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Project Gorgon – Not Dead Yet September 26, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs.
Tags: Kickstarter, Project: Gorgon
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Barring some sort of miracle, this Kickstarter attempt isn't going to succeed. But that's been pretty obvious for a while! The more important thing, to the team here, is that people are getting a lot more excited than they've ever been. We're seeing close to a hundred people online, which is still tiny, but for a previously-completely-unheard-of alpha test, it's great!
Eric Heimburg, Project: Gorgon Kickstarter Update #6
There is less than 24 hours to go for the Project: Gorgon Kickstarter campaign at this point and it sits about 22% into its $100,000 funding goal. Unless somebody shows up ready to write an $80K check really soon, the campaign will not fund.
And the failure to fund comes for a few reasons. I mentioned the name recognition issue in my post at the start of the campaign. "Who is Eric Heimburg?" is a serious problem in a field where names can be a draw. And the name of the game itself, Project: Gorgon has never struck my as very dynamic or descriptive. While it doesn't feel as weighed down as the labored Shroud of the Avatar: The Hidden Virtues or as nonsensical as Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, it also doesn't have the zing of Camelot Unchained or the simplicity of EverQuest. And it isn't like all the good short names are taken. Didn't Bungie just go live with Destiny? And wasn't there Journey just a while back?
I don't know. I just look at that name and wonder "What is this Gorgon? And why has it become somebody's project?" It doesn't say "game" or "fun" to me… it trends more towards frog dissection in high school biology to be honest. That might just be me.
And the whole Kickstarter campaign probably could have gone better. While I am on the mailing list, the whole thing came up as something of a surprise to me. There wasn't a lot of build up or attempts to get the word out in advance of the campaign. There was no attempt to build up a sense of excitement to make a big, first day splash. Hell, I only happened to see the Kickstarter announced on Twitter, after which I went away for about 20 minutes, came back, logged in, and managed to be the first backer.
Me being first in line for something I wasn't even aware was coming, that speaks to some poor prep work. And there is a strong correlation between Kickstarter projects doing well in the first 48 hours (well as in hitting 25-50% of their goal) and successfully funding. Project: Gorgon didn't even make 10% of the target in that time frame.
Finally, Eric Heimburg just isn't a bright beacon for the project. Not only does he lack name recognition, but he is just not the tireless showman that Mark Jacobs is, or the shameless self-promoting egomaniac that Spaceman Richard "Lord British" Allen "father of the online gaming industry" Dennis "most game designers really just suck" Garriott de Cayeux comes across as, or even the snake-oil selling charlatan that Brad McQuaid can be on a bad day. Eric Heimburg is just too focused on the game itself… which is the right thing for an engineer, but doesn't work so well when you need publicity.
Such is life. I certainly wouldn't be any better in the role.
And so, for whatever mix of reasons, the Kickstarter will almost certainly not fund. And here I was all ready to name an NPC as part of my pledge.
However, as a follow on to the quote at the top, there is this:
We're working on other ways to get the funding we need to make the game. I'll share more of our plans as soon as I know them! In the mean time, if you're enjoying the alpha, fear not: it will remain up and running for at least a few more months while we try to figure out a way to bring the game to completion.
And here is one of the key bonuses that Project: Gorgon has as a Kickstarter project. You can go to the Project: Gorgon site right now, download and play in the alpha.
And there are things to see. I only ran around the initial starter cave… it has been one of those month's where "go play more Project: Gorgon" has been the 4th or 5th item on my list of things to do on any given night, and I rarely managed to get past the 2nd item… but there is a lot more to see, a world to explore, and I am sorry I haven't gotten there yet.
Bhagpuss put up some screen shots of what he has seen, and I will add in some of the shots that have been posted as part of the Kickstarter campaign or on the game site at the bottom of the post.
But the essence is that there is a game here, an MMO, and if you are too busy whining about how World of Warcraft "ruined" MMOs to peek in on some of the niche projects like this or Camelot Unchained or Shroud of the Avatar, that are catering to concepts that just are not possible or practical in a mass market "must appeal to as many people as possible" MMO, then I am not sure I can take your rants very seriously. Put your money where your mouth is. If you want these sorts of things, go support them.
How often do the really interesting things in life line up with what works in the mass market in any case?
ArcheAge Went Live and Everybody Went Crazy or Something September 23, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs.
Tags: ArcheAge, Trion Worlds
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Normally I note when MMOs that are popular in our little corner of the web go live, if for no other reason than to track dates and such. Somehow I missed my cue when ArcheAge went live… um… the other day? Last week? There was some sort of head start and such. I sort of lost track. But anyway, it went live and people went crazy.
Certainly, lots of people in the neighborhood seem to be playing it. You can find all sorts of posts about it at:
As far as I can tell, Trion launched the game at exactly the right moment, in the lull where WildStar has begun to fade… erm… set out to create MegaServers(tm)… whatever… but Warlords of Draenor is still a couple months out. And so ArcheAge became the oasis to which everybody flocked.
Being too successful is the best problem to have, but it is still a problem. I even downloaded it over the weekend to take a peek.
I finally bit the bullet and let Trion install their Glyph gaming sales portal so I could log into Rift, and once I was there it was just a couple more clicks to have it install ArcheAge as well.
I was a little annoyed that they installed HackShield, an anti-hacking root toolkit, without bothering to warn me in large, flashing red letters, as I would have stopped the install right then and there. I understand the need for such things, but I will avoid them if I can based on past experience with things like PunkBuster and such. Basically, to play the game there is now another company in the mix, AhnLab, Inc., that can cause problems. And there will be problems. Some portion of legit users are always hit by these measures, so they basically send the message that it is okay to screw over a few of the innocent so long as we catch more hackers. And then there is always the possibility of it being used as an attack vector. Bleh.
And I wasn't even going to have the potential to hack. Being non-Patron scum, I was only able to check out the queues to get onto a server. There was some variance, with the older servers being queued up past the 3K mark, and even had restrictions on what characters you could create.
More than an hour was a pretty light touch compared to reality. While I am sure that patrons were being shown to the front of the queue that held me back, I let the whole thing sit there for a couple hours and it seemed that the queue moved me up about 700 places an hour. The newer servers were at about half total queue it seemed.
The calculation eventually resolved to tell me my wait time would be about 20 minutes. That was clearly optimistic in the extreme for prime time on Saturday afternoon. Not that it mattered all that much to me. I was just there to kick the tires.
