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5/26 Island Current Fleet…Day or Night We Do it Right!All island current fleet captains were out in full force yesterday day reporting superior local bottom fishing for jumbo porgies. Very nice to see a variety of other species hitting the deck such as weakfish fluke bluefish and striped bass.
Last nights striped bass trip did yield several fish in the 25 pound range.
Today we will have our 5 PM to 9 PM sunset fishing trip. We also have our 630 to 12:30 AM striped bass and bluefish trip.
Sunday, 5/28 we will be sailing to open boats. We have an 8 AM to 4 PM fluke trip and we also have an 8 AM to 4 PM jumbo porgy trip.
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I've made many a rant against how trying to track minute-by-minute updates on your stocks is like to trying to drink from a fire hydrant. On a day to day basis, stock prices move for no apparent reason. It is a better use of the investor's time to read on varied subjects or to even go out for a walk than to stay glued to the stock price ticker.
The point here is of course that the seller almost always has a self-interest when they sell you something. This is not exactly a blinding piece of insight. But one that we often forget when the seller is the investment bank representing the owner of a privately owned firm, i.e. Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Benjamin Graham, referred to IPOs as Imaginary Profits Only and when I did a historical analysis of IPOs in India, that expansion seems apt. I had drawn a parallel between an IPO being timed similar to a lemonade stand opening on a hot sunny day in this quora answer.
This is a logical extension of #2, considering most top management is partly compensated in company stock, it's in their interest to tell a positive story about its prospects. That said, I don't fully subscribe to this view because more information, even if (un)intentionally incorrect, is useful to improve your understanding of what a company is about. If company management only goes on about how fantastic the prospects are with no heed or acknowledgment of sticky economic conditions, you know to lower their credibility rating. Quality management won't hesitate to give you bad news and that's an important part of the investors' checklist for a good investment. Think of it as a way of understanding, not the company, but the kind of people running it.
Guy goes on to talk about how he minimizes distraction by reading physical editions of news sources like Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and so on. He specifically avoids equity research reports by brokerages given the inherent bias that they might be susceptible to.
This is an interesting one. One that I hadn't paid much attention to. Just like restaurants use design features on their menus to get you to spend more, like drawing a box around desirable items, placing items strategically on the page, and making it more difficult to scan prices at a glance, the order in which you consume information could influence your decision. I've found, I have a 'credibility meter' for any source of information I consume. If it's a press release or a puff piece in a largely advertiser-driven media outlet, that meter registers a low rating. Conversely a thoroughly researched piece in a newspaper of repute scores high. In fact, repeated positive coverage of a company raises alarm bells about management's attention on PR and should make you wonder what's coming.
It's vital to block out the noise when it comes to evaluating companies. More than the "no axe to grind", I've found it useful to cultivate a select set of people who's opinion you respect to be able to discuss and debate investment ideas. Also, given I'm unlikely to have access to investors of the caliber that Guy routinely speaks with, I'd err on the side of sharing my ideas with too many people than too few in the spirit of life learnings for investors.
Given all my trading is self-executed through an online brokerage, this rule isn't directly implementable for me. However, the spirit of it makes complete sense i.e. to not be swayed in your decision to buy or sell the stock based on the intra-day variations in the price of a stock. As a value investor, a 3-4% move in the price of a stock should not make a good investment bad or vice versa. Nor should that kind of drop immediately after you buy it unnerve the value investor.
The underlying principle on which the rule is based is sound – so every purchase is carefully considered. However, the reason this rule would not work for me at all is, I've noticed I have a different problem. That of holding on to stocks precisely because they have gone down. This comes from the part of the brain that is averse to losses and wants to atleast recover the buying price before selling, irrespective of whether the company's fundamentals suggest it. This has been a big enough problem that it figures at #2 on my list of my three biggest investment mistakes. My approach has largely been to be willing to cut losses once I know I've been wrong than to let it simmer in the portfolio, accumulating opportunity cost.
He goes on to explain the principle from Robert Cialdini's "Influence: Science and Practice" as the "commitment and consistency principle" where we find it difficult to change our position once we've publicly expressed an opinion even if we have enough reason to.
Found this one particularly insightful, that is also easy to fall prey to. On more than one occasion I've mentioned a stock as a good pick after someone pressed me for my opinion. A few months later, even if my refreshed view of the stock might've changed, I felt it would be disingenuous to go ahead and sell the stock because I had expressed a positive view on it at some point. At the same time, talking about my current investments with the right set of people (as identified in Rule 5), can be a valuable source of insight that I might have missed and therefore can factor into my understanding.
In summary, a fascinating set of rules or principles to apply, of which I can fully identify with some, partly with others and not at all, with one. Any investor should consider and then apply those that work for your unique temperament as an investor.


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The movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, is making a big splash in theaters! How kind of Columbia and Sony Pictures to time the release to coordinate with our writing lessons as we learn to incorporate idioms and metaphors into our writing. Idioms are phrases that mean more than their words put together. If you take them word for word, they might not make much sense! Idioms are a little like puzzles. It's fun to figure them out and even more fun to use them in our everyday language.
