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EVE Online: I can resist anything but temptation

“I can resist anything but temptation.”
Oscar Wilde

Unfortunately for you, the rumors of my death have been highly exaggerated. I‘ve seen the occasional post inquiring about my demise. While flattering, I think most people have forgotten all about the old nerfs and more vividly remember some random jokes while I was flaming some poor soul on the forums.

I‘m now many years older and a bit wiser. I think more before I talk and therefore I seldom talk. Meaning never. As Executive Producer, it is part of the job description that nobody can figure out what you do. I prefer it to stay that way–with “great success”. For instance, I just saw Zulupark look at me and notice how very serious I was writing this blog and then didn‘t talk to me because it must have been something important that I was very serious about. Facebook is very serious business.

As we‘ve grown, our responsibilities changed. Managing CCP and all its projects requires more people at all the steering wheels. You know what I‘m talking about. We‘ve seen that the 400 people at CCP don‘t all share a hive mind–even though we‘ve put into effect a lot of restrictions lately, much against the will of our staff, that they can‘t be stating their opinions as freely as before. Words from a developer are taken very seriously and publicly stating private opinion often ends up as “forum law” 10 minutes later. That wasn‘t so great when posting drunk or tired after a 30-hour expansion deployment.

If anything, the birth of an idea usually takes months. That‘s after the mud wrestling, rotten shark eating contests and a host of other of battles take place, usually under the influences of alcohol (now you know my strength and why I‘m here). It‘s then only appropriate that the persons responsible for the individual features, their champion, don the scapegoat costume.

On the brighter side it means though that most of us old “Fora Whora” try to keep our mouths shut. The size of our projects and ambitions mean that even though we can‘t talk much about game specifics, there is still great stuff to share now and then for everyone. Recently, Hellmar got the spotlight to shed some light on the status of CCP in the economic meltdown. Now, we can look briefly at the big picture. If you‘re looking for details, I‘d suggest you read Zulupark‘s thread from the weekend, it‘s pretty cool.

Internode strategeries, we have them.

The EVElopedia will see the light of day before the end of the year. It will start out with a simple integration, while over time it will become more and more intertwined within the EVE client. You will be able find EVElopedia articles relevant to a certain window or activity by clicking on the contextually placed “?” marks located in-game, which will help you with delve further into the depths of the combined knowledge of all EVE players and developers.

The Item Database will be integrated into EVElopedia and players will see more frequent updates of its contents, which now can have commentary, tips and tricks associated with entries. EVE player history will be centrally located and further down the line we will leave room for players to contribute to the backstory of solar systems and other locations.

Our strategy is to allow EVE developers to start publishing information through EVElopedia when we write Dev Blogs and are deep in the development process, in order to provide a location for an organic, growing central information nexus and FAQ for all linked information on any specific topic. This will provide more visibility, longevity and structure to the history of everything EVE-a rich past, present and future that demands a persistent, permanent record.

Those of you that have attended Fanfest or read the occasional blog know that we‘ve had a number of initiatives where we intend to break down the barriers present in the EVE client and enable interaction through other media. Our social networking and communication tools, which have been in development for 2 years, will be showing up next year. They will provide you with everything you need, from your blog on harvesting Veldspar (I‘m looking at you Chribba), corporate front pages, alliance tools and our secret weapon, a screenshot of you (because they never seem to work on the forums, do they?)

The beauty of all of this is that we’ve been building this strategy of multiple interaction points with EVE through our API service. It started out as listing your skills, but has been growing steadily since then. We want to continue this, so that when we build our own applications, we do it on top of the EVE API. You might also have noticed that there are already great iPhone applications out there for EVE. We expect to see more applications for other devices created by our genius community as well as by CCP.

That means, when the API information becomes available to us, it also becomes available to everyone else. Note, the big “want”. We can already tell you that there will be quite a few functions which we can‘t open up due to performance, security and business reasons, but our intent is to open up as much as we can to you. We think it‘s pretty cool. It enables mashups. After all, you‘ve been doing much more awesome applications and websites using the API than we have.

Cowboy Mode – I wish I knew how to quit you

“Cowboy Mode” is what we’ve named the way we‘re deploying performance improvements. Think of it as some parts of SCRUM mixed with moderate recklessness. We‘ve erred on the side of caution with changes to many of our core systems, as some of them being almost 7 years old. Something had to be done. Patton said;

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”

Sounded like a badass idea at the time. There is no denying that our saloon-brawling style did cause spillover, which, by applying some months of theoretical work, internal “faked” load testing, 3 tons of industrial lubricant and tender midnight lovin‘ might have caught. But in hindsight, it was worth it. Our six-shooters blasted us forward more than a year’s worth of development in a matter of weeks and we realized it only by having all our changes running live on Tranquility. Only in with 40,000 real players hammering away would we find the real bugs and the real opportunities for further improvement.

Last week was a good example of this. We deployed some fixes to Tranquility and last weekend showed that they were wildly successful. Players participated in “totally playable”- and more recently “EPIC ****ING WIN”-fleet battles. We did however see some very weird behaviour with guns, drones and missiles which suddenly decided they had their own opinion on when to fire. Having identified this phenomenon enables us to apply generous amounts of cowboy love to it.

We‘ve won yet another battle, but the war is far from over. StacklessIO, EVE 64, Weapon Grouping, hardware upgrades, EVE Performance group, the upcoming optimizations to the inventory system and addressing NPC CPU usage are only the beginning; deploying all these performance increases and improvements allows the signal-to-noise ratio help us to identify other areas to attack. We‘re working ourselves up the mountain and we’re looking forward to enjoying the view at the top with you all.

Just don‘t forget the reach-around.

ETC secure transfers made easier, more accessible and ingame

We‘ve had the secure transfer mechanism for almost 2 years now. Players have been able to exchange their EVE Gametime Codes (ETC) to other players for ISK through the account management pages and now more than 30 thousand players utilizing it on a regular basis.

We felt it was time to move forward with it–do another iteration to make it much easier and accessible exchange ISK for game time. The current situation has a series of flaws with it which we hope to address, while at the same time opening up totally new ground for current and potential EVE players.

With this new approach, you can take your run of the mill ETC code and enter it in-game through the escape menu, converting it into two in-game items called “30 Day Pilot’s License Extension (PLEX)”. You can then put them directly on to the market or into a contract! This means:

Benefit to you as a player

* Lower barrier of entry for exchanging ETCs. Everybody can do it easily in-game
* ETCs now use a transparent and efficient market, our very own EVE market
* Fights price fixing–one of the single most complained about issues with the current secure exchange
* Opens up for a larger supply, lowering the ISK exchange rate in the long run as anyone can exchange their ETCs more easily
* Enables you to create corporate Contracts for your members in exchange for Pilot Licenses
* Empowers you to recruit new players on trial into your corporations with Pilot Licenses
* Allows you to give someone a “free beer” (I like this part)
* Cramps down on RMTs (Real Money Traders) style with a kill and a smile
* It‘s pure awesome

Benefits to EVE and CCP

* Cramps down on RMTs style with a kill and a smile
* More and better options for you means more of you and your friends are able to play EVE. That means more subscriptions for EVE, meaning more yardwarre and larger EVE expansions
* Provides a 30-day option while addressing our internal issues with the old 30-day ETCs
* Has the potential to increase monetary velocity

But we are aware of the drawbacks here, such as:

* A larger supply and demand could also increase prices
* Potential immersion breaker, we’re sure you can look past it
* For safety reasons, the Pilot License can‘t leave a station, so you have to create it at the location you want to exchange it at
* The Pilot License can‘t enter any form of container
* It‘s pure evil
* 30 Day Pilot’s License Extension (PLEX)

The 30-day renewable license pioneered by CONCORD is an alternative to its pod pilot contract license. Pilots on this new renewal scheme can purchase license extensions for ISK and thereby forgo the need for a contract altogether.

