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[TERA PC & Console] En Masse is closing, but TERA lives on! We will continue to support TERA PC (NA) and TERA Console until services are transferred. Our Service Moving Info page is now live here: https://bit.ly/tera_service_moving
Meet the Team: Singlebear, QA Lead
SephirothWS wrote: »So, I am curious if by what was said on the Twitch stream the other day about everything needing to go past QA. Does that mean news posts also go through you? If so, why are the posted dates wrong on some of them? Ninja Loading Screen Contest was not posted on May 6th, but rather it appeared on May 9th, and thus should be labeled as such.
We do have some cowboys in the office that will publish stuff without a QA pass. Sometimes it's laziness and sometimes it's due to timing.
One of the aspects of EME I really love is we are all given a lot of responsibility. I don't work thru a middleman. The other two guys I manage on the QA team are fully responsible for tasking themselves. We hardly micromanage here; it's not part of our culture.
BUT, it also leads to people publishing stuff without following a QA process. It's something we have recently realized has to improve and we are actively working toward improvements.1
JasonLucas wrote: »My question is: Since TERA NA launch until now, what was the game change that you didn't like, and what was the one that you liked?
Oh, if possible can you poke Denom about these cat hats changes? It's been a while since he talked about this and I guess we still didn't get these changes, would be great if they can come with next build.
The Denominator has been poked.
The current state of the Alliance system is the one I don't like the most. I think this could be so much more than it currently is. It's too exclusive and its impact is too limited. I talked about this earlier, but I really want content that forces players to take responsibility for the state of the game. Content that requires guilds to work together to manage areas of the game world.
The one I like the most remains the action combat. I was a hardcore wow raider before TERA. My 6 weeks as a playtester 5 years ago changed the way I felt about wow. TERA blew my mind. I have a hard time playing MMOs that still use tab target.7
msoltyspl ✭✭✭Bug reports forum section ? Or is support the only way now to beg you [to ping BHS] to fix months - years old bugs ?0
Hello, Singlebear! My question is: After each patch, are there any adjustments to the game that are not shown on patch notes? For example, certain item drop rate is changed after patch, but patch notes says nothing about it.
I am very disappointed in our quality of patch notes and I believe the blame falls directly on me. One of the members of my team is bilingual (Korean/English) and has the impossible task of turning all the Korean build documentation into a comprehensible testing doc. There is no way he can translate all the documentation in the time he has so he needs to find all the important stuff and toss it onto a document that gets shared out to our team. it is also not something we can easily outsource to a translation team. The documentation is heavy with TERA terminology/names and most of the work is in organizing the content into a testing doc. This testing doc is then used to make our patch notes.
The reason you don't see all the changes is because we are scrambling to get it all figured out ourselves. Hitting the main points is doable and I feel we are doing it. Getting all the granular stuff in the patch notes as well is not doable, I know a lot of the granular stuff is just as important, but it falls outside our capabilities.
I constantly bring the QA buildnote process up as my greatest failure at EME. But it is also one I would do again. It has provided us with much more information than we ever had, but it is just simply too much. I need to figure out a better process and I am working toward that goal. Hopefully before my team-member burns out.5
Nice to see someone who actually is more technical.
Q: is there any bug tracker, for game developers (bhs)?
Q: is BHS fixing every bug did you report them, or there are some issues that bhs wont fix?
Q: what do you think could help the most with the optimization of the game?
What did you said about alliances and other stuff is what i like and dislike at same time. Cause of how some players could exploit it and basically broke. But the idea behind this is great!
Geletron read your post and gave me a dirty look.
A: Yes. EME has a bug tracker and Bluehole has a different bug tracker. Neither have access to the others main database of bugs. Bluehole created a project in their tracker just for us so that we can clone bugs from our tracker into theirs.
A: EME sets a priority and severity for every issue we send Bluehole, but as the Dev they have their own priorities. So no, they don't fix every bug we send. Generally EME QA will request EME PD escalate bugs we believe are important, which basically means we want PD to email Bluehole and request a fix asap. So it all depends on the bug; there is no simple answer to this question.
A: This is out of my realm of expertise. I think Treeshark or Geletron would be the appropriate audience since optimization is mostly in the code and server design.1
Hey SingleBear!
I wanna ask what is the aprox time you and your team is able to work on quick fixes that need to be addressed in game in timely manner. Some bugs or other stuff your team works on sometimes take a very long amount of time for us players to see em fixed, which is annoying most of the time if the bug or whatever is constant.
And also, You mentioned Tool! Favorite song of Tool? I like "46&2" and "The Pot"
For hotfixes, we are pretty quick. It takes Operations a couple hours to create the build from the files Bluehole sends. We then patch our QA environment and test which generally is just sanity testing and spot checking the fix since Bluehole has already tested it. Testing takes about 1-3 hours depending on the system. Then we push the build to our staging environment and make sure we have all the pieces in place for our next deploy window.
