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On this blogpost, I'll mainly be behaving badly and stamping my feet with childish impetulence.
It appears (note: appears) that the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have done some excellent investigative journalism (for that is their name) and released this story about the Ideal Spine Centre in Canterbury. From another angle it appears (note again: appears) that the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have gone onto Google, found my blogpost written in 2008 about the very same Ideal Spine Centre and used one of my blogposts as fill out for a story about a Thinking Is Dangerous quack favourite.
It is my thought that the first opinion is possible, but (as I'll try and show later) very doubtful, whereas the second is very reasonable. Very reasonable indeed.
Some backstory - firstly, the TBIJ's history and raison d'etre can be found here. [That's a link to information on their website - you can almost smell the irony]. Secondly, the story itself is a bit of a corker and the overarching good out of the whole thing is that the suspicious goings on at The Ideal Spine Centre in Canterbury are being exposed to a wider audience.
For instance, Dr Farthing, or to give him his full medical title, Mr Farthing, has a disclaimer on his website
"Dr. Farthing is not a Chiropractor, Osteopath or Medical Doctor". No, no. He is a 'wellness' Doctor. Welcome to Quack Comedy central. Throw in an Advertising Standards Authority adjudication and the blogpost wrote itself.
Interestingly, the blogpost also has the record for the most comments of (I think) any blog on this site. TiD was (if I recall rightly) the only blog at the time that ran the story. [Less common now, I reckon, due to number of bloggers around and also the immediate 140 char blogs that can disseminate news and nonsense so efficiently via Twitter, but in the heady days of 2008 - surely the golden age of blogging - terrific blogpost fodder was as abundant as Passenger Pigeons]. This point is important, as it meant that anyone searching for The Ideal Spine Centre or its details found either the Ideal Spine Centre's website, or mine.
It is not my plan (nor have I the time) to put in a factual blow by blow account of the similarities in the two posts, because although I would like to do all the worthy things that a wounded e-martyr could do, I'm not sure it would change or help anything.
As such, here is my succinct treatisette.
A google search of "Ideal Spine Centre" (without quotes), "Christian Farthing" (again without quotes) and a number of other searches brought my blogpost up consistently as the 3rd result on Google, underneath the Ideal Spine Centre's own webpage. (This has changed slightly due to TBIJ coverage, but it is still 3rd/4th/5th etc).
I want you to imagine you have a snippet of information leaked to you by a local who wants you to run a story on The Ideal Spine Centre. Being part of TBIJ you begin to journalistically investigate and so, run a google search. You find the first post outwith of the Centre's own website to be a blogpost providing the whole backstory to your leaked tidbit.
Do you:
a) ignore it and go and find the exact same information from primary sources?
b) Read it and use it to find all the primary sources are beautifully linked and excellently expounded with dynamic wit, contact the blogger and ask permission to use it or at the very least link to it?
c) Read it and use it to find all the primary sources are beautifully linked and excellently expounded with dynamic wit and use the information without any reference or hat-tip.
It is up to you to answer the question to your own satisfaction.
(I would have thought if they had done some digging they would have found a myriad of dubious things not on my blogpost, like the disgraceful website NHS Health Resource (Yes - NHS! which apparently stands for the Nationwide Health Service), but a quick look at who.is shows the Ideal Spine Centre is the registrant. But maybe they didn't look hard enough or think that it was worth mentioning. And it wasn't on my blogpost. I'm just saying.)
But there are two issues here:
1. The concern about whether or not material was lifted from a blog and used without a hat-tip.
2. The response by TBIJ when I enquired about it.
They are very separate and although the first may be a misunderstanding, the second shows TBIJ in my mind to be no better than their tabloid dead-tree main stream media counterpricks.
When I first noted the similarities, I satisfied myself that I wasn't being too silly and precious about a 3.5 year old blogpost and wrote a very measured and polite comment on TBIJ website. Other comments that were after mine have since appeared, but mine have been censored. This is the sort of thing people like Nadine Dorries does to ensure no critical comment appears on her blog [if you want to satisfy yourself of my non-hypocrisy, please check the myriad of anti-Dr*T comments on this site].
I then contacted them on Twitter (@TBIJ) - once again, I twut a few times with no response.
I then emailed the author of the article, Melanie Newman, outlining my concerns.
I was told my blog was a third party collation of information she already had. I immediately emailed her back thanking her, and asking if she had read my blog before writing her article. I finished the email saying that I felt cooperation was a much stronger force than individualism, and we had the joint end goal of getting the story exposed.
No response.
A day later I sent a reminder but like The Sundays' song, here is where the story ends. No engagement. No response. Ignoreland.
Conversation dead. So it goes.
This (in my limited understanding of intertubery) is how people who don't 'get' the transition between main stream media and online bloggery operate. I don't know if Melanie will have a change of heart and engage (I'd dearly like that to happen) or whether they'll publish my comment in a few days or whether next month I'll get a tweet from them. In any case, to me at least, they've demonstrated they haven't adapted yet to online life, and (more embarrassingly I'm sure) they can't handle a wimpy part-time blogger politely whinging, without freezing up and closing rank.
I'm writing this all just to document the event and to suggest in passing that bloggers (what blog for free out of pastime, pleasure, provocation or petulance) will always be different from people who write stuff on the intertubes and get paid for it.
I'd also be interested to know if I am a lone moaner, or if this is a recurring behavioural pattern.
Post Script - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Policy on stealing stories is here. They're happy enough for you to do that, providing you link to them and all the links to the story. That's a really good policy.
Hat-tip to the Whitstable Skeptic.
EDITED TO ADD (Tues 22nd Nov): The BIJ page now has a link to the my blogpost. After a lot of helpful retweets of this blog on Twitter, I got an email from the Editor saying they wouldn't link to the blog as there was no need to, as the journalist "couldn't recall" reading my blog.
After a few exchanges I gave him a phone. It wasn't a very pleasant conversation, (due seemingly to me being sad, pathetic, aggressive and not understanding nuance) but we got a compromise in the end - a tiny link on the BIJ webpage, which was all that was requested right at the very start. They could have avoided the whole blown-up event by taking this extremely small step in the first place.