This item extends your gametime by 30 days when activated. It cannot leave stations but can be traded on the market and through contracts, except via courier.

You might also wonder why it‘s a 30-day license, given our recent move to 60-day ETCs. That‘s quite simple. We needed a single unit which easily mapped to most of our ETCs. While this leaves out the 50 and 100 day ETCs, the rest divide quite nicely with the time-length of the pilot’s license.

We are going to try this out in the next couple of months and see what the results are. You should see this in Quantum Rise or shortly following it. I personally think that it will enable a lot of people to continue to play EVE despite the current world economy and enable others, that could never pay 15 USD in foreign currency but have time to play, to start playing EVE. Like this one time, in Iceland camp, it‘s almost impossible to get foreign currency. 15 USD would buy me a case of beer whereas previously it would get my voracious liver only one.

Giving players a more robust system to exchange game-time for ISK is something we also deem necessary as a result of abuse, exploitation, fraud and hard core companies trying to sell you ISK directly. In the end, this only hurts you the customer and therefore the universe of EVE.

We must continue to battle this and it‘s time for a new strategy. We see what the secure trade of ETCs between players did and we want to investigate ways of making that easier by enable all players to trade amongst themselves directly. If the key to battling RMT is to allow players to casually and securely exchange gametime for ISK, thereby neutralizing RMT companies as a necessary supply, then that is an acceptable, necessary evil.

We ask you, “don‘t hate, participate” in this endeavour.

Quantum Rise, this month

Discrete rise? Cool rise? What‘s rising? Does it describe my sex life? I can tell you that its flagship is performance. While not really a single feature, it signifies all the aggregated benefits that each of the many improvements deliver. Our initial focus on industry and commerce got diverted as we moved more people on to the performance gain team, which we strongly believe was necessary (sorry EON).

When deploying a lot of small fixes, few might actually notice in terms of daily performance – but having deployed 10 small ones, we might actually see a 2% decrease in total cluster CPU usage. That‘s a lot of CPU cycles freed up when you have more than 200 dual-core processors running Tranquility.

You should see the feature pages when we send out another press release this week to detail what is coming this month.

MUCH MOAR EVE – Revealed at Fanfest

Following our two expansions per year strategy, next year’s schedule is starting to shape up as well as the future releases beyond that. For those that haven‘t been with us for long, our release plan revolves around two expansions, launched around summer and winter respectively.

Between these expansions we sometimes roll out smaller patches which typically contain improvements, fixes and more content. In addition, we’ll deploy hotfixes to our servers which address a wealth of under-the-hood things such as those most recently implemented by our teams in Cowboy Mode. Hotfixes happen on a weekly basis, sometimes even more frequently.

The same applies for next year and the years beyond that. Having the largest team ever working on EVE, next year has some real surprises, where we see the fruits of our labor in the last 5 years. There will be some totally new aspects to the game and possibly some old friends revived that you have long missed.

We‘ll be revealing our future vision at Fanfest in person, and of course here online afterwards. However, the point we‘re trying to make is that EVE is still here for the years to come. We’ll have our 2 expansions per year, to infinity and beyond. Frankly, having such huge things like Walking in Stations, player housing, new races, planetary interaction, new environments, professions, new tech levels, and improving all the current functionality with an infinite universe in which to design, we‘re having difficulties putting them all in.

As a result, the next “open” spot for the greatest thing since Fedo sushi is in our winter 2012 expansion. Anything special you‘d like to see happening there? We‘re doing more mud wrestling next week and you are welcome to throw in your ideas. OK, I think Zulupark has a crush on me, he‘s still looking. I’m still giving him a very serious look.

We realize that this summary isn‘t new for a lot of our players who have been with us since 2003, but the contents deserve a repost. The future is bright for EVE. We have a huge backlog of revolutions for gameplay, art, story and design, –some will be unveiled shortly and we truly hope you like what we‘ve been planning. In the last year, you have seen a lot of new faces appearing in game design, engineering, quality assurance, marketing and recently long-standing employee Torfi Frans into the role of Senior Producer for EVE, who has been with us since the dawn of the game and who will be presenting what‘s in store next year. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised by what we‘ll be revealing.

Fly safe – and hopefully I see you at Fanfest. The beer is quite cheap now.

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Editorial Your computer is an important energy consumer in your home. Can you save energy when using it? This article offers a few tips.
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Comment by fran
by fran on Tue 2nd Aug 2011 23:51 UTC
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Great article as usual.
Sorry if i repeat anything you already said below.

I sometimes build custom gaming pc's on order and can share a few pointers.

1.Check if your computer's PSU (power supplied unit) is 80 Plus certified.
Many pc manufacturers uses generic psu's that don’t quality under 80 Plus certification.
Check, or let someone qualified check it for you and if not 80+ certified it's a good idea to replace it. 80 Plus certified psu's is not even that expensive. It might also make your pc run quieter.
There is three 80 Plus certifications. Bronze, Silver and Gold.

2. LED screen uses less energy than LCD's
Rather use LED screen.

3. When adding a second 3.5" Sata hdd go for the "green ones".
For instance Western Digital caviar Green
Seagate barracuda Green
These drives switch off when inactive.

4.The firmware of motherboard sometimes installs a control centre with tweaking options like "eco mode" among other options.

5. AMD Cool and Quit activated via your bios and then from desktop can save a lot power. see below.

6.Hardware Aids in power usage.

Whit this product you can conveniently switch off discs in a multi disk configuration.

7. Even some Ram can come in ecoform now a days.
Kingston Hyper-X LoVo ( Green )

And lastly.
Our pc is many times overkill for what we use them for.
If you are only going to use spreadsheets, read email you wont need to buy a high spec pc.

Some new Mobo/cpu's unit in one has come out with lower power consumption but still respectable speed and other bells and whistles.
For instance.
AMD 350 Brazos that uses lots less energy but they still have high def.,hdmi outs,Sata6G, USB3 and many other features while using much less energy.

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Linked by ddc_ on Thu 2nd Feb 2012 23:22 UTC
Slackware, Slax There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software. Specifically for such users Free Software Foundation developed Guidelines for Free System Distributions and created the list of absolutely free ("as in freedom") distributions. In this article we are going to look at the most recent entry on the list - Parabola GNU/Linux.
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RE[3]: Rant
by r_a_trip on Fri 3rd Feb 2012 09:33 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Rant"
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Yes there are those saying that [snip]

Yes, but are those nutters in any position to influence lawmakers? My guess is they aren't.

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RE[4]: Rant
by gan17 on Fri 3rd Feb 2012 15:40 in reply to "RE[3]: Rant"
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Never underestimate!! Many nutters ARE today's lawmakers.

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RE[5]: Rant
by r_a_trip on Fri 3rd Feb 2012 17:20 in reply to "RE[4]: Rant"
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That maybe, but getting a whole cabal to decide to allow one type of license and not another is a bit of a stretch.

*** To all those who deemed it necessary to mod me down. With nutters I meant people supporting outlawing all licenses but copyleft. I can't, for the life of me, imagine that that is a majority position nor a tenable one.

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Mac OS X Well, this is a surprise. Several websites have a preview up of Apple's next Mac OS X release - it's called Mountain Lion, and continues the trend of bringing over functionality from iOS to Mac OS X. Lots of cool stuff in here we've all seen before on iPhones and iPads, including one very, very controversial feature: Gatekeeper. Starting with Mac OS X 10.8, Apple's desktop operating system will be restricted to Mac App Store and Apple-signed applications by default (with an opt-out switch), following in Windows 8's footsteps.
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Error: You have already posted a comment in this thread, and therefore, can no longer moderate comments in this story.

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Didn't you know? Thom is a demi-god, able to mod posts after posting himself.

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I don't believe in that god stuff.

I think Thom is just the embodiment of a moral compass needed to unify people in hard times of market sickness and innovation starving, later becoming a symbol of our fanily values, and a voice for our concerns about the future of our devices.

