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Originally posted by Xasapis
You don't now, and I even said you haven't had to since they started doing trials. However, you did have to have one at the start of BC if you didn't come in on a trial.
Here is the same conversation happening at SWTOR launch where people were complaining about entering card numbers, and swearing that they had never had to do it before. Here again we have them saying that they have never done it before, and using TOR as an example of a game that they didn't. http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/336158/30-day-of-game-time-included-Not-really.html.
If you like we can go back to wow's launch and probably see people making the same complaints then.
Originally posted by rickenbe
Always love seeing these posts.
This game at every turn is screwed up. I think if anyone was able to log on and get the name they wanted in the 5 day early access would have thought it was a 'good' launch, even if they never got to actually play the game. these comments show why the Fleecing of America (and other countries) and American Greed have o many stories to tell. Because people are gullible and have zero expectations.
This game has faltered and stumbled at every turn. How people can continually defend it blindly is beyond comprehension.
Sure some of these things happen.But not ALL of them happen to the same game.
This game is, has, and always will be a straight up cash grab Looking to capatalize on a serious name recognition campaign to extarct as much money out of you as they can at every possible juncture.
Why people are so surprised is beyod me. I have said it over and over again in these forums and in others. But its always labeled as 'hate'. No its called having a brain and recognizing what is going on.
I said it (as have many) that this game will be straight up free to play in a very short order. The time table for that switch gets shorter and shorter as ZoS continues stumbles and bumbles. Have they done ANYTHING right yet? Thats not hyperbole or a rhetorical question I am being serious. I have played full blown expansion mods of major games made by guys in their basements that are better than what I have seen from ESO. Granted theyre not MMOs, but really a lot of these issues ZOS are having arent BECAUSE its an MMO but because of ZoS and their lack of whatever. Whatever because their failures are on so many fronts I cant sufficiently list all the things they apparently lack.
I wanted this game to be decent, I certainly wanted more from it than what I saw. I also said the game itself isnt horrible, its just average (at best). Certainly not sub worthy and why I didnt get it. I also thought (predicted) it would be free to play or buy to play soon enough anyway so I wasnt in any real hurry to fork over 80 bux and a sub to get first crack at it. Every time I open an ESO topic my decision to wait is supported over and over again.
But in the end if ZoS sold a lot of boxes (I dotn think they did) and made/make a lot of money (dont think they have) then it wont matter because the next company will still be green lit to deliver crap like this (in all areas) and think (rightfully so) they can get away with it.
SWOTOR SHOULD have been enough to slow people down, now maybe with SWOTOR AND ESo both getting released half finished with a lot of other issues besides people may have finally seen enough. Doubt it though.
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Originally posted by elocke
They don't get a pass. Period! They knew full well about trying to charge customers upfront before launch. I'm so....sick of the BS. Stop defending what can't be defended. Charging players full price for the box, lying about the free 30 access, and then playing the bluffing game is just wrong. Zenimax knew from the beginning and was hoping that players would blindly go alone with their plan.
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Agree with everything OP said. Frankly, they could handle this stuff better.
It's a good thing I read this post actually, I won't register my "live key" for another 2 weeks probably then. I have taken all the names I wanted during early access, and I won't have time to play for a bit of time after this weekend, so if I can use my early access till then, that's perfect.
Also hope their sort some shit out before I use my free 30 days.
Originally posted by Vallista
This and as we all love to say (when it suits us) the forums are a vast minority of players. So if people dont read the forums and dont notice it and it doesnt get reversed how many people will be paying extra for their 'free' month?
I think thats why they made i the full amount hoping hose that dont catch it now will just see it (when/if they do ever check their accounts) and see it as a normal sub fee. And not do some math and look at the dates.
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Originally posted by Traugar
In the early days they all were that way. You buy the game, enter your key, boom 30 days. At the end of that you had to set up a sub, or use a game time card, but not before.
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I'm playing the game, having a blast and have had no issues with setting up a payment. Of course... I make enough money that this type of stuff does t bother me. Honestly, to the OP, nothing you said even crossed my mind. I haven't noticed an issue with downtime as I only play AFTER WORK. I think the issue is too many folks with no lives who play these games 24/7 and find everything in the world to complain about.
Did you read my post?
