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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The country music world reacted with deep emotion upon learning of the death of legendary singer George Jones.
Here's a sampling of quotes and tweets about Jones:
"The world has lost the greatest country singer of all time. Amen." — Merle Haggard
"He was a true innovator. Nobody could sing like George Jones. Everyone who could imitate him did. I wrote and recorded a song, 'Bartender's Blues,' as a tribute and, in an instance of life-imitating-art, George recorded it and asked me to harmonize. It was the second dream come true of my career. He was easy and kind and I'll never forget him. Luckily, he recorded a lot of music; so he'll always be with us ..." — James Taylor
"We're just going to miss George so much. This came as a total shock to me ... and to the whole music industry. It's going to be a big void not having George out there. But you know we've got his music and that music will last forever. He did a lot of crazy things in his career, and no matter how crazy he got everybody still loved him. That's just the kind of guy that George was. We're just going to miss him. It's a sad day for the music business, for sure. Well, heaven better get ready for some great country music. While George was known for his wild and crazy days, I've known him for 25 years as a friend. He had grown into a real good man. Of course, he will always be the greatest singer and interpreter of real country music– there'll never be another." — Alan Jackson
"The greatest voice to ever grace country music will never die. Jones has a place in every heart that ever loved any kind of music." — Garth Brooks
"The greatest country blues singer to ever live." — Ronnie Dunn
"It's a sad day for country music and a great loss for those of us who knew him. I was blessed to call George my friend. He was one of the best country singers there ever was. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Nancy, and all of his family. It's a sad, sad day." — Loretta Lynn
"My heart is absolutely broken. George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. My heart goes out to Nancy and all his family and friends." — Dolly Parton
"George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend." -- Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland
"I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend." -- Barbara Mandrell
"If I'm blessed enough to make it there, I look forward to you giving me the grand tour. Rest in peace George Jones!!!!!" -- Keith Urban via Twitter
"George Jones' life is an example of so many wonderful things: How someone's God-given gifts can make this a richer, better place. How one human being can overcome adversity, addiction, and life threatening obstacles time and time again. That it is not the stumble or fall that counts, but the willingness to stand again. How a keen sense of humor and a twinkle in a person's eye can still prevail even after all of life's hard knocks. How mistakes, missteps, and bad choices are not the end of the world if a person chooses to turn them into something good. And George's life is above all the strongest example of how the love of a great woman can get a man through anything. All of this made its way beautifully into every note of the greatest voice country music will ever know. And one of the greatest friends you could ever have. We miss you already George." -- Brad Paisley
"He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time." -- Kenny Chesney
"George Jones was my friend and I loved him." -- Trace Adkins
"Such a sad day ... May you Rest in Peace George Jones." -- Sheryl Crow via Twitter
"Really REALLY bad news. We've lost a country music legend. And I've lost a hero and a friend. Goodbye George Jones ..." -- Blake Shelton via Twitter
"I feel such a personal loss of not only one of the greatest vocal influences of my life, but also I've lost a dear friend. Visits with George have always been full of joy and laughter. Every time I would see him, George would always greet me with a funny story or a joke! His legacy will put his name at the top of the most influential artists in history, right along with Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. His voice will be influencing singers 100 years from now and beyond!" -- Travis Tritt
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Left 4 Dead 2 Is Finally Uncensored on Steam in Australia
Players who already own the game can download a free update to get the uncensored version.
Players who already own the game can download a free update to get the uncensored version.
Valve's first-person zombie shooter earns an R18+ rating for high impact violence, strong impact themes, and mild impact language.
Who would win in a fight, Gordon Freeman or the Heavy?
Left 4 Dead Survivors still takes place in the United States, but features mostly Japanese survivors.
Minh Le goes on to say that he's seen Half-Life 3 concept art and that it's public knowledge that Valve is working on that game.
It's 4 versus 1000 in Japanese arcades.
Left 4 Dead Survivors being specifically designed for Japanese arcades.
Figure is up from 7 million earlier this month.
Valve announces beta for new user-review feature that allows you to write reviews, rate others' reviews, and interact with developers.
Valve veteran Jason Holtman to work on "making Windows a great platform for gaming"; has been leading digital distribution platform for eight years.
Members of the Dota 2 subreddit stumble upon a Valve project tracker referencing Left 4 Dead 3 and Source 2.
List of titles to be discounted next week includes Assassin's Creed III, Bulletstorm, Crysis 3, Left 4 Dead 2, and The Witcher 2.
Projects labeled after company's shooters and game engine turn up in internal documentation; other names include "SteamMMO" and "Steam Box".
Things take an extraplanetary turn on the Modcast as Master Chief faces the fearsome aliens of Mars Attacks, and zombies soar to the heavens in low gravity.
Free promotion will make Left 4 Dead 2 characters playable in Resident Evil 6 and vice versa only on PC.
We live in a world where the My Little Ponies can be pitted against Xenomorphs, and Master Chief can have a Master Sword. This is a good world.
Valve adds user-created Lord of the Rings-themed mod to official servers for zombie shooter.
It's an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the world of DINOSAURS.
What Aussie gaming news went down this week? We round up the happenings in one handy post, presented in glorious chronological format!
Publisher says it has been exploring the legal options surrounding the re-submission of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia under the new R18+ adult classification.
Valve writer confirms zombie shooter series sales across first and second installment; Left 4 Dead 3 possible for "sometime down the road."
Valve runs Left 4 Dead 2 at 315 frames per second on Linux; claims to have "improved graphic driver performance" under the OS.
Valve confirms long-in-development downloadable content Cold Stream headed to PC, Mac, and Xbox 360 later this month alongside Mutation update.
E3 2012: Payday: The Heist dev Overkill Software reportedly working on game that explains origin of zombie outbreak before Valve's original 2008 survival shooter.
Overkill Software confirms studio working with Valve on a mystery "in-depth collaboration" for robbery title and zombie shooter.
Valve confirms this week's security breach potentially exposed encrypted credit card numbers, passwords, addresses, more.
We go behind the scenes at Valve, Bungie, and Epic Games to see how user feedback helps shape the game development process.
National Entertainment Collectibles Association announces agreement with Portal, Half-Life maker for toys, action figures, board games, accessories, and apparel from studio's stable of IP.
Australian Catholic Bishops "welcome" proposed guidelines for adult rating for video games; Australian Christian Lobby describes changes as "frightening."
