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CCP Games releases findings on EVE starbase exploit investigation
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The EVE Online starbase exploit revealed in December has had a far-reaching impact on the game. Certain player-owned starbases in EVE were producing valuable, high-end materials that they shouldn't have been. Once a group of players picked up on this, they exploited the game on a massive scale, resulting in trillions of ISK (Interstellar Kredits, the game's virtual currency) that never should have existed being injected into the game. To date, this is the largest economic manipulation (via an exploit) ever revealed in EVE Online.
The starbase exploit was the first of several player-triggered drama bombs that hit the game in recent weeks, and resulted in a substantial amount of (in-game) market turmoil and player outcry over the issue. The game's subscribers wanted openness on the matter from EVE's developer, CCP Games, and they've certainly got that as of today. CCP Games posted the results of the exploit investigation, and the caveat "be careful what you wish for" may apply here, given the depth and complexity of the findings conveyed to the playerbase in today's dev blog, "War Makes Thieves and Peace Hangs Them."
This dev blog stands as an extremely thorough analysis of the starbase exploit and its effects on the game itself, from how player-owned stations (POS) work and why the exploit was so significant, to full disclosure on the economic ripples it's created in the game's setting of New Eden.
It's ultimately a presentation of the collective findings of several different departments within CCP Games and which is, quite frankly, beyond the scope of this post at Massively. What we offer up here is a rather basic summary of a complex issue, as "War Makes Thieves and Peace Hangs Them" exposes the nuts and bolts of the underlying game mechanics in a way this writer has never observed before from this particular developer.
CCP Games explains the scenario from the ground up, detailing the POS game mechanics for those unfamiliar with the industrial side of the game, and pointing out how the POS exploit worked. There's a fair amount of complexity to the issue but it's presented in a way that most players should be able to grasp, more or less, even if industry isn't your thing.
Once the developers figured out why certain starbases in the game were accruing materials they shouldn't have, they zeroed in on which ones were being used in the exploit and moved to eliminate them. EVE developer CCP Grimmi states: "The opening action on our part regarding the exploit included the total destruction of all the POS complexes involved. This entailed flying to each one and basically nuking everything in sight -- a fireworks show of epic proportions but with no witnesses except the GMs in the demolition team."
The aftermath of the exploit revelation has been an amalgam of account bans and some degree of economic fallout in the game. Effects have been felt by the game's playerbase in terms of Tech II production -- EVE's high-grade ships and modules put to use by those with higher degrees of skill than newer players. There have been some less obvious ancillary effects on the game as well, such as the negative impact on EVE's booster (drug) trade.
CCP Games lead economist Dr. EyjoG provides an exhaustive account of the impact of the exploit on EVE's market from 2005 right up until the exploit was revealed and subsequently dealt with. Most importantly, the dev blog explains what actions were taken against the exploiters (who have not been named by CCP and are not likely to be named and shamed in the future).
CCP discovered that over 200 reactors were being used to harvest materials which should not have existed. An estimated figure of how big the exploit has been places it at a staggering 6.7 trillion ISK. But that's just the ISK value of the exploit itself. The ISK put to use over the years actually changes the estimate, giving it an upper limit of roughly 12 trillion ISK.
Dr. EyjoG adds: "But putting that into some kind of perspective is necessary. On a daily basis the total trade on the EVE market (not counting contracts or direct trade) in 2008 was between 2.5 and 3.0 trillion ISK. That gives us an annual trade worth more than 964 trillion in 2008 alone. So the maximum value of the exploit in 2008 is only about 0.7% of the total trade in one year."
The exploiters hid their tracks by engaging in the trade of high-end items and minerals, which prompted EVE developer CCP Diagoras to address player concerns that guilty parties found a way to evade detection and avoid punishment. Specifically, CCP Diagoras addressed the concern players had that once the exploit was discovered, players could have begun taking down their starbases in order to avoid detection. CCP Games used a database backup to assess the situation as it was roughly a week before the exploit was revealed.