But that's not the question you asked. Some things we can fix without Bluehole. These are generally just datasheet edits or localization. Sometimes we need something in the game code changed and that does require Bluehole. They can generally get us a build in a day or two when the issue is considered a critical blocker. A critical blocker is something that prevents gameplay. For example, if the server crashes every time someone takes a flight from Velika to Cresentia.
Then there are the bugs that you are talking about that don't get fixed quickly. There are too many unique reasons for this so I can't give you a simple answer.
One of the biggest is probably because the bug is already fixed in an upcoming version of the game. The dev will often de-prioritize these bugs and focus on bugs in the build they are working on internally. This is a mult-region game and the version you see in NA is not the latest version the Dev is working on. Going back to make a hotfix for an older build for something that doesn't exist in their current build has to have a good reason behind it.
And sometimes the cause is hard to figure out or has a large effect to other systems. We may need to run a script to fix issues caused by the broken game system. It can get very complicated very quick.
Favorite Tool song is hard to narrow down. It changes. Which is why they are my favorite band. Different songs will fit different moods or situations, but there is always one that fits. For work, I often need to go to The Patient.1
so then... is there a date when the release date will be revealed
SephirothWS wrote: »SingleBear wrote: »TrialMacameau wrote: »I see you mentioned 37 and 42, But what those that means ? the Build Version ?
Yes. So we are currently live with 39.07.07.EN4. 39.07.07 is the game version and EN4 is the localization version. The dev is responsible for versioning the game and EME versions the localization since we are in full control of that file. You can find your client version by looking at the end of the copyright line at the bottom of the server select screen.
So what does the 07.07 stand for? When you mentioned "versions" you only specified the first of the three section version number.
Should just be sub-builds. Like they got 39, then made some changes, so it became 39.0.1. etc etc
Nailed it.1
Aetona ✭✭✭SingleBear wrote: »Blueflam3s wrote: »Hi, Singlebear! My question is: What's the story behind your username? When and why did you choose it?
I've heard some good stories from that question so I'm sure yours won't disappoint!
I didn't choose it, you all did. I wish I knew where the picture was, but hopefully one of you can find it and post it. We were doing an EME vs players Fraywind Canyon promo and we shard a pic to twitter I believe were I was wearing a green shirt that had "Single" and "Taken" on it with check boxes. Single was checked. Someone commented something about me looking like a "Single Bear" and that swept thru the office. I've gone by Singlebear ever since.
Kiraboshi ✭✭✭This is probably beating a dead horse that has been rotting for a long time, but since QA lead is the one to be answering questions this week I figure eh what the heck might as well ask it anyways:
Oh yes. Public eternally unfixed bug number 1. Oh and sorry in advance for longposting, but's desync is nearly impossible to cover without at least some wall-of-text.
So while perfect netcode is obviously impossible, desync is more than just a netcode issue. Primarily concerning knockdowns, where players who are knocked down randomly become unhittable. The interesting thing about desync in Tera is player models will still collide with each other, which means that the Unreal engine fully acknowledges something should have happened. In other words, this is a bug which is completely fixable by BHS by rewriting their collision detection code to also count for skill hit detection. Desync wouldn't be such a big issue if everyone desynced in the same amount...but in pvp this is not the case. Depending on ping, FPS, and various other factors, desync can actually be intentionally exploited to favor one player over another. Right now there are priests in top PvP guilds that are only good because their desync chance on knockdowns is consistently x>50%. Some players even use fps scripts and/or macros to do this. The most disgusting thing about this form of cheating is it doesn't actually change anything in the game files, just causes an artificial performance spike which is indistinguishable from lag. It's impossible to tell who is doing it and who isn't even if you are monitoring the servers 24/7.
Desync is a huge bug. HUGE. The only reason no one talks about it anymore is because the community has basically given up. Many players ( Far more than your marketing team can imagine ) have quit the game purely because of this one bug.
So the question is this: Will BHS ever take a look at this issue? Can BHS at the very least rewrite the knockdown coding so hit detection on knocked down targets is calculated client side ( a much requested band aid fix )? Does eme know anything at all about it?
I know that eme can't do much about it and this would have to be a fix implemented by BHS programmers, I'm just asking whether or not you are still keeping this bug on the table with them, or has eme like the community...given up?
Hello, Bear.
With the Ninja patch "Secrets and Shadows" coming out on the 17th, what will come of current Crusade for PvE? If we anticpipated it correctly, that patch would be removing brhm, schm, fihm, and ds2. [Bythmisral rise, Sky Cruiser, Forsaken Island Hard, and Dreadspire 2] completely to make room for the new dungeons [correct me if i'm wrong or missed one or two]. How wil lthis affect the current crusade? Will you keep the dungeons in until the May 23rd.
What will come of it all? It's a very tricky situation if players are trying to keep their #1 spot.
Thanks tons.0
Spacecats ✭✭✭✭✭This is probably beating a dead horse that has been rotting for a long time, but since QA lead is the one to be answering questions this week...
