximum distance to a remote portal from an origin portal and still be successfully linked. You can increase a portal's link range by upgrading its resonators or installing link amps.
Unwanted items dropped by agents (especially keys, which are less convenient to recycle).
Slang term for Lawson power cube.
A period of time during an anomaly during which a snapshot of the cluster state will be taken. The snapshot occurs at a random moment during the window, unknown to the agents. The state of the cluster at the moment of the snapshot is used for scoring.
A large control field, typically at the city scale or larger.
A composite image created in an agent's profile by performing a set of missions in a certain order.
When agents at level 8 or higher travel together on a predefined route, making each portal they encounter level 8, hacking it once, then moving on. Often, this is done in a loop, so that you can do another hacking pass if the portals haven't yet been destroyed by the enemy. Even though you might only do one hack per portal, it still typically results in a net positive on gear, destroys a bunch of enemy portals, and when the enemy shows up, you're already gone.
(from Harry Potter) A person who is not an Ingress agent, especially one that doesn't know what Ingress is.
The government agency which developed ADA and conducted much research into XM.
Not pertaining to either faction, usually said of portals. Neutral portals are gray.
To attack an enemy portal until you have destroyed all its resonators, causing it to become neutral.
The company that created Ingress, formerly part of Google.
A top secret government project commissioned by the NIA to research XM.
A new Ingress agent. Be nice to the noobs!
A mysterious extraterrestrial group which opposes the Shapers. Generally welcomed by the Resistance and opposed by the Enlightened.
An activity organized by a group of agents to accomplish a specific objective, such as creating megafields or starbursts.
Short for operations security; measures undertaken by agents to ensure that information about their activities do not fall into the hands of the opposite faction.
A decoration which appears on a portal in the scanner or intel map to mark it as being significant in some way.
(verb) To deploy a resonator.
The second-highest core medal tier. Platinum medals are required for levels 13 through 16.
A somewhat pejorative term for an individual responsible for approval of portal submissions, usually uttered by a person who disagrees with their decision. Niantic had the last laugh with the release of Operation Portal Recon, which turns the agents themselves into portal monkeys.
A premium item which can be deployed on a portal in a similar fashion to a mod, but without using a mod slot. Currently, there are two powerups: beacons and portal frackers.
An item that can only be acquired in the store with CMU.
A medal awarded for destroying enemy resonators.
Going out Ingressing with a group of agents.
A link created to protect a lane from blockers, usually running parallel to the lane.
The second-highest rarity. Items which can be found at rare rarity include capsules, force amps, heat sinks, link amps, multi-hacks, portal shields and turrets.
A gathering of agents remote recharging cluster portals during an anomaly to support their faction when they cannot be on-site.
To influence someone to become an Ingress agent.
(as a proper noun) The name of two past anomaly events.
To recharge a portal when not standing within action range of it. This requires that you hold the portal's key.
The maximum distance at which you can remotely recharge a portal, which is the point at which recharge efficiency drops below 50%. Leveling up increases your remote recharge range.
One of the two factions. The Resistance faction believes that XM is too dangerous and that the Shapers may not be benevolent. They are represented by the color blue.
The version of the scanner which existed before Ingress Prime, released as a separate application. It has been provided by Niantic as a stopgap until certain features missing from Ingress Prime at its initial release get implemented.
To use a script to extract data from the intel map. This is against the Ingress terms of service and risks getting your account banned.
An alien race that is apparently responsible for the existence of portals and XM in our world. The Enlightened believe the Shapers to be benevolent, while the Resistance think they're dangerous.
The second-lowest core medal tier. Silver medals are required for levels 9 through 12.
Short for situation report, a document or video describing an operation and its results.
One of the four spaces where a mod can be installed.
Slang term for Resistance (blue being their faction color).
Messages in the COMM selling items or accounts (which is against the Ingress terms of service).
A line of portals which are all connected to two other anchors to create layered fields.
To falsify the location your scanner reports to the Ingress servers, in order to perform actions somewhere other than your actual location. Spoofing is considered cheating and is a good way to become very unpopular with your fellow agents. It is also against the Ingress terms of service and can get you banned.
Linking many portals to one portal to create a starburst pattern on the screen. Cross-faction starbursts can be created by using two or more portals at the center that are very close together.
A tab on the OPS screen where agents can purchase premium items with chaotic matter units (CMU), and CMU with real-world currency.
The process run by Niantic that cleans up dropped items. It often will be mentioned when Niantic temporarily reduces the time to live for dropped items during anomalies.
To send a prospective portal to be analyzed by Operation Portal Recon.
The color that results when Enlightened and Resistance control fields overlap. Often used when discussing cross-faction fielding operations and commonly expressed in the hashtag #TealOrNoDeal.
(as in"frog tears" or "smurf tears") Tongue-in-cheek slang for the sadness the opposing faction feels in response to one's actions.
The rules you agree to follow when becoming an Ingress agent. Niantic may ban your account if they discover that you have violated the ToS.
To create (a link or field).
One of the five levels of medals: bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and onyx.
A tab on the OPS screen which contains tutorial scenarios to help new agents learn how to use their scanner.
A medal awarded for executing perfect glyph hacks.
A mod which changes a portals hack yield to produce offensive or defensive items.
(said of a resonator) To replace a resonator with one of a higher level.
(said of a portal) To upgrade resonators on a portal to strengthen it.
A member of a small group of agents selected by Niantic to serve as agent advocates and give feedback.
The lowest rarity. Items which can be found at very common rarity include media, portal keys, power cubes, resonators, ultra strikes, and XMP bursters.
The highest rarity. Items which can be found at the very rare rarity include beacons, flip cards, heat sinks, key lockers, link amps, quantum capsules, multi-hacks, portal frackers, portal shields, SoftBank ultra links, transmuters, and XM tanks.
A special cluster portal during an anomaly which is more valuable than other portals.
A portal or Field Trip location in a mission where you must perform some action.
An offensive item. Currently, the available weapons are XMP bursters, ultra strikes, and flip cards.
The XM held by your scanner. Your XM reserves are drawn from when you perform certain actions or are attacked by a hostile portal. They can be replenished by picking up XM, using power cubes, or recycling items.
Retaliation by an enemy portal in response to hacking or attacking it. Zap drains XM from your reserves.
The maximum distance at which a portal can zap you.


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