The POS exploit in question is viewed by CCP as a "duping exploit" under their Suspension and Ban policy, and the players involved have been punished accordingly: permanent bans for those directly involved, removal of items and currency from those who benefitted from the exploit.
CCP Grimmi writes, "Users directly involved in the exploit were permanently banned. Direct involvement meant that the character had a director role in the corporation using the exploit or was directly involved in servicing the POSes in the exploited state. Others that were found to be involved in moving the exploited good and laundering the ISK also received bans for their part. A number of players who had benefitted directly from the exploit were also banned. The total number of users banned in relation to the exploit of POS reactors is 134."
There were seven corporations in total (directly) involved with the exploit, for different purposes. Two of them were involved in real money trading (RMT) -- selling ISK to other players for real money -- while others used their ISK proceeds to fuel their in-game activities. Some valuable items in New Eden were removed from the game, including motherships and titans (EVE's superweapons) and over 30 Tech II blueprint originals (BPOs), not to mention vast amounts of ISK.
Given how involved in the game EVE players tend to be, concerns have been voiced by subscribers whether or not CCP knew about the exploit and did nothing to fix it, with the most outspoken players wondering if CCP employees themselves were involved. The company operates an Internal Affairs department that investigates such allegations, and concludes that no CCP employee -- or member of the player-elected representatives, the Council of Stellar Management (CSM) -- were involved in the exploit.
The fact that this exploit was able to exist for so long has forced CCP Games to re-evaluate their systems for detecting issues like this, and they're overhauling their bug reporting tools and company procedures to ensure an issue on this magnitude cannot occur again. CCP's findings are presently being discussed by the players themselves on the game's official forums and on the Scrapheap Challenge (unofficial) forums as well.
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 5:45PM Ghede said
You are aware that POS has an entirely different meaning to most people right? I was reading about the POS mechanic and thinking... "I thought they thought that EVE was a good game?"
It took me a minute to realize it meant Player Owned Starbases.
It took me a minute to realize it meant Player Owned Starbases.
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 6:03PM (Unverified) said
It is a rather unfortunate acronym, but that's what they're referred to. My first mention of them as anything other than "starbase" had an explanation right before (POS).
Posted: Feb 11th 2009 7:10AM Joystiq Login Bugs SUCK said
Oh, I thought it was "Piece of shit"
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 8:10PM Yoh said
Hahaha, CCP and EVE never ceases to amuse me with their scandals, always worth a laugh....haha.
Only in EVE......... if the gameplay was so damn catatonic, I'd be playing right now.
Only in EVE......... if the gameplay was so damn catatonic, I'd be playing right now.
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 8:27PM karnisov said
i doubt the bans had much effect, multiple accounts are extremely common in EVE due to the way skill training works. alot of the unbanned people probably still have the majority of their assets, due to laundering through the market, multiple times over. i like EVE but it certainly has its flaws.
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 10:52PM Firebreak said
Those are actually users banned not accounts, so you can imagine how many accounts that would be. I saw one person guessing at around 500, but since they would not be paying for the accounts but using game cards bought with in game money it could be a lot more then that.
Posted: Feb 11th 2009 4:07PM Firebreak said
This is the first time they have ever used the term users in anything official every other time something like this, in similarity not scale, they used accounts. This might have been just poor wording on their part but I kind of think it was intentional. A couple of people on Scrapheap, an EVE fan site, who were banned in this whole thing talk about everything they had in game being gone including their accounts and their corp. It makes me think this was actually effective.
Posted: Feb 10th 2009 11:22PM J Brad Hicks said
Nice. Very nice. 134 people perma-banned, resources that were exploited for deleted no matter who ended up with them, and they're revising their fraud detection systems to catch similar problems more quickly in the future. I wish the rest of the MMO industry were paying attention, because THIS is how you deal with exploiters. If Sony had been this hard on botters and other exploiters, I'd still be playing Star Wars: Galaxies. If EA were this hard on geometry exploiters and keep lord hacks, I'd still be playing Warhammer Online. Kudos, CCP!