Proposed new adult rating for games allows high violence except where it "offends" community standards; MA15+ tightened to restrict incentive-based nudity, sexual activity.
Counter-Strike tournament also held at Game and Art Festival.
Near-billionaire Gabe Newell discusses his privately held developer's finances with Forbes; Steam controls 50 to 70 percent of PC online market.
Financial magazine's crowd-sourced list of candidates to make massive impacts in next year features Valve CEO in recognition of Steam's hold on PC digital distribution.
Valve's digital distribution service hits new milestone on the back of 178 percent user growth; unit sales spike 200 percent in last 12 months.
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Yesterday, the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed Senate Bill 585 by a 4-3 vote. The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Yesterday, the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed Senate Bill 585 by a 4-3 vote. The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
If it is legal to sell guns in Komifornia, then how can the make it illegal to sell a legal product in a public building.
So they sell marijuana in Komifornia but not guns. Huh. Visited that place once. Some knock out good looking chicks. I think I went to Venice beach? and that was quite a show.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
I currently live in Southern Komifornia. The women out here are Beautiful. Nothing you would want to take home and show Momma. Most of them out here are dumber than a box of rocks. A good lay but thats about it. To some that sounds good. Not me. I went to the local range out here called Iron Sights. I was asking the owner about these new laws on ammo and gun shows. He told me that the only thing thats holding this stuff from passing is the fact the state is out of money. Pretty sad. Glad I'll be moving soon. F*%! California. Not worth saving if you ask me. People out here are real assholes. Hope the FEMA trucks get em all.
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.", Will Durant
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.", Edmund Burke
Lost cause jrs. We can't help you. The gun owners in your state have to man up and do that. It is sad, and yes I do believe the cancer will spread. Illinois is following suit very closely. Calguns is a very active group, but it will take every gun owner in your state to have an impact.
Freedom is not free. Some will perish to preserve it for the many. Just as our Forefathers did before us, we must take up the battle and not waver. Victory is our only option.
Gee, the economy in that state is on life support and they want to kill one of the few parts of it that's going great guns (if you'll forgive the pun). Really smart.
Thats why its not worth saving. Its ran by assholes.
In the 90's WA had a huge migration of Komifornians come our way. We have not recovered, nor do we appear to be likely to.
Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho are looking better each year, but I am waiting for global warming to make them a little more habitable in winter.


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Microsoft and Adobe holding secret anti-Apple meetings?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer snuck into Adobe to talk with their CEO, Shantanu Narayen, about how they could team up, cartoon villain-style, to take on the growing mobile power of Apple and one Steven P. Jobs. the NYT Bits blog says:
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.
One person familiar with the discussion said the two companies had talked about the blockade that Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, had placed on Adobe's Flash software for its hand-held devices and whether a partnership by Adobe and Microsoft could fend off Apple, which continues to grow at juggernaut speeds.
Crazier things have happened in tech, so let us know what you think. Would Microdobe (Adobesoft?) pose a larger threat to Apple than either currently does alone? Could we see an Flash Phone 7? CS5 Office Suite? And how will previous Adobe best-fremeny Google feel about being left to third wheel l
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Microsoft and Adobe holding secret anti-Apple meetings?
He snuck in? Really?
Haters gonna hate.
Let me tell you, I would love to have a buggy non working flash player on my phone. But if this happens then you would be able to buy two buggy non working right things for the price of one. There is a reason apple dosent do things other companies do and so far I can see why. Flash player on mobile phone for one.
Adobe creates an amazing creative suite of applications (except maybe flash haha). The thought of Microsoft acquiring Adobe to me means the end of those suites. Every creative aspect Microsoft chases has always failed miserably. I don't mind a partnership but an acquisition would not be in the best interest for Adobe.
@Dennis A monopoly? Are you serious? Since when was the iPhone the only phone or platform? I'm not sure if you've noticed but there is this thing called Android that's been giving this small thing I like to call "competition". I think there may be other platforms and phones as well. The name Palm/HP rings a bell but don't quote me on that. Oh, RIM and Microsoft ... almost forgot them.
Now when you talk about Apple having a monopoly, do you mean they went out and bought the board game? Because that would make much more sense.
Adobe seriously needs to get back to focusing on its actual products. This contact defence of Flash, a dead plugin architecture, by Adobe is just getting stupid.
People - Remember, having a monopoly is not illegal. It also does not mean that there is no competing products in a given category, otherwise Microsoft could not have had a monopoly in the OS category in the 90s. Apple was nearing monopoly status with the iPhone...but that has changed dramatically in the last year.
It is also funny that a lot of iPhone users were begging for Flash on the iPhone until Steve said it was not good. That man can sure control a lot of minds and emotions.
I'm not worried over any Microsoft/adobe team-up for one simple reason: Microsoft can't innovate because it's a simple case of too many cooks on the kitchen. Every project is headed up by a committee of hundreds, and that's always watered down any one mans vision. Compare that to apple, what The Steve says goes, no compromises. Voilà, great products. Adding a sluggish Adobe to already sluggish Microsoft is just adding more people to the committee, and nothing will EVER get done.
Mark: When was Apple ever nearing monopoly status with the iPhone? They release products that fit right in established markets: iPod in the MP3 player market. iPhone in the smartphone market. iPad in the tablet market.
I don't think many people were begging for Flash on the iPhone and all of the sudden started hating Flash the next minute. Flash has always had detractors--Flash blockers anyone? I repeat: Flash has ALWAYS had detractors. By your reasoning, Android fans that used to hate Flash (you know, because it is annoying) appear to love it now, just because Apple spurned Adobe. Zoiks.
2007, oh look Apple made a little smart phone. It's cute. They will never sell. Apple go back to your macs, windows mobile is here to stay. 2010, holy crap, we have to do something about that darn phone. Let's get lawyers to stop messing with the drug companies, and sue Apple. We could jump on that bandwagon. Tell them they can't sell anything, iPhones ipads iPods. Opps that has already been done. Guess they should have noticed Apple in 2007, and made better products to compete.
OMG f you c k flash and adobe. Geeze. Stop pushing a crappy technology to everyone.
I have to LOL at this. Having been a Windows Mobile user for years before I switched to iPhone, I can tell you that the WORST place to get Microsoft products supported properly is on their own OS.
Compare the Windows Live offerings on Windows Mobile 6 and the same offerings on iOS.
