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So we gave you a pretty extended detail look at Black Ops II's multiplayer not too long ago. It was a lot to take in, but guess what? There's more. So much more. In fact, Treyarch had us out for another visit just to see the rest of the multiplayer content.
There's going to be a ton of game modes, for the hardcore players to the more casual ones. Most importantly, Treyarch is looking to capture the segment of people who don't touch multiplayer at all by giving "ways for players to play who are intimidated, or maybe uninitiated," game design director David Vonderhaar told us.
"Call of Duty is a very popular online game. But we know for a fact that there are still people that don't play multiplayer. I want them. I want them to come play, and I want to do stuff to make sure that happens."
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U)
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision
Release: November 13, 2012
First, let's focus on the core traditional experience. You can expect these game modes: Team Deathmatch, Free-for-all, Domination, Demolition, Kill Confirmed, Hardpoint, Headquarters, Capture the Flag, and Search & Destroy.
Hardpoint is the newest mode to be introduced into Call of Duty, and it's inspired by King of the Hill modes. It's a super fast gametype that will see players capturing a location for as long as possible before the location moves to a new area of the map.
Then there's Multi-team, which is supported in Team Deathmatch, Kill Confirmed, and Hardpoint. Public matchmaking-wise, there will be a max of three teams of three, or three teams of four. Otherwise, you can do up to six teams on the custom games side.
Something I loved about the original Black Ops that I sunk more hours into than anything else from the game was Wager Matches. They're back with a new name: Party Games. You can expect Gun Game, One in the Chamber, Sharpshooter, and Sticks and Stones to return.
Treyarch is working on more gametypes for Party Games, and they're all designed just for players to have fun with. These modes blow up the traditional game rules, toss the create-a-class stuff to the side, and bend the score-streak system to maximize player enjoyment. You're still earning experience, leveling up your weapons and rank, and there is public matchmaking as well.
And yes, this means the crossbow and ballistic knife are back. The crossbow can be fitted with attachments like the reflex, ACOG, zoom, and dual-band scopes now. You can even fit it to fire three bolts at once.
Now these are modes best suited for the experienced players, so what about the players that are too intimated like David was talking about? That's where Combat Training comes in, broken up into three aspects, all of which are still tied into the core experience.
First there's Bootcamp, a mode where two teams will face off against each other in Team Deathmatch, with each team made up of three human players and three AI bots. You can rank up, and earn full experience points anywhere between levels one and ten. After you've reached level 11 you can no longer access Bootcamp.
Then there's Objective, where you can play if you're past level 10, but you only get half the experience points you normally would. Otherwise it's the same setup as Bootcamp with the human/bot team mix, just set on objective game modes like Capture the Flag.
Lastly there's Bot Stomp, where a team of six human players will be going up against a team of six AI bot players. You earn no experience points at all, and it really serves to let players experience the high-end game without the typical stress you'd get in a real match. It's a great way to practice on a Team Deathmatch and Objective-type modes. Plus, as David put it, "bots do not yell at you if you don't perform well. They don't get upset, and they're not racists."
If none of these public-style matches appeal to you, don't worry, custom games are back in a big way. "Quite honestly, custom games have haunted me since we put them in Black Ops," David told us. "They've haunted me because I've always wanted to -- and we finally did -- make sure every game mode can be customized in some really meaningful ways."
You can build the default classes, add in bots, restrict content, starts at 150% health -- everything can be changed in whatever crazy way you want. You can even alter the pick-10 system, limiting it down to just pick-3, or even going to the maximum number of items a player can carry with pick-17.
There's lots of ways to play, but you players looking to stick with just the public, official gametypes can finally rest easy as Treyarch detailed how Prestige will work. There's 55 levels, and ten levels of Prestige. Typically when you've hit the max level and been given the choice to Prestige, all your stats get reset.
Now when you level up to a Prestige opportunity, everything gets reset except for your weapon experience points, and your challenge progress. So now you can pick up your weapon progress from where you last left off and continue to raise its stats.
Additionally, you'll get a Prestige-specific unlock token, which you can use to unlock an item permanently so you don't need to grind to reacquire something you really like again, have extra create-a-class slots (up to five more), reset all your stats to start fresh, or get a refund of all your standard unlock tokens.
Each time you level up, you are given an unlock token that you can use to unlock a gun, or items for your custom class. With the refund option, you could be at level 24, decide you hate your entire setup, and use refund to get all 24 tokens back to unlock different content instead.
So what happens when you hit the max level of Prestige? You become a Prestige Master, and it opens up all the content. So there's a real solid reason to Prestige beyond simply bragging rights.
For those of you who do enjoy bragging like crazy, that's where Challenges come in. There are over 1,000 Challenges to do, and completing them gives you XP bonuses and a ton of cosmetic unlocks.
Now you can get camouflage for every single weapon -- even knifes, shields, and rocket launchers. There's more camo options too, even stuff that out-blings the gold skin. There's a bunch of optic choices now, from standard stuff to funny choices, such as a curly mustache reticule called "The Steve," based on the mustache of the lighting director for the game. There's even a cool-looking Eotech zombie reticule, which you can apply to the actual Eotech scope featured in the game.
And what's Black Ops without the Playercard customization? The emblem editor is even more robust, featuring 32 layers and tools that let you copy, paste, flip, move, rotate, and scale objects. There's an RGB color mixer, transparency options, over 150 backgrounds, and over 150 shapes to to use too. And I know what you're thinking, but know that you can disable user-created content if you'd rather not be subjugated to all the penises and other lewd content.
Still with me? Good, because there's one last thing to talk about and that's Theater mode. Now, anyone can make a movie with just the push of one button with Highlight Reel. This feature will automatically create an edited film from the best moments of your last match. Once the reel is completed, you can go in to edit it or just upload it online immediately.
Your films can also use up to 20 clips now, up from 10 in the last game. Plus, you can merge your clip of 20 down to one, then add in more clips. You can merge a number of clips together, which allows you to make even better-quality videos now. Another new feature is the ability to attach your camera to an object and follow its path. So you can place the camera onto something like the Dragonfire -- or even a missile flying towards a target -- for better camera angles.
There's going to be a lot of social features as well. You can bookmark your last match with the press of a button to easily pull up the video footage without having to dig it up, there is a community section where you can see videos from the entire community or just your friends, and you'll have the option to up- or downvote videos.
Needless to say, there's absolutely a ton of content in the Black Ops II package. You'd need to have a screw loose not to see just how much Treyarch is putting into the game. They've completely overhauled the multiplayer features, and that's just one part of it. You have the single-player that will change based on your actions, the whole livestreaming initiative, and the Zombies mode, which very well could have been its own separate game. This is a real sequel in every conceivable way.


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Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
Ok Steve...one can find links to back up anything
one like to promote on the internet. I owned
a VW Rabbit 82 and Passat 80 both of them diesels. I bought them used and owned them for
several years. Junked the Rabbit after being hit
the first time in my driveway by my neighbor
and the second time by a fellow who went thru a
stop sign. The engine was in great shape. Never gave me problems. I had about 160000 miles on it.
The Dasher gave up when the oil pump froze (thats
not a diesel problem). My TDI runs great, but I do
agree that diesels have a problem with the poor
quality diesel we have in the US. Modern diesel
engines based on near or sulphur free diesel fuel
like what the Japanese and Europeans have clogs
up using high sulphur diesel fuel. Every few years
the CCV system and intake manifold have to be
cleaned or inspected. On a VW TDI it can be done
by the owner, but when near sulphur free diesel
goes on the market soon this problem will be
solved. Another solution is to use biodiesel.
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Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
Another point for diesel Steve...
Look at " GTL Shell" in keyword.
This will give us almost unlimited and clean diesel.
