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Blac Chyna Shades Kris Jenner Following Kanye West's Tweets
Hard times out true friends. While many people experience that phenomenon in their private lives, fans of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West are the truism play out on a public stage. Kanye is in the middle of what appears to be a manic episode. He lives with bipolar disorder and was hospitalized in 2016 during his Life of Pablo tour. Now, his outlandish public statements and erratic behavior have friends and family concerned that he needs medical attention once again. Those close to Kanye, like his wife Kim and friend Dave Chappelle, are trying to make sure he's OK. But Kanye has an unlikely supporter, too.
Kanye West may be right about Kris Jenner, according to Blac Chyna
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Blac Chyna, former girlfriend of Rob Kardashian, is speaking out about Kanye's tweets. Chyna is no longer Kanye's sister-in-law, but she is the mother of Kim's niece, Dream. Although she and Rob weren't together for a long time, she seems to know a lot about the KarJen family. She says that some of the outlandish things Kanye has tweeted aren't really that off base.
While Chyna doesn't agree with a lot of what Kanye has said, she doesn't want his statements about Kris Jenner to be dismissed out of hand. Sure, Kanye has tweeted some upsetting and untrue things, like "Slavery was a choice," and allegations that Harriet Tubman never freed slaves. Chyna is clear that she doesn't agree with those statements. But Kanye has also compared Kris to a dictator, calling her "Kris Jong-Un," and he's made comments about Playboy that some fans think is a reference to Kris sexualizing her daughters for fame. Chyna doesn't think those accusations are 'crazy.' According to her lawyer, "Chyna of course wants her daughter Dream's 'Uncle Kanye' to get whatever help he needs. However, Chyna does not want all of his recent statements regarding his mother-in-law summarily dismissed as 'crazy' as some people apparently would like to do."
Blac Chyna is involved in multiple legal battles with the KarJens
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Chyna is currently involved in an epic legal battle with various members of the KarJen family, including Kris, reports Entertainment Tonight. According to Kris and her daughter Kylie Jenner, Chyna assaulted both Kylie and Rob in an incident at a house the couple was renting from Kylie. Although the makeup mogul has since dropped her suit, Chyna is now suing Kris and the KarJens for defamation, claiming that the accusations of assault were completely false.
Chyna and Rob were also recently embroiled in a custody battle for their daughter, Dream. Rob failed to win full custody, so the two are stuck co-parenting for now. It doesn't seem like things are going very well, based on some of Chyna's public statements. She claims that Kylie took Dream on a helicopter ride without her permission, something that she learned when Kylie posted a video of the incident on Instagram.
Blac Chyna blames Kris Jenner for the cancellation of 'Rob & Chyna'
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The meat of the beef between Kris and Chyna has to do with Chyna's E! show, Rob & Chyna. The reality TV drama was essentially a spinoff of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The show followed Chyna and Rob as they navigated their relationship, and parenting their daughter Dream. The show aired for one season, something Chyna blames entirely on Kris and the KarJen clan.
According to Chyna and her legal team, Kris went behind the scenes at E!, and convinced network execs to cancel the show. That could have cost Chyna millions of dollars if her lawsuit is to be believed. Now, Chyna is also accusing NBC of racism, according to PageSix. Apparently the network never brought any of the allegations Kris made against Chyna to the attention of her legal team, and she claims that wouldn't have happened if she were white.
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Meet Allie, Former Backyard Breeding Dog Helping Save Others Like Her
A Companion Animal Care Article from All-Creatures.org
FROM Lex Talamo, LadyFreethinker.org
Up until now, Florida state law has not require veterinarians to report suspected animal cruelty, so they haven't. Allie's law could get information about suspected cruelty into the hands of those who have the authority to take action to stop the cruelty.
Allie Katherine. (Courtesy of Dave Heine)
Three years ago, a brown-and-white Boston terrier named Allie Katherine was scrapping for food against six other terriers in the kitchen of a backyard breeder.
Today, she's a beloved celebrity at Florida's state capital in Tallahassee, where her rescuer and guardian Dave Heine takes her while advocating for a new bill that could save countless lives.
Allie's Law, sponsored by Sen. Jason Pizzo and Rep. Dan Daley, would require veterinary professionals to report suspected animal cruelty. The bill would also hold veterinary professionals criminally liable for altering animal records to cover up abuse.
Allie was less than three years old, and pregnant with her third litter of puppies, when the backyard breeder took her to a Florida veterinarian for an emergency C-section. The breeder surrendered her to staff, saying he couldn't pay for the surgery, according to Heine.
Image via Dave Heine...
Allie's tiny face and legs bore visible battle scars from her scuffles in the breeder's house. The veterinarian and staff were aware of Allie's abuse. But Florida state law does not require veterinarians to report suspected animal cruelty, so they didn't.
Instead, they returned Allie's five healthy puppies to the breeder, who said he hadn't agreed to surrender the puppies — just Allie. A veterinarian technician took Allie home but later sold her on Craigslist for $400.
Finally, Allie's story took a happy turn. Heine, the man who spotted her online, was a member of the high-risk intake team for the Boston Terrier Rescue of Florida. The nonprofit received a generous donation to bring Allie into the rescue's fold, and Heine agreed to foster her. He and his wife fell in love with Allie. In an epic "foster fail," the couple decided to adopt her.
"The little booger grew on my wife and I," Heine said affectionately. "We decided Allie would never want for anything ever again, and that included a loving permanent family."
Allie, now five-and-a-half years old, has since traveled to the Tallahassee's stately halls in style, sporting hot pink nails and lapping up the adoration of those who now know her well.
This legislative session, Allie's Law passed two Senate committees but died on the floor when introduced to the House, with discussion postponed due to technical problems with the bill's language. Florida missed a chance to join more than a dozen other states that mandate the reporting of animal abuse by veterinary professionals to law enforcement.
But Heine and the sponsoring legislators' efforts weren't for naught. Allie's story caught the attention of staff at the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), a California-based animal law advocacy organization that signed on to help iron out the bill's language.
Alicia Prygoski, the legislative affairs manager for ALDF, told Lady Freethinker that hearing Allie's story, and seeing how tirelessly Heine had worked on her behalf, convinced the organization to get involved.
ALDF has also worked on veterinary reporting of animal cruelty in several other states as well, given the requirement's potential to vastly decrease animal suffering and save lives, Prygoski said.
"Mandatory veterinary reporting of animal cruelty could be an animal's only chance at getting out of an abusive, and potentially deadly, situation," she said. "It is imperative that we empower veterinarians and veterinary professionals to speak out and report suspected cruelty."
With ALDF's help, the revised Allie's Law is now simplified, streamlined, and consistent with existing Florida law. The changes will also ensure more strategic and direct reporting to law enforcement and protection for a broader range of animals than last session's bill.
"Allie's law accomplishes one critical goal," Prygoski said. "It gets information about suspected cruelty into the hands of those who have the authority to take action to stop the cruelty."
Numerous studies have reported that those who abuse animals often abuse people, including a 10TampaBay investigation that found 42 people in the area arrested for abusing animals who also were arrested for domestic violence.