I know you feel like this needed a big explanation, but you're bordering on soapboxing here so please keep questions short and to the point. We all know what desync is.
On top of that, one of the reasons I want to keep this series going isn't for Q&A purposes, but so people get to know the EME staff, how they go about doing their jobs, and how their work affects you as TERA players. Questions that consist entirely of "why hasn't this been fixed yet?" aren't really what we're going for. Our guests for the week will answer what they can, but if there's a recurring issue you have with the game that's been posted multiple times in the forums, you probably won't get an answer just because it's a different person answering the questions.
ObligatoryDownVoter wrote: »Hello, Bear.
With the Ninja patch "Secrets and Shadows" coming out on the 17th, what will come of current Crusade for PvE? If we anticpipated it correctly, that patch would be removing brhm, schm, fihm, and ds2. [Bythmisral rise, Sky Cruiser, Forsaken Island Hard, and Dreadspire 2] completely to make room for the new dungeons [correct me if i'm wrong or missed one or two]. How wil lthis affect the current crusade? Will you keep the dungeons in until the May 23rd.
What will come of it all? It's a very tricky situation if players are trying to keep their #1 spot.
Thanks tons.
We are aware of the issue and are working toward the best resolution we can, but no final plan yet. Sorry, I can't say more right now.
This is one of the harder elements of the build process. A lot of things change from build to build, but all the different regional builds deploy at different times. Trying to manage this process is very difficult for Bluehole and as a result, we here at EME find ourselves scrambling a bit to make things work out the best they can. Sometimes there are simple solutions. Sometimes we think we have a simple solution, but we create a bigger issue. And sometimes we have to go with the best bad solution available.2
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Frankie Muniz Isn't Even 30 Yet and He's Already Having Strokes
You may or may not remember a 'Malcolm in the Middle' episode where Malcolm, played by a much younger Frankie Muniz, suffered from the noted old-man ailment of peptic ulcers.
Now it seems the former child star is following in his fictional character's footsteps after being taken to the hospital for a "mini-stroke" at the ripe old age of 26.
Jackson patriarch Joe also suffered a stroke last week. But he's 84, which makes his news much less perplexing.
According to TMZ, Muniz was taken to an ER in Arizona after friends noticed him "acting really weird" and having trouble speaking and understanding words.
Muniz later tweeted a confirmation that he was in the hospital last Friday. Doctors are still baffled as to what caused the stroke.
Other signs Frankie Muniz is getting old? He thinks the new Myspace "looks sick" and threw his back out while picking up his PlayStation controller.


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It's time for another batch of Web tips. Last time I told you where to find user guides and compare camera sizes online; this week I'll tell you about a couple super-useful browser plug-ins.
Avoid Fake Online Stores with Zscaler Safe Shopping Plug-in
Suppose you're in the market for a Turbo Widget 9000. You do a little Web searching and discover that Widget Specialities Unlimited sells it for $50 less than everybody else. The online storefront looks a little wonky, but, hey, you got here via Google, so it must be okay, right?
Wrong. Hackers routinely create fake stores, and sometimes even compromise real ones in order to steal customer data. How can you protect yourself against these kinds of threats?
One option: Install Zscaler Safe Shopping, a browser plug-in that warns you about fake and compromised onilne stores. (Note: That link takes you to the newly released Internet Explorer version. Safe Shopping is also available for all other browsers, as described in this Zscaler blog post.)
Once installed, the plug-in relies on a continually updated list of bad domains. If you happen to visit one of them, you'll see a warning, so you know to steer clear.
It's kind of like my perennial favorite Web of Trust, but with a focus on shopping.
And it's worth noting that even if you have a robust security suite installed on your PC, it's not likely to detect a fake or compromised Web store. This is a free and easy way to get some added piece of mind before you plunk down you credit card (virtually speaking).
Resume YouTube Videos Where You Left Off
YouTube videos are getting longer all the time. Heck, you can now watch full-length movies on the site thanks to integration with Google's new Play service.
So where's the in-video bookmark option? What happens if you get interrupted in the middle of a clip and have to close your browser, shut down your PC, or whatever? Without a lot of pesky clicking and searching, how can you find your way back to where you were?
Look no further than Pause for Later. True to its name, this browser extension marks your spot in YouTube videos and lets you easily resume them later. It also keeps a record of the videos themselves, thus saving you from having to bookmark them or search YouTube again.
To get started, just head to the Pause for Later site and sign up for a free account. Then install the extension that matches your browser; the developers have one for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari--though in some cases you might be installing a bookmarklet instead of an extension. No matter--the end result is the same.
Now, when you need to pause a video, you click the newly added Pause button (or the bookmarklet) instead of the actual YouTube pause control. That'll steer you directly to the Pause for Later site, where you can view all your paused videos--and, with a single click, resume any one of them.
By clicking the Action button alongside any video, you can also restart from the beginning, mark it as unwatched, copy the link to your clipboard, and more. It's a decidedly handy way to manage YouTube content--and a lot less cluttered and confusing than YouTube's own video manager.
