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No fun for Funcom
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Joined: 3/25/09
Give me sparkly, twinkly...
May-bee, just may-bee the MMORPG bubble is on its way to bursting as I think it is. With so many games struggling to find enough income to survive on Ye' OIde Subscription system and falling back into that "Freemium" model, it was hard to believe the market would have accepted TSW any warmer than it did.
Funcom have a few things going against them.
1) It was a new, refreshing idea that the genre, or sub-genre as Sovrath coined, badly needed. However, there is a limited amount of gamers in this sub-genre.
2) It was a risky, new idea that many players in this sub-genre weren't ready to take a $50.00 risk on (for now).
3) The payment plan was at par with how the rest of the members of the oligopoly set: $50.00-$60.00 box sale, $15.00 per month and a cash shop on the side for vanity Roars.
4) Funcom is a foriegn company-to some. Doesn't have the best reputation AoC etc. and some cautious gamers (like myself) are probably waiting for the first-nerd-herdtm to roll in and listen to thier feedback.
5) Poor timing going against GW2.
6) Poor marketing.
7) In the beginning they had a real good run with the ARG they had started, but then walked away from it in favor of teaser anouncements, interviews and trailers. I would have kept it going viral and given the community something to do in the meantime. We are gamers after all, let us play something.
8) MMO's are darn expensive to make. Taking in only $10,000,000 if they sold all 200k at $50 is only a drop in the bucket. Knowing the industry, they are in the hole for hundreds of millions possibly. I don't have any hard data on how much TSW cost to make and I am not going through the investor relation releases and balance sheets to find out.
9) Very cheap with the beta. Beta testing is now only used to pre-market games and it gives some gamers time-strapped not a lot of time to really get into it.
10) Once again, taking a chance on a risky IP. I have to say, that gamers are really used to only a few things and not willing to go against the traditional sword and board, ship and shooty genres. I do like the setting, for heaven sake how many other places will I be able to start of in New York! I will say one thing about Funcom, they like to take risks. I just hope this one doesn't mean the end of them.
But can someone please answer me: Would this world would have benefitted more from Anarchy Online 2 instead of Secret Societies R US?
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Joined: 1/02/09
Ignorance is Bliss.
The problem with reviews in general is that they have a very limited scope, especially in the case of MMORPGs. You'll very rarely see reviewers reaching halfway through the game before making their review, because they have to get it out there as fast as possible. Which is why I believe we see so many hyped up MMORPGs raise very high score with reviewers, but the complete opposite for the players. The reviewers are still in the honeymoon phase, the game's fresh, aesthetically looks different, seems different, and the game's shortcoming don't seem as prominent, yet. But as players continue to play in the beta, more and more issues rises and reality sets in. Some will choose to continue playing, others will leave. The reviewer's job is long done, so the game's score is often contradictory with the game's launch and it's following month.
I'll disagree with Bill on TSW being a niche game, I really do believe it is not a niche. I think the game simply did not meet players expectations, and what looked very amazing for the first week or so, quickly become dull and boring. Quite frankly, I view the use of the "niche" excuse as more of a cop-out than an actual reason to explain a game's success or failure. If the game is fun, people will play it, whether it is "niche" or not. Minecraft, DayZ, etc there's plenty of examples like this.
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Joined: 3/05/10
thats a matter of your point of view. i'm playing tsw since pre-release and i'm loving it. but i haven't even done half of what you list there. actually, i haven't even completed the regular missions yet - just arrived in transsylvania. ok, maybe i'm an unusually slow player, but to me, you do sound like the perfect example if a 'completionist'. :P
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Joined: 9/22/11
"Ahead of it's time?"
I seriously don't get it HOW can anyone say that with a straight face.
Hub based, linear solo way till end game composed of instance grinding for gear and tokens.
Hardly "ahead". More like "behind".
Unless you mean 'story'? Well Swtor showed how heavy story based experience pan's out in mmorpg's. So not really surpsising that it did not work in TSW.
If TESO is really like scarce information avabile and is also very story-heavy and 'online-rpg' rather than mmorpg - then it will also fail hard.
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Joined: 7/28/06
This doesn't surprise me. I think a ton of people learned not to trust Funcom after how bad they were with AoC. I think that factor plays a major role in how TSW went down. Could this be the end of Funcom? I guess they do live up to the name that people coined for them "Failcom"
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Joined: 8/30/04
Hub based?
Not ahead of its time?
To much story based?
The Sin of TSW is also the bad timing, the horrbile fame of Funcom, the general competetive situation on the market that is in decline while oversaturated, the limiting Themepark approach of TSW that leaves the game with a few big strengths and many big weakneasses that be natural to Themeparks and they overestimated probably the past fame of "Ragnar Thornquist" and his "Longest Jounrey" that from its very nature is uncapable to build up a huge and strong yet uncritical fanbase of addicted onlinegamers like a few others very successful did with different products.
I think Funcom missed the Ship with AoC, while partly a very good game it never was "fixed" the amount needed to restore faith in Funcom and make peace with all the hostile playerbase after their AoC-Launchdisaster.
Funcom has pretty brillant ideas and designers but falls short on the execution and evolution of their projects.