Just because some people point to his words when starting flame wars, and some people see him as the anti-fireball, it's still we who fight, hidden behind some idea of a man (ideal or dutch, doesn't matter).

He's only as real as we make him to be.

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Google Fantastic initiative by Google. Anna Peirano details: "Google is launching a new campaign called 'Legalize Love' with the intention of inspiring countries to legalize marriage for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people around the world. The 'Legalize Love' campaign officially launches in Poland and Singapore on Saturday, July 7th. Google intends to eventually expand the initiative to every country where the company has an office, and will focus on places with homophobic cultures, where anti-gay laws exist." As proud as I am of living in the first country to legalise same-sex marriage, it's easy to forget we only did so in 2000. Also, it's about time the large technology companies of the world started using their power, reach, and money to do good. Hopefully, this initiative will transcend company boundaries, uniting them behind a common, noble goal.
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RE[2]: Censorship??
by Morgan on Sun 8th Jul 2012 20:00 UTC in reply to "RE: Censorship??"
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But why is it only affecting this one, highly controversial story? I hate to rush to judgement but of all the stories posted in the past few years, this has to be the most controversial by far.

And, it's not the first time this has happened. I don't remember the topic but there was a story with an entire thread deleted by Thom a while back; he came in and explained why he deleted it. I hope that if that is what is going on here, he will own up to it.

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RE[3]: Censorship??
by MOS6510 on Sun 8th Jul 2012 20:06 in reply to "RE[2]: Censorship??"
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Seems we have traded placeS, now your attacking Thom and I'm defending him. :-p

But it is strange that the "bug" only happens here. It does seem like human intervention, but let's wait what the Dutch One says.

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RE[4]: Censorship??
by Morgan on Sun 8th Jul 2012 20:07 in reply to "RE[3]: Censorship??"
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Not attacking, just disgusted right now. But I'll try to keep a "wait and see" mindset about it.

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless I've been flashing CyanogenMod 9 nightlies for months now, and the process to do so has become pretty much muscle memory at this point (if cwm ever changes its menu order I'm screwed). One step of this process has always fascinated me simply because I have no idea what exactly it does and why I have to do it: clearing Dalvik cache.
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RE: Comment by anevilyak
by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 10th Jul 2012 19:54 UTC in reply to "Comment by anevilyak"
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Thanks for the clear answer, Rene!

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by galvanash on Tue 10th Jul 2012 23:43 in reply to "RE: Comment by anevilyak"
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Thanks for the clear answer, Rene!

If you want a more nitty gritty detailed explanation, read this:

Also, just fyi - this is the stuff a large chunk of the Oracle patent lawsuit was about... Namely whether dexopt was violating Oracle's patent on dynamic optimizations. The end result of what they were arguing about is what ends up in the dalvik cache.

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PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless "Does Android skew towards a younger demographic? The numbers might surprise you. According to comScore, 52.4% of all Android users are aged 35 years or older. That is five percentage points higher than the iPhone. Near 55% Android tablets users are also older than 35." How is this surprising? Younger people tend to be more brand-conscious, and there's no denying that the iPhone is still perceived as cooler than Android phones. Also note that the cited figures are for the US, Apple's strong home market. I think the figures will look very different for Europe.
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RE: Statistics
by laffer1 on Thu 11th Oct 2012 13:42 UTC in reply to "Statistics"
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I think the take from this should be that any survey done in the US on iPhones is useless anywhere else.

The iPhone and many android devices differ in either software features or specs in different markets. For instance, the new maps app is even more useless overseas than it is here in the US. Some of the Samsung phones have quad core chips in some markets, but only dual core chips here. To put it another way, coke vs pepsi doesn't hold up because the formulas are different in europe than the us just like the phones are different in europe vs the us.

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Windows A California man is suing Microsoft, alledging that his Surface tablet did not provide the advertised amount of disk space. The 32G device has 16G of space for users, as the operating system uses the other 16G. The 64G Surface leaves 45G free for users. The case will turn on whether Microsoft has clearly explained to customers how much free space the Surface leaves for their use outside of the OS. How much disk space does your OS consume?
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RE: Comment by Drumhellar
by Lorin on Fri 16th Nov 2012 13:46 UTC in reply to "Comment by Drumhellar"
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Considering nearly device sold in the past at 30 years or so has less than the advertised storage amount, due to things such as file system overhead, OS and other included software, this should be more of a "buyer beware" situation.

It's shitty that Windows RT needs 12-16GB of space on a 32GB device, but it is easily discoverable either on the internet, or spending a few minutes with the device in a store, which is something you should probably do if you're going to spend $500+ on it.

My iPod advertised 8GB, but there was 7GB free (Now even less after I updated to the latest iOS available for this model).
Same applies to my Nokia Lumia.
Same applies to my laptop. Or the previous laptop.
People should realize that yes, included software takes up space. It's not difficult to find out how much.

Except that they state "32GB of Storage Space" a big difference from what everyone else says

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Man of the Match: THE WHOLE TEAM
Goalscorers: Callum Burden (2) & Bradley Wollin
Match Reporter: Debbie Fishman
Wow, where to start – well let’s go with the weather; horrendous.  Wet, cold and windy conditions saw the Panthers take on Westend Tigers, but every child showed enthusiasm in the warm up and seemed up for the game.  The kids were drenched before even kicking a ball, so it was always going to be tough.
Going to struggle to mention players in positions, as thing’s changed throughout the game so much.  The Panthers took the lead with a strong run down the wing from Edward Colley and a superb ball into the danger area saw Callum & Ben queuing up to slot the ball home, Callum was first to it, 1-0.  Westend soon replied with a good goal that Scott Rankin could do nothing about.  Scott and was called upon several times early on to make some darting runs off his line, one resulting in him getting a bad kick on his knee and having to retire for the rest of the game.  Ben Fishman stepped up and pulled the goalkeeper’s shirt on.  The Panthers seemed a little unsettled with the change and Westend took advantage of this with a further goal to make it 2-1 with half time approaching.
Second half and the Panthers lost a couple of players, Josh Wilkinson & Jacob Ripley through sickness leaving them to lay the whole second half with just ten men.  The remaining Panthers players dug deep, Bradley Woolin & Sam Cooke worked tirelessly down the left and pushing the ball whenever possible to Callum Burden to have some good runs.  Sam Malpas was solid, as was Chris Colley & Edward Colley defended like a giant.  James Drake was quality throughout and a real hero with some last ditch tackles.  William Hall was busy tackling and putting himself about, it really was a team effort.
The Panthers got the equaliser with a confident finish from Bradley Woolin from a well taken Callum corner, just what the team deserved.
Ben Fishman was called upon on numerous occasions in goal and made some fine stops particularly considering how wet the conditions were. Ben’s kicks out were superb and took a lot of pressure off the defence.  Callum Burden had some great strong runs which eased the pressure off the whole team.  Seb was strong in his tackles and got forward as much as possible to assist Callum. The winning goal came from Callum Burden who was strong and precise with a long run and cool finish to win the match for the Panthers.
Man of the match went to the whole PANTHERS team, for what I must say was an incredible team effort with every player giving 100% to the Ossett Town shirt.  A special mention also to the Westend players who like Town’s were positive and gave a great display of junior football, I as a parent was very proud of all the players today, well done boys.
In addition to my report, Coach Steve Fealy has also added some of his own comments regarding the match (see beloe).
Coach’s Comments
All the boys turned up to play in what transpired to be horrible conditions. Wet, windy and just 4 degrees. By half time, 3 players had to go home through injury, illness or not wearing the right clothing.
The second half saw a lacklustre Panthers side take to the field with just 10 players and losing 1-2. They took on board my comments at half time and demostrated how they have been coached to play. Each boy played with spirit, guts and determination for over 30 minutes, and didn’t concede a goal but scored two to win the game 3-2. The 10 players bossed the second half and deserved to be recognised as a group for ‘players of the match’. The boys who started, finished as young men and were a credit to the Panthers. However, special mention must go to the following:-
Ben Fishman, for going in goal to replace the injured Scott without any hesitation, and stepping up to the mark with some fine saves, ball distribution and vocals from the back – thank you Ben.
Edward Colley (Cpt) – went from midfield to back four for 2nd half, and performed as the captain should, mopping up the few errors his team mates made and encouraging where he could – thanks Ed.
Callum Burden – all 2nd half as lone striker, running about and showing great stamina whilst chasing everything. 2 goals and an assist too, thanks Callum.
Sam Cooke – owning the left side as a wing back, linking well with Bradley & Callum when attacking, and carrying out his defensive duties too – thanks Sam.
To all who played today’s game in terrible conditions, you helped a middle aged bloke enjoy his Sunday morning – proud of you all!


