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Condo, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 6 Sleeps
Spacious, new 2 bedroom 2 bathroom condo 1.5 blocks from the entrance
to the Royal DeCameron Resort and beach. Located on the first level.
Master bedroom has king size bed with ensuite. Second bedroom has 2
double beds with ensuite and a terrace perfect for tanning and sunset viewing.
A larger terrace off of the living room overlooks the pool, fountain
and gardens.
Most people enjoy the newer large sectional couch. It is comfy. As you know getting a place with a comfy couch can be difficult to find. Perfect for watching the Shaw Direct stations.
During the hotter months, the ocean breeze goes through the unit allowing you to be comfortable even without air conditioning.
Yoga is located a couple blocks up the street. Oxxo, Banks and groceries are conveniently a couple blocks away too.
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4 Golf courses nearby
Catch a baseball game
Local buses take you into Puerto Vallarta, Sayulita(surf town), La
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November through April
$975 weekly ($1,200 Christmas weeks)
$2,900 monthly
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$2,200 monthly
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57: He Caught It In HD
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Eid al-Ghadeer
|Eid al-Ghadeer
|Also called
|Eid ul-Ghadeer
|Observed by
|Shia Muslims
|Appointment of Ali as the successor of Muhammad
|Prayers, giving gifts, festive meals
|18 Dhu al-Hijjah
|2014 date
|13 October[1]
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|Islamic culture
Eid al-Ghadeer, observed by Shia Muslims on the 18th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic calendar, is a celebration of the appointment of Ali ibn Abi Talib by the Islamic prophet Muhammad as his successor. The festival also marks the anniversary of Muhammad's sermon, as described in Hadith of the pond of Khumm in which Muhammad states, "Whomsoever is protector (maula) of me, Ali is also his(her) protector (maula). O God, love those who love him, and be hostile to those who are hostile to him."[2][3][4]"من كنت مولاه فهذا عليّ مولاه أللهم والِ من والاه و عادِ من عاداه"[5]
Shia Muslims celebrate the day with a tradition of a mass oath to reasserting their commitment to Islam, in the same manner as individual Shia adults take an oath on reaching adulthood. Sunni Muslims do not celebrate Eid al-Ghadeer because they do not believe that it is an established celebratory day. The Sunni believe that when Allah stated in Quran 5:3, this day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion. The religion was perfected. Since this eid was not practised then adding to something that is perfected does not make it more perfect but imperfect.
In fact, this is not the majority view of Sunni Muslims. Eid al-Ghadeer is not recognized historically by Sunni ulama (scholars) for complex theological reasons having nothing to do with a literalist, Wahhabist sense of "purity". Adding voluntary acts of worship, prayer, and devotional celebration to the fabric of religious experience is part and parcel of Muslim life, Sunni or otherwise. The only exception is the rigidly literalist school of Wahhabism/Salafism which tends to heavily attract modernist Muslims.
Several months before his death, Muhammad (who was living in Medina) made his last pilgrimage to Makkah in what is known as The Farewell Pilgrimage. There, atop Mount Arafat, he addressed Muslim crowds in what came to be known as The Farewell Sermon. After completing the Hajj, Muhammad started back towards Medina. During his trip, he stopped at the pond at Khumm (now al-Johfa) and appointed Ali as the master of believers. Muhammad also entered a covenant about his mastership with those present. The meaning of maula (master) is controversial among the major Islamic sects. Although the tradition is recorded in Shia and Sunni historical books, the sects disagree on the interpretation of the tradition and the event itself (the word maula in particular). There are minor differences in the wording of the tradition, as in many repetitive traditions in a single book. The tradition recorded in authentic Muslim books (such as the Sahih Muslim) is that after the pilgrimage, Muhammad ordered a gathering of Muslims to the pond at Khumm where he nominated Ali as master (maula). Shia tradition interprets this as an announcement of Ali's succession to the Prophet, while Sunnis believe that it was intended as public praise of Ali before his companions (some of whom disliked him). The sermon in Shia accounts is:
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O people! Reflect on the Quran and comprehend its verses. Look into its clear verses and do not follow its ambiguous parts, for by Allah, none shall be able to explain to you its warnings and its mysteries, nor shall anyone clarify its interpretation, other than the one that I have grasped his hand, brought up beside myself, [and lifted his arm,] the one about whom I inform you that whomever I am his master (Maula), this Ali is his master (Maula); and he is Ali Ibn Abi Talib, my brother, the executor of my will (Wasiyyi), whose appointment as your guardian and leader has been sent down to me from Allah, the Greatest, Mighty and the Majestic.
- ^ "Shia Muslims celebrate Eid Al-Ghadeer". PressTV. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.al-islam.org/ghadir/incident.htm
- ^ Article: Eid Al-Ghadeer
- ^ Eid-ul-Ghadeer
- ^ http://translate.google.co.tz/
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- Why do Shias celebrate Eid-e-Ghadeer?
- Excellent content on Ghadeer
- Eid-e Ghadir
- The Event of Ghadir Khumm (citations and interpretations from Sunni sources)
- The Sermon of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) in Ghadir Khum
- Ghadir Khumm - Interesting Aspects of a Unique Event
- The event of Ghadeer Khum in Quran, Sunnah & History (Sunni perspectives)
- Map of Ghadeer showing distance from Mecca, almost halfway between Medina and Mecca
- The Event of Ghadir Khumm in the Qur'an, Hadith, History
- "Al-Muraja'at: A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue". (letters 55-58)
- Ghadir Khumm
- Event of Ghadir Khumm
- Eid al-Ghadir on WikiShia


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Have Fun, Get Dirty and Help Save Lives at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Pineapple Classic 5K
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Silicon Valley Pineapple Classic 5k is a fun, family-friendly, Hawaiian-themed run with obstacles. Participants get dirty and have fun while helping to fight cancer. After the event on June 9, 2012, enjoy a celebration that will include a luau, beer garden and Hawaiian entertainment.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society´s (LLS) Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay Area Chapter creates a unique kind of physical challenge with the second annual Pineapple Classic 5k. This family-friendly, Hawaiian-themed run with obstacles will be held on June 9, 2012 at Joseph D. Grant County Park on Mt. Hamilton Road in San Jose, starting at 9 a.m.