But for others it has be a problem, and the whole queue situation has plenty of people talking about what ought to be done. Hardcore Casual, Blessing of Kings, and Keen & Graev have all piped up on that front.
All of that has masked, to a certain extent, worries about the land rush in ArcheAge. With housing being in the actual world rather than in some form of instance, the supply would seem to fall far short of the potential demand. That has people worried and a whole side topic about illegal farms, which aren't actually illegal has popped up. However, stealing from them is illegal. Go figure.
Anyway, it has all been an interesting read from the sidelines so far. Trion is promising compensation for patrons over the whole queue thing and has worked to get more servers online. But will this all end with them announcing the formation of MegaServers a few months down the line? I suppose we shall see.
Do You Remember Dragon's Prophet? August 8, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs, Sony Online Entertainment.
Tags: Dragon's Prophet
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Whenever I end up looking at the SOE MMO lineup, I am always surprised to see a new MMO on the list.
Down on the bottom row, second from the right, is Dragon's Prophet. And every time I see it, I think, "Hey, that's new!" As recently as my post post about the demise of Wizardry Online I was ready to add in that Dragon's Prophet was the new Asian import set to replace it in the SOE lineup.
But that isn't right. That isn't right at all. And it was a good thing I checked up on it before I published that post. (See, I do catch some errors before I click the "Publish" button!)
Dragon's Prophet has been out for nearly a year at this point, having launched in September of 2013, which means it was already a thing back when SOE announced it was closing four titles back in January… and I totally forgot about it then as well.
I just cannot seem to remember that Dragon's Prophet is a thing. I cannot tell if SOE just did a bad job publicizing the game's launch, if it just go over shadowed by all the excitement around the EverQuest Next at SOE Live just a month before its launch, or if I am just getting old and/or can't be bothered to care about Asian import MMOs… at least when their not trying to destroy cherished game of my youth with scantily clad horned gnomes.
Whatever the reason, the game just could not seem to stay attached to my brain. Which is odd because, while I do not actually play any SOE games regularly at this time, I do tend to pay attention to what they are up to.
Anyway, I decide I could fix this by giving the game a quick try. I was encouraged to do this because of who made the game. Unlike Wizardry Online from Gamepot, which appears to be batting 1.000 on the "games closed in North America" front, Dragon's Prophet was developed by Runwalker Entertainment who also created Runes of Magic.
Runes of Magic is actually the only decent Asian import MMO that comes to mind. It managed to cater just enough to western sensibilities to survive and thrive outside of the Asian market.
Of course, five years back, when Runes of Magic landed on the scene, it was kind of a big deal. It was going to be the Asian import that "got" how to make an MMO for the west and it was coming in as a free to play game by design, at a time when F2P was mostly a niche for MMOs that failed badly at the subscription thing.
And Runes of Magic was even a bit controversial back in 2009, at least in our little corner of the blogesphere. The game dared to charge $10 for a horse! This practically set a few people's hair on fire with the rage. Doesn't that all seem charmingly naive five years down the road? Today if some game has a mount for just $10, it generally means it has been marked down.
But it was still a decent game despite the patcher, which I am reliably informed has remained just as awful to this day. We actually got out there and gave the game a try, assessing its potential for the instance group. We even did and instance and got housing and tried crafting and invested a bit of real world cash into the RMT currency before letting it drop. I am not sure why we never went back at this point. At the time we were busy with our horde group in World of Warcraft, and after Cataclysm we tried a number of games but never landed in RoM.
Anyway, the remaining impression of the game five years down the line was reasonably favorable. And my impression of Dragon's Prophet, after a few hours of play, is likewise reasonably favorable.
The character models themselves look a bit like RoM graphics brought forward five years. They are a little more real looking, but still anime influenced. And upon logging in there was just an air about the game… some combo of the fonts and colors and general layout… that made me think of RoM.
The mechanics of the game itself though are different. It was claimed by some that RoM was very much an attempt by an Asian company to clone WoW. Dragon's Prophet is more influenced by the design philosophies of Asian MMOs. Movement is done with the WASD keys, but you steer with the mouse cursor and combat is much more about mouse clicks than hotbars.
It feels much more like Neverwinter in mechanics than WoW. You click for attacks, big graphics display for your move, big numbers bounce up showing your damage, and you can jump around avoiding incoming attacks which are often telegraphed in advance by big red indicators on the ground.
The graphics aren't as… nice… polished… realistic… something… well, they are different from Neverwinter's style. And Neverwinter's draw is, to my mind, more about being in Forgotten Realms and the whole Foundry aspect of the game that lets you run through player created modules. Neverwinter is more like Dungeons & Dragons (table top game, not DDO), with various modules that exist in the same world but which are not necessarily connected by stories or geography.
And Dragon's Prophet does feel Asian, with many of the usual conventions, like women in mini-skirts and high heeled boots tromping around in the wilderness hunting zombies.
But even Runes of Magic didn't get away from that, right down to the housing helper in a skimpy French maid's uniform. And there are, of course, the WoW conventions that still must be catered to.
Otherwise it seems to fit the standard MMO bill. You are the hero in the Dragon's Prophet story. People go about town talking about you like there were no other players in the game fulfilling the exact same role and performing the very same tasks.
That NPC comment would have been a lot more impressive if I had not been stuck on that little tree stump at that very moment. Or maybe the game was being sarcastic.
Anyway, it doesn't seem to be a bad game. The graphics are decent. It ran well for the few hours I spent with it. The combat is very dynamic. I am not sure I will be able to find time to play the game seriously. It isn't bad, but it is still way down my priority list. And if I stop playing, I am not sure I will ever get any sort of trigger to start back up again. As I said above, I almost never hear anything about the game.
So how about you? Do you remember Dragon's Prophet?
No Tears for Wizardry Online? August 1, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs, Sony Online Entertainment.
Tags: Wizardry Online
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I am sure somewhere out there, somebody is angry, sad, or otherwise feeling an emotional effect because Wizardry Online closed its doors yesterday.
I am sure because I have found that even the worst, most widely despised feature in any MMO ends up being somebody's favorite feature. And you find out exactly who they are the moment it goes away because they show up on the forums wanting to know what happened.
So I feel quite confident that somebody, somewhere loved SOE's imported Wizardry Online MMO.
It just wasn't me.
