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I'm not slamming on Tera, but if the future is through it, the genre is dead.
I love the beautiful graphics and the combat system.
Terrible community. <--no future in that. Also, the replay value is about a 3 out of 10. Why the same starting area for all races, it will get old really fast. <--no future in that. There is questing and it is the same kind as the last 7 or so years "!" "?". <--no future in that.
I honestly want the game to make it, but they need to do some more or it's future is not looking so good.
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Originally posted by Amjoco
Yeah, I seriously doubt the game going much further with all the competition coming.
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Joined: 4/02/12
If Tera is the future of the genre then I am done with MMOs.
I do commend the OP for honestly making me wonder whether or not he was serious.
"Loading screens" are not "instances".
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Joined: 10/29/07
Originally posted by Amjoco
Same questing a the last 7 years? Meridian 59 invemted the rat killing quests (in MMOs) 1996, that is 16 years ago.
Tera is not a bad game, but I agree with you, it ain't the future of the genre.
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The real game of the future does not use fake sandbox elements to disguise a themepark. Which is what all these newly released games are trying to do. Some do it better than others, which can be argued ad nauseaum. Yet, they are all simply trying to be clever and fool you, or hide the themepark just a little better. Which is fine, but the truth is a real sandbox, developed by a real company, is the true future of this industry. We don't need fake elements to make the world seem a little more real, the quests feel a little more alive. We need a living, breathing world. This can happen in a sandbox. The company that probably succeeds in revolutionizing this genre is CCP.
The truth is players have matured as an audience. The things that worked before are tired. I am tired of waiting for a real game. Bash on.
Originally posted by Aerowyn
You really shouldn't use Vgchart as a source, its like wikipedia by 100 times worse. They don't have any official sources they just guess their number (seriously). I used to be a fan of that site till It was in the past proven how consistently wrong they are.
Moving on, You really can't predict the feature based on current trends you can try but they pay people tons of money and they still cant do it.
Now, from playing TERA for 2 months, 6-12 hour a day on th korean server last year, I can definitely say that, TERA is NOT going to be the future. I can say that TERA's future is most likely going to be freemium or f2p which is what it should have been in the first place. I think TERA will succeed much better as a f2p game than it will ever do as a sub game.
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Originally posted by Celcius
How do you know the game is not doing well? Also what is your definition of well for a niche title like TERA? You couldn't have been expecting it to make TORs numbers or anything I'd hope.
The game is still very populated from what i'm playing, people talking in area making groups for dungeons, group quests and BAMs, if that stops i'll be worried but as of right now, there's no problems for me on Jagged Coast.
EU does seem to have the greater population, unless En Masses servers hold more because they seemed to be more stable and capable.
Those box sales could be just for amazon, or just for gamestop, how do you know they are official? Not to mention just about everybody ordered from En Masse anyways...hard seeing someone with any mount but that Lion lol.
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Having played both Tera and Guild Wars 2. Tera lacks a massive amount of depth in multiple areas. Please allow me to explain...
In Tera, it is 100% grind fest. 1-32 out of a level 60 cap is daft and boring. I understand content gets good at 60 and I've seen Korean Tera videos, but the lack of content from 1-32 is impressive.
-Storylines: Seriously lacking depth in Tera. Every quest can be summed up in 3 short sentences or less Some: 1 sentence: How is that entertaining? Of course, I could go read a book or turn on the history channel if I wanted to listen to a good story, but the main reason I would ever be willing to sit here and waste 14 hours of my life a day would be for the storyline. Quests being 1 sentence long is a massive turn-off.
-Crafting: Tera's crafting is a joke. 100% useless. At the finish of nearly every quest you get stronger version of your class's weapon or body armor, soooo... why even bother? Or better yet, people sell strong gears in the auction house that they get from killing monsters. Even the methods of crafting are lack luster. I was not pleased.
-Difficulty: Not difficult.
A.) NOT DIFFICULT AT ALL... I hate to link my own videos as an example but look at random mobs 2 levels above me: http://youtu.be/7a8wWui56dA Feel free to downvote my video all you want, I couldn't care less. I am only listing it here so you can see visual examples. There is no difficulty there. I ended up reaching a part of the map in which I reached monsters that were something like level 48 (while I was level 30 at the time) and soloing two at once, being able to dodge their every single hit... WTF IS THAT?
B.) BAMs. Bad Ass Monsters. You can solo these with every single class. it may take a try or two to figure out what you are doing and you may run like hell after attacking it, but it is not difficult. Bams are soloable. If you want to freaking argue with that fact, use YouTube and find videos of it yourself.
C.) Dungeons are incredibly easy. Too easy. Not even getting into it here. They require very little planning.
-Graphics: Very nice visual graphics.
-Classes: Nice round
-PvP: Having played two characters, one on DragonFall server and one on Valley of Titans. PvP was fun. I enjoyed the FPS style targeting. From what I've seen, the difficulty in PvP isn't there.
-Targeting method: Innovative (I've never seen or heard of a different MMORPG using this so I can't compare). First Person Shooters are fun. I played Return to Castle Wolfenstein for countless years.
GW2, Going to keep this short.
