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More Barriers to Playing with Friends… December 21, 2012Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EVE Online, World of Tanks.
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I have often complained about the strict server architecture of MMOs and how they keep you from playing with your friends. World of Warcraft has ever been the prime example. I know so many people who play or who have played WoW, but most of them play on servers Eldre'Thalas where I have invested the vast majority of my time and effort. And so our paths rarely cross. I have made characters on other servers from time to time, but inevitably my focus can really only be on one server and there are only so many alts you can play.
And this sort of tale goes back to the early days of EverQuest, when friends rolled up on different servers and so we never played together.
In the last week or so I have run into two more examples of this sort of torment.
First, Potshot and Earl from our regular Saturday night group decided to jump into Need for Speed: World, the driving game I have played and written about now and again.
However, since I last played, EA has added a new server, Chicane, which is where new players appear to get routed.
Of course, all of my time and effort has been invested in the old server, Apex.
And, as you might guess, never the twain shall meet. There are no server transfers that I can see. At least my account appears to work and, after a day or so, it actually recognized that I had some of the RMT currency, Speed Boost, available and let me access it on the new server. But now in order to play with Potshot and Earl I need to give up a garage full of cars and start again from scratch.
That probably isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Well, the starting from scratch part at least, since they appear to have revamped the game yet again and, while there are still driver levels, those levels seem to have lost all of their meaning. But not being able to drive the cars I have collected… well, that sucks.
And then there is World of Tanks.
I play on the North American server naturally enough and I have been bugging some friends to try the game out, including long time pal Gaff.
Gaff also plays EVE Online with me… or I play with him… anyway, there we are in EVE, which has one server for the whole world (outside of China) and thus attracts quite an international mix. Our alliance, TNT, is heavy with European players.
Our alliance also has a clan in World of Tanks and channels on our TeamSpeak server dedicated to that. So when Gaff finally got off the dime to try WoT, he ran off to where our alliance mates were playing.
They were, of course, playing on the EU World of Tanks server.
And there is no mixing of the North American and the European servers. They require different clients and they do not share accounts. You cannot, it seems, even use the same email address to play on both servers.
So once again, to play with friends, I have to give up all the time and effort invested. Before I had gone on this latest WoT binge, I might have considered it. But now, with me driving towards a tier VII German tank destroyer and a tier VI Russian heavy tank, not to mention gold invested in their crews, I see starting again as a huge barrier to swapping servers.
I suppose I should be happy that they at least let you roll an account on the EU server from outside the continent . That isn't always an option.
But it is still a barrier.
So once again, EVE Online has something that I think others should try to emulate. I play on the same server as every blogger out there going on about EVE Online. I just never see them… or play with them… for other reasons.
But at least the option exists.
- 1. bhagpuss - December 21, 2012
I'm strongly in the "server community" camp. I do believe that different servers have different cultures within the same game and I have a much more enjoyable time on some servers than i do on others. It makes no difference whether this is objectively nonsense – it's my subjective experience in many MMOs and therefore to me it matters a lot.
Consequently the idea of MMOs moving to single-server communities is an anathema. With that said, though I am in complete agreement with you on barriers to entry for friends playing in the same game-space. The ideal situation in my opinion is something like Rift, where there are many individual servers (well, not that many now but you get my drift..) but players can move between them with reasonable facility and with little cost.
I wouldn't advocate infinite free server moves, which would seem to undermine the kind of server communities I believe grow over time, but a free move once a week or so would seem to provide the best of both worlds.
- 5. bhagpuss - December 21, 2012
Funny you should mention Freeport – that would be near he top of my list of really good, distinctive, individual server communities. Playing there (it's been my primary EQ2 server since the day it launched) confirmed everything I feel about servers having very different cultures within the same MMO, something that different rulesets emphasizes even more strongly.
Indeed, in an ideal world I wouldn't just have lots of servers but no two servers would have the same ruleset!
- 9. Toldain - December 22, 2012
Everybody is on one server is one of the many things I admire about Eve.
I would argue that in a game such as EVE, people break up into smaller communities anyway. So I don't think that's much of the argument.
- 12. Brian 'Psychochild' Green - December 23, 2012
Wilhelm, you ignorant slut. (Starting the classic insults early, as you've admitted you're rude to people who think you can interact with a whole server community. ;)
You can actually interact with a whole server community. I did it a lot. Okay, so it was on Meridian 59 where the servers were a lot smaller. But, your inability to interact with a whole server in more recent games has nothing to do with the innate nature of online games, and everything to do with the design decisions (server size) made by the game developers.
I'm with bhagpuss, in that I like server communities. As a player, I like the fact that I could run into new and interesting people outside my social circle more often. I have alts spread all around DDO, and each server has a slightly different feel to it as the cultures have developed independently, despite being the same game.