8pm on a Thursday night with zero notice for schedules maintenance. That is exactly when most EU players have finished work and want to play.
Or the Sunday morning maintenance which means that if you are playing say in Austraila, the maintenance will bew something like 6 or 8pm on a Sunday night?
I take it you didn't try to play Wednesday as while it happens, the US server was down for something like 14 hrs
This is a global game and I was specifically talking about the server that is called the EU server
You don't think that those that don't use credit cards and want to play weith game cards are right to cxomplain that they find themselves having to pay for another 30 days before they get the 30 they have already paid for?
I'm all for people disagreeing with me, people have different opinions all the time. But when someone has to resort to the tone you are using, accusing those with valid complaints of having no lives and implying they are lazy layabouts etc, well that says a lot for the weight of anything you have to say.
The main thread on TESO about subbing
has now reached 14 pages and has had 12800 views, I would take that as a lot of people think they have got something badly wrong.
The game its self (bugs aside) is superb, but they are alienating people by this and in that thread people are starting and in some cases already got refunds due to this.
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Sounds like complaining just to complain honestly. The head start was a gift to begin with. Give people free stuff and all they do is complain. Figures.
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Here's a solution: enter your info then cancel at the end of your 30 days. No permanent charge, no used up gamecard. I can't believe people are making such an enormous deal about this. Use your brains people, that's what they're there for.
I'm only saying what people on the official forums are saying, another couple
Wow didn't even ask for you credit card. I played it for years without a credit card.
WoW did not even ask for a credit card when I got the box and made an account. My 30 days was free no CC needed..that was back in Burning Crusade.
That thread is the most read thread on the forums at the moment
Originally posted by Aeonblades
no it wasnt it was an enticement to pre order a piece of crap game. if they didnt give all the extra stuff they wouldnt have made any money off anyone but blind fan boys.
he game is crap it runslike crap and everyone knows it. Then they start doing all thesel ittle things that they have done on top of it. It shows that right out of the door theyre desperate to make as much money as they can up front before people realize it isnt going ot get any better.
The only saving grace of this game is the name. Some people can claim all they want theyre having a blast but I can tell theyre in the minority. Which is exactly what a lot of people said about this game, and why it will never ever survive as a subscription based on for more than a few months.
people always like comparing games, which doesnt make sense because every other game out there is free to play or out and out shut down. So keep comparing ESO to those games it makes it even more germane to the argument actually except on the whole ESO is shaping up to be one f the worst launches of a AAA MMO ever. But like I have said the list of AAA releases is very short anyway. While it might not be Vanguard bad it has done a lot of things worse than Vanguard did, but if they fail to keep the server stable then it might get to the point vanguard did. Depends on how the servers handle this weekend I would imagine. If they have to come down for another 12-15 hours at or Sunday it will be tip toeing the Vangard line when you consider all the other negative things that have happened so far.
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Originally posted by wickymagee
people are being charged a $15.00 verification charge immediately - thats the fuss
Why cant some of you grasp not everything is done like in places such as the USA?
I have family members who do not have any form of credit cards at all.
I have friends who went through a bad patch financially and have only managed to get basic bank accounts in the uK and don't even have a proper visa debit card. These people are hard working, they save to buy a game like this, instead of blowing their money at a bar or on gym membership or whatever, they choose to play an MMO.
They budget very tightly in order to play this mmo, while you and I are eating a steak, they are eating the cheapest food they can find so that they can have a bit of pleasure.
They might only want to play with game cards, they have just forked out what to them is a lot to buy the game, thinking they had another 30 days before they would need to buy a game card. or however they intend to pay.
Many have no mopy at all in the bank and I mean no money, maybe a £1 balance. Taking a months sub out of the bank no matter for how short a period can really really affect such people.
You are right in that this shouldn't be a big deal because people paid for something and they should be able to use it without further financial commitment.
But Zenimax has made it a big deal and for every 50 people that cam fully understand why people are so concerned, there seems to be 1 that either completely misses the point or worse has zero empathy for such people.
It doesn't affect me, I can easily afford it but I empathise with those it does affect. Having dealt with people struggling financially, people who still deserve a life and a bit of pleasure,. I know what a huge stress this will be for many.
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Originally posted by cheyane
More like inexperinced PR department.