"Research suggests a direct link between acts of cruelty to animals and violence towards humans," she said. "Whether it be domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse, or other violent behavior, requiring veterinary reporting for instances of animal abuse could help lead law enforcement to a situation in which humans are also experiencing violence."
With both sponsoring legislators' continued support, the revised Allie's Law will be re-introduced next legislative session. If the bill passes in 2021, it will be the first time in Florida history that reporting animal abuse is a requirement.
"Veterinarians swear an oath to protect the safety and welfare of animals," Daley told ABC Action News. "This is no different. This is just reinforcing that oath."
People interested in following Allie's journey can tune in to her Facebook page, which has more than 14,000 followers, and sign the Allie's Law change.org petition.
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After years of delay, the federales finally finalized the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement Rules.
Before detailing the patient-focused changes, a bit of broad-brush background is in order. The original HIPAA privacy and security rules are all designed to protect the privacy and security of "protected health information" (PHI) of individual patients. PHI may be shared among health care providers and payors (and health care clearinghouses – a type of claims processor) (collectively, Covered Entities or CEs) for purposes of treatment, payment and operations (TPO) without asking patients for permission. Any other use or disclosure of PHI requires patient consent. Some CE operations require dealings with Business Associates (BAs) — entities that are not CEs, but that end up using PHI to help CEs carry out their TPO responsibilities (e.g., medical records vendors, billing companies, etc.). Every CE is required to give patients a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) and to enter into a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with each of its BAs, under which the BA agrees to maintain the privacy and security of PHI.
The amendments collected in the Final Rule are promulgated under the HITECH Act (the portion of the 2009 Recovery Act that also funded the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program) and GINA (the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008). The amendments under the HITECH Act added additional privacy and security protections to HIPAA in order to allay concerns that, with the promotion of more widespread use of electronic health records, there would be more opportunities for breaches of the privacy and security of PHI. Amendments under GINA harmonize HIPAA regulations with GINA regulations.
Business Associates and their subcontractors are now directly responsible for compliance with HIPAA, not just responsible for signing a BAA. They will now be subject to OCR HIPAA compliance audits, just as CEs are, and should be undertaking risk assessments in order to ensure that their privacy and security compliance is up to snuff. BAs have always been responsible for compliance under their BAAs, but some BAs, particularly smaller ones, probably have not focused enough on HIPAA compliance. Now they will have to because they are fully accountable — they can be audited and fined, just like the Covered Entities.
Business Associates are now defined to include a broader array of contractors that store and touch PHI — including, for example, document storage companies and other contractors that "maintain" PHI, even if they do not actually view the information in their possession.
Covered Entities may not send marketing materials to patients on behalf of third parties if the communication is paid for by a third party whose products or services are being promoted. Several exceptions to this rule that applied in the past, whether or not the communication was funded by a third party (i.e., communications about (i) treatment, (ii) a health-related product provided by, or covered by a benefit or insurance plan issued by, the CE making the communication, or (iii) case management, care coordination or treatment alternatives) now apply only if the communication is funded internally by the CE.
PHI may not be sold, licensed, or accessed in exchange for giving anything of value — with a handful of exceptions. PHI may be disclosed in exchange for remuneration (i) for public health purposes, (ii) for research, so long as payment is limited to the sending CE's costs, (iii) for treatment and payment, (iv) in connection with a sale or merger of the CE, (v) to or by a BA where the CE is just paying for the BA's services, (vi) to a patient who requests access to his or her own PHI, (vii) as required by law or (viii) as otherwise permitted under HIPAA where the remuneration covers costs only.
On the one hand, nonprofit health care providers can target their fundraising efforts by using PHI that clues them in to what services were provided to which patients. On the other hand, each contact must allow a patient to opt out of all future fundraising communications.
As required by GINA, genetic information may not be used for health insurance underwriting purposes. Thus, genetic information is now included in the definition of PHI. In addition, the underwriting ban is carried forward into regulation. However, genetic information may be used in long term care insurance underwriting decisions.
Upon request, a CE must provide a patient or an authorized representative a copy of a requested medical record, in the format requested, within 30 days. If, or some reason, the 30-day timeframe is unworkable, the regs give CEs an additional 30 days. If the CE cannot produce the records in the format requested by the patient, the parties need to get together and agree on a workable compromise solution. Previously, the patient had to make do with whatever format the CE produced (often a paper printout), and had to allow 60 days plus 30 days for tough situations. So there is some progress here. Of course, a CE that is in compliance with the Meaningful Use regulations for EHR implementation is required, in Stage 2, to provide records to patients electronically within just a few days (though the Society for Participatory Medicine called for immediate patient access to EHR information – as soon as a clinician who did not author the entry can see it, the patient should be able to see it).
If a patient pays for a particular service out of pocket, he or she may require that the provider not disclose any information about the service to the patient's health plan. Providers are required to advise patients about potential inferences that payors can make based on other services provided (e.g., "If you pay for lab test A out of pocket, but have us bill your health plan for tests B, C, D and E, your health plan will be able to figure out that you had test A done as well.") If a visit that a patient pays for out of pocket will generate a prescription, the patient would be well-advised to ask that prescriptions be written by hand, so that no electronic notice of the prescription will get to the health plan. In a perfect world, sharing of treatment information with one's health plan would not be problematic, but some patients have legitimate concerns about the use and misuse of such information by employers, health insurers, life insurers and others.
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule was published on January 25, 2013. It is effective 60 days later, and (with certain exceptions) regulated parties must come into compliance within 180 days after that, or September 23.
What do you think? Was this rule worth the wait? Are your pet peeves addressed by the final rule? Let us know in the comments.
This wonderful post makes me realize I need an even MORE basic "HIPAA for Dummies" totally basic intro about what HIPAA talks about!
The vast majority of people I know (in healthcare!) only talk in the vaguest terms about "no I can't let you have your data." My own knowledge isn't much better than that. This mentions such HIPAA building block concepts as "covered entities" and "protected health info" – wish I had a "back of the napkin" diagram of it!
The Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services enforces HIPAA, and has a pretty good website with consumer information.
Indeed, the OCR (lol) … Office of Civil Rights DOES make it easy to complaint! Piece of cake! I've used it four times in the last year! I'm waiting to see if they do more than slap wrists though. I believe if more did use OCR (and if more understood HIPAA – love the point by point link!), then maybe this vehicle called American Healthcare will finally be driven by the PATIENTS! Gasp! Imagine that! Americans considered intelligent enough to understand when something is wrong with their bodies. We might not be able to fix it without hospitals, doctors and nurses, and cooks, nurses aides, or janitors, but don't you healthcare pro's dare drug us and just leave the real medical problems alone anymore! It's costing me my life, and millions in tax payer dollars. I'd rather be FIXED (and it could've been, might still can be, dunno yet) …. and I could be back at work! I LIKED being a medical secretary!


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Q: Are there any language syntax for cascading data other than style? While CSS could only set styling and mainly used with HTML. I think it should be possible to use a concept of selector and cascading to apply value to xml attribute
Is there any standardized or proposed syntax for this kind of concept?