Pause for Later also promises to work with Hulu and Vimeo, though in my tests it didn't actually save my spot in videos from those services; it merely saved a link to them.
Basically, if you've ever had to leave a YouTube video in the middle and wished for a way to save your place, now you've got one. Check it out.
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Have you ever felt like that?
Like hanging on a cliff?
If I can just run and make time go faster. I can't even just sleep it off.
Sweet time, come. Only you can reveal the mystery.
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Ane has been sleeping on the same side of the bed for nearly two years now. And now, he's trying to covet MY side. Yeah, too heavy an accusation but I'm trying to scare him off with a Commandment, LOL! Hun, I'm not giving up my side even if you've made yourself comfy already. Hmp!


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The specialized cancer agency of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that outdoor air pollution is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths.
An evaluation by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs Programme found there is sufficient evidence that exposure to outdoor air pollution causes lung cancer and increases the risk for bladder cancer.
In a news release, the IARC pointed out that air pollution is already known to increase risks for a wide range of diseases, such as respiratory and heart diseases. Studies indicate that in recent years exposure levels have increased significantly in some parts of the world, particularly in rapidly industrializing countries with large populations.
The most recent data indicate that 223,000 deaths from lung cancer in 2010 resulted from air pollution.
"The air we breathe has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing substances," said Kurt Straif, Head of the IARC Monographs Section. "We now know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to health in general, but also a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths."
The IARC Monographs Programme, dubbed the 'encyclopaedia of carcinogens,' provides an authoritative source of scientific evidence on cancer-causing substances and exposures. In the past, the Programme evaluated many individual chemicals and specific mixtures that occur in outdoor air pollution.
These included diesel engine exhaust, solvents, metals, and dusts. But this is the first time that experts have classified outdoor air pollution as a cause of cancer.
"Our task was to evaluate the air everyone breathes rather than focus on specific air pollutants," said Dana Loomis, Deputy Head of the Monographs Section. "The results from the reviewed studies point in the same direction: the risk of developing lung cancer is significantly increased in people exposed to air pollution."
The main sources of outdoor air pollution are transportation, stationary power generation, industrial and agricultural emissions, and residential heating and cooking. Some air pollutants have natural sources, as well.
"Classifying outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans is an important step," stressed IARC Director Christopher Wild. "There are effective ways to reduce air pollution and, given the scale of the exposure affecting people worldwide, this report should send a strong signal to the international community to take action without further delay."
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An osteopath charged with "a litany of perverse transgressions" is accused of inviting staffers to watch an insemination… This, after he'd had the couple get it on in the office bathroom.
According to the former staffers suing the Dr. Edward Kleiner for sexual harassment, when the doctor "wasn't talking about the size of his penis or offering gynecological exams to the women who worked for him at Beach and Surf Medical in Long Beach, LI, he was following them outside the office and stalking them when they were out with their boyfriends." He also exposed himself, carried a sex doll around, and sexted patients. At least he's not a real fertility specialist, who accepts marijuana in lieu of payment! Anyway, when his employees complained, he said they just needed to get laid. And fired them. Well, according to the civil suit
As to the insemination show, it made said staffers very uncomfy indeed. Recounts the New York Post,
"I refused. I said, 'I don't like this, and I don't think it's legal,' " Romanger told reporters yesterday. "He said, 'One of you are coming in the room, end of story.' I felt violated. I don't want to hear anyone having sex. And we're the ones who have to clean the office."
At this point, it's only charges — but pretty gross ones. Stay tuned, and for everyone's sake, let's hope the disturbing resemblance to Anthony Bourdain is just a trick of the light.
LI Office Workers File Complaint Against 'Pervy' Doctor [NY Post]
Lawsuit Claims Doc Invited Office Staffers To Watch Insemination [Gothamist]


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On December 5, Scottish-types We Were Promised Jetpacks release a double A-side single through FatCat. Yep, people still do release double A-sides. The two tracks in question are 'Human Error' and 'Ink Slowly Dries'. You can, handily enough, listen to both of these below in the embedded SoundCloud player.
The band also head off on a UK tour at the beginning of December. You can watch them at these places on the following dates:
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Manufacturing industries cover a wide variety of products for high tech, food and beverage, apparel, industrial, and consumer products. At a high level they all share some basic tenets of planning, scheduling, material consumption, and finished product, but each has its own unique characteristics.
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Tropico 4 Gold Edition
Tropico 4 Gold Edition video introduces you to Miss Pineapple, other NPCs
A new gameplay trailer for Tropico 4 Gold Edition focusing on the NPCs in the game has been released by Kalypso Media. Called "Meet the Rogues," the video features the offbeat characters you will interact with in the dictator/city sim. Tropico 4 Gold Edition is now available for PC and Xbox 360.
