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I constantly hear that this game would be different if they would not start making it 5 years ago etc. Well - Guild Wars 2 was in development for 5 years and they were able to upgrade some of the features. And it's not only MMO out there that was in development for couple of years.
I think that Bioware just played it safe and they were copying stuff from others while they should copy them, check them and upgrade them or change them from the bottom. For example:
~ WHY in TOR people are punished for helping yeah other (Kill steal) ? GW2 solved this.
~ WHY world is static ? This was fixed in Rift a little and GW2 on higher scale (events cause change in economy, vendors products etc). No need for sandbox if they don't want to create one but world should by more dynamic.
~ Why player is fixed with one weapon ? I would like to see system like in GW2. Operative with 1 pistol could have some hitman skills (headshot, criple shot etc) and trooper could have rapid fire, blast or something. After playing GW2 couple od days I don't see how I could go back to game like TOR. Switching weapon and your tactics as needed is something great. Someone is trying to kite you ? Use a bow and send few arrows to his knee.
~ Why they decide to fix our aligment ? You can be bad or good but that's change nothing. You can't join siths while you are Rep. In GW2 you don't have faction wars on the map BUT you can do stuff on any faction areas.
~ Engineers are idiots. Why crafters can't make better weapons than some ancient stuff you find in a flashpoint or something ? Want to do world PVP ? Add 2-3 planets that are full of resources of any kind, deeper into planet - more rare resources. And then make it for something like Ilum. Main theme would be war for resources between factions. Add to this later some other type of PVP activities like guild ships you could assault and some kind of automatic weaponary (siege weapon) that can be created only from resources from this planets and you have quite a nice chain of PVP stuff working together.
Seriously - Bioware played safe and it's cost them lossing subs. It's not about 5 years of development. It's not about then and now. Every game take time to create. And I'm afraid that lack of talent made TOR a failure. And this is NOTHING NEW. Bioware lack of talent is showing past few years.
After great KOTOR and interesting Jade Empire that was not a success and quite interesting Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age Origins we experienced failure after failure.
~ Mass Effect 2 - game about nothing. That game could never happen and it would not affect the story. More a shooter than RPG.
~ Dragon Age II - everyone knows how much failure that game was. Short, simple, stupid, with silly animations, pathetic story and paratroopers in full plate armor that were teleported from USS Enterprise to your room.
~ Mass Effect 3 - quite nice shooter but nothing new, pathetic RPG with now real consequences of your actions and bad ending. Every promise made by devs about this game was a BIG LIE.
~ TOR - you know that one.
In other words. This game is not what it was back in the days. So we should stop looking at Bioware from the perspective of Baldurs Gate etc. Today - Bioware is 5% of making generic games and 95% of marketing full of lies.
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"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words
Some people actually love these games, you know? So it's just opinion - yours
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So in other words you just want them to copy paste features from GW2 so that people can futher complain about how it is a GW2 clone and Bioware is nothign but a hack? not that this game already gets a lot of bashing lets add some more fuel to the fire.
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Magic Propels my Rolly Chair.
Right up until the last moment, People were still screaming "Story will save the mmorpg genre"
Endless cycle of hype: Company gives hype to players, Players turn hype in to praise.
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Bioware is just a cover name these days for Electronic Arts, since EA bought Bioware a few years ago. The lack of quality, with an increase in marketing hype and lies all come from EA.
Fans told EA Bioware for years what they would like to see in a Star Wars MMO, and they were ignored. EA played it safe definitely, because all their marketing research said players wanted a WoW themepark, evidenced by millions who play WoW+Rift.
This is why a good company (like ArenaNet) is doing well. They actually know about and enjoy playing games. They have a passion for gaming, and are willing to take risks, and do whatever it takes to make a game fun, not necessarily hugely profittable. Fun first.
On the other hand, give design to a bunch of marketing researchers and you have a really dry boring game incoming that fits all the metrics for success, but lacks the fun factor (EA games). It didn't help that EA just was so behind the 8-ball that they didn't realize a graphics engine can break even a game that excels in other areas .. and SWTOR uses a garbage self-modified & incomplete version of Hero. Other games are worried about their engine starting to lag a little when 100+ players are on-screen at once .. SWTOR starts gasping for air when a dozen+ players are near you. Ilum with 20+ players (10 vs 10) was a slide-show. Pathetic.