President Harry S. Truman invented this phrase and had a sign made for his desk with those words. Truman liked to play poker. In poker a marker called a "buck" was placed in front of the player who would be the next to deal the cards. A player who didn't want to deal could pass the buck to the next player.
On more than one occasion President Truman referred to the desk sign in public statements. For example, in an address at the National War College on December 19, 1952 Mr. Truman said, "You know, it's easy for the Monday morning quarterback to say what the coach should have done, after the game is over. But when the decision is up before you — and on my desk I have a motto which says The Buck Stops Here' — the decision has to be made." In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically in asserting that, "The President–whoever he is–has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job. The sign has been displayed at the Library since 1957.
What are some idioms you know? Can you tell us the origin? I look forward to reading your comments.


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France's Macron, Italy's Draghi and Russia's Putin Discuss Iran, Afghanistan
Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron during a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia June 26, 2020. FILE PHOTO.REUTERS./
Aug 19 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed Afghanistan in separate phone calls on Thursday, highlighting the importance of addressing humanitarian issues in the country.
Putin and Macron also discussed issues of Karabakh, Iran and Ukraine among others and agreed to continue personal contacts, the Kremlin said in a statement.
The discussions came as G7 foreign ministers called for the international community to unite in its response to the Afghan crisis to prevent it from escalating further.
Putin and Draghi both spoke in favour of consolidating international efforts, including through the G20 bloc, in order to foster peace and stability in Afghanistan, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Iranian and Afghan Campaigners Call On UN to Protect Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Italy holds the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 and is considering calling a special summit to address the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a diplomatic source in Rome said.
In a statement from Rome, Draghi's office said he and Putin had had a "substantial discussion" about the situation in Afghanistan and on its regional implications.
They also looked at the guidelines the international community might follow "to restore Afghanistan's stability, fight terrorism and illegal trafficking and protect women's rights", the Italian statement said.
In a separate statement, Draghi's office said the Italian leader had also spoken on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron.
"During the call the two leaders discussed the different implications of the Afghan crisis, including the management of the migration flows and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country," the statement said.
Putin also spoke to Macron on Thursday, discussing Afghanistan under the Taliban's rule and the importance of ensuring the safety of civilians, the Kremlin said.
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By KONG WENZHENG in New York | China Daily Global
Television anchor Yue-Sai Kan has made a career out of helping China and the US get closer
For many Americans, the first time they ever saw a live television broadcast from China was in 1984, when China's 35th National Day celebration aired live on PBS for two hours.
TV host and producer Yue-Sai Kan, who had already created a show about Asia, was the anchor of the historic live broadcast.
The program was also historic for being the first joint venture between a Chinese station — China Central Television (CCTV) — and a US one, PBS.
"It was very impactful because [it was] Americans' first time seeing China," said Kan.
Born on the Chinese mainland, raised in Hong Kong, college-educated in the US and with experience in television in the 1970s, Kan got the assignment from PBS when the network realized that the live feed from China would have no narration.
"If you didn't know a lot about China, you couldn't even begin to do this event," said Kan, who had only two days to prepare for the broadcast.
The anniversary celebration in China featured a lot of elements that were "uniquely Chinese," according to Kan. Not only was there a military parade showcasing China's army, navy and air force, there was also a civilian parade through Tiananmen Square that in many ways represented important social changes in China.
Yue-Sai On the Cover of HILUXURY Magazine October-November Issue
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I didn't make these fyi, I know they're pretty good though.
Don't design your map for anyone. It makes no sense if only a certain section of the player base can play it. Make cool stuff that has depth, think about areas where people can set up smokes and flashes, to allow for tactical plays but if you don't want to throw the smokes or flashes, you don't have to but you will be punished due to exposing yourself to many angles at once and potentially being shot in the side/back while taking an engagement. Make it fun and have depth, and a meta will develop around this (three smoke mirage A take for example). You cannot really predict this meta as you cannot predict every way a player will play your level, you can only guess at a few and make an area play how you want (for example whether you want aggressive CT play to viable in certain areas or not).
I get somewhat the same fps are regular maps, it's just that it seems to drop in places making it incredibly frustrating to play due to the input lag induced by decreases in fps. I made a video of some of the areas my fps was dropping.
Sorry here it is: I'm talking about the boxes to the right of my crosshair, when I said you could block the angle by making them bigger, that flash is also really nice.