I asked why my comments had been censored on the BIJ article - it seems the Editor does not like anyone making any negative reference to their journalists on comments (I didn't) despite there being a pretty negative one there right now from an angry chiropractor. Ho hum.
Maybe it was a good thing, maybe it wasn't, but perhaps there's at least one more journalist that will keep a more accurate history of their sources from now on. ENDS

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The New Google Social Network - Google+Blog Post: June 30, 2011
Have you noticed how Googles recent updates on Google.com seem to make way for the coming of a more social search?
I believe that the recent navigation and header updates will be followed with integrating Goolge + to Google search. Thats why they are highlighting all their other services with the new layout. If they can get people to use all the other cool stuff, they'll have Google accounts once Google + is launched.
Once this goes live, you will have the social features with you when ever you search. This will bring a host of new information for Google to customize your search results an ads. Maby us SEMs can (finally) start customizing our landing pages by age group, sex and so on.
I assumed that Facebook would attempt to bring an effective search to Facebook but now it seems that Google is going to bring an effective Facebook to Google search.


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On Friday, Madden NFL 13 revealed the ratings for every quarterback in the league, inviting the usual pointless discussion about who should be ranked ahead of whom and why.
It's easy to laugh at meathead sports fans who take a great interest in Jay Cutler's virtual throwing power compared to, say, Eli Manning's virtual deep ball accuracy, as if these really do involve strategic choices. (They don't. People play as their favorite teams except in multiplayer, where everyone's the Patriots.) But sports video games are no more rating-obsessed than any other video game genre, role-playing games especially.
Think about it for a second. I don't know what my armor class is in real life, other than probably 9 at the moment. Putting on a kevlar vest wouldn't infuse me with some specific knowledge of its protection, except I had a reasonable expectation it'd stop a slug from, say, a .38 at medium range, whatever that distance is. The Louisville Slugger in my closet isn't stamped with a figure noting its critical hit damage should I manage to sneak up on a robber in the basement.
Those kinds of things are fully knowable in most video games, however. Acquire loot in DC Universe Online and it'll tell you precisely how much it'll improve your might, your strength, and your damage while reducing your rate of attack. It's always struck me as a big fourth-wall breach in a game at least nominally predicated on acting out a role within an immersive world.
It's peevish of me to suggest this, but if a role-playing game involves making decisions in character, one of the most common choices is made practically on auto-pilot thanks to knowing the ratings: does this thing cause or prevent more damage? Yes. Equip it. Never mind that I, or my character, would prefer to fight with a sword instead of a mace, or looks better in chain mail than plate. (This kind of meta-game choice isn't completely unsupported. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim I have steadfastly refused to give my mage any armor, even though he's fully entitled to wear it, and it hasn't thrown my progression out of balance. In DCUO, I can lock my styles so I can get the benefit of an item while maintaining my character's look.)
Knowing precise ratings can feel like a fourth-wall breach in games built on role-playing.
Still, should these kinds of ratings be exposed to us? What if we were aware of our characters' abilities and equipment in a more generic way? Things like damage bars over enemies are fine; you have to have some sense of your foe's health or reaction to your attack. Borderlands would divulge an enemy's exact level (somewhat redundant, given a naming system that had clear ranks like "BadAss" and "BadMutha") and pop a damage number up when you shot him. But the game's color-coding of items gave me a broad sense of their scarcity or quality that would often override a decision to equip a gun that maybe did incrementally more damage or had a faster rate of fire.
These sorts of clues could also be used to give you a sense of your own attributes. I don't know how many hit points I have in real life, but I feel fully healthy right now. I'm not sure what my endurance is, but I can run a mile—slowly. Fallout's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system is numbers-based, but the 1-to-10 nature of it gives you an idea of your qualities without exposing their effect on the dice roll too much.
Growing up, we had a hardass dungeon master who wouldn't tell you anything. Many DMs our age would introduce NPCs like, "You meet Thag, a level 16 chaotic neutral barbarian who carries a club +2, +6 against undead." Not this guy. In combat, he'd say stuff like, "You strike the bugbear. Doesn't look like that hurt him much." He'd make you spend turns counting treasure, too (which was really pointless, actually). If you wanted to know a magic weapon's qualities, prepare to do research later on, or discover it through trial-and-error in combat.
We bitched about it, but looking back, it enriched the role-playing experience. My fighter used a short sword because I had come to trust its effectiveness in combat (under this DM anyway), not because I knew it caused d8+3 in damage or whatever. But in an ambush, when things really got desperate, I whipped out a hand axe that I had been told gave off a faint green glow. Turned out it was a vorpal weapon. I think the DM may have goosed the roll just to reveal that, at that time, but it was a thrilling end to something that would have been a lot more strategic and rote if we knew everything.
There is a ratings-based game, recently released, that conceals players' attributes. NCAA Football 13, in its Heisman Challenge, doesn't itemize your player's abilities. I don't know what Jim Plunkett's throw power is, I don't know what Herschel Walker's speed or "trucking" is. I just know that, reputationally anyway, those guys were known for those qualities. I don't try to bull over a defender with Barry Sanders, not because I know he's poorly rated for that, but because I know Barry Sanders was at his best when he was eluding tacklers, not breaking tackles. In the end, through actual gameplay, I've learned something about my "character" in a more meaningful way than reading his ratings and comparing them to someone else's.
There's nothing inherently wrong with knowing the precise numbers assigned to your character's qualities. There's nothing wrong with not knowing your own strength, either. Discovering it can be just as rewarding as finding a huge chest of loot. So long as I don't have to spend turns counting it.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — As fullback Eric Breitenstein broke into the clear on fourth-and-1 he glanced back, first right and then left, before easing into the end zone for the game's first touchdown.
The University of New Hampshire football team couldn't catch the Walter Payton Award finalist on that play nor could it catch Wofford on Saturday in a 23-7 loss in the second round of the FCS playoffs at Gibbs Stadium.
