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Isis 'executes up to 200 fighters' for trying to flee jihad and return home ISIS loses ground to Kurds in Syria’s Kobane

^^ EA thinks with its wallet, not with its head. I think anyone who pays a lot of real money for virtual money is a fool.

Hahahahaha ... no. Surely people don't fall for this nonsense?

At the end of last week Paradox held a live stream for Cities: Skylines and now there's this edited version. Last Friday Paradox and Colossal Order held an hour long live stream for Cities: Skylines, their city builder which is due for release next year. The Paradox video editing guys have decided to chop the hour long chat down to a 13 minute segment which they are calling "Gameplay Infrastructure - Highlights". ---- More videos here: http://www.incgamers.com/2014/09/cities-skylines-infrastructure-highlights-snipped-from-live-stream

We are not even talking about ISIS.. Filipina Maid Finally Rescued After Working In Saudi Arabia After posting a video on Facebook, Filipina maid, Nargelene De Guia Mendez was rescued from her employer in Saudi Arabia. Her emotional plea garnered almost 500,000 views on Facebook, and over 100,000 on YouTube. Although the video is in Tagalog and many comments are in Arabic, Mendez described her situation as dire and abusive. “They beat my colleague yesterday,” she says. “They also beat me. Please help us. I’m begging you.” The Philippines is home to many who travel in search of work to the Middle East, only to find themselves victim of “Kafala,” a system that gives employers unlimited control over the lives of their immigrant employees. This controversial immigrant worker system is very similar to a type of slavery, and suffers from poor government regulation. One aspect of Kafala allows employers to control passports and visas, resulting in many workers, such as Mendez to become captive in abusive working environments. Earlier this year, a different maid from the Philippines suffered serious burns after her employer’s mother threw boiling water at her. This resulted in scars throughout her back and legs. In that case, the maid was saved when her employers finally brought her to the hospital to treat the burns. Recently, yet another Filipina maid gave birth to twins after having an affair with her employer’s neighbor. She is currently facing criminal charges in Al-Nouf, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates for committing adultery. In that case, her employers claimed not to know she was pregnant at all. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1645564/filipina-maid-finally-rescued-after-working-in-saudi-arabia/#ejiOcmdw6YfWbXvp.99 I am aware that this sort of abuse has been going on for years. Most of the victims are women from poor Asian or African countries such as the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Ethiopia. This is video plea is rare since the employers (the sheiks or some rich family) take away their passports and means of communication. Even worse, if a woman is raped in that part of the world, the rapists get away with it and they punish the woman for adultery.

Inside Look at an ISIS Slave Market The video was shared by Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and shows several jihadists sitting on couches talking about selling their slaves. One ISIS terrorist explains what he is willing to exchange for a new slave: “I will buy her for a pistol. The price differs if she has blue eyes.”… “If she is 15-years-old I have to check her…check her teeth. If she doesn’t have teeth, why would I want her?” One boy is asked is he could handle a sex slave all by himself, and he responds with a nod and a giggle. ISIL Cut Throats of Babies; Killed Over 100 Kids in One Yazidi Village

Unfortunately, these monsters also released a mass beheading video featuring 18 Syrian personel. The video was professionally done (?) in slow motion similar to a movie trailer. I do feel sorry for ISIS' hostages and their families and friends. I highly doubt there is any hope for the release of the other hostages. They take pleasure in this. They want war. They want bloodshed. Give it to them. Islamic State: Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane no longer so isolated