I think it's comparable to cobble or mirage in terms of learning the layout, not much verticality but enough routes to add interesting lurk options, but still quite a task to learn to angles and certain strategies you can execute. The one thing that seemed to be bothering the people in the teamspeak was that there are some very powerful head peeks in certain areas. This angle is horrible to counter as a retaking CT: This angle is very strong at stopping T rushes: This angle is very strong for Ts after plant, watching for the CT rotate through the A connector: This angle is debatable, it's a long angle like CT spawn onto A slope on mirage, except you can't be punished if you choose to play it as a ct (probably with an awp, making this position quite strong). I think this angle is okay for an awp vs awp duel, however if I ever wanted to contest this angle with a rifle against an awp, the person with a rifle is at a disadvantage. The balcony on A could work something like mirage's palace, where if someone is playing the long angle they're also open to the balcony where as at the moment they're only open to one or two angles. You could just block the angle by moving the boxes or finding bigger boxes. I don't really see the balcony being too powerful if you were to give it more angles into the A bombsite as Ts already have to cross mid to get there.
I took a look around and I feel that some of the cover on the bombsites could be refined to allow for better playability.
I think you should have had some frags without the HUD and synced to music like a more serious frag-movie and then cut back the more funny stuff, I think it would strike a nice balance and add some variety. This link is pretty good at explaining how to use demos for movie-making: link.
The whole idea behind the crossfire in mid is that if Ts kill the CT window or smoke it they pretty much have free reign of mid, this means to try and stop a split via a connector onto a bombsite could become taxing as well as keeping mid control for late round rotations. The crossfire basically allows for vision onto the opposite connector from where you are standing thus allowing for mid control to still be available but also allowing CTs to play aggressively to stop pushes. This also allows some tactical play to emerge.
Can we get some sort of workshop link? I'd like to have a look at it in game to test some stuff out.
You could leave the ct access there for the reason you stated but make the corridor leading to the heaven area more viable for Ts to win an engagement if CTs do play aggressively (like B apps on mirage).


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We've made it into October of one of the craziest years ever. Here's the music taking us into the 10th month of the year.
The always reliable Dawes has their latest collection of folk-rock to settle us into Fall. The new Jonsi album and Kurt Vile EP should also fit that mood. If you're still up for rocking out a bit, or need something to channel the aggression the world is feeding you, then we suggest spinning the debut solo record from Slipknot's Corey Taylor, or the surprise new solo album from Laura Jane Grace.
Some of the new singles we're excited about are the latest from ska-punk veterans Less Than Jake, rising alternative rock group Magic Giant, and a new Gorillaz track featuring Elton John. We've also got some solid new Americana from Amanda Shires (feat her husband Jason Isbell) and a new one from Isbell's old band the Drive-By Truckers.
The elusive Ani DiFranco has returned with her first new single in a long while. Good to pair with that would be the new bop from Lake Street Dive and the new banger from The Night Game.
Hear all of these and more in our New Music Friday Playlist!
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Ryan Reynolds Shocked by Shania Twain's Brad Pitt Lyric Swap
By Aaron Perine - December 7, 2022 01:58 pm EST
Ryan Reynolds was pretty shocked by Shania Twain calling an audible during her People's Choice Awards performance. The Deadpool star received an award last night, but arguably, the singer's insertion of his name into a space reserved for Brad Pitt might have shocked him more. As has been established by the awards show itself, people just cannot get enough of the Marvel actor. He's been in The Adam Project this year and audiences just adored Free Guy. So, it would stand to reason that there would be some famous fans as well. A ton of accounts on Twitter delighted in seeing Reynolds be visibly surprised by Twain's singing in the audience. You can check out video of it yourself right down below!
A previous interview with Big Issue saw Reynolds reveal that he wrote a Christmas Deadpool movie with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. But it ended up getting scrapped due to the Disney/Fox merger.
"I would love to see a song and dance number in a Deadpool movie. Four years ago [Deadpool co-writers] Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and I wrote a Christmas movie starring Deadpool. But it got lost in the shuffle of Disney acquiring Fox and it never got made," Reynolds shared. "Maybe one day we'll get to make that movie. It's not a musical, but it's a full Deadpool Christmas movie. So one day."
Earlier this year, Forbes talked to Reynolds about all the attention stemming from the Deadpool 3 announcement. "I couldn't be more excited," he etold the outlet. "I mean, especially to do it this way. Ultimately, I get to work with some of my closest friends in the world and that doesn't happen every day working in this business."
"I'm thrilled and I've been sitting on those couple of teasers for a few weeks now," Reynolds added. "It's one of those moments where you're hitting send or a tweet or a post — your hand is shaking when you're messing with the zeitgeist in a way like that… I feel the same way that the fans do, though. I feel as excited that this character is coming back for another ride, particularly in this context. I think it's something that people have wanted for a long time, to get this pairing up on the big screen, and that's what we aim to do."
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Eddie Murphy Reveals if He'd Return as Donkey For Another Shrek Movie While Shading Puss in Boots
Infinity Pool Is Officially Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
HBO Max Hangs Onto Beloved DC Movies Streaming Rights After All
Marvel Reportedly Casts Actor Cut From Spider-Man: Homecoming as Lead in Upcoming Disney+ Show
Did Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Show Elminster in New Trailer?