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
Ok firstly, diesel is also about 10k times more reliable than a conventional engine, and especially more reliable than a hybrid/conventional engine combo. Hybrids cost more for comparative mpg.
Result: Your hybrid will fall appart before it starts saving you money, and your diesel will start saving you money immiedetly, and last more than twice as long and continue to save money.
I dont buy any of JD powers crap about quality, VW is probably a little bit worse than honda or the american car companies but i am sure the hybrid stuff wont last as long as the diesel.
The batteries in the hybrids have to be replaced a lot at a cost greater than the cost of gasoline. Making these batteries is more harm to the enviorment than the gasoline that it saves.
A turbo diesel plus a cvt or 6 speed auto hasnt really been done yet and that would yield even greater fuel efficiency.
Hybrids in my oppinion are more of a scam than a reality.
Toyota pushes them because they have a virtual monoply on the parts and components, even honda is forced to buy their batteries from panasonic or sanyo which are both partially owned by toyota.
GM, DCX, and BMW are working on a hybrid system of their own with their own components so they dont have to depend on toyota. Ford is developing one independantly.
the main reason why the batteries cost so much is because toyota is making huge proffits on them.
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
I think Joe is right on the money. The current hybrid
techology is a scam. Unless they find a way to make
it much cheaper, the batteries lasting to 200 k or
real cheap to replace it will continue to need
subsidies and favors (like using HOV lanes) to stay
in business. As far as durability of a diesel engine
ask some boat owners what they prefer.
There is no comparison. I think JD Powers is full of
it too. I believe Audi and VW has a diesel engine
with a six speed DSG transmission. MB has a diesel
mated to a 7speed automatic.
Here is a link for Georgia regarding "durability"
of diesel.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/pdfs/basics/jtb_diesel_engine.pdf#search='diesel%20engines%20m ore%20durable%20than%20gasoline'
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
While I appreciate the passion that you diesel fanatics show, I think you really need to look at a bit of the science behind hybrids before being so negative about them. You will see that:
1. today's hybrids barely take advantage of the electric part of their drive train.
2. the diesel is clearly the most efficient use of fossil fuel that we know of today for vehicle use.
3. adding an electric drive train to a vehicle will not only reduce the wear on the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine - diesel or gasoline) but will enhance it's performance and economy.
4. the more torque and HP in the electric part, the better the performance and economy.
5. a diesel ICE stands the most to gain from a hybrid drive train since (despite the improvements seen in the TDI) firing control under differing conditions is the biggest challeng to diesel efficiency. A constant speed, constant load diesel is extremely efficient, while the electric drive train is very good at changing loads and speeds. If one puts the two together, one gets a pretty impressive machine.
6. The hybrid can be made cheaper than pure ICE if one gets rid of the transmission, puts in a smaller ICE, and simplifies the complicated engine controls that are required for the ICE to perform cleanly and economically under changing driving conditions.
So my request for you diesel folks is not to attack hybrids but instead, continue to promote diesels while letting the people who prefer hybrids promote them. Eventually, the auto industry may see the light and combine the two to give us truly impressive vehicles with even better economy and performance than what we have today from either camp.
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
"fanatics" ? this blog taking a new turn?
if we are "fanatics" what about some of the
hybrid enthusiasts?
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
exEV1 driver wrote:
"3. adding an electric drive train to a vehicle will not only reduce the wear on the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine - diesel or gasoline) but will enhance it's performance and economy. "
Now that's something I've been wondering about, and I'm a little skeptical. It seems to me that all the stopping and starting that hybrids do to their ICEs would increase the wear on the engine, not the other way around. Can anybody set the record straight, for either gasoline or diesel engines? Thanks!
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
The Lupo TDI 3 liter (for its fuel consumption in L/100 km) in Europe has auto-stop: the engine shuts down as soon as the car stops, and restarts automatically when you press on the accelerator to start moving again, for example in heavy traffic or at stop lights.
Not an expert, but I suspect that the main additional wear-and-tear would be on the starter. The issue with wear-and-tear on the engine itself is more related to cold starts when deficient lubrication increases friction and wear of all bearing surfaces (cylinders, rings, crank and crank bearings, valves and valve guides, etc).
The lack of lubrication is largely due to the oil's increased viscosity when cold, but also might come from dilution by fresh gasoline if the engine runs significantly richer on a cold start. The latter phenomenon wouldn't occur on a diesel (oil, not gasoline).
With cars using auto-stop, be it diesel or gas, you're starting a warm engine. So other than some additional load on the starter and battery, I doubt that there is significant additional wear, but I also doubt that there's significant improvement either as an engine at idle should undergo very little wear if it's in tune. At idle, the RPMs are very low as are the cylinder pressures.
Personally I think auto-stop is a non-issue for wear (either pro or con) as long as the car is well-maintained (fluid levels, oil changes, filter changes). City driving, with auto stop or not, is always going to be harder on the engine than highway driving at steady state (a situation that diesels especially thrive on).
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
The wimpy garbage that is being sold today as hybrid only barely uses the electric drive to reduce wear and tear. Today, the only reduction in wear and tear is that the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) doesn't have to push as hard when accelerating and climbing, thus reducing pressure on the rings as well as reducing excess heating of the engine. I agree that the constant stopping and starting may actually add some wear although, as Mike says, starting a warm engine isn't too bad.
In mature hybrid technology, where the electric drive becomes primary, the ICE is used simply to charge the batteries and to handle long-range driving, the ICE would rarely come on -- like only a few times per week under normal urban and suburban usage. When it does come on, the ICE would run at constant speed, constant load, for long periods of time until the battery gets to some desired state of charge (maybe 80%). When the desired state of charge is reached, the ICE will shut off and the care will run on pure electric until the state of charge gets down to some lower limit (maybe 20%).
A vehicle as I'm describing above should get about 100 miles per gallon of fuel, depending upon the size and aerodynamics of the vehicle.
But this kind of hybrid doesn't exist today for various reasons so for now, we'll just have to settle for the lame compromises that are actually on the car lots. Again, I request that you go ahead and demand whatever you prefer (diesel ICE or hybrid) from the dealers and make sure you tell them that its all about the gas mileage and performance and that you're willing to pay for improvements in both. This market pressure will eventually push them to build the right thing.
Diesel vs. Hybrid: A Point Missed
hey ex-EV1 Driver
the "mature" hybrid vehicle you speak of... THAT is what I want to buy. Why is it not being produced?
GM or Ford could produce their trucks and SUV's this way and sell millions of them with MPG 3x higher than it is now.
Think about it, our oil imports cut to 25% of what it is now. The actual price of Oil will decrease because of less demand. The US trade deficit will decrease.
US foreign policy will be less swayed by the thought of the oil being held hostage.
What I will do if elected President, is get the R&D of the big 3 (or 2) geared up to produce this vehicle in 12 short months. At a competitive price.
I know it will take a while to get the old vehicles replaced by the new, but this will give us time to figure out how to replece the tax base.

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While everyone was busy cheering on Sony for allowing PlayStation 4 owners to sell and trade retail game discs just like they always have, many missed an important change to Sony's pricing structure for online services. Apparently, online multiplayer gaming on the PS4 will require a $50 per year subscription to PlayStation Plus, matching a similar requirement for Xbox Live Gold to get online multiplayer on Microsoft's systems.
The "announcement" was buried at the bottom of a list of "features" of PlayStation Plus, which was listed on a single slide during Sony's press conference (we snapped the above picture of it but didn't absorb the real impact in all the craziness at the time). The list included "immersive multiplayer online on PS4" as one of the benefits of a Plus subscription, alongside discounted games, cloud saves, an instant game collection, and more.
Sony seemed to confirm this information in a tweet from the official PlayStation account during the conference, which pointedly noted that "PS4 gamers who aren't Plus members can still enjoy single-player games for free," implying that the company would be charging for online multiplayer.