A: It sounds like you're imagining one file which contains an XML document, and another file which contains blocks of properties with values, each block starting with a "selector" of some sort which defines to which XML elements those properties apply (much like CSS, potentially even using the same syntax). Then you are imagining a process which transforms the XML document by modifying the selected XML elements' attributes based on the properties declared for that selector.
The general concept of transforming XML based on a supplementary ruleset is called Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT).
More specifically related to defining properties with selectors and a CSS-like syntax, the World Wide Web Consortium has published "Associating Style Sheets with XML documents", a W3C Recommendation, in 2010. This document provides recommendations to software developers who are performing XSLT for XML and wish to associate CSS-syntax properties which affect the transformation of elements to whom the selector applies.
The application which is consuming the XML is responsible for implementing support for XML stylesheets in this manner -- it is not a core part of the language. Most modern web browsers can perform XML-to-HTML XSLT and many support XML-stylesheets using the syntax described in the W3C recommendation above. For a similar reason, CSS can also be applied directly to SVG files (which is an XML format) when rendered in the browser.
When working with generic XML, rather than XHTML, the recommended syntax is much simpler, with only rudimentary support for selectors.
The W3C guidelines could be applied to use a CSS-like syntax to define properties applied to selected elements in an XML document, and then implement transformations based on those properties to affect the final XML however you desire. Some XML libraries, especial XSLT implementations, may provide extensible mechanisms to make this easier, but ultimately you will need to implement the transformations yourself.

A: I think this could work: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="name_of_css_file.css"?>
Here for more info: GeeksForGeeks>Displaying XML Using CSS.

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234: Casualty of Warhammer
Jeremy Monken
1 POSTED: 29 Dec 2009 08:09
Casualty of Warhammer
The customer service team at EA Mythic had it all - catered lunches, Rock Band-filled break rooms and logo-stamped coffee mugs. But sliding subscription numbers and a slumping economy meant the good times wouldn't last. Jeremy Monken recounts his time as a GM for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
UnravThreads
I remember reading this when it was first published.
Was a really, really sad tale, and one that's probably all too common.
Abedeus
Stop blaming WoW for WAR's failure. The devs didn't listen to the beta-players and were more busy partying and taking breaks for Rock Band than fixing the balance problems.
It took over 2 months in retail to fix problems from open or even closed beta, some of them stayed even later.
Also, economy had nothing to do with that - people didn't stop playing WoW because of it. Maybe they just didn't find the game good enough for $15 a month. I sure didn't.
Nincompoop
So is this just a repost of a popular story?
Anyways, I remember reading it. What drew me was the fact that it said something about Warhammer losing HAHA!
The article was great, and I felt sympathy Mr. Monken.
edthehyena
After I played for about a month, I knew the game was going to go downhill. I loved the public quests, but any given area only had one that anyone actually played. There was no player base that wanted to see the story at launch, everyone was just grinding to 40 as fast as possible. Then the low-level zones became barren wastelands. Even the battlegrounds died out -- there was the one in each zone that was "most efficient" and nobody played the others. It was sad because the game was a lot of fun.
headshotcatcher
edthehyena:
Yeah exactly, it's too bad because the game was so awesome...
But its hard to keep interest when you are the only player in your region >.<
trojun
I was playing warhammer around this time. A lot of my friends and guildmates had quit the game by December. The fact that the writer worked in Customer Service and cites the reasons for lost membership as "gold farmers, cheaters and WoW's new expansion" really answers a lot of questions for me. It tells me that he either couldn't say the actual reasons for the mass exodus of players due to non-disclosure obligations or that Warhammer CS was clueless. The biggest factors for people I played with deciding to quit were the broken gameplay issues. At the time there was a bug with Dragonwake that made it unable to be controlled by either faction, Serpent's Passage was the only tier 4 battleground that would pop and fortress sieges were so laggy they were unplayable. It was widely perceived by the people I played with that they pushed out a game that wasn't ready for release simply to beat WoW's expansion to market.
I hung in until about April or May of 2009 and though Mythic finally addressed some of the problems at release and interest in Wow's expansion had waned, it was apparent that Warhammer wasn't going to recover. MMOs beware of bad releases.
KeyMaster45
Warhammer was fun, I think I played it for about a month and a half when it released. The pvp was fun.....that's about it. Yeah the public quests were fun on the rare occasions that there were enough people in the area to do them, but frankly people just didn't do them so all that was left was pvp and questing to level.
I was rather unaware though how fast its player base had declined, I was under the impression it was still going somewhat strong. Is it even still up and running? By the sounds of that article EA laid off a fair chunk of the staff; I don't see how an mmo's upkeep could survive that.
koshypops
I was one of many people who were on the forums for the Climax version of Warhammer Online. It kept the dark gritty nature of what Warhammer actually is. Then they screwed the pooch so badly it's still in the toilet now crying itself to sleep.
Mythic for me both rescued Warhammer Online and destroyed it in one fell swoop. Firstly the existing community was left to exist in several affiliated forums rather than being grabbed together and drawn into an official forum. Next they made the game look just a little too light and happy (now I understand the limits put on how dark and gritty things can be before it becomes an 18 only release and the profit factor involved in having a kid friendly game etc but it wasn't dark and gritty enough for me [thats right my opinion I may be talking out of my ass but thats my ass and I'll talk out of it if I want to:P])
To add to their list of reasons why I never even bought the game they created a back story that to me made as much sense as Memento and Fight Clubs head messing moments added together.
Their worst crime was to release it before Liche King when it just simply wasn't ready, a work colleague had talked to me at length about how much WoW ruled and I spoke back about Warhammer when he learned of a MMORPG for it he went ahead and pre-ordered it. One week after release(he took time off to play it into the ground) I asked him how it was, by clocking out he'd just about finished telling me all the things he hadn't liked about the game and how he'd gone on to spend 5 of the 7 days playing WoW again.
When a game is so buggy and broken that it forces a hardcore MMORPG fan who was excited at the prospect of a new and interesting MMORPG finds it so frustrating with technical issues that after 2 days he's back on the old one then it had no chance of succeding especially when Liche King was released only 2 months later adding new content to a stable and well polished MMORPG.
Mythic, maybe EA pushed them to release the game. Maybe they thought it needed a bit more spit and polish to work out the technical issues. Whatever the circumstances the result was the same suicide by premature release.
Prophetic Heresy
10 POSTED: 29 Dec 2009 14:39
I really did love Warhammer Online. I stuck around for a bit over half a year playing that game. I had a great guild and my skills as the DoT-happiest Engineer did not go unrecognized.
After the guild switched to Destro on a different server the game started to feel worse to me. Magus didn't feel nearly as fun as the Engineer was, so I ended up making a tank (which I loved) but somehow the very basis of this server was wrong. I moved from Pheonix Throne (RP Server, great community) to Black Crag, home of the "Ruin Zerg". It was an Order guild that purportedly had over 1,500 members. Somehow the battle started to get more even as my guild leveled up (We liked to say we were the cause) but Ruin had the ability to summon up all of their characters and crash a server to avoid any major assault we could land of Altdorf. Yes, you heard me right, they would CRASH the server with their numbers. That would either reset whatever fortress take was going on or dishearten us while our numbers trickled back in from the login screen.