"I thought Wofford did exactly what they needed to do to win the football game," said UNH coach Sean McDonnell. "They ran the football very, very well as they always do."
The Terriers ran over, through and around the Wildcats in a dominating ground attack that's not indicative of the score.
Wofford rushed for 454 yards, 247 by Breitenstein, who scored all three of his team's touchdowns, including a 54-yarder on the Terriers' fourth play from scrimmage.
He also scored on runs of 6 and 26 yards.
"He's fast," McDonnell said. "He's got great vision. He sees things. It doesn't surprise me because that's who they are and what they do. He's as good in person as a couple people told me he was going to be and maybe a little bit better."
The 454 yards rushing is only five shy of the most ever allowed by UNH set in 1965 against UMass.
The Wildcats gave up 869 yards on the ground in their last two games. Trying to defend the Terriers' unique triple option proved to be a major challenge.
"It was like teaching another language in two weeks," McDonnell said. "Believe me, we had enough time to prepare. We didn't do as well as we should have. We're disappointed in what we gave up, but it's challenging."
For whatever reason, the UNH was never the same on either side of the ball after its first bye week between the last two games of the regular season.
They had another two weeks off between the 64-35 loss to Towson and their first playoff game.
The Wildcats were outscored 87-42 in those two contests, including 57-14 over the final six quarters.
"It's the first year we've come into the playoffs not winning our last game," McDonnell said. "There's a lot different feeling in my stomach that way than there has been in the past."
UNH absorbed its third straight playoff loss and fourth in its last five postseason games, all on the road.
"We want better," McDonnell said. "No one is satisfied with getting in the playoffs and losing in the first round. We've got to go back, look at what we do, work to improve it and try to figure out how we can become a better program that way."
While Breitenstein was as good as advertised so was the Wofford defense, which held the Wildcats to 238 total yards and zero points.
Two of the Wildcats' worst offensive performances of the season came in the last two games. Their only touchdown on Saturday came on defense.
"Their defense did a great job stopping the run, stopping the pass and putting pressure on us," said quarterback Sean Goldrich. "Give them credit. They wouldn't let us do what we wanted to do."
UNH passed for 165 yards and ran for 73. The Terriers also had five sacks, two interceptions and a fumble recovery.
"Defensively, I'm not surprised (by) Wofford," McDonnell said. "From watching the tape I thought those guys played downhill. Their front handled us pretty well and their linebackers did a great job blitzing gaps. They did a good defensive job of mixing some things up."
UNH's only score came on a 14-yard fumble return by Cody Muller early in the third quarter that trimmed the deficit to 13-7.
It took the Terriers only five plays and less than two minutes to respond, with Breitenstein covering the final 71 yards of the 82-yard drive in two plays.
Fumble recoveries by Muller, Hayden Knudson and Jared Smith enabled the Wildcats to stay in the game.
"Defensively we caused a couple turnovers," McDonnell said. "We made some fourth-down stops and scored a touchdown. If you told me that ... I would have told you it would have been a much closer game and we probably had a chance to win it."
One of the few bright spots on Saturday was the play linebacker Alan Buzbee made to set up Muller's fumble return.
"It was a great play by Alan Buzbee," Muller said. "His hit on the pitch man — the running back — popped the ball free. As soon as the kid caught it Alan was there. The ball was on the ground. We work on it every day in practice: scoop and score. We call it country ball."
In addition to catching a game-high 11 passes for 78 yards, R.J. Harris became the first Wildcat receiver to go over 1,000 yards for a season since Plymouth's Mike Boyle did it in 2008.
Harris is the fifth overall at UNH to reach that plateau.
Despite nursing an ankle injury, cornerback Dontra Peters was expected to play Saturday.
However, after taking part in pregame warmups he had taken off his pads by the time he returned to the field for the coin toss.
Wofford College doubles as the training facility for the NFL's Carolina Panthers.
Disappointing end to Wildcats' season
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — As fullback Eric Breitenstein broke into the clear on fourth-and-1 he glanced back, first right and then left, before easing into the end zone for the game's first touchdown.


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See reviews of the latest AMD Fusion notebooks from Toshiba, Sony, MSI, Dell
AMD Fusion netbooks are a step up from traditional netbooks, which are based on Intel Atom CPUs. The AMD Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) supplies more overall speed for office and Web applications than an Intel-based netbook, and not only that, the AMD Fusion provides much better graphics capabilities.
AMD Fusion-based netbooks feature an HDMI port, so you can easily hook them up to a big-screen TV, and some models even have more advanced features such as USB 3.0. The overall size of AMD Fusion-based netbooks is larger, too; with many models being 11.6in or bigger, they are more comfortable to use than 10in netbooks. Below is a round-up of all the AMD Fusion-based netbooks we have seen to date.
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Dell's Inspiron M102z makes use of AMD Fusion technology to deliver decent performance and great battery life in an 11.6in form factor.
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BCG's Riyadh office opened in June 2015 with a mission to support the advancement of Saudi Arabia's socioeconomic transformation. BCG has been in Saudi Arabia since 2008, working with key stakeholders on topics of the highest national importance.
In 2015, BCG opened its 82nd office in the center of Riyadh to support Saudi Arabia's diversification agenda. We use specialized employment initiatives to create a strong, dynamic local talent base, and then we continue to invest in local staff through training and mentoring.
BCG provides specialized consulting services to Saudi-based clients in all sectors—identifying our clients' greatest opportunities, addressing their most critical challenges, and transforming their businesses. In addition to working with clients in Saudi Arabia, BCG realizes the importance of making a difference within local communities. We participate in social-impact programs—including one that fosters youth entrepreneurship—in order to help the Kingdom thrive socially and economically.
BCG in Riyadh is situated within a large commercial hub in the heart of the city, surrounded by traditional and modern architecture. With staff from a range of different countries, the office is always buzzing with a motivating and inspiring vibe.