As a developer, I like the flexibility of separate servers. On the player-motivated side, you have things like "unofficial" role-playing servers, where you can get a critical mass of people interested in role-playing without having every asshole who wants to disrupt people telling stories with each other. On the developer-focused side, you can set up different rule sets for different servers; the classic example being PvP-focused servers. (Or, for M59, the non-PvP servers.)
There are still technological and development problems as well. EVE Online's monolithic server comes at a cost. Think people are going to tolerate Time Dilation in WoW (for example) to have one massive server? When your zones are lots and lots of empty space, it's easier to add more empty space to expand the world. When you have to create content such as locations and topography that allows people to not get stuck, being able to shunt people into different shards makes sense.
That said, it would be nice if it were easier to play with your friends. Games should at least let you create accounts on multiple servers. And, stuff like GW2's guesting is a nice step in the right direction, but overflow servers present other technical problems. (And, guesting still isn't working quite right a few months after launch, so it's likely a non-trivial issue.)
So, there are some really good reasons to have different servers. Such as allowing your "friends" to "accidentally" pick the wrong server so they don't have to put up with you. (Hey, I've done that a few times myself. ;)
- 14. Shawndra - December 23, 2012
WoW has come a long way to crushing the barriers between servers, especially where friends are concerned.
I take part in regular raids with people from all different servers. We exchange real id information, and form a group and pick a raid. It's great!
Last week a friend from my original WoW guild asked for help on a quest. We grouped up, and I made my way to the area he was questing. Despite me being on a PvE server and his being on a PvP, we were able to fight his monsters together, and I came out of it flagged for PvP, back on my home server.
Last night I grouped with some friends who had made pandas, again on a different server. The four of us entered the dungeon queue to grab a fifth random player, and we ran two dungeons.
Moral of the story…so long as your friends are of the same faction there are almost no boundaries to playing together, unless your friend is playing on a european server.
- 15. Brian 'Psychochild' Green - December 24, 2012
@Wilhelm: I was playing EQ2 for a bit, then a friend bought me GW2 for my birthday in November. So, I've been playing that. (G'damned MMO tourists, I swear! ;)
As for interacting with the whole server in M59, it didn't require any special tool. Just one thing: a global chat channel. And, there was a cost to using it: it cost you part of your mana that was used for casting spells. Chatting too much meant you couldn't fight as well, and even in town you had to wait for mana to regenerate. Made it so that everyone could talk to everyone who was paying attention to global chat, but without too much spamminess. Of course, a global chat channel isn't really feasible in a game that has a few thousand people simultaneously; again, having thousands of people per server instead of a hundred is a design decision, one we've grown to accept as the default, though.
You wrote, "On person's "different culture" can be another's noxious environment."
Yeah, but what your universal server is the noxious environment? What if someone thinks The Mittani is the antichrist and doesn't want to play on the same game world as him? I guess that's possible if and only if you speak Chinese, eh?
I'm not saying either solution is the only "right" one. I'm saying there's some significant benefits to having the shard-based design that shouldn't be discounted. For all the heartache of someone not being able to play with his or her friends, there are other benefits to consider for both players and developers.
- 17. Brian 'Psychochild' Green - December 26, 2012
@Wilhelm, I wouldn't say too large, but I dislike any design philosophy that takes something on faith unquestioningly. I've seen that you could create interesting MMOs that thrive on a few hundred people online at a time. The assumption that you need thousands of people on a server at a time should be realized as a design choice.
As for "interacting with a server", it's about the community. If the right person says the right thing (an admin proposing an event, a guild enemy threatening to take over a popular guild hall), then you'd get wide participation and people messaging others to log on. (Out-of-game communication was a lot more prevalent when the games were smaller. I still remember people in EQ1 swapping email addresses to stay in touch.) Over a course of a week I'd probably interact with a majority of the people with active accounts on a server, when I was an admin and the times I tried to go incognito as a player.
Was I interacting with everyone all the time? No, but it's possible to interact with a higher proportion of the server community in a smaller server than in a larger one. You're going to run into the same people over and over again, which sparks friendships and rivalries. Compared to GW2, where even after a bunch of newbies went through the hard new dungeons with 1 person short and added each other to the friends lists, we still haven't interacted with each other since that night because the others get lost in the crowds, particularly with the weak server boundaries in the games.
- 19. Brian 'Psychochild' Green - December 31, 2012
@Wilhelm Yeah, strong communities transcend games. There are a few people I met in M59 who I am still in contact with, despite not being in M59 for a while now. But, I've found this happening less with the other MMOs I've played. Despite playing in a raiding group in LotRO for a few years, I haven't remained in contact with anyone there, unfortunately. Of the few dozen people I played with in DDO, only one person remains and is someone I'm likely to stay in touch with.
I think you point out the problem: the social difficulties were also what drove us to form social bonds When you take away the social friction, you take away a lot of the opportunities for people to form bonds as well.
In GW2, the attempts to free us from social friction have also reduced opportunities to form bonds. As I said, I did some GW2 minidungeons with some newbies after someone lost connection. It was a trying situation and we accomplished something; we friended each other, but we didn't really group up after that.