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I have noticed a compelling correlation between watching Tropico 4 trailers and my desire to bunk off work and play games all day. This Gold Edition business is not exactly helping.
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Atlus has signed on as US distributor for Kalypso. The European publisher's upcoming slate is now secured for US release – that's Port Royale 3 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 9; Tropico 4: Gold Edition on PC and Xbox 360 on November 1; Omerta – City of Gangsters on PC and […]
Tropico 4 Gold Edition releases in November for PC and Xbox 360
Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release in November on PC and Xbox 360, and comes with the Modern Times expansion. The title contains over 30 unique missions, over 100 buildings in total, the Council of Ministers, and a sandbox mode for custom games, with improved map and scenario editor. Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release […]


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Down a goal late in the third period, R.J. Umberger glanced along the bench and saw hardly a drooped shoulder.
This isn't the same Columbus Blue Jackets squad, one that in the past might have let this game slip away.
This is a more determined Blue Jackets team, one that's focused on finding a way to get into the playoffs.
And this was definitely a good start.
Umberger tied the game late in the final period and Nick Foligno scored at 4:31 of overtime, helping the Blue Jackets beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Monday night for their fourth straight win.
Blake Comeau and Mark Letestu also added goals as the Blue Jackets remained in the thick of a tightly packed playoff chase. They pulled even in points (47) with Detroit for the final playoff spot.
"No one got down," Umberger said. "This bench, this bench was saying, 'Let's go after them. Let's get them.' This group, we're fighting to the end and everybody knew we were going to win this game."
First, though, Sergei Bobrovsky had to save the game. With the Avalanche short-handed to start the extra period, Gabriel Landeskog broke free and it looked as if he might put an end to things. After all, Landeskog is one of the leaders in the league in short-handed goals this season.
But Bobrovsky made a magnificent save, robbing Landeskog of a goal.
Then, with just 28.7 seconds remaining in OT, Foligno skated in on the right side of Jean-Sebastien Giguere and sent a wrist shot by the veteran goaltender.
That was a departure for Foligno, who's usually looking to pass in that situation and not shoot.
In this case, being selfish paid dividends.
"I just figured I'd shoot (through Giguere's pads) and catch him before he went down and luckily it was able to sneak through," Foligno said. "It was huge."
Maybe even save-the-season huge, especially with only five games remaining.
"We're finding ways," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. "That's what you have to do this time of year. Tough environment, tough team to play against with really nothing to lose — a big two points for our team."
Cody McLeod scored twice and Jamie McGinn added another for the Avalanche, who are last in the Western Conference.
McGinn gave the Avs a lead with just over two minutes remaining in regulation on a power play, but it didn't hold as Umberger answered just 35 seconds later.
Lately, Colorado hasn't been playing as if it's a last-place team. Giguere woke his teammates out of their funk when he criticized them for being more concerned about postseason plans in Las Vegas than their play on the ice.
That seemed to do the trick. Colorado is 2-0-2 following Giguere's outburst.
There also was a dose of motivation for the Avs, too. The Blue Jackets beat Colorado twice down the stretch last season, all but ending the team's late playoff bid.
This time, the Avs were trying to step into the role of spoilers.
Didn't quite work out.
"This is playoff-type hockey," Giguere said. "More often than not, if we play like this, we'll get some wins."
McLeod had his first two-goal game since Oct. 17, 2009, at Detroit. The small number of fans who braved a spring snow storm roaring through the Mile High City let out a thunderous cheer.
"For most of the game we battled hard, we get a huge goal with two minutes left in the game and then we give up a breakaway. We can't do that," McLeod said. "That's the kind of thing we've been doing all year and it's tough."
This was precisely the kind of win the Blue Jackets' needed.
"Huge character," Foligno said. "You saw Blake's goal, it was a big one, and Umby scored a huge one to get us into overtime. That seems to be the morale on this team. There's no quit on this team and that's what's going to allow us, hopefully, to get into the playoffs."
Game notes
Colorado coach Joe Sacco will lead the U.S. squad at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in May. The tournament will be held in Helsinki, Finland, and Stockholm, Sweden. … Colorado reassigned G Sami Aittokallio to Lake Erie of the American Hockey League before the game. … Avs prospect Gus Young helped Yale to a win over Quinnipiac on Saturday in the NCAA championship game. Young, a seventh-round pick in 2009, is a defenseman and was on the ice for all four goals. … Blue Jackets D Adrian Aucoin (lower body) left the game in the second period. The Blue Jackets say he's day to day. … A moment of silence was held before the national anthem for the victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon earlier Monday.
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Conservative pundit Glenn Beck has his fans, but famed video game developer Warren Spector reportedly isn't one of them.
Talking on his radio show earlier this week, Beck recounts the tale of when one of his staffers ran into the Deus Ex and System Shock legend at the recent GameStop Manager's Conference (the employee also works for the retail chain).
While things got off on the right foot, with the staffer "Brad" managing to get hold of a pair of mouse ears as swag when he said his boss was a big Disney fan (Spector is currently heading up development on Epic Mickey 2), the mood soured when Spector found out just who Brad's boss was.