At BCG in Riyadh, I have had the opportunity to try new fields and, in particular, to discover a passion for public-sector and labor market strategy. This work gives us a platform from which to help build nations and reach millions of people with our solutions. It is exciting to be part of such high-impact initiatives. Growing up in London, I was very used to diversity—but even so, I was struck by the richness of our firm in the region. My current team of six boasts six different nationalities and five different native languages. This richness helps us bring better solutions to the client and is a very rewarding environment to work in.


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A look at Chris Dodd's environmental platform and record
Update: Chris Dodd dropped out of the presidential race on Jan. 3, 2008.
Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd, who has represented Connecticut in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, racked up a 93 percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters in the last Congress and a 77 percent score for his whole career. He hasn't been a leader on environmental issues over the years, but he seems bound and determined to make up for that in the current presidential campaign, in which he's been the lone voice calling for a corporate carbon tax and has advocated a higher fuel-economy target than his opponents.
Read an interview with Chris Dodd by Grist and Outside.
Key Points
- Advocates a corporate carbon tax, which he estimates could bring in about $50 billion a year. The proceeds would be spent on renewables and energy-efficient technologies.
- Aired the first-ever presidential campaign ad to focus on global warming.
- Calls for raising fuel-economy standards for automobiles to 50 miles per gallon by 2017.
- Cosponsor of the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, the most stringent climate bill in the Senate. It would establish a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions and require the U.S. to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
- Opposes investment in coal-to-liquid technology or programs.
- Would require new coal power plants to capture and store carbon emissions.
- Supports a goal to get 20 percent of the U.S. electricity supply from renewable sources by 2020.
- Made his campaign carbon neutral in June 2007.
Video and Audio
Watch Dodd's climate-change campaign ad:
Watch Dodd answer a question about cutting energy use at the CNN/YouTube debate on July 23, 2007:
Quotable Quotables
- "I believe I'm the only [presidential candidate], along with Al Gore, who has called for a corporate carbon tax. You've got to tax polluters. You've got to separate the price differential so that we can move away from fossil fuels that do so much damage to our environment, to our economy, to our future, to jobs in this country. Until you deal with the issue of price, until you impose a corporate carbon tax, we will never get away from fossil fuels. It's the only way this can be achieved. You have to advocate that if you're serious about global warming."
— July 23, 2007, in a CNN/YouTube debate between Democratic candidates


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Hi, it's Shirley from HomeBakedbyShirl.com , and I'm here to share a favorite recipe that I find perfect for this warm weather.
With its peak season being Mid-April through July, rhubarb desserts are perfect for celebrating the upcoming summer. Its wonderfully fuchsia stalks melt as they are cooked, producing the ultimate pie filling – soft and tender, with a tart bite. Yet I find that adding strawberries (or any favorite sweet berry) to the equation creates a divine flavor combination – light and sweet, with a mild kick from the rhubarb. With a bit of vanilla ice cream on the side, this creamy, refreshing pie is truly irresistible.
Yet while both fresh rhubarb and strawberries can be a pain to clean and prepare, many may shy away from attempting such a pie. However, after some experimentation, I have discovered that you can easily use both frozen rhubarb and strawberries with an equally lovely result. Doing so allows you to assemble this pie in just a matter of minutes.
Enjoy this truly delicious dessert, and would love to hear from you!
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Adapted from My Most Favorite Dessert Company Cookbook by Doris Schechter
2 cups frozen or fresh strawberries, sliced
2 cups chopped frozen but unthawed rhubarb or fresh rhubarb
2/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/3 cup raspberry preserves
Juice of ½ lemon
Egg wash of 1 whole egg, lightly beaten
Sugar, for sprinkling on the lattice strips
Basic Pie Crust (recipe follows)
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it stand at room temperature to soften before rolling out. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper to catch any juice that may spill over the crust.
2. Working with one disk of dough at a time, roll it out into around about 11 inches in diameter on a lightly floured surface. Gently roll the dough over the rolling pin, center it over a 10-inches pie plate or pie tin, and unroll the dough over the pan. Press the dough over the bottom and up the sides of the pan. (You can crimp the edge of the dough for a pretty finish)
3. Make the filling: in a medium bowl, combine the strawberries rhubarb, sugar, cornstarch, raspberry preserves and lemon juice. Toss gently to combine and coat the fruit. Spoon the filling into the pie shell.
4. Shape the remaining disk of dough into a cylinder, then roll it into a 10 x 12-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Using a fluted pizza or pie dough cutter and a ruler, cut the rectangle crosswise into 8 one-inch-wide strips.
5. Brush the edge of the crust all the way around with egg wash. Brush the 8 strips with egg wash, then sprinkle them generously with sugar (you should be able to see a thin layer of sugar on the strips).
6. Lay 4 of the strips, one at a time, over the top of the pie, spacing them evenly; press the strips on the bottom crust to adhere to the egg wash on the edge. Turn the pie a quarter turn and arrange the remaining strips on the pie, at an angle to the first strips, making lattice top; firmly press each strip onto the bottom crust. Trim the extra dough as you go
7. Place the pie on the lined baking sheet. Bake for about 45 minutes or until the lattice strips are golden and the juices have bubbled around the edges completely before serving.
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter or margarine, chilled and cut into small pieces
1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water
In the bowl of a food processor, combine flour, salt, and sugar. Add butter, and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal, 8 to 10 seconds.
With machine running, add ice water in a slow, steady stream through feed tube. Pulse until dough holds together without being wet or sticky; be careful not to process more than 30 seconds. To test, squeeze a small amount together: If it is crumbly, add more ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time.
Divide dough into two equal balls. Flatten each ball into a disc and wrap in plastic. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill at least 1 hour. Dough may be stored, frozen, up to 1 month.


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Posted by: DeftestAdam366
If the Bungie overlord comes back, is there a weather effect? i saw we had night effects but I'd love things like snow and rain
Posted by: TOM T 117
Hmmm, what if the Warthog is destroyed? Does the hill remain in the wreckage (then move back to the vehicle upon respawn), disappear until the vehicle respawns or must vehicle-hills be indestructible for it to work?
Posted by: freefall722
Can you offset the shape area from the object? Like make it float above it or to the side of it?