People have said they form temporary nonverbal agreements with people as the cooperate, but it feels too much like "single serving" party members that you use and discard. Doesn't even have the quasi-formality of RIFT's open parties.
I think larger communities wouldn't be such a bad thing if it weren't for the relentless focus on soloing in games. I'm reading Desktops and Dungeons, a book about the history of computer RPGs. He goes to great lengths to say that MMOs/MUDs are more about socialization, but I find that funny given how much focus has been taken off of socialization in recent games.
As I said in my most recent blog posts, I also think the economy being shared across all servers has created other problems as well.


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NADA's NC chair calls auto bailout a good step forwardSubmitted by WWAY on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 5:56pm.READ MORE:
The National Auto Dealers Association is the voice of local auto dealers across the country. NADA chair Annette Sykora called today's action, "The first step toward restoring consumer confidence." Full story...»
Toys galore at the Salvation Army giveawaySubmitted by WWAY on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 5:40pm.READ MORE:
For the past few months, the Salvation Army has been collecting toy donations for needy families. Friday, all those donations were given out at the largest toy shop in the Port City. Full story...»
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Indecision about shipping Jose Montalvo's bodySubmitted by WWAY on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 5:23pm.READ MORE:
Montalvo's body is scheduled to arrive in Mexico on Saturday. However, Sanchez's attorney Eric Altman said the funeral home in Mexico told him if they didn't receive almost $3,500 by 5:00 p.m. Friday, they wouldn't pick up the body from the airport. Full story...»
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Buying new can be overrated; at least that's the buzz since the economic downturn. But there may some truth to it. Sometimes it's just cheaper to fix what you've got, instead of buying the new stuff. Full story...»
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The airplane was destroyed on impact with terrain following an in-flight loss of control following a reported loss of engine power during initial climb on takeoff. The pilot was uninjured. The passenger sustained minor injuries. The pilot stated, "Within seconds of rotation I perceived an abrupt hard yaw to the left with near simultaneous rolling of the right wing up and activation of stall warning horn. I reflexly applied hard right rudder [and] [aileron] [and] pushed the nose down which partial reduced the yaw [and] roll. We continued to rotate in a spin with the left wing tip striking the ground [and] spun tail first into the ground. The entire incident from perception of yaw to ground strike occurred in a matter of a second or two." The pilot stated he had a "power loss [left] engine." FAA inspectors performed an on-scene examination of the wreckage. An inspector stated, "... I immediately noticed the grass had not been mowed and the approximate length of the grass was 16" to 18" high. ... The landing gear collapsed during impact, left and right wings were twisted and bent. The left and right engines broke free from the mounts, and the aft fuselage section including the empennage completely separated from the forward section (just aft of the aft facing seats) and came to rest on the top inboard section of the left wing and engine. I was unable to determine any anomalies." The left engine was test run and it produced rated power. The Beech 58 manual's emergency procedures section stated, " Where practicable, the emergencies requiring immediate corrective action are treated in check list form for easy reference and familiarization. Other situations, in which more time is usually permitted to decide on and execute a plan of action, are discussed at some length. ... ENGINE FAILURE AFTER LIFT-OFF AND IN FLIGHT ... The most important aspect of engine failure is the necessity to maintain lateral and directional control. ... An immediate landing is advisable regardless of take-off weight. ..."
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Tax Evasion Leads to Prison for Florida Realtor Who Evaded $1.6 Million in Income Taxes
At Tax Resolution Services we always say that you only can evade taxes for so long before getting caught. No tax cheater ever seems to think that the longer they get away with tax evasion, the steeper their penalty will be when they get caught! Case in point:
Florida real estate agent Thomas Daugherty, 54, of Fort Myers, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for tax evasion. The court also ordered Daugherty to pay $2 million in restitution to the IRS.
According to court documents, from 1998 to 2005, Daugherty, who specialized in commercial real estate transactions, attempted to evade paying approximately $1.6 million in federal income tax.
Daugherty placed real properties in the names of others and purchased cashier's checks with money he earned, rather than depositing the money in a bank account from which the money could have been seized by the IRS. Daugherty cashed the cashier's checks, as needed, to cover living expenses.
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|Haiti Hydroelectric, Rotary Club Metro NYC
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|Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation
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|IMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students from low-income communities to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions.
|Innocence Project
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|Lighthouse Guild
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|Muscular Dystrophy Association
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|Swim Free is dedicated to increasing the level of safety for participants and event organizers in and around the water.
|Team ASPCA
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|Team Boomer Fighting Cystic Fibrosis
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How to Install WordPress on Server 2008 the Easy WayBy Ben Culbertson
You know, I've never been much of a fan of using Windows as a Web Server. I don't like ASP code, I never liked the configuration of IIS 5 or 6, and I know a lot of guys who just got tired of wrestling the security issues on Windows Server.