But I pretty much guessed that was going to be the case before the game showed up in the SOE lineup back in 2013.
For me, this is Wizardry:
Wizardry is something that exists in the context of the distant past along with a lot of hand-drawn graph paper maps and things I described in a post.
So Wizardry in MMO form… or at least in Asian import MMO form with anime style characters… never had a chance with me. I wrote me feelings about it, acknowledging that my assessment was unfair in the title.
Unlike my previous post, where I eulogized Vanguard and tried to describe its place in the history of the genre, I cannot really place Wizardry Online. Why SOE chose to publish it, why they decided to close it down after a year and a half, and all the questions in between are unanswered for me. And, unlike Vanguard, I do not see any posts out there in my corner of the blogesphere mourning its departure.
Who will speak for Wizardry Online? Who has some final words?
Where is PoliticallyIncorrectJessica now?
[And why won't that link go to the right comment. Some dwarven magic I bet. You might have to scroll down to see the comment from her.]
Addendum: Oh, hey, Joseph Skyrim cares!
Quote of the Day – Why Charge for Beta Access? June 17, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs.
Tags: 3000 AD, Derek Smart, Early Accesss, Line of Defense
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We're simply not interested in letting freeloaders gain early access to the game, not provide meaningful – if any – feedback, while we foot the bill for the backend services, servers, bandwidth etc
-Derek Smart on the $99 price for Line of Defense Beta Access
Saying that Derek Smart can be a polarizing figure might the understatement of the year, at least in the gaming industry. Polygon did an piece on him a couple years back that covers a lot of past ground on the topic of Derek Smart. He gets online and says what he thinks. Sometimes what he says looks to be self-defeating, like the extra drama piled onto the Quest Online vs. David Allen lawsuit, which ended up with Quest Online giving David Allen some money to just go away.
And sometimes he stabs right at the unvarnished truth that others are skirting around, as with some comments about the demise of 38 Studios two years back.
The latter is the case with the quote at the top about Line of Defense.
We have been wringing our hands about companies like SOE charging for what they call alpha access to Landmark… in a world where "alpha" apparently now means a stable platform devoid of most of the planned features… but this is the real reason you ask for money up front. Sure, a bit of income is nice, but if your company is at a point where it needs that revenue, you are probably have other problems to worry about.
No, what charging for early access like this does is put up a barrier to entry that filters out all but those who are truly interested in what you are creating. This gets you the people who really believe and want to help you out.
It is a double-edge sword however. If you are going to make people commit, you had best have something ready for people to commit to. You have your true believers, the core of your core audience, lined up and ready to go, so you screw them over or leave them hanging at your peril.
We have seen quiet periods with Landmark where the user base starts to idle as it waits for the available tool set to take another step towards the vision of what the game might be. Not much testing getting done. And then there is the true believer syndrome, where the forums start to feel like the domain of a few such who are committed to a particular version of the vision and who shout down any who challenge their orthodoxy. Such are the risks.
You can read more about the Line of Defense early access program on Steam at the 3000 AD web site.
Quote of the Day – Working with a Really Tricky IP January 8, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs, Quote of the Day.
Tags: Bible Chronicles, Kickstarter, Melchizedek, Phoenix Interactive Studios
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We hold the Bible completely sacred, and we've gone to great lengths to maintain authenticity. For this reason, we formed an advisory team of four well-respected pastors and ministry leaders to make sure all of our storylines and characters are historically accurate. Although we consider ourselves devoted Christians, it's amazing how many details this team has caught and adjusted to make sure we stay accurate to the biblical record.
-Phoenix Interactive Studios, on their Bible Chronicles RPG Kickstarter
Yeah, you think working with Tolkien or the Star Wars IP is difficult? Think again!
While they have wisely opted to stick to the Old Testament, even there it isn't like we have a universally accepted interpretation to work with. Cornerstone of three major religions? Sure, let's make a video game out of that! I cannot foresee anybody getting angry about choices made around interpretation!
Color me a pessimist, but they may have chosen more wisely than they suspect when it comes to the main image used for their web site.
Of course, on the flip side of that, teaching the Bible… or a given interpretation thereof… seems to be pretty much perfect for the WoW model MMO format, where quests have only one possible end state. The story will move on only when you do the right thing.
It will be interesting to see if people will be any more likely to read the quest text in this game than they are in WoW. The forum questions about that ought to be amusing. I foresee "Can't watch the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah without being turned into a pillar of salt!" Any other likely candidates?
No word on the business model… subscription vs. free to play… that this project will follow on release. [Addendum: because it isn't an MMO. Silly me.] Of course, they still have a $100,000 Kickstarter goal to surmount. But for $2,500 you can have a character in-game modeled on your appearance, and for $5,000 that character will be one of the kings of the local city-states. You could be Melchizedek!
RuneScape Embraces Nostalgia February 22, 2013Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EverQuest, Misc MMOs.
Tags: Dark Age of Camelot, MMO Nostalgia, Nostalgia, RuneScape
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RuneScape, a popular (200 million accounts created is their claim to fame metric) browser-based fantasy MMORPG, has decided to farm the nostalgia sector by opening up servers aimed at those who want to relive RuneScape's past.
Officially called "Old School RuneScape," the setting will be August 2007 version of RuneScape.
Jagex, the game's developer, has taken an interesting approach to bringing these servers to the community. They have a poll up to gauge how much interest there is in the servers, with more interest by the player base yielding more focus by the studio itself.
Omali has some condensed details over at MMO Fallout about what happens at given result levels. (There is an update to go along with the final results.) There is also an official FAQ up about the servers.
Interesting to me is that by default… with the likely poll results… is that people interested in playing the classic version of this free-to-play game will have to pay for a subscription. That seems right to me. I don't think people looking to relive a "classic" experience do so because it might be cheaper.
Certainly I did not run off an play on the Emerald Dream server in order to dodge the WoW subscription price, and I doubt Keen or SynCaine were so influenced with the Ultima Online Forever.
And that is how SOE has handled things with the Fippy Darkpaw server in the post free to play EverQuest world, making it available only to subscribers.
So RuneScape joins the rather short list of MMOs offering official "old school" versions of their game. I only know of two others. There is SOE with its EverQuest progression servers and Mythic with its past classic Dark Age of Camelot server (and its never to see the light of day Origin server).