Posted by: External Memory
BTW, are object maxes or global object limits returning?
Posted by: Blaster73
When you phase objects do they also stay fixed? Or do they only stay put if they a phased into another object? If the first is true then I am making a giant ball of phased objects suspended in air...
Posted by: everywhere116
Can you forge every gametype's objectives and spawns without changing through gametypes like in H3? Or do you still have to do that?
Posted by: wolfhunter9154
What about DLC?
Posted by: El Roboto
I wonder what would happen if you made a Warthog the Bomb and had to plant it at the enemies base.
Posted by: vHyDroCiTy
Can somebody please answer this?
Is there an UNDO button?! I hate accidentally moving/deleting something, thus making me recreate it.
Posted by: BK Burger Boy
So say, if you built an objective gametype that utilized all 5 of the map segments, you would have enough budget to create extensive structures on each part withing the limits, or is the budget intended to be a lot more localized to one area?
Posted by: the pib
Ferrex: I noticed in one video, when someone was spawning a Falcon, that the limit for Scorpions was 2. Normally that would be fine but Forge World is large enough that having even six tanks on the map would not be unreasonable. Is 2 Scorpions the absolute max, or were there already some on the map?
Posted by: Pokezilla Linked
Is that what it meant by "Basic Editing"? Is that the new term for "All Gametypes"?
Posted by: Blaster73
How much inspiration for Forge 2.0 came from what users asked for and what they have created?
Posted by: Halo_Orlando
1.Are there visual or audio effects associated with the monitor? For example, does it do the light zinging noise when you move, and does it, as the picture shown in the update implies, give a little glow that extends from the monitor to the object carried?
2. Will there be things that will work purely aesthetically, like lights, environmental effects, or directional pointers (arrows signs etc), and if so, will they be mainly included within the object color, advanced options etc within the objects?
3. Is there any interactable geometry like glass?
4. Are there vehicle only teliporters?
Posted by: Yourm0md07c0m
so ferrex can you answer a question of mine?
with a map that large it would take a long time to load right? so for maps that were made as sectioned off portions of forge world, will they have to load the entire map to be played? that seems like some firefight style load times to me.
(Load times mostly come from things like texture resources, and FF maps pay a large cost from the AI characters we have to load.)
Posted by: Gaara444
Are giant interior rooms something you have to Forge? Or are they implemented into the map itself?
Posted by: FourKILLMASTER
I have some quick questions here. Has the player cap been increased and is there a tool that allows you to weld objects together?
Posted by: freeglader
Why is there a dice?
Posted by: wolfhunter9154
Also ferrex, Can we swim in the game?
Posted by: xXDarkCrimsonXx
Can kill zones be customized to be a one way door? Say if you enter the kill zone you cannot leave it.
Posted by: Yourm0md07c0m
can you set it so that a gametype starts you with an armor ability and you can still swap them out?
Ex: make it so you can only spawn with sprint, but you can pick up jetpack or armor lock elsewhere on the map.
also is that annoying glitch (where you are holding something and you press y to delete it, but it deletes the object behind it instead) fixed?
Posted by: Halo_Orlando
Interactive objects: Do they exist?
Open-able doors, switches, glass?
Posted by: RTK ELUSIVE
will any of the built in forge world maps be used in matchmaking? and if they are how would barriers work as to not get to the rest of forge world during MM?
Posted by: Celticsgreen17
Is there a possibility to set rocket race checkpoints around the map? Where their first location is, then the 2nd after the first one is reached, etc.
Posted by: El Roboto
One other question: Is it possible to intersect objects with vehicles such as teleporters or blocks using the Phased option and still have them be drivable?
Posted by: BK Burger Boy
How many Falcons can we have on the Map?
Posted by: Jesse James 013
When merging two objects together by phasing them, do they blend naturally now, or do they produce flicker on the surfaces? Or is it dependent on technique, such as snapping to the grid or placing with slightly varying angles?
Posted by: Fishie1
Is there still the Forge hosting bug where the placed objects look different to different players in the game?
Example: Player 1 perfectly arranges a row of blocks, but to Player 2 the blocks looked all skewed and misaligned.
Posted by: Darth Nader 08
ferrex, what does the object color mean? I know about the team color, which is complete and utter epicness, but the second option gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Posted by: CQB shotgunner
Ferrex, if you are allowed to tell us, what was the hardest part of building Forge 2.0? What was the most enjoyable part?
Posted by: Time Glitch
We already know we can spawn objects at a certain point in time: "Respawn Time" and then set "Set at Start" to "No".
Can we now get objects to go away after a certain point?
Posted by: Insane AlphaBeta
i got a question [as does everyone else] but still when you first go in Forge World is it completely blank with nothing on it? or do you have to delete everything?
Posted by: ShiningArmor16
With forge 2.0 will it be possible to create gametypes where all players have the same super weapons (eg: flamethrower or fuel rod gun) which wasn't possible in Halo 3? Thanks!
Posted by: Blaster73
Can every single object be set as normal, fixed, and phased? For example in Halo 3 certain things like pallets, explosives, spawn points, guns, and vehicles would never stay fixed.
Posted by: the pib
Can we "dig" by creating empty space inside solid rock? It would be great to be able to excavate a cave in a rock wall, build an underground vehicle bay or bunker, or have a tunnel running under a field.
Posted by: MartinOfRedwall
What system does forge use to give you credits after you're done forging?
Posted by: Bionic Juice
Are all weapons available on all maps? I know in H3 some weapons wouldn't show sometimes.
Posted by: Archangel755
I must know Ferrix, if you'd be so kind to respond to this. Is there water that is deep, but not deep enough to kill you on Forgeworld? So, water that you can walk around in, and not die. And if so, how much of the water can we walk in? Thanks. :)
Posted by: Scarphace
Ferrex, Forge World seems a little big even for an 8 vs 8 Team Slayer game. I don't want to spend ten minutes wandering lonely caves and bases alone, with not even a blip on my radar. How has this been addressed?
