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Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence—In Space
Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water—enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over.
Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever—so large and so old, it's almost impossible to describe.
The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush.
Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet's worth of water—20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth—Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over—20,000 times over.
The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.
The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world's oceans," which isn't particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.
That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.
Mind you, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has about 400 billion stars, so if every one of those stars has 10 planets, each as wet as Earth, that's only 4 trillion planets worth of water.
The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water.
Truly, that is one swampy patch of intergalactic space.
Equally stunning is the age of the water factory. The two teams of astrophysicists that found the quasar were looking out in space a distance of 12 billion light years. That means they were also looking back in time 12 billion years, to when the universe itself was just 1.6 billion years old. They were watching water being formed at the very start of the known universe, which is to say, water was one of the first substances formed, created in galactic volumes from the earliest time. Given water's creative power to shape geology, climate and biology, that's dramatic.
"It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times," says Matt Bradford, an astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and leader of one of the teams that made the discovery. (The journal article reporting the discovery is titled, without drama, "The Water Vapor Spectrum of APM 08279+5255: X-Ray Heating and Infrared Pumping over Hundreds of Parsecs.")
It is not as if you'd have to wear foul-weather gear if you could visit this place in space, however. The distances are as mind-bogglingly large as the amount of water being created, so the water vapor is the finest mist—300 trillion times less dense than the air in a typical room.
And it's not as if this intergalactic water can be of any use to us here on Earth, of course, at least not in the immediate sense. Indeed, the discovery comes as a devastating drought across eastern Africa is endangering the lives of 10 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. NASA's water discovery should be a reminder that if we have the sophistication to discover galaxies full of water 12 billion light years away, we should be able to save people just an ocean away from drought-induced starvation.
The NASA announcement is also a reminder how quickly our understanding of the universe is evolving and how much capacity for surprise nature still has for us. There's water on Mars, there's water jetting hundreds of miles into space from Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, there are icebergs of water hidden in the polar craters of our own Moon. And now it turns out that a single quasar has the ability to manufacture galaxies full of water.
But it was only 40 years ago, in 1969, that scientists first confirmed that water existed anywhere besides Earth.
Read the latest installment of this series: Americans Guzzling More Bottled Water Than Ever"
Charles Fishman is the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, published by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. © 2011, Charles Fishman.
Read more from The Big Thirst on FastCompany.com.
[Artist rendering of water vapor circling quasar: NASA]
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To the author of this article: you're nuts. Or, you're telling us stories, like fables, or fairy tales, in which case you're not nuts, but a storyteller.
The Sun is what makes our water, for example; and in space it would be first-order or second-order stars. That's science; "black holes" is Walt Disney. Can you understand what I'm saying alright?
that's where the gurren lagann was!
if it is so cold in deep space, how is it that the water can exist without freezing
because of plasma.
A. I think when they say water they mean frozen water its still the same thing.
orB. If somehow the water is liquid it must because of the Gas surrounding it or the quasar heating up the gas to which heats up the water. but I think I'll go with A
If the water is 12 billion light years away that means it was there 12 billion years ago. Does not mean it's there now.
Wrong. Light Year is not equal to Earth Year. It's the measurement using the speed of light.
Wrong. The distance measure stated is dubious, and the age stated is almost certainly wrong.
I already knew that by reading Gita.. :)
good i need to know that
"And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. (7) And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were ABOVE THE FIRMAMENT, and it was so." Genesis 1:6-7
Take note that this passage was written a far distant years before scientist found the waters in space which is above the firmament.
Funny I was reading genesis chapter one, and I put the question to google was there water about the firmament, and when I read this of course I knew this was another infallible proof that God's word is pure truth.
Ok. But you should know that, it is now known that Genesis is not as old as other books in the old testament, it is newer.
Science is only there to prove that there is God. Why do you guys put your faith in scientists who only discover what is already there and not believe in the One who made all these? Like what Guess said, this journal of the creation of the universe (the bible) was written long before this "discovery". Why do you not give credit where it is due?
Great story, however,.............the comments section needs to come out of
fourth grade level. -
Another magnificent display of GOD'S almighty work and love. He decides to show us finite human beings a glimpse of his greatness. His love is on display!
Where's the love(and water) for the 30,000 kids who die EVERY DAY of starvation and lack of water!? Oh, he put the water in space!? Feel the love.... Let me guess; you have a full fridge and running water in your kitchen....
Theory of God
We and everything in the Universe are a manifestation of something. We call this something God for reasons that are unclear since no one knows who or what God is or how he/she/it came into being. So suggesting we need only look into our hearts to find the something which we call God sounds like gobbledygook to many. However, if we are a manifestation of "God's" essence then of course by looking at and into ourselves we see a part of that essence. I leave you with the following thoughts:
It is clear that a state of nothing is an impossibility since there is SOMETHING which could not emerge from a state devoid of anything. Therefore this SOMETHING is by definition an eternal state. The question is what is the SOMETHING? The answer is energy. Nothing can exist let alone evolve without it. Energy is the primal eternal force that is the difference between nothing and something.
This primal eternal energy must therefore be the source of all existence. Everything in the objective physical and invisible universe is of or originates from it and is therefore "genetically" connected to it, so to speak.