And while there will always be arguments about what point in time is the "best" and whether such a server should be stuck in time or move forward, I think this sort of exercise is a good way to reach out and revive interest in your game with a big chunk of your current and former player base.
Of course, this sort of things probably works with some games better than others. World of Warcraft is an obvious target. Few expansions and slow improvement over time gives it a series of identifiable eras. EVE Online, on the other hand… their whole single server approach pretty much precludes such a nostalgia path… plus who wants to go back to the days before "jump to zero?"
What MMOs would you like to see embrace nostalgia? Or does that even have any appeal for you?
Quote of the Day – Firefly Universe Online January 6, 2013Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs, Quote of the Day.
Tags: Firefly, Hoaxes
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We've been had.
Owen Good of Kotaku, on Firefly Universe Online
Friday there was buzz about an MMO based on the Firefly universe being a possibility again.
Today though, it seems like the world is singing a different tune.
In something of an odd twist, my wife and I just watched the series again… all 14 episodes… we have it on DVD… so we could ask aloud once again to nobody in particular, "Really Fox?" And yet, even in that state of mind, I wasn't at all excited about Friday's announcement.
Not because I somehow knew it was a hoax. I am not that insightful.
No, it was just because I have heard enough, "Hey, we're going to make an MMO on popular property X" over the last few years to need to see something substantial before I can generate any enthusiasm.
See Planet Michael and that Wheel of Time MMO for examples.
Addendum: Nothing is ever simple.
Turbine Time Machine – Asheron's Call 2 Returns December 14, 2012Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs.
Tags: Asheron's Call, Asheron's Call 2, Nostalgia, Turbine
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Be careful what you ask for, because people will take note of what you do if you get it.
Turbine has announced in their forums that they are going to bring Asheron's Call 2 back from the dead.
It has been seven years since it was shut down. I never played it, nor its predecessor, but I have seen more than a few posts over the years bemoaning its demise.
Now, I can hardly criticize people for being nostalgic for a game like this. I run back to EverQuest just about every autumn, which is when the nostalgia bug seems to bite. But the whole act of reviving a game seven years gone does raise some questions.
I would assume that Turbine has done some work on the game in the interim. But I suspect it will still represent the state of the art at Turbine circa 2004. And while AC2 may have done some things right, is that going to be enough of a draw for any but the nostalgic and those with an archaeological bent? Has what made people leave AC2 been addresses, or is this just hope against hope?
What will be the business model this time around? For the beta you need an Asheron's Call subscription. I am sure that the nostalgia bug will make for a spike in subscribers just to get in on it. But this was a game that was shut down seven years back because of a paucity of subscribers. And Asheron's Call itself was always a distant third in the UO/EQ/AC triumvirate when it came to subscribers. Is Turbine planning to make this another free to play title? And are there enough interested parties out there to make this a viable venture either way?
And finally, what does this say about Turbine itself? It has been more than five years since they last launched a new game, which was Lord of the Rings Online in the first half of 2007. In all the time since then, the best they could come up with was to pull a game they shut down out of cold storage? That is a big bet on the nostalgia card with a game that purportedly peaked at 50K subscribers and had dwindled to less than a third of that by the end. Is this a love letter to long time fans or a desperation move?
Like I said, I can hardly criticize anybody for nostalgia, since it drives much of my own gaming patterns. I can never fully answer the question about reliving the past. But there is a lot to this that makes me raise a quizzical eyebrow.
Anyway, Turbine has set the WABAC Machine to 2005. Are you going to go for a ride?
An Unfiltered (and Unfair) Impression of Wizardry Online December 7, 2012Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Misc MMOs.
Tags: Superficiality, Unfair Characterizations, Wizardry Online
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Now that the beta NDA is down, I can share my reaction to Wizardry Online.
This is the content of an email I sent to Potshot, November 13, 2012, which constitutes my initial, and only, impression of the game.
Somebody sent me a beta key so I tried it last week. I think I am finally able to speak of it now.
Basically, every negative preconception you have about the game is true. Horrible scantily dressed, all-looks-alike anime character models, including the requisite Down's Syndrome gnomes.
Bizarro world controls. It is WASD, but W isn't "move forward," it is "move north."
A camera view that is completely uninterested in whatever the hell you are doing.
And you don't even get to start experiencing all that until you get through 10 minutes (though it seems like an hour) of really bad exposition unworthy of even the most half-assed, shown after midnight anime series you can think of.
Let me tell you, the idea of the blissful release that permadeath might bring you could be the only motivation to play the game.
The whole thing is just a cat-girl race away from simply being DOMO taking a crap on a classic Apple ][ video game.
I am not sure if I actually played the game, or just dreamed that I played something so bad. Yet there is the icon on my desktop.
That was my gut reaction to the game.
Of course, that email is full of errors. The so-called "Down's Syndrome gnomes" are actually the Prokul, and not gnomes at all. And they apparently do not actually suffer from Down's Syndrome, or any other genetic related malady. In fact, they seem to enjoy it.
I do not know what the affinity is for little races with melon heads is in Asia, but it is clearly not to my taste. You can see some of the other character models as well.
Meanwhile, gnomes are really just female dwarves… with horns… and other features. Somebody tell Brasse she's a gnome! I dare you!
"Naturally!" I hear you say, "Of course gnomes have horns!"
Their aura is enhance by the soft core porn style soft focus effect. You can almost see the Vaseline on the lens filter.
And the controls aren't actually absolute, but relative to the camera. DOMO, which I mentioned, is Dream of Mirror Online, another not-quite-westernized Asian import that I tried (and never wrote about) which had a similar control scheme. Another clearly regional distinction.
Still, not exactly an in-depth review of a game I probably wasn't going to like anyway.
But given my affinity for the original, I had to go and take a look. It might be the hardcore dungeon crawler somebody is looking for, but it was too hard on the senses for me to get far enough to find out. The Wizardry franchise has taken a different path since I played back on my Apple ][+.
If you want somebody who gave the game a fair shake, Tipa has you covered. (She also has you covered if you want to read something about DOMO.) As does Stropp now. And there is the official wiki, because SOE has partnered with Wikia for the moment. (Didn't SOE partner with Zam previously for something like this? How did that work out?)
Anyway, not a game for me. But not every game has to be for me. There are plenty of other MMO choices out there.
(Though I am not going start wringing my hands about there being too many games out there in the eternal search for the reason PC game game market is dying. I think PC gaming has been "dying" for the last 20 years.)
