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Mercantilist mindset and good fortune make successful China policy
While the Abbott government trumpets its China-Australia free trade agreement win, it continues to stumble over the non-commercial aspects of China policy. Read More
Personal freedom leads to economic freedom
It is clear now that economic liberty has supported a massive global reduction of poverty, disease and other key factors. It is also clear that the relationship holds—even controlling for geography,... Read More
Scapegoating investors won't slow up house prices
Unless global real interest rates rise significantly in the future, the gains in house prices are unlikely to be unwound. Read More
Protectionism no cure for our woes
We need to understand why the automotive industry is shutting up shop and avoid resorting to protectionism. Read More
Giving Holden money is like putting a Band-Aid on a corpse
It's time for politicians to get real and admit that taxpayer handouts are political, not economic, decisions. Read More
Seizing a Sino free trade moment
Australia's regulation of foreign direct investment is a critical stumbling block in a free trade agreement with China. Read More
It's time to put the break on corporate welfare
Corporate welfare for a favoured few - like Australia's car manufacturers - cannot be justified. Read More
The magic pudding state
Australians want government to spend more money on us, but we do not want to hand any more of our cash over to the tax office. Read More
A failure of enterprise bargaining mechanics
Australia's current enterprise bargaining system makes it difficult for automotive manufacturers to improve their performance and save jobs. Read More
Fairness is not equality
Income equality is not achievable, it is not desirable and it is not fair. Read More
Self-sustaining leviathan
How does Australia compare in the welfare dependency stakes? Read More
Independent body needed to preserve integrity of fiscal forecasts
Treasury has not gone wrong in its forecast for recovery, but in its expectations for the preceding downturn. Read More
Greens have got us tilting at windmills
The debate on climate change has less to do with scientific rationalism and more with the dogma of religious faith. Read More
Carmaker triumph or GM hypocrisy?
It's a product of public relations that Australians believe every government supports its own car industry, and looking at General Motors' ruthless cost-cutting of its European brands puts even more focus... Read More
EU referendum is a bad Irish joke
Economically, whatever happens in Ireland will not be decisive for the future of the euro. That is more likely being decided in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Athens and Lisbon. But to the rest of Europe watching... Read More
Striking a French euro tinderbox
Either Sarkozy or Hollande will win France's presidential elections, but the project of European cooperation and integration will surely lose. And the political uncertainty dominating the coming months... Read More
The hypocrisy of Europe's bankers
As the eurozone crisis has now seemingly calmed down and my friend's updates become more ecstatic by the week, I am afraid that we are edging ever closer towards his dream scenario. To most Europeans,... Read More
A zero-sum carbon game
There is no point trying to subsidise reductions in carbon emissions if the total amount of emissions is capped anyway. Read More
Returning to old European rivalries
Europeans may one day wake up in an environment of revived national rivalries, new political extremism and a continent without the open borders they once took for granted. This could be a tragedy even... Read More
In search of a Greek hero
To escape from its current mess, Greece does not need more Sisyphus work. It needs someone to tackle the Herculean task of cutting the country loose from Europe's monetary union. Read More
Hallmarks of an EU power play
The tragedy of the European crisis is not that it was caused by striving for too much economic efficiency. The real tragedy is that it could have been predicted by public choice theory. Read More
Why Merkozy is destined to fail
The eurozone crisis may soon return with more bad news from bond markets. Pity Europe's leaders are too busy to deal with it. Read More
Testing the RBA's DNA
As a practical first step towards more RBA independence, perhaps politicians of all parties could refrain from both applauding and criticising RBA decisions. It is none of their business. Read More
Testing the RBA's DNA
As a practical first step towards more RBA independence, perhaps politicians of all parties could refrain from both applauding and criticising RBA decisions. It is none of their business. Read More
A wild forecast for Euro pain
You may think that all of this sounds utterly ludicrous, and perhaps you are right. But ask yourself whether only two years ago you could have imagined elected prime ministers being replaced by technocrats,... Read More
A British pawn in Europe's game
Perhaps it is dawning on Cameron that he had been moved like a pawn on a chessboard by his continental friends. His insistence to act in Britain's national interest mainly served to promote the interests... Read More
Germany's blissful euro ignorance
It is only a matter of time until reality will catch up with the Germans at some stage. But don't wake them up just yet. They won't have their Christmas holidays spoilt just because some countries... Read More
Merkozy's palliative care pact
The euro won't survive a day longer just because of the political marriage of the German chancellor and the French president. But their botched crisis management indeed makes the time until its eventual... Read More
No fuel like an old fuel: Germany's nuclear reaction provides a win for coal
Fear and green populism were bad counsellors indeed when Germany drew the wrong lessons from the Fukushima accident. Read More
Countdown to a US debt debacle
It says something about the depths of Europe's economic malaise that America's economic managers are attending international meetings and lecturing others about the need to get their fiscal houses... Read More
Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it
The federal government will need to cut spending to ensure a surplus in 2012-13. Read More
Will Mr Nobody crash Europe?
When Germany's political Boxing Day comes on December 17, there could be some hidden surprises among the presents which may spoil a few politicians' Christmas breaks. A hitherto obscure German backbencher... Read More
Europe's social failure
Capital markets are not loquacious storytellers. They condense the world into simple numbers. For this reason, the surge in Greek, Italian and Spanish bond yields could be mistaken for a mere technicality,... Read More
Greece has no choice but to get out of eurozone
With the dramatic spike in Italian bond yields, the euro crisis has reached the stage everyone always wanted to avoid. Contagion has spread from Greece via Ireland and Portugal to Europe's third largest... Read More
Europe awaits a Chinese burn
The assessment of Europe's state of affairs could have hardly been harsher: "If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of... Read More
Going long on European deja vu
Markets were euphoric, political leaders relieved. "Europe has taken a step forward. Europe and Greece will emerge stronger from this crisis," Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou boasted to reporters.... Read More
Europe's forgotten lessons of history
The rise and fall of the Euro is just another chapter in the long history of monetary unions in Europe. The Euro was not the first attempt to unite different European economies and countries by a monetary... Read More
Is Australia shy of the Asia boom?