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Originally posted by wickymagee
That isn't a solution, if you read the thread and the link to the ESO site, you would understand people are being charged gametime/sub as soon a they hit Ok, after putting their details in. YOu can cancel it, but you still will be charged. Zen stated this is to check the card are legit, but instead of doing the standard £1 or 1p they did the entire sub price. So if you bought the 6 month plan your screwed. And to the poster above this is why it's a problem. On top of all of this there was NO warning and they had not stated this anywhere so alot of people are confused and annoyed by this.
I do find it strange when there are legit reasons to complain people still pretend there's nothing wrong. Might have not affected you in a major way, but it doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
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Oh my god. You people must be new to the world of finance. It isn't a charge, it's a pretty authorization. Grow up and knock off the stupid conspiracy theories. Its the dumbest thing ever
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"At that point, my head became clear," she said Sunday night at a San Francisco news conference. "I was only thinking about rescuing the next passenger."
Lee said she was calm despite the flames. "I didn't have a moment to feel that this fire was going to hurt me," she said.
When a teenage boy was afraid to jumping onto the inflatable slide, Lee said that a flight attendant carried him on her back and they slid down together.
"The kid said he was scared. My colleague carried him on her back and jumped. I was inside the plane. (My colleague) was crying as parents tearfully hugged their kid after evacuating safely," Lee said.
She also said passengers were calm during the evacuation.
Near the rear of the aircraft in seat 40C, Wen Zhang said she thought the landing gear had failed when she felt the tail slam against the ground. She, too, was with her young son, 4.
"I had no time to be scared," she said.
Zhang picked up her child, who had hit the seat in front of him and broke his left leg. Unhurt, she could see a hole that ripped open at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been and carried her son to safety.
"It left a hole very close to my seat," she said. "Enough for two persons to get out."
Sitting near Zhang was Shi Da, 39, who was traveling with his wife and teenage son.
He was shocked by the violent shaking of the crash, then the realization that the back of the plane had ripped off. He stood up and could see the tail, but the kitchen was missing with nothing but a hole, he said.
"I can see through the hole to see the runway and the ground," he said. "So we just grabbed our bags and rushed out from the tail, from the hole."
South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the 291 passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Canadians, three Indians, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one person from France.
The passengers who made it out alive sat on the tarmac for half an hour waiting for buses and watching the aircraft go up in flames as firefighters hosed it down. Ambulances took the badly injured away, but 123 people walked away with little injury.
Many didn't have their passports, cellphones or money. Da's friend picked up him and his family up, took them out to dinner, then they went to a Target store to buy clothes because their luggage is missing, presumed destroyed.
Most survivors suffered minor injuries, and were just starting to realize how close they'd come to death.
"I just feel lucky." Da said. "We are so lucky."
Associated Press Writer Terence Chea contributed to this report from San Francisco.
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Three Traits of a "Good" Designer
Three Traits of a "Good" Designer
There is often a lot of talk among the "design elite" about whether or not one can be taught to be a "good" designer. This debate could very well be the oldest in visual communication history, and one that seems to always begin after a "talented" designer comes into contact with an "untalented" designer.
The good news is YES, you can can teach someone to be a "good" designer. The bad news is that talent has nothing at all to do with the school you went to (although it can't hurt to go to a good one) or the kind of computer you design on (unless it's anything other than a MAC -- which will makes sense when you read point number 2 below) or the mentors in your life (although, it doesn't hurt to have a good one of those either). No, none of those things really effect the final outcome of a career in design. Let me explain.
Design is a field unlike any other. It combines many disciplines into a single job, and with the evolution of technology the modern designer has been forced to wear a multitude of hats at the same time. Now, I understand that as in any career there are varying types of jobs in design, and specialties you can work within. For example, if you wanted to work in the education field, you can be a Principal, or a Lunch Lady. Both work in education, but we really all want to be the Principal, right? So how do we do that? How do we learn to be "Good?"
Well, back to the BAD news. To be a "good" designer it is my theory that you need three basic elements built into your DNA, and if you don't already have these 3 elements to your DNA then you're out of luck. You can't go out and get them. Now I'm sure it has happened, and I'm equally sure it is so rare that what ever example one could give would simply be a outlier to the debate, so I will simply move on.
What are 3 elements that make-up a "good" designer?