After a few more months of that, we all switched to Aion. I didn't enjoy that game much more, I just liked hanging out with my guildmates. I gave up on that, too and went back to console gaming for a while.
*Heavy Sigh* I still remember the good ole' days, though.
Ranooth
Sigh i miss those days of mad PvP also.
If Mythic changed a handful of things it could truely be awesome (WHY DIDNT THEY LISTEN TO MY KEEP IDEAS!!)
gilthanan
trojun:
I am an avid Warhammer/Games Workshop fan, and I was looking forward to this game since I read about the Climax version. I joined and later became a guild leader for this game in spring 2006, was one of the guilds given guild beta (one of the few Order guilds actually,) had a guild of 50 or so people when the game finally launched. We started playing, by November (2 months later) my guild had shrunk to 15 or so consistent players. The core gameplay was broken, almost every server had become heavily one sided (looking back at DAoC, the 3 factions were actually a source of balancing because 2 could ally against a strong enemy), and PvP in tier 4 was laggy, bugged, there was too much ridiculous crowd control.
Basically, Warhammer fucked up because they attempted to appeal to the WoW market, and to the DAoC market, and they failed at both. PvE was lacking compared to WoW, and the PvP wasn't satisfactory for the DAoC players. Instead of creating their niche, they attempted as so many have to be the "WoW destroyer," which just isn't going to happen.
Wrann
I remember being in a games workshop and one of the workers there boasting that WAR was going to be the WoW killer. That nothing could stand up to it now I wish I could see him again if not just to gloat. Alas it does suck to have to have so many layoff because of launch failer.
Orange_Clockwork
It was terrible timing for the release of the game. I remember talking friends into it and getting a group of about 50 players to buy it so we could construct a guild. Then the release dates for WoW: WotLK was open. I lost about thirty of the fifty and the rest called it forfeit.
gilthanan:
Much with you here, especially the aspect of being an avid Games Workshop fan.
Still! the game was close! It could have been better, but it was close to being a WoW Killer, if they had just perfected it, then it would be alive still.
008Zulu
Never bought the game at release, didn't have a good enough internet connection. Now I do, but after reading things like this, I am not so sure anymore.
I use to play it, got boring a bit though. WOW continues leeching off Warhammer and when WAR comes out it is crushed by the Great Leech. Warhammer was a great game but...
I'm just waiting for WARHAMMER 40,000 THE MMORPG
I loved your story man. Great article, well written. Too bad that things went downhill. I used to play WAR too, started in open beta and then played for 3 months or so (1 free month + gamecard). I never even got to level 40 lol, don't ask me why, I don't know.
Things got painful later though, with fortress sieges being impossible to do due to lag and hardware, imbalances in pvp...my squig herder felt ridiculously weak, especially when they changed it so I couldn't kite melee-classes like before...
Had great potential, but I lost interest.
creatiwe
coldalarm:
Sci-Fi luver437:
Again, stop blaming WoW. People came to WAR for the PvP, PvP sucked after T2, people left the game when they got to 20-30.
creatiwe:
Same here...its a shame really. Something that looks so good, eventually boils down to nothing
tehroc
Way to paint EA as evil, the only thing responsible for WARs failure was Mythic for creating a poor game. Fact is WAR was a failure in most of its aspects. It wasn't optimized, ran horrible for a 2008 release featuring 2004 graphics. PVE aspect was garbage and nothing but a time sink, even its much praised public quest system was a shambles. RVR was tedious as every siege was identical to the last. The only fun was in the first 20 levels, then the game became a huge grind. Public quest reputation farming for level x8 and pvp the rest of the tier out. They failed to create any sense of a world. Non combat activities was almost non-existent (I've seen F2P MMOs do crafting better).
I actually liked WAR for a while, but after a few weeks it got stale. If Lich King didn't release WAR still would have failed.
Kalezian
aren't we all...........aren't we all...............
I played WAR for a few weeks after three months of being release, and I could tell it not only had gone downhill, but it had slammed into the ground and now was melting in the fires of hell.
which is a shame too, it had a few good ideas that hadn't been used in excess in the MMO world, and the premise was awesome also.
Good Ideas, Bad Execution.
BioTox
I play WoW currently and I played WAR in closed/open beta testing. I even bought the collector's edition of WAR, thinking it was going to be the end of WoW for me. About 4 month launch, I was ready to go back to WoW. WAR's t4 was all Order, on our server, and Destro was so imbalanced that most of us were like, "Screw going to get farmed."
WoW and WAR's Devs ended what could of been a great game. We posted for weeks asking for fixes but after we (Destro) got nerfed again most of us left. There was no point in playing a game that we were just going to get farmed like mobs.
Now, WoW picks through WAR's dead body. WAR had an open LFG system [open parties]. WoW now added the ability to LFG cross-realm with people you've never seen before and I'm sure that's not going to be the only thing WoW loots from WAR's body. It's only a matter of time before we see more.
One a positive note, I do raid end-game in WoW. LoL =P
cieply
Small things that matter... Like stupid tokens for Arathi basin WSG and others that could be exchanged for nice stuff. Such a small thing but it got battlegrounds going. In war the only thing you got from such scenarios was renown so it's bluntly obvious that people will go where renown is flowing.
In wow you have a few ways of leveling, few maps where you can go to from where you are. In WAR there was only one path, and I mean literally one frikkin road that was slaloming across the zone. And heaven forbid you would wander off that road even a bit cause you would skip a few chapters as this road was slaloming like crazy. All the freedom was illusionary and the world felt claustrophobic because you constantly felt that you are allowed to go in one direction. And much hated in WoW traveling system actually was making the world coherent, showing how big it is and that is truly a world. You could often see some players below fighting. Another small thing that added to the immersion.
Server stability: (illustrated by a short story)
After a week long campaign, chaos has cornered us. Small war bands of our finest men were fighting a desperate skirmish to slow down the marching war host. Still, our hope was lost as we gathered in our great fortress to finally put a stop to this blight on our lands. Despite of our desperate situation we had to admire our foes. For the entire week they were fighting on all 3 fronts to ensure their victory and open the way to our beloved capitol. Even if they were just sending in masses of their troops, their coordination was admirable. Now only our last and mightiest stronghold was standing in their way. Stronghold that *we* guard. And we will not let them pass any further. Fire will rain upon their heads and they will understand that since the beginning they were doomed to fail here! They will...
Sorry but your connection to the server has been lost.
And the funniest thing is that all the timer on their siege reset and a week of coordinated effort of all major chaos guilds went to NOTHING as all the fronts reseted after the crash. And the same thing happened the SECOND time around. Now if that won't make people unsubscribe, I don't know what will.
Another thing. Isn't that funny that the pinacle of all the pvp in the game was a pve wankfest? THAT was truly pathetic and I have no idea who came up with that. Those 2 things should NOT interfere with each other, not in this way.
PvP in wow was giving some sweet rewards. In warhammer it was weak. Even fortresses were worthless... there was no inclination to defend it as only conquering one would give ANY benefits (and weak ones too). It ended up in people just running around and capping stuff. Where's the fun.