After the race, participants will enjoy a luau, Pyramid Brewery Beer Garden and Hawaiian entertainment. Prizes will be awarded for fastest times and best costumes. In return, participants are asked to raise funds to help LLS advance lifesaving cancer research and patient services.
"Where else can you be entertained by watching wild, costumed participants tackling terrain and obstacles, after which you enjoy a tasty Hawaiian luau cuisine, beer garden and hula dancers, all the while feeling great that the entire experience is raising vital funds to support life-saving cancer research?" says Meghan Heath, Campaign Manager for the Pineapple Classic 5K. "It just doesn´t get any better!"
Participation in the Pineapple Classic 5k is open to everyone age eight and older. Participants race in teams of two or four, and those who need teammates may register individually and will be placed with a team.
Event sponsors include Silicon Valley Bank, Citrix, and Adobe. These companies also hope to launch employee challenges to fan the flames of competition — both philanthropically and physically.
The entry fee is $60 for individuals; $110 for two-person teams; or $200 for four-person teams. Participants are also asked to raise a minimum of $50 to support lifesaving cancer research.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ® (LLS) is the world´s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin´s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services.
Blood cancers are the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. LLS funds more blood cancer research than any other volunteer health agency. Many LLS supported discoveries help beyond the blood cancer patients for whom they were first developed.
To register or learn more regarding this exciting event, visit http://www.PineappleClassic5k.org or call 408.490.3117
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Valdespin, Bastardo, Escalona bring Biogenesis list to 12 players
The three mystery names recently added to the Biogenesis list have been confirmed to be Phillies reliever Antonio Bastardo, Mets outfielder Jordany Valdespin and Astros reliever Sergio Escalona, sources said.
That makes it 12 players who will get 50-game bans Monday when Major league Baseball announces the suspensions. All 12 have accepted the suspensions, according to sources.
Embattled Yankee Alex Rodriguez is expected to receive a suspension through the end of 2014, and sources close to him say he will appeal. No other player connected to the case will appeal, according to people connected to the case.
The nine previously known to be in line for a 50-game bans due to connections to the now defunct Miami are Rangers outfielderCruz, Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta, Mariners catcher Jesus Montero, Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera and Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli, plus minor leaguers Fernando Martinez, Jordan Norberto, Fautino de los Santos and Cesar Puello.
The names of Bastardo and Valdespin were first reported by Foxsports.com, and Escalona by Yahoo.


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Oct 20, 2014 - The advent of digital (read: measurable) content distribution from the creators of some of the best entertainment in the world will have a huge impact on the world of digital video analytics. Comments
Aug 5, 2014 - Global media agency MediaCom has teamed up with Internet giant Google to create a mobile-oriented training program for the agency's employees. This move indicates the growing importance of mobile advertising. Comments
Apr 24, 2014 - LinkedIn says its new Sponsored Updates Partners and Content Partners programs will help brands build stronger relationships with their target audiences. Comments
Mar 17, 2014 - On a recent episode, "60 Minutes" reported on the invasion of Internet-users' privacy and the notion of "data brokers." Marketers need to aggressively lead and shape the discussion, or risk being buried by the fear mongering of the ill-informed. Comments
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That and as one of my eve-online corp mates rants tirelessly about is how you have virtually zero access to the gpu in the ps3 under linux, and Sony intends on keeping it that way.
As for the 360 and media, MS has positioned the console as a 'media extender' rather than a device that stores your media and plays it. Thats why it works well with media center being hosted on a computer somewhere else in your home, and also works really well with Windows Home Server.
The PS3 should be able to do virtually everything that the 360 does in that respect, except that it does not include windows media center extender functionality. Which simple means you would have to use something like sagetv or beyond tv or whatnot.
is there anyway for 360 to grab media from windows 2003 server or windows 2008 server? I have full license of 2003 server from college, and right now running 2008 server RC1 evaluation. But once I go back to college in spring, there is a very good chance i will get server 2008 license.
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Someone you know must be graduating, or just graduated…. Daughter graduated college? Grandson graduated preschool? Neighbor's cousin's dog graduated Canine Academy? It's the season of celebrating new beginnings, and we've made a shortlist of audiobooks to commemorate the occasion(s). As a wise person once said, "Celebrate good times, come on!"* Continue your education with these graduation-appropriate audios.
*Ok, it wasn't actually a "person," it was Kool & The Gang.
Since its publication in 1990, OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! has been a popular go-to gift for graduates—did you also know it was the last Dr. Seuss book that was published during his lifetime? It's another fitting layer to the classic tale about life's journeys and the challenges one faces. The audiobook edition is narrated by actor John Lithgow (he was the curmudgeonly minister in Footloose, among other roles) and is scored with an appropriately pomp-and-circumstantial orchestral soundtrack—although it takes some detours into minor key territory when the titular character "you" wanders into the dreadful 'Waiting Place.' A graduate should never go on to their next adventure before listening to this important work!
JUNIE B. JONES IS A GRADUATION GIRL, the 17th installment in Barbara Park's popular series, has Junie B. facing the unthinkable—graduating kindergarten! All is fine and good until the teacher distributes the freshly white graduation grounds… and Junie B. quickly discovers that white cloth and grape juice don't exactly mix. Veteran audiobook narrator Lana Quintal voices the squeaky-voiced, sassy Junie B. as she tiptoes her way through the travails of being a six-year-old. Highly recommended for those with a funny bone.
While written by Katie Couric, THE BEST ADVICE I EVER GOT is actually a compilation featuring advice and life-changing anecdotes from almost 100 cultural luminaries, including Meryl Streep, Malcolm Gladwell, Steve Martin, and Madeleine Albright… just to name a few. Couric interweaves her own personal story throughout, and shares the insights that have guided her life and career. As one of the most respected journalists of all time, Couric sent out a call to notable personalities and asked: What made the light bulb go on? What was the advice that resonated most? Whether young or old, there is lots of wisdom to be found here… and Katie Couric is one of the narrators!
Since its original publication in 1988, ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN has successfully infiltrated cultural consciousness, spawning countless parodies and influencing many other works—but it all began with this collection of essays that muse on the most universal of subjects (life, death, love, chicken-fried steak), and brings them to a personal level. For a recent re-printing, author Robert Fulghum returned to his bestselling work to consider the inspirational words he wrote many years ago—is it all still true? Narrated by the author, and with a new preface and 25 new essays, the expanded and updated edition can give graduates some food for thought before they set off for new pastures.