-Storyline: Incredibly in depth! I get to see cutscenes with dialog and in depth! I was absolutely in love during my time playing GW2. I recorded some of the conversations in the videos on the channel linked above. Spoilers, buuut it's low level content so it shouldn't ruin your day if you watch them. The point I'm trying to say is that skipping reading the dialog was out of the question in GW2. Skipping dialog is means I miss out on the lore in GW2, while skipping dialog in Tera means almost nothing.
-Crafting: In depth! Cooking looks amazing! Combining different materials and trying to find suitable recipes for things I want to create? It makes me feel like a genius when I make a new recipe. I really feel special when that kind of thing happens. I experienced similar scenarios when I crafted in Final Fantasy XI (ff11). I've been waiting for that kind of depth in crafting to return to a new MMO for many years.
-Difficulty: Mad difficult. Well, for me at least... Compared to Tera, this game is like doing a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle vs a 15 piece children's puzzle. I developed an awareness of difficulty as I was playing and my eyes would be wide open, unlike in Tera where at 4 AM I'd be getting sleepy and get tired of soloing mobs that literally NEVER hit me... Never... I should have added that up top. In Tera: Mobs don't hit you.
A.) I had no idea what I was doing when I first started playing, but it was fun exploring how to play. This is not neccesarily an easy game to solo. IT CAN BE SOLOED, but It is not an easy task to do.
B.) Entering instanced areas while underleveled or without help can mean your doom.
-Graphics: Not as colorful as Tera, but I think EVERYTHING else can make up for this. Perhaps when it goes live I'll be able to increase the graphics past the current maximum. (If you watch my videos the graphics aren't too pleasing. I swear, it looks much better on my actual computer at max settings than in the videos.) Still though, it isn't omgwtf graphics. A game shouldn't be 100% based on graphics though, should it? I don't think it should be. I'd like to take into consideration everything and then weigh them all together.
Classes - With the self-healing, things should be interesting. I did run across party healing skills so that should make things interesting for the future. One thing I really loved is that I could switch weapons and get a whole new set of skills! SO COOL!!! When the game goes live, I plan on playing an Asura Elementalist OR a Warrior.
-PvP: Don't know. Videos look interesting, but I have not experienced it first hand yet. I was so lost in the world content and instanced storyline to get that far. Even if I don't find PvP to be my strong suit, I'm still in love with the rest of the content.
-World Events: Real fun! It kind of reminded me of when I first played City of Heroes and Giant Monsters would spawn in the city and terrorize the citzens and everyone had to come together to stop the threat. Except this time around, it wasn't always just 1 threat (monster) it was multiple threats (monsters).
In my opinion:
Tera only has the Graphics and Targeting system in it's favor.
GW2 has Content, depth, gameplay fun, and world immersion.
Guild Wars 2 is far superior a game.
If you ask me about Diablo 3, I won't be able to give you a clear answer. I'll figure that out soon enough. And about my youtube channel. Feel free to rate down my videos all you want. The only reason I upload videos is for my personal entertainment.
Originally posted by darkwonderer
I hate to tell you, but sandbox are not the future. It probably themeparks, a lot of people love linear stories, too much freedom for the majority is bad. You can say the masses are made up of dumb people that require a helping hand and as long as that is the case themeparks are not going anywhere.
The problem with sandbox is that, it requires far too many resources that companies are not willing to put into a game. A bad sandbox game is worst than a bad themepark game.
Also there is also the little problem sandbox players have, so called sandbox players are the hippies in gaming. They love standing on soap boxes preaching how awesome sandbox games are, but the truth is once a sandbox comes out they find some silly reason to hate it. I think in some ways, sandbox loves idealize sandbox concepts to the point where a real sandbox game WILL NEVER EVER meet those ellusive standards.
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Originally posted by silvermember
Yeah you are probably right about vgcharts, but unfortunately at this point it is the only data we have to go by. I agree about F2P though, it will be much better as F2P.
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I believe the OP already stated again that he was referring to more of the technical side of things than the gameplay side, and his initial post seems to support this since basically all the pros mentioned do not have to do with game content but the game Coding.
When it comes to this I do not believe he is wrong; Tera looks extremely good but still runs very well even on mid range machines. Everything I've read has indicated that Tera is extremely well optimized and can present top line graphics on machines that previously would not have supported it.
Let's look over what the original thread actually stated before the discussion descended into the usual mire of off topic flaming and fanboy preaching.
"- Excelent graphics" - No argument here. Actually rendered character models, large draw range, detailed character animations with differently modeled textures for each body part, etc. In terms of aesthetics Tera isn't exactly wide appeal, but technically speaking you cannot really say graphical fidelity isn't top notch. The age of MMO's looking worse than current gen games because "well it's an MMO" are over.
- "Major excelence for the game engine" Tera shows that using a widely available engine (Unreal) to create a beautiful MMO is not only possible but produces excellent results. Developing engines in house seems like a waste of resources and I think that in the future developers will be moving away from that practice and focusing more resources on gameplay elements.
- "great speed conection servers" I can't really comment on this too much because I don't know what kind of netcode they are using, but so far lag has been few and far between for me.
- "large community..." Not too sure about this as an aggregate raw number since it's a niche game, but the fact that content is meant to be run with 5 people and not say, 40 or 200 makes even a moderate amount of people online seem like a huge population. And as a wise man once said, it doesn't matter what your population is if you never see any of them. Look at SWTOR, the MMO with the 2nd most players in the west even after population drops and it still feels less populated than private servers because of how it is set up. Seperation of factions hasn't worked since WoW, cross server and LFG tools are now mandatory, and instancing for pve zones is where the future is heading. Tera's open world dungeons are also a nice addition that hearkens back to early MMO's.