25 Years of Sim City By Gerald Lynch on 03 Oct 2014 at 10:00PM Happy 25th birthday to Sim City, the game that spawned a thousand imitators and kickstarted the careers of a generation of city planners. Oh, and it also inspired a little known life simulation series called The Sims. You may have heard of it. We'll skip over that. First released on October 3rd 1989, Sim City, masterminded by game design legend Will Wright, was a revelation upon its release. Giving you granular control over a top-down city's residential and industrial planning, you could micromanage the power grid and taxes, and even unleash a series of disasters upon your otherwise-utopian idyll. The 1989 monochrome version of Sim City for the Apple Macintosh Sim City went on to become a worldwide, franchised hit with multiple sequels. But its success also offered developers Maxis the rare opportunity to spin off a number of increasingly-niche titles under the same Sim banner. Some were great, some bizarre, some downright dull. We may be living through the age of video game sequels, but I'd bet my annual healthcare budget on this selection never getting a current-gen makeover. Sim Earth (1990) Who wants to play at being a mayor when you can play at being a god? That was the premise of Sim Earth, a massively ambitious simulation that put you in charge of not just a town, but an entire planet. The game acted like a pixellated biosphere -- with control over everything from the cloud formations to volcanic activity to even the shifting plates of the continents, minor changes or oversights in one area of planet management could have disastrous effects elsewhere. Or, conversely, a perfectly balanced world could lead to the evolution of not just life, but intelligent, sentient life (which, in true Sim fashion, you could wipe out with a purposeful earthquake). Sim Ant (1991) The Sim franchise proved early on that its society-building template wasn’t limited to human civilisations. Rather than following up quickly with a rote Sim City 2, Maxis took a different tact in 1991, and pushed out the slightly bizarre Sim Ant. As the name suggests, the focus here was on bringing an ant colony to local dominance — one of the few Sim games that has an “endgame” goal in wiping out the area’s red ant strongholds and infesting a nearby house, forcing its human inhabitants out. Sim Farm (1993) Long before Harvest Moon had you digging up turnips, marrying the local horse breeder and eyeing up an extension for your homestead, Maxis took a more studious approach to simulated agriculture with Sim Farm. It did for gaming what Countryfile does for BBC TV -- it sent all that played it to sleep. Sim Health (1994) "The National Health Care Simulation". If that blurb isn't cardiac-arresting, I don't know what is. If you're the sort of person who finds simulation games dry, you'd probably need a few blasts from a defibrillator to get through Sim Health. With none of the humour or charm of Theme Hospital, you were put in charge of the entire US health care system in the mid nineties -- a time when so-called Obamacare was probably just a scribble in the current president's notebook. A UK equivalent today would be particularly apt -- just how few nurses does it take to run a hospital? Which immigrant group can you make the scapegoat for GP waiting times? And just how many backhanders can you get away with before privatising the entire NHS? ---- Read the complete version here : http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/10/25-years-of-sim-city-the-sim-game-sequels-well-never-see/

USA Airstrikes continue in Kobani ISIS continues to behead Kurds... including female fighters US airstrikes help Kurdish fighters scale hill outside battle-torn town of Kobane to remove sinister ISIS flag that had flown above them for a week Independent: Horror of Kobani: Headless corpses left in the street and victims with their eyes 'cut out', the savagery of Isis laid bare Turkish Border Point of View: Turkey approves USA use of its bases against ISIS. Is ISIS the first terrorist group with its own airforce? They captured some Syrian airbases months ago: FOX: Former Iraqi pilots training ISIS fighters to fly captured Syrian jets, rights group says

Very beautiful.

When game maker Will Wright began looking for a publisher for a project called Micropolis, there wasn't a lot of interest. The game, which was specifically designed so it couldn't be won (or lost), was so outside the box that virtually no one was willing to take a chance. That's when he found himself on the doorstep of a tiny publisher called Maxis. They decided to give it a shot. One name change and 25 years later, we are celebrating the birthday of the great SimCity. The city-building simulation caught the collective imagination of the gaming community when it was first released in October of 1989, ultimately giving birth to nearly 20 sequels and spin-off titles, including the biggest PC franchise ever, The Sims. Born from Wright's realization that he was having more fun creating levels for his previous game - Raid on Bungeling Bay - than playing the game itself, SimCity has been named as one of the ten most important games of all time by The New York Times and PC World. It had real-world implications, too. In 1993, Chevron commissioned Wright and Maxis to make a custom version of the game for them called SimRefinery, which helped new employees understand the ins and outs of the company's refineries and distribution system. The University of Southern California and the University of Arizona have even used the game in urban planning and political science classes. That is a testament to SimCity is depth as a simulation. As the mayor/overseer of a fictional city, gamers need to keep an eye on the city's infastructure, ensuring that power is adequate, crime levels are low and tax rates are just right, while still dealing with unexpected disasters. And what wonderful disasters the game offers! Floods and earthquakes were bad enough, but when Wright threw in giant monster attacks and tornadoes that could result in train crashes, the mayhem was too much to resist. Later games, like the beloved SimCity 2000, would build on this, adding extraterrestrial invasions and meteor strikes. The series has had its ups and downs through the years. While The Sims went on to become the best-selling PC franchise of all time, other attempted tie-ins, like SimCopter and SimAnt, were only moderate successes. Maxis went all out trying to spin the formula into more hits, but Streets of SimCity, SimEarth, SimHealth (which simulated President Bill Clinton's healthcare reform proposals) and others never really caught on. There's still a strong demand for the game, though. Even the 2013 version of SimCity, which earned an avalanche of bad reviews for its requirement that the game constantly be connected to the Internet, sold more than 2 million copies. ---- Read here: https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/simcity-turns-25-232150981.html