Send your graduate off in style with audiobooks! Or, if applicable, you can listen to help assuage your Empty Nest Syndrome.
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To make your own fairy dress or skirt, turn to existing clothing or make your own with the right materials. Search second-hand and thrift stores to find a dress with layers in the skirt, and cut it into petal shapes for a nature fairy look, or raggedy strips for a winter or autumn fairy. Construct a fairy skirt from layers of floaty tulle, silk flowers and ribbons. Simply add a dance or gymnastics leotard or even a swimsuit for the top, and spray the outfit with glitter, or stitch on a few bells, beads or even more ribbons. Add a corset-type bodice from the costume store, or cut down an old shirt or tank top to create one for another pretty layer.
DIY Fairy Costume
Dressing as a fairy for Halloween, a costume party, or just for fun is a delightful and popular idea for kids and adults alike. Use a specific fairy theme, like woodland, spring or midnight to base your DIY costume on and bring your vision together. The more accents and baubles, the better in a fairy costume, or you can take inspiration from nature and cover your costume with flowers and leaves.
Pick a type of fairy, such as garden, bird, musical, wind, rainbow, snow, water, or sunshine fairy to theme your costume on. Add ballet slippers, glittery makeup, wild hairspray and plenty of silk flowers or even fake snow in your hair. It's easy to make accessories with some matching ribbon, tulle and glitter. Make a flowery fairy bracelet with an elastic ponytail holder, a strip of fabric, silk flowers that match your fairy outfit, and some hot glue. Or, use a wooden dowel, more silk flowers, and some silky or metallic ribbons for a flower wand. Turn a dollar-store headband into a tiara with glue-on rhinestones, glitter, and more dangling ribbons and matching silk flowers. Add ribbony belts, leafy necklaces, a bouquet of leaves or flowers, or even knee-high boots sprayed with glitter. Barbaric-looking upper arm bracelets with flowing ribbons are great for fairy costumes, as are strappy sandals with striped stockings for a modern, grownup fairy look.
Fairy wings are the key to any great homemade fairy costume. For small kids, use wire clothes hangers for the wire base, but for larger kids or adults, you're better off with a roll of craft wire. If you're using clothes hangers, you'll need one for each wing. Unbend them so they form a roughly oval shape. Leave the hook part intact if you are in a hurry or it's very tightly twisted. Pinch the wire at the middle of the oval for a basic heart-shaped wing, or use pliers to pull and twist the wire into a more complicated butterfly-type wing. When using a roll of wire, it will start out in a coiled shape, which you can use to your advantage. For adults, use about 16 feet of wire, or for older children, slightly less, about 12 feet. Find the halfway point of the coil and bend it over so that there are two sections with a loop between. Then straighten out a wing shape from about a foot up on the wire, and leave the rest to spiral like a butterfly antenna, or, if desired, make a double wing shape with the top part as well. For more support, use a small piece of wire to connect the upper halves and stabilize the wings. Encase the wire wings in colored or lace pantyhose, or wrap them in sheer fabric if you are handy with a needle. Tie ribbons to each side so the wings can be worn over the shoulders. You can also hot-glue a color-coordinating boa along the edges if you want feathery fairy wings.
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Please attend an emergency community meeting to support U.S. war resister Kimberly Rivera and her family!
WHEN: Wednesday, September 5, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Parkdale United Church, 171 Dunn Avenue, Toronto
When Kimberly Rivera saw with her own eyes the devastation of war, and the trauma it inflicts on children and families, she followed her conscience and refused to go back. Instead, she and her husband and their (then) two children came to Canada.
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WALLA WALLA — Ben Eisenhardt scored 27 points and Josh Duckworth added 25 Saturday night to lead Whitman to a 94-87 victory over Willamette in Northwest Conference men's basketball action on George Ball Court at Sherwood Center.
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Admiral Kitten Faces Familiar Foes in Jamaica
Admiral Kitten will take on familiar foes Stormy Len, Jack Milton, and War Dancer when he aims for his second grade I win in the $500,000 Jamaica Handicap Oct. 5 at Belmont Park.
Admiral Kitten will take on familiar foes Stormy Len, Jack Milton, and War Dancer when he aims for his second grade I win in the $500,000 Jamaica Handicap Oct. 5 at Belmont Park.
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Somewhere in the 12-horse field of the $200,000 Miss Grillo Stakes (gr. IIIT) one would think there is a budding turf star who will have a major impact on the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT).
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Woodbine' $150,000 Mazarine Stakes (Can-III) Oct. 5 will reunite Llanarmon, Spanish Flower, and Appreciating, the top three finishers in the Ontario track's Natalma Stakes (Can-IIT).
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Church Community Builder vs. Fellowship One
Church Community Builder just released a version with bar-code based secure check-in. When Crossroads was looking at Church Management Systems (CMS) they did not have this feature. Check-in is a basic requirement for us so we did not consider it.
We are now locked into Fellowship One (F1) since we signed a contract, but I'm still interested in hearing from users of Church Community Builder. It looks very complete and even includes website content management. F1 does not do content management (though I'm happy with Mambo).
How sophisticated is their contact management? F1 has features similar to a customer relationship management system (see SugarCRM and Why CRM Fails). This is probably its most important feature.
How does the pricing compare?
One thing that is good about this is that competition may serve to help lower the cost of these types of services.
June 15, 2005 at 2:28 pm
CCB's pricing used to be based on number of people in your database and was tiered, thus 10,000 people in the database yielded an annual fee > $2000. That pricing structure may have changed somewhat, but it's certainly a far cry from F1. I'm thrilled by enterprise-level functionality of F1, but I'm a bit freaked out by the subscription price. Perhaps I'll get over it; many seem to have.
June 15, 2005 at 2:28 pm
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June 16, 2005 at 7:45 am
Great blog way to keep us up to date on what is going in the Church CMS world. I think we learned a great lesson in 1999 when the .com company's built it priced it extremely low to build market share and then couldn't pay the bills and went out of business. If you are evaluating a CMS, CRM, Database hosting company, Internet Provider, Phone Service provider, look at what they are charging and ask yourself at this price will they be around in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years. If it is so cheap you can't believe it they probably have the 99 dot come mentality and will be out of business, or somebody will by them. Do you as a church want to have your database with a company that won't be here tomorrow or get into such bad financial trouble that they will be bought a bigger company?