I saw very little in the original post to indicate that the OP was saying Tera is the future based on gameplay or game features (although personally I believe more action oriented combat will be the standard from now on), but rather is a good indication of how modern MMO's will be like on more basic aspects such as coding, graphics, and options.
Say what you will about Tera, but there isn't a game out there that would not be improved by Tera's graphics, smooth netcode, minimal bugs, and bevy of comfort of life improvements. Instant mounting, diablo 2 style mini-map, fully customizable and resizable UI, the ability to set how many players you want to render on screen, etc. Yes I enjoy Tera, but I also see the flaws that will prevent it from ever being anything but a niche game. However I also believe that future MMO's need to be as polished as Tera on the technical side or they will be fighting an uphill battle from the start. There is no more reason for SWTOR type releases.
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Originally posted by Amjoco
Like I said in a response to you, the island of Dawns community is a joke, but otherwise as you level the trolls fade away and it is very good to me at least. Everyone is helpful, talkitive, chatting in channels looking for groups for certain quests and whatnot.
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Joined: 9/15/10
Originally posted by dspencer2
Good post. I agree with you.
I waited and waited for my Tera to arrive in the mail and I installed it yesterday. I am totally impressed my the beauty of it, but I see nothing else to do but quest. I know, I know, it gets better later. I will keep playing and find out, I want my $49.99 worth of it!
I had to use the combat tab on the chat box only so I didn't have to see the constant spam of mindless chatter! I will persevere!
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Originally posted by silvermember
I am no hippie. Nor will I stand on a soapbox. The only real sandbox released, by a real company, is EVE. Which is adored by its fans. Unfortunately I don't do ships.
I respect your point of view, but would counter that even theme parks are evolving. These "new" generations of themeparks are trying to make their worlds more alive, questing more dynamic and real, combat more realistic (i know, I know). Honestly, and this is complete conjecture and op, but the genre had its boom, its infancy, that vast majority of players are going to demand something beyond what they've seen. These new games are trying to cater to this burgeoning want.
Honestly, as is evident to me by the current crop of games trying to be more, dynamic questing, dynamic combat, and the only evolution of a themepark is to hide it better, to make a more complex, rich experience, which is to move towards sandbox. Not saying I am right, just stating what I think.
The only argument that I could see being valid is your point about linear story, and to be honest, I just think don't agree that it's the future of mmos. Perhaps I am wrong, we will see how SWTOR, TSW play out. You can get a linear story anywhere.
Anyway, thanks for the chat. These new crop of games has got me creeping again. :) Which is never a bad thing.
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Joined: 5/11/12
Sorry, but TERA is the past.
We should be moved on at this point, it's a shame, the game really could've been better.
EDIT: Right, graphics, engine, bugs
Obviously those are going to improve, TERA isn't what's pushing that.
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Joined: 12/27/11
I too played both Tera and GW2 quite sufficiently to seize their gamedesign, and frankly, Tera is not even close to GW2. I might even say that it's not even close to SWTOR in I judge on my will to reach max level in both.
Really, Tera is the most beautiful MMO at the moment, no doubt. And it's better than all the other tab targetting combats.
But this is not enough to make a great game. As I said in another thread, if Tera wasn't trying to charge me 15$ per month for being able to continue the endless mob bashing, I would have tried to reach max level. But here .... nope.
edit about targetting system : sometimes the repetitiveness of combat sequences is so huge that I wish there was no need to target, so I could continue to cryosleep my brain while maintaing a finger on the left mouse button (auto attack).
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Originally posted by Amjoco
I commend your dedication to reach the good parts of Tera. I'm constantly being told on the offical forums of TERA when people start bashing GW2 that Tera gets good at level 60. It is severely disappointing that I should have to put hours and hours of effort into finally reaching "good content". I usually expect "good content" to be right in there immediately from the get-go. Yessss, Graphics are a HUGE bonus to playing this game, but graphics really aren't everything. What I personally look for in a game is a mixture of fun things.
The chat spam issue is difficult to handle sometimes, mainly because of the amount of people talking at once. I found it just a bit distracting. I'm sure it will settle down soon, even in the new player areas.
If people have the $49.99 to spare (better than spending it on cigarettes! *cough cough*) I'd say go for it and get it. But if people have to choose between one or the other (I mean Tera vs GW2 pre-order) than it shouldn't be a difficult decision. ;)
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Funny, first it was "It gets good after 15", then 30, then 50, now it's 60.
Originally posted by darkwonderer
well... I gotta say you didn't say anything relevant to sandbox. all the things you talked are about were never exclusive to sandbox or even features of sandbox games.
finally you proved my other point, which was you manage to conveniently reject all other sandbox games except for the one good one. again on this forum, player like to preach how super awesome sandbox games are but will reject any game that doesn't meet their unrealistic delusions.
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Originally posted by xposeidon
Tera is a ton of fun, and the combat in innovative. The rest of it is just marketing jumbo that never holds up to scrutiny. TSW is many of those things, but it's a mediocre game all the same. Not that it won't be fun for a spell, but it doesn't have the foundation to stand upon to make people keep coming back... much the same as SWTOR. Foundation is whats important, not all the shit you pile on top of it.