By internationally practising a policy of exceptionalism against its Asian neighbours, and domestically following the path of European-style governments, Australia is missing out on the greatest opportunity... Read More
Unravelling the Greek basket case
This weekend, European leaders will once more decide on how to deal with Greece. Read More
A sterling sidestep
Under more normal circumstances, we would now be discussing the coming sterling crisis. That we are not doing so does not mean that it will not happen. Read More
Stepping stones to an EU inferno
Don't read too much into last week's vote in the German parliament to extend the European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund. Read More
Wanted: a friendly EU break-up
If the result of Europe's bungled attempts of economic and political integration is a continent-wide disaster zone, the cure of this disease cannot be more integration, even if Philip Stephens thinks... Read More
Housing sense in short supply
While the rest of the world wonders what the next phase of the GFC will bring; and while the rest of Europe discusses the future of their common currency; the British are pondering an entirely different... Read More
Wet ink on a euro death notice
The euro has been a moribund currency for years. The remaining options to buy it more time have been blocked by the German constitutional court. To end this farcical tragedy someone needs to put the final... Read More
Prophecies of an egalitarian utopia based on false assumptions
The Spirit Level aims to break away from these ethical conundrums and to replace them with the authority of science. It says governments should redistribute incomes, not because it is moral but because... Read More
Skilled arrivals work in Australia's favour
We are the richer for being more selective with our immigration policy in Australia Read More
A miracle that masks a mirage
As it turns out, there is not much in the German manufacturing example that Australia should copy. We would be much better advised to make the best of our own comparative advantages of being a resource-rich... Read More
A poisoned chalice of EU power
Eurobonds had not even been on the agenda (officially, that is), and an EU-wide tax on financial transactions almost certainly will die aborning. In another way, however, the Merkel and Sarkozy show was... Read More
A euro power play that backfired
As it turns out, the euro is not only an unworkable currency. It actually started as a French insurance policy against German power. But even as an insurance policy it has failed. Against their will, it... Read More
Setting a European time bomb
The announcement by Standard & Poor's to downgrade US government debt may have been historic but largely inconsequential Read More
US Congress swapped a crisis yesterday for a bigger crisis tomorrow
I provoked a tirade of abuse from Crikey readers in the past fortnight when I suggested it would be preferable that the $14.3 trillion United States debt ceiling not be raised. Read More
No reason or evidence will cure US of its debt fetish
The hysteria accompanying the scramble to lift the debt ceiling in the United States is misplaced and self-serving. Read More
Greece bailout: prolonging pain for no real gain
Rescuing the country with another bailout would only prolong the pain. Greece squandered money on the Olympic Games, an over-sized bureaucracy and easy loans Read More
Paying dearly for European insanity
it would be tempting to seize the moment and rehash all the arguments for why the euro will never work and cannot be saved. Read More
The PC empire strikes back
GERMAN banker Thilo Sarrazin is a pariah for saying things few would question here. Read More
A bad time to damage our economy as the next stage of the GFC looms
WITH the US fiscal crisis nearing a dramatic finale, downgrades of European debt ratings continuing and the euro crisis deteriorating, the global financial crisis has just moved into a new phase. Read More
Learning from Europe's competitive spirit
One of the classic questions of economic history is how the West grew rich. Read More
Has the EU's stress test failed?
As the whole world worried about a potential Greek collapse, another European country experienced two actual bank failures. Read More
Sending profits abroad is a good thing
It is amazing how easily people are convinced by this 'sending profits abroad' argument, when it is just a protectionist fallacy. Read More
The phantom giant of Luxembourg
Under the veil of its legendary diplomatic finesse, Luxembourg hides its profiteering role in the sad state of Europe's economy and politics. Read More
Time for Greece to be forced to live within its means
It is morally repugnant that ordinary taxpayers around the world are forced, at great cost, to keep Greece solvent in order to prevent banks from losing money. Read More
Putting Greek lessons into practice
Excessive public debt plagues most developed economies, not just small countries on the periphery of Europe. Read More
Is Germany saving Greece or saving itself?
The short-sighted German strategy of keeping the eurozone together at all costs is turning Greece into one big welfare recipient. Read More
Carbon tax cuts for all
Revenue from the government's proposed carbon tax must be returned to taxpayers through income tax cuts or alternatively, the abolishment of the Medicare levy. Read More
Europe enters a wintery spring
Europe's debt crisis is far from over. Read More
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: Guaranteed to fail?