1. Taste.
Seems simple enough, but taste is a rare natural ability. Although everyone thinks that they have good taste, they don't. That's just the way it is. Taste is one of the three basic intangible elements a designer must possess. Clients often refer to this rare superpower as "pixie dust" or "doing whatever it is you do" but in reality it all comes down to taste. Taste gives us a high water mark to in which we judge projects, it gives a sense of what to accept from the visual world and what to discard. Taste is the difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Both brilliant men. Both have changed the world for the better, but who has made the bigger impact on culture as a whole?
2. Intuition.
Again, very intangible. And again, good luck teaching it to someone who doesn't have it. Just like taste, your intuition is either right most of the time, or wrong most of the time. Intuitive people trust themselves and usually have a very strong sense of what they believe in. They will also fight for that belief. A strong point of view (backed by intelligence, of course) is paramount to the DNA of a "good" designer. Some people naturally have this. Most do not.
3. Passion.
I would take passion over a lot of things in life. It may seem simple but passion drives everything about a "good" designer. The passion to get things right, the passion to solve problems, the Passion to discover new things, learn from mistakes and more importantly attack everything with new eyes. Passion makes someone go the extra mile because they want to, not because it's expected. When you combine that with Taste and Intuition, you have a lethally "good" combination.
If you take these 3 DNA elements and look at them, and then combine the hard knowledge an education provides, you can see how it is possible to teach a person to be a "good" designer. But, we have to be honest with each other and stop pretending that anyone can do anything. The basic building blocks need to be there. Those DNA strains must be present, they are the precursor to success, much like height might be a requirement for a "good" jockey or "good" basketball player, or physical appearance is necessary if someone wants to become a model.
Design is about solving problems the right way. Doing that takes takes a certain kind of pedigree. Although anyone can pretend to do it, its important that as an industry we nurture, develop, and regulate ourself for the best results. Finding people with these rare traits, and mentoring them is the first in the many of steps.
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VM Page Replacement Hank Levy 11/18/2011 1 All Paging Schemes Depend on Locality • Processes tend to reference pages in localized patterns • Temporal locality » locations referenced recently likely to be referenced again • Spatial locality » locations near recently referenced locations are likely to be referenced soon. » Goal of a paging system is – stay out of the way when there is plenty of available memory – don't bring the system to its knees when there is not. 11/18/2011 2 Demand Paging • Demand Paging refers to a technique where program pages are loaded from disk into memory as they are referenced. • Each reference to a page not previously touched causes a page fault. • The fault occurs because the reference found a page table entry with its valid bit off. • As a result of the page fault, the OS allocates a new page frame and reads the faulted page from the disk. • When the I/O completes, the OS fills in the PTE, sets its valid bit, and restarts the faulting process. 11/18/2011 3 Paging • Demand paging » don't load page until absolutely necessary » commonly used in most systems » doing things one at a time can be slower than batching them. • Prepaging » anticipate fault before it happens » overlap fetch with computation » hard to predict the future » some simple schemes (hints from programmer or program behavior) can work. – vm_advise – larger "virtual" page size – sequential pre-paging from mapped files 11/18/2011 4 High Level • Imagine that when a program starts, it has: – no pages in memory – a page table with all valid bits off • The first instruction to be executed faults, loading the first page. • Instructions fault until the program has enough pages to execute for a while. • It continues until the next page fault. • Faults are expensive, so once the program is running they should not occur frequently, assuming the program is "well behaved" (has good locality). 11/18/2011 5 Page Replacement • When a fault occurs, the OS loads the faulted page from disk into a page of memory. • At some point, the process has used all of the page frames it is allowed to use. • When this happens, the OS must replace a page for each page faulted in. That is, it must select a page to throw out of primary memory to make room. • How it does this is determined by the page replacement algorithm. • The goal of the replacement algorithm is to reduce the fault rate by selecting the best victim page to remove. 