Somebody will enjoy the game I am sure, and I will be interested to see if it does turn out to be a decent dungeon crawler for those who can handle the art style.
Have you given it a try yet?


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New A Great Big World Video
Yes Virginia, there is another A Great Big World song! Holy cow it seems like forever but they have debuted the video for their new single, "Already Home." It's the story of a couple who miss each other due to living on opposite coasts.
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Jessica Burns demonstrates what a bag puppet is before the children make one of their own during Eastside Elementary's School's Summer Viking Camp being led by volunteer educators and funded by donations from area businesses in Dalton, Ga. The camp helps address the instructional loss many students experience in the summer and to provide some extra hands-on opportunities that are exciting and engaging.
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Are you concerned with all the discussion about online tracking by the government and private industry? There are some simple steps you can take to limit it.
The use of cookies to track your web browsing and serve up relevant ads is one of the easiest things to stop. For example, Firefox has Do Not Track capability that you can easily activate in their browser.
Ad Block Plus will also help you block spying and online tracking when you're surfing around, and it's available for many popular browsers.
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If you really want to go off the grid, use a feature phone like an older flip-phone, use cash instead of credit or debit, and don't surf the web. There are less extreme ways to mitigate and limit tracking too. For example, you might segregate your emails and/or browsers -- one e-mail for social media, another for e-commerce, another for news and info sites, etc.
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Kailua-Kona, with its great restaurants, shopping and summer/winter activities, is one of the most beautiful, fun places on the Big Island of Hawaii. This comfortable 1-bedroom, 1-bath top floor oceanview vacation rental condo is located in the oceanfront Kona Isle complex on Alii Drive, a 2-minute drive (10-minute walk) from the heart of historic downtown. In the condo complex, there are beach chairs in sand, barbeque pits, coconut trees and a swimming pool right in front of the ocean.
Inside the condo, guests have a comfortable Queen bed in the bedroom and a Full pull-out couch in the living room. The unit has a walk-in kitchen including a large refrigerator, 4 burner electric stove and oven, microwave, toaster, blender, coffee machine, dishes, pots, pans and everything you might need to cook good meals. There is a DVD/VCR, a stereo w/ CD player, 3 fans, linens, towels, blankets, iron & ironing board, a 4-person dining table, dressor, 3 closets and a spacious open-air lanai with patio furniture and view of the both the ocean and mountains (coffee plantations). There's a full-size bathroom with bathtub & shower. There is a washer & dryer in the unit and garbage disposal. The condo is decorated tastefully with original oil paintings and a small library of books and movies. Free WiFi is in the unit and also in the large library of the complex. A deeded parking spot is included.
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Oct 21st 2010 By Jeremy Taylor
Chinese Man Drops Cell Phone in Toilet, Loses Battle To Retrieve It
There are 1.3 billion people in China. Most of them have cell phones and toilets, so it was just a matter of time before some poor Chinese guy dropped his phone into a commode -- and then somehow got his hand stuck while trying to retrieve it.
We can't tell you much about this man, only that he hails from the Jiangsu province. And that the paramedics were able to remove him from his porcelain trap with only minor cuts and bruises. Click over to Engadget to see video of his ordeal, which you won't fully understand unless you speak Chinese.
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As many of you know, Factions and Survival is going to be going through a reset once the next official Minecraft update occurs, which is the 1.8 update. Not everything is for certain what we're going to be doing yet, but we do want input from the community. I have posted two different forum posts about suggestions for the reset.
Also, here are the things that we are currently planning to do with the reset:
Factions & Survival TnT: http://bit.ly/1nitw2k
Also, here are the things that we are currently planning to do with the reset:
- Overworld, Nether and End will have a map reset.
- Enderchests will be reset.
- All kits will be reset (Meaning, you may use your one-time kit again but only once until another full reset.).
- All coins are going to be reset (Donations for ranks or coins will be given their coins again.).
- McMMO levels will remain, but McMMO Unarmed may be disabled.
- All players will still retain their ranks.
Now, we want your input on suggestions, because Factions and Survival have been relatively the same since the start of the server. So, we want to know what you'd like to see added, removed, changed, improved, and kept the same.
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Born in 1998 in London's Notting Hill, Sweaty Betty now has 37 boutiques including concessions in world-famous department stores Harrods and Selfridges, plus two boutiques in the USA. With a new mobile website, more international stores in the pipeline and a passionate, fitness-loving team at its helm, Sweaty Betty is growing exponentially. There has never been a more exciting time to join us.
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Somali Refugees Show How Conflict, Gender, Environmental Scarcity Become Entwined›Guest Contributor // August 19, 2014 // By Luisa Veronis
Under international law, someone who flees their country because of conflict or persecution is a refugee, but someone who flees because of inability to meet their basic household needs is not. In the case of Somalia, it is increasingly difficult to make any meaningful distinction between the two.
Surf and Turf: The Environmental Impacts of China's Growing Appetite for Pork and Seafood›China Environment Forum // May 7, 2014 // By Susan Chan Shifflett
Half the world's pigs – 476 million – reside in China. Increasingly prosperous consumers are eating fewer grains and demanding a more protein-rich diet, ballooning the pork industry to 15 times its 1960s-era size. In the last 30 years, Chinese demand for meat has quadrupled and China is now the largest consumer of seafood in the world.
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Transparency, Good Governance, and Natural Resource Management: An Interview With Peter Eigen›April 30, 2014 // By ECSP Staff
The governance challenges of natural resource extraction are enormous. What can be done to improve natural resource governance? ECC's Stephan Wolters talked to Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International and chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) from 2006 to 2011.
What Can Demography Tell Us About the Advent of Democracy?›April 28, 2014 // By Elizabeth Leahy Madsen
Democracy is fickle. Many of the competing theories on the best ways to foment and consolidate plural, inclusive governance or predict its rise and fall focus on political and economic forces. Yet a small group of demographers have explored population age structure as a catalyst for and reflection of a host of changes in societies that can affect governance.
Water Wars? Think Again: Conflict Over Freshwater Structural Rather Than Strategic›Guest Contributor // April 15, 2014 // By Cameron Harrington
The global water wars are almost upon us!