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Originally posted by Inktomi
Funcom really did not spend hundreds of millions of dollars, like EA/Bioware did with SW:TOR.
They maybe spend 40 million or so at max! And made a much better game SW:TOR will ever be.
But yes 200k boxes sold doesn't give an instant return on investment, what investors seem to expect these days.
The whole investor market has become sick and overly spoiled! Couple that with global economic crisis and you got a soup for dissaster.
Investors expect an instant RoI on launchday these days and anything less is seen as total failure!
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Joined: 4/19/08
I do not wish failure to any game, but there are games I do not like at all. Some I like but have some problem or limitation that eliminates fun factor. One of them is TSW. I would like they workout problems (and this for sure is NOT by layoffs!!!) as I would return some day. But for now I have stopped even before 30 days free time. Main problem at start: bugs and constant crashes. After purchasing and installing W7 64-bit however all problems were gone. But they can not seriously aspect somebody will spend 5 times price of client for specifically 64 bit w7 to be able to play without crashes. Second problem, imo of course, very stupid idea to limit active abilities to only 7 buttons. This simply spells button mashing. And i do not play button mashers. I do not care if there are similar spells or abilities as long as I can use them. Or maybe will need some spell every 5th fight but then I WANT that spell available. And has nothing to do "great because one must THINK in advance what to put on". It has to do with button mashing.
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Joined: 12/27/04
Interesting isn't it. TSW is the second highest ranking MMO on this site behind GuildWars 2 yet the MMO community at large has dumped it.
I think this goes to show how out of touch this site reviews are with what REAL mmo players want and like to play
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Joined: 7/18/10
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Originally posted by blythega
This is perhaps the next question after,
The numbers are not absolute, there are at least a good number of players out of 200k that perhaps love the game. But evidently something is out of sorts? What?
In the review assum it was a classic:
But the question is what weightings do you give to Gameplay and Longevity? They could score 5-7 vs 9-10 for the other categories and you'd still end up with 8.5. As said, the other problem is if your scoring gives high marks ie the range only ever yields >6: The difference between those 4 points and 0.1 point differences should be much more explicit or meaningful. Otherwise as it seems the scores are too inflated and are just a personal yardstick which is not helpful for other people relying on reviews addtional to eg youtube. Speaking of which youtube of eg gameplay combat is good idea. :)
I think scoring system needs these traditional reviews with a more thorough systems of scoring using it's own marking scheme for reference, write-ups and comparisions with "around the web" and some metacritic also. Gameplay and Longevity seem to need mulitple reviews also: Over time and By Comparison (youtube and mechanics discussion??): These areas gotta be targetted and analysed more perhaps?
Anyway there's the diconnect between the reception/performance and the review. Could be a case of good game just got unlucky (tough market Diablo, GW2, Firefall, PS2, even SWTOR) - probably true too.
I believe this game will be on my HD as long as the servers are up and running.
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Joined: 2/10/09
Originally posted by MumboJumbo
I agree that the scoring system for MMOs in general need to change. Instead of giving these games a numerical rating why can't these sites just give the goods and bads of a game and let the player decided from there.
Back on the topic of TSW, I was hyped for this game like 2 years back but i played the beta the combat and quest system felt very boring to me. On the other hand, i liked the weapons, lore, skill wheel, and the setting of the game but it wasn't enough for me to buy and subscrib to the game.
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The reasons why The Secret World's sales were shockingly low will no doubt be debated for years and years... but at the end of the day, it comes down to this:
I have a subscription. I pay for the game - and I'm happy to do it. I play the game - and I am thrilled to be playing it.
I am not going anywhere... and 99% of my circle of friends feels the same way.
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I played in the last weekend of The Secret World beta, and I have to say that while I enjoyed the game, I wasn't really blown away by it. At least, not enough to justify spending $50+ to buy the game AND $15/month on a subscription.
I hate to say it, but the days of buy and subscribe are coming to an end. RIFT may be hanging in there, but the list of successful titles using that business model are getting smaller and smaller. Factor in that WoW can now be picked up, with expansions, for only $20 (limited time, sure, but it's still there), and I really can't see anyone paying that much money for TSW.
I really feel like this is a free-to-play game, and I don't see myself ever paying to play it. And I suspect I'm not alone in feeling that way.
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Personal opinion:
I have played MMOs since they existed. I have played a lot of them. I like several. TSW is one of the best ever, and has the potential to get better and better. Its storyline is already the best, from a literary and sophistication standpoint.
I would have to agree that EA/Funcom made some major marketing mistakes.
In the end, different gamers like different things for different rerasons. But TSW has the potential to revolutionise how these games are made, and dared to break the mold.
It is also less than 2 months old in "live" play. A bit early to expect it to be everything to everyone.
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Joined: 8/17/09
I think one of the most interesting numbers to toss around is the beta number - over a million players in the beta. That only 200k of them bought the game is startling, but it really says a ton about how important the beta is anymore if you are going to use it for marketing.
Beta reviews for TSW were rather poor, and my opinion pretty much mirrored that. Things got fixed and prettied up right before launch but it appears the damage was already done. Makes me sad but it is illuminating.