11/18/2011 6 Finding the Best Page • A good property » if you put more memory on the machine, then your page fault rate will go down. » Increasing the size of the resource pool helps everyone. • The best page to toss out is the one you'll never need again » that way, no faults. • Never is a long time, so picking the one closest to "never" is the next best thing. » Replacing the page that won't be used for the longest period of time absolutely minimizes the number of page faults. » Example: 11/18/2011 7 Optimal Algorithm • The optimal algorithm, called Belady's algorithm, has the lowest fault rate for any reference string. • Basic idea: replace the page that will not be used for the longest time in the future. • Basic problem: phone calls to psychics are expensive. • Basic use: gives us an idea of how well any implementable algorithm is doing relative to the best possible algorithm. » compare the fault rate of any proposed algorithm to Optimal » if Optimal does not do much better, then your proposed algorithm is pretty good. » If your proposed algorithm doesn't do much better than Random, go home. 11/18/2011 8 Evaluating Replacement Policies Effective Access.Time = (1-p)*Tm + p*Td Random Tm = time to access main memory Td = time to fault Execution time = (roughly) #memory refs * E.A.T. execution Up here, time forget it. LRU Down in In here, this you can range, expect to it doesn't Opt have some matter so effect. much what you do. Few frames Lots of frames # of physical page frames 11/18/2011 9 FIFO • FIFO is an obvious algorithm and simple to implement. • Basic idea, maintain a list or queue of pages in the order in which they were paged into memory. • On replacement, remove the one brought in the longest time ago. This page • Why might it work? was faulted a long time ago. » Maybe the one brought in the longest ago is one we're not using now. • Why it might not work? This page was faulted » Maybe it's not. recently » We have no real information to tell us if it's being used or not. • FIFO suffers from "Belady's anomaly" » the fault rate might actually increase when the algorithm is given more memory -- a bad property. 11/18/2011 10 An Example of Optimal and FIFO in Action Reference stream is A B C A B D A D B C OPTIMAL A B C A B D A D B C B 5 Faults toss C toss A or D A B C FIFO D A B C A B D A D B C B A B 7 Faults toss A toss ? C 11/18/2011 11 Least Recently Used (LRU) • Basic idea: we can't look into the future, but let's look at past experience to make a good guess. This page was least • LRU: on replacement, remove the recently used. page that has not been used for the longest time in the past. • Implementation: to really implement This page was this, we would need to time stamp most recently used. every reference, or maintain a stack Our "bet" is that pages that's updated on every reference. which you used recently This would be too costly. are ones which you will use again (principle of • So, we can't implement this exactly, locality) and, by but we can try to approximate it. implication, those that you didn't, you won't. » why is an approximate solution totally acceptable? 11/18/2011 12 Using the Reference Bit • Various LRU approximations use the PTE reference bit. – keep a counter for each page – at regular intervals, do: – for every page: • if ref bit = 0, increment its counter • if ref bit = 1, zero its counter • zero the reference bit – the counter will thus contain the number of intervals since the last reference to the page. – the page with the largest counter will be least recently used one. • If we don't have a reference bit, we can simulate it using the VALID bit and taking a few extra faults. » therefore want impact when there is plenty of memory to be low. 11/18/2011 13 LRU Clock (Not Recently Used) • Basic idea is to reflect the passage of time in P0 P1 the actual data structures and sweeping method. P2 • Arrange all of physical pages in a big circle (a clock). • A clock hand is used to select a good LRU candidate: » sweep through the pages in circular order like a clock. » if the ref bit is off, it's a good page. » else, turn the ref bit off and try next page. • Arm moves quickly when pages are needed. • Low overhead when plenty of memory • If memory is big, "accuracy" of information degrades. » add in additional hands 11/18/2011 14 Fixed Space Vs. Variable Space • In a multiprogramming system, we need a way to allocate memory to the competing processes. » Question is: how to determine how much memory to give to each process? • In a fixed-space algorithm each process is given a limit of pages it can use; when it reaches its limit, it starts replacing new faults with its own pages. This is called local replacement. » some processes may do well while others suffer. • In variable-spaced algorithms, each process can grow or shrink dynamically, displacing other process' pages. This is global replacement. » one process can ruin it for the rest. 11/18/2011 15 Working Set Model • Peter Denning defined the working set of a program as a way to model the dynamic locality of a program in execution. • Definition: WS(t,w) = {pages i s.t. i was referenced in the interval (t,t-w)} t is a time, w is the working set window, a backward looking interval,measured in references. • So, a page is in the WS only if it was referenced in the last w references. 11/18/2011 16 Working Set Size references t time w • The working set size is the number of pages in the working set; i.e., the number of pages touched in the interval (t, t- w). • The working set size changes with program locality. » during periods of poor locality, you reference more pages. » so, within that period of time, you will have a larger working set size. • For some parameter w, we could keep the working sets of each process in memory. • Don't run process unless working set is in memory. 