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Episode 351: Paul Shapiro of The Humane Society of the United States, and Philanthropist Ariel Nessel

By Jasmin and Mariann — October 01, 2016

Welcome to the 351st episode of Our Hen House!

paul-shapiroThis week, Mariann welcomes featured guest Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The Humane Society of the United States, the nation’s largest animal protection organization. Paul is also the founder of Compassion Over Killing, and the author of a forthcoming book on the cultured meat movement. In this episode, he explains the importance of improving the plight of farm animals through state laws and corporate policies, and reveals the latest news on the Massachusetts ballot initiative.

arielnesselAgain this year, Our Hen House partners with The Pollination Project to announce the winners of the Lisa Shapiro Awards for Unsung Vegan Heroes. We are honored to bring you Jasmin‘s interview with Ariel Nessel, co-founder of The Pollination Project and noted philanthropist. Not only will Ari inspire you with his journey of compassion, you’ll also be inspired by the 2016 Lisa Shapiro Award winners!

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As always, the award-winning, weekly Our Hen House podcast is hosted by Mariann Sullivan and Jasmin Singer

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Robert Rhodes QC specialises in business crime (e.g. civil and criminal fraud, tax investigations, bribery and money laundering), mediation and arbitration (both as counsel and mediator / arbitrator), financial services, regulatory and disciplinary law. He is also registered for direct access with the public.

Robert is noted for his utter dedication to his clients. He has a commercial approach to his clients’ problems, and always gives clear, practical advice.

Robert is a Mediator at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport. He also sits on a number of Far Eastern panels of arbitrators / mediators, including the Arbitration Panel of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, has rights of audience in the Dubai International Financial Centre, and is a member of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre. He has been appointed a Senior International Mediation Expert at the Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center, Hong Kong. He is an Invited Expert on the Professional Committee on Investment Arbitration of the China Academy of Arbitration Law. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the London Court of International Arbitration and of the International Chamber of Commerce, a former member of the Corporate Panel of the Dispute Board Federation, and has been recommended as a Leading Silk in Fraud, Banking and Finance by the Legal 500.

He has spoken in various continents on fraud, money laundering, bribery (including in Italy, where the audience included the Lord Chief Justice), mediation and arbitration. He has published extensively on those subjects, and has been interviewed by the media.

Robert is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UK-Cyprus Enterprise Council, and a member of the Advisory Council to the UK Sichuan Business Association.

Selection of Cases

Shah v Shah (Companies Court)

Company law dispute between brothers who were shareholders and directors of a plc.

BSAL v CHILUKIRI (Commercial Court)

Alleged advance fee fraud

R (Lee) v General Commissioners of Income Tax & HMRC (Administrative Court)

Successful application for judicial review in respect of Commissioners’ adverse decision to a taxpayer.

Connelly v Law Society (Administrative Court)

Significant case on various areas of law relating to solicitors’ practice, including conflicts of interest, obtaining written instructions from a client and solicitor’s lien.

Accountancy Investigation & Discipline Board v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP & Another

250 page judgment of tribunal (chaired by Robert Rhodes QC), relating to disciplinary proceedings arising from the collapse of Mayflower Plc. See

Robert Rhodes QC has written articles and publications on a wide range of legal matters. He has also contributed to training videos, and radio and television programmes. Examples include:

  • “Have the Risks of ADR Escalation Clauses Reduced?”, Arbitration vol 82 no.1 p.16
  • Co-authored first chapter of Lissack & Horlick on Bribery, published May 2011 and 2nd edition November 2014
  • Banks’ liability for fraud on creditors“, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law March 2014 p.175
  • Mediation-Arbitration (Med-Arb)”, Arbitration April 2013
  • In the Hot Seat: avoiding the risk of judicial review when chairing a disciplinary tribunal” NLJ 2011 pp.505-506
  • December 2010 contributed to the New Law Journal supplement on the Bribery Act 2010
  • Trial by Jury under Attack” Counsel Magazine April 2008
  • 2008 contributed chapter “What is the Criminal Law For?” to Smith Institute’s Book “Advancing Opportunity: routes in and out of criminal justice
  • 2006 contributed chapter “The Importance of Jury Trials” to Smith Institute’s Book “Social Justice: Criminal Justice
  • Joint Author of Archbold Practical Research Papers: “Transfer and Applications to Dismiss Transferred Charges” and “Preparatory Hearings in Serious Fraud Cases
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Money Laundering Control, and of the Journal of Financial Crime (and previously of the former European Financial Services Law Journal)
  • Contributor to Law Channel’s Money Laundering Training Video for Solicitors, 2004
  • A Guide to Money Laundering Legislation” (2004) The Journal of Money Laundering Control vol. 8 no. 1 p.9
  • Value Billing” Taxation Practitioner, April 1999
  • Contributor to 1999 Report on Parallel Proceedings by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies
  • The Whole Truth” Accountancy Age 30th April 1998
  • Criminalising Artificial Tax Avoidance” (1998) NLJ 118
  • Juries in Fraud Trials” (1998) NLJ 239
  • Analysis: R v Charlton and others” (1996) Journal of Money Laundering Control 197
  • The Fruits of the Crime” (1995) NLJ 822
  • The Impact of Money Laundering in the Pacific Rim on the United Kingdom” The Criminal Lawyer, November 1994
  • SFO: Abuse of Process?” (1992) Sol. Jo. 241
  • The Inland Revenue and the Criminal Law” (1989) Journal of Criminal Law 477

To listen free to Robert’s podcast on enforcement of confiscation orders, please click on Enforcement of Confiscation Orders and use the access code rhodes 2011. To listen free to Robert’s podcast on juries, please visit and follow the registration instructions. Podcast voucher code is: rhodes2010.

Appointments & Memberships

  • Bencher of the Inner Temple
  • Standing Counsel to Inland Revenue 1979 – 1989
  • Crown Court Recorder 1987 to date
  • Deputy Chairman IMRO Membership Appeals Tribunal 1992 – 2001
  • Member Appeal Tribunal ICAEW 1998-2004
  • Chair of Disciplinary Tribunals for AIDB / AADB 2004 to 2012
  • Chair of Disciplinary Tribunals for the FRC (Financial Reporting Council) 2012 – 2014
  • Member of the Bar Council
  • FCIArb (Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)
  • ALBA (Administrative Law Bar Association)
  • ARDL (Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers)
  • CBA (Criminal Bar Association)
  • CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution)
  • CMC (Civil Mediation Council)
  • COMBAR (Commercial Bar Association)
  • DIAC (Dubai International Arbitration Centre)
  • FSLA (Financial Services Lawyers Association)
  • HSLA (Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association)
  • LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration)
  • LMAA (London Maritime Arbitrators Association)
  • POCLA (Proceeds of Crime Lawyers’ Association)
  • RBA (Revenue Bar Association)
  • The Advisory Council of the UK Sichuan Business Association