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So to answer your question----plenty of non party guys around. Are you in college, are you working? Before you go out looking for a guy, I think you first need to define what type of guy you're looking for. Once you have that in mind, then is easier to go out and hunt for guys.
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Usually the case with guys that are looking for party girls is that they aren't looking for a serious relationship.
If your truly interested in finding a guy, look for one with higher standards and whos willing to put more effort into finding a girl.
These guys who hook up at parties don't give a shit who the girl is because hello- They met at a party and she's probably a slut. I wouldn't wanna be that girl.
I suggest maybe going to a local concert for an acoustic artist (I don't know if you have those were you live, but around here there's a lot of places like that)
Around here all of the good guys hang out at local cafes which means they have money to spend, and don't mind sitting around reading a book and drinking coffee which might be more relationship type.
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Adam Dunn couldn't hold Frank Robinson's jock if he wore it like a hat...
"Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."--Winston Churchill
I read somewhere that if the A's weren't able to resign Thomas that they may look to acquire Dunn.
Maybe they would deal Harden.. the kid has been injury prone but is only 24 (25 end of the month)
Dunn, Wood, and Milton (+3 Million) To A's
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Erik Bedard would be awesome.. but what about guys like Hayden Penn.. ? Radhames Liz is another intriguing arm. He may not be able to start, but he'd be worth a look as a possible dominant pen arm.
Nolan Reimold?
I dont think the O's would be the worst trade partner..
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Perhaps it's pure speculation that's beginning to snowball, but with each new day and the new Dunn trade rumor that accompanies it, I'm starting to think where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Racing Metro v Munster - Heineken Cup match preview
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Paul O'Connell has been named in Munster's team for their Heineken Cup opener against Racing Metro at Stade de France after a five-month absence.
O'Connell, who has not played since May due to related knee and back injuries, is joined in the second row by Billy Holland after Donncha O'Callaghan was ruled out with a hamstring problem.
Munster are also missing prop Wian du Preez (knee) and hooker Mike Sherry (ankle), meaning starts for Dave Kilcoyne and Damien Varley in the front row.
Donnacha Ryan is preferred at blindside flanker to Dave O'Callaghan, who is named on the bench.
The one unforced change in the back division sees Ian Keatley in at full-back instead of Denis Hurley.
Olly Barkley makes his first start for Racing since his move from Bath after coming off the bench in the Top 14 last week.
Mirco Bergamasco returns to the starting XV at outside centre for the Parisians, while fellow Italy international Andrea Lo Cicero is added to the front-row.
Racing Metro: 15 Benjamin Fall, 14 Julien Jane, 13 Mirco Bergamasco, 12 Fabrice Estebanez, 11 Julien Saubade, 10 Olly Barkley, 9 Maxime Machenaud, 8 Masinivanua Matadigo, 7 Jacques Cronje (c), 6 Antoine Battut, 5 Francois Van der merwe, 4 Karim Ghezal, 3 Luc Ducalcon, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski, 1 Andrea Lo Cicero.
Replacements: 16 Thomas Bianchin, 17 Eddy Ben Arous , 18 Benjamin Sa, 19 Fabrice Metz, 20 Bernard le Roux, Sebastien Descons, 21 Camille Gerondeau, 22 Sebastien Descons, 23 Virimi Vakatawa
Munster: 15 Ian Keatley, 14 Doug Howlett (c), 13 Casey Laulala, 12 James Downey, 11 Simon Zebo, 10 Ronan O'Gara, 9 Conor Murray, 8 Peter O'Mahony. 7 Sean Dougall, 6 Donnacha Ryan, 5 Paul O'Connell, 4 Billy Holland, 3 BJ Botha, 2 Damien Varley, 1 Dave Kilcoyne.
Replacements: 16 Mick Sherry, 17 Marcus Horan, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Dave O'Callaghan, 20 Paddy Butler, 21 Peter Stringer, 22 Danny Barnes, 23 Denis Hurley
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"I am hoping Simon can take away some of the unknown about Racing and give us a clue as to how they play and what makes them tick.
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Anchorage's Eric Packer, the classic sprint champion at the U.S. nationals earlier this year, added another nordic title to his resume Tuesday, when he won the men's 1.6-kilometer classic sprint at the SuperTour Finals in Craftsbury, Vt.
Packer, a multiple All-American at Dartmouth, topped Reese Hanneman of Alaska Pacific University's Nordic Ski Center.
Three other Alaskan men racked top-three finishes -- Erik Bjornsen of APU finished fifth, David Norris of Fairbanks took second in the B Final to earn eighth place overall and Tyler Kornfield of Anchorage finished 10th.
Bjornsen has finished third in two events at the Super Tour Finals, the sprint and the 15-K classic, and was fifth in Saturday's prologue.
On the women's side, three-time Olympian and reigning World Cup sprint champion Kikkan Randall of Anchorage and APU blew into town from Norway and led Alaska's women with a fourth-place finish in the sprint, which was won by Canadian Olympian Chandra Crawford.
Sadie Bjornsen of APU, who won Sunday's 10-K classic and was third in the prologue, won the B Final to take seventh place overall. Rosie Brennan of APU was eighth and Olympian Holly Brooks of APU and Anchorage was ninth. APU's Rebecca Rorabaugh finished 12th.