Energy resonates frequencies of which there are an infinite number. Since this eternal energy source exists in infinity, energy is also infinite. Thus this primal eternal energy = existence = life = energy = life ad infinitum. The universe and everything in it is an energy form resonating at differing frequencies. All energy forms are both receivers and transmitters of energy waves at various frequencies. Love is an energy with a specific frequency as are all thoughts.
To transform these frequencies into a physical image/sound requires that we are tuned in to those channels. Thus the universe is a combination of countless fluctuating frequencies. Our reality is determined by the input/output of all incoming and outgoing frequencies. The more we send out energy waves of love the more we change our reality for the better and visa versa. This is how and why we are joint creators of our own reality.
The Russian physicist Dr. Korotkov's GVD photographic energy detecting technology has already demonstrated that the energy of plants rises or diminishes on detecting the intent of persons in their vicinity. The intent, be it positive or negative is transmitted as energy waves resonating a frequency which the plant is able to detect. There can be no other rational explanation. It demonstrates perfectly the connectivity of one energy form with another.
This is where science and spirituality join. The Bible tells us that God is love. Love is an energy form. A self sustaining creation can only be built on love or the wave energy of love. One built on any other energy form would inevitably self destruct since it would contain elements of conflict.
It is said that in "the beginning was the word and the word was with God". In a sense this theory confirms this except the word is in fact a sound wave frequency of the emotion of "love" and "love" is the word we give this sound wave. Thus one might say the God energy is truly love from which everything has emerged. Call it what you like but energy is the creator.
I wonder if there is a ocean in that cloud? Anybody read "Integral Trees" and "Smoke Ring" by Larry Niven?.


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Coalition of International Film Academies announced at Cannes
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards announced the formation of an international coalition of three film academies, earlier this month at the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival. The participating members of the coalition are the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA), the European Film Academy (EFA) and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Members from this foundation of academies will have the opportunity to share valuable experience, knowledge and collaborate on international projects.
Academy members from the EFA and AACTA have been named as part of the 2012 APSA Jury. The three Jury members announced at the Cannes reception earlier today are actress Maria De Medeiros (EFA member), known among other achievements, for her role as Bruce Willis' girlfriend in Pulp Fiction; APSA winning producer, Zeynep Özbatur Atakan (EFA and APSA academy member); and 2011 APSA best actor nominee Sasson Gabay (EFA and APSA academy member) currently one of the most prolific and highly respected actors working in Israeli cinema.
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) promote and acclaim the cinematic excellence and cultural diversity of the vast Asia Pacific region. An international cultural initiative of the Queensland State Government, Australia, it also brings together in a unique collaboration Paris-based UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations.Now in its sixth year, the APSA ceremony, or APSAs as it has become known, has become a major event on the Asia Pacific film industry calendar. Seventy countries are eligible to submit films for the competition. In recent years more than forty countries have had their films in selection.
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"Most of these small towns are full of dead business buildings." "Modern corporate marketing has not been kind to small places." "Cafes and taverns are always the last businesses to close down in dying towns." - Bill Holm, from "Small Town Minnesota - A to Z"
My hometown of Lewiston has as many bars that serve folks as there are churches that save. We've always had a doctor and a dentist. I can go as far back as Doc Clay, whose shiny drill snaking above his foreboding dentist's chair invoked white-knuckled fear in all of the town's children.
Then there was Mary's near-death conundrum. I can still remember two little girls playing in a blacktop puddle over at the school's basketball court when Mary's lower arm was slashed by broken glass. That was my first exposure to someone else's bleeding flesh.
I had never been so scared in my short life! I hustled Mary, one year younger than me, across the field of clover, past our huge garden and into the back screen door. Here's where stay-at-home neighbors came to the rescue! Since we were little shavers, Mother dropped me and Ronnie off next door at Gretchen Kletske's house, as she waited on pins and needles for Dad to briskly make his way home from Selvig Grocery's meat counter on Main Street.
Mary was rushed to Doc Satterlie's office. She was a trooper, considering Doc's bedside manner was crude at best. He minced no words, announcing that the cut was a mere centimeter from severing her main artery - and then, who knows! With no anesthetic and sparse comfort the good doctor stitched up Mary's cut and set the Lewis' on their way, relieved and shaken.
There was a Dr. Neumann in town, as well. He removed my tonsils and adenoids when I was about eight years young, in a cramped room smelling rank and medicinal. His was a dingy office, up a steep flight of stairs and adjacent to Dr. Clay's sterile, bright room. I was placed on an uninviting, narrow table next to a window overlooking an alley. There, in a stupor from the ether, my dreaded surgery took place.
I was expected to spend the night, as nurse Mae Larson stayed by my side. Other than her consoling presence, I don't recall much else. The flaming pain in my throat meant several days of milkshakes, mounds of Jello, jugs of juice, Popsicles, and melt in your mouth candy the other kids would sneak for me.
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From Minnesota, Minnesota, writer and poet Bill Holm muses, "Is it the sort of town intelligent children dream of escaping?" "Could a human being love this place?" "Could poetry be written there - or great symphonies composed?" "But even here there is something to love if we start with love inside us."
The Grandma Benike house on the corner has been shelter and haven to countless families throughout the years. Back in my youth, three schoolteachers resided there. Mrs. Vatter, Joe Rivers, and Miss Hagen walked past our house each school day. There I reclined after school, in my uppermost perch in our front yard tree.