As an ex-SWTOR player, I'm enjoying GW2 now much like you. I like playing the Engineer class, because it feels like playing an Imperial Agent, but in a living breathing world, with a top notch graphics engine, capable of the "Massively" part of the term MMO. I'd check SWTOR out again if non-WoW stuff was added, like free-flight space combat, racing minigames and such .. but I don't see EA spending any major money on this game unless F2P generates a ton of revenue. And even then it's up in the air if they would actually have the talent to do game enhancements, or even spend additional money, since this game cost them a bundle already. All their updates recently just seem to be tweaking numbers, then coming back to customers and saying, "See what we did? We've been busy!"
For the true SW experience, I'd rather just play console games I guess. At least those feel like I'm in a Star Wars universe, with a huge diversity of mission styles. If I could sell my SWTOR game box & key I would in a minute. I'll never part with my console SW games though :-)
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Hokey religions are no replacement for a good blaster at your side.
Originally posted by Nikkita
No, god no. I think that copying good parts from other games is not enough to make good one.
1. Take your ideas and direction you want to go.
2. Take ideas from your competitors.
3. See what you can do better and what is not working at all and make it better.
4. Combine and create.
This is what TOR was lacking. Party system is the same one I see from very first MMO I was playing and that had one. Quests are the same (kill & fetch). Classes the same (trinity). Progression the same. Everything in TOR is the same. No new things, no improvments. This is why this game failed in the end. Except Star Wars itself - there is no reason to play it.
Story ? Story hold for few weks or less. That's it. People quickly realize that side missions as just a crap and you SPACE them and only class missions have some value.
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Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Yes, but the problem for Bioware and EA is that those people you mention are a minnority.
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This game failed because it was a shit MMO.
They should have made KOTOR 3 instead.
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The same happend to Blizzard, once Activision took over all their games started to become alot like EA.
Its bad for gamers good for their income, making fast food games instead of the good games the former studio's once produced.
Dunno who is worse EA or Acti ? but both have major influence in Bioware / Blizzard and that is a very bad prospective.
I wont throw them any cent anymore.....you can fool me once....
I honestly think that Bioware had no idea of how much they were chewing off.
I think they thought it would be relatively easy to copy WoW. I think they thought they could churn out the game in a few years tops.
The plan was, buy Hero Engine, copy wow set in SW universe, add story, roll in dough, add new content quickly via their "new type" easy to edit the game world Hero engine.
The game got pushed back to 2010, then 2012.
By then they had poured much more time and money into the project, and all the little technical design problems weren't just compounding, but causing chain reactions of develpment problems resulting in what SWTOR is today.
At first glance, WoW seems easy to replicate. After a cemetary filled with WoW-clones, perhaps it's not so easy after all.
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Any SWTOR designer must feel ashamed when they look at what GW2 did with a smaller budget.
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Originally posted by Sevenstar61
However his opinion matches those of the literally hundreds of thousand of people, in fact more than a million and a half, who bought the game and don't like. I respectfully point out that your - opposing - opinion is in the tiny minority.
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What your not seeing is how better the game was in earlier builds. EA did tell Bioware to scrap some stuff and did rush them a bit. Bioware wanted to take their time and do some stuff they didnt get a chance to during devlopment. Bioware actually wanted to push the release date back even future to add features that people wanted in the game and to give it more polish for release. Its really sad that Bioware had ot team up with Ea and is gonna get the boot like Westwood did.
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Originally posted by FrodoFragins
Highly doubt it. They created a game that sold millions of copies and they made good money off it. Other then that I doubt they really give a shit.
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Originally posted by FrodoFragins
ROFL, GW2 is bug ridden, AH, does not work, Mailing system is broken, no trading, event, event, events, bleh, story, what story, lame, lame
People hit level 80 , and are bored already with out trying, SWTOR had a great story, gamers told Bioware what they wanted and they DID listen, I was in beta and heard the screams from testers, and they listen they asked for space combat they got it, they asked for companions they got it, so don't sit here and say they didn't isten.
Players are just as much to blame, and the fanboys from GW2 are making me laugh, the game is down right boring, the PVP is meaning less, the game has been done over and over, GW2 fanboys make me laugh even harder...
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Originally posted by noncley
The issue is gamers need to make there own games, so we can rip them apart they where never this bad back in the day, people are so anti social anymore, and they care about loot , not playing a game with friends, back in the day people did..