Also, gear was not SUCH a big deal as in wow. As it had it's pluses it also ment that all your raiding and hard work went to nothing as this pesky bastard in shitty gear powned your ass again. With gear you can go as WoW (very importan) or Guild Wars (not important at all - only looks were changing). Warhammer tried to stop somewhere in the middle and that was good for nothing.
Another thing. How the gear looked. Was it nice? YES (mostly)But I got sick of having 3 (!!!) staff skins for my entire leveling process. And my robes were just my old robes with diffrent color or a new gem. After playing for 3 months and being one of the top players on the server I noticed that my gear looks the same as the one I got in starting zone and my power isn't much stronger then when I hit max lvl. Of course renown lvls were making a difference but with scenarios done as they were, gaining renown turned into a tedious grind.
Small mistakes. Lots and lots of small mistakes that, added together, made this game tiring after 3 months. Wow had it's flaws but most importantly it was coherent when it comes to gameplay and simply FUN (even if you were only discovering new, creative ways of ganking people). Also there was a very visible progression as more time was being invested. War was simply too weak to compete. And, mind you, I was playing on a private wow server where most things were broken. And it STILL was more fun than warhammer.
That was a long rant...
Void(null)
The poor rebalanced killed WAR. There was no fine tuning, just a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the next.
Resistance is to low, lets make high resistance unkillable, Single Target Damage now doesn't do enough, lets make 3 bright wizards able to kill the entirety of the enemy team. AoE is unbalanced, lets just cut ranges in half including the DoK's heal radius making the class entirely freakin worthless.
WAR had a great deal of potential, it just needed some fine tuning and instead the Devs took a jackhammer to it.
Sunfirecross
I was in two guilds for this game both of which died within 2 months of their creation. This was my first paying MMO and I'm sort of depressed i failed. I might take a look back into it to see whats going on. Mabye now its actually a finished game.
And in my Opinion it's mostly EA's fault, The game should have been given 6-8 more months of development.
dubious_wolf
27 POSTED: 4 Jan 2010 17:28
I didn't play the game nor do I play MMORPG's but from what I heard from my MMORPG friends, WoW basically stole the new and intuitive player vs player environment that WAR created and was hyping... I don't care for WoW for the same reason i don't care for Microsoft, they have a monopoly... and those are bad for the everyday consumer. So, Fuck Blizzard I say.
NobodySpecialz
What's even more pathetic than the story is the fact that the story was originally posted almost a year ago. Is Jeremy Monken STILL so unemployed that he has to try and re-can and re-sell the same tired old story?
Jeremy Monken was a CSR (they don't call them GMs). Big deal. The end. I like how the re-posting author tries to sell a new spin like it's a new story: "Former Mythic Employee Tells The Story" like the original author somehow had a hand in it. No, he didn't. He sat at a computer and answered player appeals. The end. He didn't help design the game. He didn't have a hand in any of the garbage decisions that were made, the politics or the pseudo-nepotism. He was a brand new hire who lasted a handful of months, who was hired after the game was already well past Closed Beta.
Yes it's sad he lost his job through no fault of his own. But this article smacks of elitism, stupidity, arrogance, and crying for attention. This Monken guy was a low-level newbie and not some mover and shaker. Both EA and Mythic's senior management are to blame - and a lot of talented, innocent people are left unemployed.
Taluien
Well, I played WAR for quite a while. And right from the start I knew something went horribly wrong. As I'm from Europe, our first big "Oh hell no!" came for the announcement that GOA would be hosting WAR in Europe. Many of us had experience with that french pile of crap from the days of DAoC and were worried. Rightfully so. Accessing the beta was a pain. The 3 days of early access never happened. Servers were unstable and laggy. Patches were minor catastrophes, more often than not killing the servers after patching was done. The game had great potential. But it failed to deliver in the time when it was most crucial. And early balancing was totally strange, to say the least.
In the case that anyone who ever wants to publish an MMO in Europe reads this: Stay away from GOA. They are capable of losing direction in a straight hallway. Do not, under any circumstance, no matter what they offer you, do business with them. It will come back to haunt you.
Sarah Frazier
So many reasons, besides a shaky RP community, that killed the game for me.
Very little difference in armor/weapon appearance. Sure you could pay for dyes from vendors or players, or grind them off mobs, but it was unrewarding when high tier items had the same base look as low tier items. All that changed was color. Whoop-de-frickin-do.
Obvious gap between T4 early birds and people who took an hour off once in a while to do other things. It was no fun at all when one side had one small group with the BEST gear, BEST spec, BEST EVERYTHING capable of stopping a warband dead in its tracks simply because they were so insanely powerful from their head start. Some people on the dominating Order side actually took pity and rolled Destro, but even that was barely enough to even the odds as other underdogs rerolled Order just to have a chance at winning something for once.
Fortress Tag. Seriously... It looked like the whole point of T2-T3 was to capture a fortress and immediately leave to capture another one without bothering to defend it as the other guys took it back. Around and around everyone would go until it got late enough for people with lives to go to bed, leaving the dominating Order force to easily lock down a zone. Trying to convince our own forces to do anything productive ended with taunting and insults and generally being ignored for wanting to actually win.
Linear zones. It was so much like Final Fantasy that I had memorized all but the most obscure details of every zone up to T2 from having gone through them all so many times. There was no point even reading the quests since you pretty much could guess that you were being sent to the sides or ahead, as if having the big blotches marking the way wasn't enough. If you wanted something different, you were stuck following some other race's line through the zone and the only sense of progression came when you were high enough level to enter the next tier. Whoop-de-frickin-do.
Funhouse "mirror" classes. Sorceress is not the same as Bright Wizard, DoK is not the same as Warrior priest. No matter what happened, one side was guaranteed to be more devastating than the "Mirror" on the other side and some of them weren't even all that similar to what should have been their mirror. They wanted something more unique than "Generic fighter/rogue/hunter/mage" mix but utterly failed at making the mechanics similar enough to make each side competitive in equal numbers.
I found out after having quit that a friend did at least some Beta testing. They pointed out bugs and glitches and general points where things could be improved. I didn't see them all right away when playing, but he was right... Whatever dev team there was didn't get nearly enough work done to make sure the game was ready for release with just enough WORKING fluff for the avid Warhammer fans.
I seriously home that the teams making DMO takes a lesson from EA/Mythic and take as many months as are needed to straighten as many wrinkles as possible and stress test the heck out of everything because there WILL be a flood of fanbois from all over the place wanting a piece of things.
EDIT: From what little I heard of somewhat recently, the game is down to four servers total, each likely severely unbalanced as everyone piles onto one side for the easy win. I don't even know what the peak population is at, but it can't be all that high if there are only four servers running. Balance is still an issue and will likely remain an issue until the servers are finally unplugged for good.
geizr
Apologies if this double posts. The Escapist site has become so slow since this update that posts are getting shot straight into the aether.
I played Warhammer for a good 8 months; so, I lasted longer than most. The things that killed that game were the major gameplay bugs, the broken class balance(which turned into a faction balance issue because of the way the classes between the factions were designed), the lacking end-game, and the sparse population(the game opened with far too many servers, and players were being too thinly distributed among them). There were a lot of great ideas in the game(many of which WoW has since incorporated), but the implementation just failed to allow those ideas to really shine in a cohesive manner.