Not to mention the fact that most Open Source software is written for Linux and Apache, and while I've banged around on the Windows port of Apache, it's just easier to use a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) box along with one of those nifty cPanel interfaces to get stuff done.
Server 2008 & IIS 7
However, the world has been a-changin' with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. IIS 7 can now support PHP, and since so many of the most popular scripts for content management systems and blogging software are written in PHP, my mind opens up a bit towards the possibility of using a Server 2008 box for web hosting. But even so, the tweaks and worksarounds to make the Open Source stuff work on Server 2008 have been kind of a pain.
The wizards over at Microsoft have even tried to make web life on a Server 2008 box a little easier with their Microsoft Web Platform Installer. . This little 1MB download will help you not only easily install PHP, IIS, WordPress, Drupal (one of my absolute favorite web apps!) , and a whole mess of other stuff on your web server, but also keep your code up to date. (Note: Check out the 2.0 Beta version for easy installs of PHP support and the latest and greatest from the Open Source stuff. Skip the 1.0, it's so yesterday.)
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No longer limited to US citizens suspected of human rights abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the updated list of Americans prohibited from entering Russia now includes new categories of individuals.
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Put that spy on the list too. How nice of Mr. Putin to let him go. The US is laughing at Russia now.
R.W. Emerson II I agree with you on almost every point, almost. The Racists here hate Zionism almost more than anything else. Sad part is, I think leaving the U.S. would improve them greatly as they do care, just misguided. Marx said to play the races against one another to gain full control of the populace. America is case-en-point. We are hammered DAILY with things that tell us to mistrust this person, that person, if its new to you be afraid. Gosh, we can't even say we disagree with our president without being called a racist or worse. The American people are good people,we just have coocoos in control.
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Tiscali nets big broadband additions
Tiscali bagged 62,000 new broadband punters in the UK during the first three months of the year, its financial report revealed on Friday. The new lines bring the Italian firm's UK subscriber base to nearly 1.5 million - fourth behind Virgin Media, BT, and Carphone Warehouse, and ahead of fifth placed Orange, on just over one …
We're not customer, we're prisoners
I'm one of the new customers this year, and it's diabolical.
I'm on the verge of using the trade descriptions act "unfit for purpose" clause to get out of my 12 month contract.
Tiscali have serious network problems, the forums are full of people suffering.
The common theme seems to be bandwidth. From what I can deduce, Tiscali are adding far too many people to an already congested network, and then packet shaping many services into oblivion. If you only browse the web, you'll probably be alright. If you dare to use anything else, voip, multiplayer game etc, good luck.
As for peer to peer, forget it. It took me 5 days to torrent down one debian DVD image... And they call that a 2 meg connection.
Where are the good guys ?
I have been a happy Pipex customer for years, most unhappy customers seem to be the ones who joined after they decided to try and offer combined services.My point is that the way things are going eventually there will be no such thing as a 'pure' ISP and it will become harder to find access that isnt subject to shaping etc.
If this is how the net is going to evolve then maybe its time to get out, I dont want the Internet to be a 'shopping mall' sanitised experience with security guards telling me I cant do something/go somewhere because of an ISP policy.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ...
RE Pipex
I too was once a happy Pipex customer, but no longer. Over the past 12 months I have had numerous connection problems, been unable to contact customer services, no problems listed on the website and have just received a letter explaining that they are very sorry but due to an error with their billing system, I now owe them over £160 for 8 months unbilled service. Why did it take them 8 months to inform me that they hadn't been paid? When I asked the credit control team this question, their response was 'it is up to the customer to check if payment has been made'. I rarely check my bank statements, silly i know but surely I should be able to think my bills are being paid when I have set up automatic payments. As you can imagine, i was not very happy and have now cancelled my service with them and will manage with dial up until I subscribe to a new provider.
other places can be ok...
Tiscali in richmond, surrey is ok - my mate regularly dl's many vids and albums, no probs..
goto http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/ for more chatter, but **first** note what part of the country they are complaining about!!
The big blame has to be on the companies rushing into 3-play or more, thinking only of the advantage over the other company, and forgetting what the customer wants!!
Bad organisation by some local offices of some companies, and the usual slow practice of BT does not help either!!
The next person to blame is the idiots that want **everything** for almost nothing, basically a *massive* road-hog of the internet!! It is their utter greediness, that forces companies to limit, making it bad for normal surfers, and also straining already stretched resources due to lack of money put in, due to forced low prices!!!
The only real answer for companies, is to provide a *montly contract* so the people can decide for themselves!
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While there has not yet been an official announcement, word around the aerospace community is that Mojave, CA-based XCOR will be establishing a presence on the east-central coast of Florida, building engines and maybe spacecraft at a facility at the Kennedy Space Center.
The official announcement will be made at the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the space center's visitor's complex next week. Florida Today reports that the information about the Florida business venture was included in an invitation to the August 23rd event at 1000 EDT. XCOR would not confirm any details beyond what was included in the invitation.