11/18/2011 17 WS • But, we have two problems: – how do we select w? – how do we know when the working set changes? • So, working set is not used in practice. 11/18/2011 18 Page Fault Frequency • PFF is a variable space algorithm that uses a more ad hoc approach. • Basic idea: – monitor the fault rate for each process – if the fault rate is above a high Fault threshold, give it more memory Rate • should fault less • but it doesn't always – if the rate is below a low threshold, take away memory • should fault more • but it doesn't always • Hard to tell between changes in locality and changes in size of working set. TIME 11/18/2011 19 What do you do to pages? • If the page is dirty, you have to write it out to disk. » record the disk block number for the page in the PTE. • If the page is clean, you don't have to do anything. » just overwrite the page with new data » make sure you know where the old copy of the page came from • Want to avoid THRASHING » When a paging algorithm breaks down » Most of the OS time spent in ferrying pages to and from disk » no time spent doing useful work. » the system is OVERCOMMITTED – no idea what pages should be resident in order to run effectively » Solutions include: – SWAP – Buy more memory 11/18/2011 20
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There are few spots on earth these days where religions mingle without rancor, or worse. But the Russian republic of Tatarstan has turned religious tolerance into its post-Soviet brand - a place where Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics mix and respect each other's traditions.
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An appeal for world peace was passed from religious leaders to children to government officials in Cyprus. With the presentation of the appeal, the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, traditionally sponsored by the Catholic lay Sant'Egidio Community, and this year cosponsored by the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, came to an end. This 22nd annual meeting was on "The Civilization of Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue."
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The chancery of the Orthodox Church in America has announced the following tentative schedule for the enthronement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, DC. In Saturday, December 27, 2008 in St. Nicholas Cathedral Vigil will be celebrated by Metropolitan Jonah, members of the OCA Holy Synod of Bishops, guest hierarchs and clergy. In Sunday, December 28, 2008 in St. Nicholas Cathedral will be Entrance and Greeting of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah and Hierarchal Divine Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Jonah, members of the OCA Holy Synod of Bishops, guest hierarchs and clergy.
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In the last Virtualization Security Podcast on 12/16 we had with us James Urquhart who manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Author of the popular C|NET Network blog, The Wisdom of Clouds. James shared with us some of his Wisdom over the hour. The discussion covered what is preventing people from Entry into the Cloud and why private and hybrid clouds are going to stick around for quite a while and are not a passing fad. We answered the question of why people are reluctant to enter the cloud.
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PSV Eindhoven have confirmed Roma have shown an interest in Kevin Strootman, but have reiterated that the midfielder is not for sale. Strootman, who has previously been strongly linked with a move to Manchester United, has expressed a wish to leave PSV after claiming several clubs are interested. Reports in Italy have suggested that Roma are closing in on a deal to sign the...Sky Sports 2013-07-10
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Kevin Strootman (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɛ.vɪn ˈstroʊ̯t.mɑn], born 13 February 1990) is a Dutch footballer currently playing for Dutch Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven. He primarily plays as a central midfielder.
Strootman began his career with VV Rijsoord and signed a youth contract for RJO Sparta Rotterdam in 2007.
He was promoted to the senior team in January 2008. His first full season proved to be very successful and he caught the eye of bigger clubs in the Eredivisie. He started well as playmaker of the side in the 2009–10 season but after a disastrous second half of the season Sparta were relegated. Since Strootman, along with Erik Falkenburg and Nick Viergever, was regarded as one of Sparta's (and The Netherlands') big talents, signals that he would leave the club were getting stronger. In June 2010, champions FC Twente were expected to sign him but the deal did not materialise.
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You may not want to try to spell it or even pronounce it. But the huge German-themed Schlitterbahn Waterparks — the name means "slippery road" — are among the world's largest. On about 65 acres each, two Texas parks each serve up more than 40 water rides and attractions and claim to draw more visitors than any other summertime water park in the United States. In this case, size needn't be a deterrent for families with young kids, since every area of each park has rides and attractions for all ages.