Randall, who finished fifth in the World Cup overall standings this season, on Saturday competed in the Red Bull Nordix in Oslo. That event included hairpin turns and jumps -- Randall finished fourth.
Randall in an email said she was psyched to be back in the U.S. and still feeling some effects from travel and a cold she got last week.
"(I) woke up (Tuesday) without much of a voice,'' Randall wrote. "I still wanted to give it a try however and was optimistic about my feelings during the warm-up. I felt okay in the qualifier but definitely a little heavy after the travel.
"The quarterfinals probably felt the worst for me and then I felt a little better in the semi and final. I'm hoping I'm on the upswing now and that today's hard effort will help kick me around for the next races.''
The Super Tour wraps with a freestyle hill climb Wednesday, but that's not the end of competition in Vermont.
The women's freestyle 30-K national championship race is set for Friday and the men's freestyle 50-K national championship race is scheduled Saturday.
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Johnny Ramone Tribute Set for Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 8/24
This year's event will be presented by Johnny Ramones' wife, LINDA RAMONE and hosted by Johnny's great friend ROB ZOMBIE, who will present a special outdoor screening under the stars of Zombie's classic film The Devil's Rejects.
For the all-star live jam, Zombie will be joined by Johnny's dear friend, punk legendSteve Jones (Sex Pistols) as well as Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses) plus very special surprise guests for some Ramones hits and punk rock classics. The concert will be held in the Hollywood Forever's Masonic Lodge and broadcast outside to the overflow crowd.
Fred Armisen (Portlandia, Saturday Night Live) will also be appearing at the tribute and will bring along his punk rock alter ego, Ian Rubbish, to the festivities.
Metallica guitarist Kirk "Von" Hammett's special collection of horror movie memorabilia will also be on hand for fans to check out. Rarely seen in public, the collection includes a treasure trove of movie posters, props, toys and costumes from his personal collection.
There will also be an autograph signing session featuring the cult stars from Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects."
Cited by both Time and Rolling Stone magazines as one of the most influential guitarists ever, the JOHNNY RAMONE TRIBUTE brings family, friends and fans together to celebrate the late punk guitarist's music and legacy with Q&A sessions, screenings of Johnny's favorite movies and musical guests. Past participants have included Tommy Ramone, Johnny Depp, Rob Zombie, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Chris Cornell, Nick Cage, Kirk Hammett, Steve Jones, Rose McGowan, Henry Rollins, John Waters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shepard Fairey, Dita Von Teese and Billy Zoom, among many others.
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Gates open at 5 P.M. Families and children are welcome, with kids 12 and under getting in free.
VIP admission is $45, which enables the ticket-buyer to receive food and cocktails courtesy of Stillhouse Spirits, admission to the VIP area, and VIP seating for the simulcast of the all-star Ramones set and movie screening.
All Access is $75, limited to the first 200 buyers, and will allow the ticket-holder access to the VIP areas, and also entry to the all-star Ramones tribute concert inside Hollywood Forever's Masonic Lodge.
Proceeds benefit the Johnny Ramone Foundation and Dr. David Agus, USC.
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Saudi Arabia–Turkey relations
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian–Turkish relations refer to the current and historical relationship between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The countries enjoy a friendly economic relationship.[1] The former has an embassy in Ankara and a consulate–general in Istanbul; while the latter has an embassy in Riyadh and a consulate–general in Jeddah. Both countries are full members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
According to a 2013 Pew global opinion poll, Turks hold the most negative view of Saudi Arabia out of any surveyed Muslim country, with 26% expressing a favourable view and 53% expressing an unfavourable view.[2]
The Ottoman Empire controlled the Hejaz region of modern Saudi Arabia, for nearly 400 years along with other provinces in the region.
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- ^ Saudi Arabia/Turkey: Turkish Trade Minister commends Saudi-Turkish relations International Islamic News Agency, 8 February 2010
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"National Walk@Lunch Day is designed as an easy way for our employees to fit some exercise into their busy lives," said Donald Fischer, MD, Highmark's chief medical officer. "The process is simple - just take a half hour walk at lunch. Making it a habit can contribute to an individual's health and the overall health of the nation."
By making the commitment to walk to better health, Highmark employees are reducing their likelihood of costly future health problems. Research shows that a regular walking program can help control weight, condition the heart and lungs, and prevent the onset of health problems. Walking can help those with chronic illnesses to better manage their health. Highmark is one of many health-conscious companies across America encouraging employees to take steps to better health.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates the cost to treat illness and chronic disease caused by inactive lifestyles is nearly $1,000 for every family in America, each year. Simply getting 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, such as a brisk walk, at least five times a week has significant health benefits including lowering the risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and improving the health of muscles, bones and joints.
"National Walk@Lunch Day will not only provide a good chance for our employees to create time in their busy work schedules to exercise, but it will also be an opportunity to learn more about the benefits of walking each day," said Dr. Fischer. "Highmark and our employees are proud to participate in this innovative event."