I couldn't help overhearing tidbits of school talk and other prattle, which opened my eyes to the numbing discovery that teachers do laugh and carry on just like normal people.
As dating and moody teenage blues grounded me, the tree I climbed faded into the sunset of my naiveté. Coming home at night, as the moon winked through its nodding branches, I was assured that this would always be "home."
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US adds AQAP leader involved in embassy plot to terrorist list
The US Department of State has added a top al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who has been involved in plots to target US diplomatic facilities in Yemen and worldwide, as well as attacks against Yemeni troops, to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The US targeted the AQAP leader a drone strike late last year.
Shawki Ali Ahmed al Badani, "a leader and operative" in al Qaeda's branch in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, was added to the US' terrorism list earlier today, State said in a press release announcing the designation. Badani "has long been involved in terrorist activity as a member of the group."
Badani "played a key role in a plan for a major attack in summer 2013 that led the United States to close 19 diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa."
The diplomatic facilities were closed after American officials learned that al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri had communicated, via a complex Internet-based system, with more than 20 al Qaeda operatives around the world. The al Qaeda terrorists reportedly discussed a possible attack on a US embassy or consulate. During the communications, Zawahiri also made it known that he had appointed Nasir al Wuhayshi, the head of AQAP, as the new general manager of al Qaeda's global operations.
Additionally, Badani "reportedly assigned an AQAP operative to target the US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, for attacks" in 2012, State said.
He is also "connected to a suicide bomber who killed over 100 Yemeni soldiers in a May 2012 attack," State reported. In that attack, a suicide bomber detonated in the middle of a formation of troops from the Central Security Organization, a paramilitary branch of the Ministry of the Interior, as they practiced for a parade.
Badani has been described by the Yemeni government as one of "the most dangerous terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda." In 2013, the Yemeni government offered a reward of $100,000 for information leading to his capture.
Badani has been targeted by US drones in Yemen at least once, with disastrous results. On Dec. 12, 2013, US drones targeting Badani accidentally killed 15 civilians as they traveled in a wedding party in Rada'a in the central province of Baydah.


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CAIRO - A machete attack on an army cadet in London on Wednesday, May 22, is inviting the outrage of the Muslim community in Britain for contradicting the basic teachings of Islam.
This is a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam and we condemn this unreservedly, the umbrella Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said in a statement obtained by OnIslam.net.
Our thoughts are with the victim and his family.
An army cadet was hacked to death by two machete-wielding men near an army barrack in Woolwich, south London.
Video footage filmed by an onlooker and broadcast by Britain's ITV news channel showed a man with hands covered in blood and holding a bloodied knife.
"We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, the man carrying a knife and a machete says in the video.
"I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
He then says You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns you think politicians are going to die?
The two attackers were shot by the police and were taken to hospital.
British Prime Minister David Cameroon said there were strong indications that it is a terrorist incident.
"People across Britain, people in every community, I believe, will utterly condemn this attack, said Cameroon, who shortened his visit to Paris to return to London.
"It is the most appalling crime. We are obviously seeking, and the police are urgently seeking, the full facts about this case."
London was last hit by a serious militant attack in July 2005, when four young Islamists set off suicide bombs on the public transport network, killing 52 people.
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Distancing the attack from their community, British Muslims reiterated support for government efforts to safe their country.
Muslims have long served in this country's Armed Forces, proudly and with honor, the MCB said.
This attack on a member of the Armed Forces is dishonorable, and no cause justifies this murder.
The umbrella group has raised concern that the attack could fuel hostility against Muslims in Britain.
This action will no doubt heighten tensions on the streets of the United Kingdom, the MCB said.
We call on all our communities, Muslim and non-Muslim, to come together in solidarity to ensure the forces of hatred do not prevail.
It is important we allow our police authorities to do their job without speculation. We also urge the utmost vigilance and ask the police authorities to calm tensions.
Britain's 2.7 million Muslims have taken full brunt of anti-terror laws since the 7/7 attacks.
A Financial Times opinion poll showed that Britain is the most suspicious nation about Muslims.A poll of the Evening Standard found that a sizable section of London residents harbor negative opinions about Muslims.
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20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. | 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. |
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Recent Comments:
The Lawbringer: Consequences 2010 {WoW}
Oct 29th 2010 7:02PM Even then, at 18 you're old enough to go off and die but you're not old enough to drink? Age descrimination will be here forever.
The Classifieds: The uber edition {WoW}
Sep 29th 2010 10:25AM "We currently plan to raid Sundays 9 p.m. until 12 p.m. "
Holy shit that's like 15 hours!
Breakfast Topic: Does your guild's social reputation matter? {WoW}
Sep 6th 2010 12:37AM I like how the uprated posts are mostly ones that berate others for having the minority point of view. It shows that ethics is up to the community to decide -- not that berating a person for being different is ethical or anything.
Now, I do believe that reputation is a good thing for players and guilds, but my take on reputation is a little different than the majority of the community. Reputation, to me, is more of a style. It doesn't matter if the guild itself is seen as ethical if it has a certain style. For example, a guild could be full of trade trolls which has a negative connotation, but people will still seek to join it if they too wish to troll trade with other likeminded individuals. The only truely bad reputations for a guild would be about their skill levels and maybe (not always) their ethicality on loot distribution (some people want a guild that works only for the guild). Just be warned that a guild full of female cleansing products will attract even more female cleansing products.