After mapping ocean floor, crews renew search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370

CNN: ISIS video claims to show beheading of Alan Henning; American hostage, a former US Ranger, threatened Henning has been beheaded by ISIS. ISIS now threatens to behead another hostage (American)

Watch What Life Is Like for Ordinary People in an ISIS-Controlled Town How ISIS Uses Oil To Fund Terror Islamic State Militants Execute Female Iraqi Human Rights Activist The US Air Force and Navy are releasing videos of some of the airstrikes on the Internet.

Report: ISIS Publishes Names of 150+ Syrian Soldiers Stripped and Killed at Tabqa Airbase Last August 24, ISIS captured Taqba Airbase in Syria. They massacred the prisoners after. Islamic State: Isis flaunts captured Syrian fighter jets in video showing massacre

That was PR nonsense from the Sim City (2013) team. You and I both know how that backfired on them. You should never lie to your customers.

Japanese 'mercenary' captured and interrogated at knifepoint by ISIS jihadists with British accents in Syria Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727683/Japanese-mercenary-captured-interrogated-knifepoint-ISIS-jihadists-British-accents-Syria.html#ixzz3BH41tns6 I feel sorry for this man. He has a Youtube channel here: Haruna Yukawa and a Google+ page: Haruna Yukawa He claims he is an employee for a Japanese Private Military Company (PMC). But I have a bad feeling he is the only employee of that PMC. From his videos, he does not look like an experienced soldier. I think he is a military otaku who was inspired by the Japanese game Metal Gear Solid. He just wanted to play a real life PMC. Note the similarities. ======================= These people still ive in the Bronze Age

Isis’s advance in Iraq Interactive Map [LINK] These Amazing Photos Show Normal Life Just 30 Miles From Where ISIS Is Fighting

foreign workers Tajikistan

...I wonder why they need to advertise this...

There are rumors they are also killing children. CNN: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, known as the "Invisible Sheikh" and the "new bin Laden." CNN: ISIS kills 80 men, captures 100 women in Iraq. DailyMail: ISIS massacre 80 men, capture 100 women 'ISIS want to impregnate Yazidi women and smash our blond bloodline': Fears grow for the 300 women kidnapped from Sinjar Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724658/Were-not-leaving-Yazidis-refusing-come-mountain-300-women-stolen-ISIS-impregnated-smash-blond-bloodline.html#ixzz3AZ98L300 At least 50 soldiers beheaded by ISIS in Syria. Warning: This news report does NOT have censors and is very graphic. I will put a spoiler tag. I am usually skeptical of the stuff Daily Mail posts. Weird news but might be disturbing. Islamic State offering HONEYMOON bus tours across Syria and Iraq after opening ‘marriage bureau’ for women looking to marry the jihadist of their dreams Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708796/Islamic-State-offering-HONEYMOON-bus-tours-Syria-Iraq-opening-marriage-bureau-women-looking-marry-jihadist-dreams.html#ixzz3AZ6qkMtm ISIS talking about Robin Williams' movies (after he died): images from here : ISIS-militants-seize-key-towns-villages-close-Syrian-border-Turkey http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723659/ISIS-militants-seize-key-towns-villages-close-Syrian-border-Turkey.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724889/ISIS-goes-nuts-Nutella-Brutal-Jihadists-reveal-bizarre-soft-spot-chocolate-hazelnut-spread.html

I was surprised Messi got the Golden Ball. I felt James Rodriguez (Columbia) or Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, etc. (Deutschland) deserved the award.

Wikipedia was updated quickly... Mario Götze He scored the winning goal in the FIFA World Cup Finals 2014 against Argentina.