Fastest way to kill off Adobe Flash as a mobile standard, or to bring it to the iPhone is to let Microsoft control it.
Rene asked how Google would feel about this alleged Legion of Doom. They could care less. That's why Sprint will be offering what essentially be a "Yahoo" phone running on Android (although Google said from the beginning if Yahoo wanted to make a Yahoo phone, they would be ok with that). Not to mention, if it wasn't for Android allowing Adobe to even make a case to present/share with Microsoft, we wouldn't even be talking about this.
There's more going on here than what's being let on. Silverlight competes directly with Flash. So the real question is: Why would Microsoft want to deal with Adobe even in the mobile space unless the goal is to remove the competition.
@Tallbuva (#25): I'm certain you meant they couldn't care less.
your position is that google doesn't care. therefore, the way to express that is to say they couldn't -- could NOT -- care any less. saying "they could care less" is the opposite of what you (and others) mean when using this phrase. think about the meaning of words you say, instead of just mindlessly repeating what you hear. :-)
Who care's about flash anyway I spend most of my time trying to keep away from flash if they can't stop my MacBook pro from crashing why in the hell would I want my phone to start doing the same?
Flash has been out for year's and only now they want to try and fix it because apple has made a phone and people are going with out it you want to cry like baby's ( they won't let us on they phone to make it suck)


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Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 9: Joseph Morgan Says Klaus Is Still Capable of Terrible Things
Klaus is either deliciously evil or just delicious, depending on your perspective, but Joseph Morgan is always delightful. He made a round of interviews in preparation for Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 9, "O Come All Ye Faithful."
Though he's not allowed to say if Klaus is the one who deals the deathblow to one of Mystic Falls' own, he did tell Zap2It that the OV is as bad as ever — in spite of his crush on Caroline (Candice Accola). "To the people who think he's 'gone soft' or whatever, I can assure you that he's still more than capable of all of the terrible things he did in the beginning," says Joseph. The goosebumps we just got on our arms say we believe him.
And Caroline's charms haven't blinded Klaus to Tyler (Michael Trevino), who's been doing his best to un-sire an army of hybrids. Joseph warns in the Zap2It interview, "There's absolutely an explosive conclusion to that story."
While speaking to TV Fanatic, Joseph was less specific if more ominous: "Everything will change. It's being shaken up as we speak."
We're afraid of all the things. All the terrible, explosive, change-y things.
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2009 Distinguished Honors Alumni Award Recipient: Mark SutterPosted Apr. 20, 2009
Currently, he is the Director of Academic Services for Elyria City Schools where he oversees the day-to-day operation of the 15 schools in the system - The curriculum, instruction, standardized assessments as well as the supervision of the building principals fall under his leadership. He is also a member of the Superintendent's Cabinet and provides direct supervision to a staff of 7.
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- Serves as a member of the Endowment Board of Trustees for the Elyria City Schools
- Was selected to participated in post-doctoral studies program in Harvard's Summer Institute AND a program at Yale's Child Study Center Received Educational Leadership award from the University Council for Educational Administration
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That is the true evil face of the EU. It considers the majority view of the people to be a dangerous force, that needs to be corralled and controlled.
The kind of people that think the writhing mass of the populace need to be regulated and their baser instincts controlled and subdued are the same kind people who were able to sign the papers to consign millions of families to the gulags of Siberia and the death camps of Poland.
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I'm sure if you polled ordinary Greeks they wouldn't really give two fucks about some play put on by far leftists and attacked by other far leftists. They'd care about jobs, how they were going to pay their mortgage and what kind of future their children would have.
It's a classic example of how the far left is obsessed with it's own internal disputes to the exclusion of the concerns of the people they purport to represent. Squabbling between the far left Golden Dawn and far left playwrites is a complete side show to the awful suffering of ordinary Greeks, who no doubt care little for ideological bandwagons and more for their own physical and financial well being.
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And what a member of parliament says, doesn't equal what people are thinking. Especially as quite some states don't have a district system, but just vote on a party, or its respective leader.
Berlusconi managed to say to an SPD-member (of all German parties!) that he was thinking of him as a potential Camp commander. So yeah, silly **** is being said in the EU parliament too, which isn't that strange, for a parliament.
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The later is a 200 odd page wank sock to the petulant children of the Occupy movement.
It will be a matter of attrition as the weaker debtor southern economies are forced out by the relentless Euro project and the stronger creditor northern economies leave in disgust at their liabilities. There won't be a big bang, but it will crumble brick by brick.
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You are according to your profile 27 years old. Digital software piracy via downloads and copy protection by developers and cracking of those protections by hackers has been going on since BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. Granted the only reason this didn't occur in music and movies first is because they were not digital yet so the piracy was analog and hence did not allow for being downloaded but facts are facts.
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Originally posted by rumpleman
I agree with this statement, F2P is not the enemy.. we are. The problem is not the buisness model, its the player base. WE force the companies into being more creative with their buisness models because WE are more choosy, we have more games than ever to dedicate our gaming time to. WE have other finacial responsiblities, WE are more and more becoming more demanding, have more expectations, some unrealistic. WE, the gaming community sub-culture as a whole are the issue here. WE are killing games. WE are all as unique as the next fellow in game genre's, gaming playstyle, preferences, likes and dislikes and, frankly, now that there are MILLIONS of gamers, and for this conversation I am going to exclude console gamers as, well, this is MMORPG.COM.. so we will stick to MMO's, WE have come to expect ALL our demands be met or we simply move on to the next game.
I might add, I am rather disappointed in this article, it's poorly written. The examples used to justify your opinion are weak and in all honesty, self-saticfying. I mean.. The Sims? Who even played that? Kidding, I know allot of people did, it was a distraction from other MMO's when one was needed, like SL, or IMVU, or some other SOCIAL, and or REAL LIFE/VIRTUAL LIFE line blurring games are.
Look, Free to PLay is not the enemy, subscription based business models are no longer the BEST models to use, Cash Shops, Pay for Power, or Pay to Win, how ever you wish to coin it, is here to stay. This article would be better served if you were not forcing your opinion on us as fact. You failed. And I wont even begin to touch on my personal choice of business model because I'd like to think it varies. BUT.. if given the choice I would have to say it is totally dependant on the title. Allow me to elaborate;
Lets take a title like the recently released Guild Wars 2, and its predecessor Guild Wars 1. Here is a business model that clearly has worked, pay for the game, no sub fees, pay for expansions, and a cash shop you CAN use if you so desire for consumables, social items etc... While I PERSONALLY think this is a great model, and perhaps even IDEAL, I would like to say that a PERFECT model in my view would include the above with an OPTIONAL subscription. Subscribing has its bennifits, so I would hope there'd be some real advantage to subbing to a game with this model, say, sub based content, or items, exp buffs, etc..