I personally believe that the time we spend together in game is real even if our avatars aren't and that people should thus be treated with respect, however, you will still find me trolling trade and continuing to be ignored by half of the server for huge macros depicting starcraft pylons and voidwalkers. I don't hide behind anonymity as I only ever play one (pimped out) character and my guild's reputation is on the lower end as many of them are elietist jerks. We are still seen as one of the guilds that can put out the numbers and are as laid back as any durring raids so people respect us (even the only one (to my knowledge) who has ever trash talked my guild sent in an application).
Recap: I see fit to treat the people I play with right. My guild has a negative reputation. It hasn't shown any signs of mattering.
Now I believe it's time for me to fade to black.
Breakfast Topic: Are you a hoarder? {WoW}
Sep 5th 2010 5:04PM 57 happy fun rocks, 3 stacks of felweave, halaa tokens, outdated raid gear, scales of onyxia, firebloom, crimson lotus, old letters from old guild masters, azerothian diamond, holiday gear, helper summoning trinkets, a hyacinth (which i plan on hording through cataclysm), the higher learning book, engineering crap, 38 different weapons including tanking and hunter/druid crap (i'm a warlock). I need an intervention. I NEED DIVINE INTERVENTION!
Enter to win a Blazing Hippogryph and other loot {WoW}
Jul 28th 2010 1:45PM that's a nice looking mount :3
Insider Trader: 7 things that should stay in Cataclysm {WoW}
Apr 26th 2010 8:56PM I see where this is going ...
Zerg Overlord mount that can hold either 4 players or 2 Demolishers ... or one Siege Engine and 1 player. It may only go 30% speed but it shouts its glorious message to all.
Breakfast Topic: 101 things to do before the world dies {WoW}
Apr 25th 2010 11:48PM Same here. I specifically leveled engineering for this purpose. The only few places I haven't gotten to are the instanced version of Silithus, the Emerald Forrest, the Secret Deadmines area (old outlands?), and the glacier behind ZF (Instanced).
Breakfast Topic: 101 things to do before the world dies {WoW}
Apr 25th 2010 11:36PM True, it's a lot of work just for one quest, but isn't that more realistic? There has to be a reason for a lvl 60 to pay you to do something in a lvl 30 zone. If he's already at the zone, he could easily do it himself instead of waiting for some adventurer to come along. It would seem more viable for the lvl 60 to pay you to travel and deliver a message for him or at least go out of your way to get to the the zone and kill the mobs. Otherwise, the quest giver would seem way too lazy if he could both easily and quickly do the job, yet pay you to do it instead.
Blood Pact: Truth, science and flying monsters {WoW}
Apr 25th 2010 7:04PM http://www.wowwiki.com/Fel_dragon
The Legion has its hand in creating these to begin with, It's allready in existance, It will make people rock out with their lock out, and It works with the warlock identity.
Any objections? *>.>
Win a pony from WoW.com {WoW}
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These things I already do, but I am resolving to get better:
- Be patient.
Client time is different from mine. It is usually slower, but sometimes has a wild false urgency. Patience for change management means going slower at times and faster when it is not really necessary. - Fill in the cells.
Whether or not it makes sense everyone seems to need cells filled in. Rather than constantly question all these spreadsheets I am going to take some time to fill them up so I can get to the REAL change management. - Stand my ground.
It is easy as a consultant to not say some things either because you know there is little chance your comments will turn into the right action or because you are afraid you will push buttons which can make your position precarious. This is exactly what consultant used to get PAID for- willingness to question and eloquently present alternatives. I have worked to hard to discard this talent. - Spend more time dishing out Kudos.
There is not enough specific acknowledgement in organizations. Perhaps coming from outsiders compliments that call out expertise might carry some extra weight? Perhaps spending a little extra time on this helps others to follow suit? You do not know until you try.


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Persistent, virtual worlds fascinate me. There's something mind-blowing about the simple fact that they exist without us. They evolve over time; refining rules, adding new areas of the world to explore, and new goals for players to achieve. That evolution makes them feel like a living entity rather than a static stage for events, and makes MMOGs unique among video games. The successful evolution of a persistent world is important because it is the key to retaining its player base. As long as players can consume new experiences and grow their avatars they'll keep paying their monthly fees to the publisher. If handled correctly, that influx of cash can be used to further develop and enhance the virtual world. It's a cycle of success breeding future success. Players continue to play and developers continue to grow the world.
As game worlds evolve and grow, player expectations expand as well. We look for refinements in avatar class structure, new quest content, and new lands to explore, among other things. The more we continue to play in our world of choice, the more time and effort we invest in our avatars. We work hard to obtain gear and levels and become more powerful. As we level ourselves up we build memories of our play experience. We join guilds, make friends, and take down rivals in PvP. The memories of all these play experiences grow fond and we become further and further attached to our avatars and the world in which we play. In short, we invest ourselves heavily in an MMOG in a way that we don't invest ourselves in other games. They become second homes to us.