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I actually love TSW, bought box at release and after a few weeks subbed for 1 year.
Having said that. I do think they would have been better off with a B2P model with cash shop like GW2. Since I began following TSW many moons ago alot of people were turned off by the Sub + cash shop model. Which is understandable IMO.
Great game that I will continue to enjoy and support ( along with GW2), but a different payment structure might have served them better. especially releasing so close to GW2 and its model.
Just my 2cp
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I played the Beta of TSW and my first impression was "Wow" this looks interesting and different until you got over the first impression and became aware of just how plain it was, yes it's had it extras like skill and talent wheels but it was too linier.
For me the story line/quest line was exactly the same regardless what character you played as, and I felt I was just playing a spinoff of SWTOR and for a game that was meant to be far reaching I found the character movement and indeed the graphics to be so substandard compared to say AOC and the combat system given what as in AOC was a step backwards not forwards.
Now I know this was just the Beta and things may have changed since release but for me the biggest game killer was not the broken quest lines or poor character movement and combat system in the beta but the Community that was present in the Beta, I personally found most of them to be rude, unhelpful and spiteful and every time someone tried to help out another person they were constantly being told to shut up as what they were doing was giving out spoilers or being told to just go Google it.
For me, the Secret World had the potential to be and become something special simple given the direction Funcom had taken with the story line and Lore however the fact that it was in the end a linier grind fest with a community that seemed to spit on everyone who used general chat turned me away from the game and in fact has guaranteed I won't return to it even if it goes F2P.
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Joined: 3/24/09
I speak here for any game that seems to have a dissapointing reception, not just TSW, as I see the same thing repeated for other games that have less then expected receptions. I think there is a tendency among fans of a game (and cleary TSW has some here) to dismiss criticism of the game itself and to try push the blame for why a game might not be as well recieved by others as it was by them on factors completely external to the game.....everything from the business model, to the advertising and marketing, to timing of release, etc. At the same time they have a tendency to dismiss critics as being intellectualy dishonest or not having played the game or simpletons or simply "haters". Apparently this trend is starting to extend to some of the staff writers here at mmorpg.com. Frankly I find that disturbing and it needs to stop. It's not doing the games or the community or the hobby itself any favors, quite the opposite.
It may be true that there are a few posters who are simply "haters", just as there are a few posters who may be paid shills, viral marketers or have ulterior motives for supporting a game. However I think folks need to accept that the majority of posters here who have a problem with a game that made them to decided not to buy/play it are legitimately and honestly expressing thier perceptions of the games shortcomings and those perceptions may be held by others as well. Just as I'm sure most of you who are fans legitimately and honestly are describing your perceptions of the games strengths. Perhaps if we examined the content of those opinions we might actualy gain some insight as to WHY the game wasn't universaly recieved as well as was expected rather then simply dismissing them and blaming external factors. While there may even be some kernal of truth in external factors, it's clear that any product that in and of itself is strong enough can overcome them. I also learned a long time ago in my own proffesion and in my own work..... that while there might be many outside factors beyond my control that played a role...if a piece of work or service I was responsible for failed......if the primary place I was looking to assign blame for it wasn't straight in the mirror...then I was simply doomed to repeat the same less then satisfying results over and over again. That's something that Developers, Publishers, Pundits and Fans here need to take to heart if they want to achieve different results in future. Ego's and CYA's need to be set aside.
I've already expressed my primary 3 problems with TSW previously in this thread and others....so I won't repeat them here. I want to stress something here though. I'm NOT a hater. I WANTED to like TSW. I loved the concept. I'm clearly part of the audience that the game COULD have been sold to.....but when I got my hands on it (in beta) I absolutely found the execution horribly lacking. Speaking only for myself, it WAS ENTIRELY the GAME ITSELF that kept me from purchasing it.
- I have no problem with the subscription based business model. It's my PREFERED method to pay for a game. At $15 a month, I think MMO's are some of the cheapest per hour entertainment you can buy. I'd easly pay 3 times that in monthly fee's for a quality product.
- I am a PnP Role-Player at heart. It's actualy my prefered form of gaming. So I'm completely into RP-ing and Drama and Atmoshphere. Personaly I found TSW pretty LACKING in that regard.
- While I like fantasy, I also like other genre's as well, including sci-fi and modern. I absolutely loved the concept for the games setting, so much so I even wanted to run a PnP campaign based off it. I thought TSW's execution didn't do justice to the concept of the setting.
- While I'm more of a "make your own story" kind of guy in games, I can appreciate a good narative. I love reading. Tolkien may be my favorate author but I also enjoy the likes of Stoker, Shelley, LoveCraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc and I love watching creepy old black and white movies. Frankly again...I found TSW's execution lacking in this regards.
- In terms of complex and deep gameplay. In addition to PnP games my other gaming love is turn based board and computer wargaming. When not playing MMO's, I enjoy the likes of World in Flames, Advanced Squad Leader, Advanced Tactics WWII and Combat Mission Normandy. I'm the kind of gamer who likes to debate the merits of whether supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War is worth US Neutrailty Shifts, how many trucks you should have in an HQ to ferry replacements to front line combat units and whether you should use HEAT or APFSDS ammo to engage a PZIVF2 from 500yds. I went looking for "deep and complex" satisfying game-play in TSW and I FAILED TO FIND ANY.