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Has anyone used the brick "Safford"? It is make by Jenkins brick company and sold by Acme brick.
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We are planning to have a small wall built up so we can determine whether we are going to order the Safford. I can email you a picture, hopefully you can determine even if the area is small. I hope we like it b/c we don't have a back up brick right now. We are planning on an ivory mortar flush with the brick. I like the "smear coated" look. Where are you at in your construction? Lana |
Thanks for your input Lana. Sorry for the delayed response, but I have been out of town and away from a computer for a week. I ordered a sample of the Safford too and am in process of having a small wall built. You may get to it before me, so send me a pic please!! I love it so far but need a larger version to make a decision. Like you, I have no other option yet. I like the "smeared" look too. |
We should definitely exchange pictures esp. if we use different color mortar. That can make a big difference. They are starting to paint our soffit's/trim next week. I sure hope the Safford looks like I hope it does :) Or else I'm going to be picking brick based on colors we've already painted. UGH! It's hard enough... |
We are just beginning preparing our lot for the slab. Hopefully we will have a foundation this week. Sounds like you are way ahead of us!! I will definetly exchange pics with you when i have them. Where are you from? |
We are almost done framing. Seems that part went fast but things will slow down now. We sold our last house and basically spent most of the summer finalizing our plans. It's been a long road! We moved from Indianapolis to right outside the city. We bought 3+ acres for the kids to run :) We are asking to get the brick out there ASAP. |
How exciting. I wish we were that far. I am so ready to see some sort of progress. We live in Arkansas,right across the river from Memphis. Keep me posted on your Safford and I will do the same! |
Hi landcmom! Here are some pictures of our sample for the Jenkins Safford. I hope I'm copying the links correctly, let me know if you have problems viewing it. I may start a new thread as I don't think we are going to go with it. I need some help though! [IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo287/mom22kids1022/brick004.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo287/mom22kids1022/brick006.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo287/mom22kids1022/brick001.jpg[/IMG] |
try this: http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo287/mom22kids1022/brick004.jpg |
I can't open your pictures. I would love to see them! |
Ugh, I can't figure out this photobucket thing! :) Send me an email to email@example.com and I will send them to you. OR see if you can copy and paste those links in the 2nd attempt and see if it takes you to the pictures. It's growing on me now....we may try and pull the dark bricks out and see what we are left with. Nothing like making it simple. ha...Lana |
Here you guys go. |
Thanks jaymeilo for your help. I really like the light mortar with it mom22kids!! I think I may do it!Is that desert buff mortar? Also, are you putting any stone on your house? |
jaymeilo, YOU ARE AWESOME! The mortar is IVORY, 12B Lehigh (sp?) Everyone that looks at the brick really likes it. We are asking the mason to pull out the dark bricks and use them around our windows and inside the window wells....well we are asking if he'd be up for doing that. It makes a huge difference when it dries, it got lighter as it dried. These pictures were taken yesterday and it got laid last Thursday. This is pretty much what it still looks like....it's growing on me. |
I really like it. I like it more everytime I pull up the pictures. Pulling out the darker bricks for accent pieces is a good idea. Are you putting any stone on your house? |
Landcmom OK...pressure is on for us. I meet with the brick guy tomorrow and we need to make final decisions. I want to look at some stone/brick options tomorrow. Do you have any ideas for stone you think looks good with the safford? Have you started looking at stone yet? :) Lana |
I am definitely using stone on our house but I have not picked out anything specific. I am probably going to buy from Mountain Stone. Their website is www.mtstone.com. I am buying it through Acme Brick. I like the ledgestone/fieldstone combination in the color Loudon County or Keeowee Creek. That brick is so "custom" looking that I want the same quality in a stone too. Let me know what you think!! |