The presence of free multiplayer servers was one of the big differentiators that set the PS3's online services apart from those of Microsoft's Xbox Live. Now it seems Sony has given up that advantage in favor of bringing in more cash to support the bevy of persistent online features in many of the PS4's games. You won't need a Plus subscription to use PS4 media features like Netflix, though, while Microsoft still requires a Live subscription to use that service on the Xbox 360.
Elsewhere on Twitter, Sony provided some good news to potential PlayStation 4 owners who might want to buy games from across the ocean. In response to a direct question, Sony Third-Party Relations Manager Brad Douglas tweeted that "SCEI PR tells me 'no region locking' [for the PS4]."
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Rudi De Vos wrote:This have to be something in the web interface...
What port are you using for it ?
What's the memory usage after a week ?
Rudi De Vos wrote:testing on port 8080 (open to public) i got a web loop, using all availbe cpu.
The webinterface is the cause...
Now it need to wait until it happen again to see insite the loop.
Rudi De Vos wrote:It's running on port 8080 on support1.uvnc.com, port is open to the public.
The log show that no viewer/server connection was ever made, the webserver was looping. Seems to me it fail to detect some broken web
session and continous try to send data.
Prisma wrote:I'd say it's a bug. Haven't noticed that also. Stats screen is wrong.
Rudi De Vos wrote:You should test it...
change MAX_LIST=1000 in the source and recompile.
The you can have 1000 servers/viewers waiting and 2000 comment
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Presently, steam trading card beta gift for the amount of 5 to 100 dollars are available. To buy them you can not spend money from the Steam purse, but you can use the funds you receive for any goods and services in the store. There is only one restriction: to send a gift after adding to friends must pass at least three days.
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This just seems gratuitous. Hot on the heels of Joe Torre's "A-Fraud" revelations, Sports Illustrated has published a story claiming that Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two different anabolic steroids in 2003.
In a story published today on SI.com that will probably not surprise the readership of this site but that will provide Around The Horn with weeks of material, Selena Roberts and David Epstein write that Rodriguez tested positive for both the anabolic steroid Primobolan and, in a surprising twist, testosterone:
Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.
Surprised? You shouldn't be if you've been listening to the one man who's, oddly enough, been right more often than not throughout this whole steroids issue, Jose Canseco. Last March, Will Leitch wrote about Canseco's book, Vindicated, in which Rodriguez is tied to steroids.
As for Alex Rodriguez, Canseco says he didn't inject Rodriguez, but that he "introduced Alex to a known supplier of steroids." Canseco didn't mention Rodriguez in the first book because he "hated the bastard." He was worried that people would have "questioned [his] motives" had he included Rodriguez.
Why all the hatred, you ask. Well, Canseco claims that A-Rod was trying to sleep with Canseco's wife. Apparently, even after Canseco had been nice enough to help A-Rod find a friendly steroids supplier, A-Rod kept calling Canseco's wife.
And, in case there's any further confusion about Canseco's true feelings, he ends the chapter by saying:
So A-Rod, if you're reading this book, and if I'm not getting through to you, let's get clear on one thing: I hate your fucking guts.
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By William Qualkinbush
When fans envision an indoor practice facility like the one that is currently being completed for the Clemson football team, certain stereotypes come to mind. Common perceptions are largely simplistic in nature, and the idea that a facility that is solely for game preparation, out of the gaze of onlookers, carries a large amount of importance seems crazy.
But the facility was never about football alone. In fact, as the $10 million structure sees its construction enter the latter phases, its design will serve to unify the athletic department, while providing Tiger football with a cutting-edge structure that helps complete a nationally-relevant program.
On its face, the facility does exactly what it purports to do…provide a place for Head Coach Dabo Swinney to take his football team in case of inclement weather without disrupting a schedule of events that is packed full on a daily basis. It equips the Tigers with a lavish place to prepare for opponents in a game-like atmosphere, as early as December, when the team will be getting ready for a bowl game.
"This will make a huge impact," explained Swinney. "We will never miss a day again. This will be great for our offseason program and our recruiting. It's another step toward being and providing the absolute best for our players."
The building houses an 80,000-square-foot practice area that includes a full football field. The field is surrounded by ample sideline space to provide a comfortable environment. In order to simulate a gameday experience, there is a fully-functional, game-ready scoreboard inside the facility along with four play-clocks and a videoboard equal to the size of the new videoboards in the Northwest and Southwest corners of Memorial Stadium that will rest above the west endzone.
High above the fields, on the second story of the nearly 70′ structure, is a long coaches platform so that practice can be viewed from above. In addition, by way of a short corridor, the platform extends to the back side of the building, so that any drills taking place outside on the other two practice fields can be properly seen from inside the building.
The facility has some amenities that make it an attractive piece of the Tiger football program's recruiting strategy. Visitors are greeted by a formal entry to the building that includes a guest area. This portion of the facility will be used to entertain recruits, their families, and any visitors. There is also an overlook onto the indoor practice field above the guest area on the second floor.
According to Robert Ricketts, associate athletic director for facilities & grounds, the aspects of the new indoor practice structure that seem like extra add-ons are actually essential to constructing a complex that is competitive with Clemson's peer institutions and football programs.
"We have some bells and whistles in this particular venue that should put us ahead of the curve initially," said Ricketts. "I'm sure others will see what we've done and try to do similar things in the future."
Ricketts commented that one of the goals of facility upgrades is to supplement existing structures and provide a sense of unity across the different sports in the athletic department, as well as the variety of wings across the university. He said the surroundings of the football practice area were heavily weighed into discussions, related to the layout and dimensions of the indoor facility.
"If you look in our immediate area, we have an extremely large building…the indoor track," said Ricketts. "It was important not that we mirror (the indoor track), but that they had some similarities in design."
Unity and efficiency were both driving forces behind some of the usages of additional space within the new indoor football practice facility. Since the men's and women's soccer teams practice on fields adjacent to the football team, there are several rooms within the building that will be available to other athletic teams to use.
The indoor facility, which includes more than 5,000 square feet of support, will contain a small strength & conditioning area and a training room. The plan is for men's and women's soccer to use these spaces, along with the football team. In addition, planners included space for both Tiger soccer programs to store equipment alongside football. This will give this segment of the Clemson athletic complex a centralized location for equipment and training.
"From a student-athlete-safety standpoint, having a training room right next to the practice fields in a contact sport is a positive move," said Ricketts. "Also, having some facilities that will serve the men's and women's soccer programs is a real boost."
Today, the facility is almost complete. In fact, many of the finishing touches will come after the conclusion of today's game, when the threat of football parking and consistent foot traffic subsides. Among these yet-to-be-completed items are plans to add a walkway leading up to the front of the building, one of the final pieces to a puzzle that has been in the university's plans for several years.
"There will be some items that we'll deal with considerably after the season, like landscaping," said Ricketts. "We want to make sure we have all the traffic out of here before we put the finishing touches on the pathway to the building."
Much like the massive videoboard and the training table, the indoor practice facility has become key in the arms race of major college football. Ricketts said there is now somewhat of a checklist of things a program needs to fulfill its maximum potential, and an indoor facility is squarely on the list.
The idea that upgrades for men's and women's soccer and men's and women's track & field accompanied this particular enhancement made a project that seems too simple to the average fan into a complex structure capable of assisting in the day-to-day operations of several of Clemson's athletic programs.
For example, the synthetic turf installed in the indoor track for the football program a few years ago will remain and will continue to be an asset to the track & field program. Furthermore, the track & field program will no longer have to share its facility with the football program.
As far as the football program is concerned, the Tigers have performed at a high level this season. The effort and achievement of the 2012 team embody the look of the program to outsiders, as facility upgrades centered in the WestZone and continued through the indoor practice facility give the program a first-class façade to present to fans, alumni, and prospective Tigers.