Finally I DID give TSW a try in Beta. I did so because I was excited about it. I played it for a good 4-6 hours. Frankly if a game can't convince me in the first 4-6 hours that there is at least some potential for fun there...it's not getting a shot beyond that. Simply put, MY TIME is too valuable to waste on things that aren't providing fun/entertainment to me. Personaly TSW failed miserably for me in that regard. YMMV.


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Two men are on the run after an early morning home invasion and the Sheriff's Office is asking for help in locating them.
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Capitol Hill aides familiar with the White House changes say the administration has identified almost $5 billion in cuts that can be restored under its reading of the arcane budget rules governing the across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration. The calculations would restore $5 billion of the scheduled $85 billion in automatic sequestration cuts.
An administration official confirmed the calculations Friday but declined to comment further because the process is ongoing. The official and congressional aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the changes publicly.
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A rumor that Sullivan's Island will drastically increase its efforts to curb alcohol use on the beach is not true – at least one part of it.
While the island is committed to eliminating drinking alcohol on the beach – as it has always been – the rumor was that Sullivan's Island Town Administrator Andy Benke said state troopers would be conducting sobriety tests and stopping every fourth car at a checkpoint near Breech Inlet.
Benke said he is aware of the report. "I can tell you there has been no lunch meeting with me to discuss the matter with anyone," he noted in a statement to the Moultrie News. Although Benke's name may have been falsely tagged with that checkpoint information, the stops have neither been dispelled nor confirmed. "Sorry, not at liberty to discuss operational tactics of the police," Benke added. "But, traffic checks, plain-clothes officers on the beach and increase enforcement are all options."
Benke did note that drinking is becoming an issue on the beach. "The beach at Sullivan's Island is family oriented in a single-family residential community. The law codified over 20 years ago is clear: no alcohol, open or closed container, is permitted on the beach or beach path at Sullivan's Island," he said. "The preference of the town is compliance with the law over enforcement."
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SYS has focused on providing a comprehensive soccer experience for the youth of Seekonk. The program has been structured to provide a recreational program during the fall (Aug-Nov) and a competitive program (Black Goose) in the Spring (April-June). This format is consistent with the mission statement of the South Coast Soccer League of which SYS is a member.
SYS Board agreed to provide the Black Goose coaches the option of having their teams compete in a fall competitive program. The understanding was that participation in fall competitive soccer would not be at the expense of the fall recreational program; therefore, the coaches and players had to commit to continue playing recreational soccer.
In order to assure the integrity of the recreational program, the following guidelines have been established.
* Fall competitive teams will be formed by the Black Goose coach of that age group.
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* Fall competitive teams will be primarily composed of Black Goose players with any remaining slots opened to newly registered participants (tryouts may be held if the number of registrants is in excess of the number of players allowed for each team)
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On September 22, 2012, the 1967 graduating class of West Yadkin High School celebrated its 45th class reunion at Allison Oaks Vineyard in Yadkinville.
The reunion was catered by Regal Catering and a class picture was made by Amber Harris. Memory Books were prepared by Piedmont Graphics. Out of the 63 that graduated in 1967, 25 classmates attended.
Honored guests were, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Reece and Mrs. Louise Williams. Those attending were (first row left to right) Margaret Davis Wood, Sharon Boles Depree, Janice McCormick Freeman, Judy Crews Davis, Kathy Durham Rash, Janet Brannon Salmons, Janet Parks Martin, (second row left to right) Geraldine Henderson Brannon, Judy Norman Knight, Ava Thomasson Lewandowski, Ramona Henderson Trivette, Phyllis Templeton Payne, Karen Sparks Morris, Danny Brown, Lois Welborn Clay, Louise Tulbert Chapple, teacher - Hoyt Reece, Wayne Reavis, (third row left to right) Robbie Stokes, Wayne Randleman, John Hall, Jerel Reinhardt, Ricky Johnson, John Day, Donnie Livengood and Steve Swaim.
The Class of 1967 was the last high school graduating class from West Yadkin before the consolidation of the Yadkin County high schools.


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BELFRY, Ky. – Lorraine Maynard is all too familiar with the true meaning of domestic violence. Every time she looks at her 25 year-old daughter's face, the memories of the phone call she received on March 15, 2007 comes flooding back.
She remembers the horror, the heartbreak and the denial thinking that the Dayton, Ohio police force had her daughter confused with someone else. But the police did contact the right parents, and that's when the nightmare began.
"My daughter had graduated from high school and wanted to move to Dayton to be with her grandmother, whose health wasn't good," stated Maynard. "She had started classes at a community college there and was working full time at a service station when she met a guy that she started dating. I can't explain why, but I had bad feelings about this boy as soon as she told me about him. I couldn't quite put my finger on it and I chalked it up to the fact that I wasn't crazy about her moving away from home and that I was nervous about her dating someone she really didn't know anything about. She had led a sheltered life. Little did I know that my motherly instincts had kicked in and were trying to warn me about this young man."