Something to think about. You get what you pay for. There are no free lunches.
The only thing that I know that is free is Salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris he paid for our sins!! Praise God
June 16, 2005 at 7:23 pm
I appreciate the public forum re: our offering. You give me a great place to post without me having to create my own blog. Even so, soon I will bite the bullet and start blogging myself.
Now, on to our pricing:
Our pricing is based on TWA (typical weekend attendance). We do not care about the size of a church's database because in this day and age, the price of disk storage is somewhat irrelevant. Above and beyond support requirements and services that come along with any customer, transaction counts, and the speed of processing those transactions, are the main factors that determine the cost of supporting a customer.
However, a software provider needs to also price in things like staff salaries, selling costs, software enhancements, etc., etc., if they want to remain in business over the long run. I would think a customer would also like new features to be implemented and additional functionality developed to support the new ideas introduced into the church market. Additionally, at Fellowship Technologies, because we raised investor money to develop such a robust solution, we are required to generate a profit in order to pay back our investors.
For too long, the church market has been supported by software vendors that did not charge enough to keep pace with the changes in church marketplace, let alone the improvements in technology (which have been many). I am not ashamed of our pricing strategy nor our pricing levels.
When I hear a person complain about our pricing I assume they are referring to our Enterprise Edition pricing. I do wonder whether they realize that our Enterprise Edition pricing includes unlimited transactions, unlimited check-in stations, unlimited users, unlimited records, nearly unlimited everything! With such pricing, we are encouraging our customers to use everything we offer as much as they can. If the system is good and they can have unlimited use of it, where is the rub?
Several times I have been encouraged to lower the price for the first year to get people accustomed to the features / functions and then to slowly increase the pricing over time – somewhat like the lobster in the slowly increasing heat of the water on the stove. Or to be like the drug pusher even – to give it away for free first and get your customers hooked on it. This bait and switch kind of strategy is not for me. Our intent is to give a fair price for a superior product and then continue to provide more and more functionality over time to erode the marketshare of our competitors and to discourage new players into the market, period.
Back to the open source question – we will move to open source when I believe it is in the best interest of all of our clients from a robustness of product and quality of service standpoint. The key there is all of our clients. I am sure we will get there someday – the time now is not the time. See Ecclesiastics 3.
Grace to you,
June 16, 2005 at 11:22 pm
A product is not necessarily worth what goes into it. An inefficently run company can produce a product that costs much more to make than what it is worth. A product is only worth what people are willing (or able) to pay for it. That's the way the market works.
I don't dispute that your product is the best out there and obviously we're willing to pay for it to get that functionality. By my previous logic, to us it is worth at least what we are paying for it.
Competition serves to motivate companies to become more efficient and consequently lower pricing. I hope for all of our sakes that you are not successful in your goal of pushing out all your competitors. Microsoft's monopoly is not a good situation for anyone involved (other than Microsoft) and neither would be yours.
June 17, 2005 at 9:58 am
Hey! Brian,
I do not see where CCB supports check-in? It supports using a bar code reader for attendance tracking – an older way to track attendance, much like Shelby has always done it.
June 17, 2005 at 10:06 am
On their front page under "Announcing V7.0″ they mention bar-code checkin.
I might also mention that I did not investigate any church management systems that are not web based (e.g. Shelby). That was a basic requirement.
June 17, 2005 at 12:11 pm
But if you read down further into the detail there is no mention of check-in station attendance or the security of children's check-in. Would not that be a BIG deal?
June 17, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Yes, it would be a BIG deal. It would not even be a choice for us if there is no secure check-in. That's why I asked for people's experience with the product.
So far these two offerings are the only alternatives that fulfill my list of requirements. F1 may in actuallity be the only one.
June 18, 2005 at 4:53 pm
You are correct. Competition is good. It brings out the best in everyone. However, are you not jumping to conclusions a bit quickly. I indicated that I intended to erode the competitors' marketshare, not put them out of business.
They are the market leaders. We are the new, little guys, remember? The market leaders have been in business 20-25 years and have thousands of churches. We are approaching 200 – growing, yes, but still many less than quite a few other vendors in the space. To erode their marketshare is good business on our side. The jump to a monopoly is significant in concept, don't you think? You talking about us and a monopoly and then referring to Microsoft puts us in an undeserving bad light without justification.
I pray that with folks like you to keep Fellowship Technologies honest, we never put ourselves in that situation with the market. We are just humble servants of the Lord trying to offer the church market better ministry tools.
Grace to you,
June 18, 2005 at 6:03 pm
I guess I didn't think of it that way. I unthinkingly assumed that since your product was the only one that fulfilled all my requirements and thus was the only one I even considered, it would be the same for other churches too.
At this point product-wise, you are the market leaders. Others may beat you in market-share, but when people see the difference in product things won't stay that way for long.
Keep up the great work.
June 18, 2005 at 9:19 pm
F1 should be released "as is" Open Source straight away in my opinion. I have no problems with F1 being charged for as a service, but get this baby running on something like mysql or pgsql and thousands of smaller churches could use this thing for literally nothing.
People who pay for the F1 service from Ftech could have continued development done, but the fact is the vast majority of churches in this world probably don't need much more than what is already there.
And I don't see a neewd to charge people for this stuff. Yes someone has to pay for the development, Fellowship already done this and has huge resources already, call it a free gift to the wider church.
Sorry to keep harping on, but Jeff, could you explain why your prices are not on your web site, plainly, for all to see?
I want transparency and integrity from a company – when I want to buy a product or service, I wanna see the price – otherwise it leads me to believe you have something to hide or charging on an ad-hoc basis.
June 19, 2005 at 1:25 pm
We have several product "sizes" or offerings. We tried to put some pricing on our web site and, in the end, it resulted in confusing prospects more than helping. As I have said before, we charge based on TWA (Typical Weekend Attendance). I believe our pricing model is very sound, but does take some explanation.
When a church talks seriously to us about becoming a customer, as part of the contract presented to them is a full price list that is attached to the contract. We have had several churches come to us because their current vendor tried to raise their prices significantly in subsequent years of a contract. Instead, we spell out our prices in the contract and a church can see as they grow what the next years' pricing will be.
As for us releasing the current source to the public "as is"; however, while we are at it why not have it support mysql, and then this and then that. Who should pay for porting it to mysql? BTW, Fellowship Technologies is not part of Fellowship Church. Someone else is paying for all this work that is being done to the product, not the Church. Would that be fair to the congregatioon of Fellowship Church if they were footing the bill for all the development of Fellowship One?