Ant-Man: Writer Reveals What Happened to Edgar Wright's Version of the Marvel Movie
DCU: James Gunn Seemingly Confirms First Returning Character


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The Little Joe booster was a low-cost launcher designed to test the escape system and heat shield for the manned Mercury spacecraft. NASA awarded the contract on Dec. 29, 1958, to the Missile Division of North American Aviation. Each launcher cost only about $200,000. With its four large stabilizing fins protruding from its clustered solid rocket motor airframe, Little Joe was the only booster system designed specifically for manned capsule qualifications and was also one of the pioneer operational launch vehicles using the rocket-cluster principle.
Because initial solid-section drawings showed four holes up, the project was named "Little Joe" after a crap-game throw of a double deuce on the dice. The project saved money by allowing numerous test flights to identify solutions to problems associated with the development of manned space flight, especially the problem of escaping from an explosion midway through takeoff.
The unguided vehicle was propelled by eight solid-fuel rocket engines. Various combinations of Pollux, Castor and small Recruit engines were selected according to the trajectory desired for each flight. Typically, all four Recruits would ignite simultaneously with two larger motors, while two more large motors would ignite later in the flight. The first five launch attempts used preliminary boilerplate capsules, while the final three attempts carried full production Mercury spacecraft atop an extended spacecraft adapter.
On Oct. 4, 1959, the first Little Joe I took off from Wallops Island, Va. Designated LJ-6 (Little Joe flights were numbered according to their mission goals rather than chronologically), it launched a boilerplate Mercury capsule. The five-minute flight proved the rocket for the following tests of launch escape system.
On Jan. 21, 1960, LJ-1B lifted off from Wallops Island, carrying the rhesus monkey named "Miss Sam." At an altitude of 9 miles (14.5 kilometers), the Mercury escape rocket fired, pulling the boilerplate spacecraft and its primate payload from the booster. Both the escape system and the monkey came through with flying colors, proving that even a failed Mercury flight would be survivable. The success of LJ-1B meant that the next flight, the sixth, to be known as LJ-5, would be the first to fly a real Mercury capsule from the McDonnell production line.
The final series of flights was to test an actual production spacecraft in a max-q abort. Two attempts, L3-5 and LJ-5A, failed, as escape rocket firings were mistimed. The capsule was recovered and renovated to fly aboard the last Little Joe I.
LJ-5B lifted off from Wallops Island on April 28, 1961. Because one rocket motor failed to ignite, the resulting trajectory was abnormally low. In spite of the unexpectedly harsh conditions, the escape rockets performed well, and the Mercury capsule survived in good shape. In eight launch attempts, the Little Joe I had fulfilled its mission, proving that the Mercury escape system could perform its job under the harshest conditions expected in a manned Mercury flight.
The first 13-foot-diameter (3.9–meter-diameter) Little Joe II launcher was fired for the first time from White Sands Missile Range, N.M., Aug. 23, 1963, carrying the 52-foot-tall dummy Apollo command and service module. It proved Little Joe's capability as an Apollo spacecraft test vehicle and determined base pressures and heating on the missile. North American built seven Little Joe airframes, retaining one at its Downey, Calif., plant for static loading tests.
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Length 49 feet 10 inches
Diameter 6 feet 7 inches
Fin span 21 feet 4 inches
Weight 27,998 pounds
Maximum design thrust 230,000 pounds
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Writing Prompt Time limit?
The place to chat about ideas, writing, this forum, or anything related to Interactive Fiction that isn't specific to ADRIFT.
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Re: Writing Prompt Time limit?
by P/o Prune » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:01 am
David Whyld wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see things changing. The Facebook generation are never going to enjoy the kind of games we had as kids and they'd choose something like Candy Crush or Farmville over the likes of The Hobbit any day.
Don't be too sure
My 8 year old grandson came in to my "office" while I was testing my entry to the IFComp 2018. At first he just stood there watching, but slowly he got more and more interested and he actually ended up playing it with me for a little over an hour. (Not that I got much work done in that time. Now on the bright side, if it's cr*p I can always blame it on him.)
by Lumin » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:24 pm
The days of downloading and installing a game on your own are definitely gone though, and let's not even get into the terrifying complexity of installing a program just to run another program, and then checking to make sure you have the right version of that program. Seamless no fuss online play is a must. Most of the other interpreters already have that down though.
by David Whyld » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:01 am
ADRIFT really needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age. I don't have much interest in online play myself, but I'm definitely in the minority there.
On the Quest site, they have pretty good online play and you can even write games online if you want. With ADRIFT, online play is pretty hit and miss. Not all games work with it and even if they do, the WebRunner seems to be down half the time. I just tried three games at random - one didn't support online play at all (but no reason was given for it) and the other two gave me an error message that the server was taking too long to respond. And there's never been an option to write the games online.