"I have wished a thousand times over that I would have listened."
Maynard's daughter Miranda spoke with the Daily News over the telephone about what happened on that fateful day. This is her story, in her own words.
"Before I got ready to leave for work the morning of May 15, 2007, I started getting phone calls from my ex-boyfriend. I had broken up with him approximately a week before that because he had become very possessive and jealous over me, demanding that I quit my job because he didn't want me waiting on male customers and he wanted me to move out of my grandmother's house and in with him. I told him that the whole reason I had left home was because my grandmother was ill and needed me to help her, especially at night. I couldn't go anywhere that he wasn't there. He told me I wasn't allowed to go to the grocery store, shopping or spend time with my cousins, he even sat outside my classrooms to make sure I didn't talk to any guys after class was over. He was literally driving me crazy."
"He had gone through the phase after I called it quits of begging me to stay with him, telling me he was sorry for his actions and would never do them again and that he only acted that way because he loved me so much and was afraid I would leave him for someone else. He left flowers at my work and on our front porch, left notes and cards on my windshield, bought me present after present – this all happened over a period of 4-5 days. When he seen that wasn't working, he got angry…I mean he really got angry. He started making threatening calls to both our home and to my work, started following me in his car when I was going to and from class and work – he was really starting to scare me. I went to the police and tried to get an EPO and they said since he hadn't actually hurt me physically, there wasn't anything that I could do."
"The morning of the 15th, he had left a message on my grandmother's answering machine telling me to look in the mirror and to enjoy how pretty my face was because in a few hours, it would look completely different. I called the police station once again and played the message for them and they told me they would have an officer come by my work in an hour or so to take the complaint and they would request that the judge sign an EPO to keep him away from me. My grandmother begged me to not go to work; she was so scared and wanted me to stay home. I seriously considered it but we had one cahier off on maternity leave and another off sick, so I didn't want to leave them in a tight spot. How I wish I would have called in and took the day off."
"I hadn't been at work for more than 20 minutes or so when my ex walked through the door. I stepped in the back where employees only are allowed and made it to the backdoor. My manager was calling 911 when Bruce burst through the backdoor just a few seconds after I had exited it, threw fluid on my face, hair and neck that he was carrying in a large plastic cup. The second it hit my face my eyes were on fire and I couldn't open them and my sense of smell told me it was gasoline. I hear the click of the cigarette lighter and felt the most excruciating pain I have even known. It was so hot that I could feel the flesh dripping off my face."
"He had set me on fire."
Miranda woke up in the burn unit of a hospital in Ohio 8 days after the terrible tragedy. Her physicians had kept her in a medically induced coma because of the terrible pain she was in and to also allow for her treatments to begin.
"I looked like a monster. I kept asking for a mirror and they wouldn't let me have one. Finally, one day when my mom stepped out of the room I managed to make it out of the bed and over to the mirror. I remember just screaming over and over again when I saw what I looked like. I felt that my life was over. I looked like a total freak."
Miranda suffered severe burns over 80 percent of her head, neck and face. She has undergone extensive plastic and reconstructive therapy and wears a wig because her own hair never grew back. Although she knows her appearance is 100 percent better than it was after the accident, scars from her injuries are still visible, and will always be.
"I could have crawled into a hole to never come back out, I could have hid myself away from the world and drowned in my sea of self-pity, but I chose another path. I speak to high school and college age girls about the warning signs to look for in relationships that point to abuse. I joined a wonderful church and they keep me busy in activities, and I also completed by social services degree although many of my classes had to be on-line due to the numerous surgeries and hospital stays I went through. I know I can't change what happened, but maybe – just maybe, the scars on my face will be enough to convince a young lady in a troubled relationship to get out and to get help before it's too late."
Miranda's attacker was sentenced to a prison sentence of 32 years and will be eligible for bond in 2020.


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- Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory of medium energy heavy ion reactions: role of mean field dynamics and two body collisions (1985)
- The role of nonequilibrium and quantal effects in fast nucleus-nucleus collisions is studied via the Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory which includes the nuclear mean field dynamics, two-body collisions, and Pauli blocking. The intranuclear cascade model, where the dynamics is governed by independent NN collisions, and the Vlasov equation, where the nuclear mean field determines the collision dynamics, are also studied as reference cases. The Vlasov equation (no collision term) yields single particle distribution functions which–after the reaction–are only slightly modified in momentum space; even in central collisions, transparency is predicted. This is in agreement with the predictions of the quantal time-dependent Hartree-Fock method. In contrast, large momentum transfer is obtained when the Uehling-Uhlenbeck collision term is incorporated; then the final momentum distribution is nearly spherically symmetric in the center of mass and a well-equilibrated nuclear system is formed: the nuclei stop each other; the translational kinetic energy is transformed into randomized microscopic motion. The Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory is supplemented with a phase space coalescence model of fragment formation. Calculated proton spectra compare well with recent data for Ar(42, 92, and 137 MeV/nucleon) + Ca. Also the total yields of medium mass fragments are well reproduced in the present approach. The mean field dynamics without two-body collisions, on the other hand, exhibits forward peaked proton distributions, in contrast to the data. The cascade approach underpredicts the yields of low energy protons by more than an order of magnitude.