Posted by: critical ghost1
Can trees be forged
Also how many items total can we place at one time
Posted by: the pib
About placing AA's on the map... when you pick one up, does it disappear from the map and go into your armor, as if you're picking up a weapon? If so, is it possible to place an AA on the map that stays on the map after someone picks it up (so your whole team can all get Jetpacks from one object placed on the map) or is it necessary to place multiple of them on the map to achieve this? And what happens to your old AA when you pick up a new one... does it drop on the floor for someone else to take, or just disappear?
Posted by: Jesse James 013
Any chance that one of the objects is a GIGANTIC wall, so we no longer have to build walls out of smaller blocks?
Posted by: Time Glitch
Can we still make objects be affected by gravity lifts and what not? This is pretty much how we made opening and closing doors beforehand, and I didn't see any objects like Crates or Dumpsters in the ViDoc.
Can we still do those kinds of things?
Posted by: BLOODED 2951
Ferrex, Can kill balls be expanded to make a lava pit?
Also, will man cannons possible negate fall damage?
Posted by: Yourm0md07c0m
when you set a vehicle to be team specific, does that mean that only that team can drive/pilot it?
Posted by: The Pudie
Sorry if this has been said before. But how high can you fly/build items, is there a limit or can we build in the middle of the sky?
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The beat goes on.
In the nearly two weeks since I wrote Part I of this series, an armed gunman was arrested en route to assaulting an obscure progressive foundation in San Francisco -- one that's often been at the center of Glenn Beck's blackboard (which has become Conspiracy Theory Ground Zero for 2010). Also, this just in: President Obama is attempting to foment a race war, complete with New Black Panthers in the streets, in order to win the November elections.
I know. It's just so hard to keep up.
In the last post, I defined a conspiracy theory as "any story that assumes that things happen due to the deliberate, covert actions of powerful others -- even when the preponderance of evidence points to the conclusion that the events were almost certainly accidental and unintended." And I talked about the cultural conditions that soften up people's skulls and predispose them to accepting these baroque works of storytelling rather than simply accept what the evidence shows.
This post moves from outside influences to what goes on inside our heads. What's going on internally that makes conspiracy stories appealing to us as individuals? As before, I'm drawing heavily on David Aaronovitch's Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Shaping Modern History as one of the better guides out there to all the factors at play when we willfully choose to believe the unbelievable.
The dark side of celebrity envy A huge number of theories revolve around the deaths of celebrities -- JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana. There's a direct correlation between the public's adoration of the good and great and the level of public obsession with every pornographically intimate detail surrounding the stories of their last moments on earth. People find these stories endlessly fascinating -- and the more disgusting and perverse the detail, the more obsessed we are with it. What's up with that?
Part of this is pretty straightforward schadenfreude: as Aaronovitch put it, "Whatever we might have envied in these people, we sure don't envy them now." But we may also be obsessed with the realization that such extraordinary people could die at the hands of ordinary people -- people very much like us. And worse: we find it hard to confront the possibility that our own passion for them may have played a role in causing their deaths. "It was not our thirst for gossip that killed Norma Jean or England's Rose, but the CIA," says Aaronovitch. "It wasn't an ordinary Joe with a rifle who murdered the young president, but the Mafia or the FBI.
"Conspiracy theory may be one way of reclaiming power and disclaiming responsibility."
There's another way we deflect this responsibility, too:
Beware of powerful enemies When bad things happen to good people -- especially people who were agents of positive change like the Kennedys or Paul Wellstone -- it's also easy to imagine, in our more paranoid moments, that they were targeted by the people who were most threatened by what they were doing.
Out here on the left, we're at least as prone to this as the right wing is. In our grief, we look for reasons for our loss -- and too often, there simply aren't any. Cars and planes crash. Crazy guys with guns target public figures for reasons that exist only in their own imaginations. These are everyday events that just happen; and in the overwhelming majority of cases, there's no conspiracy involved.
Even so: these high-profile conspiracy theories trickle down through the culture, feeding the paranoia of hardcore conspiracy theorists who eventually come to believe that they're next on the list. (They always assume that somewhere, there's a list.) Because I'm so right (and so smart and so important), they must be out to silence me. People who've gone over this edge are prone to interpret everyday events -- a police car driving past the house or a temporary glitch in their Internet service -- as evidence that they've been targeted, and are being closely watched.
And for the rest of us, they serve as cautionary tales that blunt our will to engage injustice -- or, perhaps, convenient excuses that let us off the hook. Don't rock the boat too much -- or you could end up dead in a ditch, just like Karen Silkwood did.
I'm smart. You're not. Conspiracy theories make us feel smart. They're populist fables that lay bare the supposed actions taken by the power elites against the people. But the real elite (at least in their own minds) are those who are insightful enough to see through the official story and divine the truth of the matter. Being the only one perceptive enough to have cracked the code irrefutably proves that you're superior to the sheeple around you.
This attitude makes it easy to wave off skeptics. All that insistence on evidence and data and credentials and plausibility is just a smokescreen that hides the reality that they've closed their narrow minds to the truth. From this skewed perspective, clinging to reason is for idiots. The real "intellectual" is the one who has opened her mind to all the possibilities -- even the most Byzantine and improbable ones.
Unfortunately, this assumption also feeds a grandiose sense of paranoia that actually undermines the ability to think rationally. When embarrassing holes in the story are exposed, they're invariably blamed on those cunning plotters, who obviously cooked up these inconvenient truths to throw those of lesser intellect off the scent. In fact, in ConspiracyWorld, the bigger the pile of evidence against a theory grows, the more certain the True Believers are that they're absolutely on the right track. We've all met otherwise pretty smart people who are quite sure that the more their facts are disproven by the evidence, the more right they must be.
And weirdly, people who take to this conceit aren't entirely unjustified:
The smarter they are, the harder they fall The stereotype of conspiracy believers is that they're the kind of people who devour the National Enquirer along with their Big Macs and the latest episode of Jerry Springer back at the mobile home park. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Your average conspiracy theory buff actually tends to be well-educated (usually with at least at least one college degree), and a well-established member of the middle- to upper-middle class. According to Aaronovitch, they're "the professors, university students, the artists, the managers, the journalists, and the civil servants." It's not the working stiffs who are propagating this stuff -- it's the chattering classes.