Saying "Anybody who associates with Glenn Beck doesn't get these", Spector reportedly reached over and snatched the ears back off the man, before security approached the pair and asked Brad to leave.
Call it petty, call it sticking to his politics, Spector's actions ended up all for naught, as Beck got hold of a pair of the fake ears anyway.
And before you go thinking the conservative commentator has the high ground here, towards the end of the segment he jokes about fearing about violent retribution from the developer, all because he shares the surname of a guy who's now in prison for murder.
You can listen to the segment in full at the link below.
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Located 100 mi/160 km north of Nairobi, scenic Aberdare National Park in Kenya's Aberdare Mountain Range has a diverse topography that includes waterfalls, rain forests and rivers. At the highest elevations, the forests give way to open moors. Although home to a variety of animals, the dense forest makes it difficult to spot them.
The two famous lodges in the park, the Ark and Treetops (which is actually built in the trees), overlook watering holes that are lit at night for round-the-clock animal viewing. (Both lodges are expensive, by the way.) It was from Treetops that Princess Elizabeth of England learned of her father's death in 1952. She climbed into her room at Treetops as a princess and climbed down the following morning as queen.
Rains wreak havoc on the park's roads, sometimes causing closures in the wet season. At any time of year, a four-wheel-drive vehicle is advisable.
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Have you ever located your self in a scenario the place other people expected you to be a leader but you were unable to display productive leadership expertise? You must spend interest if you really never want to be passed in excess of once again. The following article will display you what it requires to aid include leadership capabilities to your personal daily life.
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Powerful leaders understand their weaknesses and their strengths. If you are boastful, you will fail. Pay out consideration to places you want to strengthen.
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Personnel assume their leaders to talk efficiently. Listening is the most critical trait of a leader. Avoid brushing off employees or pretending that you will not hear what they have to say. If somebody complains, pay attention to what they are saying.
Check your ego at the door, and never preserve your distance from the crew. Never ever put your self over the group, even when you are major a group of people. Do not try out accomplishing everything by your self. In the end, your crew is what tends to make you or breaks you, so be confident absolutely everyone feels critical.
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The New York Times reported August 4 that the NSA intercepts of all Americans' phone records and Internet traffic are being sought by dozens of federal and state law-enforcement agencies for ordinary criminal enforcement, and Reuters wire service reported August 5 that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has received some of this information for nearly two decades.
According to the August 4 New York Times, "The National Security Agency's dominant role as the nation's spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say." Among the agencies seeking NSA "metadata" and e-mail information are agencies charged with enforcing laws against "drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement."
Reuters Wire Service reported August 5 that the sharing of NSA intercepts has been ongoing for nearly two decades, noting that a "secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans." Reuters noted that this special unit of the DEA is part of a multi-agency task force that has grown over the years: "The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred."
Ironically, the New York Times noted that DEA officials are still complaining they need wider access to NSA data on Americans: "Officials complained that they were blocked from using the security agency's surveillance tools for several drug-trafficking cases in Latin America, which they said might be connected to financing terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere."
While strict constitutionalists would point to how the NSA's warrantless surveillance of all Americans – in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment – is problematic, defenders of the NSA program claim that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their telephone calls and Internet traffic. For example:
Former NSA Chief Michael Hayden on Fox News Sunday August 4: "Look, this is metadata, business records. The court has held it had no expectation of privacy…. But the fact of the matter is, the court held that metadata, in essence our phone bills, has no expectation of privacy."
House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, in a tweet after debate on the Amash amendment: "SCOTUS ruled no expectation of privacy on phone records."
House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee Member Rep. Michele Bachmann, in debate on the Amash amendment July 24: "Is there a Fourth Amendment right to the record that you called someone on a certain day? No, there isn't. That's a record."
If indeed Americans have no claim to privacy in their Internet and telephone traffic, then the real question is: Why shouldn't the federal government share this information widely with other agencies? And taking the principle to its logical conclusion, what would be the harm in revealing the information publicly, as Edward Snowden has done?
Yet supporters of warrantless NSA surveillance continually stress – without any evidence – that they want to build privacy protections into the programs. Congressman Mike Rogers claimed on the floor of the House during debate on the Amash amendment (the amendment would have defunded the NSA warrantless wiretapping program): "I'll pledge to each and every one of you today, and give you my word, that this fall when we do the Intel Authorization bill, we will work to find additional privacy protections with this program that has no emails, no phone calls, no names, and no addresses." Of course, if there are no privacy expectations in telephone call records, then why would Rep. Rogers promise to work in new privacy protections at all? Why not work to actively share the information with all other federal law enforcement agencies, as well as state and local police?
