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We have all experienced a tragedy of some sort in our life, accident, illness, death, whether parent or child, sibling or friend, even ourself. Watching someone we love suffer leaves us feeling helpless, lost, our greatest desire wanting to reach out and help, wanting to ease their pain and suffering, change the course of time and events, make it all go away. The first experience I had with illness was at the tender age of 10, tiptoeing into the hospital room where my grandfather would live out his final weeks, this serious, intelligent, awe-inspiring man, wasting away from cancer. The air was heavy with sadness, yet the adults were laughing, joking, offering food as was – and is – the way of our family. Keep it light, make them laugh, ease the suffering for just a few minutes.
My next experience, close up and personal, was in college; my darling, wonderful friend and roommate had been diagnosed with bone cancer when still a girl, yet she made the decision to never give up, never give in. She fought hard, following the rules, taking care of herself, working hard. I remember her telling me that after a long period of recession the cancer was back and had inched its way into her lungs, remember sitting with her while she received chemo; as tired as she was from the treatment, she joked, chattered away, made us laugh, tried to cheer us up, lighten our own burden of sadness and helplessness. She talked about her impending marriage, her college diploma, her plans.
And she survived. She won her battle and now, 25 years later, still married to the same wonderful man, she shows me pictures of her 3 gorgeous children, college age themselves. A truly happy ending.
Through these experiences and the others I have lived – and am living – through, my father's illness and my brother's, my father-in-law's and a friend's, I have learned that there are so many ways to help, as helpless as we often feel: a kind word to make them smile, a hug to let them know they are loved, a home-baked cake or a weekend visit, the telling of a story as we hold their hand, these are the things that we can offer.
And there are other ways to help in a much larger way, and Barbara, the wonderful foodie behind the blog Winos & Foodies and a cancer survivor herself, created and hosts the Livestrong (LiveSTRONG) Taste of Yellow Event for food bloggers around the globe. As Barbara explains it herself : "LiveSTRONG With A Taste Of Yellow is my way of supporting the Lance Armstrong Foundation by raising awareness of cancer issues world wide. It is a way for all food and wine bloggers to share their stories. The happy and the sad, the struggles and the triumphs. If you are lucky and have not been touched by cancer you are still welcome to participate." Food bloggers are invited to prepare a dish or drink that contains a yellow food, the color of the Livestrong bracelet, and send the link over to Barbara's blog by September 13 (tho I think she told me she extended the date, but check with her).
As my heart is torn out by my brother's illness, I know that life goes on and if all of us chip in, join together, maybe we can make a difference through awareness and support, and we can pray and hope that research goes on, cures can be found, the weight on people's shoulders can be lightened just a little by our actions. Thank you, Barbara, for your courage and your terrific work. I am proud to participate.
For Barbara's Taste for Yellow event, I have prepared a complete yet very light meal for the waning days of summer: A mixed vegetable Taboulé served simply with hard-boiled eggs and a luscious Flan aux Mirabelles, an extremely quick, easy recipe for two.
TABOULE for as many or as few as you please
This is a "play it by ear" recipe, never the same twice. The traditional recipe has the dry semolina (couscous grains) soaked in the lemon juice, olive oil and the juice from chopped tomatoes over night. After many years of doing it this way, I decided that soaking the couscous grains in boiling water for 7 minutes and then flavoring the pre-cooked grains was quicker and gave the same delicious results. I also began, over the years, adding more and more vegetables, cheese, whatever I was in the mood for. The couscous is a blank backdrop that welcomes any combination. Here is what I did this time, making enough Taboulé for the 4 of us to eat over two days.
17 oz (500 g) medium-grain semolina for couscous prepared according to the package*
3 – 5 lemons
3 Tbs olive oil
20 – 25 fresh mint leaves, rinsed lightly if necessary, pat dry and chopped
1 yellow onion or the equivalent in small white onions
Ripe, juicy tomatoes
1 red pepper
2 small zucchini
1 jar artichokes in oil, drained
1 small can sweet corn, drained
Feta cheese
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Hard-boiled eggs, 1 per person or as desired
* using equal amounts water to couscous, bring the water to the boil with salt and either olive oil or butter, stir in the grains, cover the pot and remove from the heat. Allow to sit for 5 – 7 minutes, then fluff the grains up with a wooden spoon or fork.
Prepare the semolina grains for couscous according to the package. Place in a large mixing/serving bowl.
Roast, peel and coarsely chop the red pepper. Slice the zucchini, spread the slices on a baking sheet, brush lightly with olive oil and grill. Chop the grilled zucchini into bite-sized pieces.
Coarsely chop the tomatoes, as many as you like, reserving the juice. Chop the onions and the mint leaves.
Squeeze 3 of the lemons and add to the couscous with the 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Taste to see if it is lemony enough, adding more lemon juice until it reaches the flavor level that you like.
Add the prepared red pepper and grilled zucchini, the chopped tomatoes and the juice, the chopped onion, the corn and the artichokes, sliced smaller if you prefer, and the chopped fresh mint leaves. Lightly salt and give a generous grinding of black pepper. Stir until well combined.
I decided to add a small block of feta cheese for the tanginess and chopped it coarsely. Stir it in.
Taste and add more of anything you want: more lemon juice, more chopped mint, more tomatoes or other vegetables as you please. If I add greens, like fresh green beans, I blanch them first until crisp/tender.
Serve with the hard-boiled eggs.
FLAN AUX MIRABELLES for two
This is a wonderful recipe, so quick, easy and delicious, that is just for 2, but can easily be doubled. In the winter, I make this with prunes, first soaking the prunes in warm water for 30 minutes. In the summer, I often make this with fresh, ripe apricots, placing half an apricot (or two halves if small), cut side up, in the center of each ramekin before adding the flan batter. It would also be wonderful using any fresh berry.
1 large egg
1 oz (30 g) flour
1 Tbs + 1 tsp (20 g) sugar
7/8 cup (200 ml) low-fat milk
3 ½ oz (100 g) fruit *
Butter to grease the ramekins
Sugar or cinnamon sugar for the fruit, if desired, and for sprinkling on the flan
For Taste of Yellow, I wanted to use mirabelles, the tiny, sweet yellow plums, and decided to flash cook them with a teaspoon of cinnamon sugar, just lightly caramelizing them. I added a splash of water to the pan and stirred gently for just about a minute before removing them from the heat.
For the flan:
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter 2 or 3 ramekins (with the addition of fruit and the shallowness of my ramekins, the recipe filled 3 ramekins).
In a mixing bowl, whisk together the egg and the sugar until thick and creamy. Add the flour and whisk for a minute or two. It should be thick.