Offering the solution to other churches would not have happened had it not been for some investors who wanted to provide this to the entire church market. And all churches are getting this functionality at a small fraction of what it costs to develop and operate. It is truly a win-win. Why is it suggested that it should be a win-lose. All churches (I) get the current version for free, thanks for developing it!
James, are implying that we do not have integrity because we do not put our prices on the web site? Do you think our customers do not know the price of the service they are buying? Until we understand what product line they are buying from and what training and level of data conversion they need, to try to provide a price can be confusing.
I hope this answers your questions regarding prices. Call me up, the number is on our web site, and I will fill in any holes.
Grace to you,
June 19, 2005 at 7:32 pm
It has been said that opening the source of a product is a bit like having to clean your house when your mother-in-law comes for a visit. It's actually quite an undertaking.
A good example is Ingres (which my employer uses). They opened their source, but the source was very much an in-house job and quite a mess for anyone from the outside wanting to build it. It has taken quite a bit of work for them to get it into a state that is buildable by us.
While I encourage FT to release this as Open Source someday, I understand that it is a significant amount of work to do. I also realize that it is very much their decision. I think it is one of the best ways to do things, but that is very much a matter of opinion.
I also might state that the price we are paying is not as exorbitant as I first thought it would be. Considering what we are getting it is actually pretty reasonable. Yes, it's a fair chunk of change, but again, you get a lot for your money.
June 20, 2005 at 11:22 am
Thanks for your understanding of the level of effort required to move to open source and to do it right.
The time might be appropriate for a mother-in-law joke, but I will refrain out of honor to my mother-in-law.
Grace to you,
June 27, 2005 at 12:30 pm
We use Church Community Builder at Menlo Park Presbyterian. It works well for us as a CRM tool, with a process capability to enable tracking of assimilation, equipping, and other items. For price, CCB is priced on attendance. I cannot find Fellowship pricing online to compare, but I was told by another church CCB was cheaper. But I would caution one about buying on price alone. Because CCB integrates facility scheduling, contact, donations, assimilation, and web content management, it has saved us significant money. We have ministries that can function, with oversight, without staff administrative support. This lets them integrate web, newsletter, and other communications in ministries with little overhead.
July 22, 2005 at 3:12 pm
WOW! This is great! I love all this talk!
I am a huge open-source proponent. I would love to see either CCB or F1 made open source (although CCB would be my preference as it is already written in PHP ;-)).
Our church, Resurrection Life Church (http://www.reslife.org) develops exclusively in LAMP/WAMP environments. We have written (well, me) our own home-grown web-based, barcode-style checkin system (written in PHP/MYSQL). We weren't happy with anything else that was out there (heck, when a sales rep from Shelby saw our system he just dropped his jaw and remarked 'wow!' – we also offer it to other churches). If anyone would like to check it out, please email me! I am contemplating making it an open-source project ;-).
One thing we are considering in making a move to F1 isn't whether the people management side of things is a better fit for us than the Shelby system we currenlty have, but whether we can easliy integrate our current checkin system or intranet with it (if need be). As I understand it, we won't be able to direclty access our data at F1 using a typical database connection and SQL queries – we will have to use F1's WebServices and deal in XML (which with PHP5 isn't that big a deal).
I did check out CCB today and after using the demo was quite suprised at how similar it is to F1 (who came first, CCB or F1, I have no clue…). If CCB had a flat-fee to purchase the entire source, it might be a great solution for merging in our checkin system.
Anyhoo, I'll quite rambling. You can check out my blog at http://www.mattesonweb.com.
October 14, 2005 at 10:11 pm
Hi Brian and all!
Update: ResLife Moved to CCB over F1 for many reasons I'd be happy to discuss in person.
My recommendation for anyone looing for a CMS is to forgo any 'free demos' and go right to a net demonstration then have them come give you an on-site demo.
After our switch and new relationship with CCB, I am confident F.Tech isn't going to be 'eradicating the market share' from CCB anytime soon…..
November 20, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Well, here I am joining the conversation a year later — I did a search on CCB and found this.
Being both a preacher's kid, a systems engineer, and an entrepreneur (I formed an LLC that develops energy trading and marketing systems), I can honestly relate to and empathize with all sides of this discussion.
My parents have a thriving church and needed a more robust management solution. I previewed both F1 and CCB and was impressed with them both.
At this time, CCB does offer check in, although it is not as robust as what I saw with F1. Even so, what I saw was adequate for what I projected as necessary for the next 3 years at our church.
Fellowship One's user interfaces are (in my opinion) superior to CCB's in terms of adhering better to generally accepted usability norms.
While many of the actual features are comparable, I found CCB's pricing (and their APPROACH to pricing) decidedly more attractive than Fellowship One's.
So while price is not the only factor, you'd better believe it's going to be in the top three for 99% of all churches. My particular church might have million dollar assets now, but they weren't gained by generating recurring expenses that were disproportionately high on our balance sheet.
Another factor of my final decision was the larger variety methods of training (and prices) of training solutions that CCB offered. I take proper training extremely seriously, and was satisfied that I could have future employees and volunteers with CCB learn at at their own pace and at a lower cost.
So for us, as a matter of simple stewardship, we had to say no to Fellowship One and yes to CCB.
I, for one, am glad that churches have a choice in the first place. I do not like to see unhealthy aspersions placed on anyone trying to help the church community. They are both great systems that cater to slightly different markets. I would actuakkt like to see more players in the market.
I do not have a need to see these systems become open source — in fact, it wouldn't be all that smart for them to do that at this point; the workman is worthy of his hire and they must recoup their initial investment and also gain their entrepreneurial costs. What I WOULD like to see, however, is a rich, supported set of API's so that we can build ancillary applications and reports on our own. Many developers like myself would be happy to make these plugins open source, which could add to the attractiveness of these firms. Something to think about.
I think F1 is a fantastic choice for churches with high operations budgets. I think a small to mid-sized church will be pleasantly surprised at the robustness of CCB. Additionally, if you have a large amount of volunteers who need to remain coordinated online, CCB might be more hospitable.