The PvP in the game was great at the outset, but eventually it became tedious and lacking in motivation. Coupled with the issues of class/faction balance, it could get absolutely frustrating at times. Also, thanks to the very low population on the servers, often times PvP would devolve into what we called "PvDoor". The keep doors took forever to knock down, especially in the early days of the game, and were a serious bottleneck to getting into a keep to attempt to capture it(I discovered a combination of skills on my sorceress that allowed me to cast infinite Pit of Shades with a high crit percentage, like 90%, and almost single-handedly defend a keep because no one could stand at the door long enough to damage it before they died; siege engines did not last long against my Pits). More than 80% of your effort went into just get through the door.
Nowadays, I think most people just play the perpetual free-trial and just fight in the tier 1 battle areas. There are still a number of veterans in the tier 4, but they're so powerful now, a newbie has almost no hope at all against them. You would probably have to grind up to renown rank 70 before setting foot into tier 4 to have any chance against them; otherwise, you'll do be hitting them for like 1-5% of their life on each hit, while they just 1 and 2-shot you.


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Find $E[X^{2}+X].$ The book gives the answer as $\frac{13}{6}$
I have found that $E[X^{2}]=1$ and $E[X]=\frac{3}{2}$, so why isn't the answer $\frac{5}{2}?$

A: The answer is $5/2$ (though I think you switched $E(X)$ and $E(X^2)$). I think, assuming your transcription is right, that the book is simply wrong.

A: $E(X)=1$ and $E(X^{2})=\frac{3}{2}$ so $E(X^{2}+X)=E(X^{2})+E(X)=\frac{5}{2}.$


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Hungary Insight
A new Momentum for Hungarian politics?
by Kafkadesk Budapest office
Budapest, Hungary – Hungarian politics have been mostly one-sided ever since Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party assumed control of the parliament. However, a new force has been rising and gaining increasing momentum in Hungary's political landscape. momentum hungary
The Momentum mozgalom ('Momentum movement' in English), is a rather new political force in Hungary. Touting itself as the party of the first free Hungarian generation, Momentum seeks to strengthen its foothold and attract young voters who were born after the fall of communism or were too young to remember the years prior to 1989.
A new force that could reshuffle the cards of Hungarian politics
Founded in 2015, Momentum stands out as one of the most dynamic and vocal opponents to the Hungarian political regime (specifically the anti-democratic tendencies of PM Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz party) and current status quo, appealing to the country's youth – but not only – with the message that there is still hope to dare dream for a better future despite Hungary's gloomy and saddening political climate. As a young and grassroots movement of the 21st century, Momentum challenges the current populist and ideologically divided spectrum of policy-making, stressing that common goals rather than ideological differences should be the ones binding Hungarians together as a nation.
"The time has come for those from Kazincbarcika, from Budapest, and from London, the right- and the left-leaning, the Christian and the atheist, the poor and the rich, the young and the old, to recognize our shared national fate, because we have a task." Momentum leader András Fekete-Győr said. "Let's set aside our animosities, because we're all patriots, because we're all valuable constituents of Hungarian nationality, and our task is no less than this: building an entrepreneurial, cohesive and modern nation in the Europe of the 21st century".
The party won great publicity after opposing Hungary's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, citing concern for the economy and costs associated with holding such an event. Budapest's bid was eventually withdrawn due to public outcry, and Momentum gained traction.
PM Viktor Orban, the current face of Hungarian politics and self-proclaimed champion of the 'illiberal' regime
Momentum: challenging the current predicament in Hungary
Momentum represents a breath of fresh air in Hungary, especially for the younger generations. For many of its supporters, tired of and deeply disappointed with their political elite and representatives, the current parties represented in Parliament aren't progressive, don't challenge the status quo and remain for the most part relics of the past, unable to work for a better present and brighter future. Furthermore, the current opposition has been unable to form a strong and common block against the ruling party Fidesz, dashing hopes of any change, as the most recent national and European elections have shown.
Populists, whether conservatives, nationalists or conservative socialists are all the rage these days in Central Europe, with Visegrad Group countries largely dominated by opportunistic movements whose policies and rhetoric are more based on blatant electioneering that on a set of beliefs, values, ideas and policies. Hungary's ruling Fidesz is one of them, combining its worst aspects and creating a potent, anti-democratic and authoritarian concoction.
Contrary to other Central European countries (Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic) where the rule of law and the system of checks-and-balances are still able to put up a strong fight against their respective leaders' attacks on democratic values, Hungary appears to be struggling to break out from its prison cell.
Establishing a healthy opposition is a must in any democracy. Paradoxically, Fidesz used to represent such a salutary opposition party to the MSZP (Socialists) in power, criticising the reckless spending, policies and corruption of the ruling party. This is the reason why Fidesz jumped in the polls, promising the correct long-standing problems within Hungary's political system and economy.
Fidesz's rise to power was a pyrrhic moment for the country, as its democracy and freedoms are now in danger too. One might say it went out of the frying pan, into the fire. Momentum is now in a similar situation, one of the main driving forces, as shown by the prominent role they played in the anti-government protests earlier this year, of an alternative to the current ruling party and political status quo established by Fidesz's growing concentration of power and the opposition's inability to rise up to the challenge.
Time is a flat circle
Hungarians protesting for democracy in 1989. Thirty years later, this scenario is slowly starting to repeat itself.
The situation in 2019 presents a number of similarities. Although the economy is booming like none other in Europe, Hungary is walking on thin ice and remains extremely vulnerable to any abrupt downturn or external choc. The government, meanwhile, is ruled by a party that disregards all the basic rules of democracy and tries to silent all dissent. And it's only getting worse. The solution to the current ills of the Hungarian state is definitely a shake-up of the status quo established after 2010. It is time for the younger generation to show that they are ready to rise up to the challenge, be responsible citizens, take matters into their own hands and take up the mantle to set the path for Hungary's future.
Momentum is trying to be the voice of the new generation. Challenging the status quo is important. So is the need to remind the young that they do have a right to vote and finally have someone to represent the younger their aspirations, spearheading and promoting ideas to bring Hungary closer to Europe, giving new opportunities to the current generation, relocating EU funds to places where they are desperately needed (education, healthcare, etc.), among many other pressing issues.
The fundamental idea and one of the underlying goals of Momentum is to build a Hungary that would appeal to the young, a place where the Hungarian youth could imagine spending their lives, thus addressing the brain drain problem the country shares with other Central and Eastern European countries.
But that's not all. Momentum also seeks to bring the EU closer to its citizens, highlighting the need for a closer relationship between Europeans and their representatives in the European Parliament, as the (geographical, mental, ideological) distance between Budapest and Brussels is one of the reasons why Orban can be so outspoken against the EU – and get away with it.
Momentum has won two seats in the European Parliament this year, hailed as an important success and milestone for this young party. Current predictions for the 2022 parliamentary elections in Hungary aren't too promising, but many things can change until then. As time is said to be a flat circle, and history allegedly repeats itself, the hopeful young generation of Hungary is hoping to achieve a result similar to 1989… If their current momentum continues, those dreams might very well become reality.
TagsDemocracy • Hungarian politics • Hungary
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Além de que seu código possui muitos problemas, como operadores de comparação errados nos ifs.