But new virtual worlds pop up frequently. They all compete for their share of that sweet revenue stream. This year we'll see Age of Conan, Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, and Mythos (among others). Their potential for genre innovation and new content will inevitably pique our curiosity. Many of us will try out one of these new worlds. However; more often than not, moving to a new game means leaving the old one, or giving up a substantial amount of time in the old world to invest in the new one. Given an infinite amount of playtime this might not be an issue, but for most of us time is a precious commodity. Leaving an old world and old friends behind can be rough. As games evolve and continue to improve, leaving them seems to become more and more difficult. How do you kick an old game (and avatar) to the curb when you've invested so much of your time and energy into it?
Although I have been known to do it, I find if difficult to try out a new MMOG unless I've already quit an existing one. I just can't see spending $50.00 or more on a game, plus monthly fees, when I know that I'm still invested in an MMOG I'm already playing. Part of it stems from the fact that I'm cheap (another reason I love Dungeon Runners), but part of it is linked to that difficulty in severing connections with the existing game. A friend of mine, however, is the complete opposite of me. He is always willing to spend the bucks and invest the time to try out a new game for several months. Typically, that's about as long as he'll play most MMOGs. He'll give it a shot and if it doesn't hook him right away he has no qualms about abandoning the avatar he's just invested months in creating and growing.
A few months worth of time may not mean much to some people, but it does to me. Even though my main character in Everquest only made it into his thirties, I had a really tough time leaving him. I thought about the time I ran all they way from Freeport to Qeynos when I was way too low level to attempt it; and survived. I thought about the time I'd spent dodging those awful, high aggro sand giants while trying to grind on caimans in the Oasis. I thought about the excitement I'd felt the first time questing in the dangerous home of the Crushbone clan of orcs at low levels. I thought about falling to my death from the tree-city of Kelethin again and again. All these experiences I'd had, and all the experiences I knew I'd never get to have were all rumbling through my mind as I made the final decision to abandon my characters and begin a new life in a new game. Even though I wasn't nearly as invested as players who had maxed level and run raid content, I still felt a sense of loss. I felt like I was throwing away hours of time I'd invested in this character. I'd never experienced that sensation when playing a single player game. I guess I always knew that if I wanted to play through a single player game again, I could. It'd be like picking up a book I'd read once and reading it again. But virtual worlds aren't guaranteed to exist for an eternity, and neither are our avatars.
After Everquest I moved on to Dark Age of Camelot where I played in the Midgard realm with a skald and a thane as my main characters. As soon as I started playing Camelot I knew I had made the right decision to leave Everquest. I absolutely loved the Arthurian themes and the way the classes worked. I also loved the RvR system that Mythic implemented. I remember leading "beat squads" of fellow Midgardians through the RvR battlegrounds and laying siege to the central keep. My rag-tag pick up group loved me so much as a leader that when I finally died attacking the base of the keep they spent half an hour attempting to resurrect me before finally succeeding. I had a blast palying DaoC, but it wasn't that long until another game wooed me away. Letting my characters go this time was even more painful than when I'd left Everquest. This time around I'd actually formed some decent friendships in Dark Age of Camelot, leveled multiple characters much higher than in Everquest, and generally enjoyed the experience more.
Although I enjoyed a brief stint in City of Heroes, the next game that stole my heart was World of Warcraft. Of all the MMOGs I've played thus far, Warcraft has been my favorite. From the cartoony graphics to the classes and PvP elements, everything was so polished and well designed that I remember enjoying every second of my experience in the open beta test. And for the most part, that fond feeling has continued throughout my experience in WoW. For the first time in any MMOG, I've actually reached some end game content, have been in multiple guilds, and formed amazing friendships. I'm more invested in WoW than in any MMOG I've played. And yet, I know that eventually, just as with all the other previous games, something will come along and pull me away from WoW. Letting go of my WoW characters will be excruciating for me because I've played the game for over three years. That's a lot of time and effort invested into my avatars.
I'm curious how the rest of the MMOG community feels about this issue. Am I just a sappy, sentimentalist or a cheapskate? Probably both, but I want to know if any of you out there have had a hard time letting go of the characters you've invested so much time and effort into creating. It's true that an MMOG is "just a game", but I can't help but feel like I'm saying goodbye to a friend, or euthanizing a family pet when I finally cancel a game subscription. Once my characters finally experience the big sleep, I hope they dream of electric sheep.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2008 12:51PM Grizz said
Its true, leaving my warm place in Ultima Online left me with a heavy heart. It left me with a void I was never able to fill as I move from game to game. I cant seem to stick with just one game for more than a year because it cant fill the shoes of UO.
I still seek.
I still seek.
Posted: Jan 14th 2008 5:53PM (Unverified) said
It is the same for me too, Gr1zz. Nothing seems to be able to replace EQ1 for me. I was playing WoW for a couple years but it's not the same thing. Although I have grown to like it, I have also grown to be bored of WoW. Boredom from EQ1 didn't happen for a very long time. It took 6 yrs to get me to finally quit EQ1 and that was a very hard thing to do.
Posted: Jan 21st 2008 12:27PM (Unverified) said
I know exactly were your coming from. Just a few days ago my friends got me hooked on WoW and I am currently playing the 10 day while I debate on leaving my old game, Runescape. I'm part of one of the biggest clans in the game and I have made loads of friends. I have spent countless hours playing and building up my character only to get hooked on another MMOG. It is very pain staking. I am yet to decide what to do.