As construction closes on the new practice facility, a new wave of opportunity has opened to display the pride and passion of Clemson football to the world in a unique way that those associated with the program can be proud to call their own.
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Gary A. Toranzos-Soria, a native of Cochabamba, Bolivia earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1985 in Environmental Virology. After a post-doctoral position at the University of Florida, he relocated to the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus where continues to conduct research in environmental microbiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement in Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. Toranzos Soria has served the American Society for Microbiology in many capacities such as participating on the Communications Committee and continues record and publish in the Radio El Mundo de los Microbios, part of Microbe World, which is a weekly PodCast in Spanish for the world's Hispanic community of microbiologists.


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Rob here for one more post. It's been a year since we last posted anything, and whilst I've been checking emails and replying to comments and tweeting away, as a blog Vegangstaz is no more. Have no fears – I am still alive, I am still vegan, Kylie and I are still together and very much in love. The truth is, Vegangstaz is just the tip of the iceberg of what I want to achieve.
We have had an incredible ride. I've learnt the ins and outs of blogging and WordPress. And we've been overwhelmed with the support from people for this little blog we started for fun. Some of our posts have been shared far wider than we ever imagined, and some of our more popular days have seen us hit over 1500 unique visitors in 24 hours. Whether you're someone who's currently viewing this post for the first time years after it was first put online, or someone who's avidly followed everything we've done from day 1 (somewhere back in early 2011) – THANK YOU! You've all helped make Vegangstaz nothing short of a huge success for us.
So, the tip of the iceberg thing. It's time to move onward and upward. Vegangstaz may be gone, but my new project is just beginning. What is it?
It's called True Icon.
It's a news site on all things ethical – from culture, to vegan food, to fitness, to technology.
And it's a business. An ethical fashion business to be exact.
Currently, the business side is yet to come, but everything we sell will fit stringent ethical guidelines – and all of it will of course be vegan.
It would mean the world to me if you continued to support this work. I'll continue to provide the high quality content of Vegangstaz, but covering a wider set of issues. You may have noticed my Twitter handle has changed to @robjtrounce, and a new handle, @becometheicon is set up for the new site. In addition, sign up to receive emails about us and what we're up to here.
By signing up to the mailing list, you'll be the first to hear about our product range when it's launched, as well as some early exclusive discount codes.
I really hope to see you guys over at www.trueicon.co.uk soon.
Vegangstaz will remain online, but I will no longer be active on it. I hope it has and always will prove to be a useful repository of vegan info and news.
As for True Icon, we are always searching for talented writers, artists, illustrators etc. to join us, so if you're interested please get in touch. Drop me an email at email@example.com.
I've already mentioned that True Icon will cover news for the ethical consumer, and also be an ethical, vegan fashion business. But I hope it'll become more than that too. I hope it'll become something of a movement. The capitalist system is here to stay, but that doesn't mean that we can't make it our own – make it a system that cultures everyone's ambitions, make it a system that's fair to everyone, make it a system where we look at profits in terms of people's wellbeing and not a series of figures in a bank account.
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Thanks SXSW, the Team had a great time in Austin!
Phew! After a week of showcase hopping, taco eating, and non-stop tweeting we're back in the office. We had a great time at SXSW and we hope you did too. Thanks to everyone who came out to our showcase, it was a blast! If you missed out on the action, or if you want to relive all the fun, check out our Facebook , Tumblr, and Twitter for tons of pics (and taco tumblin'). We wish you the best of luck in facing the real world this week, and we can't wait to see you in Austin next year!


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The Maverick Blackout MT is back for more! With a brand new bodyshell design, it's got a new look that's ready to grab attention! The Blackout MT features the largest beadlock monster truck tyres we could find and a tall extra cab pickup truck bodyshell formed from super-thick polycarbonate plastic. Each front wheel is steered by a 20kg servo for maximum turning power at all speeds, and the new yellow, black and silver bodyshell sits proudly on top of the huge tyres for the ultimate statement of power!
The range of Maverick large-scale vehicles gets even BIGGER for 2013, with the addition of a huge buggy and truggy along with the venerable Blackout MT monster truck! Awesome 4WD power, a 30cc petrol engine and a bright new look make the Maverick 1/5th scale vehicle family bigger and better than ever! These awesome vehicles are completely Ready-To-Run: all you need to do is add your premixed fuel and drop in the batteries!
All three feature a 2.4GHz radio system for glitch-free driving with any number of other RC vehicles - you'll be able to drive all day long with your friends or other racers! The powerful 30cc engine starts with a simple pullstarter cord, and gives you extreme top speeds and jaw-dropping acceleration that will absolutely astound you as the tyres kick up gravel, dirt and mud! The high-RPM, strengthened clutch fitted to the engine will have an extra-long life with fantastic durability.
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This may require a ruling by the Motion Picture Academy, or the Justice League, or the Wisconsin State Senate, but I hereby aver: the shaky-cam aesthetic must end. The use of quivering images to suggest a you-are-there reality never made any sense, since cinematographers of actual documentaries always tried to keep the frame steady, even when shooting combat footage. The shaky-cam as used in Cloverfield and the Paul Greengrass Bourne films, and in TV shows from NYPD Blue to 24 to The Office, is worse than amateurism; it's fake amateurism, the visual equivalent of a comedian pretending to have Parkinson's. 'Tain't funny, 'tain't pretty and, from now on, 'tain't allowed.
In the '60s, movie directors fell in love with the zoom lens, and for a while no movie image was hip unless it changed focal lengths every few seconds. That gimmick quickly exhausted itself — but the even more annoying shaky-cam has been around for a couple decades now. Thirty years ago, when hip-hop began to dominate pop culture, some music lovers might have said, "OK, I can wait this out"; but not me, not with this, not any more. Let the edict be read: Put the camera back on the damn tripod.
(See the top 10 movies of 2010.)
Latest offender: Battle Los Angeles (which, despite what the ads say, has no colon in the movie title), a piece-of-crap war fantasy that pushes shaky-cam technique to egregious extremes. Even in the opening few minutes, before an air convoy of aliens lands on Santa Monica beach to lay waste to L.A., the camera jitters from one facial closeup to the next, as if it knows what's about to happen and is dreadfully nervous. Soon we learn that the space invaders mean to occupy and annihilate all of America's major coastal cities, as if in some red-stater's wet dream, and a Marine officer proclaims to his troops, "You will kill anything that is not human." Director Jonathan Liebesman must have issued similar orders to his cameramen: You will jiggle any equipment you hold.
The South African director (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) is a fellow countryman of genuinely-gifted auteur Neill Blomkamp, whose District 9 a couple summers ago offered one of the few witty applications of shaky-cam. But Liebesman not only doesn't deserve to be included in the School of Blomkamp, he doesn't even try. He's aiming for the high-concept brainlessness of Roland Emmerich, who merrily imperiled the planet in Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, and the large-scale Lego-rrhea of Michael Bay's Transformers movies. Most of Battle Los Angeles shows a small unit of Marines trying to escape, outmaneuver and thousands of alien soldiers, whose weapons, oddly, are very similar to those of the earthlings. Having unlocked the secrets of intergalactic travel, the aliens apparently never mastered the technology of heat-seeking missiles. Maybe their space-travel budget was bigger than their Defense budget.
(See TIME's review of District 9.)