          Arbitration and Mediation Panels

  • Mediator at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport
  • Invited Expert on the Professional Committee on Investment Arbitration of the China Academy of Arbitration Law
  • Member of the Beijing Arbitration Commission’s Panel of Arbitrators
  • Senior International Mediation Expert at the Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center, Hong Kong
  • China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (mediator)
  • Jinan Arbitration Commission (arbitrator and mediator)
  • Lang Fang Arbitration Commission (arbitrator and mediator)
  • Chinese Arbitration Commission, Taipei (arbitrator and mediator)
  • Thailand Arbitration Institute (arbitrator)
  • The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution: Panel of Distinguished Neutrals

  • 2016 Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award: ‘UK-China Arbitration Barrister of the Year in England’

  • French

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Areas of Law

Robert Rhodes QC Accreditations

“He has great experience in prosecuting and defending fraud cases” Legal 500, 2014

“…I count myself both privileged and lucky to have had you representing me.” A client, acquitted with costs after a long fraud trial

“Robert had a really good grasp of the issues and was very effective at bringing the parties to a settlement.” A partner in a firm of solicitors where Robert successfully mediated a seven figure settlement in a complex professional negligence case

“I must thank you once again, not only for your help and support, but for the gracious manner in which you gave it. It gave me a lot of confidence, and I know that I would not have been successful without you.” A successful direct access client

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Justin Bieber's rapper pal Lil Za. (Instagram/LilZa)

Justin Bieber's rapper friend Lil Za has been charged with three felonies following his drug arrest at the pop star's home in January.

The aspiring hip-hop star, real name Xavier Smith, was taken into custody after police found a bag of illegal substances during a raid on the Baby hitmaker's home in Calabasas, California as they investigated accusations that Bieber had pelted a neighbour's house with eggs.

Smith was arrested for a second time for vandalising a telephone at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's jail, where he was being held shortly before posting bail.

He has now been charged with two counts of felony possession of a controlled substance, for MDMA (a form of ecstasy) and prescription painkiller oxycodone, and a third charge for vandalising the phone in jail.

The rapper could face up to nine years in jail if convicted on all counts, according to TMZ.com.

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Graphic Novel: Lots of talk, little action doesn’t make it Easy

By Dan Brown, The London Free Press

If Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy’s It Don’t Come Easy was a television series, it would be called Fortysomething.

You know the drill: Middle-aged urban dweller comes to grips with the complexities of life, giving him an excuse to talk a lot with his friends and lovers.

And then talk some more.

Nothing really happens. There are lots of big word balloons, yet no action.

Does that sound like your type of comic? It’s not really mine, if only because I’ve seen this kind of thing before.

The setting here is Paris.

The central character is Monsieur Jean, star of a long-running series of graphic novels. He is a “crusty old bachelor” who is eternally flummoxed.

Berberian and Dupuy share both illustrating and dialogue duties.

To emphasize their hero’s sense of claustrophobia and social unease, panels are packed with words, other characters and props.

When he goes outside, the panels grow, giving Jean and the reader alike more room to breathe.

The structure here mirrors the cityscape, with an elongated vertical panel emphasizing the size of the skyscrapers when Jean visits New York at one point.

It’s too bad the two-person creative team doesn’t experiment more with wordless panels, because they are able to convey so much information and emotion when they rely on their drawings alone.

Berberian and Dupuy are experts at tightly edited digressions, which take us into Monsieur Jean’s past and help explain where his relationships went sideways.

It all reminds me not only of the old Herskovitz/Zwick production from the 1980s, but also the films of Woody Allen.

I hate to sound like a broken record player, but once — just once — could we please have an existential romantic comedy set in the countryside?

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The Pennsylvania Judicial System presents records of research and statistical information about the courts.

This data is presented in two ways. The first way is static tables, available in the references section on the right side of this page. The second way is in interactive data dashboards. Dashboards are online displays that present court data in an interactive way, allowing users to analyze and interpret court statistics at a glance and, in some instances, evaluate court performance.

For more information on what dashboards are and how to use them, please see the UJS Dashboard Help document.

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Civil Case Data

The Statewide Civil Cases dashboard shows the annual filings and dispositions by case type and by county. A mortgage foreclosure tab displays the number of residential mortgage foreclosure filings for each county, and identifies which counties offer a foreclosure diversion program.

A medical malpractice tab displays filings, jury and non-jury verdicts for each county, whether the verdict was for the plaintiff or defendant, and the amount of any plaintiff award.

The civil case inventory project dashboard has two tabs. The “Case Aging” tab shows the age and type of civil cases on the courts’ dockets. The “Civil Inventory” tab shows the differences between counties where courts closely control the dockets to those where attorneys are held accountable to a timetable or case management plan.

Protection from Abuse (PFA) Cases

The Protection from Abuse (PFA) dashboard shows the annual filings and dispositions, including requests for temporary orders. The Class of County tab allows the user to view data in groups of counties of similar population size, and the County Comparisons tab allows the user to customize county groupings.

Dependency Data

The dashboards have enhanced and standardized the collection of child dependency data in Pennsylvania, providing for the first time a comprehensive look as to what is occurring within the state’s child dependent population. The dashboards include detailed demographics of dependent children in the court system. The data is presented from a statewide perspective and broken down county-by-county, providing judges and other child care professionals with better information upon which to allocate resources aimed at improving the lives of abused and neglected children.

Criminal Caseload Data

The Criminal Caseload dashboards provide a detailed look at criminal case statistics both statewide and an overview of each county’s criminal case activity over the course of a calendar year. There are three Criminal Caseload dashboards available for reviewing criminal case statistics:

These dashboards include data from cases before the Courts of Common Pleas, the general civil and criminal trial courts of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Municipal Court, the starting point for all criminal cases in Philadelphia.

Financial Data

Court Distributions

These dashboards show where monies collected by magisterial district and Common Pleas courts are distributed. Most of the money collected for fees, fines and cost is distributed to the state and local governments to help fund government programs. Restitution collected from defendants is distributed to victims of crimes.

There are two separate court distribution dashboards, one for magisterial district courts data and one for Common Pleas courts data. The dashboards show statewide and county distribution totals for 2007 through 2015. The data can be displayed by county, county class, year, type of case and recipient of court distributions.

Court Collection Rate

These dashboards show the percentages of total court-ordered fees, fines, costs and restitution payments collected over time. There are two separate dashboards, one for magisterial district courts data and one for Common Pleas courts data. The dashboards show total statewide collection rates and display the collection rates by county, county class, year and case type.

The dashboards also reveal the total court-ordered payments and amount owed as of Dec. 31, 2015. Collection rates are expected to increase over time because many defendants who owe large amounts in fees, fines, costs and restitution are on payment plans that extend over five, 10, 15 and 20 years, or more


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Health insurance policies steer patients to older, more addictive opioid drugs, study suggests

Friday, September 22nd, 2017

Lawsuits filed on behalf of opioid patients who suffered an overdose have focused attention on the role that drug companies and doctors have played in the U.S. opioid epidemic. But state and federal officials have started turning their attention to another group that has contributed to the opioid crisis – health insurance companies. (more…)

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A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that one in five patients who are prescribed a 10-day supply of opioid painkillers will use the drugs for a year or longer. This long-term use places opioid users at an increased risk of addiction or other complications caused by prescription opioids. (more…)

Wisconsin doctor faces malpractice lawsuit, criminal charges for opioid overprescription deaths

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A Wisconsin doctor faces a lawsuit filed on behalf of four patients who died after being prescribed high-dose opioid painkillers. The lawsuit accuses Dr. Charles Szyman of fatally over-prescribing the opioid drugs to Heidi Buretta, Monica Debot, Mark Gagnon, and Alan Eggert while they were being treated at Holy Family Memorial Hospital in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. (more…)

DEA announces lower 2017 opioid painkillers production quotas in response to abuse, overdose epidemic

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has announced that it will reduce its 2017 quota for the production of opioid painkillers by 25%. The DEA said that it was cutting the supply of prescription painkillers in the U.S. in response to the epidemic of opioid abuse, addiction, and overdoses that have plagued the country over the last two decades. (more…)