The deal is the result of a lot of work with Space Florida and the Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast, which has been reeling since the end of the shuttle program. KSC had recently issued a request for commercial proposals for use of the former Shuttle Landing Facility ... a 15,000 foot runway and other infrastructure ... which would obviously be attractive for the Lynx spacecraft being developed by XCOR.
The county is reportedly offering a local match for nearly $1 million in state grants under a special tax program for targeted industries. Space Florida has agreed to pay up to $3 million as the company reaches certain milestones.
An XCOR representative reportedly told the Brevard County, FL, commission that it hopes to be open at KSC by October, 2014. Their business plan calls for hiring over 150 people at an average salary of just under $61,000.
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Reviews for St. John's Wort Eye Contour Cream
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By Ashley on April 3, 2013
Not my HG eye cream
I really enjoy using this product. It moisturizes very well and my fine lines seem smoother when using it. However, I wish it penetrated a bit better as it feels a little greasy, even later in the day.
By A.Chang on March 16, 2012
Works well
Received this in a sample size and so far so good. Have only been using it for a few days but it is quite firming and absorbs well. Very moisturizing without being greasy. Quite effective at freshening up the eye area, i.e. taking away that tired look after a long day and it's only been a few applications. Will definitely be buying this in the full size.
By Charlotte on February 17, 2012
Magically erases my expression lines
An excellent, effective eye cream. Seems to magically erase my expression lines when it absorbs into my skin. Rich, creamy and satiny smooth. A big thumbs up for this one.
By Geneva on December 25, 2011
I really wanted to like this product but found the smell quite strange and the results odd as well. After using it overnight a few times, I realized that it actually made my eyes feel DRY all day long. I had to put in eye drops to moisten my eyes! I stopped using it after about 4 days because of this.
By Nicole on April 12, 2011
Cannot live without this product!
I have tried a couple dozen eye creams during my life but I am not trying any more! I found the best in the St John's Wort Eye Contour Cream. Super elasticizing, helped reduce my wrinkle lines, smells and feel lovely. I cannot live without this product!
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March 8, 1909. New Haven, Connecticut. "Telegraph messenger boys. They work until 11 p.m." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Some of the boys have their coats buttoned one way, and others have them buttoned the opposite. Was there a specific time in history when fashion, necessity, or someone's personal whim decided that mens/boys coats buttoned one way, and womens/girls coats buttoned the other way?
I bet that this photo prompted the adage "Handsome is as handsome does."
I know this is asking the impossible, but: Joe Manning! Tell us every story here!
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Later to be seen at a Post Office near you.
Just kidding of course, they were probably hard working lads who went on to better things later in life.
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Hey man, have you heard of that Harbinger guy? He's going around trying to intimidASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL OF THIS FORM
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An illustrious super sexy beer hopper with the body of a God. *Buddha*. He is quite the enigma when it comes to locating him, seeing to as he is always at a pub. Although he doesn't have much hair, his curvaceous body makes up for it. Anyways, he is also a mega moderator on the ever-so-popular paintball forum, cleverly abbreviated as PbN. He has the power to ban people, and do pretty much whatever he likes. When he does such an act, it is called "HARBINATING". (You can get harbinated by the harbinger, who does the act of harbinating) He also has the power to do pretty much anything, including whipping up a mean filet mignon! He pulls most of the workload for the slacking moderators, along with sstruckguy and dager. Harb, I love you, because we know you are reading this. Consider this a proposal.
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It happened along Adams Road just east of Pine Ridge.
This tree snapped and got tangled in the power lines.
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Linda, funny you mention this...I was thinking how odd it was for Mario to have his charity golf tourny scheduled the same weekend the SCF's game seven (last weekend).
This type of tourny can't be scheduled or cancelled at the last minute, so maybe Mario knew/thought what we were thinking..that they wouldn't advance or take it to game 7.
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg invited the South Bend Community to take part in a town hall meeting Thursday at the Kroc Center to express feelings on who the new police chief should be.
The event was no full house, but those who attended came with a lot on their mind. And the one thing a majority of participants had in common- they want to see the new police chief hired from within.
Mayor Pete says he held the event to make sure citizens were able to give their two cents on what they want to see in a police chief. Multiple individuals expressed concern over an out-of-town chief, claiming he would be unfamiliar with the workings of the South Bend P-D, and said it would be unfair to those who worked their way up in the ranks.
Others said they don't care where the new chief comes from as long as he is qualified and dedicated to serving the city of South Bend.
Several council members were present and voiced their opinions on the matter. 6th District member Oliver Davis says he would like to see candidates have recommendations from previous councils they have worked with, and ensure they choose a home in the city of South Bend, not any of the surrounding communities.
1st District Council member Tim Scott reminded the crowd he is originally from out of town. Scott says he received a warm welcome upon arrival to South Bend and would like to see a new chief recieve the same treatment.