I like the ledgestone-loudon county! It seems like it would be a great match! I thought maybe if we use stone to match up with the darker bricks, we could break it up a bit....I was thinking in the same color range as that one is. We have asked our rep to ask and see if he can find out what percentage of darker bricks make up the safford. I will let you know. do you think you are using the buff mortar? Are you going with a buffy color trim? We also have cedar shake siding in dormers that I don't want to take away from and I think the stone would be perfect for that! so natural....Our trim is already painted and garage doors ordered...how is that?? and we haven't settled on the exterior materials. YIKES!!!! There is a picture of the house on a thread I started for brick-need suggestions....if you have any good ideas :) I'll keep you posted! |
We asked our local bricking company to give us addresses that have the brick we liked. Brick appearance depends a lot on the mortar color you chose. We drove around and looked at several homes with the brick we loved and then came back and gave them the addresses we liked. They told us that all the homes we liked had gray mortar with "queen" size bricks. You may try that :) |
I am using the ivory buff mortar. Any yes, my exterior trim will be a "buffy" color. We are still in the framing stage and I have not ordered a garage door and such yet. It will probably be buff colored with dark brown wood trim (carriage style doors). I am also planning on dark brown cedar shutters and maybe even dark gutters? I am also considering cedar shakes on my 2nd story. Sounds like we have the same taste!! These exterior decisions are stressing me because I know they are things that I can never change, unlike the interior. Keep me posted!! Oh, one more thing, there are no houses in the safford brick in my area so i can't drive over and see someone elses house. Are there any houses in your area that you have been able to see a finished product in the safford? |
No, no houses! We were getting a first time user discount too. Send me your email address or email me and I'll send you all the pictures I have of it. I took a lot. They are big file sizes so I may have to send one or two at a time. But you can save them and keep looking back at them. I tend to be a little bit obsessive about stuff! The ones from far away look a tad lighter in nature than in person. But I have to tell you I found a brick I really like today, and the house that had it also had cedar shake siding....it's slightly more expensive though:( I'm trying to find it online. It's Triangle Brick, Nantucket Estate Series tumbled. I did see it on the website. It should look great with our trim/doors etc. We also did carriage style...a cheap version :) We went with a cheaper door and more $ on the hardware to put on it. |
My email address is: email@example.com . I would love to see any pics that you have. I'm going to look up this triangle brick right now. Thanks! |
Hello mom22kids or landcmom, I am looking into using the Safford brick.. did you guys decide to go with this brick? If so, are you happy with your decision? Thanks! |
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About how long does it take for oriental lilies to get from bloom to ripe seed pod? Like, a couple days, a couple weeks?
I got some cut lilies last week, and the blooms now are absolutely gorgeous. I really want to gather some seeds from them.
Unfortunately I have to go out of town within 2 days for about 6 days. I'm wondering if it would be okay if I just leave them in my vase during my trip. Will the flowers continue to develop until seed pods form? I don't want to lose them. :( Please let me know, I'd really appreciate it.
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The cut lilies will not have enough strength to flower and also develop seeds. If you want, buy some bulbs this fall and plant.... do you get cold enough winters for the bulbs to vernilize? From seeds it will take a couple years before you see any flowers and a few more years to have lots of flowers on one stem, like you have now. Good luck! |
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WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2013 — Just when you thought it was safe to leave your son or daughter on campus, any campus, along comes the New York Post's Andrea Peyser to report that later this week, Thursday, Brooklyn College is set to host an anti-Israel "hate fest" in the guise of a debate. Debate, in Liberal-speak means, "I talk, you listen."
The fix is in.
Among the featured "debaters" is Omar Barghouti, who will surely press his case for a boycott against Israel at an event co-hosted by the college's Political Science department. Academic freedom, as we keep learning, has now become a synonym for Israel-bashing.
Fans of anti-Semitism know Barghouti as a Qatari-born activist who founded the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. His message is a mirror of tactics Hitler used a generation ago, introducing the genocide by means of a boycott against all Jewish goods and services.
Here's the crazy part: Barghouti is going for his Masters degree in Philosophy at – Tel Aviv University. That's right, an Israeli academic institution.
As we say around here when it comes to absurdity: "Never mind. It's too complicated."