Screenwriter Chris Bertolini (The General's Daughter) matches Liebesman idiocy for idiocy — for example, taking the creaky action-film cliché about the aging cop who runs into trouble on his last day before retirement, then applying it to nearly every character in Battle Los Angeles. Grizzled Staff Sgt. Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) has just turned in his retirement papers after a 20-year career fighting bad guys in the War on Terror. Another Marine is about to get married; a third has a wife who's about to give birth; a fourth is a fresh-faced teen about to lose his virginity. See, we should care about these guys — and the stray civilians they adopt on their mission — because they have something to live for. What about the million or so Angelenos, and the tens of millions elsewhere, who have died off-camera? Aaah, they're just collateral damage.
Nantz is the hero, and not just because Eckhart, in training for this very physical role, somehow added new muscles to a face already contoured like six-pack abs. At the start the staff Sgt. is only second-in-command under a baby-faced, puppy-eyed Lieutenant (Ramon Rodriguez), fresh from the Marine Academy, who's facing his first-ever combat mission. In War-Movie Screenwriting 101, that is a death sentence, which Battle Los Angeles waits for about an hour to execute. All these simplifying narrative tropes were deeply embedded in World War II movies; but Bertolini has also seen The Hurt Locker. He means to turn Santa Monica into Baghdad With Aliens — where the enemy is even more remorseless than a band of angry Iraqis, and the U.S. soldiers on patrol must face armaments more sophisticated than I.E.D.s. The Marines' one emotional advantage: this time they're not the invaders but the home team.
(See a brief history of World War II movies.)
Reviewers' ethics oblige me to compliment two cool and creepy scenes: one where Nantz and a woman veterinarian perform a goopy surgery that becomes an alien autopsy; the other where a tough woman soldier (Avatar's Michelle Rodriguez) gets a face full of splayed alien brains. But those aren't the scariest moments of Battle Los Angeles, at least not in the Manhattan theater where I attended a midnight screening. As the house lights went down, a woman exclaimed, "Watch out for the bedbugs!" Since the theater chain had been cited for tiny vermin, that shout gave a shiver to my own internal shaky-cam.
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For 22-year-old David Wilson, the smallest pieces of help put him quickly back to work and on a path with future career advancements.
Formerly homeless and now employed as a security guard, Wilson is just one of hundreds of success stories emerging from the St. Paul-based non-profit organization Small Sums. While organizations like the Dorothy Day Center and the American Red Cross provide housing and ongoing social services, the smaller, more focused Small Sums identifies overlooked necessities that help skilled workers return to the workforce and move toward self-sufficiency.
Executive Director Katherine Olson has worked out of the Dignity Center in the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church since 2006 to remove the immediate barriers that prevent the homeless from accepting employment. Chefs, beauticians, welders and security guards must often own their own supplies in order to accept employment. Small Sums will purchase the items that are required to accept a job.
Clients are never handed cash; rather, Small Sums staff will accompany clients to stores and buy their supplies. Or they might help a client with something as basic as a bus pass.
"One of the biggest barriers to getting out of homelessness is finding transportation to work," Olson said. Larger charities may give small support like this after two years of involvement with a client, but Olson asked, "What about the person who is employable now?"
Terre Thomas, client coordinator for Small Sums, explained that once a client has been accepted into the program, "we tell them to just say 'yes'" when asked if they have the supplies for the job.
Partner agencies, such as People Serving People and The Salvation Army, will refer clients to Small Sums if they meet one main qualification. To be eligible, clients must be "homeless or precariously-housed," Olson said.
"They're staying on a couch, or they're on the lottery system for a bed or mat," she continued. "They're people who don't have a consistent bed."
Both Olson and Thomas have been watching a new type of homelessness appear around the Twin Cities.
"For some people it's taken a long time for the economy crash to hit them," Olson explained. "These people have skills and have the training, but once the are re-offered a job, they don't have money for transportation or the required clothing and supplies."
Added Thomas, referring to their many clients who have lost their things in transition between storage units or homes: "For some reason their problems have snowballed and they don't have friends or family to consistently help them put things back together, or keep things together."
Originally from Chicago, Wilson was going on six months homeless before he was referred to Small Sums.
"I used the Salvation Army, friends' houses," Wilson explained. "I was looking at employment."
Eventually, Wilson was interviewed by State-Wide Protective Agency for a security guard position.
"They gave me a list of things I needed," Wilson said. "A uniform, police- or EMT-style pants, flashlight — and more pieces to excel."
Wilson accepted the job and Small Sums purchased the supplies he needed. Initially, he was assigned to graveyard shifts that had him working unarmed through the night. After three months of employment, Wilson explored opportunities to one day expand into cash logistics or work for the Department of Corrections.
To be qualified for these positions, Wilson would need to obtain a permit to carry a weapon, which is required by Minnesota state law. Within his line of work, a pay raise and normal day hours follow holders of such a permit.
"[Small Sums] paid for my ID fee," Wilson explained. "With that, I can get more hours and in more locations."
Without licensure, his aspirations may have remained a dream.
Often times, Thomas added, all a client needs is the first or second paycheck to get them on their feet again. Wilson now has stable housing and a plan for future work.
"They're homeless, not helpless," Olson added.
Since their founding, Small Sums has helped 742 homeless workers move toward self-sufficiency. In 2011 alone, the organization served 416 homeless workers. And they project those numbers to grow.
"We expect great growth in the future," Thomas said. "There are more jobs, people are hiring and the economy is getting better. There are more and more people at that precipice wondering if they can accept a job with just a little help."
Last year, $89,000 was donated to fund their clients' equipment needs. It's nearly all spent and, with their involvement and clientele growing, they're hoping to bring in more donations before the end of the year.
"The only thing that stops us from helping people is lack of funds," Olson said.
Small Sums' board of directors covers all operating expenses, allowing 100 percent of donations to go directly toward purchasing the supplies clients need.
The individuals that come in and out of Small Sums' service arrive with unique stories and varying needs, but Olson has heard one consistent reply from clients: "We'll hear it from almost everyone: 'Thank you — you've changed my life.'"


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Today I have been supervising some of my volunteers and speaking to visitors at our shopping mall conservation lab. We have been running for nearly two years and have just reached 5,000 volunteer hours for investigative conservation of several hundred artefacts from 65 graves. We are on the last grave for this project – but there is still the finds from the other half of the cemetery to be worked on. Tomorrow we close our doors for fundraising for that project. fingers crossed that we'll be open again soon! For general info on our community conservation project see a great video made on our opening day – http://digital.kent.gov.uk/2800. and/or visit our website – you can also 'befriend' us if you like as we just set up a facebook page too. Volunteer Pat Horne says: " Today I am working on an object that is really perplexing. It is a 'blocklifted' assemblage of finds from a woman's grave. I am trying to discern the different materials it is made from (we have found mineral preserved bone and textile, possibly leather iron and copper alloy). It has become very fragile, so I am repackaging it to make it more secure before continuing to work on it. this artefact has to be looked at along with others in this grave. There are several with the same 'figure 8' copper alloy shapes. so imagination is working overtime trying to puzzle it out – great stuff!" .
Janice Monday is also working on a find from a woman's grave: "I am working on a small object which, from the X-ray, appears to be minute thin pieces of wire bundled through a loop possibly of bone. there are three more baffling pieces associated with the main part."
Both Pat and Janice have been volunteering at CSI: Sittingbourne since we began in Oct. 2009 (2 and 1 days per week). We have recently begun training a new group of volunteers (there were 80 on our waiting list!) – one of our new recruits has just returned from panning for gold in Northern Scotland… he popped in to show me some of the gold and garnets he came back with. I didn't know that garnets were sometimes found alongside gold, when panning – we decided we should look out what is known about the sources of gold and garnets in the Anglo-Saxon period and I encouraged Richard to join the Historical Metallurgy Society to find out more about those iron age camps located at his 'gold hot spots' that he was wondering about. We also discussed him posting up his photos to our facebook page and staying in contact while we are closed for fundraising.