At least that's how it seems to many. The signs are troubling: Egypt and Ethiopia have recently increased their aggressive posture and rhetoric over the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the headwaters of the Blue Nile, Egypt's major artery since antiquity. India continues to build new dams that are seen by its rival Pakistan as a threat to its "water interests" and thus its national security. Turkey, from its dominant position upstream, has been diverting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and increasing water stress in the already-volatile states of Iraq and Syria.
Environmental Journalists Discuss the Year Ahead in Energy and Environment News›From the Wilson Center // February 12, 2013 // By Carolyn Lamere
Environmental desks at newspapers around the world may be on the defensive, but the stories are only getting bigger. On January 25, six environmental journalists from Bloomberg, EnergyWire, Public Radio International, the Associated Press, and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media gathered at the Wilson Center for a panel cosponsored by the Environmental Change and Security Program and the Society of Environmental Journalists to discuss what to watch for in the coming year, from President's Obama's mention of climate change in his inaugural address to the prospects of shale gas and the Keystone XL pipeline. [Video Below]
John Sullivan on the Year Ahead in Energy and Environment News›Friday Podcasts // February 8, 2013 // By Carolyn Lamere
Bloomberg BNA's Director of Environmental News John Sullivan gives an overview of the key legislative, regulatory, and legal developments expected in 2013, including the Keystone XL pipeline, the future for coal-fired power plants, and the potential actions that may be taken by Congress, the White House, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Surprise Geoengineering Test Goes Forward Off Coast of Canada›November 2, 2012 // By ECSP Staff
The original version of this article, by Michael D. Lemonick, appeared on Climate Central.
Harvard's David Keith calls it the "goofy Goldfinger scenario" – a rogue nation, or even an individual, would conduct an unsupervised geoengineering experiment – and he confidently predicted in a story I wrote last month that it would never happen.
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Water, Earth, SkyJune 11th, 2010, 10:38 am
Scott Shenk writes about the environment.
Swimming advisory
If you're heading down to Fairview Beach, you might want to stay out of the water this weekend. The Health Department has posted a swimming advisory. A weekly water test on Monday showed that bacteria levels were above what's considered safe. And a follow-up test, usually done by mid-week, wasn't available, so the advisory will be in effect through the weekend. See my story in tomorrow's Free Lance-Star for more details.
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Port Huron, MI – The Blue Water Health Services Board of Directors announces today that it is evaluating the potential acquisition of McLaren Port Huron and its subsidiaries by a larger non-profit or for profit organization to help meet our long-term needs.
"We looked at the shrinking population and economic downturn the Port Huron area has experienced over the last few years. Then we looked ahead to continued reductions in Medicare reimbursement and unprecedented changes mandated by the Affordable Care Act. We realized we need to investigate options that will help the community continue to access local, high quality healthcare," says Tom DeFauw, president and CEO, McLaren Port Huron.
Requests for proposals will be issued this summer. The process could take up to one year to complete. The Blue Water Health Services board is directing the review process with the help of Juniper Advisory, a Chicago-based financial advisory firm. Patient care services will not be interrupted or changed through the evaluation process.
"McLaren Port Huron has a strong operating margin and continues to have a solid bottom line with very little debt," says David Thompson, chairman of the Blue Water Health Services board. "That's why we're looking at options now, while we can evaluate our choices from a position of strength. We're giving ourselves time to conduct a thorough review."
"The board will be considering larger, not-for-profit or for-profit organizations that can secure the hospital's future and continue to care for the community. We are looking for a partner that will understand and respect the local culture and enable us to advance and expand access to care," says Thompson. "For patients, it is our hope that an acquisition could result in expanded services, facility modernization and the purchase of new technology. Access to the most advanced care in our community remains a top priority of the board."
McLaren Port Huron will provide updates to the community as the review process proceeds. Community members can go to www.porthuronhospital.org/ask to submit questions about the process.
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|26 Nov 2013
Error 0x80300024 When Clean Installing Windows
On my computer, the C drive was showing 1 GB free out of 50 GB, I opened disk management and noticed that there was 200 odd GB in unallocated disk space. I wasn't able to allocate it or do anything with it, so I tried to format or delete the partitions in a clean install instead.
When trying to clean install, there are three partitions that appear, one is the 50 gb one, the other is system reserve or something and the last one is the remainder, over 200GB.
I don't know why but I can't delete all the partitions, in fact I can't delete any of the three. Also windows will only let me install to the 50GB one, when I try to install to the larger one I get an error: 0x80300024
I understand that the partitions may be read only? Is there anyway to format the whole hard drive into one partition again, thanks
Currently I've got it installing windows 8 to the 50 gb one so I can at least get into windows.
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|26 Nov 2013
The clean install let me extend the hard drive so its sorted now
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A Mother's Amazing Letter To Her Son After He Came Out As Gay On Facebook
"I'll fight for you always."
1. The NO H8 Campaign Facebook page posted this Wednesday night.
2. The letter is from a young boy's mother after he surprised her by coming out in a Facebook post.
I was surprised by your Facebook post where you cane out. I want you to know that I love you unconditionally. I love with my actions, not just words. I'm so proud of you. You are the bravest person I know. I'll fight for you always. Your sexual orientation does not define you. You are sill the boy who forever won my heart. The only thing that concerns me is the number of empty side cups and tea bottles in your room. Throw them away before ants come inside.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A proposed public-private high-speed ferry that would link MacDill Air Force Base to downtown Tampa and St. Petersburg got a big boost with the news of a $4.8 million federal grant for the project.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, on Monday announced the U.S. Department of Transportation grant to Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, the agency that would operate the ferry, which would also run to Gibsonton in southern Hillsborough County.
The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/1hRCDQ3) reports that the overall price tag for the ferry is $17 million, so the announcement means Hillsborough County would still have to chip in upwards of $12 million to get the service up and running. In February, county commissioners approved spending up to $125,000 to study the ferry's feasibility.
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Simply put, there is no one single way to measure online influence. And in the past, measuring influence has been based on popularity or celebrity. In a recent post, Brian Solis, principal of The Altimeter Group, wrote, "If we look beyond the word 'influence,' we see that the ability to measure effect is complicated and elusive.


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A 1954 horror anthology by Richard Matheson.
The vampire novella "Carmilla" set in Austria is one of Le Fanu's best tales and greatly influenced Bram Stoker, who published Dracula 25 years later. This is definitively a great book and a must for the lovers of horror tales.