On the plus side, from an education in an Israeli university, Barghouti may get a chance to do his cause some good, not just for himself but all around. In the fields of medicine, economics, physics, peace and literature, Muslims – 20 percent of the world's population –have won 29 Nobel Prizes. Jews, with a world population of 0.2 percent, have won 130.
Personally, I am in favor of boycotting Jewish services as long as it is done right, which means everything. For all anti-Semites out there I recommend an immediate halt to the Salk polio vaccine and if it is syphilis you get, syphilis you keep, without the benefit of Dr. Paul Ehrlich's "magic bullet" and the first effective treatment against the disease. Like Salk, he was Jewish, after all.
Our campuses, some may have noticed, have become a melting pot for anti-Semites, obviously to rouse up a generation of Hitler Youth. Get them while they're young. So my concern is that this wildfire of anti-Semitism, from Europe and elsewhere, may yet spread out to the United States, if it hasn't done so already.
I appreciate Europe for sending us Beethoven, but please, keep your Holocausts. Been there, done that!
This brings up a column just sent in by Carolyn Glick, deputy editor at the Jerusalem Post. She took part in a "debate" among the best and the brightest of London and ended up asking why anybody would want to live there anymore – anybody Jewish, that is. The talk began politely enough and then turned poisonous when it turned to Israel. She writes: "The public atmosphere in England regarding Israel is ugly and violent."
Is this what is coming to our shores, or is it here already? I covered this before in the most praised and condemned column I ever wrote here.
Still outside the United States there's Canada, once home of the gentlest people on earth. Then something happened.
Some years back the Toronto Film Festival decided to honor filmmakers from Tel Aviv. As quickly as you can say Josef Goebbels a petition went up to boycott the Festival and, of course, Israel. The usual suspects signed on: Jane Fonda (of course), Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and Julie Christie … which was an unwelcome surprise.
That wasn't enough. A cast of thousands from the film community added their names to the list of happy boycotters.
Back home, Jimmy Carter's book about Israel, his "Mein Kampf for Dummies," was dipped in bitterness word for word, lie for lie.
Carter accused Israel for every atrocity under the sun. Harvard's Alan Dershowitz answered each falsehood chapter and verse, which, as I've experienced, only stirs the hornet's nest. One reader accused me of being too harsh on anti-Semites. I should be more tolerant of those who dream of Dachau and grow nostalgic at the thought of Auschwitz.
Dershowitz proved, fact for fact, that Israel is the only country in the region that does not practice apartheid.
But the last word seems to go to those who traffic in baseless hatred.
Overseas there's a form of political Olympics taking shape even as we speak. Which country is most anti-Semitic? That is the question. Some say Norway. Some say Sweden, home to a surging influx of Muslims. Some say France. Some say Germany (still). And as we just heard from Carolyn Glick, there will always be an England.
We should expect London's Sunday Times, in a recent cartoon, to feature Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a monster. That's Europe, and so what else is new? But here in America we should be surprised when Harvard sponsors its own hate fest in which it generously headlines speakers who offer both sides concerning Israel, those who hate Israel as opposed those who hate Israel very much. They consider that fair and balanced.
Over at Park Slop Food Co-op in Brooklyn, 10,000 miles away from Jerusalem, the best and the brightest had nothing better to do than to demand a boycott of all Israeli goods. The boycott summons went down, but why was it even brought up – here in the United Stares of America?
People came here from Europe to get away from all that, and as for me, I came from a place that rained sticks and stones, and I assumed, I trusted that if not better for me, at least the world would be a better place for my kids, certainly in this, the greatest of all nations.
I once had the same experience over here that Carolyn Glick had over there in London. But that's for another time, except for the lady who asked me:
"What can we do about all this anti-Semitism?"
Damned if I know.
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The Linux penguin has yet to become a fixture on office PC screens, where Windows applications dominate. Even with a 50 percent increase in 2000 sales, only a measly 1.5 percent of PC applications were built on Linux at the end of last year, says IDC. Also, most Linux applications-such as a homegrown front-end for a telephone billing system-are fairly invisible, says Dan Kusnetzky of IDC.