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We all knew this day would come…and we can't wait to hear the song about it! Us Weekly reports that Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy have ended their relationship of roughly three months, probably because Conor's math tutoring lessons were getting in the way. Cause he's a baby! "They quietly parted ways a while ago," their source claims. "No hard feelings." Now, Tay Tay has already tagged the liner notes for her new (tragically hopeful) Red song "Begin Again" with the phrase "Hannis Port" (referencing the Kennedys' home base, as well as the location of her new home), but obviously there are other relationship specifics Taylor is bound to drop in upcoming albums that we can use identify which songs are about Conor. Because you know some of them will be. Or all of them. The girl bought a house in near Conor's memaw, people! So if we ever seen any of these references, we know which romance inspired Taylor's songwriting.
- "Next Door Neighbors"
- "Boat Shoes"
- American, Americana, or anything red, white and emotionally blue
- "High School Boyfriend" (Like, literally still in high school.)
- Any references to ruined weddings or Wedding Crashers the movie.
- "Game " (Ethel Kennedy referred to Taylor as game just last week, and we bet you cash money that's a title on her next album. How much will you bet us?)
Today's news makes the fact Taylor chatted with Ellen DeGeneres about her exes this week that much more uncomfortable. Ellen calls Swift out for dating Zac Efron the last time she was on her show, but Taylor playfully avoids talking about her current romantic situation. Good call, girl. And congrats to you and Danny Devito! We knew you wouldn't stay single long. We'll keep our eyes peeled for any references to limoncello.
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Barca to 1/2-final, Messi broke two records
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Barcelona qualified for the semifinals in the Champions League. Catalans won 3-1 second leg against AC Milan and continue after a goalless draw in the first meeting. Lionel Messi was marked by two goals (from penalties) and so improve the two records - the most goals in the tournament in a season and youngest player to score 50 goals in the Champions League. The game was special for Barca captain Carles Puyol, who recorded his game number 550 for the Spanish champion. Barca continued his series is no loss of "Camp Nou" their stadium. The last boys Josep Guardiola lost in 2009 against Rubin (Kazan).
The first more serious situation was in the 3rd minute when top scorer of the Milan Zlatan Ibrahimovic left forward, but was blocked by Pique. Shortly after Clarence Seedorf missed the ball inches from the door guarded by Victor Valdes. This seemed to upset Barcelona, which tried to impose control events on the pitch.
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Smart meters and Big Data: A clear case for governance best practices
By Sunil Soares
Over the past five years, utilities have been early drivers of big data analytics, largely through regional smart meter projects where it's been proven that sensors can be used to easily capture and share energy usage data to be analyzed by consumers.
Since North American utilities started rolling out smart meters across facilities, they have been able to capture usage data every 15 to 60 minutes for residential and commercial customers, and communicate this information on a daily basis to the utility for billing and analytics. This compares greatly to the traditional electricity and gas meters, where data usage was only read on a monthly or quarterly basis, and was only measured via gross consumption and offered no insight into when the energy was actually consumed.
Today, smart meters enable utilities to offer differentiated billing to customers such as lower rates during off-peak hours and higher rates during peak hours. With differentiated billing, utilities can develop pricing plans encouraging customers to reduce usage during peak hours. This allows utilities to reduce generation capacity if they can manage peak customer demand.
Between 2009 and 2012, approximately 5 million of Southern California Edison's (SCE) residential and small-business customers are getting new smart meters with Edison SmartConnect, SCE's smart metering program. Based on "next-generation" technology, Edison SmartConnect was designed with a focus on the customer. With millions of meters already deployed to the field, in April 2011, SCE started providing customers with interval data collected by reading the smart meters over a secure, wireless two-way communication system. This system is empowering customers to become better-informed managers of their electricity use through new tools, programs and services that will help them save energy, money, and the environment.
The new meters are smart because they can communicate - not only with the customer about their electricity usage and pricing signals, but they can also communicate with the utility to indicate if there are fluctuations in power or even accurately pinpoint an outage. For a utility such as SCE, smart meters are generating a wealth of new information that is fundamentally changing the way we interact with our customers. Our information management strategy for smart grid starts with an investment in data governance practices and a data warehouse to ensure timely and accurate information is made accessible to our customers.
- Tom Walker, Southern California Edison, Edison SmartConnect, Director of Business Integration
Here are a few governance best practices utilities can follow for smart meter data:
1. Access policies - The information governance program needs to establish a number of policies around which departments and functions can access smart meter data. There are reams of real-time interval data from smart meters that are brought into utility data warehouses. They can then leverage this data to understand customer usage patterns. The customers need to access this data from the web to understand how their electricity usage affects their monthly bills.
- Establish database monitoring policies - Establishing database monitoring policies determines who within the utility is actually assessing the meter data. As smart meters become more mainstream, regulators such as state public utility commissions in the United States will become more assertive about protecting consumers' privacy rights. As a result, the information governance programs at utilities need to be prepared to address these regulations.
- Archiving policies - Policies need to be set by the information governance program around data archiving in order to avoid rising storage costs from smart meter data. For example, a utility can set a time period for how long they maintain meter interval data before it is moved to secondary storage to reduce costs.
- Metadata - Electric power utilities use reliability indicators such as the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and the System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI). Local authorities generally require some form of service level agreement regarding SAIDI and SAIFI in order to calculate usage consistently for measurement and pricing purposes.
In 2011, nearly 36 million smart meters were installed by utilities in the U.S. As these meters come online in 2012, and the smart grids they comprise begin generating and sharing data across millions of endpoints, utilities will once again set information governance best practices that other industries can follow.