Now, lets look at the subscription only model, keeping it recent, games like Rift, WoW (yes I know wow is free for 20 levels, so is Rift), TSW, etc.. All pay for client, pay for subscription, and pay in cash shops. All fine and dandy untill you burn through all the content and get bored, a new title is released, cancel sub, play new title, get bored, and re-sub to your favorite game. Lets be frank.. While wow may be the king of subcriber accounts, it was NOT king of the mmo's, if one uses percentages, wow may have had the largest number of subscribed accounts, but it also has the largest percentage of canceled subbed accounts as well. Simply because of its numbers. But my point in bringing this up is only to show that subbed based business models are not always the best way to keep your players long term.
Next, lets look at the Free to Play model, and the massive number of titles in the business model, and lol, all the titles that have converted to it from a sub based model, those that are about to (swtor, AoC, and Aion are just 3 examples) . I use these three because I subbed to all of them at one point. There are also a slew of titles upcomming that will be FREE to PLAY.. Why? An attempt to KILL the gaming industry? LOL come on.. the only thing that can kill the industry would be we all stop playing games, and that's not likely to ever happen, even as we grow older, we, er I at over 40, are still gaming. And younger generations are joining in on the fun. Free to Play just opens the doors to more and more gamers, who, perhaps do not have the cash for subscriptions but do, perhaps from time to time have a few extra bucks they can sink into a cash shop or micro-transaction shop as they are better known as in the industry, for some gear or consumables, or bag expansions, what have you.
I do not claim to be a profesional writer, nor is my spelling all that accurate, and lacking a spell checker in this forum post, pretty sure you will find many. Nor to I claim to be an expert in the gaming industry, I do however claim to be a gamer, and as a true gamer, perhaps old-school gamer, business model means absolutley NOTHING to me.. What matters, and what should matter is whether or not I enjoy the game, that is what will keep me playing. If I am no longer challenged, I move on. Hell I paid over a 100 bucks for all of WoW's expansion, bought 6 months of game time, and I played 2 weeks. Did I give it a fair chance? Perhaps not, but no game that lets me go from level 1 to 85 in three solid days is worth my time. And I am not singling out WoW here, so fan boys and haters need not troll, but its true of ANY title.. Sorry TSW, loved the game, just blew through it too fast, same is true with swtor, and many other titles.
In closing, articles like this, frustrate me, passing one's opinion off as fact is, well, shameful. The FACT is, we are all very different, and the opinions on this subject are as varied as we are unique. I do not believe that any one opinion, be it mine, or anyone ones will be the answer to the gaming industry woes. The Fact is, some people do not like to pay subscriptions, some perfer it thinking they get ALL the game has to offer for a montly fee, some like a mix, some like Box Priced games with no subs and a cash shop to support the developers and still, some prefer a mix of all three. There is no industry killing business model. There is however game killing players who move on for lack of .. well content, a game that keeps their attention, and I have been at this a loong time, very looooong time. I can say with some certainty, no matter the business model, if you love a game, you stay and play, if you get bored and move on to other games , you WILL come back to the one game you loved most, provided it is still online. Lets put the game killing chat behind us and own up to our own faults first. WE are the game killers.
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You have good intentions, but you are limited by your experience. I (personally) have been involved with online computer games for a lot longer, and as such see a lot longer trail.
Early Online games were initially monetized via per minute charges, which some companies then streamlined into monthly charges. Many of these games were F2P, as they originally ran on the server back end, with a light client (think browser games of today).
It was not until they started making larger clients that required distribution that P2P was even created. Out of this came the F2P/P2P battle that we know today. There were clear F2P 'winners' in the west as early as 2001 (RuneScape). They clearly set the tone of F2P in the west, and showed the dominance of the monthly sub in the west.
In the east, more specifically China, F2P evolved differently due to legislation that outlawed subscriptions (think AOL style subscription abuse). Time (but not subscription) was still a common method of monetization, but many games chose to offer an a la carte mode, or item mall/cash shop. This is the start of what many current gamers call F2P today.
The evolution of DLC is slightly different. DLC was seen as a way for publishers to make a direct sale to the customer. This allowed them to make a much higher % of the revenue from a sale, and cut out the retail requirement. It helped them establish a direct billing relationship to the customer, and in doing so, be able to market to them directly.
I am interested to see your part 2, but based on par 1, I am concerned that your lack of experience may affect it as well.
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For me FTP is killing the games. I refuse to play them. I want my game devs to take the 15$ a month and focus on good and fun games. I don't want the game design to focus around maximizing profit. For every 1$ potion that will speed up leveling by x% they made the design decision to make leveling slower, for each 10$ mount that increases traveling speed by y% they decided to make it slower for normal players and for each cool 5$ outfit they decided to but in crap ones for standard player.
Although not an MMO Diablo3 was the best example how game design driven by microtransactions gets completly nuts. No matter what the Blizzard devs say, you could see and feel it every time you play. Don't find anything for your class? buy items. What, you don't get enough money because everything you find is just crap, use your credit card. What you die too often because you did not get good items, wait we increase the repair cost to "motivate you... (... to buy gold with real money)".
No offense, but you do get the point of an EDITORIAL, don't you?
What the writer should inherently be taken as OPINION and not FACT due to that categorization alone.
EDITORIAL = "The following is just the writers subjective opinion"
It's cool if you disagree with him, but I don't see how you can reasonably take him for task for presenting an opinion in a format that is explicitly labeled as opinion?
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Um.. the article title says this was going to be a F2P analysis when it instead turned out to be a history lesson on DLC and expansion packs. I mean I understand the article may eventually get to the F2P core, but then the title of the article should have been something like "The history of profiteering from video games" or "The evolving payment model of video games".
I was really looking forward to reading about the F2P trend and its impact on the market.
I've been around since the early Online Service Days (Genie, Prodigy, Compu-Serve) myself. I remember the $ per minute charges. I don't think you could really classify ANY of the games on those as F2P, as even if they weren't premium fee games, the cost of playing them was still rolled into the cost of the service itself.