The failure of Lehman Brothers was a trivial event compared to the much bigger but largely ignored failure a week before, when Freddie and Fannie were put into 'conservatorship' by the US government. Read More
Eurovision notes EU disharmony
European integration is moving backwards and old nationalisms are returning, as seen in the Eurovision Song Contest as well as in monetary and industrial policy. Read More
Australia's Norwegian doppelganger
The IMF is calling for Australia to follow Norway and divert profits from the mining boom to a new sovereign wealth fund. Read More
A dangerous euro enchantment
Instead of bringing Europe's peoples closer together, the struggling euro currency is driving them further apart. Read More
Look to Britain and hold the champagne
The UK property bust provides worrying parallels for our self-congratulatory local economy. Read More
Sad songs from Portugal
Although EU loans are keeping the Portuguese government liquid for now, the austerity measures will be demanding – not least to satisfy voters and taxpayers in other countries guaranteeing the rescue... Read More
Out of Iceland's ashes
Icelanders are great at turning crises into opportunities. The Eyjafjallajökull disaster provided a much needed impetus to Icelandic tourism; and Iceland's banking crisis has now finally alerted Iceland... Read More
Home is where the money is
Today country hopping has become a mass phenomenon. Global migration flows have increased, but the migrants themselves have become far less permanent. Read More
Britain's debt time bomb is still ticking
Britain's economic problems are well known. After a massive expansion of government spending in the Blair and Brown years, the financial crisis revealed the unsustainable business model of UK plc. Read More
The hysterical republic
Today's Germany has little in common with the country that used to trouble the world so much. Read More
A plan that will damage Europe
It is astonishing how little Europe has learnt from previous mistakes. The belief in grand strategies with ambitious targets is alive and well. As is the wish to solve economic problems by ignoring them. Read More
The ascent of lying
Yet our political leaders' sometimes strained relationship with the truth pales into insignificance when compared with the extent of fraud and deceit on display at the highest level of government in... Read More
Farewell to Europe's old guard
Last week's unexpected resignation of Bundesbank president Axel Weber sent shockwaves through the German government. Read More
How the Germans keep a lid on prices
You get a lot more house for your money in Germany and there's a simple explanation for the stability in the housing market — steady growth in supply. Read More
A housing market whodunit
Economics, so the saying goes, can be summed up in one word: incentives. If we want to find out why house prices are flat in Germany, we need to understand the driving force behind the high supply of housing. Read More
A necessary shock
It is useful to imagine a scenario in which the fundamental changes of the last decades had not happened. This thought experiment might reveal alternatives to Australia's strategic and psychological... Read More
Belgium's debt bomb is ticking
Belgians are now chasing a veritable world record: they want to be the country with the longest post-election negotiations. Read More
A crisis eating away at Europe's freedom
Europe's moral credibility hangs in the balance after Hungary enacted a law to limit press freedom. Read More
Estonia should have listened to Marx
With its entry into the Eurozone, Estonia is more likely to be punished for its enviable public finances. Read More
Watch out for Russian wild card in Asia-Pacific
Russia is pulling out all the stops to court India to maintain its position in Asia's future balance of power. Read More
Don't believe this forecast
As always in Europe, the continent's politicians know much better what is needed than their often hapless and ungrateful peoples. Read More
EU fails to grasp nettle of a continent in crisis
It's time for fresh thinking in Brussels about the debt threat. Read More
Europe shows the end game for big government
Europe's present can be our future if we repeat the mistakes Europeans have made in the past. Read More
A fundamental Euro flaw
There are good economic reasons for Europe's economic crisis. The fiscal catastrophe across the continent is the result of decades of reckless spending policies. Read More
Europe's self-inflicted crisis
To superficial observers, this week's European summit in Brussels will look like any other high-level conference. Read More
Trichet's prize for shredding Europe
Life in Euroland is full of ironies but they don't come much more bitter than Sunday's announcement to award the prestigious Charlemagne Prize 2011 to Jean-Claude Trichet, the head of the European... Read More
German polemic has resonance for West
He's blunt, but Thilo Sarrazin makes a lot of sense. Read More
Europe's growth-killing cult
Originating from the green movement, a culture of risk-aversion has become firmly entrenched in the European mindset. This jeopardises the continent's future economic development. Read More
G20 should tend to their own backyards
The principal flaw of the G20 is the assumption that the group as a whole can somehow be more than the sum of its parts. Read More
The EU's win-win losers
The problems around last weekend's summit are thus the problems of the Euro as a currency – Europe is too diverse to agree on sensible rules and too diverse to have a common currency in the first place. Read More
Germany proves clumsy with foreign matter
The ghosts of multiculturalism are haunting Germany, a country that has failed with the concept. Read More
Sarkozy's Ides of March
Whether the new pension system is eventually implemented or not, the tumultuous scenes in the streets of Paris, Marseille and other big cities leave only one conclusion: France is an unreformable country. Read More
America's warpath to Depression
The early Mont Pelerin Society members knew that a free and stable global economic order was not just vital for creating prosperity. It is also a necessary condition for peace. In today's environment... Read More
Economists should learn some history
The inability of economists to see beyond their own models left them unprepared when the global economy hit trouble. Read More
The economic curse of populism
If the Germans continue to pretend that the current crisis was caused by speculation and not by inherent flaws of the European project, this crisis will not pass. Read More
A bailout that hurts the Germans but doesn't help the Greeks
As long as countries such as Greece are joined with Germany in a monetary union, this monetary union will not work, argues Oliver Marc Hartwich for the Institute of Economic Affairs, 5 May 2010 Read More
The real priorities
A Mayor has a $10million surplus, which he wants to allocate to a good cause. Ten groups clamour for the cash. One wants to buy new computers for an inner-city high school. Another hopes to beautify a... Read More


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Aisawan Can't Be Stopped!
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
AISAWAN TEAM at TAIWAN OPEN INTERNATIONAL PAINTBALL
July 12-13, 2014
For the first time, Aisawan team, has joined the Taiwan Open. Of course, this was very exciting and we had a chance to visit DYE ASIA!! This was an exciting and important part of the trip.
During the tournament, we did well and stuck to the strategy we trained for.
In the first round, we passed through as the points leader ahead of every other team in the tournament.
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They worked really hard and push themselves to the limit, just like us.
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We took our 6th Championship of this year!
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August 5, 2015
Texas A&M has named an interim head of the university's research efforts.
Dr. Theresa Fossum will serve as the interim vice president of research as A&M searches for the permanent seat-holder. Fossum is the Tom and Joan Read Endowed Chair in Veterinary Surgery and director of the Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies.
"Since joining our faculty in 1987, Dr. Fossum has established a track record as an outstanding scientist, clinician and educator, and a leader in securing and managing research funding from both federal and corporate sources," A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said in a statement on the university's website. "It is critical that we not lose traction now, and I am confident that Dr. Fossum's professional reputation and experience will enable Texas A&M to build momentum in development of meaningful solutions to the complex issues of today."