Opioid painkillers overprescription ‘one of the great mistakes of modern medicine’ says former FDA chief

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The former head of the Food and Drug Administration says that the dramatic increase in the prescription of opioid painkiller medications in recent decades is “one of the great mistakes of modern medicine.” Dr. David Kessler ran the FDA from 1990 through 1997, around the time that the current epidemic of opioid painkillers overprescription began. (more…)


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President Donald Trump called on the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the U.S. opioid crisis a public health emergency and to take steps to combat the epidemic of addiction and overdose caused by prescription painkillers. As part of the announcement, the President directed federal health agencies to begin taking new steps to combat the opioid epidemic, which has ravaged the U.S. over the past two decades. (more…)

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A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that one in five patients who are prescribed a 10-day supply of opioid painkillers will use the drugs for a year or longer. This long-term use places opioid users at an increased risk of addiction or other complications caused by prescription opioids. (more…)

Americans use more opioid painkillers than any country in the world, U.N. report finds

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A United Nations study on the frequency of opioid painkiller use worldwide shows that Americans are prescribed far more opioid medications than any other country in the world. The U.S. has continued to outpace the other top 25 countries in opioid use despite recent efforts to reduce the availability of opioid medications in this country. (more…)

Lawsuits against painkiller manufacturers filed across U.S. in response to opioid epidemic

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Cities and towns across the country have been devastated by the health consequences of America’s opioid epidemic. Now some of those towns – many of them in rural areas – are fighting back with lawsuits filed against drugmakers that aggressively promoted the opioid medications that helped to fuel the opioid crisis. (more…)

More Americans use opioid painkillers than tobacco products, federal study finds

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More Americans used opioid painkillers in the last year than tobacco products, a recent federal study has found. The results of the study, released by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, highlight the continuing danger that the epidemic of opioid painkiller overprescription poses for U.S. patients. (more…)


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Middle-earth: Shadow of War is amazing. Middle-earth: Shadow of War is terrible. Horza the Dead taught me that. I love him and I hope I have the strength to let him to go. To let him get some well-earned rest.

Developer Monolith Productions’s newest game is set in the Lord of the Rings universe. Players take control of a Talion, a dead ranger haunted and animated by Celebrimbor—the elf who forged the one ring. The pair both hate Sauron and criss-cross Mordor killing his soldiers and building an army of orcs to take him down. It’s a great game with solid systems, but enslaving the army of orcs to hunt your enemies is the real draw.

These orcs aren’t your typical video game NPC cannon fodder. They have backstories, passions, and conflicts among themselves. They’re so well rendered that I’ve become deeply uncomfortable playing the game. The heroes treat them terribly. The wraith and ranger abuse and slaughter orcs and dominate their feeble minds.

There are consequences to your actions. The orcs remember things, hold grudges, and react to your leadership accordingly. In most games, this would be fun, but in Shadow of War, the orcs’ AI and personalities are so vivid that it’s also an emotional burden. I’m serious. I feel bad about Talion’s—and by extension my—treatment of the orcs.

I first met Horza the Dead in Cirith Ungol in the game’s opening hours. He was just another orc. He stopped me in the street and made a speech about how he couldn’t die, and that no matter how many times I killed him, he’d just come back. He was pale and black veins ran down his face. The bones of his enemies adorned his helmet like a morbid galea. I thought he was awesome, then I killed him.

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I wanted him in my army but this was before I’d learned how to subjugate orcs to my will, so I slaughtered him in the street assuming he’d make good on his promise to never die. He did. Hours later in the lush forests of Núrn, he found me.

He found me. I was hiding in a bush and there he was. He called to his fellow orcs, said he smelled manflesh and pulled me out of hiding. After he tossed me to the ground, he told me he was older than the dirt below me and (once again) mentioned that he’d never die. Fair enough. I beat him down, broke his will, and made him my personal bodyguard. Later, he gave his life yet again protecting me in battle. And then he came back to life.

I was on my way to start another quest when he found me again. He wasn’t the orc I’d fallen in love with, but a twisted wreck. His body bore the scars of his recent deaths. The bone galea was gone, replaced by a wrought iron mask enshrining his broken features. Stitches criss-crossed the limbs he lost in his most recent battle. Someone had sewn him back together.

He was furious with me for leaving him behind, for forcing him to fight and die, for using him so badly. We clashed, I won and I reached into his mind to pull him back into my fold but he resisted. So I killed him. Again. Hours later, he found me. The undead orc would not leave me alone. Thankfully, this time I was able to dominate his mind … but Horza had outleveled me. In Shadow of War, the player can only dominate orcs at or below their level. All the combat and death had made Horza too strong to control.

Thankfully, the game allows you to humiliate orcs to lower their level and make them more compliant. I pushed the button to shame Horza and his mind broke in my hands. He screamed in pain, gibbered, and said, “When is my rest?” Over and over and over.

I tracked Horza through the forests of Núrn and found him near a cliff muttering to himself: “When is my rest?,” he repeated in different intonations. He begged, he pleaded, he wondered aloud to himself. I pulled him close to me, dominated his weakened mind, put him in my orc stable, and immediately shut down the game.

I haven’t played it since. I can’t get Horza the Dead off my mind.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War is so good that it’s terrible. Horza the Dead was a proud and immortal orc, an undead monster who chased me across the lands of Mordor and hounded me for hours. Now he prays for a death that will never come. It’s messing me up. This game is massive and though I’ve played for several hours, I’m still in the early stages. There will be more orc tragedies.

This isn’t the first game to give players a group of soldiers or followers. In the X-COM series, those soldiers are like paper dolls. Their personality is what the player projects onto them. Death is permanent, and you’re sad to lose people, but you shrug and move on. In the Mass Effect series, players develop relationships with the NPCs and some of them die and sometimes it’s your fault, but there’s still a narrative remove.

The other problem is that the NPCs of Mass Effect and X-COM are heroes, soldiers, and colleagues. There’s camaraderie between them and the player. The orcs of Shadow of War are slaves. The player kidnaps them and uses magic to destroy their free will. They have no choice. Which might be kind of OK if Talion didn’t then constantly treat them like garbage.

He and his wraith companion talk about the orcs as if they were discussing brood mares and racing horses. They compare their relative traits, discuss what might make a good slave—I mean soldier—and then constantly belittle orc culture. I mean, they’re orcs. They eat people, cause chaos, and murder their own, but that doesn’t stop me from empathizing with them.

Shadow of War has gone to pains to make the player care about the orcs. The advertising tagline is “Nothing Will Be Forgotten,” live action commercials depict orcs lovingly caring for players years after they’ve stopped playing, and holding grudges for decades. I get it. It’s a game, the orcs aren’t real. But playing still makes me uncomfortable. If we can believe people such as Elon Musk and companies such as Google, then we’re on the precipice of human-crafted AI systems that are hard to distinguish from actual, flesh-and-blood humans. Will we treat them as Talion treats the orcs?

Will they just be toys and tool for our amusement? Science fiction has been warning us for years that our treatment of robots and artificial intelligence can and will backfire on us. I think about that every time an orc I’ve wounded or humiliated crests a hill, stares me down, and threatens my life.


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Smokey Spicy Seafood Chowder

This recipe was inspired by the incredible value of the Trader Joe’s Frozen Seafood Blend. Over a pound of frozen shrimp, calamari, and scallops for only $7.99, this is one of my favorite proteins to stock up on when I can make it to one of the few TJ’s in Manhattan. In the past I’ve used it to make Seafood Bacon Zucchini Noodles, but I was ready for something new this time around.

I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t matter if it’s January or July -- I can ALWAYS go for a piping hot bowl of soup. I love Butternut Squash Soup in the fall, and Chili is my default for the winter, but something about the seafood medley inspired me to make a hot soup that is still appropriate for summer. Imagine a crawfish boil meets a stew, plus way more colorful vegetables thrown in. It’s also quick, easy, and cost-efficient.