If you are counting the early MUDS/MUSH's on the .Net, those really wouldn't count as F2P either as those were mostly NON-COMMERCIAL games...there is a HUGE difference between something offered as NON-COMMERCIAL and F2P.
Respectfully, F2P/P2P has nothing to do with whether there is a charge for the client (thick or thin) itself. Many P2P games distribute thier clients for free...it's about whether there is a minimum ACCESS CHARGE to play the game.
There may have been some older examples of F2P games in the West, but it really hasn't been until the last few years that the model became mainstream.
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If you look at earnings reports for MMO companies, you will see that the costs of maintaining an MMO are relatively cheap, compared to the overall costs associated with making and developing an MMO. Developing an MMO is where the majority of the cost comes in.
It used to be that the server costs, bandwidth, etc. cost a lot of the budget money, but that's just not true anymore and it certainly doesn't cost so much that companies still need to charge $15/month for it. That is how games like GW1 and GW2 are able to make it. GW1 has been running almost purely on box sales of the game and expansion for 7 years (there is minor income from its CS, but not a significant amount). GW2 is using basically the same system. And I'm sure Anet isn't banking on the idea that the CS will cover all of their development costs over the next 7 years. That's why you are charged for the box price. It recoups their development costs, and allows them to continue to maintain the game, which includes adding content, maintaining servers and bandwidth, and fixing bugs.
And are you going to tell me that the costs of maintaining a game are the same as they were in 2004? I highly doubt that, especially when it comes to hardware. That's why the $15/month isn't so great anymore. You are paying them to play only one game and much of that money you're paying them goes to profit and marketing.
I'll take B2P any day over that. Even with a CS. I get to decide where my money goes then. Rather than feeling that I'm stuck in a game I'd rather not play because I have so much invested in it. And with B2P, I do know exactly how much I have to pay to get the full game: A one time fee of $60.
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I have been against F2P from the start, but it is only one of a lethal cocktail of factors that have changed the gaming industry forever.
I will go futher, MMO's as we knew them are dead, solo games as we new them are dying out. It suits profit that all games meet in the middle, not truely a MMO any more or a solo game. In five to seven years time I am not sure we will be able to tell the differance between "MMO's" and "solo" games. Every game will be online, every game will have a multiplayer option but you will be able to play it solo. Players will be linked by achievements and Facebook style social media, not by interaction in game. Guilds will exist first and foremost in a social media format and only secondly in game. You, the real person will be linked as a real person to all the games you play.
Some of this sounds good, but then streamlined questing sounded good in WoW and now you don't need to read to go on a quest. Dropping harsh death penalities sounded good, but now there are no penalites. The changes start of better, but give it a couple of years and the changes are exagerated until the gameplay is ruined.
MMO's cannot hold on to MMO players, it is not rocket science why. They are not just being played by MMO gamers any more, they are being played by solo players who fancy playing a MMO for a couple of months. The MMO players hang on after two months for a few months more but they are a faction of the playerbase.
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Yes, the costs of hosting are not that drasticaly different then they were 8 years ago. It's NOT the hardware....that shows me that you really aren't all that informed on the subject..... it's the costs of running the DATA CENTER....some of the costs associated with that have gone down but others (power, staffing, cooling, construction, property taxes) have gone UP SIGNIFICANTLY. Generaly speaking costs for rack space in a quality data center remain pretty close to what they were 8 years ago. You MAY be able to reduce that somewhat if you can offload some of your processing to cloud services (not a bad idea given the spike demand nature of MMO's) but whether you can actualy do that depends upon your application archectecture and to what degree your application is dependant on responsiveness....cloud services introduce thier own bit of latency into an application.
That's not even counting the other big driver of operating costs....your own CS/Tech Support staff.
Purchasing the HW is not the issue...it's OPERATING IT in a reliable/secure environment.
If I want to run out of someones garage....yeah, I can do that dirt cheap.
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"Free to play, pay to win""
Hm. I can quite easilly prove a lot of people here wrong simply by mentioning League of Legends.
No pay to win, but pay for some pretty damn awesome skins for your heroes. THAT is how it should be done. Not literally though, but you get the idea.
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MMO devs made their own graves with Wow clones long before F2P.
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MMOs have been largly immune to piracy.
Sure, there is the box sale, but what you are really buying is the account that grants you access to the server, or the license to upgrade your account. The box is just something physical to have to scan at the cash register.
That's the "beauty" of an MMO - to be Massively Multiplayer, you need to be online and connected to the server. Without that connection to a server, the game is pretty meaningless.
So with MMOs you aren't pirating anything, you have licensed accounts, and those are guaranteed to be one to one (one purchase to one user). Even if that account gets traded or sold afterwards (which may or may not be allowed by the EULA) - whereas in typical piracy, you have one copy that gets duplicated onto hundreds/thousands/millions of other computers (and those get seen as lost sales, regardless of if they really are or not)
So I agree with many commenters - piracy has nothing to do with F2P in terms of MMOs. It may have some relevency outside of MMOs, and I'd go one step further to say that maybe the F2P push has been mostly driven by other-than-MMO development (where piracy may be more relevent).
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As soon as i hear the word "free" i get suspicious.
"Free", implying "something for nothing" is just the wrong word here, and when you hear that word from companies such as SOE or EA, you have to really naive if you think you will end up spending LESS money than before to get the same content.
I dont want things for "free". I want to pay a fee that gives the company a reasonable profit, fairly paid devs AND me the right to demand a proper product.
F2P is a hoax and the sooner the players are willing to pay a fair amount to a company that listens to the player base, the better.
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There is a subtle difference between a battle arena and a persistent world mmorpg. Well there used to be anyway. What works well for one genre doesn't necessarily work well for another.
Resticting it to skins only is fantstastic and would work in any game. Trouble is in a battle arena time/grind/disparity is not an issue so it is all vanity items. Whereas in mmos... it is progression based, so the cash shop is more than vanity. A whole different kettle of fish.
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He blames Sims for DLC... I don't. DLC didn't seem to get BIG till after Xbox 360 & PS3 started doing it. After that it seemed like every game console, PC, mmo's, etc had to do some type of DLC.
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Then explain to me how some MMOs can run a quality game without charging a monthly fee. Surely their costs for maintaining the game are roughly the same as those who charge the fee.