- Viscous fluid dynamical calculation of the reaction 12C(85 MeV/nucleon) + 197Au (1983)
- Proton spectra have been calculated for the reaction 12C(85 MeV/nucleon) + 197Au using a three-dimensional hydrodynamical model with viscosity and thermal conductivity and final thermal breakup. The theoretical results are compared to recent data. It is shown that the predicted flow effects are not observable as a result of the impact parameter averaging inherent in the inclusive proton spectra. In contrast, angular distributions of medium mass nuclei (A>3) in nearly central collisions can provide signatures for flow effects.
- Viscosity and the equation of state in high energy heavy-ion reactions (1993)
- Viscous hydrodynamic calculations of high energy heavy-ion collisions (Nb-Nb and Au-Au) from 200 to 800 MeV/nucleon are presented. The resulting baryon rapidity distributions, the in-plane transverse momentum transfer (bounce-off), and the azimuthal dependence of the midrapidity particles (off-plane squeeze out) compare well with Plastic Ball data. We find that the considered observables are sensitive both to the nuclear equation of state and to the nuclear shear viscosity η. Transverse momentum distributions indicate a high shear viscosity (η≊60 MeV/fm2 c) in the compression zone, in agreement with nuclear matter estimates. The bulk viscosity ζ influences only the entropy production during the expansion stage; collective observables like flow and dN/dY do not depend strongly on ζ. The recently observed off-plane (φ=90°) squeeze-out, which is found in the triple-differential rapidity distribution, exhibits the strongest sensitivity to the nuclear equation of state. It is demonstrated that for very central collisions, b=1 fm, the squeeze-out is visible even in the double-differential cross section. This is experimentally accessible by studying azimuthally symmetric events, as confirmed recently by data of the European 4π detector collaboration at Gesellchaft für Schwerionforschung Darmstadt.
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- Unusual bound states of quark matter within the NJL model (2000)
- Properties of dense quark matter in and out of chemical equilibrium are studied within the SU(3) Nambu Jona-Lasinio model. In addition to the 4 fermion scalar and vector terms the model includes also the 6 fermion flavour mixing interaction. First we study a novel form of deconfined matter, meso-matter, which is composed of equal number of quarks and antiquarks. It can be thought of as a strongly compressed meson gas where mesons are melted into their elementary constituents, quarks and antiquarks. Strongly bound states in this quark antiquark matter are predicted for all flavour combinations of qq pairs. The maximum binding energy reaches up to 180 MeV per qq pair for mixtures with about 70% of strange (s¯s) pairs. Equilibrated baryon rich quark matter with various flavour compositions is also studied. In this case only shallow bound states appear in systems with a significant admixture(about 40%) of strange quarks (strangelets). Their binding energies are quite sensitive to the relative strengths of scalar and vector interactions. The common property of all these bound states is that they appear at high particle densities when the chiral symmetry is nearly restored. Thermal properties of meso-matter as well as chemically equilibrated strange quark matter are also investigated. Possible decay modes of these bound states are discussed.
- Unlike particle correlations and the strange quark matter distillation process (2002)
- We present a new technique for observing the strange quark matter distillation process based on unlike particle correlations. A simulation is presented based on the scenario of a two-phase thermodynamical evolution model.
- Transport model analysis of the transverse momentum and rapidity dependence of pion interferometry at SPS energies (2006)
- Based on the UrQMD transport model, the transverse momentum and the rapidity dependence of the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) radii R_L, R_O, R_S as well as the cross term R_OL at SPS energies are investigated and compared with the experimental NA49 and CERES data. The rapidity dependence of the R_L, R_O, R_S is weak while the R_OL is significantly increased at large rapidities and small transverse momenta. The HBT "life-time" issue (the phenomenon that the calculated sqrt R_O^2-R_S^2 value is larger than the correspondingly extracted experimental data) is also present at SPS energies.
- Transport model analysis of femtoscopy data at RHIC energies (2006)
- The pion source as seen through HBT correlations at RHIC energies is investigated within the UrQMD approach. We find that the calculated transverse momentum, centrality, and system size dependence of the Pratt-HBT radii R_L and R_S are reasonably well in line with experimental data. The predicted R_O values in central heavy ion collisions are larger as compared to experimental data. The corresponding quantity sqrt R_O^2-R_S^2 of the pion emission source is somewhat larger than experimental estimates.
- Transport calculation of dilepton production at ultrarelativistic energies (1999)
- Dilepton spectra are calculated within the microscopic transport model UrQMD and compared to data from the CERES experiment. The invariant mass spectra in the region between 300 MeV and 600 MeV depend strongly on the mass dependence of the rho meson decay width which is not sufficiently determined by the Vector Meson Dominance model. A consistent explanation of both the recent Pb+Au data and the proton induced data can be given without additional medium effects.