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 12:04PM (Unverified) said
I tend to see a game as polished as WoW as a sort of virtual Disneyland. People are going to want to visit 'The Happiest Place on Earth" for a long time to come.
They key, as I see it, for developers, is to continue to keep up with technology. I could see putting on a pair of VR goggles to play one of my WoW characters in about 5-10 years.
What they created with that game is as huge a cultural force as Disney. Yeah, there were cartoons before Mickey Mouse. But there are still Mickey Mouse fans almost 100 years later.
My opinion is that WoW will be that kind of franchise.
They key, as I see it, for developers, is to continue to keep up with technology. I could see putting on a pair of VR goggles to play one of my WoW characters in about 5-10 years.
What they created with that game is as huge a cultural force as Disney. Yeah, there were cartoons before Mickey Mouse. But there are still Mickey Mouse fans almost 100 years later.
My opinion is that WoW will be that kind of franchise.
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 12:10PM (Unverified) said
And I'd add- Maybe someone will come up with a Bugs Bunny & Friends franchise, but that won't diminish Mickey Mouse and his fans.


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I have a Winters Rose camellia planted on the north side of my house. It bloomed the first year, but did not bloom this past spring. The azalea next to it bloomed nicely, however.
Last summer, I applied an organic 20-10-6 fertilizer, and got about 10 inches of leafy growth this spring (but no flowers). Did my camellia not bloom because of the fertilizer, or did it not bloom because of too much shade? Does a camellia need more sun than an azalea? The plant itself looks great all year; it would just be nice to know if I am ever going to get flowers again. :-) Lois in PA
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- Posted by johnnie-grower (My Page) on Sat, Jul 18, 09 at 20:38
The fertilizer could be the culprit.It is high in nitrogen and may have caused rampid vegetative growth at the expense of flowers.It would really be best not to use any fertilizer at all the first year of planting to allow the plant to settle in and the roots to develop to support new growth.Camellias really don't need all that much fertilizer in the first place.Another possibility is if the weather was extremely cold and could have frozen the bloom buds.They also will bloom less if the shade is extreme. Give it another year |
As johnie-grower correctly suggested, your plant probably had a overabundance of too much nitrogen. The pot in which it came probably already contain those round-looking general-purpose slow-release fertilizer pellets so when you added even more, it did not go dormant and the buds got zapped by winter temperatures. Of course, squirrels and such pests could have eaten some of the buds too since they start to become visible around mid-July so this year verify that you are getting flower buds. And make sure that lawn fertilizer does not get close to the shrub since lawn fertilizer is high in nitrogen too. The American Camellia Society recommends then changing to moderate nitrogen and phosphate, and to higher potassium in September. Or you can use an organic fertilizer called cottonseed meal which does an all around good job when applied three times a year. I would recommend that product starting next year but, this year, I would just do nothing or add something like bone meal. Luis |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 20, 09 at 12:36
I also agree, too much nitrogen can definately be the problem. You want something high in the middle number which is phosphorus. Good luck |
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"It will be macaroni, I swear to it that will unify Italy" General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860.
Pasta—hands-down Italy's most famous food—comes in hundreds of shapes and is served in thousands of ways. Join Francine Segan, author of Pasta Modern, for an amusing talk on its tantalizing history, interesting regional dishes, and what's cutting edge in Italy today. Learn about Felicetti and Garofalo, two of Italy's most renowned pasta companies. Talk includes: tastings of several pasta dishes, free box of Felicetti and Garofalo pasta for each guest, how to pick the best dried pasta, the perfect way to boil pasta, pasta lover's tour of Italy, trivia contest with prizes about modern & antique pasta making equipment.


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XP-mode won't install on Windows 7 Professional
I'm having problems getting XP mode to work in Windows 7 Professional.
When attempting to start XP-mode, after entering password details and turning on automatic updates, I receive an error telling me that "VT is disabled, or I may have to disable Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)". According to the Intel Processor ID Utility, VT is supported by my processor and enabled. Looking into my BIOS, I found that VT is indeed enabled (I have also disabled it and followed the steps in the sticky to re-enable it) but I cannot seem to find a setting to disable/enable Trusted Execution Technology. My processor is a Core i7 920 and my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? |
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03 Oct 2009 | #2 |
What motherboard are you using?
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64, XP Mode, W8.1 Preview VM - 7 Pro x64 second remote tower
Hello DAVco Welcome to the Se7enforums!
The first question I could ask here would be if you installed the new Virtual PC along with the XP Mode or just that alone? The Virtual PC is required and needs to go first ahead of the XP Mode itself. In fact the finished version of both will be available on 10/22 by the looks of things in time for 7's release on that date! The thing to look over now however is the guide for installation and setup since that will take you through everything one step at a time. Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup |
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04 Nov 2009 | #4 |
Im having the same problem. Mine has previously run and one day it came up with the message and will no longer run. Bios settings were configured correctly and have not been changed so I'm looking for suggestions
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64, XP Mode, W8.1 Preview VM - 7 Pro x64 second remote tower
Welcome to SF! skiersteve
I ran into similar problems only with 7 as well as a few Linux distros on the SUN Portable Virtual Box installed to a usb flash drive however. It took quite a bit longer but each one on it's suddenly refused to load as if there was a time limit. If you are still using the VPC or XP Mode RC and not the final version for each I would simply uninstall both and go for the finished version of each now seen. From there make sure to install the Virtual PC first and make sure you have one full restart of the system before going to install the XP Mode and run that to see working results But still refer to the guide seen for this at the link posted earlier. |
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The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on November 7, 2011, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JOHNNY LEE EDWARDS, a 26-year-old resident of Browning, appeared for sentencing. EDWARDS was sentenced to a term of:
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EDWARDS was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to burglary/assault.