– Another day draws to a close at CSI, now on to other tasks, like writing a reference for a past conservation student intern and submitting a paper for publication in the proceedings from PARIS4, Copenhagen… that's about my conservation work on an early Christian monastery on Sir Bani Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, but that's another story…


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Cook the Book: Pecorino Custard with Tomato Sauce
Rick Tramonto's Pecorino custard with tomato sauce is a bread pudding with a difference (or two.) First, it's a savory appetizer, not a dessert. Second, the custard-soaked cubes of bread we associate with the dish are puréed before baking to give a silky, uniform texture.
Served with good marinara sauce and toasted bread for dipping, the full-flavored budino, or Italian pudding, is a luxurious way to kick off a dinner party. To make sure your meal goes off without a hitch, choose a young Pecorino that's not overly firm, which will prevent the cheese from turning grainy when it melts.
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- 1 quart whole milk
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 10 large egg yolks
- 5 1/2 ounces ciabatta bread (about 5 slices), crust removed, diced, plus 12 slices 1/2-inch thick ciabatta bread
- 1 3/4 pounds young Pecorino-Romano cheese, shredded
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 1 cup marinara sauce
- Freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. In a heavy saucepan, warm the milk and cream over medium-high heat, until heated through but not boiling.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks. When they are blended, slowly add about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture to temper the eggs, whisking continuously. Slowly add the tempered eggs to the hot cream in the pan as you continue to whisk the mixture.
Spread the diced bread on a baking sheet and dry in the oven for 1 minute.
Increase the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Transfer the diced bread to a mixing bowl and pour the egg-cream mixture over it to soak the bread. Using a hand-held mixture, purée until smooth. Stir in the cheese.
Divide the mixture evenly among 4 6-ounce ramekins. Put the ramekins in a roasting pan and add enough water to come 1/2 inch up the sides of the pan. Cover the pan with aluminum foil.
Very carefully transfer the pan to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the custard is heated through and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Lay the bread slices on a baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Toast in the oven, turning once, for 2-3 minutes, or until golden brown.
Meanwhile, heat the marinara sauce in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until hot and bubbling.
Put one ramekin on each of four serving plates and top each with about 1/4 cup of marinara sauce. Drizzle each ramekin with olive oil and pepper. Put three slices of toast on each plate and serve.
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Swift satellite photos capture comet racing toward a close encounter with Mars
Swift satellite photos capture comet racing toward a close encounter with Mars
Photos of a comet racing toward an astonishingly close encounter with Mars are helping scientists to better estimate the comet's size, according to a NASA team that includes Penn State astronomers. The photos were made with a telescope on board NASA's Swift satellite, for which Penn State controls the science and flight operations from the Mission Operations Center at the University Park campus.
The photos captured by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope are the first to reveal how much water the comet named Siding Spring is producing as it is beginning to get heated up by the sun during its first-known voyage through our inner solar system. The comet is named after the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, which first detected it a year and a half ago.
"Comet observations are one of the biggest challenges that face our team of science planners for the Swift satellite," said Michael Siegel, the Penn State researcher who is the instrument leader for Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). "Observing comets requires a very detailed instrument setup, and Swift was designed to look at the most distant objects in the universe, not the closest ones like this new comet in our own solar system. In addition comets move, which requires us to carefully time the observations to point Swift at precise parts of the sky exactly at the time when we estimate the comet will move into these areas."
The leader for Swift operations, Deputy Mission Director Margaret Chester, is a Penn State scientist.
"Margaret usually takes the lead on making sure we get exactly the data needed for these observations," Siegel said. "Her hard work is paying off as we see the gorgeous images coming off the Swift spacecraft and the ground-breaking science coming out of its observations."
The comet makes its closest approach to Mars on Oct. 19, passing just 83,000 miles (132,000 km) from the Red Planet -- so close that gas and dust in the outermost reaches of the comet's atmosphere, or coma, will interact with the atmosphere of Mars. For comparison, the closest recorded approach to Earth by a comet was by the now-defunct comet Lexell, which on July 1, 1770, swept to within 1.4 million miles (2.3 million km) or about six times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon. During its Mars flyby, comet Siding Spring will pass more than 16 times closer than this distance.
New comets like Siding Spring, formally known as C/2013 A1, contain some of the most ancient material scientists can study. The solid nucleus of a comet is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust often described as a "dirty snowball." Comets cast off gas and dust whenever they venture near enough to the sun for the frozen material to be transformed into gas by the sun's heat. Different gases stream from the nucleus as the comet approaches the sun, carrying with them large quantities of dust that brighten the comet by reflecting sunlight. By about two and a half times Earth's distance from the Sun, the comet has warmed enough that water becomes the primary gas emitted by the nucleus.
Between May 27 and 29, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) captured a sequence of images as comet Siding Spring cruised through the constellation Eridanus at a distance of about 2.46 AU (229 million miles or 368 million km) from the sun. While this telescope cannot detect water molecules directly, it can detect the light emitted by fragments formed when ultraviolet sunlight breaks up water -- specifically, hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl (OH) molecules.
"Based on our observations, we calculate that at the time of the observations the comet was producing about 2 billion billion billion water molecules, equivalent to about 13 gallons or 49 liters, each second," said team member Tony Farnham, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland College Park. At this rate, comet Siding Spring could fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in about 14 hours. These observations are part of a two-year-long Swift campaign to watch how the comet's activity develops during its travels. The lead researcher for this campaign is Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer at the University of Maryland College Park.
These Swift observations are part of a larger study to investigate the activity and evolution of new comets, which show distinct brightening characteristics as they approach the sun not seen in other comets. Near the time of the comet's close encounter with Mars, five spacecraft will be orbiting the Red Planet: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Express, Mars Odyssey, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, and Mars Orbital Mission. This systematic study will help astronomers to better understand how the activity of these comets changes with repeated heating by the sun.
Scientists have established that the comet poses no danger to spacecraft now in orbit around Mars. These space missions are expected to serve as a provisional comet-observation fleet to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity for space science.


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This document covers how to configure Google Play games services for your Android game. If you have not done so already, make that you have set up Google Play games services in the Google Play Console before proceeding.
Configuring achievements and leaderboards
To create or edit achievements and leaderboards, click the Achievements and Leaderboards tabs for your game from the Google Play Console, and then fill out the corresponding forms.
For more information on creating achievements and leaderboards, see the achievements and leaderboards game concepts.
Enabling Saved Games
The Saved Games service gives you a convenient way to save your players' game progression to Google's servers. Use this service if you want to retrieve player game data and allow returning players to continue playing from their last save point from any device.
Before using the Saved Games service, you must first enable it from the Google Play Console:
- In the Google Play Console, open the Games services tab, then select your game from the list.
- Turn the Saved Games option to ON and agree to the terms of service.
- Click Save.
- Publish your game changes.
After performing the steps above, it may take up to 24 hours for Google Play games services to activate the Saved Games feature for your game. If you want to test the Saved Games feature immediately, manually clear the data in the Google Play Services app installed on your test device.
To clear the cached data on Android, open Settings > Apps > Google Play services, click on Manage Space, then click on Clear All Data.
For more information on using the Saved Games service, see the Saved Games game concepts.
Adding translations for your game
You can set your own translations for game details, including the display name, game description, and graphic assets. You can also specify your own translations for achievements and leaderboards that are associated with your game.
To add your own translations for game details:
- Open the Game Services page from the Google Play Console, and select your game.
- On the Game details page, click the Add translations button.
- Select the languages that you will provide translations for, then click Add to confirm your selection. On the Game details page, you should see buttons for the languages that you selected.
- On the same page, click the button for a language, then edit the form with your translations for the display name, description, and the graphic assets.
- Click Save to store your translated game details.
- Open Linked apps for your game. For each linked application, add the corresponding details for the translation languages that you added.