Why would these smart people fall for such absurd tales? Some of it may be due to intellectual arrogance. When we're used to being an authority in one field, it's all too tempting to assume that we're also equally competent to assess data from other fields, too. This is why people usually fall for conspiracies where the details are outside of their own field of competence: they're quite sure they understand what's really going on, but they honestly don't.
Historians generally don't fall for historical conspiracies like the DaVinci Code hoaxes. And you won't meet very many structural engineers or pilots who think 9/11 was an inside job. They know better, because they've got intimate knowledge of the field, and the flaws in the theory are obvious to them. However, the streets are packed with educated non-lawyers who don't have the slightest idea how government records or citizenship laws work, but still insist that Obama's not an American citizen. They're "experts" in their own minds, even though they have no actual expertise in the field.
History as written by losers A lot of conspiracy theories are nothing more than a cop-out -- sour-grapes stories told by people on the losing side of history. If we can blame our losses on a conspiracy, then we don't have to confront our own fatal flaws -- our disorganization or stupidity or unpopularity. Instead, it's very reassuring to tell ourselves that the loss was entirely due to the overwhelming ruthlessness of our opposition, who were willing to stop at nothing to defeat us. (See the next item.)
This factor, almost all on its own, explains the never-ending conspiracy obsessions of the Tea Party, which only gets more deranged every time the rest of the country rejects its candidates and its ideas. If you find your movement engulfed in conspiracy theories, look around. They're a pretty clear indicator that you've already lost, and your broken-hearted followers are now working overtime to concoct excuses that will salve their sense of failure.
Evil has no limits Conspiracy theories confirm our beliefs about the evilness of the other side; and this explains why there's often a certain symmetry to them. For example: several polls have found that about 58% of Republicans doubt Obama's right to be president. Conversely, the Scripps Survey Research Center found in 2006 that about 54% of Democrats thought that 9/11 was an inside job.
Likewise, during the Bush years, progressives were deeply worried by FEMA's plans to build emergency housing camps, suspecting that they might be used as concentration camps for liberal upstarts. The conservatives, naturally, thought we were nuts. Now, it's an article of faith in Tea Party circles that the government is preparing those same camps to round them up when Obama hands America over to the Muslims, the Socialist International, or the Mexicans and Canadians (the villains change weekly -- it's hard to keep up) -- and most of us are pretty sure they're nuts, too.
It's just good old-fashioned bias confirmation at work. We tend to believe theories that point up the sulfurous and venal evil of those on the other side, and entirely discount those aimed at the paragons of virtue on our own side. And any neutral object that happens to be lying around on the landscape can be twisted around and used as a weapon by either side.
You can't just stop at one Conspiracy theories tend to build on each other, eating away at your reasoning capacity as they take over your brain. If your thinking is muddled or sloppy enough that you'll accept one wrong thing as fact, you're statistically more susceptible to accepting any number of other wrong things, too. The only antidote for this is better education and training in garden-variety critical thinking skills, with an emphasis on evaluating evidence, assessing the credibility of those offering it, and drawing sound conclusions from their data.
As noted last week: our teach-to-the-test school system isn't helping here. But the fact that these theories are so often promoted by people who are well-educated enough to know better, we probably need to be looking at the standards of reason being taught in our universities as well. And beyond college, too many professions have also become lax about demanding rigorous standards of argument and evidence from their members.
Some psychologists who study conspiracy theories lay the blame for all this directly at the feet of post-modernism, which insists that all narratives are more or less equally true. If that's the case, there's no such thing as objective reality -- and hence no facts to defend, and no need to critically evaluate anything. Whatever sounds or feels truthy enough must be the truth. It's beyond ironic that the biggest post-modernists on the American scene right now are on the right wing, which creates its own reality with breathtaking abandon -- and zero regard for factual truth.
There's one simple question that separates a dedicated conspiracy theorist from someone whose rational faculties are still intact:
What would it take for you to reject this story? What evidence, if it appeared, would thoroughly refute this theory in your eyes?
If they can't provide three pieces of evidence that they'd accept as discrediting, congratulations. You've found a True Believer.
But it feels so true! Conspiracy theories often reverberate with emotional truth, even when the facts don't make any rational sense. The first step in understanding any conspiracy theory is to look for the grain of validity at its core -- the deeper truth that speaks to the emotional reality of those who believe it.
Aaronovitch recalls that in the wake of Katrina, the conspiracy theories were even thicker on the ground than the mud in New Orleans. One of the most persistent stories was the levees had been breached deliberately to destroy the city's African-American neighborhoods. While no facts have ever emerged to support this belief (which would have required implausibly massive collusion followed by years of successfully sustained cover-up by hundreds of local, state, and federal authorities), the story is a powerful parable about the way poor black Americans are always abused, lied to, and neglected by people in power. The facts may be wrong, but listening for the deeper emotional truth and responding to that is the best way to open a dialogue and regain trust.
Who's in charge here? Nobody. The bottom line on why we believe conspiracy theories is this: We're terrified of admitting that nobody is really in control. It's a lot more comforting to think that *somebody* engineered a crisis than to reckon with the horrible, sickening fact that *nobody* did.
Most humans don't deal at all well with the cruel, capricious randomness of fate. Shit happens -- and it often happens for absolutely no meaningful reason at all. That thought makes people crazy with terror, so we make up entities to blame -- God, Satan, the Freemasons, the CIA, or the All-Seeing Eye of Sauron. It's far easier to blame it all on imaginary Lizard People from another planet than have to deal with the bald fact that millions of lives have been upended (or just ended) by an event -- and yet there is simply is nobody out there to blame for it.
As my friend Bob Mackey puts it: "The alternative is a universe that is controlled by absolutely nobody. There is no control, no security, no Men in Black or Black Helicopters or Black Hussein Presidents to frighten the God-fearing upright citizens." In the end, conspiracy theories are simply stories we tell to fill the blackness of the existential void.