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On November 10, 2009, "E.P.", and his half-brother, "A.E.", were at "E.P.'s" house in Browning, which is within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. They had been drinking earlier in the day and were sleeping and watching television. EDWARDS, "E.P.'s" nephew, came over to join the festivities and got into a fight with "E.P." and "A.E." about an ongoing family disagreement.
A.E." was punched in the face, knocked down, and stomped on. EDWARDS then went after "E.P." and began to assault him. Meanwhile, "C.H." drove to "E.P.'s" house with a friend. "C.H." went up to the door and looked in the front window and saw EDWARDS on top of "E.P.". She saw EDWARDS repeatedly punch "E.P." in the face with his fists. "C.H." went inside and tried to break up the fight and EDWARDS punched "C.H.".
EDWARDS then went outside and came back with a pair of metal nunchaku. "C.H." tried to block herself from EDWARDS with a chair, but EDWARDS hit her in the head with the swinging nunchaku. "C.H." attempted to call 911 from the house phone but EDWARDS yanked the cord from the wall.
A.E.", "E.P.", and "C.H." were injured.
EDWARDS claims that his assaults were justified because they were in large part self defense. The parties agree, however, that he did leave the premises and was afforded the opportunity to retreat, but returned with the nunchaku and resumed the assault. By returning to the home, with the intent to assault, EDWARDS acknowledges that he committed the offense of burglary.
Because there is no parole in the federal system, the "truth in sentencing" guidelines mandate that EDWARDS will likely serve all of the time imposed by the court. In the federal system, EDWARDS does have the opportunity to earn a sentence reduction for "good behavior." However, this reduction will not exceed 15% of the overall sentence.
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Federal releases can be kind of confusing and difficult to understand. Chock full of big words and borderline run-on sentences, they can be very intimidating for the average reader to peruse.
So, for your convenience and hopefully enjoyment, I decided to take a stab at breaking it down into common English for you. My commentary is bolded.
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that the economy has been expanding moderately, notwithstanding some slowing in global growth. While indicators point to some further improvement in overall labor market conditions, the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending has continued to advance, but growth in business fixed investment has slowed, and the housing sector remains depressed. Inflation has been subdued in recent months, and longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.
Here, the Fed is more or less saying that our economy is, in fact, getting better, but only in a kinda-sorta way. Our unemployment rate still shows that too many people are out of work, and prices aren't rising too much.
Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. The Committee expects economic growth over coming quarters to be modest and consequently anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate. Strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook. The Committee also anticipates that over coming quarters, inflation will run at levels at or below those consistent with the Committee's dual mandate.
This is very similar language from the last release from the Federal Reserve. Remember – the Fed is required BY LAW to balance inflation (prices) with employment (jobs). Since jobs are low, the Fed will continue to pump out money into the economy and worry less about inflation, which they say is a non-issue, in order to create jobs.
To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate, the Committee expects to maintain a highly accommodative stance for monetary policy. In particular, the Committee decided today to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and currently anticipates that economic conditions–including low rates of resource utilization and a subdued outlook for inflation over the medium run–are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through late 2014.
So, this is what people are talking about. The Fed announced that short-term rates will essentially remain at zero percent until 2014. Investors in bonds jumped for joy and gobbled up more bonds, which led to a decrease in rates. Hooray!
The Committee also decided to continue its program to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities as announced in September. The Committee is maintaining its existing policies of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. The Committee will regularly review the size and composition of its securities holdings and is prepared to adjust those holdings as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability.
The Fed will keep buying mortgage bonds, which, in turn, will try to keep mortgage rates low. However, it can't be guaranteed that we will enjoy these rates until 2014 because of the different variables that go into determining mortgage rates.
Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Elizabeth A. Duke; Dennis P. Lockhart; Sandra Pianalto; Sarah Bloom Raskin; Daniel K. Tarullo; John C. Williams; and Janet L. Yellen. Voting against the action was Jeffrey M. Lacker, who preferred to omit the description of the time period over which economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate.
The board was in total agreement here, except for the lone ranger Jeffrey Lacker, who voted against it. His rationale for his opposition against keeping interest rates at zero percent was solely based upon the time frame of keeping rates so low.
So there you have it, people. Isn't this easier to understand than the actual release? Maybe I should apply to be the release writer guy for the Federal Reserve, that way 95 percent of the country will actually understand what they're saying.


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I would like to trade for some Silver Shadows cuttings, rooted or not. I have rooted Abraham Darby (Austin) and Music Maker (Buck) from last year in 4" pots (can send bareroot). I will have unrooted cuttings of the same two as well as Amazing Grace (HT Cocker 1991) and Graham Thomas (Austin) in about a month.