Council Member at Large Derek Dieter says he doesn't want a chief who will use South Bend as a stepping stone. He wants someone who will be invested in the community.
While Mayor Pete has hired a consultant to help in his decision making and through the application process, he will be the one to ultimately appoint a new chief. He said he will consider the input from the community.
A new chief should be in place by the first of the new year. Mayor Pete and his consultant say they have between 8 and 10 applications in already.


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NTOTP considers no-till marketing
By Larry Dreiling
While No-Till On The Plains (NTOTP) held its 13th annual winter conference, the series of meetings on conservation tillage and crop residue management actually dates back to 1992, when officials from the Natural Resources Conservation Service were looking for ways for producers to become more involved with continuous no-till.
In the 18 conferences held, no-till has "grown-up," with more sophisticated producers looking to take steps beyond transition from conventional tillage to a near maintenance stage of behaviors in which there is a continuous flow of nitrogen, carbon and high residues. Greater available water in the soil and high nutrient cycling with increased nitrogen and phosphorus attainability is achieved.
Because so many producers have grown-up in no-till, this year's conference, again held for about 1,100 persons at Salina, Kan., took on a slightly different approach, with speakers taking more futuristic visions for innovation in agriculture.
What's next
Chief among the speakers was Kirk Gadzia, owner of Resource Management Services, a Bernalillo, N.M., training and consulting firm. Using the theme "What's Next for Innovators," Gadzia, whose consulting firm is involved in holistic approaches to agriculture and life, began by telling producers to consider the challenges NTOTP has had over the years in making no-till work better agronomically, by using better equipment, locations, and timings.
"We've had to think about getting it right economically, in terms of yields, costs of production. Keeping yields up and costs down equals profitability," Gadzia said. "We've also had to consider the social acceptance of no-till over the years. It continues to be an issue.
"There's also understanding and working with ecological principles, being aware of how nature works. It's also understanding and re-focusing on soil health, understanding the use of cover crops and possibly integrating livestock into an operation."
The new challenges are the same as the old ones, Gadzia said. Agronomics, economics, ecology and social issues will still matter to those who use a no-till system, but with a different twist.
"You have to ask yourself, what business are we in? We grow food for a profit. Profit is not a dirty word. It is important. Yet, we are different, because we grow soil, too," Gadzia said.
"That's important. Not enough people know that. We need to have people realize it and make that connection."
Gadzia quoted a manuscript by Dr. David Montgomery, a professor of earth sciences at Washington State University, that said: "Soil erosion is the least appreciated but most important environmental challenge we face. Every bit as important as global warming."
Gadzia told the producers about Montgomery's global study of how, while plowed land erodes at a global average of one millimeter per year, soil builds at an average of two millimeters per year.
"What Montgomery called direct seeding, or no-till, has average erosion rates very close to soil building rates. The conclusion: No-till provides a major foundation for sustainable agriculture," Gadzia said.
"Unlike so many other places in the world, we've still got our soil. We grow food and we grow soil, too."
In reiterating his position, Gadzia discussed taking no-till from the field to the table by developing a system where certain crops could be certified as coming from a no-till operation, much as they are certified organic today.
"Consider what you hear on the news these days. We hear about organic and local. We hear about food safety, food security. We hear about sustainability. We hear about farmer's markets and community sponsored agriculture," Gadzia said.
"Surveys have asked consumers if they want locally produced food and/or environmentally sound produced food. The responses have almost always come back with 'both, please.'"
Gadzia said this response stems from consumers in developed countries and their personal relationship with food. The trend toward consumers purchasing more organic production, which has grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $20 billion in 2007, is expected to increase an average of 18 percent a year in the next few years, according to the Organic Trade Association.
Gadzia showed covers from the books of noted organic boosters such as Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver as part of the popularity of these authors and their reach into the consumer market.
"A lot of people have picked up these books and have begun to challenge how they eat. It will affect the market. The issues of locally produced and environmentally sound food are having a big impact on people," Gadzia said.
Because of this movement, several organizations-from Oregon Tilth to the California Organic Food Association-have developed certification and labeling programs to assist consumers in their search for locally grown, environmentally sound food.
"We all want healthy land and healthy food. What's there to fight about?" Gadzia said. "From LocalHarvest in Kansas to Natural Certified Angus Beef nationwide, we can learn something from them. We are not at odds with any of these people. We have common goals. What are we fighting over-whether we use Roundup or not?"
Gadzia said no-tillers should be touting the higher level of organic matter in their soil compared with conventional till, along with higher levels of earthworms and beneficial insects in the soil and, generally, "more life."
He added: "Somehow that life in the soil is voting with its reproductive process saying the soil is healthy. People want organic but they want safe food. Give people choices."
Gadzia showed websites of products such as locally raised beef from Hawaii to a Montana bakery that uses wheat from a local farm to timber from a forest certified for its stewardship practices.