Gamers only have them selfs to blame... They asked for these games, you buy them and they make money, look WOW made millions, EQ, made millions , SWTOR made millions stop buying the games, and maybe investors will take a chance on differnt types of games, look at SWG, alot of people liked it, but not as many as SWTOR.. I myself perfer SWG, sandbox style , but gamers like there hand held, so they will continue to make this trash.. You people are to blame.
Originally posted by Zecktorin
What you say bares considering.
On the other hand, when you make a deal with the devil and the devil lets you delay releast from 2010 to 2012; expecting the devil to allow you to delay release again from 2012 to 2013 seems extremely naive. Overly optimistic at best.
At some point, with the millions and years the game was taking to develop, you would think Bioware Austin would realize that their notoriously ruthless overlords EA would expect delivery of product.
Too many cappuccinos, steady pay checks, and SWTOR tattoos in the la-la land of Bioware Austin.
Being Devil's Advocate: EA was right in the Holiday 2011 timetable as being ideal in capitalizing in a lull in the MMO market. Releasing with 2012's GW2, MoP, and to a lesser extent, TSW and Terra might not have been pretty. 2013 seems to have a glut of releases on the horizon as well. The best air force is the one in the air philosophy.
Originally posted by Darkcrystal
Ignoring your GW2 remarks; Star Wars fans asking for space (Star) combat (Wars) in the game, on a franchise which built itself around space combat, doesn't seem surprising. Bioware's not anticipating this is a bit surprising and their tacking on a Starfox shooter on rails last minute has been received in a rather lack luster manner.
As to claiming that beta testers demanded companions and Bioware introduced companions to appease the beta testers is just silly.
The companion system is a carry-over of the KOTOR franchise. The companion system was always an intergral part of Bioware's "Fourth Pillar" which Bioware spent million on in fully voiced and animated companion quests.
"Players are just as much to blame," Blaming the playerbase for SWTOR's underperformance is .... I can't even find the correct words at the moment. Especially since you start using the term fanboy in your next sentence.
Originally posted by f0dell54
You are forgeting something - GW2 sold better than TOR. TOR had Bioware and EA behind, Star Wars, Mythic and 500mln dolars. Advertisment cost 200mln from that 500. They even had some flash mobs on the street or something. And still they sold much worst. And today TOR is on edge of dying and this game is going F2P.
So yeah, they must be ashamed right now.


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It's not just the single and album that have been international sensations in the yoga/world music scene; it's Will himself. He has led sold-out classes in Asia and New York, and was a media sensation in Japan, where he showed up in true Harajuku style with full makeup and mala beads. Switzerland fell in love with Will at first sight, and his single is now surging up the Swiss charts.
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Yesterday was Father's Day and I wanted to start out by saying Happy Father's Day to my father Paul; he has been such a great role model for me as well as giving me the tools to live my dream of drag racing everyday. There are too many fathers out there that helped mentor me along the way to personally thank but you know who are and I hope you enjoyed your day. As I was driving home from Del Rio yesterday after spending the day with Jennifer's father and family my phone went off and it was a text from my buddy Aaron Sharp. The message was simple and to the point, he said it's not April anymore so update your blog! So Aaron here you go buddy and thanks for all you do for us…
We have officially started the season in my eyes now that we've run a handful of races and let me say it's looking like it's going to be a little more difficult than last year to earn a Wally. There is a little bit of controversy brewing again like in 2012 but this time for me I don't really care because it's not going to change anything and I'm damn sure not letting affect my racing. I have too many great things in my life to worry about the politics of racing. This year I really told myself before Gainesville that I'm not going to let anyone's actions or words affect my racing this year and with all that's going on right now I couldn't be happier about where I'm at mentally when I show up at the track. A lot of that I think has to do with all the awesomeness that has been going on around the shop as well in the city of Austin and San Antonio. The shops had some big parties over the last few weeks with Gruene having our 8 year anniversary party as well as Javelina got a huge new addition that was well deserved so they had a huge shindig to celebrate. A couple of us went out there to check out the new building as well as check out Unknown Industries, a really awesome stunt group that rides Harley FXR's and is just flat out SICK!!! The new building is so nice and the coolest part is Rugger's new desk, it's the body off our Buell that we won Dallas with in 2012. It's really cool how they built the desk and displayed the body. Now all I have to do is keep moving up the ladder and that desk in the big office will be mine, until then my desk with an original Harley VR1000 body hanging up underneath is just fine.