Loftin added that a search process to find the permanent vice president will be announced next week.
The move comes with the resignation earlier this week of Jeff Seemann. He had served in the job since 2009 before he stepped down, just two months removed from his role being "consolidated" by A&M and the A&M System.
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The young Man High School boys' basketball team had a tough task on Tuesday night — a road game at Class AA Westside.
The Hillbillies took it on the chin with a 105-55 loss to the Renegades at the Westside High School gym in Clear Fork.
Man dropped to 2-7 on the season with the loss.
It was the second 50-point defeat so far this season for Man. The Billies' other 50-point loss was a 94-44 setback at Chapmanville in the Tigers' Bob Runyon Memorial Holiday Tournament last month.
Westside (6-4) dominated the game with Man, dishing out 35 assists and scoring 40 baskets.
Corey Bowles, Jordan Browning and Justin Kenneda each had seven assists apiece for the winners.
Bowles also scored 21 points, while Levi Lambert and Justin Cogar added 20 points each for Westside.
Freshman guard John Thomas Keffer paced the Billies with a game-high 26 points. He nailed four 3-pointers on the night.
Jake Adkins tossed in eight points for Man, while Clay Brumfield had seven and Kenny Joe Adkins and Gage Harvey tallied four each. Chris Justice and Cayce Mullins netted two each. Erik Files and Robert Caudill had one point apiece.
Man was just 3-for-10 from the free throw line for 30 percent. Westside connected on 22-of-26 charity tosses for 84.6 percent.
The Renegades led Man 22-15 after one quarter and held a 45-25 advantage at the half. The third quarter was a disaster for the Billies as Westside outscored Man 38-7 to take a 83-32 lead. Man then outscored WHS 23-22 in the fourth to set the final score.
Westside travels to Class AAA Logan (2-6) on Friday night at Logan's Willie Akers Arena.
Man was slated to host new Class A sectional rival Tug Valley on Wednesday night. The Billies host Westside in the rematch on Jan. 15.


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The battle lines are being drawn between "social games" and traditional gaming, and the rhetoric is getting bloody. Today, MMORPG.com columnnist Scott Jennings takes a look at the issue.
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Haven't played farmville. Never heard of it til today. Looked it up - it's a free to play flash game tied to facebook that allows you to buy crap with real dollars to ... farm. Farming? Really?
Just goes to show you - you can sell anything on the internet - even virtual seeds. The question is - how much money is this game really making, and is it legitimate? Without real revenue numbers, there's no way to decide if this is even an issue. Farmville's charity drive raised $321,000 by selling a sweet potato seed. Wow's charity drive raised $1.1 million by selling a virtual pet. Farmville makes nothing if people don't buy crap regularly. Wow makes $15 per month per subscriber even if people don't play. MMO's aren't going anywhere.
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Cynical? Me? Never.
Originally posted by battleaxe
I disagree. Publishers want money. What happened when Diablo was a huge success? Everyone started making Diablo clones. What happened when WoW was a huge success? Everyone started to make WoW clones. Were those clones ever as good as the original? Not in my opinion. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of people made money off "the latest hype". Publishers are notorious for being momentum chasers, not momentum changers. Publishers see this new social gaming thing, and think its the net big thing. Do they understand it? I doubt it. They didn't understand why Diablo was fun, or why one couldn't copy WoW.
We will see a major slowdown in MMO development as everyone chases the social gaming revenue. I'd like to think this whole thing is a fad that only housewives, and people bored at work play. That's not going to change the fact publishers, you know the guys with the cash who make the decisions, will now be chasing this new fad for awhile. Clearly, trying to make a copy of WoW hasn't worked out so well for these guys. Right, Koster?
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The biggest mistake a mmo developer could make right now would be trying to model farmville. MMO players for the most part already have boring repetitive task that they (legally or no) spend real world money on. What mmo players want isn't more boring repetitive task they want an escape from their boring ass lives, they want to have an adventure. When a mmo developer finally gets this then they will see 80 million players.
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What a bunch of sour grapes by the devs! So Farmville gets however many millions of non-mmo playing people to play a sorta-mmo, and all they can do is complain? Morons!
(Just wait until WoW introduces farming.)
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I'm not a fan of Farmville, but I know people who are. In truth, most of them (that I know personally) aren't gamers. They're watchers, people who like to be entertained by movies or another person playing a game they can enjoy. With games like Farmville and the combined social site of Facebook, these watchers can not only appreciate the pretty colors and actions of an avatar, but can 'wet their toes' by 'playing' the game via simple clicks and, as simply as that, reap the rewards.
So are games like Farmville and Mafia Wars wrong? I say no, but they do not appeal to me at all. They're catering to a different market, consumers who may one day see the large virtual worlds out there and realize they're ready to try something bigger. Who knows. I'm very keen to see how things pan out in the next decade.
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so one more decade of even low quality products so ppl who dont give a damn about the genre can be happy and we the "founders" will wander aimlessy =(
DNA computing come save us all =/
now: GW2 (11 80s).
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Remember Rabbids cant play MMO's, but they can dance!
There is no "war" between social games and regular console or MMO's imo. I play Castle age, happy Island, vampire wars, and Starfleet commander on the facebook in the morning, but its only for about 10-20 min tops. Console and MMO's give me far more depth and content than the social games by far. The social games are fun and quick yes but dont equal the satisfaction of console or MMO gaming. Bottom line.
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@ Kenaoshi
Not necessarily. I think this could do a favor for the game industry as a whole. Not without some teeth-gnashing, of course, but as I said in my first post, these player-watchers may come to want more than games like Farmville have to offer. They may seek out the world that we know and love, and it will be the task of developers to model games that bring the 'new' generation of gamers up to par with what we are used to. It may mean a period of games that are between games like Farmville and AAA titles, but that's the nature of change.