"People more and more are looking for certifying agencies to see if what they're getting will meet their desires," Gadzia said. "We already have a national organic program with a USDA Organic seal. Why can't we have a USDA No-Till Seal? I can see an ad saying 'Certified No-Till Wheat. Healing the land, keeping food safe, supporting family farms.''
"We have to make the connection with the consumer that no-till means healthy soils and healthy foods. It's a growing thing and we need to be a part of it. We have role models out there. We can fashion that future. We don't have to go it alone."
Gadzia suggested NTOTP seek federal grant money for marketing efforts as well as self-fund a marketing plan.
"The first step would be to develop a business plan that will work to create the future we want to see. Take our clues from successful sectors of organic, natural foods, and sustainably produced organizations so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We can develop a certification program working in concert with others and set target dates for a labeled product and test marketing," Gadzia said.
"It won't happen, if we don't set a date."
He admitted there would be a long lag time between the effort to write a grant and receiving any funds, that funds likely would be restricted to a specific purpose, that the financial reporting process would be onerous and that there could be risks that NTOTP could become grant dependent or could lose existing grant money due to shifts in political or economic situations.
"For a long time, we've been ready for the big time. The next step includes no-till marketing to make the connection of healthy soils, healthy foods," Gadzia said. "We have a major breakthrough. People need to know this. Not everyone can do no-till certified, but everyone can produce something special."
NTOTP officials are gathering names of persons interested in a no-till crop marketing certification program. For more information, call 888-330-5142 or visit www.notill.org.
Larry Dreiling can be reached by phone at 785-628-1117, or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Are women more easily infected by HIV than menIs it easier for a women to get infected sleeping with an infected male than what it is if a male sleeps with an infected female....
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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
GOJO Industries Inc 21-Feb-02
Food and Drug Administration
Cincinnati District Office
Central Region
6751 Steger Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45237-3097
Telephone: (513) 679-2700
February 21, 2002
Mr. Joseph Kanfer, President/CEO
GOJO Industries, Inc.
One GOJO Plaza, Suite 500
P.O. Box 991
Akron, OH 44309
On January 7-l0, 14, 18/2002 an FDA Investigator conducted an inspection of your over-the-counter (OTC) drug manufacturing facility at 3783 State Road, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223.
The investigator documented serious deviations from the current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs) for drug products, Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 211 (21 CFR, Part 211). These deviations cause your OTC drug products Purell and Hand Medic III to be adulterated within the meaning of Section 501 (a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (the Act). The deviations observed during the inspection included:
1. Mixing speeds, mixing times and automated re-circulation valve adjustments on production [mix] tanks are made by operators via a PLC control panel.
- There is no system in place to insure that parameter adjustments, which are executed during production runs, are made by authorized personnel. [21 CFR 211.68(b)]
- There are no SOPS or records documenting that the automated re-circulation valves and mixer speeds have been inspected and/or calibrated since the initial equipment qualification 2.5 years ago. [21 CFR 211.100]
c) There are no SOPS describing the frequency with which the mix tank? s temperature
monitoring systems should be calibrated. Records indicate that the temperature monitoring devices on mix tanks 122, 123, 131 have not been calibrated. [21 CFR 211.100 and 211.58(a)]
2. Batch records do not always document that mixing times (start/end), mixing speeds, and temperatures are adjusted according to the specified formulation range. [21 CFR 211.l88]
3. Fourteen of the 31 OTC drug formulations have no process validation. The remaining 17 formulations have had mix studies completed but final product fill has not been validated. [21 CFR 211.100 and 211.110]
4. The quality assurance unit operations are deficient in that:
- Complete written records of root cause investigations and corrective actions for processing discrepancies/failures are not maintained. b) There is no formal SOP describing how investigations and root cause determinations are reviewed/approved and how corrective actions are monitored for timely implementation. [21 CFR 211.22(a), 211.22(d) and 211.192].
5. Two lots of GOJO Hand Medic III [165461, 166095l] were released that had final product test results that were out of specification. A complete investigation into the root cause of the problem was not completed before product release. [21 CFR 211.165(f) and 211.192].
6. Products with out of specification active ingredient assays are reworked. The rework procedures have not been validated. [21 CFR 211.15, 211.100 and 211.110].
7. Product stability procedures/implementation:
a) The stability SOP does not specify how soon after the end of manufacturing samples should be pulled and placed on stability.
b) Stability SOP sampling procedures are not always followed.
1) The smallest fill size of each container-closure system is not always placed on an annual long- term stability-testing program.
2) Two sets of stability samples were pulled for a lot of Purell [l25358] packaged in a 500-ml bag/box closure system. Both sets of samples were outside of your firm?s stability range [60%] and were below the label claim [62%] 21 months after the manufacture date. The expiration period for this product is 24 months. There was no documented investigation as to why two sets of samples were placed on stability and why both sets of samples fell out of specification before the expiration date. [21 CFR 211.166].