Now I don't know how many of you have had a chance to experience an XGames or not, if you have you know exactly what I'm saying when I tell you all that haven't been, PLEASE GO!!! It's such a cool show that they have and since it was at the Circuit of The Americus that just made it better. It was my first time to experience the XGames and they had some of the coolest vendors with cool interactive stuff that really made the fan experience awesome. We all had to work Saturday of the event but as soon as we got off a few of us hopped in my buddies truck to go check out Kanye West, he was the music headliner for Saturday and I've always been a huge fan so I couldn't miss the chance to see him. The venue has a huge amphitheater inside and it was so crowded in there that security wasn't letting anyone else in when we got there, so that just meant we had to hop the fence and sneak in.
Now I don't encourage anyone to hop the fence, climb through the stands, and run from security ever, but every now and then you have to do it. Luckily I wore shoes instead of flip flops because I don't run well in those babies…
We got in, checked out the concert, and didn't go to jail so I would say it was a success. On Sunday we all went back up to check out some of the remaining events and really enjoy ourselves. They had some of the XR Street 750 motorcycles that Harley is trying to get turned into an XGames sport for next year. Those bikes looked so awesome and I really do hope that they can get those in because it would be great for the motor company as well as motorcycle racing. Plus I would really hound Schoony from Harley to let me try it once. I have always had huge desire to get out and whip a bike around on a flat track and I think it would be kool to see a drag racer out there mixing it up.
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Abu Dhabi: A court in eastern Saudi Arabia has sentenced a husband to 20 lashes for allegedly hitting his wife on her shoulder.
The case was filed one month ago in Al Qateef by the wife, who presented a medical report supporting her claim.
According to Gulf News, the husband, in his 30s, said that he did not mean to hurt his wife and said that he was merely joking with her.
Even though the wife later told the authorities that she was dropping the case after reconciliation with her husband, the prosecution refused to dismiss the public charges.
The judge ruled that the wife had the right to attend the flogging.
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Only if we in India followed the same system.. Rapes, molestations, Eve teasing would all be easily tackled..
@manoj : how many cases happen in Saudi when compared to India?
^ Because there are still some people who don't get it.
Just note the incidence of rape in both countries..
This rule should also be followed in India too.....
ts amazing to see how many people are happy and want this law or this kind of punishments carried by muslims in their own countries. On the other hand Islam has such bad names for it's rules. ONly if people understand that Islam is not only a religion its a complete way of life. A daily guidelines for people to follow. The blind will never see the truth.
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AboutCell Project Space presents newly commissioned works by Adham Faramawy. Born in Dubai and now based in London the artist primarily works in digital video, with an expansion into print, painting, sculpture and computer programming. Shortlisted for this years Dazed/ Converse Award Faramawy has been selected for The Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2013 and Open Heart Surgery for The Moving Museum, London, 2013. Solo projects include Total Flex 2, Legion-tv.com, online video work with downloadable desktop program, 2012 and selected group exhibitions include Febreze, Henry Kinman, Eighty One, London, 2013, Diamond Dust- A shifting grammar of originality, Circa Projects, 2013, Abstract Cabinet, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK, 2013 and Flatness: Cinema After the Internet, Oberhausen Film Festival, DE, 2013, Chimera QTE, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Cell Project Space, London, UK, 2012. Next year his work is included in Pre-pop to Post-human: Collage in the Digital Age, Hayward Touring, UK, 2014.
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A greeting. A friendly, country way of saying Hello.
"Howdy," said the farmer as she greeted her neighbor.
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1. A greeting you hear a whole lot in Texas!
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The official greeting of Texas A&M University.
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A greeting among the south/south-western states, mostly known as a Texan saying. Meaning: Hello, how's your day?
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NONONO To Release Debut Album - We Are Only What We Feel - On July 1st
Swedish alt-pop trio NONONO, which is singer-songwriter Stina Wappling and the production duo Astma & Rocwell, will release their full-length debut album, entitled We Are Only What We Feel, on July 1st on Warner Bros. Records. The album follows on last year's Pumpin Blood EP, which spawned the Top 40 hit of the same name. "Pumpin Blood" was featured in a commercial campaign for Garnier Fructis, Universal Pictures' film Endless Love, Glee, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Dancing With The Stars, American Idol, Revenge, Cougar Town and Vampire Diaries, among others.