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|26 Jul 2009
Format hard disk prompt
I have an external harddisk that is encrypted using TrueCrypt. Each time I plug it in Windows prompts me to format the disk because it doesn't have any recognizable file system. Vista didn't use to do this. I suppose it's because of the UAC changes and a user couldn't normally do this in Vista.
It is really annoying. Does anyone know how to disable this prompt in Windows 7?
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Hi degeberg and welcome to Windows 7 Forums
Do you have TrueCrypt installed on Vista? If so, you might need to also install it in Windows 7.
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|26 Jul 2009
Yeah, I have TrueCrypt installed, but when plugging in the HDD using USB I get a prompt saying "You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?"
I obviously do not want to format it, but Windows 7 keeps bugging me with that question each time I plug it in. After I plug it in I just open TrueCrypt and mount it on a separate drive letter. Windows 7 doesn't know it's a TrueCrypt volume, but think it's a new disk so it asks if I want to format it.
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I've got the same problem, and would appreciate an answer if anyone knows. I have created a partition on my external USB drive, and encrypted it (as NTFS). Every time I connect the drive, windows wants to format it. One miss-key and I blow away my truecrypt files.
I read that creating a partition and encrypting was supposed to stop this problem, maybe is it just a bug with TC on Windows 7?
I'm using TrueCrypt 6.2a and Win 7 RC 7100.
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|07 Aug 2009
Vista Ult SP2/Win 7 Ult SP1/Win 8.1 Pro w/MC (all x64)
Perhaps turn off AutoPlay? Look that up in Start/Help & Support. Windows can't read that drive, that's why it's querying it every time but it may stop if Autoplay turned off, can't guarantee that though.
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|09 Aug 2009
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried it, but it didn't help.
But I've also now tried the drive on an XP machine with the same issue. So either its my drive (maxtor mini) or this problem exists with truecrypt partition encryption as well as device encryption. I've seen a suggestion to put a small ext3 partition at the start of the drive, I'll try that otherwise I'll go back to using a file container.
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|09 Aug 2009
Really, I just want Windows to shut up because I know it's a TrueCrypt volume.
The reason why you wouldn't get this prompt in Vista is because you by default don't have permission to format partitions. In Windows 7 they "lowered" the UAC and if you turn off UAC in Vista you'll see the same message. Because XP has no UAC, you'll see it in XP as well.
Anyway, I found a solution. If you go to "Computer Management" > "Disk Management" and remove the drive letter it won't bug you with that formatting prompt each time you plug in the hard disk.
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Win7 Pro x64
This is an old thread, but maybe this helps someone. It looks like this guy figured it out:
Windows 7 disabling "you need to format the disk " pop-up window « PZolee's blog
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I use a simple, no-frills, Kensington Docking Station (sd120 with Ethernet,) with a mere 4 USB 2.0 ports on the back, and, when I rarely move my external hard drives around, without fail, I get that problem.
After reading an article (wish I could locate it,) where an old timer who knew his hardware fundamentals swore up & down USB isn't as "plug & play" as we like to think stated as such... I took notice and started to believe what he said.
Try hooking up what you need to, or where it last worked best, if you could, disable TrueCrypt (it's been a while... disable it as a Startup Entry if it is one ((?)),) and shut down.
Restart to force hardware detection.
Leave it all as it is.
Should it cause errors, run an elevated CMD and use the "sfc /scannow" command to verify integrity violations or lack thereof.
Reset policies if necessary.
Still leaving hardware as is, power-down (making sure all USB M-F connections stay put, but power is off,) and let it cool... then power back up.
Eventually, it'll whittle itself down and hopefully solve the problem; then you can go back to TrueCrypt. I hope this helps. I go through this error from time to time and it's a PAIN.
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|30 Mar 2011
windows 7 Professional 32bit
This is probably too late but in my environment windows doesn't say anything when TC volume is made on the entire hard drive (not in a partition). I noticed this because I have several TC-encrypted drives and one of them has TC volume on the entire drive and another one has in a partition - this latter one lets windows show the formatting warning, but the former one does not. I guess this is because windows warns when it detects unformatted partition but this doesn't happen to a drive without partitions (I don't know if this is true, just my guess).
I don't know if this is true in all the cases but hope it helps.
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Chris Brown's never-before-heard track called "Fools With You" has just hit the web. It has the R&B crooner singing his heart out to the woman of his dreams. "Tell me when tell me where, whatever you want baby I do it all for you/ Kinda love kinda strong I mean it and I dont give a damn," he cooes.
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Cape Hatteras Anglers Club Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament
The Cape Hatteras Anglers Club annual fishing tournament is one of the longest-running tournaments on Hatteras Island, and is easily one of its most treasured traditions. The tournament and the Anglers Club itself dates back to 1957, and both were founded as an initiative to alert Eastern Seaboard anglers that surf fishing is at its best in the Outer Banks in fall. Today, the fishing tournament is easily one of the largest of its kind on the East Coast, and also one of the most recognizable, with roughly 120 teams from all across the country participating every year.
This year's tournament will be held from November 5th to November 8th, and will kick off with an evening open house, followed by a Thursday night tackle show and Saturday evening awards ceremony.
On Saturday, the club also hosts an individual fishing tournament that's open to the public, with free entry for fishermen under 16 years of age. The fee to enter the grand tournament as a team is roughly $330, but the rewards are big, and spots tend to fill up fast. For more information on the tournament and to find out how to register, become a judge, or simply participate in the festivities, anglers can visit the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club's website at http://www.capehatterasanglersclub.org/. As one the Hatteras Island's oldest and most popular annual events, the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament is a legendary fall fishing bonanza that attracts and entices anglers from all along the East Coast. With great weather, great fishing, and plenty of good company, this tournament shows no signs of losing its 60+ year run as one of the best fishing tournaments on the beach.
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Outer Banks Marathon and Half Marathon
Though barely a decade old, the annual Outer Banks Marathon is quickly becoming one of coastal North Carolina's fastest growing and best-attended events. Covering a scenic section of the Outer Banks that runs from the borders of Kitty Hawk to Roanoke Island, this marathon and half-marathon trail breezes through the Jockey's Ridge State Park, crosses over the Washington Baum Bridge, and reaches the finish line in historic Downtown Manteo. The marathon is also the North Carolina USA Track & Field State Championship race and a Boston Marathon qualifying race, which makes it a popular course for die-hard runners and newcomers alike. Along the route, runners will be greeted by local sponsors, handing out water and cheering the runners on as they rush from one mile to the next, and will also encounter some of the best scenery the 'Banks has to offer. A large section of this track borders the Nags Head Woods or the Albemarle Sound, making it one of the most undeniably gorgeous racing routes on the coast.