The answer to that question is that supporters of NSA surveillance know that the American people do have a reasonable expectation of privacy from government surveillance under the Fourth Amendment. And they also know that this surveillance of all innocent Americans violates both the Fourth Amendment (which requires a warrant, probable cause, and particularity for a constitutional search) and even the far less stringent requirements of the Patriot Act (which requires only "relevance" to an ongoing investigation, equivalent to a grand jury subpoena). This open defiance of both the Constitution and statutory law was laid bare in a House Judiciary Committee hearing July 17 in a colloquy between Congressman Jerrod Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Deputy Attorney General James Cole:
Nadler: "Can you give us an example where ongoing bulk collection has been allowed by virtue of grand jury subpoena without a showing of a connection between those 'tangible things' and a specific, existing investigation?"
Cole: "Well, in this instance, we are showing it as a relationship to a specific investigation and a specific phone number. We have to show reasonable…
Nadler: "…Only for use of that information, not for collection of it. Now, the statute is talking about collection, you are trying to confuse us by talking about use."
Cole: "But the collection is only there and is only valuable if it is used."
Nadler concluded: "The problem obviously, Mr. Cole, with what we are hearing from this panel and with what we have heard generally about the 'relevance' standard is that everything in the world is relevant and that if we removed that word from the statute you wouldn't consider, or the FISA court wouldn't consider that it would affect your ability to collect metadata in any way whatsoever. Which is to say, you are disregarding the statute entirely."
But the Republican chairman of the Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, Michigan's Mike Rogers, remains loyal to the NSA, to the point of repeating its false talking points. After debate on the Amash amendment, Rogers told CBS' Face the Nation July 28, "I knew I was in an education problem here. There are no recordings of phone calls. There are no dossiers. They do not record your e-mails. None of that was happening, none of it–- I mean, zero." While an NSA program collecting the audio of all Americans' phone calls has not been documented publicly, Rogers' claim that the NSA is not collecting the text of e-mails was proven false by the revelation of the XKeyscore program by Glenn Greenwald in the London Guardian July 31. With such misinformation coming from chairmen of congressional intelligence committees, it's not beyond reason to speculate that the NSA is collecting telephone audio as well under another program name.
Moreover, eavesdropping on phone calls and other private information of innocent Americans may not be limited to the NSA. In some instances, other agencies have waged court battles to create their own surveillance system parallel to the NSA's surveillance. According to an August 2 report on CNET.com, the FBI is seeking to get its own recording data installed on Internet service providers' servers (ISPs). The FBI's battle has had court battles with ISPs that "included threats of contempt of court."
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Equity futures were slightly higher this morning, but fell sharply into the bell as we move into today's FOMC announcement (2:15 Eastern, 11:15 Pacific). Expect head shaking drivel from the announcement, a headfake by the HFTs following the announcement, followed 20 to 30 minutes later by a real directional move, most likely lower. Not that there's any type of predictable pattern, like the Monday morning ramp – naaaawww.
The dollar is down slightly to flat, the Euro is slightly higher, oil and gold are both lower. Overhead resistance is now SPX 1100, then 1111. Support is 1,090, then 1,070, and below that the 1040/1050 neckline area awaits. Below is a 3 month daily chart of the SPX:
Yesterday's rout was yet another 90%+ down move (92.4%), the score now sits at 9 down, 6 up, 15 total since mid-April. Unprecedented lopsided volatility, again proof that the only real players left are the ones operating HFTs. Note in the chart above that it won't be long before the 50dma crosses under the 200dma, a "death cross." That is an ominous indicator that happens very infrequently. There are false crossovers, but if the 50 gets more than 1% below the 200, the odds of a false cross are almost nothing. Below is a 2 year view showing the last death cross that occurred in late 2007:
I recently did a quick study of just the 200 day moving average and found that another very good indicator is when the average changes directions by 1% that it makes an excellent long term sell or buy signal. You can see that it is now rising very slightly but is likely to be pointing down soon with any further downward movement. Of course a shorter term signal is a falling 50dma, and it is falling steeply at this time, that really pressures prices and presents stiff overhead resistance as was just proven.
The (worthless) MBA Purchase Applications composite index fell 5.9% in the prior week. Purchase applications fell 1.2% and refinance applications fell 7.3%. Here's Econoday:
Mortgage activity contracted in the June 18 week led by a 7.3 percent decline in refinancing applications. The dip retraces only a small degree of a two-month surge triggered by the dramatic drop underway in mortgage rates. Thirty-year mortgages fell 7 basis points in the week to 4.75 percent for the lowest rate since May last year.
On the home-buying side, purchase applications, which in the prior week rose for the first time in six weeks, resumed their steep post-stimulus decline with a 1.2 percent dip. The housing sector appears to be in trouble following April's end of second-round stimulus. Today's new home sales report at 10:00 ET will offer a key look at post-stimulus demand.
As they said, new home sales coming at 10 Eastern this morning.