Of the two, Quest seems to be embracing the online scene really well (aside for that eyesore of a forum), whereas ADRIFT just hits you with error messages. If Quest itself wasn't so bad, and if it had a half decent forum, I'd be really tempted to use it instead. Any newcomers to the scene - checking out each website in turn - are far more likely to pick Quest than ADRIFT.
by Lumin » Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:19 pm
I started a game with the newest version of Quest once, just to try it out. It's not terrible, at least nothing like it used to be, but it definitely requires some dramatic adjustment of thinking though just in the way their version of tasks etc are structured and I have no idea how the more complex stuff compares since I was keeping what I was doing pretty simple.
And then the forumpocalypse happened and that was a dealbreaker, my interest in the site just evaporated overnight. I'd still like to know how 'let's take a perfectly serviceable forum supporting a community, then strip away all personality, remove everyone's names in public and all ability to communicate in private, genius!' ever seemed like a good idea. And it took what, a year just to add back any way for people to message each other, after tons of complaining that they mostly bitched at their own forum members for because gosh darn it they just didn't understand their vision.
There are some buried gems on that site though which have received no attention at all. Makes it even more of a shame that more than half the front page is dedicated to games not even made with Quest.
by David Whyld » Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:29 pm
I suspect that's intentional. Before the site's revamp, Quest had a reputation as a system which produced some truly awful games. A well-deserved reputation, too, considering how bad most of the games were (and continue to be). Then they had the revamp, games not written with Quest are front page on the site and - hey presto! - suddenly Quest's reputation is much better than before. Why? Well, it certainly isn't because of the Quest games, I can tell you that.
Think about it. You're a newcomer to the world of IF. You Google 'text adventures' - because that's what most people used to call them - and what's the first link you see? Yep, it's the Quest website which is now called Text Adventures. Pretty smart really. If there's one way to guarantee your site gets some attention, it's to call it by the name of the genre. Even better, if that very same site has displayed prominently on the first page games like Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - which are likely titles you've heard of even if you're a total newcomer - it'll grab your attention right off the bat. You'll be sucked in. By the time you realise that none of the good games were actually written with Quest, and that roughly 100% of the bad ones were written with Quest, you're already on the site and have likely started writing your first game.
I don't know whether to be impressed with the sheer nerve of it, or appalled that someone would be so underhanded and dishonest. At the very least, it should clearly state which games are written with Quest and which aren't. I'm also quite surprised that no one has ever taken issue with this as I'm sure if we started uploading classic IF games to the main ADRIFT site, and made a point of hiding the fact that they weren't ADRIFT games, people would be up in arms about it. Talk about false marketing.
All that said, I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of traffic the Quest site gets and how much of it is for the Quest games and how much for the non-Quest games. Something tells me the great majority of it will be for the latter.
I'm guessing a lot of Quest authors aren't too knowledgeable of the wider IF community and so aren't really aware of what a crappy policy that is. Here's a guy with several decent, if sometimes flawed games that will never see any kind of spotlight even though they're genuinely fun to poke around in. Xanmag here has a couple of pretty large and ambitious ones that are much the same. Because there's no real community on the forum anymore and whoever makes the front page listings seems to have very little interest in showcasing the actually decent games on the site.
Although I've seen links that go directly to games made with other systems, on other sites, which you have to pay for to play which...makes no sense at all unless there was some advertising deal in there, or else somebody just isn't paying attention.
I know our site....could be better but Campbell is MIA most of the time and so we make do. The fact Quest has people actively updating it and making these choices is what makes all the issues over there so baffling to me.
Lol, there's a lot of weird fetish porn stuff on there that gets played a lot. All extremely highly rated despite being stuff even the AIF community would laugh out of the room.
Furries ruined the internet.
by David Whyld » Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:19 am
I've long since given up trying to find good Quest games. While they certainly exist, the sheer amount of unplayable cr*p you have to wade through to find them makes it not worth the effort. There have been discussions on the forum about fixing things, but nothing ever seems to change. I guess the people who dislike it leave and the ones who don't mind, or don't care enough to push the issue, are the ones who stay. It also doesn't help that almost every game on the Quest site has multiple ratings of 5 out of 5 which makes finding anything half decent an exercise in futility.
Ideally what they need to do is clear out 99% of the cr*p and implement rules to stop it happening again, but as they can't even fix that awful forum, it's unlikely it'll ever happen.
Edit: Since when did this forum start censoring cr(a)p? It's really hard to have a discussion about Quest without using that word repeatedly
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Wharton alumni are lowering carbon emissions, reducing consumption of fossil fuels—and pursuing profits.
Any problem can be approached from multiple directions. When that problem is as complex as world dependence on a diminishing supply of fossil fuels and resulting environmental changes, multiple approaches are not only possible—they are necessary.
Some of Whartons alumni are stepping up with solutions to this pressing is sue. They're developing alternative resources, funding new technologies, and promoting conservation with the aim of reducing dependence on electricity and petroleum.