The band describe We Are Only What We Feel as "dark and beat-oriented." Songs such as "Down Under" and "Like The Wind" capture various styles, genres, and moods. "There's something that ties the sound of the songs together but they're all a little bit of different," Wappling says. "We never wanted to decide upon a genre or what the NONONO sound was. We just always go with what we felt like and what inspired us that day. You go from being happy to being sad to being shallow to being deep, so whatever mood we've been in that's what song will emerge." Adds Michel: "We would really like to make an emotional impact on people. All the songs come from the heart."
NONONO played their first official US shows this past fall in New York City for CMJ, championed by Billboard, who deemed them 'Best of CMJ 2013,' Grantland, TIME, Vogue, ELLE, Glamour, Refinery 29, Harper's Bazaar and NYLON, among others.
The band is currently on the road with Twenty One Pilots through May 16th. They recently announced that they will tour with Foster the People in August and also perform at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 3rd.
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Michigan fans received some frustrating news at Big Ten Media Day when John Beilein reported Jon Horford had twisted his knee at the end of a recent practice. Unfortunately, it was news that fans have become accustomed to. Horford has been plagued by injuries throughout his career at Michigan that have limited his playing time and his effectiveness. There was a lot of excitement when Michigan acquired the younger brother of Al Horford three years ago out of Grand Ledge and while it isn't fair to say Horford has been a disappointment, we simply haven't seen him in action enough to make a judgment on his development one way or the other. After missing Michigan's exhibition games, the latest news on Horford's status is that he should be "full go" for Michigan's season opener on Friday. If he is, Michigan fans will finally get a chance to see what he can do. But given how crowded the Michigan frontcourt is at this point, how much they will see of Horford is still up for grabs. What Horf...
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TUESDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer death rates continue to decline more than 2 percent annually, a long-running trend that can be traced to early detection and better treatments, according to a new American Cancer Society report.
However, the death rates are not declining as quickly among black women as among white and Hispanic women.
In 2007, about 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in American women, and another 62,030 cases of localized breast cancer will be found. About 40,460 women are expected to die from the disease this year, second only to lung cancer, the report said.
The decline in overall reported breast cancer cases, beginning in 2000, is believed to be related to two factors. One is the decreased use of hormone replacement therapy, which has been linked to a multitude of health risks, including breast cancer.
The other factor could be potentially troubling, experts say: A decrease in mammography screening, resulting in fewer cancers being detected. While 70 percent of women aged 40 and older said they had had a mammogram within the past two years in 2000, just 66 percent did in 2005.
Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among U.S. women, accounting for more than one in four malignancies detected in women, said the report. It has been published every two years since 1996.
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Apple's big iPhone 5 event showed off a smartphone determined to play it safe.
The general consensus after today's iPhone 5 event can be best summed up by the word "meh." If you prefer non-internet slang, perhaps "lackluster" will suffice.
Or, as Wired puts it, the iPhone 5 is "completely amazing and totally boring."
While analysts are projecting stronger sales – largely due to Apple's recent patent win over Samsung – the new iPhone looks almost quaint compared to some of its rivals, both in terms of features and design.
New features like 4G LTE have been present in non-iOS devices for some time now, and the new iPhone camera and camera features, including panoramic photos, are late to the game.
Meanwhile, with upcoming phones like the Nokia Lumia 920 on the horizon, the smartphone wars appear to be taking a new shape.
Apple may have won an important lawsuit and given Android a run for its money in the courts, but in terms of innovation, the iPhone 5 appears to be more safe bet than anything.
The mobile market is changing and innovating faster than almost any other tech sector. With increasingly larger screens such as the 4.5″ Lumia 920, or the 4.8″ Samsung Galaxy S3, the new 4″ iPhone 5 screen hardly pushes any envelopes.
Hybrid "phoneblets" like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 boast 5.5″ screens and come with a neat S pen stylus.
Nor has Apple boosted its smartphone's resolution, pitting the new iPhone against a higher resolution, higher DPI screen in the new Lumia.
In terms of design, while the iPhone 5 is longer, slimmer, and much lighter than its predecessors, it's simply nowhere near as exciting or colorful as the Lumia line. Perhaps the safe bet here is the right one for Apple – if it's not broken, don't fix it – but however classy looking the iPhone 5 may be, it won't turn heads like it once did.