8. Your cleaning procedures have not been validated. There are 12 production [mix] tanks and 19 hold tanks. Only one OTC formulation has a dedicated mix tank. None of the hold tanks are product specific. [21 CFR 211.67]
9. The water systems used in the production of OTC drug products have not been validated. [211.100 and 211.110]
This letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of deviations at that your firm. It is your responsibility to ensure that all products (including all labeling and promotional materials) distributed by your firm are in compliance with the Act and its implementing regulations.
You should take prompt action to correct these violations. Failure to achieve prompt correction may result in regulatory action without further notice. Possible actions include seizure and/or injunction.
Until these violations are corrected, federal agencies will be informed that FDA recommends against award of contracts for the affected products.
We acknowledge the receipt of the letter dated February 11, 2002 -from Mark S. Werner, Chief Operating Officer responding to the FDA-483 that was issued at the conclusion of the inspection. The responses to FDA-483 items #3, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9 fail in al1 respects to adequately address the deviations noted by the investigator.
The effectiveness of your actions to correct the remaining items (#1, #2, and #4) cannot be verified without reviewing documentation such as newly written standard operating procedures and the various records/logs associated with those procedures.
You are invited to meet with us in our office here in Cincinnati so that we can further discuss the deficiencies we noted with your response letter. You should contact Stephen Y. Rabe, Compliance Officer at the number listed below to arrange a meeting time that is convenient for all parties involved.
Whether or not you decide to accept our offer to meet with you, you should notify this office in writing within fifteen (15) working days of receipt of this letter of the specific actions you are taking to address these deviations. You should include an explanation of each step being taken to prevent recurrence of similar violations. If corrective action cannot be completed within 15 working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which the corrections will be completed.
Your written reply and any supporting documentation should be addressed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 6751 Steger Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45237-3097, Attention: Stephen J. Rabe, Compliance Officer. Any questions regarding this letter or other issues may be directed to Mr. Wabe at 513-679-2700 extension 167.
Henry L. Fielden
District Director
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Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Her name was Mary, a form of the name Miriam, the famous sister of Moses. The name was common among Jewish women in those days.
A well-known tradition says she was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Joachim and Ann. Other early sources say Mary was born in Nazareth. There is even an ancient record that points to Sepphoris, a town a few miles from Nazareth, as her birthplace. Map (15 K gif)
Wherever she was born, Mary's life most likely unfolded in the staunch Jewish settlement of Nazareth in the hills of Galilee, not far from the important caravan routes linking Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The Jews there were a strong, robust people. The hill climate was dry and healthful. And though the land often lacked water and no one knew from one year to the next if enough rain would fall or if invading locusts or field mice would spoil the crops -- still, facing uncertainty only made the people of Galilee more hard-working and close-knit. Struggling for a living deepened their religious spirit. They learned you must depend on God always.


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Consider retaining control, storing and marketing later in the year.
By Tyron Spearman
Contributing Editor
The dye will soon be cast on this year's agricultural picture. A new battle is brewing, the battle for production of food or energy. A picture of handsome farm profits from higher prices has disappeared with higher input costs that wipe out any profits.
Getting Started
Southeastern states received winter rains, but with no spring rains, the topsoil has dried out quickly. Many farmers have stopped planting the high-priced seed until rains return. Last season many farmers "dusted in" near the insurance deadline, but an early June rain helpted peanuts develop and thrive. Early indications from seed dealers are that demand exceeds supply, especially recently developed varieties.
In the Southwest, areas that were flooded last season have not received rains, and soils are extremely dry. Soil moisture in Texas was 70 percent very short, 25 percent short and only one percent adequate.
Market Demands
Looking into 2008, farmers might consider retaining market control, storing peanuts in the loan and delaying marketing until later in the year.
Most shellers have withdrawn from selling remaining inventory to manufacturers. Many have forward contracted and may need inventory to fill earlier orders, depending on acreage planted and total crop production. Some supplies may be diverted to seed.
In the Southeast and Southwest, most farmers signed the $500 per ton contract for runners. Some 60 to 65 percent of the crop could be priced at this level. That was a marketing decision at the time, and farmers must honor that contract. If you signed it, plant and deliver.
What about farmers with no contract or farmers considering planting more peanuts rather than soybeans? With 60 percent priced on the forward contract with only acreage listed, shellers are not likely to get into a contract battle early. If they sense acreage is down, yes, look for a battle later to get more planted. But that is not likely until mid-June, and look for tonnage to be limited.
Farm Bill Help
The direct payment remains in the new Farm Bill, but a reduction may be required in 2010. If USDA can capture all the option payments or contract offers, don't look for any counter-cyclical payments next season.
Wholesale prices of shelled peanuts have topped 70 cents per pound for medium grades, indicating a strong demand and short supplies until the new crop is produced.
Export demand continues strong, but supplies are limited at this time.
Bullish On Peanuts
Leading Market Indicators (as of May 7, 2008)
• 2007 Crop - 1,811,688 tons