Heat the milk just until warm. Pour the warm milk slowly onto the egg mixture, whisking constantly.
Divide the fruit between the individual buttered ramekins (if using prunes, drain and pat the prunes fry first, removing the pits. Pour the flan batter over the fruit.
Bake the flan for 20 minutes. Carefully open the oven and pull out the rack (I placed the ramekins on a baking sheet) and sprinkle the top of each flan with sugar or cinnamon-sugar. Push back into the oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes until golden brown around the edges and set in the center.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
The flan are best eaten warm (not hot) or room temperature so they remain creamy.
47 comments:
- The Cooking Ninja said...
Love both of your dishes. I put lots of cucumbers in my taboulé - gives it a nice crunchy feel. :) hmm... I haven't made any taboulé this year. Now that's a good idea for lunch. :)
- September 12, 2009 at 3:01 AM
I love taboule which I got hooked on living in Israel....I will have to try your recipe...it looks awesome!
I appreciated your blog about yellow and trying to stay "up" and supportive when times are tough...even REAL tough...your friends and family are blessed to have you as their ray of sunshine and to know you'll always be there for them.
And lastly, who was the babe in the yellow bikini? Any idea? My guess is Ann Margaret :)
Have a sunshine day Jamie <3
- September 12, 2009 at 3:15 AM
- Hilda said...
I love tabouleh, we make it a lot when I'm at my parents' house, well my father and I make it anyway. And Mirabelles are my favorite of the plums. I know I'm suppose to like the Reine-claude 'cause that's why they're called the Reine, but my heart belongs to Mirabelles, always has always will. I'm glad you could do this post for your family and friends who are ill. Helps a little bit doesn't it. Your pics are getting better and better, now for some lights!
- September 12, 2009 at 3:15 AM
- Jamie said...
@Debbie: Thanks, love, and if anyone knows about "ray of sunshine" it's you. And, um, how about Raquel Welsh?
@Cooking Ninja: Cucumbers are a great idea!
- September 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM
- Barbara said...
Jamie thank you for sharing your story and supporting A Taste Of Yellow with two beautiful dishes.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:19 AM
- Katy ~ said...
Your food looks soooo very good. Would make me feel happier to have it and more so to share it.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:59 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
What beautiful dishes. What a lovely post, and Debbie is right you are a ray of sunshine:)
and I thought the girl in the bikini was you.
- September 12, 2009 at 4:24 AM
- La Table De Nana said...
I love the photo of you and your grandad..I'm sorry your brother is not well:(
You are right..it's so easy to be kind..w/ a word..a cake..a note..a hug..as smile.
Your posts shows that side of you:)
I would love to add that the plate w/ the utensils is a covetous thing:)
There that's a smile...:)
- September 12, 2009 at 5:00 AM
- MeetaK said...
a lovely tribute jamie. tabouleh is a kind of a staple at our place. and mirabelles? well i just finished baking a cake with mine and am delighted that i have a few left - now i can make this flan for dessert! hugs!
- September 12, 2009 at 5:17 AM
- Heavenly Housewife said...
I love taboule too. Its one of my specialities :), the flan looks amazing. Great post with a great message.
- September 12, 2009 at 5:47 AM
- Aparna said...
Lovely flan. I've never seen those kind of plums.
The only plums we get here are the big pink/ purple ones and the season's over for now.
Truly a sunshine meal for a worthy cause.
- September 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
That's an inspirational story about your friend from college! Both recipes look easy and delicious!
- September 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM
- buffalodick said...
Best friend is fighting it right now... We keep it light, as he has plenty of time alone to worry..
- September 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM
- Shal said...
Wow, that was a very beautiful and powerful post, and I love how you have transformed your feelings of grief and helplessness into the recipes. To many people it doesn't sound like much to sit around and make recipes in times of suffering, but it makes perfect sense to me... to show love and support through nourishing someone, emotionally and physically. It doesn't take long, but a little gesture goes a long way. Thanks for reminding me...
- September 12, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- Linda said...
What a wonderful post. It is difficult to stay "up" at times, but somehow we manage to make it work.
This tabouleh sounds so good. I love the addition of artichokes. I ususally use cucumbers. This is a new addition for me and I will try it the next time I make it. YUM!
- September 12, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- Ilva said...
I think the AToY event makes us all reflect upon how brittle life is and I think it is one of the most important events we have! Your contribution makes it even more worthy! xox
- September 12, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A beautiful post! Both recipes are wonderful and mouthwatering!
- September 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- Deeba @Passionate About Baking said...
Love your post & both the dishes for ATOY. It's tough to keep smiling in the face of adversity, but your manyra is much like mine. Wonderful post & touching emotions dear Jamie. xoxo
- September 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- Danielle said...
thank you for visiting me and therefore leading me here. what a beautiful and touching story. My mom is a cancer survivor. :) My life long childhood friend, sister at heart, did not survive her battle :(. I will try and bring more yellow awareness to the foodie world ....hopefully the deadline has been extended..I'll go check it out. :)
- September 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Elra said...
Oh, I love lelowww (my nephew's word for yellow). Flan sounds delicious. Love the tabouleh too.
- September 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- ♥♥♥Ria♥♥♥ said...
Beautiful post Jamie, loved both the dishes. I have never seen such plums here :)
- September 12, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- doggybloggy said...
I thought it would never happen but I am lovin' yellow!
- September 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Chow and Chatter said...
wonderful food and what a great event to be in yummy, and the taboule is so healthy
- September 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- Jenn said...
Yum! I feel like having kabobs now that I've seen that taboule. hehe...
I'll take a nice helping of that flan, too.
- September 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- zerrin said...
Taboule is so similar to our kisir in Turkish cuisine. We make it with bulgur. I like the addition of hard boiled eggs to serve with this appealing dish.
And the flan is gorgeous with these yellow plums.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- Cinnamon Girl aka Reeni♥ said...
A touching post - one of sadness and hope. This Taboule looks delicious and the flan mouth-watering. Terrific dishes for a great cause.
- September 12, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- teresa said...
what a wonderful tribute post, and the food all looks lovely!
- September 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM
- asiangrrl said...
Jamie, this is a beautiful post. I am sending strong vibes to you and your family. The yellow in the food really brightens things up, doesn't it? Wonderful food, as usual.
- September 12, 2009 at 9:39 PM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
Two absolutely beautiful dishes Jamie! Love the sentiment behind this event too and thankyou for sharing your family memories and photos with us :)
- September 13, 2009 at 4:04 AM
- Happy cook said...
It is always good to hear about some one like your friend.
I tootally agree life goes one, even when one of the family member is sick,onlything you can do is be there for them.