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BattleAxe, Zynga (makers of Farmville) are gearing up to IPO, for over a billion dollar valuation, say the rumors. They make a LOT of money, and Farmville is insanely profitable. (Also, they have done more than one charity drive, and have raised millions of dollars). You need to Google a bit more deeply.
Brostyn, I think we already saw that slowdown in MMO development. There are very few big ones from major publishers these days.
Storm-Dragon, the reason MMO devs need to model on Farmville is simple -- turns out that's what more players want. From a pure pragmatic point of view, the mass market has arrived and it turns out we're not going to persuade them to love dragons and robots. Not to mention that the social bonding techniques that the social games use are something that MMO designers should be paying careful attention to.
Astara, WoW may not introduce farming, but I have to point out that SWG;s resource harvesting is exactly like Farmville's farming just more complex. :)
TJKazmark, some of the social gamers may cross the divide, but I suspect it'll be fewer. I would expect the MMOs to incorportate aspects of the social game designs first, as you say in post #9.
Kenaoshi, Core gamers will be unhappy, I suspect. :( They already are -- this is part of the same overall current as the Wii and the like.
RavingRabbid, there is no war expect for the war for investment dollars. That war shapes what makes it to players' hands.
Reddotmist, plenty of people made Diablo clones. Cloning #1 is a risky technique if you don't have the budget to do it well, though. It's worth pointing out that Zynga made a very polished Diablo clone for Facebook. It died a miserable death and they yanked it.
Originally posted by RavingRabbid
Yeah, this.
I play both Mafia Wars and Cafe World on my Facebook every day, but that's only for just a few minutes each at a time. They're time wasters, and give some variety to the whole Facebook experience. They're the equivalent of playing Minesweeper or Solitaire on your computer at work to make the day go by faster. That's about it. On the other hand, if I want a more in-depth gaming experience, I'll fire up a game console or my PC and log into an MMO.
I really don't understand all the hand-wringing and whining about games like Farmville. They're social games that attract people who wouldn't otherwise play games. They enhance the Facebook experience, which is good. None of that means that they're going to replace MMO's or kill all gaming as we know it. It's just a different facet of gaming.
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Originally posted by Lidane
Yeah, this.
I play both Mafia Wars and Cafe World on my Facebook every day, but that's only for just a few minutes each at a time. They're time wasters, and give some variety to the whole Facebook experience. They're the equivalent of playing Minesweeper or Solitaire on your computer at work to make the day go by faster. That's about it. On the other hand, if I want a more in-depth gaming experience, I'll fire up a game console or my PC and log into an MMO.
I really don't understand all the hand-wringing and whining about games like Farmville. They're social games that attract people who wouldn't otherwise play games. They enhance the Facebook experience, which is good. None of that means that they're going to replace MMO's or kill all gaming as we know it. It's just a different facet of gaming.
I think that's probably true from a player's point of view, but the war isn't over players and where they spend their time. The war, if there is one, is over money. Obviously, games need money in order to be made. With the success of social games like Farmville, which can be made at a literal fraction of the cost of making a AAA title, more and more investors are looking toward that side of the market.
Think about it this way: If you could make a pile of money by either a) investing a lot and taking a large risk or b) investing a little and taking a much smaller risk, which one are you going to do?
So, do virtual worlds have something to fear from the success of Facebook and other social games? Of course they do. it's not that people are afraid no one's going to play the AAA games, it's the fear that no one's going to fund the AAA games.
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Cynical? Me? Never.
Originally posted by reddotmist
Are you forgetting Nox, Sacred(2), Torchlight, Divinity(3), Darkstone, Fate, etc. Granted some of those were fun games, but still complete Diablo Knock-offs.
Originally posted by Stradden
I get that. And I understand the fear from a business point of view. However, I think past history is on the side of folks who aren't freaked out yet by the more social games.
The success of UO and EQ brought more developers into the MMO genre, including Blizzard. World of Warcraft's success in turn brought everyone else in for their own piece of the pie. Some of those games have succeeded, most have not. Social games like Farmville are no different. Anyone can shovel a cheap, easy browser-based game out the door to try and make a quick buck, and I'm sure a lot of developers will. However, there's also such a thing as market saturation. The same folks playing Farmville and Mafia Wars could look at any glut of new social games and wonder why they should bother when they're already playing a similar game on Facebook.
At some point, the market will be so flooded with cheap browser-based games that folks will want something with more depth instead, and the pendulum will swing back. I'm not quite ready to buy the idea that no one will fund the AAA games to focus on Farmville clones. I think there's room for both, and I suspect the market will see it that way as well.
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I have to run out but will simply say this: THIS is the kind of (high) quality, in-depth article mmorpg.com has to aim to release on a consistent basis. We will read more than a 1,000 words if it isn't merely unresearched and unsubstantiated ranting. A great read and I look forward to adding a comment or two once I have some free time.
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Originally posted by Lidane
The success of UO and EQ brought more developers into the MMO genre, including Blizzard. World of Warcraft's success in turn brought everyone else in for their own piece of the pie.
WoW's success did not bring anyone else in for their own piece of the pie. Since WoW launched, no MMOs have done any better than any of the MMOs pre-WoW. And there have been less of them per year. WoW didn't expand the market except for WoW. (More copies sold, but in terms of subs, WoW just recaptures everyone).
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Originally posted by Raph
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It is growth only in the sense that there are more ways to get money out of making games.
I have been playing games since before 3D, before color even (jumpman rocked on that green text monitor we had). For a while there was real growth, with technologies improving and new immersive gaming coming out. There was wolfenstein and Doom which ushered in a new age of gaming. Followed by Descent and Duke Nukem 3D which explored further into 3D. I played many shooters for a while (Quake, Heretic etc.) and they were all more advanced but kind of the same game.