Sunil Soares is the Director of Information Governance within IBM Software Group. Sunil has worked with more than a hundred clients across multiple industries including banking, insurance, life sciences, energy and utilities, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare and government. Sunil helps clients assess their Information Governance Maturity and determine the appropriate processes and tools to move forward. Kevin Monagle, Associate Partner, Energy & Utilities, IBM Global Business Services, also contributed to this article.
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Among his many missions as a senator, Ted Stevens undertook to make Alaska aviation safer. He couldn't make it safe enough. The crash near Dillingham proves that. But as an old pilot who had flown in war time, he knew and accepted the dangers of flying in Bush Alaska.
Stevens also may have known that when a group of prominent Alaskans was asked to name the 100 greatest aviators in Alaska history, more than half the people on their list had been killed flying. Alaska is littered with aircraft wreckage. The names of the dead are affixed to our air fields -- Merrill, Eielson, for example. Nobody anticipated that when Anchorage International Airport was named for Ted Stevens he would be claimed by a crash.
Most of us thought the 1978 Anchorage crash that killed his first wife, Ann, was more than enough aviation tragedy for one family.
Ted Stevens survived that crash.
And he outlived all but a few of his peers, the men and women of territorial Alaska, especially Fairbanks where he got his start in 1953 as the district attorney.
Legend has it that he wore a pistol on each hip during gambling raids.
Legend has it that if you went to the notorious Raymond Wright's Southside nightclub at 5 in the morning you could see Ray and Ted huddling over drinks -- after they finished washing the glasses from the night before. Former marshal Frank Wirth, who worked with Ted, heartily endorsed this approach to law enforcement: "If you want to know what the crooks are doing, ask a crook."
Legend also has it that Ted was so hot-tempered at trial that judges, juries and opposing counsel expected him to go off like the famous geyser at Yellowstone.
I do know as a matter of fact, not legend, that Ted and the leader of the local defense bar, Warren Taylor, despised one another, and when Warren baited Ted by daring him to take the witness stand during a 1954 white slavery trial, Ted bit, only to be asked, "Did you know that you were lying when you said...?" Warren never finished the question. Old Faithful erupted.
People Outside had a tough time understanding Ted Stevens the senator. They saw him either as the master chef of pork dishes cooked up for Alaskans or a crooked old pol who beat a jail sentence on a technicality.
The truth is: Ted Stevens was the most influential Alaskan in our history. His fingerprints are everywhere -- on resource policy, land policy, Native policy, health care policy and on the hundreds of small favors he did for individual constituents.
In a sense, Ted was lucky: He became a senator during an era when the federal mission was expanding, the federal treasury growing. Dollars were plentiful.
Theodore Fulton Stevens was not a reformer. He accepted the world as he found it. If he was a do gooder, it was through the appropriations process: Send Alaskans money, let them do good.
The world was transactional for Ted. You help me, I'll help you. During the 40 years he served in the Senate, the transaction with Alaskans continued unabated, unabashed. He helped us through legislation and appropriations; we helped him by bestowing our votes on him every election day.
Michael Carey is the former editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Top 5 Duos in NBA History: Who Makes the Cut?
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U.K. researchers are working on making motoring less stressful for older drivers with the aid of GPS navigation.
Germany's Solar Millennium, which develops utility-scale solar thermal projects, begins insolvency proceedings as a solar industry shakeout spreads.
Stirling Energy Systems, which once had giant utility contracts, heads to bankruptcy amid a price war and technology shift away from solar thermal and toward photovoltaics.
Report shows that the pipeline for non-residential solar projects has jumped since the beginning of this year in part because of rapidly falling solar panel prices.
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Sol Bojarsky passed away peacefully at home on June 27. A native of Los Angeles, born in Boyle Heights, Oct. 1, 1919, bar mitzvah at the Breed Street Shul, Bojarsky was a graduate of Hollywood High School and UCLA. From a pioneer L.A. Zionist family, Sol was a prominent insurance agent in the L.A. Jewish community for over 50 years, having taken over the business started by his mother Rose. He was an early and dedicated Jewish community leader, honored by the Jewish Centers Association and Jewish National Fund, as well as The Jewish Federation Insurance Division.
He served on the board of Brandeis-Bardin Institute for over four decades, as well as a leader of Temple of Israel of Hollywood for an equal amount of time. He was a proud community leader, a gentleman known for his big smile, love of life and warm heart. He will be profoundly missed.
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The 2013 Elk County Relay for Life will begin on a Saturday instead of a Friday this year to give more area residents an opportunity to participate.
According to Public Relations Chair Barbie Simbeck, the Relay for Life Committee and teams voted to have the event begin on Saturday, June 8 at 9 a.m. and end on Sunday, June 9 at 9 a.m. The event will still be held at the Fox Township Community Park.
PITTSBURGH – The creation of a new court program geared toward offering support services to military veterans charged with and convicted of criminal offenses was announced recently for Western Pennsylvania as part of an initiative being led by the region's U.S. District Court.
JOHNSONBURG – Operation Christmas Child is a program that supports needy children around the world.
The program is conducted by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse which is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to people around the world. Samaritan's Purse consistently helps to meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine.
Johnsonburg area churches helped to create and collect shoe boxes to support Samaritan's Purse.