Bob also reminds us to "Never confuse a conspiracy with a massive clusterf**k." The bare truth is: most conspiracies start with massive clusterfucks. And this brings us back full circle to where this series started -- with the gusher in the Gulf, which is much easier to explain as the massive clusterfuck the evidence tells us it is than it is to attribute any of it to malice or venality on the part of President Obama.
Next week, this series will finish with some suggestions for how we can ratchet down the overheated level of paranoia, and gently move American discourse back toward the rational, reasonable, and sane.


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LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2012 - Acclaimed artist and nationwide sensation Carly Rae Jepsen will make her first-ever television series appearance in the season premiere episode of 90210. The 90210 season premiere will air Monday, Oct. 8 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on The CW.
Jepsen will perform a song from her much-anticipated new album in the episode where she is the music headliner for Adrianna's (Jessica Lowndes) Las Vegas premiere, which is interrupted when Adrianna gets devastating news about Dixon (Tristan Wilds).
"We fell in love with her song when we first heard it, and used it in last season's finale before it was a national sensation," said Executive Producers Patti Carr and Lara Olsen. "We think she's an exciting artist and are thrilled to be able to have her music on the show again, this time in a live performance in our season premiere."
Canadian singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen will release her debut album this fall on 604 Records/Schoolboy Records/Interscope. Jepsen will also hit the road with Justin Bieber as a very special guest on the multi-platinum pop/R&B sensation's 2012 headlining tour of North America. For details, please visit www.carlyraemusic.com. Currently claiming the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four consecutive weeks with her platinum-certified debut U.S. single "Call Me Maybe," the ubiquitous "song of summer" has sold more than 3.8 million singles. Certified quintuple-platinum in Jepsen's native Canada (where it hit #1), the track is an international sensation, climbing to #1 in the iTunes Singles charts in the U.S. U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and more.
Jepsen may be a newcomer in the U.S., but the Mission, British Columbia, native is an established artist in Canada. She has scored two previous gold singles and received numerous awards and accolades, including the 2012 MuchMusic "Video of the Year" award, the viewer-decided "UR Fave Video of the Year" and the MuchMusic.com "Most Watched Video" award. She has also been nominated for 2010 Juno Awards "Songwriter of the Year" and "Best New Artist," in addition to a 2010 MuchMusic Video Award nomination for "UR Fave New Artist." Carly has sold more than 400,000 singles in her home country and is signed to 604 Records in Canada. Carly's new single with Owl City, "Good Time," is out now.
For the latest updates on 90210, follow us on Twitter at @CBSTVStudios, @CW_Network and the hashtag: #90210, as well as on Facebook at www.facebook.com/90210.


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"Abstinence is not merely wisdom, it is obedience to Christ and holiness before God"Patterson's quote is an example of the problem Fundamentalism causes in the Southern Baptist Convention today. Patterson, like Lumpkins, places abstinence in the non-negotiable category of "obedience to Christ" and "holiness before God." To disagree with their Baptist Identity convictions is to argue with God Himself. This is precisely the reason the SBC is having a hard time in keeping young pastors engaged in Convention matters. The newest generation of evangelicals have more in common with the conservative theologian Gresham Machen who opposed Fundamentalism over fifty years ago because of what he called "the pietistic, perfectionist tendencies which include hang-ups with smoking, drinking alchohol, etc . . . ".
I commend Peter Lumpkins on publishing his new book. I also applaud his personal conviction of total abstinence. No Christian should question either Peter's commitment to Christ nor his personal convictions regarding alcohol. However, what Southern Baptists must resist is any attempt by Peter Lumpkins, Paige Patterson, John Sullivan and other Baptist Identity leaders to present total abstinence as the only view of alcohol compatible with "holiness." We all should respect total abstinence as a personal conviction of a brother in Christ, and we all should consider it an essential Christian conviction among those believers who are unable to drink alcohol without getting drunk, but if we allow any Baptist to present total abstinence as the "only" Christian and Baptist view on alcohol we are in danger of succombing to Fundamentalism in the SBC. I would much rather be personally led by the Spirit than by a man who claims his view is law for me.
For those who wish to comment regarding this post, please pay close attention to the subject matter. I am not writing about the pros or cons of total abstinence. The point of this post is that all of us must resist the easy temptation of equating our personal beliefs regarding tertiary matters on par with obedience to Christ, and demanding others comply with our views.
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Asus is preparing to launch its new Linux-based Eee PC laptop later this month and plans to release another new model in April 2008. The Eee PC, which has a 7" display and a 900MHz Celeron M processor, is designed for budget-minded mobile consumers. The second-generation Eee PC will use Intel's Merom processor and offer longer battery life.
According to DigiTimes, Asus wants to become one of the top five laptop producers within the next three years. The company currently plans to ship over 200,000 Eee PCs by the end of the year and expects to sell between three and five million by 2009.
The Eee PC is included in Intel's "world ahead" initiative, and the chipmaker worked closely with Asus during the design phase of the product. Eee PC pricing is competitive with other budget mobile computers designed for the education market, including the OLPC Project's XO laptop, and Intel's Classmate PC. Eee PC models are expected to sell for between $199 and $349.
Asus claims that the Eee PC boots in under 15 seconds. The device will be shipped with a heavily customized Xandros Linux distribution that uses a tab-based interface instead of a conventional desktop environment. Software bundled with the system includes OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Skype. Although Asus will not be shipping Windows XP with the Eee PC, the company claims that Microsoft's operating system has been tested extensively with the device.
Although the Eee PC has a lot to like, the exact specifications and launch price aren't known yet. There are rumors that the final model will not include the 0.3MP video camera currently listed in the specifications and that the price of the low-end model has crept up from $199 to $249. We'll know for sure when it officially launches.
The strong support for Linux could make the Eee PC a compelling choice for some open-source software enthusiasts, and the low price makes it a strong contender in the education market. At $199, the Eee PC could compete directly with the OLPC in certain regions.