Sorry, but I don't buy the argument that it costs anywhere near $15/month per user to run a game after it's been released. Not when there are so many games out there that don't get that much in income but still manage to keep the game running.
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The irony of this artical is the advert in the very middle.
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Originally posted by erictlewis
cant agree more , its frustrating how p2p games go to f2p and fall below what i call "standards" , in eq2 no legendary gear or fabled ....and the tokens to even able to wear.....oh well....go f2p full or dont go....
Lotro however did a good job , u can gain currency while playing (farming hard ><) but at least i was able to buy Moria expansion , after playing for a while ! free !
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The Trojans of Ridge Spring-Monetta High School stepped on the field Friday night looking for revenge following last year's 37-0 loss to the Tigers of visiting Saluda High School. While the Trojans were able to score 12 points this go around, they were unable to keep the Tigers from matching their previous year's total as Saluda walked away in the fourth quarter to win 37-12.
Despite an obvious size advantage held by the Tigers, the Trojans handled Saluda's attack well and were also able to fine the end zone twice in the second quarter off a pair of Reggie Preaton touchdown passes to Travious Wigfall.
Down by just two points heading into the second half of play, the Trojans seemed to be building momentum throughout the third quarter as they kept the Tigers from scoring and put up several big plays of their own. But when Preston was sacked in the end zone for a safety, the momentum pendulum swung back in favor of Saluda, which went on the score three s'more touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
Despite the final outcome that included two costly picks thrown by Preston that would have certainly ended in scores had they found their marks, the Trojans held their own. Preston went 17-31 for 234 yards and two scores while Wigfall hauled in four receptions for 71 yards and his pair of touchdown catches.
Maurice Howard went 8-15 for 94 yards and was responsible for three total touchdowns,including two passing, as he led the Tigers in a ground assault that saw Malik Brooks rush 17 times for 175 yards including one touchdown. Chris Christie and Jamarion Mathis had the two interceptions for Saluda.
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2nd Quarter
Saluda - Howard 6 yards TD pass to Posey (Pineda extra points old) 7-0
RSM - R. Preston 11 yard pass to Wigfall for TD (Extra point snap fumbled) 7-6
Saluda - Howard 32 yard pass to Mathis for TD (Pineda extra point good) 14-6
RSM - R. Preston 31 yard pass to Wigfall for TD (2 point conversion no good) 14-12
4th Quarter
Saluda - R. Preston sacked in end zone for safety 16-12
Saluda - Howard rushes 1 yard for TD (Pineda extra point good) 23-12
Saluda - Foulks rushes 25 yards for TD (Pineda extra point good) 30-12
Saluda -Brooks 27 yard rush for TD (Pineda extra point good) 37-12
Individual Stats
RSM Passing
Reggie Preston (17-31, 234 yards, 2TD, 2INT)
Bra'Quon Preston (0-1)
RSM Rushing
Travious Wigfall (4 rushes, 10 yards)
R. Preston (7 rushes, -4 yards)
D. Preston (1 rush, -8 yards)
Terrance Smith (2 rushes, -5 yards)
RSM Receiving
AJ Hopkins ( 6 Rec., 29 yards)
Samuel Bedenbaugh ( 3 Rec., 64 yards)
Ralfael Leaphart ( 2 Rec., 53 yards, FUM)
Jonathan Elam (2 Rec., 45 yards)
T. Wigfall (4 Rec., 71 yards, 2 TD)
RSM Returns
A. Hopkins (2, 31 yards)
T. Wigfall ( 1, 46 yards)
Saluda Passing
Maurice Howard (8-15, 94 yards, 2 TD)
Saluda Rushing
M. Howard (16 rushes, 74 yards, 1 TD)
Chris Christie (6 carries, 24 yards)
Juwan Foulks (8 carries, 59 yards, 1 TD)
Malik Brooks (17 carries, 175 yards, 1 TD)
Saluda Receiving
Devonta Brown (2Rec., 6 yards)
Denasjee Posey (3 Rec., 16 yards, 1TD)
Kentavis McKinney (1 Rec., 5 yards)
Jamarion Mathis (2Rec., 67 yards, 1 TD)
Saluda Returns
D. Posey (2, 49 yards)
J. Mathis (2, 27 yards)
Saluda Interception
C. Christie 1 (0 yards)
J. Mathis 2 (50 yards)
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The Salvation Army of Aiken is hoping to help many residents in need have full bellies during the holidays.
The nonprofit's goal is to provide for 521 families in the area, which includes more than 1,200 children who are in the Christmas Assistance Program.
Supplies are low and the Salvation Army is asking for the community to make a food donation. No matter the size of the donation, every little bit will help.
"While our food supply is very low at this point we know that the community will rally and make it possible for us to provide these families food for Christmas," said Salvation Army's Captain Angela Repass.
The local Salvation Army chapter is asking for canned meats such as tuna and chicken, canned fruits, dessert mixes, Jiffy Mix and stuffing. The nonprofit also needs pasta and rice.
Repass said if they have any left over items, they will use them in the Salvation Army's Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen throughout the year.
Repass added that they will take monetary donations, too.
Over the years, the need for the assistance program has grown, Repass said. She noticed the number of families that applied for the assistance program this year was about the same as in 2011 but there are more children. She's also seen an increase in senior citizens asking for help this year, too.
Donations can be made at three locations: 322 Gayle Ave. Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., 103 Silver Bluff Road Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 604 Park Ave. any day at any time, but specify that the donation is for Christmas.
The Salvation Army would like to have food donations in by Monday so they can start putting boxes together for delivery but Repass said they will certainly take donations after that day.
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bought some for my mom, she is getting older, and her bein over weight is starting to cause her problems, when this helps her lose the weight its gonna make her feel better, and keep her medical costs low.
Hopefully I don't gain the right back when I stop taking this, anyone know if the weight stays off..
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When a serious security issue arises, we should try to create a
STRUTS_#_#_#_X branch from the last GA release (from tag - check it out and use
mvn release:branch as below).
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts2/tags/STRUTS_#_#_# cd STRUTS_#_#_# mvn release:branch -DbranchName=STRUTS_#_#_#_X -DupdateBranchVersions=true -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
Read the maven release:branch docs for further details or alternatively
src/site/resources/archetype-catalog.xml and change version of archetypes to current $VERSION, save and commit.
Apply and commit security patch.