I have never made or boufhr mirables as didn't know what to do with them.
Love both the dishes.
- September 13, 2009 at 4:18 AM
- Nat said...
Thanks so much Jamie ! What a touching post... Love the yellow colour, full of hope, of sun, of life ! :) Thanks for the recipes too and mirabelles are so juicy this season. :p
- September 13, 2009 at 5:15 AM
- Welcome Home said...
thank you for this post! It was really inspiring!
- September 13, 2009 at 5:24 AM
- Sophie said...
Jamie, what a wonderful post & I so love your 2 grand recipe!! I love mirabellen!! They are so sweet & nice!!
Your taboulleh looks apart & so tasty!!
MMMMMMMMMMMMM,..my friend!
- September 13, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Mary said...
What a beautiful creation! Thank you for making us aware of the event at A taste of Yellow. Have a great day.
- September 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- mlaiuppa said...
I'm going to try the taboulé substituting quinoa for the couscous. I'm looking for things to do with quinoa and this looks perfect.
- September 13, 2009 at 9:32 AM
- recipe lover said...
The prunes recipe look amazing. I going to try it today.
- September 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- Sophia said...
I really do enjoy reading your posts. It's always got a great message behind it, and makes me think. I'm so happy that your roommate survived and had her happy ending.
Love the dish, too. What a new meaning you brought to "yellow." It never was my fave color, but I now appreciate it a whole bunch more!
- September 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
Such a beautiful post & a great cause! Both tabule and the flan with yellow plums look excellent! Wish I've seen your post earlier when I was deciding what to do with my yellow plums today.
- September 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Jamie said...
What a wonderful event Jamie and a very touching post. Cancer touches all of us in one way or another.
- September 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
- lisaiscooking said...
What a lovely yellow meal! Sounds delicious too. I love flan.
- September 14, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Katie said...
Love the Mirabelle plums they are perfect and a perfect way to beautifully do a tribute.
- September 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- buffalodick said...
Gave away a bag of saffron once worth $100... I thought it extravagant, overpriced, and over rated!
- September 14, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Megan Gordon said...
The flan looks absolutely killer--I've book marked it for a down afternoon sometime soon. Beautiful photos, too!
- September 14, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- girlichef said...
Wow...gorgeous! What a touching post and what a fabulous cause! I do not know her (what!?). I may be too late, but I'm going to go find out. Thank you :)
- September 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM
- TKW said...
That flan looks amazing!!!!!
- September 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Lien said...
Most of us have encountered cancer close or personal. Just being there can make all the difference. Take care!
Love that flan, but don't think I ever saw mirabelles here.
- September 19, 2009 at 2:41 AM
- Flo Makanai said...
Superb post, thank you.
- October 2, 2009 at 3:31 AM


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BAKER — The Baker volleyball team moved a step closer to a return trip to the state tournament in Kissimmee on Tuesday night with a four-set win over a tenacious South Walton team in the Region 1-1A semifinals. The Gators won by scores of 25=23, 25-21, 23-25, 25-19.
The Gators (23-2) will travel to Chipley for a 2 p.m. match Saturday in 1-1A region finals to determine who will get a trip to the state final four.
Unable to match the size of the Seahawks (12-11), Baker played smart trying to keep the ball away from the power of South Walton's big hitters Olivia Sanders and Katie Trejo.
Baker coach James Kerrell credited his team for executing the game plan to perfection.
" South Walton is a good team," he said. "They are a very tough and solid team. They've got to big girls in the middle that we had to contend with and we tried to adjust.
"We probably played the smartest game that we have played all year. We didn't try to over power them. We just tried to outsmart them and just play good, solid ball tonight."
Solid ball was the key for the Gators as was a balanced attack.
Katie Wickery had nine kills to lead the Baker attack. Jordan Linzy added eight kills and Halley Wagner had six kills.
The teams had met three times earlier in the season with the Gators winning all three meetings, but the familiarity the Seahawks had with Baker showed from the outset of the match.
South Walton jumped to a quick 5-0 lead in the first set before the Gators began clawing their way back into the set.
A Jordan Linzy kill pulled Baker to within 12-11 and sparked the rally that led Baker to the first set win.
Baker was team jumping to the quick lead in the second set as the Gators got off to a 6-2 start, but the Seahawks managed to tie things up at 14-14 before Baker went on a 7-1 run to take control of the set.
Leading 16-7, the third set looked to be all Baker, but the Seahawks came roaring back behind the serve of Olivia Kolovish to pull to with 16-13.
Trejo had three kills down the stretch to take the lead and send the match into a fourth set.
With the fourth set tied 14-14, the Gators responded like champions and closed things out with an 11-5 run to punch their ticket back to the region finals.


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Copeland garages hit by fuel shortage
Last updated at 09:12, Saturday, 31 March 2012
GARAGES in Copeland were hit by fuel shortages on Friday.
Spar at Bigrigg, used by a lot of Sellafield traffic, reported that it had fuel left, "but not a great deal". It was however expecting a further delivery tonight.
At Crossfield Garage in Cleator Moor, it had been open since 6am and still had petrol and diesel pumps operating when contact by The Whitehaven News around 9am.
At the Pelican Garage, on the main road into Whitehaven, only one pump was in action but they were expecting a delivery this morning. Fuel for emergency services was being kept back.
Meanwhile at a busy Tesco Garage in Whitehaven, all the pumps remained in action.
First published at 09:19, Friday, 30 March 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk
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Talk about the Government scaring the public. This is typical media scaring. The headline does not bear any resemblance to the story. With that headline I was expecting a whole string of garages shut having ran out of fuel.
Says it all about west cumbria doesnt it, they havnt even announced a strike yet it takes 7 days before a strike after its voted on and the simple minded people of west cumbria are running around panic buying but there again they do it every bank holiday xmas eve get a grip you really dont have the mental capacity to work it out.
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The association survey found Beaumont has the cheapest gasoline statewide at $3.44 per gallon. Fort Worth has the most expensive retail gasoline in Texas at $3.68 per gallon.
Texas drivers on average are paying 18 cents per gallon less than a year ago.
AAA says crude oil prices have posted slight gains in recent weeks as a result of positive economic news.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Ricky Romero outdueled Jon Lester, while Rajai Davis had an RBI triple and scored two runs as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Boston Red Sox, 3-1, on Wednesday.
Romero (1-0), who retired 17 consecutive Red Sox hitters at one point, gave up a run on three hits and two walks while fanning five in 8 1/3 innings.
"When he's on, he's on," said Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz. "He wasn't making that many mistakes and he went through every hitter. When things get like that, it's tough to hit."