The tree-shaded New Braunfels park is situated along the banks of the slow-moving Comal River, which is incorporated into some of its rides. Children should find the German castles that make up much of the park's architecture something to behold. (The town of New Braunfels, site of the first Schlitterbahn water park, was settled by German immigrants in the 19th century and is still heavily German.) The South Padre Island Park has swaying palms, overlooks the Gulf of Mexico and continues the German theme. The newer Galveston Island park calls itself the first "convertible" water park — rides are covered when the weather turns, so families can splash away year-round.
Some of the younger members of this age group may want to stick with the parks' shallow-water playgrounds, which feature things like padded tube slides and pirate ships with water slides. At New Braunfels, for example, Han's Hideout, a five-story water funhouse for parents and children to explore together, is a great place to get really wet. The family wave pool is another good bet for parents and younger kids.
Rides appropriate for more adventurous kids who are not afraid of rough water and sudden short (up to 10-inch) drops include the Raging River Tube Chute, which takes you on a twisting, mile-long journey in a tube before ending with a splash in the Comal River, and the Hillside Tube Chute, an 800-foot ride from a castle to a lagoon through a tunnel. Daring 8-year-olds may want to tackle the Master Blaster, a water coaster that features 60-foot hills and valleys, or the Schlittercoaster, the park's fastest ride (children must be at least 42 inches tall to ride).
Even if you bring your own picnic food, having a cool drink in one of the three "hot tubs" is worth a soak.
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The California Historic Route 66 Association (CHR66A) in coordination with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), have completed four web-based meetings with Historic Route 66 stakeholders to assist in the development of a corridor management plan (CMP) for historic Route 66 within the BLM California Desert District. The next step in the process is to develop a draft plan building upon the suggestions made as part of the four web-based meetings and extensive public outreach conducted over the past eight months. A draft plan will be posted below by January 20, 2015. The study area extends from the western city limits of Barstow to the Colorado River.
Overarching purpose of the CMP: to guide management of the route for heritage tourism based economic development and designation of the Route 66 corridor between Needles and Barstow as a National Scenic Byway or All-American Road.
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Documenting complex interagency and non-governmental management responsibilities across the desert corridor.
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Preserving historic sites and heritage and minimizing potential visual intrusions to the travel experience.
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You provided invaluable insights into the issues, concerns, preservation needs, points of interest, and enhancement opportunities that will contribute to our Corridor Management Plan (CMP) for Route 66 from the Colorado River through the City of Barstow. As you are aware, the CMP is needed to meet the requirements for nomination of the route as a National Scenic Byway and more importantly, to help preserve Route 66 history and resources across the desert.
As the sponsors of the CMP and Scenic Byway nomination, the California Historic Route 66 Association and Bureau of Land Management have been working with an Ad Hoc Committee to review and discuss potential strategies for maximizing outreach and effectiveness as part of a series of web-based meetings focused on specific aspects of the CMP. The Ad Hoc Committee includes representatives from each of the communities, organizations, agencies, and individuals that expressed an interest in participating in the committee on the comment form submitted at the public meeting.
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The California Historic Route 66 Association and the California Desert District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have teamed up with their governmental and non- governmental organization partners to help preserve the history of Route 66 through the desert and develop strategies for educating visitors from both nearby and afar about its significant cultural and natural landscape features. The effort will also look for ways to increase economic activity through enhanced recreation and heritage tourism opportunities for visitors to its gateway communities. The BLM hired a multidisciplinary team led by Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects (L/KLA) to assist with this planning effort. L/KLA has prepared corridor management plans for byways and heritage touring routes throughout the United States. One of the first project tasks is to reach out to communities along Route 66, from Barstow to Needles, for their ideas, and suggestions as to how this effort can help to preserve and enhance the heritage and nature-based tourism opportunities that are found along the corridor and in the region.


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Academy of Holy Names sophomore Alexa Veeder plays the female lead, Gabriella, and says the experience has been amazing,
"I love it, it's been so much fun. It is a great cast that works well together. With so many of us from all over it's been interesting to see how well we have all come together," said Veeder.
Veeder has performed with the Park Playhouse II and the Green Room Players.
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Augie Abatecola of Hudson High School is playing the male lead, Troy. Abatecola is a junior who has previously performed in "Ragtime" for C-R Productions. He said the experience has been not only exciting but he has learned a lot as well.