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I have Silver Shadows that I would be interested in trading for Amazing Grace and Graham Thomas cuttings. I'm in z5 and the bush is really starting to leaf out now so it would probably be a month as well. Let me know |
Most excellent! We've had such an early spring that mine are well leafed out also. A month should be perfect. How many cuttings of each would you want? What state are you in? If you're fairly far away from Minnesota I would want to send your cuttings in a cooler box. Thanks for being interested in a trade! Tony |
Hi Tony, I'm outside Chicago so depending where you are in MN. Shipping probably would be pretty quick. I have never shipped cuttings before so maybe I could be advised on that. I would appreciate 2-3 cuttings of each if that is possible.Let me know. I LOVE my Silver Shadows, it is gorgeous and smells wonderful!I'm surprised more people don't grow this one. I also have Distant Drums from Buck and a lovely English Legend rose called Thornbury Castle if you are interested. |
We might be able to go with a padded envelope and a cold pack for that distance. I would love to get some of your other roses also, especially Thornbury Castle. I'm more inclined to send and receive 4-6 cuttings of each, if you're agreeable to that. Survival rate can be low, so it's best to improve your odds with volume so we won't have to ship twice. Let me know what you think. Thanks again! Tony |
- Posted by ChatanoogaChooChoo 7b (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 18:38
t-bred, would you be interested in trading cuttings for some of my roses? I've been looking for 'Silver Shadows' also. Mine are pictured here in my post: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/exch0420200620502.html?1 Thanks, -Amanda |
Tony, that's fine regarding cutting #'s I guess we can keep in touch until roses are ready ( do we e-mail for addresses?) Chatanooga, I will keep you in line for Silver Shadows cuttings, maybe we could do second bloom cuttings. |
- Posted by ChatanoogaChooChoo 7b (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 21:10
Okey dokey, my address is listed on my page so shoot me an email whenever you see fit. Distant Drums is also very nice if you feel it advantageous to trade that one as well. Thanks! -Amanda |
t-bred, Exchanging our addresses by email would be the way to go. It looks like you need to add your email address to your profile so that a link will come up on your member page that says "Send me an email". If you're logged in and you go to http://members.gardenweb.com/members/, you can edit your information. I don't think your email address will ever be seen by anyone else. Tony |
Tony, I sent you an e-mail. |
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In an executive memo issued today by OMB Director Peter Orszag (see his blog post), the US Federal Government announced three important measures:
(1) Peter Orszag is directing all executive departments and agencies are to stop issuing new task orders or procurements for all financial system modernization projects – an area of persistent problems – pending review and approval by OMB of new, more streamlined project plans. Financial system modernizations projects in the federal government have become too large and complex. By setting the scope of projects too broadly rather than focusing on essential business needs, federal agencies are incurring substantial cost overruns and lengthy delays in planned deployments. Compounding this problem, projects persistently fall short of planned results once deployed. […] Across the government, there are approximately 30 financial systems projects that are affected by this policy. The total cost expended on these projects is anticipated to be $20 billion over the life of these projects, with an approximate annual spend of $3 billion. OMB expects this new process to result in a significant reduction in these amounts.
This is certainly interesting. While freezing spending for one year does not mean to cancel projects, it is a clear wake up call for major IT deployments and their vendors (see a few references to impacted vendor on this Bloomberg article)
(2) the Federal CIO will undertake detailed reviews of the highest-risk IT projects across the Federal Government. Agencies will be required to present improvement plans to the CIO for projects that are behind schedule or over budget. Where serious problems are identified and cannot be corrected, further actions should be taken, including potential adjustments to Fiscal Year 2012 agency budgets. Within 30 days, the CIO shall issue guidance on how this review process will be conducted.
These amount to about $10 billion worth of projects that were reviewed earlier this year and showed high risk levels.
(3) OMB's Deputy Director for Management Jeff Zients will develop recommendations, within 120 days, for improving the federal government's overall IT procurement and management practices. These recommendations will address the root-causes of problems plaguing federal IT projects and focus on proven best practices from inside and outside the federal government. They will include higher standards for project management practices and personnel, additional mechanisms for holding managers accountable for project results, and more rigorous review processes
The purpose of this third initiative is to ensure that practices for procurement, contract and project management improve. The OMB will review experiences from other tiers of governments and other countries to learn what works and what doesn't.
The OMB is getting serious on scrutinizing IT. The Federal CIO Vivek Kundra started with making IT spending transparent through the IT Dashboard, continued with in-depth project reviews called TechStat Accountability Sessions, and now has the power to pull the plus – or seriously restructure – major projects.
With President Obama having asked agencies to reduce their budgets by five percent in 2012, Vivek Kundra and OMB may be fighting the ultimate battle to salvage IT from this or even further cuts. If all people see about IT are budget and schedule overruns, not only IT will be axed by five percent if not more, but the IT-savvy Obama administration will reach mid term with insufficient credibility.
The time left is not much, but measures are bold. We shall see how many projects will be canceled, delayed or just mildly restructures. If in the next few months the administration will prove to be serious about making IT work and link IT to agency and whole-of-government priorities, odds are that they could buy enough credibility to scale up other high-profile initiative such as whole-of-government cloud computing.
The next few months will also accelerate the tension between incumbent IT contractors and the new kids on the blocks that are (almost) pure cloud players.
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