Apple may not have ceded ground to the competition, and the iPhone 5 will almost certainly sell extremely well, but the fact is this time around Apple is playing catch-up to firms like Nokia and Samsung.
This may be a sign that Apple's greatest strength is ultimately also its greatest weakness.
While iOS remains a terrific mobile operating system, and Apple's singular control over its hardware give it uniformity and important quality assurance, the crowded and at times over-fractured Android market has caught up fast in terms of both software and hardware innovation.
With a third player in Windows Phone 8 just rearing its head, the competition has begun to heat up for Apple, especially with neat innovations coming from Nokia like wireless charging pillows.
Meanwhile, the "console quality" graphics in the iPhone 5 will neither revolutionize touchscreen gaming or stay ahead of the competition. The rapid speed of mobile graphics improvements will ensure that the next round of high-end phones easily outsrips the iPhone 5.
Whether it's possible for Apple to out-innovate and out-compete the rest of the pack remains an open question, and to be fair to Apple, they've proven time and again that they can overcome long odds by essentially creating markets out of near-to-thin air.
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Hanae Mori (new / Butterfly) by Hanae Mori
I have looked so forward to trying this fragrances... especially after having heard so much about it and read all these rave review :) The funny thing is that on my first try I was even disappointed in it... Something about it was a let down; (that's what happens when I set myself up for something specific and then if it's even remotely off the target I feel cheated)... My husband loved it right away... I sprayed some on before bed the first day I got it, and his face instantly lit up like a little boy... all he could say was: "PETTIT BEURRE"!!!! Ohh you smell so good I could eat you!!!! You smell just like "PETTIT BEURRE"!!!! Well that made me laugh but it did not make me feel like this would be one of my snazzy complex fragrance I would wear and feel really sexy wearing... But I did wear it a couple of times on the weekends (for my DH) and enjoyed it well enough... This morning however, (it's pretty warm and sunny outside), I decided to spray some on before work... I walked to my office in the sun and all of a sudden I could smell sweet incense... sun warming my skin and Butterfly caressing me and flying into my hair... playing on my face :) I remembered instantly a vacation in Tunis when I was a little girl... Walking through the market... warm sun on my bare skin... light breeze in my hair playing with it... and sweet, sweet smell of spices and incense lingering in the air... I don't smell spices in Butterfly, but there is something, a lightest touch of incense there that shows up when your outside in the sun... That was what prompted this review and what will most likely have me wearing this wonderful fragrance thought the summer and having my buy bottle upon bottle again and again... (this review is for EDT... I do agree that it's fleeting and not very "strong" but that was what I actually enjoy about this particular fragrance... that almost far-away sense of fragrant air... elusive almost like it's hiding... but you know that it's everywhere around you).
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Coconut Cake
- Whites 8 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sweet cream
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Icing:
- 1 pound of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 grated coconut
Whites 8 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sweet cream, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers.
One pound of sugar boiled in a little water until quite thick, then pour atop the well-beaten whites of 4 eggs, beat rapidly until cool, then add one grated coconut.
One pound of sugar boiled in a little water until quite thick, then pour atop the well-beaten whites of 4 eggs, beat rapidly until cool, then add one grated coconut.
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- Coconut is high in fiber, a healthy calorie-free fiber
- Coconut can temporarily cure your sweet tooth because it balances blood glucose levels and improves secretion of insulin
- Coconut is a great food for losing weight because it is low fat but increases metabolism and provides energy
- The American Heart Association recommends the following for daily sugar intake: 9 Tsp (Men), 5 Tsp (Women), 3 Tsp (Children)
- The average american consumes over 20 teaspoons of sugar per day
- Most sweeteners including sugar and fruit extracts, cane juices, honey, syrup, etc. have a fructose/glucose ratio of approximately 50/50
- Fructose is found in sugar and most sweeteners and is unhealthy because it goes straight to the liver causing diabetes and heart disease
- Sugar is sometimes referred to as "evaporated cane juice"
- Many people choose sugar over high fructose corn syrup because sugar is not as highly processed
- Consumption of sugar increases insulin levels, increases energy, but then leads to a drop in both and likely a craving for more food
- Sugar is a carbohydrate with about 9 calories per sugar cube
- About 40% of the world's sugar production comes from Brazil
- The fully mature sugar cane stem can grow as tall as five meters
- Sugar cane and sugar beet are the most common sources of refined sugar
- Sugar is sucrose which can is found naturally in many plants
- Christopher Columbus is credited with bringing sugar to the Americas
- The process of creating sugar through evaporation of the sugar cane juice began in India
- The earliest known production of sugar dates back to 9000 BC in the southwest Pacific island of New Guinea


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IKF that Master Bill has on his site is not the same IKF of today. He did start an organization in 1975 named International Kickboxing Federation. It was mostly in his region and Michigan. It didn't get that big. I don't know when he dissolved it.