Sergio Santos recorded the final two outs in the ninth for his first save after blowing his first opportunity for one against Boston on Monday.
Jose Bautista was 0-for-3 and didn't register a hit in the series (0-for-11).
Lester (0-1) was the hard-luck loser after allowing three runs on three hits and two walks while striking out six in his seventh career complete game.
Blue Jays manager John Farrell called the game a "classic duel" between Romero and Lester.
"We were able to manufacture three runs," said Farrell. "But Ricky was the story here. It was a really good lineup he went against."
Jacoby Ellsbury drove in the lone run for the Red Sox, who have lost five of their first six games to begin 2012 after a 2-10 start last season.
The Red Sox opened the scoring with a run in the visitor's third. Cody Ross and Mike Aviles began the frame with back-to-back singles and Kelly Shoppach followed with a sacrifice bunt. Ellsbury slapped an opposite field single to left field, which brought home Aviles.
Toronto, though, answered with two runs in the bottom half of the frame to take the lead. After Eric Thames singled to start the inning, J.P. Arencibia struck out swinging.
Davis then lined a triple down the right-field line to plate Thames and Davis came home on Yunel Escobar's sacrifice fly to right field.
The Jays added an insurance run in the eighth as Davis showcased his blazing speed. He reached first with a two-out walk and then stole second, even though Lester had him picked off at first base. Davis then came flying around third and scored on Escobar's single up the middle.
Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia led off the top of the ninth with back-to-back walks. Adrian Gonzalez then moved them both over with a sacrifice fly to center field.
Santos came on for Romero and struck out Kevin Youkilis before getting Ortiz to ground out to Escobar at shortstop to end the game.
Davis had six triples in 2011...Romero moved to 5-6 in his career against the Red Sox...Lester's last complete game came against San Francisco on June 27, 2010...The Red Sox will head to Boston for their home opener Friday to kickstart a four-game series against Tampa Bay.


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With more than 590,000 members, TeenCentral.Net provides a forum for teens to write in about what bothers them and receive answers within 24 hours from highly trained volunteers whose posts are reviewed by Master's level professionals before appearing on the site. "Because TeenCentral.Net is safe and anonymous, teens can express their private thoughts and receive great free advice that is tailored specifically for them," Licata says. "Other teens read about what their peers are experiencing and benefit from the advice. Many teens write their own advice to help out other teens, and, according to Licata, these get posted as well after Master's level counselors read the posts and ensure that their contents are appropriate." Celebrities like actress Amanda Seyfried and famous athletes or popular singers also tell their stories on TeenCentral.Net so that teens can see that their lives are not that different from those of the people they look up to. Licata also discussed all of the resources available on the site for teens, including special pages on obesity, smoking cessation and domestic violence, as well as news just for teens, suggested reading and giveaways.
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Walsh finished sixth out of 13 teams in the NCAA Division II/NAIA All-Ohio Championships at Cedarville University Saturday afternoon. The Cavaliers (24-13) finished with a team score of 138, 16 points shy of fourth place Findlay. All of all teams involved. Walsh finished 19th out of 43 teams. Lissa Yoder (Sr., Cortland, OH/Maplewood) had…
9.27.12 WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: Cavs Set for All-Ohio Championships on Saturday
Sep. 27, 2012
Walsh (17-8) is ready for the challenge of competing in the32nd Annual All-Ohio Meet on Saturday (2 pm), to be held at Cedarville University's Elvin R. King Cross Country Course. The Cavs finished 7 th in the 14-team field last year. The Cavs garnered all-time best second place finishes in 1982 and 1983, in their first…
9.14.12 WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: Cavs Finish 7th at National Catholic Meet
Sep. 14, 2012
(South Bend, IN) Walsh (17-8) ran a strong race and finished seventh in a field of 21 schools at the National Cross Country Invitational, held at the University of Notre Dame. Seton Hill College finished in first place and Lewis University placed second. Lissa Yoder (Sr., Cortland, OH/Maplewood) paced the Cavs with a 23rd place finish in…
9.8.12 WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: Cavs Finish Third in Ric Sayre Invitational
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Walsh opened the season in the annual Ric Sayre Invitational at home today and finished third overall in a field of six teams. The Cavaliers (3-2) finished with a total of 71 points. John Carroll coasted to victory with 26 points with its top five runners all placing in the top 10. Mt. Union finished second with 42 points. Lissa Yoder…
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Property and liability protection are provided by the State of Wisconsin self-funded programs. Other exposures are covered by the UW System insurance policies for boiler and machinery, contractual liability and crime. Risk Management works with State Risk Management and UW System Risk Management to see that adequate protection exists for the various exposures at UW-La Crosse.
Risk Management conducts a variety of activities to reduce our risk of loss. We interact with departments and campus personnel in a variety of ways to reduce the potential for loss and the impact that losses might have on day-to-day operations. Our goal is to be pro-active in mitigating exposures before they occur. To that end, we review contracts and projects and analyze loss data from a variety of sources. We have an extensive vehicle driver authorization program, including driver record review. A special medical coverage for camps and clinics reduces the potential for claims from injuries to these youthful participants.
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Two Yadkin County Sheriff's Office deputies were shot at and received minor injuries Friday morning at a Jonesville hotel, leading to a five-hour standoff.
John Trenton Smith, 37, was arrested Friday at about 9:45 a.m. at America's Home Value Inn off U.S. 21, according to deputies. Sheriff Ricky Oliver did not immediately reveal what the charges were against Smith.
Deputies arrived on scene at about 5 a.m., and the suspect shot at them through the door, according to N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper Kevin Hennelly. Deputies then evacuated the occupied hotel rooms.
One deputy was shot in the shoulder, and another was injured by debris flying after the suspect shot at the deputies through the door, according to Oliver.
Elkin residents Lindsey Whitley and Dalton Buzzard said that deputies knocked on their door at about 7 a.m. and told them to evacuate. They had just looked out the window and saw what looked like about 30 law enforcement vehicles. They said all of the other occupants had been escorted out by deputies earlier, but Buzzard and Whitely were somehow missed during the original evacuation.
Buzzard said he thought that about 12 out of 40 rooms were occupied the night before.
Officials said the Jonesville Police Department received a call at 4:30 a.m. from a Jonesville resident who said that handguns were stolen from her home. The suspect had allegedly stolen guns from his mother's house and then came to the inn. Deputies had a warrant for his arrest, and had arrived at the inn when they were shot at through the door, officials said.
Oliver said that Smith was a convicted felon. He had been staying at America's Home Value Inn for a couple of weeks, according to Hennelly with the Highway Patrol.