I remember when we first got nintendo and thought it was amazing. I remember when Mario Kart first appeared. I remember thinking no game could surprise me anymore and then Half-Life came around. The characters actually followed you with their eyes and head when talking to you. The game actually scared you and you never knew what would be around the next corner. It was amazing.
I remember playing The Realm and being amazed that all those other characters walking around were other people, I remember being excited when UO was getting ready to release because it was even more amazing then The Realm. I remember finding a virtual 3D chat room way back then (amazing how the majority of chat rooms and forums are still just text and login names when 3D virtual chat rooms were invented something like a decade ago).
I remember playing Battlefield for the first time and thinking the concpet of people on foot, people in tanks, in planes, in jeeps all at the same time was amazing.
But in the last ~10 years it's slowly become more disturbing. First there was Halo on the Xbox. Nothing about this game was original or new. I mean come on it was even a space marine in green armor (Doom). But because it was released on console, all of the people who thought playing console games were cool but playing PC games made you a dork suddenly found the FPS genre and thought Halo was the most amazing game in all of history. These same people had no idea of the amazing games before this and how much better most of them were. Thus the Halo franchise, an extremely unoriginal franchise, became one of the best ever.
WoW came along and did nothing new with MMOs, not a single solitary thing. But all the people who thought playing regular games like Warcraft was cool but playing MMOs was for nerds suddenly decided to try the genre. Instantly they all though the most amazing game had ever been created, oh and how amazing and new and original it was! They had no idea how every concept in WoW had been lifted from another type of game. And thus the best selling MMO of all time was born.
Web games started to show up, and a company made a little game called bejeweled. Suddenly people who though gaming on a PC or console was ridiculous or just for kids found out that gaming can be fun. Bejeweled rocketed to one of the best selling games ever.
Web games where you built up land, or had armies, or had gangs, and you had turns and could click on adds or use money to advance your stuff had been around for a long long time. But suddenly a company decided to tie one into face book. Suddenly all these face book users who though wasting time in progressive web games was for nerds thought casual web "gaming" was the coolest thing, and SO ORIGINAL!!! Suddenly farmville becomes the most profitable game around.
Every time you dumb down gaming, or completely copy games that have always exsited but put them in a new media or technology people go nuts and "discover" gaming. All this does is encourage the industry to not be original, not create new things, not challenge the market or their players. It does encourage copying and dumbing down and allowing people to spend much more money on the same product. Gaming is dying, and has been for a while and it's only getting worse and worse. Real games will be rare in the future and it will be sad.
But it's how this country rolls now a days, we're in a "milk your customers of every last cent while giving them less" age. Hopefully it turns around but it seems almost too profitable to ever change.
Sorry I didn't plan on it becoming that long of a post, but this issue does bother me.
Originally posted by Raph
Sure it did. Not in terms of success, but rather in terms of people aiming for their own game to capture the market.
Farmville and all these other social games are the same way. They're successful, so now everyone else will want to try their own hand at a cheap, easy browser-based game. Some will do well, most will not, just like the MMO market.


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Toledo-based blues-rock band Buck69 recently released an album offering 16 tracks of original material.
"No Medicine Like the Blues" is the second album from the seven-piece contemporary blues-rock outfit that formed in 2004. Lead vocalist, and songwriter/guitarist Tom Clawson said taking the time to write quality songs was key for the second offering.
"I started writing new material even before we finished the first CD, so you could say this one took about six years," Clawson said. "We really took our time with this, compared to the first one. We wanted the first CD to be good, but we rushed it a little due to the excitement. I'm really pleased with the outcome. I feel it's the best songwriting I've done, and the band did a great job of putting down the music."
Buck69's previous release, "When She Whispers Your Name," was a 2008 Grammy Award finalist for contemporary blues. The group also contributed a song, "Have a Mighty Fine Christmas," to the recent Make-A-Wish Foundation benefit CD "Holiday Wishes 3: If You Believe."
Clawson, a longtime musician, was on an extended break from the business when his son, Alex, suggested that they play together in 2002.
"The two of us [played] around Toledo doing some acoustic stuff," Clawson said. "I was only too happy to try it out, if not mainly just to spend time with my son. After a couple years he says, 'Dad, let's start a band.' I was a little hesitant, knowing the baggage that comes with forming and maintaining a band."
But the elder Clawson agreed, and the two set out to handpick Buck69's lineup. Clawson said it was critical to form a true team of professional musicians and singer/songwriters.
The band is a well-rounded lineup of some of Toledo's most recognizable names in music. Alex plays rhythm and lead guitar, and John Sevilla plays lead and bass guitar. Candice Coleman, a former "American Idol" contestant, sings lead and backup vocals. David Alan plays drums and provides backup vocals, B.J. Love plays keyboards and Randy Paredes plays lead, rhythm and slide guitar.
"Each of us [brings] a diverse mixed bag of talent to the band. That's why you'll never see us listed as 'Tom and Buck69,' or 'Candice and Buck69,' or any of the other guys' names. When you come to see us play or listen to our CDs, you're not getting one person with some musicians backing him up, you're getting seven multitalented people coming together as a team who all could be the frontman/woman of their own band."
Clawson said that, due to the size of the band, it is difficult to play weekly gigs at local bars, so they try to stick to fairs, festivals and fundraisers. Buck69 has played at the Ohio State Fair, the Toledo Speedway Jam, the MS Jam, the Fort Wayne Jazz and Blues Festival and several other festivals.
"I've found that doing the 'every week bar thing' burns out the fans and the musicians," Clawson said. "Besides, I like the energy that the band brings to a show, and I know some of that would be lost playing cover songs over and over again at the bars. It's just not what the band is about."
Clawson admitted that "No Medicine Like the Blues," which was recorded and produced by Sevilla's New Realm Recording, provided some challenges in trying to organize and arrange music for a large group of songwriters.