Tag the release by using the {{release:prepare}} goal of Maven:
For a dry run, add '-DdryRun=true'. If you do a dry run, use 'mvn release:clean' to clean up after you have looked at the output.
When prompted for the SCM tag name, follow this pattern: STRUTS_2_3_[PATCH_VERSION]
This step will (more information):
This step will (more information):
After this step the artifacts will be hosted by Nexus
If you need to run perform again, (or in a different box), do:
Next, log in to Nexus and close staging repository.
After closing repository in Nexus, check if the version is available from staging repository as below:
In order to move the assemblies login to people.apache.org and execute the following code:
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Post a release/quality vote to the dev list (and only the dev list). The example mail is on Sample announcements page. Include the term "fast-track" in the subject, as: [VOTE] Struts 126.96.36.199 quality (fast track).
After the vote, if the distribution is being mirrored (there was a favourable release vote) copy the Sources and Binaries:
If a new DTD was defined, copy it to /www/struts.apache.org/dtds/ and change permission to struts group (chown :struts *.dtd) and write rights (chmod g+w *.dtd).
Log in again to Nexus and release the repository, it will be automatically replicated across Maven Repositories
See Releasing a Maven-based project for further details.
Remove the old files from under /www/www.apache.org/dist/struts/ to synchronize only the latest version with peers. All the files from /www/www.apache.org/dist/ are always mirrored to http://archive.apache.org/dist/struts/
Wait 24 hours before proceeding.
If the release will fix a - hopefully yet undisclosed - security issue, it's now time to update the Security Bulletins page and add a new announcement. For a template, just check former announcements
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Use below script to perform update
We leave this as the last step, once the artifacts have had time to sync up on the mirrors.
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Getting Serious...Please review my plan
Ok so I'm finally serious enough for someone to critique what I'm doing and give me guidance. Any honest help will be appreciated. Here it goes...
Current weight: 236
Dress size: 16
This is seems to be as far as I can get myself with diet alone sort of like a set point I have lost 50lbs and kept if off for the last 3 years. I was diabetic and on medication but I'm not any more. Here's what I'm eating on average and how I'm training on average please give me any tips or advice.
Average calorie intake:2459 daily, 6 meals per day
I realized ths week I was getting way too much fat, a carry over from my low carb days. I'm adjusting that this week.
I don't eat anything white, I eat sprouted bread and steel cut oats or oat bran and I'm starting egg whites this week.
I usually have either a cheat day or cheat meal. I'm willing to adjust this but I must have a cheat or I WILL binge, my track record has proven that I do not do well with deprivation. I'll go back to eating crazy in a heartbeat. I have great discipline for about 6 days max. Just being honest.
I just started super setting recently because I discovered that heavy lifting was wrong for my body type, I'm about 70/30 endomorph/mesomorph. I have huge muscles underneath fat. I've been lifting and running on and off for years but never able to get back below 230-228 in the last 10 years. I get discouraged and go back to eating and slouching and eventually go back to the gym. The scale usually goes up when I start to train but I had been training with heavy weights. I'm starting to super set with moderate weights now and I'm sweating while lifting which is something that never happened before. I also do about 20 mins of cardio after lifting whereas I used to do cardio before lifting. I have yet to see results from this, just started about 2 weeks ago.
Monday: 6am cardio about 45 mins
2pm Chest, shoulders, biceps..supersetting/ 20 mins cardio
Tuesday: 6am 45 cardio..depends but most weeks I do
Noon: Boot Camp... 45 min
Wednesday: 6AM Cardio 45-60 mins
2PM Back-super setting..20 mins cardio
Thursday: Noon: Boot Camp
Friday: 6am Cardio
2PMLegs-supersetting....30 mins cardio
Saturday: 60 mins cardio
Sunday: Off
I have another 3 weeks of Boot Camp and after that I'll have a better hold on training. I'm just noticing that Boot Camp is kinda throwing off my other training the last couple of week I may miss one cardio or on weight day. Boot Camp is rigorous and I'm giving 110% so I'm a little done the next day. Anything that needs to be adjusted I'm willing to adjust, if not I'll keep plugging away. I'm weighing on Monday after my last weigh 3 weeks ago. The scale and I are arch enemies and always have been, so I'll be trying on my favorite measuring pants this week too, I get a better guage of my progress that way too.
Ok sorry it's so long but thanks for reading!
Shedding fat is going to come mostly from diet.
For training, find something you can consistently maintain and keep at it. It seems like you have that. Just make sure you are working hard and giving it your all. I don't think you should entirely neglect heavy training. I would consider including some heavier sets from time to time.
OK, the diet. You asked for an honest response, so here goes, a Cheat Day is entirely excessive. And I respect that you said "I must have a cheat or I WILL binge." But honestly, why do you look at eating healthy as deprivation? You can still eat delicious foods. Get creative with spices, vegetables, etc to add variety and flavor to meals.
I believe you need a shift in perspective, rather than viewing a healthy diet as deprivation, why don't you try to view being overweight as deprivation. While you are overweight, you are depriving yourself, your family, your friends, of a healthier, more active version of yourself. Hopefully, that will help motivate yourself to endure with a healthy diet.
If your weight has been stable and your training and diet consistent, then it is time to start reducing some calories, likely in the form of carbs or some fat. Just lower enough to re-start weight loss, maybe 200 calories at a time. Re-assess weekly; is the scale dropping? Are you seeing improvements in the mirror? Are your measurements decreasing (if you are measuring)?
If you are planning a cheat, then make it a meal only, not a full day. And make yourself earn it. For example, it you are planning on having a cheat dinner, than consciously eat slightly less than normal for your earlier meals of the day and also train harder that day. That will help compensate for the additional calories.
James 1:16-17 ESV
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights
With God's help...Mens sana in corpore sano
Thank you so much!
Thanks for your honesty, I agree an attitude adjustment is needed. Maybe I'm clinging to my old psychological crutch, overeating! I know that what I'm eating needs to be given much more attention. I'm good with planning my training but I've never wanted to give the food the attention it deserves. Guess it's just time to grow up and get serious. Thanks so much for your suggestions...I'm on it!