Visitors who don't want to tackle the full marathon can get their adrenaline pumping by participating in the Southern Fried Half Marathon, the Southern 6 Run, the 10K & 5K, and the Family Fun Run. Prices to join a race vary, depending on the event, and races take place at different times during the two-day festivities, which run from November 7th until November 9th. For more information, runners can visit the event's website at http://www.obxmarathon.org/, and can sign up for the race of their choice online as well at https://www.raceit.com/. Quickly developing a reputation as one of most scenic marathon race courses on the circuit, the Outer Banks Marathon is a fantastic fall event that is sure to take any participant's breath away.
November 7, 2014 - November 9, 2014
19th Annual ADVICE 5K Turkey Trot
Rev up a hearty appetite for Thanksgiving Dinner by running in the town of Duck's 19th Annual ADVICE 5K Turkey Trot. This Thanksgiving Day event has become a tradition in Duck, with attendees donning turkey-themed hats and apparel, and having a great time cruising through some of the town's most scenic wooded and waterfront neighborhoods. Held this year on November 27th, the Turkey Trot is wide open to runners and walkers of all ages and abilities, and proceeds benefit the ADVICE 5K Turkey Trot Charitable Endowment. Due to the popularity of this nearly 20-year annual run, spots tend to ill up fast, and interested participants are advised to register on https://www.raceit.com/Register/?event=23903 as soon as possible. With that being said, spectators are also welcome at the event, and can cheer on the runners from the Duck Town Park, or from the comfort of a local vacation rental home balcony. Serving as a great way to work up an appetite for the ensuing Thanksgiving meal, this early morning "trot" is quickly becoming one of Duck's favorite off-season traditions.
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Elizabethan Gardens WinterLights
The annual WinterLights event at the Elizabethan Gardens is a must-see for any December local or visitor who wants their holiday celebration to truly shine.
The event essentially features a full month of an illuminated Elizabethan Gardens, with hours that extend well into the night, and a delightful display of hundreds of thousands of sparkling Christmas Lights scattered throughout the extensive outdoor space. This year's WinterLights celebration begins with the Grand Illumination on November 29th, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Throughout the event, visitors will enjoy soaking up the unending rows of festive lights, evening bonfires and hot coca, and seasonal gift shop and plant sales. After the inaugural lighting, the event generally runs five days a week, (Tuesdays through Saturdays), from December 2nd until January 3rd, with extended Garden hours of operation from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
A fantastic evening outing for kids, the celebration includes a lighted holiday village, gorgeously adorned entrance trees, and twinkling lights as far as the eye can see. Admission prices run around $14 for adults, $8 for kids ages 6-17, and free for children 5 and under, with special discounts for Elizabethan Garden members and friends. A fantastic celebration that truly spans the season, the annual WinterLights shines a bright light on the very best of the Outer Banks during the holidays.
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Three people who have reviewed documents concerning the sale of the Buffalo Bills say a Toronto group that includes rocker Jon Bon Jovi is interested in buying the team.
The three people spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Friday because the process is private and the Toronto group has not revealed its intentions.
The group includes Larry Tanenbaum and the Rogers family. Tanenbaum is chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which controls the NHL's Maple Leafs and NBA's Raptors. The Rogers family controls Toronto-based communications giant Rogers Communication.
The group has retained the banking firm Goldman Sachs to assist its bid.
The Bills are for sale after owner Ralph Wilson died in March.
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This vase is magnificent . The vase looks like glass but it isn't. It is fairly heavy. The peacocks surrounding the bottom are beautifully colored. Great purchase.
I love peacocks and the color of the vase just showed off the circle of peacocks around the bottom.
While the glass bowl was nice and strong, the peacock base made of Porcelene is too feeble and thin and prone to break. I found it broken in the shipment packing itself The manufacturer need to improve the design to make it strong, otherwise I feel every peace will be broken during the shipment.
My daughter likes peacocks...I showed her this vase in the catalog and she said that she would like to have it in her dining room...I ordered it and, when it came, I was totally unprepared for how beautiful it is...I gave to my daughter anyway...and she loved it. The glass is more beautiful than the picture shows...
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Amelia Island Plantation 3 bedroom Townhouse overlooking beautiful lake and golf course
This townhouse is just across the road from the beach and each group of Beach Wood townhouses has its own pool. Plae Restaurant is fine dining, the Verandah Restaurant, Falcons Nest Sports Bar serves burgers, wings, etc and Marche' Barrett Deli is open for breakfast, lunch and late afternoon snacks serving pizza, wraps, salads and home made ice creams. All are open to the public.The Fernandia Beach Public Golf Course is nearby with 27 holes and is well maintained and very reasonable.
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Melanie Blatt, Nicole Appleton, Natalie Appleton and Shaznay Lewis in May 1998 [Rex]
All Saints are back! And no, we're not talking about the high-street brand. In the week following the epic return of Busted (alongside McFly in the originally titled 'McBusted'), we have yet another blast from the past with the fabulous news that '90s girl band All Saints are set to rise from the depths of the pop graveyard. Hurrah! Not only that but they're reuniting to support the Backstreet Boys on their UK and Ireland 2014 tour.
Comprising of Melanie Batt, Shaznay Lewis and, of course, the Appleton sisters Nicole and Natalie, they will forgo any new material in favour of their monumentally crowd-pleasing, older songs. 'Never Ever' anyone?! 'We are really looking forward to performing together as special guests,' the foursome said. 'The Backstreet Boys are a great band, so it's an honour.'
With five headline dates and a new album, In A World Like this, to sing to us, the Backstreet Boys couldn't have picked anyone better to kick their gigs off and we have a feeling that these dates will be a popular buy. So can we expect to see Backstreet and All Saints duets? Will there be '90s-style coordinating costumes? Dodgy haircuts? We hope so.
To assist our speculation, let's relive some of our fave All Saints moments...
1. When they released one of the catchiest songs ever
2. When they made everyone want to wear baggy combats + Timbalands
3. When the Appleton sisters bagged Robbie Williams and Jamie Theakston
4. When they gave acting a go
5. When they reunited (for the second time)
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