- Transition to resonance-rich matter in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies (2000)
- The equilibration of hot and dense nuclear matter produced in the central region in central Au+Au collisions at square root s = 200A GeV is studied within the microscopic transport model UrQMD. The pressure here becomes isotropic at t approx 5 fm/c. Within the next 15 fm/c the expansion of the matter proceeds almost isentropically with the entropy per baryon ratio S/A approx 150. During this period the equation of state in the (P, epsilon)-plane has a very simple form, P = 0.15 epsilon. Comparison with the statistical model (SM) of an ideal hadron gas reveals that the time of approx 20 fm/c may be too short to attain the fully equilibrated state. Particularly, the fractions of resonances are overpopulated in contrast to the SM values. The creation of such a long-lived resonance-rich state slows down the relaxation to chemical equilibrium and can be detected experimentally.


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Friday, August 8, 2014
Debby Summey, the interim director of the Georgetown County Museum, has resigned her position with the museum.
Summey confirmed she resigned her position the evening of Aug. 5. The resignation is effective Saturday, Aug. 9.
She declined to comment on the reason why.
I love this museum, and I am leaving with a heavy heart.
Summeys departure is fifth in a string of resignations from the museum. She was hired in June to be the interim general manager in the wake of the resignation of the former director and assistant director, Jill Santopiertro and Susan Sawyer.
Since then two members of the board of directors, Pam Toemmes and Dick Riley, have also stepped down.
I love [the museum], I started it back in 2003. I want it to be around for 100 years, and I think it can be. One hundred years from now Id like to see it flourishing, she said.
I hope they can find a permanent director who is as passionate about the museum as I am.
The Georgetown Times was unable to reach Board of Directors President Rene King for comment. Board Treasurer Jan Lane said she could not comment on the resignation because she didnt know about that.
Board Secretary Mary Boyd said the resignation was nothing I can comment on at this time. But when it comes to the museum, we have never skipped a beat, we are open, and we will continue to be open.
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Oh and I think calling a fighter disgraceful is a bit of a stretch for fighter bashing.
In the next post, you attempt to justify the Jon's actions by claiming both Aldo and GSP did the same thing (ducking fights).
Which is it, fake or a justified move by Jones?
I see a couple things wrong with your logic.. just because other champs have done it doesn't mean it isnt a douche move. I remember both Aldo and GSP catching heat for their actions.
A second point worth noting is, Aldo finished Mendes in the first round. GSP had not almost been dethroned by Diaz.. Where as Jones was almost beat by Gus, some would even claim it was a shitty decision which should have gone Gus's way. Gus deserves another shot at Jones.. Diaz didnt deserve a shot at GSP.


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You may have seen Dolly Couture on the red carpet or in a magazine. Here is a partial list of our press and where you may have seen us.
Magazine and Newspaper Editorials
Los Angeles Times
Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine
Bridal Guide
Bride Magazine
Cosmopolitain Bride UK
OK Magazine, AUS
Brollops Guiden SWEDEN
Spectacular Bride Las Vegas (cover)
Runway Magazine
Southern Bride Magazine
Westechester Magazine
Photo Magazine
Chicago Fashion Magazine
and many more
My Fair Wedding With David Tutera, WE (bride's fashion)
Whose Wedding is it Anyway, the Style Network (bride's fashion)
Dancing with the Stars, ABC
Hart of Dixie, ABC
Grammy Pre-Award Show segment/ Fashion Team, TV GUIDE Channel
NBC News
Couple's Conseling VH1
Featured on numerous fashion segments on E! and The Style Network
Svetlana, HD NET
Sinbad's It's Just Family, WE
Celebrity Clients
Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me, Hot in Cleveland)
Amber Riley (Glee)
Elizabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms)
Kelly Beckett (the Paradiso Girls)
Tamara Jaber (Australian Pop Singer)
Gloria Loring (Days of our Lives)
Joyce Chittick (Broadway actress/choreographer)
Blogs (very partial list)
BridalGuide.com (What's Hot, Gown Gallery)
MathaStewartWeddings.com (the Bride's Guide, Lookbook)
LosAngelesTimes.com (fashion blog)
Glamour.com (front page)
StyleMePretty.com (frequent blog entries, Lookbook)
TheKnot.com (Look Book, paid advertizing, however is by invitation)
RocknRollBride.com (frequent blog entries)
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Chinese officials have confirmed an end to the 13-year-old ban on foreign video game consoles.
China's long-standing ban on video game consoles is coming to an end.
The China Daily is reporting that two Chinese government officials have confirmed earlier reports that an end to the ban was being considered.
This may not be a massive windfall for video game console manufacturers for a variety of reasons, but there's no doubt that the world's most populous nation represents a real opportunity for growth for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft and their respective consoles.
If console makers and game publishers can capitalize on the free-to-play model—something typically associated with PC and mobile gaming—the potential for growth in Asia, and especially in China, could be enormous.
Of course, shifting gears from a pay-to-play model to a freemium model isn't going to be easy and it isn't going to happen over night. Still, with the Xbox One and PS4 both embracing more diverse revenue models, the Chinese market is certainly within reach, more so now than ever before.
The ban isn't being revoked entirely, of course. Manufactuerers will need to sign on to China's new Shanghai free trade zone.
Still, something is better than nothing, even if penetrating the Chinese video game market—where free-to-play and piracy rein supreme—proves to be a puzzle in and of itself.
(Hat-tip ZDNet.)