Area residents came out Friday night to celebrate Ridgway's Light Up Night celebration. Area youth got to sit on Santa's lap during the evening.
Various community organizations recently collaborated in a toy challenge to collect Christmas presents for Project Gifts for Elk County.
JOHNSONBURG – A Johnsonburg man, the target of a Sept. 26 federal search warrant served by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and members of the Pennsylvania State Police, waived his preliminary hearing on drug charges stemming from the search and seizure in District Court 59-3-02 on Wednesday.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, the search and seizure conducted at the 112 East Ave., Johnsonburg home of David A. Blashaw, 55, yielded "a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia."
JOHNSONBURG – The Johnsonburg Municipal Authority discussed reducing the Johnsonburg Volunteer Fire Department's hydrant rental fees during Tuesday night's regular meeting.
The board agreed to form a three-man committee comprised of Dane Condino, Doug Haupright and Ed Gapinski in an effort to meet and discuss reducing the hydrant rates by 50 percent with members of the Johnsonburg Borough Council.
JOHNSONBURG – A Highland Township supervisor and sewage treatment plant operator for the James City Sewage Treatment Plant waived his preliminary hearing in District Court 59-3-02 Wednesday on charges that he violated environmental laws in allegedly falsifying environmental reports and discharging some 10 million gallons of raw sewage from the treatment plant into a nearby stream.
The Ruffed Grouse Society seeks volunteers to hand plant gray dogwood along a stream to improve habitat for grouse, woodcock, and songbirds.
"Grouse eat the berries of gray dogwood," said Mary Hosmer, volunteer for the Ruffed Grouse Society. "Woodcock like to nest underneath dogwood shrubs, and some songbirds such as the chestnut-sided warbler build nests in small shrubs such as gray dogwood."
The Children and Youth Services in Elk County recently received a $6,000 grant from the Women Who Care, an affiliate of the Elk County Community Foundation to support the community's children with beds and bed linens.


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First - Assess the situation and determine if an active rescue is possible and safe. Many would be rescuers are caught or killed in follow up avalanches because they acted without assessing the surrounding conditions. Assuming you have equipment to assist in the rescue follow the guidelines below. Yell to alert your partners and other people that may be ...
To be honest, the most important thing a Rescue Team needs to have is plenty of manpower (and womanpower!) with training and experience (speaking as a member of a UK Cave Rescue Team).
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Below is the bare minimum list of gear I would require anyone on my team to carry during and rescue operation. It does not include any of the numerous pieces of rope equipment that members of the rope team would cary in addition to the basic equipment ( only specific team members that have completed extensive training are qualified to be involved in any of ...
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Thought this was an interesting find in the local paper.
HPV is not on my list. Part of it is the adequate long term data and the other is frankly the reported reactions. However, I do think it highlights the issue of whether or not the full number of doses are required for all vaccines.
So researchers analysed blood samples from a group of 78 who got one dose, compared to groups of 120 to 192 that received two or three doses as planned.
They found that all the women in all three groups had antibodies against virulent strains of HPV, known as 16 and 18.
The levels of antibodies also appeared stable over time, even though they were slightly lower in the single dose group, suggesting "these are lasting responses," said the study.
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Mystic - The trash cans in downtown Mystic have been overflowing and business owners want the situation fixed, according to the president of Downtown Mystic Merchants.
"We have overflowing cans all the time and it looks terrible," Judy Hartley, president of Downtown Mystic Merchants, told the Economic Development Commission last week.
Public Works Director Gary Schneider wrote in an email Friday that a representative of his staff and Kristin Clarke, the town's economic development specialist, would speak to the merchants.
The Mystic Streetscape project, which buried utilities and installed granite curbs, new sidewalks and light poles, also replaced the 55-gallon trash receptacles with 35-gallon containers.
"Is it prettier? Yes," Hartley told the commission on Aug. 7. "Does it do the job? No."
On July 1, the Department of Public Works took over trash pickup in downtown, which had previously been handled by a contractor, Schneider wrote. The department inspects and empties the containers seven days a week, with pickups once a day on weekdays and twice on Saturday, he wrote.
"Supervisors when passing through the area can direct additional pickups," Schneider added. The department also took steel barrels, with lids, out of storage and placed them in several locations to supplement the new containers, he wrote.
Cheryl Robdau, owner of Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream, said public works has been "very cooperative" about sending a truck to handle additional pickups, but downtown Mystic needs larger trash barrels or more of them, as well as containers for recyclables. Much of the trash includes items like water bottles, she said.
"They did put an extra garbage bin at the top of the street, so that will help," Robdau said. "But it still doesn't deal with the recyclable issue." She said she sends her employees out with trash bags on Sunday nights to clear the top of the cans.
Hartley told the Economic Development Commission that merchants complained about trash overflowing and were handed old steel cans like the town didn't care how they looked.
"You made these people go through hell, and now all they want to do is run their business" without worrying about garbage outside, she said.
Many downtown businesses suffered losses during the first phase of the Mystic Streetscape project because it tore up sidewalks, caused traffic delays and drove some shoppers away. The project coincided with a recession and bridge repair, making matters worse.
Economic development specialist Clarke said the merchants may want more new trash cans, but they're expensive - a few hundred dollars each - and she doesn't know if the town can afford them. Schneider said there's no money set aside in his budget to buy new containers.
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