Did you see that the White House's Budget Director resigned? That was followed yesterday by the House Republican Leader, John Boehner, who announced that there would be no work on the Congressional budget this year? He's accusing politicians of not facing up to the trillions in shortfalls prior to the November elections and that they want to hold off on dealing with the reality of their mess until afterwards… this should not give you or the markets a warm fuzzy feeling, in fact it is a giant red flag, a confidence destroyer.
Then, the General McChrystal's comments were a direct embarrassment to the administration and he has now tendered his resignation. Do McChrystal's comments build confidence? I'd say not.
Then we have George Soros come out and say that Germany may cause the collapse of the Euro! Ahhh, poor guy. Can't stand the heat of a little austerity. Bond spreads widened considerably on his comments.
Another ominous development in the charts yesterday occurred when the TNX (ten year Treasury fund) broke a bearish pennant. The staff of the pennant goes from 4% to 3.1%, a .9% move which is huge. The break lower from the flag break then targets 2.3%, again a huge move that would have to correspond to a large move lower in equities:
There are corresponding breaks in the long bond and TLT is still maintaining its uptrend line as well as breaking higher as seen in this daily chart below:
Below is a daily chart showing the Emerging Markets death cross again. Monday's action attempted to gap higher, but collapsed and that led to yesterday's move dumping below both the 50 and 200. Again, this is a warning about global emerging markets and the U.S. does not operate in isolation:
The markets are signaling the psychology of wave C down in my opinion. Much of the world is being forced into austerity, the U.S. will eventually have no choice should we fail to look beyond the edges of the central banker's debt backed money box. Inside of that box resides the left/right paradigm, both sides are funded by the same people. Inside that box the math of social security, of Medicare, and of our very money do not work. Solutions inside that box are debt on top of debt, or austerity. In other words no solutions at all. People need to pull their minds outside of that box. Don't listen to the fools!
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Someone drew it. - Who?— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 28, 2019
Someone colored it. - Who?
Someone laid it out. - Who?
I'm sure the media will be all over this, right? https://t.co/S3UECess84
All I can find in the NYT about this is "NY Times Apologizes for Cartoon With 'Anti-Semitic Tropes'" with the byline The Associated Press:
The New York Times has apologized for an anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared in the newspaper's international edition.So I guess the direct communication from the NYT is just a tweet, and the AP reported on the tweet, and the NYT carried the AP article. Why doesn't the NYT write its own article? Answer Cernovich's questions. And give a real apology!
It showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachshund wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind and skullcap-wearing U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Times says the image "included anti-Semitic tropes." The cartoon appeared Thursday in print.
A tweet from the New York Times Opinion account Saturday said the image "was offensive, and it was an error in judgment to publish it."
The Times says the cartoon was provided by The New York Times News Service and Syndicate, which has since deleted it.
The Times may say the image "included anti-Semitic tropes," but presumably somebody at the Times either did not think the image was anti-Semitic or wanted to publish something anti-Semitic. I'd like to see the Times investigate which of those options is true.
If the former, who perceived it not to be anti-Semitic and exactly why? If the latter... the NYT has a dramatically serious problem and needs to undertake a remedy.
By the way, can anyone explain to me why the breed chosen as the Seeing-Eye dog is a dachshund? The dachshund is wearing a Star of David collar (and "is" Netanyahu) so that means the dog is Jewish. But if you were drawing a cartoon and wanted, above all, to convey that this is a Seeing-Eye dog, you would choose a German Shepherd. If you wanted to reject "German," you'd pick a Lab or a Golden Retriever.
The NYT international edition is edited in La Défense, an area just outside of Paris, and maybe the breeds used as guide dogs in France are different from what we use in the U.S. But would a dachshund ever really be a Seeing-Eye dog?
My effort to research this turned up stories about a blind dachshund that had another dog, a pit bull, as its guide. So I think it's fair to say that the dachshund was chosen for some reason other than to convey the idea of a Seeing-Eye dog.
But what reason? Perhaps it's just that it's a small dog. But it's not a generic small dog. It has a distinctive elongated shape, and the illustration exaggerates the long shape. But what does that say about Netanyahu's ability to lead Trump? Is it meant as a phallic symbol? Are we to consider the history of how this breed came about in the first place?
The standard-size dachshund was developed to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, while the miniature dachshund was bred to hunt smaller prey such as rabbits.Maybe the idea was that Netanyahu the dachshund would lead blind Trump to other animals. If so, the adversaries of Israel are being depicted as animals, which complicates the analysis.
I should add that the cartoon is extremely well-drawn and eye-catching. It's possible that people at the international NYT were just dazzled into a blunder. That would be phenomenally stupid, but stupid is the least bad explanation.
IN THE COMMENTS: Answering my question why a dachshund, wildswan notes that hot dogs were originally called "dachshund sandwiches," and hot dogs may be "seen as particularly Jewish." (There's the all-beef Kosher hot dog Hebrew National.)
And James K says: "A German Shepherd is thought of as a majestic, powerful dog. The cartoonist wanted to depict the Jew as low and slithering, hence the Dachs[h]und. Nothing more complicated than that."


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