At about 9:45 a.m., law enforcement officers convinced him to put down his gun and surrender himself. He was then driven away in a sheriff's office vehicle. Before the vehicle pulled onto the road, members of the media swarmed the vehicle. A picture sent by Tribune news partner WXII show the suspect with his tongue hanging out.
The Yadkin County Sheriff's Office, the Yadkinville Police Department, the N.C. Highway Patrol, the SBI, and the US Marshall's office were on scene.


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Google TV is a new platform that aims to bring the Web to TVs. Google developed a custom Android version that runs Google Chrome and improves the TV viewing experience by allowing you to find TV programs, showing recommendations and integrating content from the Web.
"With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more," explains Google.
Google's demo from the Google I/O conference wasn't very convincing. Google acknowledged that many other companies tried to create similar products without too much success. The explanation is probably that they were ahead of their time, but Google says that they were unsuccessful because they dumbed down the Web experience, they were closed and users had to choose between watching TV and browsing the Web.
"The project started 2½ years ago, with a vision of a walled garden of TV-optimized web services. But the landscape keeps shifting, particularly in the capabilities of mobile devices. The only solution big enough for the problem is to bring the whole web to your TV," says Vincent Dureau, who is in charge of Google TV.
Google partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to add Google TV to "televisions, Blu-ray players and companion boxes". The first Internet-enabled TV that runs Google's software will be launched this fall by Sony and it promises to provide "richer internet access so you can browse the web just like you would from a computer."
But why not connect your TV to a computer? Android is a great operating system for a mobile phone, but it doesn't look very well on a big HDTV. Not all the Android applications are useful on a TV and those that are useful won't take advantage on the huge screen estate of the TV. Google promises to introduce a Google TV SDK and some APIs for web applications, but that will happen next year.
Google TV has a lot of potential and I'm sure it could eventually become a great product. The software could make TV programs more interactive by detecting phone numbers, addresses or URLs, it could allow you to chat with a friend while watching the same TV show, it could create chat rooms for everyone who watches the same show, it could use visual search to show information about an object from the screen or it could translate a foreign-language movie.
If you already have an Android phone, you can use it as a remote control. Since the TV and the phone can run the same applications, you'll be able to sign in using the same Google Account and synchronize your data. Favorite an YouTube video on a phone, watch it later on your TV and use it to generate a list of recommended TV shows.
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A house fire that killed a father and daughter in Montmorenci on Saturday is being investigated as arson, according to the Aiken County Sheriff's Office.
The fire, which took place on Old Tory Trail, occurred at about 10:08 a.m. according to police.
Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton identified the father as 28-year-old Dunkan Baker, who was pronounced dead at approximately 3 p.m. at Doctors Hospital in Augusta.
Bakers' two-year-old daughter was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy is scheduled in Newberry on Sunday morning.
Both Baker and his daughter died from thermal injuries and smoke inhalation, Carlton said.
Capt. Eric Abdullah of the Aiken County Sheriff's Office said Aiken County dispatchers received an emergency call from a passing motorist on Saturday morning about the house fire.
Montmorenci Fire Department, EMS and Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene.
• Michael Ulmer covers the county government beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since March 2013. He is a native of North Augusta and majored in political science at the University of South Carolina.
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Lawson Support Services welcomed children and families to an open house introducing their new day treatment facility for children and teens, the Den, on Thursday, Nov. 8.
Since its small beginnings in 2001, Lawson Support Services has become a comprehensive provider offing a range of programs to clients of all ages including intensive in-home treatment, day treatment, clinical assessments, individual outpatient therapy, medication management and other psychiatric services.
Clinical director Carol Pulley said, "We have been expanding over the years, and from what I have heard from the schools and the community, there is a definite need for this service in Ashe County."
The Den, located at Family Central behind the WCC School of Cosmetic Arts, is a day treatment center for children aged 5-17 years who are eligible for Medicaid. The center is a child certified Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency that opened mid-Oct. and is accepting clients.
Day treatment is a structure based facility that works with local schools and agencies to provide services and support to children and teens with issues including, anger, disruptive behavior, bullying, lack of friendships, depression, anxiety, hyperactivity and school difficulties.
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"The Day Treatment Program focuses on social skills and the behavioral component to enable children to function in school. We work very closely with schools, and have monthly child and family team meetings in the school with principals, teachers-as many people as possible who will be supporting the child," said Pulley.
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The title says it all. Should I change strings one by one, or take them all at once? Does this matter at all?
If I take all strings off, will it damage my neck in any way, because the pressure is released?
The title says it all. Should I change strings one by one, or take them all at once? Does this matter at all?
If I take all strings off, will it damage my neck in any way, because the pressure is released?
I have heard that it is not a problem taking them off all at once, and luthiers I have seen work on instruments will take all the strings off to clean the fretboard and alter the bridge. This website corroborates this theory, saying:
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It does, however, mention the practical benefits of changing one at a time; guitars with movable bridges are best done like this to stop the bridge moving. Also, if you don't have a tuner to hand, changing one string at a time makes it easier to tune up to the right pitch.
I remove all strings at once. Like Brian I don't see how this could damage the guitar but that's not to say I'm doing something that I shouldn't - all I know is it hasn't harmed any of my guitars in all the years I've done it that way.
And as a small digression, I actually take advantage of having all the strings off the guitar as a rare chance to really properly clean some hard to reach areas e.g. all around the pickups, any dirt or grease around the fretboard etc.
EDIT: Just seen your update Jimi :) I suppose a lot depends on how valuable your guitar is whether you're concerned over the big change in tension from strings on to string off. You could probably still perform a rigorous clean with only one or two strings off at a time to maintain the bend in the neck.
Taking them all off at the same time isn't a problem so long as you detune the string before you cut it... This may seem rather obvious but I've seen it happen far too often. By detuning you can lower the tension in a safer manner for the guitar, then clip and continue with your restring. BTW. Getting a good cleaning in can be especially important for people with high acidity in their skin oils.
Taking all six strings off at once creates a sudden decrease in tension across the neck of the guitar. The truss rod could even be damaged if they were heavy gauge strings. Certainly, this rarely, if ever, happens. Nevertheless, such abrupt changes as caused by the tensional shock of releasing all strings at once are not good for your instrument, especially the neck. (Imagine what happens, not just to the band but to your finger, when you released a stretched rubber band.)
Thus, it is recommended you change the strings one after the other. The only disadvantage of this is that you will not be able to have unobstructed access to the neck to give it some thorough cleaning. Prolonging the life of your instrument should be a priority, though. This is stuff I've read in several books and probably what a luthier would tell you, as well.
I don't see how it would matter. The neck is under stress when the strings are on, not when they're off.