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Other members of the cast include Shenendehowa's Cara O'Brien, Colleen Trainor, Tommy Swimm, Kasey Scanlon and Christina Manion; Brittanie La France of Saratoga High School, and Olivia Baaches of Shaker High School.
Rivera said that through the play, the audience has a chance to feel more involved with the characters.
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"Working Village" Top 5 Page for this destination Barga by BruceDunning
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This is the layout of the town. Off to the right is the parking lot. Down further to the south of this port entry is a school and a residential living area for residences.
The Longobards founded the town in the 900's and it thrived due to the building of the walls for protection. The walls are still intact and two of the original ports are standing yet. Seven churches surround the town and the Duomo at the top of the hill, St. Christoforo is the magnificent one. Wandering through the streets makes us feel somewhat like intruders since not all the locals were used to tourists necessarily. They do have shops to buy goods.
Saint Christopher church is the largest and most impressive. It has a pink facade and some of the original limestone still exists on the facade.
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- In a nutshell:Nice quite town to walk and enjoy the docle vita
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Another lovely addition to VT! Wonderful page!
So good to read your views and insights about Barga. We loved it there too.
Bruce, fantastic little page about an Italian town I didn't even know about before visiting your page.
Nice town on top of hill - and yes that's a great panoramic view. I guess that wonderful theater has been renovated already - nice one.
~ Hi, Bruce! You're right: great views, beautiful place! Thanks for sharing!
Looks absolutely beautiful. It always helps a town if there is ample free parking.
Lovely town and fantastic views!!! And a quite interesting entrance gate!
Barga sure is a charming little Italian town. Like the idea of the piazzettas.
Lovely Barga page! It seems Barga has some interesting tourist attractions such as the theater, museum, duomo and piazzettas. We have yet to visit this city. Hope to visit it one day. ~ho & pang
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Overall fascinating story, but sooooo confusing in audiobook format. Especially in the beginning the point of view/narrator/time period changed frequently and it was a challenge to follow the leaps. I may have to go back and read it someday because I really think I would like this book.
My rating should really be 3.5 stars but there are no halfsies on goodreads.
This book was all over the place, literally. There were multiple point of views and abrupt shifts between past and present events. Most of the narrative was focused on student-athlete Alice Piper and her involvement in an event that rocked the small town of Haeden, New York. The rest of the book dealt with the disappearance of Wendy White and the investigative journalist, Stacy Flynn, who got deeply wrapped up in her case. It's a distressing story and I found it hard to put down....I only wish it had a better ending.
I love how the goodreads giveaway program has been intoducing me to all these great new authors. Some time ago I had the good fortune to stumble upon Cara Hoffman's blog and it made me really interested in her upcoming novel. Lucky me her first book turned out to be part of the first reads program! I'm especially happy that this book brought me out of an unfortunate reading slump. It's like a pallet cleanser. Now I'm ready to immerse myself in something else.
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I thought this was going to be an interesting mystery but it was too all over the place for me. I didn't like the way it jumped from the present to 1992 then to 2004 and back. I felt like the story didn't even really get started until I was 3/4 of the way through the book.
Really an amazing story---as others have said--it just kept building. I listened to the audio and was so impressed with Aimee Bruneau---hearing a different voice for each of several characters, all by the same reader, is always very impressive and this audio pulled you right in and did not let go. And then there was Alice--providing a completely different presentation of a seemingly all too common part of the news.
I loved the way this story kept building. The first few chapters, I was just feeling my way through...no idea what was going on. As the story was pieced together I was drawn further into the story, but still not sure what was going on. There were some parts/perspectives that I'm still not sure why they were included, but overall a very surprising story (you think it's one thing...it turns into something else).
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The nonsense of Kujo
Well, I'm a noob here, but this community is oozing with talent.
It's inspiring
So in honor of all these awesome creatures and such I've seen since first arriving, I decided to draw one. It, and most everything else I'm doing these days is some sort of experiment with coloring techniques for me (since I'm new to the world of tablet coloration) - I'm hoping to at some point or another figure out what works best for me - but anyway, here's my first contribution to the artwork section.
Took about an hour in PS
I don't know what the hell he is.
But he loves you all ^_^
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