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A: Meu amigo, não tenho palavras para lhe agradecer.
Precisei fazer algumas adaptações e funcionou.
Não estava conseguindo fazer o 'ForEach' no JS e confundi alguns operadores de comparação.
Muito, muito obrigado!


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An attendee of the Principal's Community Breakfast asks a question during the event hosted at the Four Points Sheraton.
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The aspiring fashion designer totally slayed the game.
This is India Ross, an 18-year-old high school student from St. Louis, Missouri.
The teen told BuzzFeed News she is an aspiring fashion designer and is headed to Columbia College Chicago in the fall.
She plans to double major in fashion business and fashion merchandising with a minor in public relations and marketing.
"I always [have planned] to open my own fashion retail store right here in St. Louis," she said.
So when it came time for her prom, Ross knew she wanted to do something unique. She said she loves Beyoncé and fell in love with the singer's 2015 Met Gala look.
Ross said she saw footage of Beyoncé at the gala and had a vision for what her own dress could be.
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Safe to say, she nailed it.
Even down to the hair flip.
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She added that everyone at the prom "loved" the dress.
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Her look has also drawn attention from magazines like Seventeen.
The dress designer wrote on Facebook that the attention has been amazing after years of honing her skills.
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Although she took some criticism for the dress, Ross said that the negativity doesn't bother her.
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(syn. Salvia microphylla 'Trelissick Creamy Yellow', sage 'Trelissick'), Family Lamiaceae, Originating from Mexico. Bushy sub-shrub with aromatic green foliage. Bi-coloured, creamy-yellow and peach, flowers are borne in terminal racemes.
(Elder), Family Adoxaceae, Originating from Europe, N. Africa, S.W. Asia. Deciduous shrub with soft reddish brown leaves and very broad heads of white flowers.
(Golden Elder), Family Adoxaceae, Garden origin. Narrow upright growth with showy, yellow-green foliage, white flower clusters appear in summer followed by red berries in autumn.
(Red berried elder), AGM, Family Adoxaceae, Originating from Europe, Russia, Siberia. A bushy, arching shrub with very attractive, finely cut golden yellow leaves, rather like a Japanese Maple.
(sweet box), Family Buxaceae, Originating from W China. Small, compact, suckering evergreen shrub with slender, mid- to dark green leaves. Clusters of small, creamy-white, tassel-like flowers with a vanilla-like scent.
(syn. Cassia corymbosa Lam, flowery senna), Family Caesalpiniaceae, Originating from C Americas. Fast growing, bushy evergreen shrub with pinnate leaves composed of lance-shaped leaflets and racemes of bright yellow flowers in late summer.
(skimmia 'Kew Green'), AGM, Family Rutaceae, Garden origin. Compact, small, spreading evergreen shrub with aromatic leaves and dense clusters of fragrant, creamy-white flowers, which open over several weeks in late winter and spring.
(Edwardsia grandiflora, NZ Kowhai), Family Papilionaceae, Garden origin. A very slow growing hardy evergreen or deciduous tree. Clusters of bright yellow pea like flowers are produced from May.
(Rowan, Mountain Ash tree), Family Rosaceae, Originating from Europe and Asia. A medium-sized deciduous tree native to the UK, with fine, deeply cut, fern-like leaves. White flowers in summer are followed by red berries in autumn.
(Rowan, Mountain Ash tree), Family Rosaceae, Originating from Europe and Asia. A small deciduous tree with an upright habit making it ideal for a small garden where space is limited. Deeply cut, lace-like leaves, white flowers in summer.
(Rowan, Mountain Ash tree), AGM, Family Rosaceae, Originating from Europe and Asia. A graceful, small deciduous tree with dainty, blue/green fern-like foliage composed of many tiny leaflets. Creamy white flowers are followed by red berries.
(tree germander), Family Lamiaceae, Originating from W Mediterranean. Evergreen shrub with white hairy stems and small, aromatic dark green leaves that are white beneath. Light blue flowers 2.5cm long in summer.
(Chilean box thorn), Family Solanaceae, Originating from Chile. Evergreen shrub with pungently scented, glossy dark green foliage with clusters of nodding yellow tubular flowers, recurved lobes and protruding stamens.
(David viburnum), AGM, Family Adoxaceae, Originating from W China. A small spreading evergreen shrub with leathery deep green three-veined leaves and flattened heads of small white flowers.
Family Adoxaceae, Garden origin. A new introduction this handsome evergreen is vigorous, upright and compact and has glossy, leathery leaves in shades of green, orange and burgundy during spring and again in autumn.
(Japanese snowball, Wedding cake bush), Family Adoxaceae, Originating from China, Japan and Taiwan. A large deciduous shrub with attractive layered branches that become coated in fragrant white lacecap flowers in early summer.
Family Caprifoliaceae, Garden origin. A lovely compact and rounded deciduous shrub with bronze to purple black foliage and contrasting narrow rose pink trumpet shaped flowers in spring and summer.
(Desert Willow), Family Bignoniaceae. Deciduous shrub or small tree with bright green, narrow, lance-shaped leaves and a mass of pink, orchid-like blooms in summer.


U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Indian business leaders Wednesday that commercial ties between their two countries should be strengthened and trade should expand exponentially.
''Imagine what our two countries can achieve together in this 21st century, not only for one another, but for economic stability of the region as well as the world," he said in his speech.
Biden called for an ''open and fair" trade and investment policy, emphasizing a need for India to respect intellectual property rights, lift barriers to foreign investment and market access and end confusing and inconsistent tax rules.
''These are tough problems. But we all know they have to be negotiated and worked through in order to meet the potential of this relationship. Not just with us, but with other countries as well," he said.
In his speech Wednesday, Biden called India ''an indispensable part of our rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific," a policy widely seen as a U.S. effort to counter China's rising power in the region and the world.
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Al Di Meola Remembers The Beatles with 'All Your Life'
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Posted By: Michael Anderson June 19, 2013
Al Di Meola All Your Life
It is hard to imagine it now, but for jazz musicians in the 1960s, wanting to play the music of The Beatles could result in being ostracized by your peers. So it was a bold move by folks like Wes Montgomery making a Beatles album, but his career was being pushed in a pop-jazz direction by his managers so his fans were more forgiving. But for those who grew up listening to the music there was a conflict as they were trying to become established as 'serious' musicians while being told that there was no place in serious music for The Beatles.
Fortunately that foolishness is long gone, and we have had great recordings including a couple of tracks by Pat Metheny and others. Now fusion legend Al Di Meola has released a very acoustic guitar-centric album entirely of Beatles songs. Let's take a look!
Musical Genre: Jazz
Where to buy: iTunes
Artist: Al Di Meola
Like millions of other American boys growing up during the 1960s, guitarist Al Di Meola was forever affected by seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the era of black & white TV. His early encounter with the Fab Four lit a passion in him and may be directly responsible for the New Jersey native first picking up the guitar. "There is no music in my lifetime that made as huge an impact on the world like that of the Beatles. What they did to modern pop music in the '60s changed everything."