Commander prety much covered it.. the over eating thing i can hit.. i can eat for england.. literally.. i have in one sitting eaten 8 8-10oz steaks at an all you can eat buffet just because i could.. the big thing with over eating is most of the time its not actually hunger.. its thirst.. i carry around a 4litre bottle of water (squash currently lemon/lime flavoured - sugar free.. total 4calories .. ) and sip it all day untill its all gone.. (usually 6-8pm for me) and even when dieting (currently dieting) i dont feel that hungry between meals... the other advice is hobbies, alot of eating is from boredom for me personally, if i have things to do i dont tend to eat as much,
James 1:16-17 ESV
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights
With God's help...Mens sana in corpore sano
Well I believe you need a shift in perspective, rather than viewing a healthy diet as deprivation, why don't you try to view being overweight as deprivation. While you are overweight, you are depriving yourself, your family, your friends, of a healthier, more active version of yourself.
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A lady once told me (and I didn't even ask her) that my Lifeline was 'split'. See it? This signified that I would be married more than once.
I really effing hate it when people like that are right.
Apparently our hands say a lot about us.
This one says that I am old enough for the veins to protrude on my hands, even in soft daylight and post-Photoshop. Crap.
This one says that I am a total clutz and burned myself on a hot pan. Double Crap.
This one says that I am too busy for manicures. Crappety Crap.
And this one says that I have finally found love.
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This is my May's Pieced Together block for Colleen. I love the fabrics she sent, especially with the black thrown in there.
Today is spray painting day for me. Yesterday we did some serious thrifting and got some treasures to bring home that need some re-painting. I used to whine endlessly when my husband would drag me into thrift stores, now I love it. Its like a treasure hunt, and half the time my husband thinks I'm buying total crap. And half the time he's right. But still, its so much fun. So now the spray painting part, by tonight I should be at least a few million brain cells lighter.
Here's another appliqued pillow I made this weekend. The flower is very bright and summery.


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Fracking opponents dominate discussion at local meeting
When Lynn Fass sold her horse farm in New Jersey several years ago, she wanted to get as far away from the drilling she partially blames for her property's depreciation as possible. Now, living in Chatham County, she's facing fracking once again.
Fass spoke at a Tuesday night meeting in which more than 50 people came to speak or listen. It was the first major public meeting about fracking in the area that hasn't been run by the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission. No members of the commission — several of whom live or work nearby — attended the forum.
Going by the name of Stand Your Ground N.C. w/ Ed Harris Against Fracking, the meeting's promotional material, speakers and audience made it clear that the night's theme would generally be opposition to fracking, and specifically the related practice of compulsory pooling.
Compulsory pooling allows gas companies to force landowners to hand over their mineral rights and sometimes their surface rights to those companies, as long as enough of their neighbors sign leases. It's legal in almost every state, although the North Carolina law is now under review by the MEC due to the recent legalization of fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, the process used to blast natural gas out of shale deposits with a mixture of water, sand and chemicals.
The MEC has held two local meetings related to forced pooling — one in Sanford and another in Pittsboro — but Ray Covington, the leader of the MEC's study group on forced pooling, and who is also a major landowner in Lee County, said previously that he didn't plan to attend this meeting, which had no governmental involvement or input. However, Rob Knight, who co-owns a pro-drilling land cooperative with Covington and Knight's brother Russ, did attend the meeting and even spoke despite being told by several audience members to leave.
Knight told the audience that forced pooling is likely to happen, and that they need to form large groups — to be able to bring more land to the table and thus get better lease terms — instead of being forced into a pool, which under the current law allots landowners almost no rights.
Harris, who organized the speakers but didn't include Knight, nevertheless told those heckling Knight to let him speak because everyone is entitled to an opinion. Harris himself urged people to speak with a lawyer if they do plan to sign a lease.
"They're going to be your best buddies," Harris said of the people coming around with leases to sign. "They're going to be as friendly as a couple of hound pups that someone dropped off in your driveway. ... They're going to have a wad of cash that could choke a goat."
But that won't stop them from using sneaky tactics that could end up harming landowners, he said. And, he added, the potential for accidents is huge, and people shouldn't sign away their rights or liability.
"Folks, fracking might be the greatest thing since sliced bread," Harris said. "But when it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong."
Fass' story amplified that point. She had 10 horses, she said, and an old pipeline through her land. She allowed an energy company to use it, but she said they mistreated her at every step of the way, even going as far as to secretly sell her topsoil to other companies until she found out. At one point, she said, the workers went on strike because the pipe on her property was very thin and they feared an accident. She said the company promised they'd fix it but never did, until she started lobbying people in Washington, D.C.
"These companies will tell you whatever you want to hear," she said. "They will lie to you. ... They are just in it for themselves, for the greed."
She ended up selling her property for about $300,000 less than it was appraised for, she said, although she did admit that she's not sure how much of that was caused by the aftermath of drilling and how much was caused by the collapse of the housing market.
Several speakers noted that poor residents will be affected as well, although in different ways.
Janeth Benitez, from Lee County's Workers for Clean Water, said fracking would have negative consequences for middle class and poor workers. The influx of workers might drive up the price of rent, she said, just as the use of millions or even billions of gallons of water could drive up water prices. Plus, she said, poor can't benefit from fracking because they generally don't own the land they live on, but they will still get all of the same negatives, like potential exposure to chemicals that could cause infertility or cancer.
"As a poor worker, I cannot afford such costly medical treatments," she said.
And despite promises of job creation, she said, she thinks most jobs will be low-wage positions in the service industries that pop up around drilling enterprises, not in the more lucrative gas industry, which requires experience that most people in North Carolina don't have.
Bill Tatum, who ran unsuccessfully against local Rep. Mike Stone in November's N.C. House race, said he toured many counties in Pennsylvania that had fracking in preparation for his campaign and came away with mixed emotions, which he said was true of the communities he visited as well.
He said he saw those who got rich off drilling, but also those who were bankrupted. Also, Tatum noted, only about a quarter of the jobs in the industry require a college education, and those workers don't often settle in the community that's being fracked. The people who do, he said, are the less educated ones who don't have good prospects for employment once the wells dry up. But on the other hand, a town not much bigger than Broadway had just built three motels to accommodate new workers, which stimulated the economy at least for a time.
"It's still debatable," he said. "I'm not taking issue with this group or the pro-fracking folks. From my point of view, born and raised here in Lee County, I generally want to see — if we are going to move forward — is it safe? Will it be a boon? ... As we all know, we need that boost in Lee County."
There's no word yet on when — or if — this group will hold a second meeting. The meeting schedule for the MEC can be found online at http://portal.ncdenr.org.