Though I can't say for sure that there aren't any benefits to changing one string at a time as I've never considered it.
When I change my strings, I always change all of them in one sitting, unless I've broken one in performance and need to replace it on the spot. However, I remove and replace them individually, beginning with the low E and working up to the high E. This is true of both my electric and acoustic guitars (including classical). At least for my ES175, this is for practical reasons: I don't want the floating bridge falling off, making me re-intonate the thing. For the others, I'll only remove all the strings simultaneously to do maintenance: fretboard dressing, polishing, and so on.
As for whether you'll damage the guitar's neck removing all the strings at once, I don't think you will. I have, on occasion, removed all the strings from my 12-string (see comment on maintenance), without problems. And, as others have said, luthiers do this all the time.
Surprised nobody has stated this yet, but you do NOT want to remove all your strings at once on your guitar if it has a floating bridge (Floyd Rose, EBMM JP, Kahler, etc.). Those require a '1 by 1' string replacement to maintain tuning/proper setup.
If your bridge if fixed, feel free to remove all the strings at once. Don't just cut them with wire cutters while they are tuned though...detune all your strings, and then remove them. Any major sudden tension changes to the neck will cause irreversible damage to the truss rod.
One at a time is (usually) easier on guitars with floating bridges -- the tension of the other strings keeps the bridge in place.
Some instruments are held together by string tension. The bridge of archtop guitars is held there only by the strings, and the neck and pickups of the Mosrites that Johnny Ramone used were held to the body with string tension. (No, I'm not sure how, but read a story where a guitar mag journalist was asked to do this for Johnny when he was researching the story.) In these case, change half of 'em (the top half or bottom half, probably) then the other half.
Otherwise, I don't see how it would matter.
Saying that taking all of the strings off at the same time damages the guitar definitely sounds silly - guitars are made to take stuff like that.
By changing strings at the same time, you get more consistent tone, as they're all at the same level of wear. Additionally, you may want to change all of the strings even if you haven't broken any, to restore some tone if they've undergone excessive wear.
If you change one string at a time, you get more awkward tone and playability (not a huge difference, but it's definitely there). Additionally, this makes everything more difficult to organize (what if you break two G strings consecutively? You have to throw away a bunch of perfectly good strings).
Thus, my answer is: change them all at once.
Its depend on the temperature in the room. I will recommend you change the string in the temperature where you keep your guitar Removing 1 or all string at a time do not make any harm to the guitar.
When we make bows of straight sticks of wood, we spend a long time using an instrument that pulls the bow into the "final" shape. You take it up one notch, then wait for a few hours to a few days, then take it up another notch until you finally get it to the shape you want. There's a reason bowyers didn't do this all at once.
Sudden release of tension on a dry piece of wood can damage it.
I solved this just by using a leader string system. Detune them all except the middle string, having it at the lowest tension where it still floats. remove the other strings and clean fretboard. Put strings on either side of the leader string and tighten them just enough to hold that pressure when you remove the lead. clean fretboard under that string and replace string, add the other strings.
When you have a xx00 dollar instrument, you don't take a laissez faire approach to it.
I usually remove the 3 bass strings, do my cleaning on the neck, replace with the new strings, then change the 3 trebles. That way there is still tension on the neck, and the fretboard underneath the half of the strings that are removed can be cleaned easily.
Firstly, on a technical level you should always change your entire set of strings in one sitting versus changing only a string that breaks or sounds bad unless you're in the middle of a gig, practice session, etc; but afterwards change your strings starting with low E (6E) and then A & so on.
Secondly, to address everyone's concern about being able to clean & oil the fingerboard I would suggest taking the time to reduce tension a small amount & equally ie same number of peg turns for each string (a great deal is not necessary) and clean your fingerboard and as you will find you can move the strings to clean it fairly quickly if you have been maintaining your guitar properly and once clean oiling is easy; who cares if you get a little oil on your strings? You're changing them anyway.
To clean the oil off of the strings take a dry cloth (flat, not bunched) & slide it under the strings & then just fold cloth over top of all 6 strings & run it up & down the fingerboard, then do each string individually to be on the safe side.
Before changing the strings I would re-tension them but you shouldn't have reduced the tension much in the first place.
Third, change your strings one at a time, loosening the string so that there is no tension at all before removing, fitting the new string and retensioning before moving to the next string. The important things to remember are that you should check with your manufacturer on oiling (but always keep it clean), don't guess if you don't know, and most importantly, whether just changing strings or cleaning and oiling your fingerboard, do it one string at a time.
All guitars are different - don't generalise, as depending on design, you could really screw up your guitar's setup or damage it. Those of you with stop bars would cause the bar to fall out and damage your guitar if you changed all the strings at once.
Yes, many professionals change all six at once for a concert, with roadies using impact screwdrivers and other electric tools, but they also use masking tape to hold the stop bar in.
Remember it's your guitar. If you care about it speak with Manufacturers, Luthiers, Tech Specialists; Just changing the gauge of strings can screw up your intonation.
I have removed all strings at once (after tuning them down to slack) since 1972. It's a great pportunity for a deep clean too! I have also cut strings once slack to avoid damage when puling thru the bridge, body, etc. I have never had problems with any guitars doing it this way. I do tend to tension the strings across the board gradually when tightening new strings but that probably goes without saying. It's a lump of wood and really the tension isn't so great to be honest...
If you are using guitar with tremolo, you should replace only string at a time, otherwise will be hard time tuning back your guitar to tune lock with bridge. if you tune one string the other will go off as string tension modify the balance of the bridge position.


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I realize the "MMORPG gaming has a bleak future" theme makes a regular appearance on this forum, but with the bankruptcy of 38 Studios, I think there are some ideas that need serious consideration. Very succinctly, here is what I think is worth considering.
Thesis: Ongoing failures and weakness in the MMORPG industry are due, not to bad management or other variables that can be controlled, but to the nature of the product. MMORPGs suffer from heavy network effects and high switching costs, as well as very large fixed costs, which combined mean it is an industry very likely to be dominated by one major game, with all other competitors either filling small niches, or (more likely) failing spectacularly. The cost of MMORPGs, and their reputations as expensive failures, will lead game companies to develop fewer MMORPGs, with MOBAs, MMOFPSs, and MMORTSs filling the gap.
So let me explain what some of that businesspeak means.
Network Effects: A product with a network effect is a product whose worth depends on how many other people use it. An operating system has a network effect; a graphics card does not. The more people that use your operating system, the more useful it is; but you get the same use out of a graphics card regardless of how many other people use the same one. A single-player game has very little network effect; an MMORPG has a huge network effect. In marketing, where goods have high network effects, it is highly likely that one product will soon come to dominate the industry, because the more people use that product, the more valuable it becomes.