"Of course, raising the money is always the hardest part, [but] the next hardest thing was writing some of the songs. I wanted to have Candice be lead singer on a couple of the songs, so I had to write accordingly, and she does a great job on 'Without My Baby,' which I knew she would. And John Sevilla wrote the music for four songs, and said, 'Here, write some lyrics.' That was a totally new experience."
Clawson said that if he had to choose a favorite song from the album, it would likely be the title track, a progressive rock-influenced blues jam featuring a lead guitar part reminiscent of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, with a bluesy edge.
"It's not the best radio-friendly song on the CD because it's eight minutes long, but it really shows the professionalism of the guys in the band," he said.
"[Also], Candice took 'Without My Baby' and made it her own, and it was a real treat to have Johnny Neel from the Allman Brothers Band play keyboards on 'Dead End Road.'"
Clawson said keeping things fresh and unique is what helps set Buck69 apart.
"At my age now, I've listened to a lot of music and my biggest gripe has always been that you put a CD in while cruising down the road, and it really sucks when all the songs start sounding alike. That's why people listen to the radio and why mixed CDs are so popular — the diversity.
"Our No. 1 rule of thumb is to be eclectic and diverse. I want you to be able to put our CD in your car stereo and just cruise, with nothing sounding the same, so you don't get bored."
"No Medicine Like the Blues" is available at Amazon.com, CD Baby., iTunes, Culture Clash Records and directly from the band.
For more information, visit www.buck69.net.
Tags: 2008 Grammy Award finalist, Allman Brothers Band, Amazon.com, Buck69, Culture Clash Records, Fort Wayne Jazz and Blues Festival, iTunes, John Sevilla, Johnny Neel, Make-A-Wish Foundation benefit CD "Holiday Wishes 3: If You Believe", MS Jam, Ohio State Fair, Sevilla's New Realm Recording, songwriter/guitarist Tom Clawson, Toledo Speedyway Jam


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ECP712 - Social, Physical and Emotional Health and Wellbeing
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This unit explores the theories and related issues in the promotion of well-being through health, movement and physical education in early childhood and primary education. The unit will provide an overview of the theories of development in the early years, with an emphasis on health and well-being issues at this stage of the life span. The unit is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to critically examine theory, practice and relevant curriculum and regulatory frameworks and apply these to programs that enhance the social, physical and emotional health and well-being of children in the early years. In evaluating and designing programs students will critically explore the context for learning in early childhood and primary health education, including an examination of the roles of the learner, family, community and teacher.
Task 1 40% Evaluation Report
Students will critically evaluate examples of health and wellness programs in early childhood settings, schools and/or the wider community. Through comparison and contrast of two existing programs (one local and one international) students will critically analyse and review the rationale, structure, philosophy and pedagogical approaches to teaching health and wellness taking into account the broader sociocultural, health and policy context from which the programs arise.
Task 2 60% Resource Development Project
Students will be required to design for a selected target group a resource, project or program plan, for an early childhood or primary school setting related to children's social, physical, emotional health and wellbeing. For example this could be a project, unit of work, website, wiki, or program plan.
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Meldrum, K. & Peters, J. (2012). Learning to teach health and physical education - The student, the teacher and the curriculum, Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia.
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Because Crohn's disease affects the gut and symptoms often occur after meals, you may wonder if certain foods cause or contribute to the disorder. Many experts wonder about this too and research looking into the connection between diet and Crohn's is ongoing.
"At this point, we don't have an ideal diet for Crohn's, but we do know that certain types of foods can make symptoms worse or better," says Joshua Korzenik, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Korzenik is the director for the Crohn's and Colitis Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. To help ensure that you are eating a balanced diet and getting enough calories while avoiding symptoms, you can take these steps:
- Eat smaller meals and eat more often. Instead of eating three large meals, eat five small meals.
- Avoid high-fat, greasy, and fried foods such as cream sauces, butter, margarine, and anything deep fried. About one-third of people with Crohn's find these foods harder to digest because they have difficulty digesting fat.
- Avoid high-fiber foods such as corn, popcorn, seeds, and nuts. These types of foods have shells and hulls that aren't completely digested in the small intestine, which can aggravate symptoms.
- Get tested for lactose intolerance if you think you may have it. Many people avoid dairy because they think they are lactose intolerant when they are not. The only way to know for sure is to be tested. If you have the condition, you may be able to take supplements to help you digest dairy. If it's possible, it's important to continue to eat dairy because it is such a good source of nutrition and calories.
- Keep a food diary. This can help you determine which foods, if any, irritate your stomach more than others.
- Try eating a softer, blander diet, rather than anything spicy and high in fiber during flares. This may cause less discomfort. Just be sure to eat a balance of foods from all food groups.
- Chronic diarrhea can lead to dehydration, making you feel weak and tired. It can also affect your kidneys and even lead to kidney stones, so it's important to monitor how much you drink, especially in warmer weather. Talk with your doctor about how much fluid and what types of fluids you should be taking in every day. It's best to avoid soda and caffeinated beverages as they can irritate your stomach.
Crohn's Disease: How a Dietitian Can Help
It's a good idea to talk with your doctor about your nutritional needs and what you can do to ensure you are meeting them. You may want to ask your doctor about working with a registered dietitian (RD). This person can help you track what you eat, work with you to adjust your diet to help reduce symptoms during flares, and make sure you are getting all the nutrients and calories you need. "We always recommend that our patients work with an RD," says Korzenik.
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Depending on the extent and location of your disease, you may need to take nutritional supplements. Having Crohn's disease can make it difficult to get the nutrients you need for a number of reasons:
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- You may become dehydrated from fluid loss because of diarrhea and rectal bleeding. You may also develop an electrolyte imbalance. Electrolytes are important minerals in your body fluids that affect blood chemistry, muscle activity, and other functions.