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Smokey bacon and paprika, plus spicy poblanos and cayenne lend plenty of flavor to this protein-packed soup. Although it lacks the corn or beans of many chowders, this recipe gets its thickness from the addition of mashed potatoes, while staying true to it's paleo nature.

6 thick-cut slices of bacon, diced, plus more for topping (optional)

1 small white onion, chopped

1 large carrot, diced

1 large stalk celery, diced

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 zucchini, chopped

1 poblano pepper, chopped

1 red bell pepper, chopped

½ teaspoon smoked paprika

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

Pinch red pepper flakes

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

2 bay leaves

2 quarts homemade bone broth or chicken broth

2 cups leftover mashed potatoes, or 2 small potatoes baked, peeled, and mashed

1 package Trader Joe’s Frozen Seafood Blend, thawed, OR 1 pound mixed shrimp, scallops, and calamari

In a large stockpot over medium high heat, cook bacon bits until fat is rendered and meat is crispy, about 5 minutes. Add onion, carrot, celery, and garlic. Cook about 4-5 minutes, until onion and celery are translucent and garlic is fragrant. Add the zucchini, poblano pepper, and bell pepper. Stir and cook for another 4-5 minutes. Add seasonings and stir. Add broth and mashed potatoes. Stir well to fully incorporate the potatoes and increase heat to bring to a rolling boil. Boil for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour. Just before serving, strain any excess liquid from the seafood medley package. Add seafood to pot and cook until no longer translucent and shrimp is slightly (but not tightly!) curled. This depends on the size of your seafood, but for the minis usually included in the Trader Joe’s pack, this is about 2 minutes. Remove bay leaves before serving. Garnish with additional bacon bits if desired.


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Iran: Tehran Threatens To Restart Uranium Enrichment In Crisis With IAEA

By Charles Recknagel

Tehran is threatening to resume uranium enrichment if the UN's nuclear watchdog agency passes a resolution criticizing Iran for poor cooperation in opening its program to international inspection. The threat raises tension levels as the International Atomic Energy Agency meets this week in Vienna amid U.S. charges that Iran is seeking the capability to develop nuclear weapons.

Prague, 17 June 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Iran is raising the stakes as it seeks to fend off a drive by three Western powers to get the UN's nuclear agency to rebuke it for poor cooperation with arms inspectors.

President Mohammad Khatami said yesterday that Tehran could resume its enrichment of uranium if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passes a resolution drafted by Britain, France, and Germany that deplores Iran's current level of cooperation. "If this [IAEA] resolution passes, Iran will have no moral commitment to suspend uranium enrichment," he said.

Tehran agreed last year to suspend its enrichment of uranium for an "interim period" as part of a European-brokered deal with the IAEA.

The Iranian president also accused Britain, France, and Germany of collaborating with Washington, which accuses Iran of secretly trying to develop the capability to produce nuclear weapons. He said Tehran could review its relations with the three European powers in the wake of any critical resolution. Khatami said, "If Europe has no commitment toward Iran, then Iran will not have a commitment toward Europe."

Britain, France, and Germany- -- all of whom have trade relations with Iran -- are pressing for a resolution that not only "deplores" Iran's inadequate cooperation but calls for it to cancel two dual-use programs that could help Tehran acquire a weapons-development capability. Evidence that Tehran has been hiding many dual-use elements of its nuclear program first came to light when its uranium-enrichment facilities were exposed by an Iranian exile group in 2002.

Evidence that Tehran has been hiding many dual-use elements of its nuclear program first came to light when its uranium-enrichment facilities were exposed by an Iranian exile group in 2002.

One of those programs is Tehran's planned construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor near the central city of Arak. Iran has said it will use the reactor's production of plutonium to develop radioisotopes for medical and other research use. Plutonium can also be used to manufacture nuclear bombs.

The other activity is conversion of uranium into uranium hexaflouride, a gas that can be processed in centrifuges to yield enriched uranium. Iran has called the uranium conversion a research effort outside the scope of its earlier pledge to suspend uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium can be used as a fuel for producing nuclear power or to build nuclear weapons.

Evidence that Iran is pursuing both programs is contained in a report submitted by IAEA investigators to the agency's governing board this month. The IAEA's board has been meeting in Vienna this week as it tries to formulate a response to the findings.

Tensions over the inspectors' report rose further today as the IAEA admitted that one key charge it contains is erroneous. IAEA Director-General Muhammad el-Baradei said inspectors had wrongly cited Iran for failing to acknowledge importing components for advanced centrifuges. El-Baradei told reporters that Tehran has produced a tape recording confirming that it verbally informed the agency about the imports in January. He termed the inspectors' error "minor," saying, "You have to understand we work with thousands of papers and thousands of sites."

The head of Iran's delegation to the IAEA, Hussein Musavian, called the erroneous charge a "big mistake" and said it had tainted the atmosphere of the board's review session. He suggested that Tehran will seize on the error to press still harder against any critical resolution. "Our expectation definitely is that they [Britain, France, and Germany] should [make] substantive changes in the draft and in the resolution because now it's completely proved there is no...lack of cooperation, and no changes in Iranian information," he said. "Therefore, if they want to be realistic, they should change everything."

Musavian said yesterday he believes the majority of IAEA board members -- which include representatives of many developing countries -- are convinced Iran's nuclear program is peaceful. "Americans have made this allegation [that Iran has a nuclear-weapons program] during the last 20 years, but I believe we have had 670 inspections during the last 15 months," he said. "Now, for the majority of board members, it is clear that there is no atomic bomb or no diversion towards military activities."

Washington's ambassador to the IAEA, Kenneth Brill, yesterday accused Tehran of trying to intimidate board members. "This full-blown effort of trying to change the direction of the board through public and private intimidation, I think, again suggests that Iran has something to hide," Brill said. "People who are trying to produce electricity for light bulbs don't engage in this kind of behavior."

The high tensions between Iran and the Western powers constitute the latest round of what has been a continuing crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Evidence that Tehran has been hiding many dual-use elements of its nuclear program first came to light when its uranium-enrichment facilities were exposed by an Iranian exile group in 2002.

The United States has pushed repeatedly for the IAEA to strongly reprimand Iran for lack of cooperation, but previously lacked support from European states. EU members had urged a more moderate tone in the interest of working cooperatively with Iran.

In a resolution following the IAEA's board meeting in November, the agency "strongly" deplored Tehran's past pursuit of nuclear activities but praised Iran for an "offer of active cooperation and openness" in the future. The praise was directly related to the Iranian government's pledge to the visiting foreign ministers of Britain, France, and Germany in October to suspend uranium enrichment.

Now, the revelations contained in the latest report to the IAEA's board appear to have moved Berlin, London, and Paris closer to the U.S. position that Iran must be pressed harder.

Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and bound by it to cooperate fully with IAEA inspectors. If Tehran fails to do so, the IAEA has the power to refer its concerns to the United Nations -- a measure that could ultimately lead to the Security Council imposing sanctions.

However, the IAEA's governing board is widely considered unlikely to opt for any such action. So far, inspectors have found evidence of Iran pursuing dual-use programs that could apply equally to nuclear-energy or nuclear-weapons development programs. But they have not found evidence proving Tehran is actually engaged in producing arms.

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A Poorer, Younger Church of Great Promise

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in America: Catholicism. Read other perspectives here.

Predicting the future is a difficult undertaking, but anticipating the coming years for global Catholicism is an even more daunting task. We need look only at the events of 2013 to be convinced that the Holy Spirit renders any predictions pointless and altogether foolish.

The election of Pope Francis represented more than a desire by the College of Cardinals for the first Latin American pontiff and the first non-European pope in 1,300 years. Put simply, the center of gravity for the Catholic world has shifted dramatically from the northern to the southern hemisphere. The Church is growing fastest where the world is youngest and also poorest.