Switching Costs: This is what it sounds like: the cost of switching from one product to another. The cost (in time and effort) of switching web browsers is relatively low; the cost (again, in time and effort) of switching operating systems is high. FPSs have very little switching cost - you can be fully up to speed in a new one in very short order, while MMORPGs have a huge switching cost, in terms of the time needed to get up to where other players are at (a month of heavy gaming, sometimes more). Again, this leads to the dominance of one product over the industry.
Fixed Costs: This is the minimum cost for getting a good out to market, regardless of how many units are sold. For a computer game, nearly all of the cost is fixed; in fact, MMORPGs are the rare exception of a game that requires a large variable cost (e.g., server maintenance and customer support). But as large as the variable costs are for MMORPGs, the fixed cost, of simply getting the game out to market, is absolutely huge - an order of magnitude, if not multiple orders of magnitude, larger than for other games. The staff required to get an MMORPG to market can be ten, or even a hundred, times the staff required to get a strategy or action game to market.
So, take an industry where it costs a huge amount to develop a game, and factor in that players are going to be very reluctant to switch games because of the risks involved (that their friends won't come over and join them) and the costs involved (weeks, even months, of getting up to speed), and what you have is an industry where there will be one game that owns the industry, and makes money hand over fist, while other game companies either fail or linger in the shadows with few players.
This can be seen perfectly clearly, because there is an industry where it is already the case: CCGs. The CCG industry is a one-game industry (OK, maybe two games, but even then, one clearly dominates); network effects, yes, switching costs, yes, high fixed costs, yes. Chances of anyone breaking MTG's death grip on the industry are low; and that has less to do with the quality of the product (which is high, if expensive) than it has to do with the simple structure of the industry.
Conclusion: Given all of the above, chances of anyone unseating World of Warcraft are low; but worse, chances of anyone pulling enough players away from World of Warcraft to simply be profitable on an ongoing basis - other than as a niche product keeping a small studio alive - are low. That means we are destined to see more failures, until game companies wise up and forget about trying to win the MMORPG lottery. The lottery numbers have already been pulled, and there's a winner, and it's Blizzard. Instead, game companies will start leaning toward genres where network effects and switching costs are lower, even if fixed costs are still a bit high - hence the increased popularity of MOBAs. Will other game companies be able to unseat League of Legends as the dominant MOBA? Probably not - but it is a whole lot easier to pull gamers away from LoL than it is to pry eight-year veterans away from WoW.
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I think the whole Competing and unseating World of Warcraft is a horrible thing to think about while making your game. the NBA and NFL compete for viewers, as they are both sports, but you don't see the NBA putting on pads and allowing contact to make NFL viewers switch over.
It's that whole competing aspect that, imo, ruins games. BF3 and COD compete. COD is more popular so BF3 changes alot to compensate for its lack of CoDness. Every mmo that has tried to compete with WoW did so with a copy past design. Which makes sense, but it wont bring the long term revenue. WoW got popular with a little luck and great design early on.
Every publisher looks at World of warcraft and says i want that. Millions paying 15 a month! Which they will never ever get. No one is going to be able to attract that many players and Publishers/Devs need to realize that and just make games. Not cater to every single person in the spectrum.
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You're looking at it the wrong way Jay.
MMO's are football, FPS's are basketball. They aren't competing, you're right.
However, WoW is the NFL--Anything else attempting to make headway would be the UFL, or the Canadian league. They do have to put on pads, and have a contact sport just to be considered remotely close to the NFL. They are directly attempting to take the NFL's customers, because lets face it--most people only have the time to dedicate to one football league each season, whereas people like me enjoy a little bit of both NFL and NBA from time to time. I don't, however, watch any CFL games in November, because I'm so balls deep in the NFL season.
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So in other words... Don't try to beat Disneyland at their own game but make a specialized park like Magic Mountain that has big, fast, scary roller coasters that Disneyland does not.
Originally posted by Jaylanonyous
The NBA and the NFL do compete for viewers, but it's a straight-up competition: viewers can switch channels at any time. That does make it a competitive market, where multiple companies can compete on an ongoing basis. MMORPGs aren't like that, people don't switch quickly, they make a huge investment into one game and are very reluctant to switch. Like operating systems, it is a winner-take-all market where one company is going to absolutely dominate.
I agree with your conclusion, that it is a mistake for publishers to think that they can capture part of the MMORPG market. Only a small number of MMORPG players are up for grabs, so to speak (although many of the people on this forum are in that category). Most - the 10 million or so active WoW subscribers - are not going to switch, and that's not going to change any time soon. Developers have to realize that they are not competing with WoW, because they can't, WoW subscribers are not going to switch - they are competing for the attentions of a small number of highly disaffected MMORPG gamers who are between games. But they don't realize that, and then they dump huge amounts of money into a MMORPG thinking "if we can only get a quarter of WoW subscribers to switch we will make it big", then they have extremely disappointing subscriber numbers, then they fail, spectacularly. Sooner or later, they are simply going to give up trying.
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I would say WOW would be the death of the mmo genre and the companys trying to copy it. You see some Mmo games go away from the WOW crap so lets hope it goes well for the next couple of years or the MMO genre will be long to the asian countrys only*thou recently they have made some very awesome MMo games*
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Still waiting for said "businesspeak"...sorry.
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You make several good points but there are more reasons why MMO's fail. Mainly, imo, the concept of MMO's... With every new MMO released I expect it to be something new, when in reality, I'm just fooling myself. All the features of an MMO has been done before.
Sure there are some new MMO's that has one or two feature that isn't an exact copy of some other game I've already played but the variation of said feature isn't exciting enough to keep me playing for more than a month or two.
I'm currently playing Tera and I'm already getting tired of because despite being a "groundbreaking new game" it really isn't... It's easy for me to say that all has been done but I definately think that MMO's need some new ideas for it to work.
Originally posted by Chile267
I think a better analogy is social networking sites. You can always leave a theme park and go to another one, and it doesn't matter if there are fewer people at the new one - in fact, it arguably makes the experience more enjoyable. But if you sign up for a new social networking site that no one else is signed up with, what's the point?
I would never, ever, invest in a social networking site for one simple reason: Facebook owns the market. It used to be competitive before any one company was dominant, but now, it's not, Facebook is the social networking market, and until Facebook goes bankrupt or starts charging for access, nobody is going to make any headway against it. A few niche sites like LinkedIn will survive by catering to a very select need. Other companies may as well pack up and leave the market and find something else to work on.