For more information on adding translations for achievements and leaderboards, see the achievements and leaderboards game concepts.
When displaying game detail, leaderboard, and achievement strings, Google Play games services uses the game-supported language that is closest to the user-requested language. For example, if the user's device language preference is set to French (Canada) (fr-CA), but the game supports only English (United States) (en-US) and French (France) (fr-FR), Google Play games services will select the fr-FR strings to display since this is the closest matching language.
Granting edit permission to other users
You can add other team members to the Google Play Console so that they have the ability to edit your application settings. Note that this is an account-wide setting. Other users that you add will have access to all applications and games that you have created with this account, not just one particular game.
At this time, new team members will also have write privileges to your game and all of its settings in the Google Play Console, so be sure to only add team members with whom you are comfortable sharing this access level.
To add additional team members to your Google Play project:
- Select Settings.
- Select User Accounts and Rights.
- Click Invite new user, and enter the email address of the team member you'd like to add to your project.
Once that person accepts your invitation, they will be added to your project.
Viewing and editing project settings in the Google API Console
While the Google Play Console simplifies the process of creating a client ID for your application without having to use the Google API Console, there may be instances where you will want to view and edit your project directly in the Google API Console.
Typical scenarios include:
- Enabling additional APIs for your project (such as Google Drive).
- Editing the branding information for your game in the OAuth 2.0 dialog.
- Viewing your API quota and requesting more (if necessary).
- Editing authorized URIs or JavaScript origins in Client IDs that you've created in the past.
Viewing your project
To view your project in the Google API Console:
- Go to the Game details tab of your game's entry in the Google Play Console.
- At the bottom of the page, click on the link provided in the API Console Project section.
Adjusting API usage quotas
In the Google API Console, you can view the API usage limits currently set up for your game and the amount of quota that has been used. You can also set per-user limits to prevent an abusive user (or a buggy game client) from depleting your quota.
To view or change usage limits for your project, or to request an increase to your quota, do the following:
- If you don't already have a billing account for your project, then create one.
- Visit the Enabled APIs page of the API library in the API Console, and select an API from the list.
- To view and change quota-related settings, select Quotas. To view usage statistics, select Usage.
Be aware that "users" are determined based on the IP address of the
client making the quota request. For instance, if all of your requests came from
a single server, that server might be erroneously tagged as a single spammy user.
To prevent this, you can attach a
userIp=x.x.x.x argument to your API endpoint
To learn more about setting per-user quotas, see the Google API Console documentation.
In addition to a per-user limit, there is an application-wide per-day limit for the Google Play games services API. Typically, you will not need to change the pre-allocated limit. However, if you anticipate a large spike in volume (for example, for an upcoming launch event), you can request for additional quota by clicking the Request more link.
Activating other APIs
When you create your client ID in the Google Play Console, the Google Play Games Services API is automatically turned on for your project. You can activate other Google APIs from the Google API Console.
To enable an API for your project, do the following:
- Open the API Library in the Google API Console. If prompted, select a project or create a new one. The API Library lists all available APIs, grouped by product family and popularity.
- If the API you want to enable isn't visible in the list, use search to find it.
- Select the API you want to enable, then click the Enable button.
- If prompted, enable billing.
- If prompted, accept the API's Terms of Service.
Modifying branding information
To modify the branding information (title, logo, etc.) for your game that appears in the OAuth 2.0 dialog, set the attributes in the consent screen of the Google API Console.
To set up your project's consent screen, do the following:
- Open the Consent Screen page in the Google API Console. If prompted, select a project or create a new one.
- Fill out the form and click Save.
Modifying client ID related attributes
To modify attributes related to your OAuth 2.0 client ID (web origins and redirect urls for a web app, etc.):
- Open the Google Play Console and navigate to your game.
- On the Game Details page, scroll to the bottom and click the link to the linked Google API Console project.
- In the Google API Console, select your project.
- In the sidebar on the left, select APIs & auth. Make sure that the Google Play Games Services API status is ON in the displayed list of APIs.
- In the sidebar on the left, select Registered apps.
- Expand the OAuth 2.0 Client ID section and find the attribute to edit.


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The Household Cavalry Museum, in the heart of Royal London at Horse Guards (official entrance to the Royal Residences) offers a truly enriching experience celebrating the history, heroes and exploits of the British Army's senior regiment from its origins in 1661.
Fascinating rare exhibits, dazzling displays of uniforms, the chance to see (through a glass partition) troopers in the stables preparing their horses, the ability to try on real helmets and cuirasses, audio visual presentations, interactive displays, all combined with the opportunity to view outside either the daily Guard Change on Horse Guards at 10:50 (09:50 Sundays), the Guard Inspection (16:00) or mounted sentry changes on the hour (10:00 – 16:00).
A London must-see presenting a uniquely British blend of pageantry, tradition and history.
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Hey, it's another book-themed off-topic! This time around we've got something particularly musty, and particularly cool. Flavorwire has assembled images of the first-edition covers of 25 of the most famous classic books of all time.
Man, look at Lord of the Rings! And Brave New World! I feel like I'm not alone in that when I look at these images, I can practically smell 'em.
How many of these have you read? Do you find, like I do, that between games, TV, movies, comics and novels, that there are just too many different kinds of things to take in? How do you balance it all?
Feel free to discuss that (sorry those were some kinda stressful prompts!) or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting. I'll be over here reading…. ths crafting guide for Guild Wars 2.
The First Edition Covers of 25 Classic Books [Flavorwire via The Onion A.V. Club]


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With all the publicity about breaches of SSL certificate authorities and a hack that exploits a vulnerability in the supposedly secure protocol, it's time to consider something else to protect Internet transactions. If only there were something else to turn to.
Protecting SSL and its updated version TLS is vital because they support most e-commerce transactions by setting up end-to-end encrypted sessions that are authenticated, and that requires certificates that are verified by certificate authorities.
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Verification is supposed to assure that a public encryption key presented by a device is actually owned by the entity that claims to own it. It is meant to say, yes, you are indeed about to enter a secure session with your bank. The certificate authority plays this verification role and is considered a trusted third party in public key infrastructure.
The problem is certificate authorities can't always be trusted.
Earlier this year, certificate authority Comodo was breached and nine fraudulent digital certificates were issued. The certificates let the thieves trick Iranian users into thinking they were connecting to Google, Yahoo, Skype and Mozilla when they weren't. That deception would enable the thieves to gather user IDs and passwords to break into customers' real accounts with those businesses.
Later on, a similar breach at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar yielded 500 or so fraudulent certificates that so damaged the company's credibility - and the ability of the Dutch government to function online - that the company declared bankruptcy.
These are the manifestation of problems that have been talked about for years. Security expert Moxie Marlinspike has repeatedly demonstrated weaknesses and exploits against certificate authorities in public forums and calls for replacing them altogether.
He actually recommends a new model for authentication that he calls Convergence that is similar to one being trialed at Carnegie Mellon University called Perspectives. Rather than trusted third parties whose trust can't be assured, SSL/TLS authentication would rely on a reputation system of verification.
Servers called notaries are set up to constantly ping and re-ping sites on the Internet and record what certificates they present. When asked by browsers seeking to verify sites, notaries respond with the certificates that the sites have been issuing over time. The browsers check whether the certificates issued by the notaries match the certificates sent by the sites.
So if a customer is trying to reach mybank.com, the customer's browser would ask a notary what certificate it has been receiving over time from mybank.com. If the response matches the certificate the customer just got, that serves as verification.
Under Perspectives and Convergence models, anyone can set up a notary. Over time, the reliability of notaries will establish their reputations as deserving or not deserving trust.