Where religion in North America and Europe demonstrates a sclerotic state of affairs and a crisis of both faith and confidence, Catholicism in South America, Asia, and Africa coruscates with youth, vibrancy, and above all a commitment by most Catholic leaders to defend the authentic teachings of the Church in the face of materialism, secularism, and what Pope Francis calls ideological colonialism.

To be sure, those regions face immense problems of poverty, economic exploitation, a slow crawl toward social and political stability, and in the case of Africa, the relentless advance of radical Islam. Still, since 1978 and the election of Pope St. John Paul II, the Church has grown in South America from 195 to 350 million; Asia has expanded from 52 to 188 million; and Africa has exploded from 48 to 150 million. CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, estimates that the Catholic population in Africa has grown by 238 percent over the last thirty-five years.

What are the implications of this for the future?

The Church in this century will be a suffering one. Persecutions in various forms are already on the horizon in Europe, Canada, and the United States as we shift perhaps irremediably toward a post-Christian and aggressively secular culture. Our numbers will likely decline in the West and persecutions will almost certainly continue in all other corners of the globe, from China (which is on a pace to become ironically the largest Christian country), to the Middle East (where Christians are in danger of extinction), to Sub-Saharan Africa, where the forces of the Jihad show no sign of subsiding.

The Church will be poorer. Marginalized and denigrated in the West, the Church will identify more closely with the poor and will be a powerful witness to the joy of the Gospel in the midst of Europe's likely twilight.

But the Church will still be growing, and we will see cardinals from Latin America, Asia, and Africa elected to the chair of Peter. They will guide a global Church that proclaims Christ, understand the dangers of doctrinal compromise, and especially embraces the missionary zeal of the Apostolic Age. With his focus on the poor, God's loving mercy, and his stress on the courage of the Apostles and first Christians who set out into a hostile world, Francis is showing the way forward. It is not for the faint of heart, but it is for the joyful.


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** This post is dedicated to the New York design thinker and doer Jim Walrod, who has passed away. Just a couple of weeks ago I mentioned my intention to post about On 1st to Jim over dinner. Of course, he knew about the store but was excited to see what fresh info I might have turned up. I’ll write about Jim when I have collected my thoughts; wherever he is, I am sure Jim will join us all in the necessary proclamation: Fuck Trump**

//At the entrance to 1159 1st Avenue at 63rd was Sven Lukin’s two-tonne illuminated sign. Photo: Bert Stern//

//On 1st interior including displays of Roy Lichtenstein wallpaper and Gerald Laing plates. Photo: Bert Stern//

In conversation this summer, British artist Duggie Fields revealed to me that, during a sojourn in the US in 1968, he had been in line to work at photographer Bert Stern’s “architecturally mind-blowing” art store/publishing house On 1st in Manhattan’s east side.

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ECB “dismissive” of bitcoin

Virtual Currency Systems (VCS) are flawed and unstable, and could present real problems to established financial systems if they continue to grow in popularity, says a new report by the European Central Bank.

The report also adds that the ECB “does not regard virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, as full forms of money as defined in economic literature. Virtual currency is also not money or currency from a legal perspective.”

VCSs also “present several drawbacks and disadvantages for users”, according to the report, including “lack of transparency, clarity and continuity; high dependency on IT and on networks; anonymity of the actors involved; and high volatility.”

Other worrying areas, it says, include the counterparty risks that arise from anonymous payees, exchange rate risks and risks of investment fraud.

However, as the Wall Street Journal’s BitBeat has pointed out, the report completely ignores the striking developments of the past year, including a swathe of “Bitcoin 2.0” applications and other digital currency innovations.

What’s more, there was “close to zero discussion of the many non-currency uses for blockchain technology now being developed,” said BitBeat, and the report “hardly addressed the notion, widely discussed in both crytpocurrency and financial circles, that digital currencies could play a back-office role in the financial system even if they are shunned by mainstream consumers and businesses.”

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The important conversation on caring for our veterans has all too often taken a back seat this election season. Despite the nascent economic recovery, many returning soldiers continue to struggle to find good jobs. Homelessness also continues to be an agonizing reality for many vets.

The situation was noticeably dire in 2011, when the statistics showed the unemployment rate for young male veterans (18 to 24) was a whopping 29.1 percent (nearly double the national average for similarly aged males.) Though this number may be easing in tandem with the lowering national unemployment rate, tackling the original spike requires an ongoing effort. As for homeless female vets, their numbers have also increased (from 4 to 8 percent ) according to the GAO.

There are projects and advocates out there who seek to curtail the problem. The U.S. Dept of Veterans, for example, has a launched a contest calling on developers to create an app for volunteers to locate opportunities to connect vets with shelter, food and medical resources. And just this week, chronically homeless vets have moved forward with a lawsuit fronted by the ACLU.

Last year we showed you the “enduring sacrifice“ and economic difficulties facing today’s vets. This week we return to the issues of joblessness and homelessness, and look at how some of these individuals have fared in the time since we last talked to them.

Tell us, do you think we do enough for veterans of our most current wars and our historic wars? What more could we do to help veterans once they come home?

  • jan

    Those who need mental help should get it and those who need physical therapy or prosthesis should get it as long as they need it and as much as they need.  I would suggest they be able to get that help close to home at local hospitals and doctors offices instead of being forced to drive to wherever the nearest VA hospital is at.  Those can be quite a drive and for people who are sick or in pain or who just have trouble making the drive, it would appear to be common sense to adjust the location for care closer to where they live.

    Veterans already have favored status with a lot of employers.  Given the fact that jobs are still hard to find, I don’t think its a very good idea to give them even more privileges than what they already have in the employment line unless you want to start a WPA program and transition them into private employment as the economy improves down at the grass roots level.  Veterans and their families are not the only people struggling in the current economy.  For some reason no one wants to look at that fact.

  • Jim S.

    No Revenues = Still No Sacrifice = That’s Called ‘Support’ For The Troops = DeJa-Vu all over again!!

    a decade and counting added to the previous decades of under funding
    the VA, while the peoples reps Still try and lay blame on the Agency,
    after rubber stamping wars and costs of and those represented cheer on
    these wars!

    While the wealthy and other investors garner their booty,
    still from both, and many have the chutz·pa to call themselves more
    patriotic{?} then others wrapped in those false flags, using false
    slogans and various cheap symbols of!

    USN All Shore ’67-’71 GMG3 Vietnam In Country ’70-’71

  • Davezychek

    There needs to be a jobs program in the medical field. Most veterans already have ample training in First Aid, and other skills that can be used as Paramedics or hospital staff, it can also drive down the cost of medical expenses in health care, maybe even lead to a revolutionary alternative medical field!

  • Geowheel

    We have never done enough for our returning veterans. Since the Viet Nam War, when one day they were in the jungle and the next they were flown back to “the World” we have done nothing to deal with the stress of readjustment and PTSD of our returning veterans. We need to increase the aid to these men and women who have been willing to sacrifice all for their country.

  • jan

    I’ll just say that you probably need to do some research into the pay and job requirements for paramedics and hospital staff, such as post high school education, the exam, certification and/or license that you would need before you start talking about asking for a smaller salary.

  • Kgriggs75

    I am a disabled veteran,unable to find or keep employment due to my disabilities.
    My wife is a texas teacher with, no job due to education cuts. We live on 1300 a month va disability plus what I can scratch together repairing thing. This a not to uncommon situation for ptsd vets with physical disabilites as well.

  • Barb

    Are you willing to relocate?  I have a house that is empty, schools nearby that are hiring, opportunity is available.

  • Anna

    I have been sitting on an concept that would be extremely helpful to disabled veterans.  What agency would be best to work with in getting it off the ground?


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This is a free event that only requires a mobile device with an internet connection and QR code scanner. If you don't currently have a QR code scanner installed on your device, check your app store for plenty of options available for download. After that, you're ready to go!

When you find a mini-Soofa, just scan the QR code and you'll have the opportunity to submit your contact information which will serve as an official entry into the drawing for a prize.

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