- Crohn's can interfere with the ability of your intestines to digest and absorb nutrients from foods.
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- Vitamin D: This is a common deficiency in people with Crohn's disease. Vitamin D is important for bones and absorption of calcium. Vitamin D is produced when we are exposed to the sun, so people who don't get outside very often or who live in more northern parts of the country are particularly at risk for a deficiency.
- Iron: People who have Crohn's may experience intestinal bleeding that can lead to an iron deficiency and anemia.
- Potassium: Diarrhea can lead to potassium loss. Certain corticosteroids can also cause low levels of potassium.
- Magnesium: Chronic diarrhea, having Crohn's in the small intestine, or having had a lot of your intestine removed can make it hard to get enough magnesium.
- Calcium: Not eating dairy products and poor absorption due to disease or surgery of the small intestine can lead to calcium deficiency. Long-term corticosteroid use can also cause bone loss.
Some studies are looking at the role of probiotics as a therapeutic option for Crohn's disease. These are "friendly" bacteria in the intestines that help maintain GI health by keeping harmful bacteria in check. When the balance between helpful and harmful bacteria is thrown off, for example because of taking antibiotics, it can cause diarrhea and other problems.
Researchers have been studying the use of probiotics to help reduce symptoms and achieve remission of Crohn's disease flares. At this point, studies are inconclusive about whether these substances can help, but research is ongoing.
Because your nutritional needs may vary depending upon whether or not you are in a flare and where you are in the progression of the disease, it's best to consult with your dietitian or doctor before taking supplements or altering your diet in any way. That way you can be sure your nutritional needs are being met at all phases of your disease.
Nutritional Support for Crohn's
There may be times when your doctor may recommend nutritional support. This is the use of a nutrient-rich formula that is administered directly into your stomach or small intestine, called enteral nutrition.
The supplement is usually given at night through a feeding tube that leads from your nose to your stomach, or by an opening created in the abdominal wall where a tube can be placed. This allows you to get all the nutrition you need while you sleep and then go about your daily activities during the day.
In some cases, a different type of nutritional support may be used that bypasses the stomach and intestines. Total parenteral nutrition is delivered through a large blood vessel.


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Secretary Grimes led a roundtable discussion Wednesday at Hazard Community and Technical College, which included a panel of several local leaders in politics and community development. According to a recent report her office issued on the civic health of Kentucky, the state is actually above the national average in categories such as political participation, but falters in others, such as volunteerism.
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Wednesday's meeting was one of a series of similar discussions Grimes has held across the state since last year, and she said she hopes to glean ideas from leaders on how to improve Kentucky's community engagement, social connectedness, and political action.
A portion of Wednesday's discussion centered on connecting with the area's youth and encouraging them to volunteer their time to causes in the local community. Sen. Brandon Smith, of Hazard, said participation in organizations like the Boy Scouts is down, and it will be up to adults to re-engage younger people.
"Every single one of us shares the exact same responsibility in solving this," he said.
Helen Williams, a teacher at Hazard High School where students are encouraged to volunteer their time, urged adults to simply be present as way to present kids with role models. She said students want to help their communities, and cited her school's response to gather needed materials for victims of the March 2012 tornadoes as one example of how the students at Hazard High School are serving their region.
"They need to know there are adults they can model after who really care about what they think," Williams said, "because these kids want to make a difference."
Doug Fraley is the vice president of student services at Hazard Community and Technical College, and spoke on the importance of education in developing a more civic-minded state, especially the role of parents as the first educators in a child's life. Ultimately, he said, kids from rural areas, like he was, need to know that there exists a chance for a future better than the present.
"We've got to sell hope and opportunity," Fraley said. "Education is hope and opportunity. It worked for me, the guy from the head of the holler."
This region in Eastern Kentucky, specifically, has many people who have the time and talent, and according to a recent study, even the wealth to effect positive change at the community level, noted Gerry Roll, director of the Community Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. But in many cases, people may not know how to begin the process.
"I don't believe we have a lack of will, I think sometimes people see a lack of opportunity," Roll said.
The community foundation is one organization seeking to facilitate that process of bringing people together, and in terms of the region's abject poverty, Roll said she would like to see a regional approach. Here in Perry County, a quarter of the population remained in poverty in 2011, and it will take people working together to bring new ideas to the table and new approaches for a more diversified economy.
"We believe that if we can connect our local community, and start to connect our contiguous counties and start thinking of ourselves as a region, then we're really going to start moving the dial on poverty," Roll said.
Grimes will hold her 15th and final scheduled roundtable discussion at the University of Pikeville on May 1, beginning at 11 a.m. Other discussions have taken place across the state, including in Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Morehead.


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James Thorpe is in his third season as an assistant soccer coach at Holy Cross in 2014. Thorpe, who was the 2007 National Player of the Year at Franklin Pierce and was a member of D.C. United, is the goalkeepers coach.
Thorpe had an outstanding career at Franklin Pierce as the team won the Division II national championship in 2007. Also in 2007, he was named the National Player of the Year. Thorpe was a three-time All-American, while he was named the Northeast-10 Conference Goalie of the Year four times and earned first team All-New England honors four times. He set the NCAA record for all divisions for minutes played with 8,391:11 over 93 career matches played. Thorpe also set the school and Northeast-10 record with 49 shutouts and a 0.66 career goals against average. He was featured in "Faces in the Crowd" in Sports Illustrated.
Thorpe played for Major League Soccer team D.C. United in the 2008 season. He then played for the Western Mass Pioneers of the USL in 2009.
Thorpe spent the 2010 and 2011 seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Evansville. Thorpe, who is a native of East Longmeadow, Mass., is a 2008 graduate of Franklin Pierce and earned his graduate degree from Evansville in 2011.


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