Nearly 50 years after the first wave of Beatlemania washed Stateside, the six-string superstar returns to his early roots in paying a personal tribute to that seminal influence with All Your Life. A virtual one-man show of virtuosity, All Your Life features the guitar great interpreting 14 familiar Beatles tunes in the stripped-down setting of strictly acoustic guitar. On some tracks, like "In My Life" and "Because," he overdubs three guitars to get the rich, shimmering textures and intricate patterns created on his signature Al Di Meola Conde Hermanos nylon string guitar, his Gibson steel string guitar and a 1948 Martin acoustic. Others like "Penny Lane," "I Am The Walrus" and "I Will" utilize two guitars while "And I Love Her," "Blackbird" and "If I Fell" utilized a single guitar track. All the percussion heard throughout the recording is Di Meola himself slapping the wood body of his instrument or strumming muted strings for percussive effect.
All the tracks are imbued with the guitarist's signature flamenco flourishes, intricate arpeggiating and dazzling cross-picking. Only one track does he employ other musicians (a dramatic reading of "Eleanor Rigby" that features a string quartet). Recorded in analogue at Abbey Road Studios in London, where the Beatles created most of their records during their heyday, All Your Life stands as a triumph in the long and illustrious career of a bona fide guitar hero.
General Impressions:
I have always been what my wife calls 'fiercely loyal' – but when that comes to music it means I am willing to give artists I love multiple chances before I stop buying their stuff, not that I will blindly defend stuff that is awful. Al Di Meola rose to fame as part of the mid-70s fusion powerhouse Return to Forever with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, and 'Romantic Warrior' remains one of my top fusion albums of all time.
From the late 70s through the mid-80s Di Meola produced a string of excellent albums that incorporate technology as well as his flamenco and Latin touches over fusion compositions. But after that he seemed lost in the post-fusion era; like many of his contemporaries he tried releasing 'mainstream' jazz albums such as 1994's 'Orange and Blue', but also like many others the efforts were sub-par. Then he returned to his world music origins with his World Sinfonia, and has had much more success. I have bought a few albums here and there … and been alternately happy and disappointed, but have yet to again feel the thrill of 1985's "Cielo e Terra".
But with 'All Your Life' he has again found that magical confluence of his massive technique, subtle stylings, and a compositional and interpretive setting that allows him to shine while also featuring the compositions.
The majority of the albums is played on one or two acoustic guitars (one nylon string, the other steel string), tracked left and right. 'In My Life' sets the tone, with the immediately recognizable lead-in altered rhythmically to match a more flamenco style, and as the song proper begins you get hand claps to further augment the tone. The song is original and inventive while remaining faithful and respectful of the original material. 'And I Love Her' takes a similar approach, altering the beginning phrase ever so slightly to impart a new rhythmic invention that provides Di Meola his platform to continue.
And if there is a theme throughout I would say it was "these are Beatles songs, don't worry about dropping them – they are tough and can handle it!"
When you look at the rest of the songs you get a feel for the eclectic mix: "Because", "Michelle", "I Will", "Eleanor Rigby", "Penny Lane", "Blackbird", "I Am The Walrus", "Day In The Life", "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "If I Fell", and "She's Leaving Home"
Across these tracks what you get is generally two tracks of Di Meola playing, occasionally multi-tracked to add some depth, with added claps and taps on the guitar for percussive effect. The melody is played and then twisted and improvised and represented in a way that is exciting and fresh, but never too far away from the original. All of the songs are easily recognized, yet you never feel like the guitarist is coasting or taking it easy.
One note: I had pre-ordered this a while ago and gotten it when it was released. But now it isn't showing up on Amazon and is listed as 'not currently available in the US' on iTunes. When it is available again I will update the post! Until then, keep your eyes open … this is worth buying!
'Quick Hit' Song: "Eleanor Rigby" – here they made the decision to add strings to the mix, and it was the right choice. The guitar work is amazing, but having the strings really allows Di Meola to stretch out from the very beginning. The result is an incredibly exciting and powerful rendition, of which my older son said 'this is definitely my jam'.
Would I recommend?: Absolutely! As a fan of the Beatles, Di Meola, and guitar improvisations in general, I was very hopeful for this. I didn't expect it to exceed my expectations to this extent, so I am thrilled! Each time I listen I get more and more from the recording.
Suggested audience: Fans of amazing guitarists will love this, as will Beatle's fans. This is a 'must buy' for anyone who loves Al Di Meola.
Price: $10.99 on iTunes
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Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde is building a new mobile messaging app that will have superior encryption to prevent pretty much any outside party from listening in on your conversation, he said.
The app, named Hemlis (Swedish for "secret"), is undoubtedly in response to the NSA's controversial PRISM online surveillance program that was leaked to the public by NSA contractor Edward Snowden just weeks ago. Sunde, who along with fellow cofounders Linus Olsson and Leif Högberg announced the app today, said the service will be so secure that no one will be able to compromise the data — not even the app's creators.
Plenty of people are working on making supersecure communication services, but few have the kind of bragging rights that Sunde and Olsson do. Sunde previously attempted to create an ultrasecure cloud storage service, Bay Files, and both he and Olsson also cofounded the ambitious crowdfunded social platform Flattr.
Hemlis will initially be available on iOS and Android The app won't necessarily be open source because that doesn't guarantee privacy, but the founders do intend to stay as open as possible with Hemlis's code. It also said it won't collect data, sell advertising, or accept funding from investment firms or angel investors. "To guarantee the safety of our users, we can not accept any money 'with string attached,'" the team wrote in a blog post that was posted recently.
The founders are raising money to build Hemlis through a crowdfunding campaign with a $100,000 goal. People who are interested in using the service have already raised $71,100 through PayPal and Bitcoin donations. Those that have contributed to the campaign will also gain early access to the app, too.
Olsson told VentureBeat that speed of crowdfunding donations surprised the Hemlis team, who expected to reach the funding goal a month from now, if not longer. "But the best part is that we obviously are doing something people want. Feels even better!," he told me.
Olsson said Hemlis won't cap the total amount of funding raised to $100,000. Instead, the team plans on broadening its overall goals.
"We have for example got a lot more request of a Windows Phone version than we thought," he said. "[Plus,] the more we get now, the less we need to have for running the service later too."
Check out the demo/intro video below for more information about Hemlis.
Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/10/pirate-bay-founder-is-building-an-nsa-proof-messaging-app-via-crowdfunding/#1ACPt1bSccbWCKeJ.99


I have inherited a lot of interesting English from previous maintainers; and while I have fixed quite a few routine typos and grammar errors, I know there are plenty left, and of course the Hex realm is full of Engrish and people wouldn't want it any other way. FrogComposband is not a variant that takes itself particularly seriously, so instead of attempting to be perfectly perfect, it acknowledges that it's not and pokes fun at its own shortcomings. It's intended to be a roguelike, not a grammar guide.
That said, while I appreciate all the supporting voices here, all criticism and bug and problem reports (including grammar ones) are highly welcome; and variant maintaining is, unfortunately perhaps, a pretty good way to develop a thick skin for attitudes.
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I before E except before C.
This perfectly encapsulates the problem because it is wrong in more cases than it is correct.
This a fun Reader's Digest article ripping apart that fallacy.
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