December 13, 2006 at 11:14 pm
I am not conversant with F1. I am very familiar with CCB having helped two very different churches switch over to it — a 10,000+ member megachurch and a 50-70 person church plant. What I can say is the CCB software is very well designed and scales impressively well.
The megachurch uses it to handle the nuts and bolts of church administration (membership/event attendee database, financial giving tracking, small groups/home groups, resource scheduling, mass communication/emails, group pages, etc) while their main church home page is designed by professional graphic designers (a resource a megachurch can afford). The church plant (http://www.NewHopePeninsula.org) uses CCB "out of the box" in a vanilla implementation. In both churches the staff and volunteers like the software, and feel it is a cool tool to use, especially in communicating with the church, which essentially involves creating web pages about events (very easy to do), and sending out emails to groups (also very easy).
CCB has a great product to use (my metric is how quickly a volunteer can be brought up to speed and be doing useful work). Can CCB survive given their low pricing model? I think they're so. CCB is taking the same approach in church management software as Quicken took in personal finance software (e.g. low price, great product design, focus on user self-help rather than a tech support phone bank). I think there's enough users/churches out there for these guys to make a living. If you google for "church community builder" you get about 57,000 hits these days — if 1/2 of those are churches using CCB & they each spend $1,000 a year, that's $28M/year. You could make a nice living off that!
March 26, 2007 at 9:57 pm
CCB Rocks! We've been with them for 2.5 years and I'm a 10 year ACS vet. Their support team is awsome. Kudos to Free Grafton for being personal and available. Hopefully as they grow they will continue to serve the church as graciously.
We have been able to "shepherd" people in a way that few slip by.
Thanks CCB!
October 29, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I am loving this discussion. Our church is currently weighting F1 vs. CCB. One major factor for us is the API since we would like to customize the look/feel of our site as much as possible. The idea is to heavily use an API to set/get data and use our own front end to display content. Any insight on this from fellow users would be very helpful to us. Also, if any of you who might be heavily using the API could post your URL we'd love to take a look.
Thanks to all!
November 13, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Now joining this conversation a few years later I noticed a lot of people asking for open source in the software they use. I believe this to be a very good practice but few companies offer this. Has anyone looked at other software packages on the market? There are several like Buzz Central and IconCMO. Not sure if anyone has looked at these and what their thoughts would be.
June 3, 2008 at 9:43 am
OK, I am REALLY late to this party but just had this blog forwarded to me by a CCB customer and found it very interesting and informative. It is good to see churches being passionate about their management software. Who would have guessed anyone could be passionate about ANY software?
CCB has now been serving churches with a 100% web-based solution for 9 years. We have grown our company through a relational, grass-roots approach that has blessed us with almost 800 paying customers. Our strategy of staying lean, agile and close to the customer allows us to serve our customers with a highly personal approach. It also allows us to respond quickly to new market demands.
We greatly respect Fellowship Technologies and the success that they have enjoyed since coming on the scene in 2005. They have added even more validation and credibility to the web-based ChMS equation and for that we are grateful.
For churches that are considering CCB alongside F1, we both offer some compelling advantages that distinguish us from each other. CCB is built around the concept that church management begins with community, connectedness and communication. The now widely accepted social networking model has been a centerpiece for CCB since inception and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Whether it is small groups meeting outside this church or church staff that interacts on a daily basis, our goal is to encourage, engage and empower everyone who is impacted by your ministry by providing ways for them to connect, interact and communicate.
In the last 2 months, CCB has launched our "2.0" solution which adopts many Web 2.0 principles along with even more powerful community tools. Ease of use, which has always been a hallmark for CCB, is vastly improved and new features like our "Involvement" view allow church staff and volunteers to easily track and monitor the connectedness of their congregation. Visit our website to learn more.
We welcome and appreciate the opportunity to be considered alongside F1, Connection Power, Arena and other web-based solutions. We are also compared frequently against the traditional software providers like ACS, Shelby, Logos, etc. At the end of the day, we are here to serve His church in the manner in which we are uniquely gifted to do so. Whether that gifting is right for your ministry is up to you to decide but please know that we are here to stay and highly committed to remaining customer-centric, innovative and affordable.
Blessings to you all!
June 4, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Is this what they mean by the long tail of the Internet? :)
Just to clarify on a comment from Steve, Fellowship Technologies started in january of 2004. We currently have about 800 customers, including 30 of the top 100 largest churches in the country. The internet is so prevalent that we are currently in 8 countries around the globe on 5 continents.
Grace to you,
June 9, 2008 at 10:22 am
Sorry about that Jeff! I meant 2004 but missed it when I re-read my post.
June 24, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Has anyone evaluated Connection Power (www.connectionpower.com)? From what I can tell on the website, it's not as feature rich as F1 or CCB, but the visitor follow-up workflow seems much more tailored for Churches.
Being able to "assign" tasks and know what someones gifts and talents are isn't enough for me, I want to have a step by step tracking of the visitor follow up process.
August 8, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Greetings! I am a regional sales director for CCB. I wanted to follow up and let you know that we actually do give you very robust functionality through our processes. You can build a process with user defined queues (steps) within that process to automate the assimilation or "tracking" of visitors as they travel through your follow up process. It's really a great feature.
February 23, 2009 at 10:03 pm
We had a terrible time with Connection Power. I'd advise against that one.
F1 looks pretty good, but lettering too small (hard to read), and a bit clumsy.
I've heard ACS is a clumsy monster. Does everything, but hard to use.
Arena/Logos looks ok, but didn't like Logos 10 years ago.
CCB looks the best to us after demoing it thoroughly. Also, The Well Community Church in Fresno, CA uses it (and if they're not on Outreach's lists, they should be).
March 4, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Used PC Based solutions long ago (PDS and others) and long ago moved to CCB. The battle was between CCB and F1. F1 fit my style but not the budget of a small, though strong, church.
CCB was the best economic solution but it is behind the web 2.0 power curve. It fails to understand the Social aspect and the response to quirks that need fixing is slow. We still can't delete old web forms – for example.
Anyway. Other than being behind the power curve – it is great for tracking processes (like assimilation), it is great at CRM and groups are mostly sufficient.
August 12, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Doug, I would be curious to hear your thoughts about the "social" aspects of CCB subsequent to the updates that have rolled out this year, particularly this week.
Click below for update on the social enhancements.
June 22, 2009 at 4:29 pm
It isn't really made to be a ChMS, but The City looks like a great tool for community building that can replace some (not all) traditional CMS functionality.