But I understand that something should be mentioned of it on his site.
And who is the little guy giving the hairy eyeball to the big guy in the pic? And more importantly, why do we care?
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And who gets decided what is on topic and off. You? You have already showed you are biased by going and doing your own investigation and posting court cases you have no idea what they were about. I could understand if you looked up something and there were criminal convictions. Then I would have no problem with the posts.
I wouldn't have a problem with you not knowing Master Bill if you weren't the moderater and have control of what posts.
Keep building strawman arguments. It is not my fault you do not agree with the website. Remember you came to my attention for complaining about multiple posters from 2008. Bias? How many people posted in this thread? How many people posted court cases? Who is the only one you are crying and lying about?
Yes, that is you and your bias. You were told what to provide proof for and you haven't.
For all the whining you do you have yet to refute ANYTHING stated in the thread.
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Again pay attention to the comment at the top of this post.
Did I post this information? Nope.
I know it is hard because, you are angry but pay attention.
Here is what I posted:
Did I post a case about Guillermo? Nope.
Does the cache link I post have his name in the title? Nope.
Does it have a court docket titled Phung Hwa Do? Yes.
Did you notice the date of10-15-2007? No.
Do any of the dates in the first post, that you apparently can't read, match the date in my post? Nope.
You don't even know, as you keep saying to me, what the case I posted contained.
Did you bother to look for the original court case I posted? Nope.
Did you bother to see what the second link entailed? Nope.
Are you arguing with me about court cases I did not post? Yep.
Have you found the court case I posted yet?
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Egypt of cusp of changeJanuary 06,2013AP File Photo
Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo to attend the funeral of activist Gaber Salah, who was killed in clashes with security forces in November.Voting on the new Egyptian constitution, which was written almost entirely by the Muslim Brotherhood, shows the Brotherhood won. However, with internal dissent evident in the low overall voter turnout of 32.9 percent, and street protests mounting, it is time to take a closer look at the likely ramifications of that divisive win. To do that, it is critical that we understand more about Egypts history, what the Muslim Brotherhood is and what it stands for.
Although Egypt has some of the issues of tribe, sect and nation that affect stability in the countries of the Middle East created over the past 150 years by Western imperial powers, what is happening there right now has its own very distinctive Egyptian markings.
Since its beginnings before 3000 B.C., Egypt has not avoided repressive rule. The last native Egyptian dynasty fell to the Persians in the fourth century B.C.. Since then Egypt has been ruled by Greeks, Romans and Byzantines. Arabs have ruled only since the seventh century A.D.
Thus, Egypt has not escaped the one reality that dominates the evolving political scene in the Middle East. Since the seventh century A.D., the Egyptian people have no direct, personal experience with democracy, only with the realities of repression, Islam and Sharia law and military dictatorship.
In 2011, the Egyptian people overthrew the military dictatorship that had been in place since 1952, most recently under General Hosni Mubarak. Since 1952, Egypt has no native experience with governance except through military repression. What makes Egypt different from the many other Arab countries that suffered under military dictatorship is that, since 1928, Egypt has had the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood was founded as an Islamist religious, political and social organization. What has made it unique in the Muslim Middle East is that, despite numerous, often brutal, governmental crackdowns, it has functioned as a disciplined political opposition to Egyptian regimes in power. The point is that it has been involved in governance for over 80 years.
That means that when Mubarak was overthrown, the only two organizations with any kind of practical political experience were the Brotherhood and the Egyptian military. It seemed inevitable that one or the other would grab the reins.