An upside of the notary system is that end users get to pick which notaries they want to poll and can add or drop them as they see fit. With certificate authorities, browsers are preloaded with the certificate authorities they trust and end users can either use them or forfeit access to Web sites that use those certificate authorities.
Separating the trust decision from the browser manufacturers is a good step, says Taher Elgamal, CTO of Axway and one of the creators of SSL. He says the root of trust should be the Internet and its reputation ecosystem. Users would recognize notaries that can't be trusted and reject them.
What's needed is a way for browsers to learn when a notary's reputation has been tarnished. "And I'm not saying I know how to implement this, but it's a better model," Elgamal says.
It's pretty clear, though that the certificate authority system doesn't work, he says, and that something else is needed. The problem is that because SSL is so widely used, implementing it will require cooperation of browser vendors to support a new system or at least support add-ons that do.
Learn more about this topic
With SSL, who can you really trust?
Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left
The SSL certificate industry can and should be replaced
Comodo hacker claims another certificate authority
Comodo hacker claims credit for DigiNotar attack


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(Almost) nobody likes to get married in Paris in the Summer
The graph below shows how many marriages there have been in France in 2008, depending on the size of the municipality -- rural, small town, bigger town, even bigger, and Paris and its surroundings. Base 100 is the average for the darkest and coldest months of the year, January to March.
What is striking is that from October to April the pattern of weddings is pretty much similar in all municipalities, but that starting in May, the small towns see a disproportionate amount of weddings when everybody flees for a nice sunny week-end in the countryside, increasing the chances that your guests will actually come to your wedding. There are more than 10 times more weddings in August in the rural counties, while for Paris the number only doubles between bleakwinter and nicesummer. Overall, one third of the weddings are in July and August, and while there are as many weddings in the smallest towns and in Paris in January to March, there are 4 times more weddings in July and August.
The smaller the town, the larger the number of weddings in every month from May to September; the difference between the different city sizes is most acute in August. So you might run into trouble finding a place to host your wedding party in the countryside, not in Paris, in July and August. June is very bad in Paris.
(disclaimer: I got married in Paris... in August - but the party was in September)
Number of weddings in France in 2008
These statistics are taken from INSEE - Données détaillées des statistiques d'état civil sur les mariages en 2008


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The sub-title of this book says it all. It's a nice little volume of bookish essays about reading, mostly for book nerds. It's nothing profound but a nice love letter to the reading life and some kinship in commiserating about possible perils and pitfalls.
The author is, however, someone that book lovers should be familiar with if they aren't already, because of her podcast called What Should I Read Next (search for it on iTunes or in your favourite podcast app) and her blog called Modern Mrs. Darcy. Both have many helpful suggestions for reading choices, whether old favourites or what's new!


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Even before "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps" arrives in September, you'll be able to wager on whether the revival of greed's goodness will spur a bull or bear box office.
A new online futures market that will allow anyone, in essence, to bet on whether a movie will be a hit or a flop is set to debut next month, The New York Times reports.
So film fans will be able to use the tools of Wall Street to make or lose money on "Wall Street 2" or any just about any upcoming flick. Somewhere, Gordon Gekko is laughing his suspenders off.
Under the plan, bettors trade $1 for every $1 million they expect the movie to make domestically on personal accounts.
If a movie were expected to make $100 in its opening weeks, a $100 dollar contract would earn the bettor $50 should the movie sells $150 million in tickets.
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By betting the film will be dud, one would earn $50 if the movie were to gross just $50 million.
Let's take a light moment to consider some of the possible implications of a world where not only everybody is a critic, but where anyone could become a movie mini-mogul.
Imagine the insider trading temptations: Test screenings infiltrated by moles. Ditto for movie sets, already fonts of gossip.
Much of this, certainly, has been going on in Hollywood in one form or another for years – and buzz travels instantly these days, thanks to the Web. But the impact of rumors will be felt beyond movie studios – bettors could lose a lot more than the price of admission.
There also could be added annoyances inside theaters: moviegoers jotting research notes during coming attractions. Antsy patrons with a lot riding on a flick shifting in their seats, like the fourth-quarter fidgeters at Madison Square Garden who made the mistake of wagering on the Knicks.
Worst-case scenario: Hollywood studios recruit champion futures players as executives with greelighting power.
Movies are a much-needed diversion, particularly in tough times. It's probably no coincidence Hollywood is coming off its biggest year ever, with a nearly $30 billion take worldwide, during a rough economic stretch. In North America alone, escapist 3-D fare like "Avatar" brought in more than $1 billion (note to self: have broker put 10 large on "Toy Story 3").
The most devoted movie fans pay attention to all things showbiz, such as box office results, if only to feel like a part of the action. Some folks get a kick out of boasting a film they like is making money, as if that somehow validates their judgment.
But giving the audience a box office stake could alter the movie-going experience. The movies, after all, should be a place to forget about money troubles – not incur new ones.
As The Times notes, the early buzz on "Avatar" in some quarters had the film headed for Titanic territory (Titanic the ship, not James Cameron's previous blockbuster). If the film was coming out next month, there likely would be many gamblers looking to "short" the big-budget 3-D epic, basically betting on it to fail.
Which goes to show what we already know: there's no such thing as a sure thing – even in the movies.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Bobby Flay
Curtis Stone
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Guests at the Wine Spectator's Trade Testing
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Maximilian Riedel and Matt Rutkowski
Nicole Berdoll and Josh Moody
Nobu Matsuhisa
Bobby and Paula Deen
Even though it takes over Miami Beach year after year, the culinary excess of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival never ceases to amaze us. The 12th edition of the event, a record year for both ticket sales and sponsorships, drew some 60,000 fine food and wine aficionados and raised nearly $1.9 million for Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism. As founder and Director Lee Brian Schrager put it: "It was incredible. We couldn't be happier." Neither were most of the hungry, thirsty gourmands who ate their way through the city at the various dinners, tastings and parties held by the festival during its four-day run. Kicking off the culinary extravaganza this year was The Q, the Moët Hennessy barbecue tasting sponsored by Miami magazine, where, after much sampling and imbibing, Paula Deen presented Todd English with the Omaha Steaks Award for Culinary Excellence. His winning dish? Steamed bun of hoisin-glazed short rib and five-spice tenderloin with sweet and sour cucumber slaw. Of course, winners, like Champagne, were not in short supply. At the Burger Bash hosted by Rachael Ray, it was Bobby Flay, who walked away with top honors for his green chile cheeseburger, which he "crunchified" with a mean layer of potato chips. Even though it was hotter than usual under those tents, the Grand Tasting days on Saturday and Sunday drew the largest crowds the festival has seen recently. That's because for foodies this was celeb central thanks to cooking demonstrations from the likes of Tyler Florence, Emeril Lagasse, Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, Curtis Stone and many others—this year, Iberian chef José Andrés made history by conducting his demonstration entirely in Spanish. New to the festival this time around was the Celebrity Chef Golf Tournament, also hosted by Andrés (whom we assume spoke English here) as well as A Red Hot Night, where local kitchen luminary Ingrid Hoffmann showed partygoers the art of pairing Latin dishes and libations. More serious in tone was the Tribute Dinner for Nobu Matsuhisa and Christophe Navarre, which had Martha Stewart as mistress of ceremonies and a six-course dinner prepared by the likes of Daniel Boulud, Yoshihiro Murata, Yuji Wakiya, Roy Yamaguchi, Frederic Delaire and Johnny Iuzzini. Very popular with fried-chicken lovers was the Southern Kitchen Brunch with Trisha Yearwood at the Loews, where spicy wings were plentiful. Ending things on a musical note was Guy Fieri's Reggae Jam, where guests enjoyed island-inspired cocktails and dishes, and a performance by Ziggy Marley. After that, it was workouts and juice cleanses all throughout Miami. Photos by Billy Farrell Agency
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