May 26, 2011 at 12:19 am
Great discussion!
My church is in the process of choosing a solution. Both F1 and CCB are on the list. What makes our church a little different is our location. We are an International English service church in Jakarta Indonesia.
The international aspect adds some unique challengers.
I noticed that this blog has gone quiet recently … Any more recent on how current versions of the solutions compare.
Your brother in Christ Jesus,
July 11, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Ugh – why do most CMS solutions for churches focus just on check in? These days with custody battles and worse, secure check out is just as important – if not more important – than checking kids in!
Ensuring our volunteers have enough information to safely hand a child over to whoever is picking them up is of paramount importance to us – and very few vendors, especially among the integrated package vendors, bother to address this huge need!
August 14, 2013 at 6:50 pm
parentpager.com there product is by far the best check-in and out system designed. You have picture printed receipts that change based on which finger is being used to check in the child. you use the picture receipt to pick up your child as well and it is extremely easy to modify who is allowed for check-in/out and you can even schedule certain people (i.e. grandma is visiting for the summer).
January 11, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Our church of about 180 has been using CCB for several years now and the usefulness of it to our congregation is very limited to a handful of power users. The biggest complaint is the fortress mentality that makes the software anything but user friendly. I would be interested in the opinions of others who have been using this product to see how the impenetrability of the product can be dealt with.
I have been using desk top computers since 1989 and laptops / internet etc. since mid-90's so I don't think that I'm computer illiterate – just frustrated because there are so many other applications available that make our life easier – not more frustrating like CCB.
August 28, 2012 at 1:24 pm
I found a really useful product that is priced well below these other companies that does essentially the same thing. ChurchTrac Software. They even have a web-based version coming out in a couple weeks. Very user-friendly and highly functional when it comes to managing my members, and calendars, and giving. Here is the website if anyone is interested.
January 8, 2013 at 9:51 am
You need to look up a company called NCS services.. http://www.ncsservices.org/e-giving
They have no start up fee and no monthly fee. I have been completely satisfied with them. Their customer service is outstanding. They have a 24 hour customer service team that will help you at any time. Our church has grown tremendously with their help
February 8, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Hi. I would welcome you to checkout BVCMS! (http://www.bvcms.com) A full-featured church management system, built by the church for the church. No start-up fees. No extra modules, it's all included… iPhone, iPad, Android apps, Touchscreen check-in, online giving, online registrations, volunteer management, etc.
February 12, 2013 at 10:55 am
Last I checked, BVCMS is open-sourced – you just pay for hosting service. This makes it very affordable. We highly considered using this based on the price but went with F1 instead. Our hope is that as F1 and Connection Power merge together, we will have the database tools of F1 and the assimilation process of CP. We're also hoping to use the F1 integration with The Table soon.
For a small church (TWA 120), F1 was much more affordable than CCB when we made the switch from Church Windows a year ago.
November 7, 2013 at 11:16 am
When researching church software and posting as much comparison information that we can (originally started looking for our church). Our biggest complaint with the web-based programs (F1 and CCB) is they hide their pricing. If they claim the pricing is too confusing so you can't show it, then why should I expect the software to not be confusing? just saying… it doesn't make you feel warm and cozy. Salesforce.com has their pricing out in the open for all to see. Speaking of which, I would love to hear from a church that uses salesforce ?


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The Palmetto Track and Field Club doesn't get to start practice as early as some of the other programs around the state, they also don't have as much funding, but the one thing not lacking from the organization is talent.
Despite the obstacles facing the club, the program has managed to have strong performers compete at the highest levels of the USATF Junior Olympics, and this year is no different. A total of ten members of the organization performed well enough at the S.C. Association meet to qualify for the USATF Region IV Junior Olympic meet to be held next weekend in Winter Park, Fla.
Only two members, Kiera Wisdom and Josh Cady, will be making the trip to participate at the meet. Wisdom will compete in the 1500m for the Bantom division (ages 9-10) group and Cady – who missed last weeks qualifying event but received an exemption to compete at regionals – in the pole vault for the Young Men division (ages 17-18). The two will be vying for a berth in the Championships to be held in Greensboro, N.C. July 22-28.
The success of the athletes is even more impressive considering the challenges that face the club. The main one pointed out by one of the coaches is the late start to practice. Some of the states other top programs get underway much earlier, the Mt. Pleasant Track Club starts in January and the Summerville Storm in March. Palmetto, however, has to wait until June, a few weeks prior to the state meet.
"It's hard to have a program when you cant get on the track until June 1," said Jack Gilmore, coach and treasurer of the club. "It's especially difficult for the middle school kids who don't have a track season during the school year to be working. We still manage to produce some good athletes though."
Gilmore also pointed out that the travel requirement is sometimes inconvenient for some of the athletes preventing some qualifiers from competing in the regionals.
He does however have high hopes for the two who will be making the trip.
"Josh was the best pole vaulter at South Aiken this season, I think he has a good chance of doing well at the meet," Gilmore said.
The top five in each event qualify for the National meet at North Carolina A&T University. The club has had a history of sending athletes to Nationals. Gilmore mentioned decathlete Trey Blanton as one of the success stories of the program.
Blanton made it to nationals in 2005 at the intermediate boys level and later went on to get a scholarship at Wake Forest University.
Those are the kind of stories Gilmore finds rewarding about the time spent working with the program.
Gilmore is hoping to get more coaches and parents involved in the organization as well as increase the number of athletes in the club.
"It's a struggle sometime but it's very rewarding to see young athletes succeed. The teaching and coaching aspect of it is great," Gilmore said. "I hope to get more involvement in the upcoming years to keep the program going strong."
Some Aiken representatives also performed well in the AAU National qualifiers held over the weekend. Wisdom and Cady were amont ghose who made the cut for the National AAU Junior Olympics to be held in Michigan.
Eric Russell covers sports for the Aiken Standard. He graduated from USC Aiken in 2012 with a degree in communications.