Clean, high tech industries are emerging as one of this centurys strongest eco nomic drivers. More than $7.3 billion of venture capital was invested in North American "clean tech" companies between 1999 and 2005, including more than 1,085 investment rounds in 628 U.S. and Canadian companies, accord ing to Cleantech Venture Network LLC, which tracks investment dollars in com mercially viable alternative fuels and energy. And across the Atlantic, Londons Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has become a prime listing candidate for clean technology because it offers looser regulation than the U.S. market, espe cially in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Tucker Twitmyer, C 90, WG 96, managing partner with Philadelphia based EnerTech, says his firm is already reaping benefits from its investments in clean energy.
When you have a trillion-dollar-a-year market in the U.S. that seems to grow at an inexorable 2 percent to 3 percent a year, it just begs for innovation," Twitmyer told Wired Magazine. Twitmyer was among a group of venture cap italists who participated in a panel discussion about clean technology at the Wharton Private Equity Conference held in January 2006.
And the approaches used by alumni are diverse, rang ing from the first high performance electric-powered sports car to fuel cell development. Individually, they are venture capitalists, managers, technologists, and entrepreneurs, all moving forward on their unique ventures; taken together they are dynamic pieces of a complicated solution.
For Tom Arnold, WG'05, the connection from his Wharton education to his career in alternative ener gy couldnt have been more direct.
Arnold was one of 40 students who were challenged by Professor Karl Ulrich in his "Problem Solving, Design, and System Improvement" course in Fall 2004 to launch a viable business that would create a way for everyday drivers to compensate for the environmental damage they cause every time they turn on their ignition. Their deadline? Six weeks. Their budget? $5,000.
Within the timeframe, the students developed a business called TerraPass.
Here's how it works: Consumers go to the TerraPass website (www.terrapass.com) and use a calculator there to measure how much CO©÷ their vehicles dump into the environment each year. The calculator accounts for vehicle make, model and year, as well as how much it is driven. Airline trips, can also be calculated.
Once a consumer has measured their carbon footprint, they can buy a TerraPass, which is used to fund the same amount of renewable energy projects as they are currently responsible for polluting. TerraPass is leveraging one renewable natural resource consumer guilt to finance others.
The projects result in verified reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. And these reductions counterbalance your own emissions, explains Arnold. An average driver emits 10,000 pounds in carbon dioxide in an average year. A TerraPass to offset those emissions costs between $39.95 and $49.95 per year.
In its first year, TerraPass grew to four full time employees and raised $500,000 in startup capital. The company has signed up 16,500 members and taken the equivalent of almost 6,000 cars off the road by funding nine clean energy projects.
Ann Manning, WG 87, manager of Sustainable Business Strategies at Ford Motor Company, worked with Arnold and TerraPass to create a unique partnership dubbed Greener Miles. This program allows Ford owners to go on line (www.terrapass.com/ford) and estimate their annual emissions from driving, and then offset them by purchasing a TerraPass that in turn will fund emission reducing projects.
Manning has also set up similar offset programs for some of their factories.
She said she keeps her focus simple: Hybrid cars. Alternative fuels. Efficient engines. They re all crucial steps in addressing climate change and global warming. Manning said there s another important step as well: better driving.
Think about it, she said. Can you make a bigger impact with a few thousand hybrid vehicles, or with a 1 mpg gain on millions of vehicles sold each year around the world?
This is exactly what Manning is thinking about. Her position at Ford is to innovate, market, create, and promote new strategies and initiatives that will keep the company driving toward the future.
Ford's vehicles are already 99 percent more efficient than they were in the 1970s, said Manning, so the potential for squeezing even more miles per gallon for every vehicle is not nearly as great as it used to be.
Ford's focus now is on carbon emissions, she said, targeting climate change and global warming at the tailpipe.
"You hear a lot about exciting new fuels that can do a lot about greenhouse gases," she said.
Ford currently offers three hybrid vehicles in its lineup with two more on the drawing board, and offers four "Flexible Fuel" vehicles that can run on E85 ethanol. In addition, Ford's manufacturing plants are pushing to be more green.
Manning's job also includes convincing Ford's customers and existing owners that the potential to reduce emissions is a lot greater than just the new technologies.
Here's what Eco-Driving is: gentle accelerating, staying at the speed limit, constant speeds, smooth decelerations and turning off a vehicle rather than letting it idle for long periods of time.
And Manning has an even simpler solution: drive less.
While hybrid cars like those from Ford—powered with electricity and petroleum—are working their way onto U.S. freeways, Elon Musk, W'97, hopes to take low-emission cars to a whole new level with Tesla, a high-performance, highly efficient electric sports car that doesn't burn any oil at all.
Tesla is one of several eco-business ventures Musk is involved in, and he is extremely optimistic about the entire genre.
Take this comment: "The solar industry is going to be gigantic, way bigger than the Internet," he said.
Coming from Musk you'd be foolish to do anything but take this prediction seriously. Musk has launched and sold a series of successful businesses including PayPal, which was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock in 2002. So what's he doing now?