Basically, Linux hasn't come out of the server closet just yet. In fact, your favorite Linux app may not even be at your job site, but rather at the other end of a phone line in the storage or database farm of your ASP. As the fastest-growing server operating system, Linux was the primary OS for 27 percent of the server operating market at the end of last year, compared to 41 percent for Microsoft Windows, reports Kusnetzky.
As the top revenue generator in the entire server industry, IBM is in the best position to profit. Its share of server revenues accelerated to 27 percent during the fourth quarter of 2000.
The popularity of Linux, however, is not nearly as apparent. Only a little more than 10 percent of IBM's servers shipped Linux as their primary operating system, reports Hoang Nguyen of IDC.
But Linux is a little like an iceberg. IDC only counts software actually purchased, but an equal number of Linux copies are downloaded from the Web for free. So to guesstimate how much Linux is actually out there, says Kusnetzky, you would double the number of copies purchased and multiply by 15-the number of times IDC figures every copy of Linux gets installed.
That suggests the old saw: "We're losing money on every sale but making it up in volume." In fact, the tech downturn is severely testing the business models of Linux pioneers like Corel, Linuxcare, Red Hat, TurboLinux and VA Linux. They're having trouble building enough volume with things like graphical interfaces, applications, training and support to overcome the fixed costs of giving away the OS.
Prospects are a lot brighter for hardware providers like Compaq, Dell and IBM, whose computers and integration services more clearly benefit from the sturdy operating system. IBM is putting Linux on everything from wristwatches to its S/390 mainframes. It's even using Linux for the supercomputer it's currently building.
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You and your employees aren't about to give up Microsoft Office. But does anyone doubt that the current e-commerce decline is just a breather before a storm of B2C and B2B sales? The Internet is part of your rosy future, but there's a catch, says Kusnetzky. E-business demands a whole new level of performance.
Your employees may be willing to muddle through when the company LAN slows down. But your e-customers aren't going to tolerate a Web site slowdown due to high traffic loads or a server crash-nor will clients be around for long if you lose their purchase orders, for that matter. Yet hardware and software will continue to crash all the time, and Web servers will continue to be hacked.
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You don't want to develop that expertise in-house? That's no problem. There's an ASP happy to do it for you on its Linux servers-for a price.
Linux may never replace Windows on your office desktops. But it's increasingly looking like the safer solution for large-scale computing needs.
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On this Olympic-themed, inadvertently global podcast, we talk to USA Track and Field Olympian Lopez Lomong, a former Lost Boy of Sudan who came to the United States at the age of 16. Besides running the 5,000-meter event this week, he's doing some incredible things to help people in need through his foundation. Plus, Adam Smith joins us with an Olympic-based Rambo of the Month (spoiler alert: Rambo wins). And being fed-up with NBC's delayed coverage, we decided to go straight to the source and bring in our very own British corespondent to give us the inside scoop on the Olympic Games. Yes people, Lloyd Kinsley joins us on this week's podcast (and thankfully no pigs were harmed in the process). We might be biassed, but we're already giving this episode a gold medal...
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So here's the deal: After my sophomore year of high school, my family and I went on a mission trip to Brazil. At the end of this trip I went on a tour of some of the flooded area of the jungle. A local family met us midway and wanted us to pay them to take pictures with someindigenousanimals they'd captured. Among them was a mother sloth and her baby. As soon as I saw those odd three-toed creatures, I knew that my whole life had been leading up to this moment. I was so ecstatic when I got a chance to hold them that I didn't think anything of the mother's mouth slowly (and I mean sloooowly) moving toward my hand. They seemed so docile, I assumed that she was just going to lick me. Boy, was I wrong. Before I knew it the vampirous creature add clamped on to my finger with deceptively sharp teeth. I was just kind of in shock at this point, not knowing what to think, then eventually coming to the scary realization that I had just been bit by the slowest moving mammal on the planet......
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I've had a fear of swimming out in the middle of the ocean without a quick means of rescue. It came from watching the movie Jaws when I was really young. What still freaks me out is the idea of being in the water and staring into a deep, dark blue void, but then seeing a speck that turns into a bigger thing, which turns out to be a shark.