USATF Regional qualifiersEliza King (Age 8) 400m 1:26.9 (8th) 800m 3:11.8 (5th)Keira Wisdom (9-10) 1500m 6:14.5 (5th)Sophie King (13-14) 800m 2:39.6 (6th) 1500m 5:32.5 (4th)Jessa Potvin (15-16) 800m 2:32.1 (4th) 1500m 5:06.9 (1st) 3000m 11:21.6 (2nd)Jovan Cardoso (17-18) discus 110 7 (3rd) shot put 29 1 (4th) hammer 129 9 (1st)Eduardo Barquet (13-14) 3000m 11:16.9 (8th)John Potvin (13-14) 800m 2:25.6 (3rd) 1500m 4:51.7 (2nd) 3000m 10:40.9 (3rd)David McKeel (15-16) 1500m 5:01.1 (4th) 3000m 10:43 (2nd)Steven Sheets (15-16) pole vault 11 11 (1st)Kendall Haley (17-18) 1500m 4:56.6 (5th)AAU National qualifiersKeira Wisdom (Age 9) 1500m 6:21 (2nd) 800m 3:13 (4th) Emma Poteat (10) 800m 3:29 (1st) 1500m 6:45 (1st)Andrea Soto (11) 800m 3:09 (3rd) 1500m 6:23 (1st) 3000m 16:33(1st) Jessa Potvin (15-16) 800m 2:31 (1st) 1500m 5:04 (1st) 3000m 11:21 (1st) Eduardo Barquet (13) 800m 2:26 (2nd) 1500m 5:13 (1st) Alex McKeel (13) 3000m 11:28 (1st) 1500m 5:15 (2nd) John Potvin (14) 800m 219 (2nd) 1500m 4:57 (1st) 3000m 11:17 (1st) Adam McFall (17-18) 1500m 4:32 (2nd) 3000m 10:06 (1st) Josh Cady (17-18) Pole Vault 12 ' (1st)
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Neatly arranged nesting dolls - appearing on an upstage table in a Greenwich Village apartment - tell us a lot about the theme and structure of Donald Margulies' "Collected Stories." Under C. Michael Wright's direction, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Madison's Forward Theater Company opened a collaborative production of Margulies' play Friday night.
Author Ruth Steiner (Sarah Day) has lived in that apartment for more than 30 years. Star-struck Lisa Morrison (Laura Frye), the young writer who bursts into Ruth's life in the first scene, is Ruth's latest protégée - another nesting doll aspiring to replicate, on a smaller scale, her master's form. »Read Full Article
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I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but I always liked the PvP in SWG.
The best part about it, PvP was open world and could happen anywhere at any time. There are spacific PvP zones, but they are not instanced and there are no q's, you are just flagged for PvP automaticaly while in the zone.
Unfortunatly with the way sector space is set up, open world PvP may not be possible. But a PvP zone would be nice. A spacific system open to both factions, anyone can warp in and join the fight. The sides may not be even often, but they naver usually are in war.
They actualy made a que system for what they call "battlefields" so it is there now, However, not that many used it, after the new shiney wore off, in favor of Restess open PVP and/or the new "city battle" system where PVE and PVP was both important to the cause.
But, I agree 110%. The old base battles of yesteryear (pre-CU and even CU) were very enjoyable. Was always fun to equip that saber and watch the scatter altho you pretty much ended up on the BH terms shortly thereafter. lol


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The Seattle photographer Matika Wilbur has a little exercise she encourages new acquaintances to perform.
Do a Google image search for the term "Native American" and see what comes up.
The first result on a recent attempt is a grainy, sepia-toned picture of an unidentified Indian chief staring into the distance like a lost soul and decked out exactly (and unfortunately), as one might expect, in a headdress of tall fathers and a vest made of carved horn. It looks to be from early in the previous century. The next six pictures are variations on this theme. It's as if the society depicted in these images ceased to exist decades ago.
Wilbur, a 30-year-old from Seattle who's a member of the Tulalip and Swinomish tribes of Puget Sound, knows perhaps as much as anyone in America how laughably out-of-whack that Google-search result really is. She is halfway through an epic journey funded by everyday people via Kickstarter to visit and document every single federally recognized tribe in the United States more than 500 in all.
For the past year and a half, she's been taking new images to replace the tired ones that pop up in Internet searches, in the mainstream media and in our minds.
She calls her three-year campaign Project 562, the "562" representing the number of recognized tribes when she started out; there were 566 as of this spring. The first 50 or so gallery-ready images from the project are on exhibit at the Tacoma, Wash., Art Museum until Oct. 5.
It is the most ambitious effort to visually document Native Americans since Edward Curtis undertook a similar challenge at the beginning of the last century. Back then, it was widely believed that Indians on this continent were going extinct and needed to be photographed for posterity.
Wilbur is also concerned about photographing Native Americans for posterity, but her project is more a story of survival and advancement than extinction.
Wilbur's first name means "messenger" in her tribal language, and she more than lives up to that title. She pursues the issue of Native American identity with the zeal of an evangelist. And she doesn't mince words.
"How can we be seen as modern, successful people if we are continually represented as the leathered and feathered vanishing race?" Wilbur says in a clip on Kickstarter.
In person, she makes an equally powerful impression, telling stories, laughing out loud and giving hugs, but also speaking earnestly about her work.
She pointed out that images such as hers have an impact well beyond museums and classrooms.
"We have to take back our narratives," she says. "It's time we stop assuming an identity that was never really ours."
Native Americans make up only 1.7 percent of the U.S. population, or about 5.2 million people, according to the 2010 Census.
As Native American tribes negotiate for things like federal recognition and access to natural resources, Wilbur says it helps to show that Indian society remains intact and functional, albeit diminished.
"Imagery matters," she says. "Representation matters."
PROJECT 562 officially launched in the fall of 2012, when Wilbur, a schoolteacher, decided to give up her apartment in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood along with "a salary, a really cozy bed and a juicer!" and hit the road.
She laid the groundwork by networking through Facebook, tribal newspapers, cultural leaders, professors and even distant relatives to get out the word and drum up contacts. She launched the first round of her Kickstarter campaign to fund her travels, raising $35,000.
Then Wilbur packed up her Honda with her belongings, as well as personally canned fish and berries from the Northwest to present as gifts to her hosts around the country, and headed out.
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H.R.4903 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.111th Congress (2009-2010)
|Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6] (Introduced 03/22/2010)
|House - Appropriations; Education and Labor; Energy and Commerce; House Administration; Judiciary; Natural Resources; Rules; Ways and Means
|Latest Action:
|04/30/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
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Summary: H.R.4903 — 111th Congress (2009-2010)All Bill Information (Except Text)
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Introduced in House (03/22/2010)
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act.