It is not just about building a different theme of theme park, it is about getting out of the business altogether. The only MMO games that I see as having a future are those whose gameplay is completely different from the standard MMORPG model. I can see something like End of Nations as having a future, because there are a lot of players who strongly prefer RTS-style gameplay over RPG-style gameplay (ditto with FPS-style gameplay). But even relatively well-developed MMORPGs like Rift are never going to take off, simply because what they are offering is so close to what WoW offers, so why should a long-time WoW vet give up years of investment in the game, for something that is more or less the same game, only with far fewer players?
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MMORPGs have a great future.....
Sadly what people are calling MMORPGs these days are not what they claim to be.....
An MMORPG needs:
What it does not need:
A Time will come soon where we get some really well thought out games; And MMORPGs will start being again what they were always supposed to be , A game in a vast world with all gameplay elements available where it is the world that is important no a bunch on nomarks who want to interview and bully people along.
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There is no reason really for mmos to cost too much...(specially if you start small and build a player base)
One of my favorite mmos endlessages was basically made by 2 guys, I know it couldnt compete with WoW ,but come on 2 guys!
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Originally posted by Gudrunix
Do you have an example of a developer that is trying to be or beat MTG, LoL or WoW? Your wall of text seems to be based on that being a pursued goal, but i haven't seen anything to support that being the case.
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The glaring problem with your thesis is that it contradicts reality.
However high the costs of switching from one game to another are, people do it all the time. Most of the regulars on this site have probably switched from one MMORPG to another several times. I'll bet that a large fraction (easily more than half, possibly more than 90%) of WoW accounts do not have an active subscription today.
However high the fixed costs of entry into the MMORPG market are, new MMORPGs still launch all the time--even big budget ones. We're not far removed from the launch of SWTOR and TERA, while GW2 and TSW are coming soon.
The network effect is much weaker than you think it is. If a game doesn't have enough players to fill a server, then yeah, that's a big problem. But once you get the critical mass needed to fill a few servers, adding still more players doesn't bring much benefit to each individual player.
Originally posted by animenia
Well, part of my original post was to make the point that it isn't about design decisions or business management decisions - blaming the failure of the latest MMORPG on bad management has become a common theme, but I don't completely believe it. It's just the nature of the industry - one game is going to dominate it, and that one game is going to be very difficult to compete with, good management or bad, and that's just the way it is.
I totally agree at the lack of originality in MMORPGs - we keep getting told how ground-breaking and original the latest entry will be, but then it's mashing key shortcuts for abilities while you repetitively grind mobs from level 1 to level 50 so you can raid dungeons for gear. That's not original. There are a few truly original games out there, like EVE Online, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule: it's been all D&D/Everquest clones for the last fifteen years. I will believe that they are serious about originality when they drop character levels or hit points, or let the player control more than one character and a pet.
The only real way to compete is to design a completely original type of game - not just to try and make a slightly more original D&D/Everquest clone. The game companies that have been successful over the last few years are those who have invested in an entirely new game type - e.g., Riot with MOBAs. The best decision a game company management could make would be to give up on MMORPG clones and move into a whole new market, either one that is currently growing, like MOBAs, or one with completely untapped potential, like MMORTSs.
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Originally posted by Gudrunix
You're kinda stuck in the mentality that if you can't be the biggest, you cant be successful/profitable/popular/etc.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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WOW has the throng because 80% of gamers started with it and yes given the last 10yrs it is the best MMO to come out. It is good now, hell no! But the only MMOs better than WOW was pre-WOW MMOs and most gamers where not gaming at that time.
So unless a company makes a true MMORPG again you will not de-throng WOW, but I will say this if I spent 200Million Making a MMO it would have been the best MMO in history.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
Very good point. To a good degree, WoW has been a gateway into MMOs, due to its popularity and low barrier to entry in both technical and gameplay aspects. After their 6-9 month stint in WoW, many players go on to explore other MMOs to see what they offer.
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It sounds like you want something that shakes up the development ecosystem - a way for lots of small developers to contribute and compete over different minigames/components of a shared world.
I look at the thriving modder community for Minecraft and wonder how an MMO could be constructed as a platform for 3rd-party minigames. It's not easy since you can't really trust third party code (from both a security point of view and a consistency point of view).
You'd have to come up with an almost java-like environment, where 3rd party developers write the add-ons in a language that runs within a self-contained virtual machine with firm rules about how it is allowed to interact with the game world and with the player's UI.
Originally posted by Quizzical
Well put, but I still disagree.
First off, the community here is 0.1% of the MMORPG market, if that. We are not at all representative. I would say 90% of MMORPG players are World of Warcraft players, and I would not at all be surprised if as many as half of those have never played another MMORPG for more than a month. Just look at the numbers - 10 million for WoW, but very few other MMORPGs have ever broken a million subscribers, even for just a month - most are lucky to have a 100k subscribers. This is a one-game market, even if there is a small but vocal community who try out a lot of different games.
Where are all the former WoW players? Playing Call of Duty, or League of Legends, or Diablo 3, or something that's not an MMORPG, that's where. They aren't playing WAR, or Vanguard, or Rift, that's for sure - just look at their subscription numbers.
Yes, new MMORPGs launch all the time. And they fail all the time. They get decent numbers by PC game standards - but abysmal numbers by WoW standards, and nowhere near enough to cover the massive costs. That means we are working our way through a wave of big MMORPG releases, but after this, it's going to be tiny studio F2P releases, because the big studios will see MMORPGs as big, expensive mistakes to be avoided at all costs. Mythic is all but out of the MMORPG business - how many more times will SOE get burned before they give up?
Your point on network effects is a good one - yes, they really only need to fill up one server to have an active game environment. But the larger picture is the guild issue - many players are loyal to their guilds, and guilds compete with each other for both players and progression, so the issue is not just of filling up servers, but getting guilds to move over. And the history so far has been that it has been very difficult to get the largest and most influential guilds to leave WoW. The biggest moves by guilds in recent years have not been to competing MMORPGs - they have been to MOBAs, and specifically League of Legends. That alone says something about the futility of trying to convince MMORPG players to switch over.
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Originally posted by Gudrunix
It was a nice post but I would say that this point has already been proven wrong repeatedly.
How many people rushed to buy SW:TOR? How many tried Warhammer? Star Trek online? Age of Conan? And so on.
People aren't reluctant to jump into new games. In fact, I would say it's just the opposite, people are too eager to try new games. So eager that they buy games even if they suspect they won't like them or maybe they let themselves get caught up in the hype or whatever.
Anyway, the problem for new mmorpgs isn't that people refuse to switch games; it's that after people have switched to the new game the new game fails to hold them. We could argue why if you want but there is no doubt that it's true.


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