My only way of overcoming this fear would be to learn the ways of the sharks, befriend them, implant ideas in their heads while they are asleep, then take them out (or control them).
My biggest fear is my car catching on fire while I am driving. People have always scoffed at me and told me that I am irrational. I believed them, UNTIL I WAS DRIVING ON I-10 AND THE CAR NEXT TO ME BURST INTO FLAMES. I now have no desire to get over this fear and will instead remain vigilant at all times. (P.S. I am pretty sure the people in the car were fine, from what I could see in my rear view mirror as I sped away.)


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A new soccer simulation is set to debut next month for PC called "Lords of Football". From the trailer, it looks like a mix of The Sims plus a little NFL Head Coach, but this has some potential to be entertaining / addicting. From the trailer, it looks like you can manage all aspects of your team – on and off the pitch.
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1 <> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me. | 1 My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. |
2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me. | 2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. |
3 Israel, hope in Yahweh, From this time forth and forevermore. | 3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore. |
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1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. | 1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. |
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Born in Montreal, on May 28, 1962, he was the son of Henry and Sylvie (Veil) Niro. He married Elizabeth Callaghan on March 27, 1999 in Saranac Lake.
Luc had been a resident of the Saranac Lake area for 31 years coming from Crown Point, N.Y. where he grew up on the family farm. He was employed by North Star Industries and Career Vision in Saranac Lake as a driver. Luc loved his computer, his games, sitting with their cats and going out for dinner. He especially loved spending time with Beth and traveling around the North Country. Luc was an avid sports fan and enjoyed all sports. Luc will be greatly missed by his many friends.
He is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Bloomingdale, his brothers and sisters, Michael (Gail) St Pierre, Joanne (Andrus) Gadway, Marie Pendell, Lucie (Gary) Bobbie, Norbert (Debbie) St Pierre, Helene (John) Carr, Jeannette (Mark) Peters, Louise (Ronnie) Dean, Celine Niro, Lisa (Matt) Apgar, John Niro, Florence (Stephen) Sears, Mario (Marina) St Pierre, Sylvie Niro, and Eugene (Traci) St Pierre. He also had 31 nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother and step father Roch H. St Pierre
Calling hours will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. A Mass of Christian burial will take place at 12 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 at St. Bernard's Church in Saranac Lake with Rev. Bill Muench officiating. Burial will take place at St. Bernard Cemetery in Saranac Lake in the spring.
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4 Christ is the living Stone. People did not accept him. But God chose him. God places the highest value on him. | 4 As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him-- |
5 You also are like living stones. As you come to him you are being built into a house for worship. There you will be holy priests. You will offer spiritual sacrifices. God will accept them because of what Jesus Christ has done. | 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. |
6 In Scripture it says, "Look! I am placing a stone in Zion. It is a chosen and very valuable stone. It is the most important stone in the building. The one who trusts in him will never be put to shame." #1(Isaiah 28:16)#2 | 6 For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame." |
7 The stone is very valuable to you who believe. But to people who do not believe, "The stone the builders did not accept has become the most important stone of all." #1(Psalm 118:22)#2 | 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, " |
8 And, "It is a stone that causes people to trip. It is a rock that makes them fall." #1(Isaiah 8:14)#2 They trip and fall because they do not obey the message. That is also what God planned for them. | 8 and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message--which is also what they were destined for. |
9 But God chose you to be his people. You are royal priests. You are a holy nation. You are a people who belong to God. All of this is so that you can sing his praises. He brought you out of darkness into his wonderful light. | 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. |
10 Once you were not a people. But now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy. But now you have received mercy. | 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. |
11 Dear friends, you are outsiders and strangers in this world. So I'm asking you not to give in to your sinful longings. They fight against your soul. | 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. |
12 People who don't believe might say you are doing wrong. But lead good lives among them. Then they will see your good works. And they will give glory to God on the day he comes to judge. | 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. |
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