Tesla Motor's first production model is slated to roll out in December 2007, and Musk plans to own and drive the very first one. The first model, the Tesla Roadster sports car, is capable of going from zero to 60 mph in around four seconds, has a top speed of better than 130 mph, and can travel up to 250 miles on a single charge, which at today's energy prices would cost about $3. It beats a tank of gas. The car's power comes from its Lithium-ion Energy Storage System, or battery pack, which can be recharged in about 3.5 hours.
To achieve this, Solar City conducts assessments of homes or businesses that are considering going solar. The company will then install power systems that produce electricity during the day. Any excess electricity is sold back to the utility grid at retail process. Solar City is also acquiring existing small solar energy suppliers around the U.S. which are already providing power to some businesses and homes.
Musk said there's a public misconception that converting to solar energy takes 20 or 30 years to pay off.
Musk said his company is not lobbying for government subsidies like those that existed in the 1970s and early 1980s.
"We think we have to make solar cost efficient enough that government subsidies are not necessary," he said.
Bringing the price of solar down involves a lot of "fairly mundane" work, said Musk—process improvement, technology installations, monitoring panels, better assembly systems, better combinations of technology.
And although the largest solar energy users are outside the United States, Musk said Solar City's focus so far is entirely domestic.
"The U.S. market is the biggest in the world, and I think that if the U.S. uses 25 percent of the world's energy, that's a big market," he said.
While Musk is launching new solar businesses, Bill Rever, WG'82, is working with one of the stalwarts in the industry as strategic marketing manager for BP Solar.
Rever first became interested in solar energy as a graduate student at Penn State, where he earned a dual degree—a master's degree in engineering along with his Wharton MBA. It was an engineering course in solar energy, combined with the stimulating business classes, that led to his life's calling.
Upon graduation, Rever said he "knocked on doors" of the top solar energy businesses, and was offered a position with a small but up-and-coming solar energy firm, Solarex. During the next 20 years, Rever came along as Solarex was purchased by Amoco, and again when Amoco was acquired by BP, one of the world's leading energy companies.
BP Solar designs, builds, and installs solar electric systems for residential and industrial customers. The company has installed systems in more than 160 countries and has manufacturing centers in Australia, India, Spain, and the U.S.
The solar industry, these days, is almost entirely focused on solar photovoltaics, although there is still a small market for solar thermal products in India and other places. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the solar energy market in the United States was driven a lot by government demonstration projects funded by the Department of Energy. Photovoltaics were entering markets where it was economically justified, typically remote areas without conventional and inexpensive utilities. The market here flattened in the late 1980s, but started growing again in the early 1990s. Climate change and global warming, as well as reduction in access to petroleum, have brought new attention—and funding—to solar, said Rever.
Rever's work has always been demanding, and these days travel is a constant, he said. In the 1980s, most of BP Solar's markets were in less developed countries. Now the markets are mainly in the avant-garde of new energy and environmentally driven markets like Germany and Japan.
In the last year, with a leading role in the development of a global marketing strategy for BP Solar, Rever has visited Japan, Australia, China, Germany, and Thailand, working with officials to develop new markets. He said he hopes sometime to shift that focus domestically. The United States accounts for just 7 percent of the global market for photovoltaics, even though it consumes 25 to 30 percent of the world's energy.
Rever said solar power is such a fringe player in the United States that many people assume that because he's at BP, he's in the petroleum business.
Home solar systems are still too costly for widespread adoption, but Rever looks forward to that changing. There's been a long history of cost reductions, he said, on average about 5 percent per year. Rever said the key factor keeping solar from becoming a financially viable alternative for homeowners are the historically low prices for other forms of energy. As electricity and gas prices rise, however, he said solar is becoming a more reasonable alternative, both economically and environmentally.
While Rever is working to capture and convert sunshine into power, Bob Aresty, W'63, is hoping to reflect and absorb those same rays.
Aresty is president and CEO of The Solar Energy Corporation (Solec), the world's largest manufacturer of specialized, heat reflecting and absorbing coatings for solar, building, roofing, and manufacturing. The technology behind these coatings was developed in 1974 in a laboratory on a farm in Princeton, NJ, and today Aresty produces two types of coatings that insulate and control heat and light absortion and radiation. The factory itself, heated 100 percent by solar, has a glass front to make best use of passive solar heat.
The technology may look like just another layer of paint, but the chemistry of that coating can produce energy savings immediately. It sounds entirely too simple ? you paint on the products and your bills go down. Solec's coatings can lessen air conditioning costs by 10 percent to 15 percent.
"I think of what we do in our little niche, we could do between $50 and $100 million a year, and we don't do anything like that," he said.
That could change. Aresty's products are part of the green buildings movement, the larger trend to develop high-performance buildings that meet five areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.
The movement was marginal when Aresty began, but it is now mainstream. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has a membership of more than 6,900 organizations. McGraw-Hill Construction estimates that more than $59 billion will be spent annually on green building by 2010, up from $10.2 billion in 2004.