Tahrir Square in 2011 was populated by people of widely differing motivation ranging from the rigid Islamist views of fundamentalist Salafists to the rather fuzzy democratic views of the many secular Egyptians who had had some indirect brush with democracy. Unfortunately, the secular forces are untidy, uncoordinated and disunited. The closest they have come to unification, organization and any hope for power has come with the National Salvation Front headed by Muhammad el-Baradei, former former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
And while el-Baradei was getting his act together, the Brotherhood was in full swing. Through their new political party, the Freedom and Justice Party, it ran in and won the elections of November 2011. Muhammad Morsi, a leading figure in the Brotherhood and chairman of the Brotherhoods party, ultimately was declared winner of the election and president of Egypt.
Since then, Morsi has acted decisively to consolidate his position. He has at least for the moment, emasculated whatever hopes the Egyptian military may have had for power. He took over the Constitutional Assembly that wrote Egypts future constitution, causing the resignation from that body of virtually all those Egyptians who might have disagreed with the Brotherhoods position.
Finally, he unsuccessfully tried to arrogate to himself all the powers previously vested in Egypts judicial system, effectively neutralizing any possibility that the courts would rule the assembly or its constitution to be illegal. Hardly a democratic process!
The Muslim Brotherhoods credo was and is, Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.
Its principles include the introduction of Sharia law as the basis for controlling the affairs of state and society; and to work to unify Islamic countries and states, mainly among the Arab states, and liberate them from foreign imperialism. If this represents the true beliefs of President Morsi, then under his rule Egypt would appear to be heading in the direction of sectarian Islamism of an intensity as yet undetermined.
So, the issue is: Will Eqypt be ruled by an ideologically true Muslim Brotherhood, or has Mr. Morsi, only recently a significant player in the Brotherhood, really been able to effect democratic changes as he claims to have done in an organization that for 84 years has been traditionally hostile to the most basic tenets of democracy?
Whatever evolves, Egypt will remain internally divided and difficult to govern until the political needs of all its citizens are more fully considered.
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Let's get one thing straight from the beginning. Do not compare Grant Wilson or Jason Hawes to "Ghost Busters"…they hate that.
For the stars of "Ghost Hunters," a hit show on the Sci-Fi channel, names can be deceiving.
"We aren't walking around with hoovers strapped to our backs," Hawes said.
They have never been slimed either.
"We have done lectures at colleges and they'll play that song and we're like, 'Can you just turn that off' — drives us crazy — because we're so not that," Wilson said.
Hawes and Wilson have captured images of ghostly shadows in New England lighthouses and glimpses of eerie apparitions in Michigan cellars. They have also caught their share of flak from skeptics.
"I don't care at all what the skeptics think of what we're doing because they don't need help," Wilson said. "There are people who need help in their homes. Who's helping them? Are the skeptics going to help them? No!"
Hawes also sees their work as a community service.
"Whether they're rich, whether they're poor, all the people out there who believe that they have paranormal issues need help," he said.
Hawes and Wilson have been hunting ghosts on their own for nearly two decades. It all began after they encountered a few paranormal experiences of their own, experiences they didn't want to talk about. The phenomena inspired them to found TAPS: The Atlantic Paranormal Society, a group that tries to help people who think their house, farm, garage or anything might be haunted.
"We are not looking for ghosts," Wilson said. "We're looking to disprove them."
"We're looking for explanations," said Hawes.
Their day job doesn't have anything to do with ghosts. Wilson and Hawes are plumbers—who happen to be interested in flushing out the paranormal.
"This is a hobby that we do," Wilson said. "The plumbing does come in handy because people say their dead Uncle Fred is flushing the toilet at night. We go in there and tell them they've just got a bad flapper valve, fix it, and magically the ghost disappears."
Ghost hunting, at a certain level, is one big audiovisual project -- seeing and hearing is believing. Hawes and Wilson bring a ton of recording equipment on their calls, including thermal cameras that are thought to catch signs of paranormal activity not visible to the naked eye.
"When we can't explain it away…then we've got some evidence that we can really bring to the public and say, 'What do you think this is?'" Wilson said.
The Ghost Hunters had some of their most memorable experiences while staying at what is thought to be one of the most haunted buildings in America, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, built in 1906.
For generations guests have told tales of voices, shadows and books flying off the shelves. It is filled with so much ghostly speculation that horror master Stephen King wrote "The Shining" after spending a night there.
It was during a taping of "Ghost Hunters" at the Stanley when a closet door opened on its own and a glass shattered while Hawes was sleeping.