The imperative for greener building technology is worldwide. In November 2006, the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Awards honored environmental entrepreneur Enrique Gomez Junco B. for leading Mexico toward greener construction. When Celsol, the company he founded to provide solar energy to hotels in Mexico, faltered due to lack of financing, Gomez Junco re-launched his business in 2000. Under the name Optima Energia the company has been building energy and water efficient buildings through performance contracting, saving its clients, 84 million kilowatts of electricity, 11.9 million liters of natural gas, 2 million cubic meters of water, 14 million liters of diesel, for a total of $1,000,000 (USD) a month.
Like greener buildings, biodiesel is a technology that is available now—it's already a fuel additive for gasoline, and almost any engine that uses diesel can be converted to biodiesel.
In 2005, Tian Long, WG'00, saw the potential, and left investment banking to found one of Asia's first biodiesel businesses: Vance Biodiesel. With corporate headquarters in Singapore and its production based in Malaysia, Long's company is using local palm oil to produce a high-quality biodiesel that is helping supply Asia's growing power needs while reducing carbon emissions.
Because the outlays of capital for biodiesel production facilities are massive, established companies are leading the way in the U.S. For example, DuPont is currently partnering with BP to commercialize biobutanol, an alternative to ethanol developed under the leadership of John Ranieri, AMP'02. While biobutanol is a superior product, producing it economically is the challenge.
In the Philippines, Vincent S. Perez, WG'83, similarly took a multi-pronged approach while serving four years as Energy Secretary until 2005, moving his country toward conservation and oil exploration, while pursuing greater reliance on clean, indigenous and sustainable energy sources including biodiesel and geothermal power. Solving the energy crisis requires immediate changes and long-term transformation.
Scott Schecter, WG'86, CFO of HydroGen Corp., is taking the long-term view to clean energy: the fuel cell. While commercialization is still in the future, success could be earth-changing.
Here's how fuel cells work: a simple chemical reaction turns hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity. Unlike a normal generator that emits pollutants, the only byproduct of a fuel cell is the pure water vapor. And unlike a battery, a fuel cell will continuously produce electricity as long as hydrogen and oxygen are supplied to it.
Schecter's firm focuses on a type of fuel cell that uses liquid phosphoric acid as the electrolyte to conduct the electricity.
His challenges include expensive materials and limits to efficiency. His goal is cheap, reliable power.
HydroGen Corp.'s technology was developed by Westinghouse Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy in a $150 million partnership in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2001 a group of investors got together and took over the project, launching HydroGen Corp.
HydroGen Corp. acquired all of the intellectual property and hard assets developed in that program through a series of transactions. Now the company plans to install and operate its first major demonstration project, a 400 kilowatt fuel cell power plant, at ASHTA Chemicals Inc. chlor-alkali manufacturing plant in Ashtabula, OH. Installation is scheduled for 2007. The project is supported by a $1.25 million award from Ohio.
Schecter said that in their first five years, HydroGen has raised $40 million, and gone from an eight-person startup to a fast growing company with 60 employees.
Schecter came to HydroGen Corp. from another environmentally friendly fuel industry firm, where his focus was on air pollution control and fuel treatment technology.
"For the better part of 15 years I've been around green companies, trying to do something positive for the environment," he said. Schecter said fuel cells are a source of power not reliant in any way on foreign governments. In addition, they produce pure water, an asset in arid climates.
The early high costs of the technology stalled its development. But these days rising power prices as well as increased environmental regulations are prompting renewed interest in alternative energies, he said.
Elon Musk shares Schecter's optimism from the other side of the investor relationship. He said that although his goal in investing in both Solar City and Tesla is to find solutions to climate problems, that aim will almost certainly reap a profit as well.
His hope is supported by recent events. In the past two years, several solar companies made huge IPOs. In 2005 SunPower, a unit of Cypress Semiconductor, raised $139 million in an offering underwritten by Credit Suisse Group and Lehman Brothers. Chinese solar company Suntech Power Holdings raised $400 million, and in Germany, QCells raised $288.5 million.
No wonder that clean technology has strong investment support via VCs, private equity, and traditional investment banks with an eye on the future.
According to the 2006 Cleantech Venture Capital Report on North American venture capital investing, by 2009, 10 percent of all VC investment activity will be in the arena of clean technology ? up from 3 percent from 1999-2001. That amounts to between $6.2 billion to $8.8 billion invested as venture capital firms go to the markets to raise capital in an estimated 1,000 rounds between 2006 and 2009. The energy component is the fastest growing sector, comprising upwards of 70 percent of investments in the industry, according to EnerTech's Tucker Twitmyer.
And those sums don't include the internal investments that public companies like BP and DuPont are pouring into clean technology.
And if the projects funded take off, the whole world will benefit, not just the investors.
Martha Mendoza is a working journalist and a Pulitzer Prize winner. This article includes reporting from Knowledge@ Wharton, "The End of Oil? Venture Capital Firms Raise the Profile of Alternative Energy," published April 26, 2006.