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Red, white & you, tooWritten by Michael Miller | Editor in Chief Emeritus | firstname.lastname@example.com
After compiling nearly a dozen CDs of local music for charity, the question I am most frequently asked is, "Aren't you running out of local bands to include?"
As this summer's "Red, White & You, Too!" CD demonstrates, the sonic answer is a resounding "No!"
There are some musicians I lean on because I am a fan and it is an honor to work with them, even as a passive facilitator; Kerry Patrick Clark, Kyle White, Pat Dailey, Jeff Stewart, Carmen Miller, Mike "Mad Dog" Adams and TAPESTRY are just a few of my favorites. Another, Eddie Boggs, passed away this year, but will still be represented on the CD.
Many of those stalwarts are included on "Red, White & You, Too!" (100 percent of sales benefit the area's Red Cross military services and disaster relief services) but it is exciting to report the CD is rife with artists making their Toledo Free Press CD debut: Fish Fisher, Birds of Chicago, Nathan Roberts
& The New Birds, Tropic Bombs, Zak Ward, Thirsty Houligans, Bob Stevens and Scott Fish and Distant Cousinz.
For last summer's inaugural Red Cross CD (which includes tracks by Chrys Peterson, The Bradberries, Crystal Bowersox, Alyson Stoner and several more artists and is also available in limited quantities this summer), I relied mostly on cover tunes. But as local bands began submitting songs this year, it became clear that the quality of their original recordings was so strong, the material could stand on its own; it may sound odd, but I am proud of each track, from its writing to its production. You will hear songs on "Red, White & You, Too!" that are better than most of what you will hear on mainstream radio this summer.
Among the many highlights of the 21-track CD are two songs by Fish and Distant Cousinz that highlight a recent local story that made international headlines. "Marlee's Freedom" and "Lucky Day" are about the children of Tiffany Eckert and Army Sgt. Andy Eckert, who was killed in Iraq in 2008. The story of daughter Marlee's connection to freedom and the tale of son Myles finding $20 and "paying it forward" to Lt. Col. Frank Dailey are recounted on the CD's bonus tracks, both with the blessing and input of Tiffany. It's a fun and summery CD, but these two tracks serve to remind us why it exists.
I always appreciate Put-in-Bay's "Christmas in July" weekend, so a brief interlude on the disc provides music for that event; the rocker "Christmas in Killarney" by Extra Stout and the original "Xmas in Jail" by Thirsty Houligans linger on the season just long enough to make you want to take a sprig of mistletoe to the beach.
In two weeks, Project Editor Sanya Ali will present a special issue with stories on the musicians who contributed to the CD and a look at the work of the local Red Cross. In the meantime, stop by any area Big Boy or Ralphie's restaurant starting next week and get your copy; it's $10 for 21 tracks, and there's a $4 Big Boy/Ralphie's coupon inside.
Great local music, great local meals and a great local cause … is there a better way to enjoy summer?
Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and news director of Newsradio 1370 WSPD. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"biologist David Schubert of the Salk Institute warns that "children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems" related to GM foods. He says without adequate studies, the children become "the experimental animals."[ii]"AAEM has linked GMOs to infertility, immune problems, gastrointestinal problems, and insulin regulation in animal studies. The article mentions that sheep often graze on cotton after the cotton season, but when they graze on BT cotton (which is genetically modified) thousands died. Yikes.
Here is a link to a list of the companies that use GMO food and those that don't. The companies that use genetically modified ingredients are mainstream companies that provide the bulk of the food that kids eat today. Pepperidge Farm, Nabisco, Betty Crocker/General Mills, Hersheys, Kellogs, Pepsi, Coca Cola, and Campbells all use genetically modified organisms in their products. I have known for a while that most corn, soy, canola and cottonseed oil in the US contains GMOs unless specifically labelled "non GMO." So it is not surprising that these mainstream food companies, who put profit first, are using GMO ingredients. Still, it is shocking to see so many products that make up the bulk of typical kids food on the list--Eggo waffles, Quaker rice cakes, Campbell's soup, Heinz Ketchup, CHEERIOS!!!
If it killed a significant number of sheep, who knows what it is doing to our one year olds whose minds and bodies are still developing.


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By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 09/27/12
The Company Store will perform at 7 p.m. at Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. The Company Store mixes together the ingredients of America's own music – fiddle melodies from Virginia's Appalachians, tight harmonies from Kentucky's bluegrass and moving spirituals from the Carolina hills. Admission is free but reservations are required. For details, call 328-4491 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com .
The Friends of the Twin Hickory Library will hold a book sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Twin Hickory Library, 5001 Twin Hickory Rd. For details, call 290-9200 or visit http://www.henricolibrary.org .
Threads Consignment Events will present the Fall/Winter Children's Sale Sept. 28 to Oct. 7 in the Canterbury Shopping Center, 10618 Patterson Ave. Items for sale include new and gently-used clothing, toys, books, puzzles, furniture, baby equipment, maternity wear and more. Threads is a sponsor of the annual Autism Society of Central Virginia 5K. Hours vary. For details, visit http://www.threadsevents.com .
Henrico Humane Society's fifth annual Bark in the Park will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Dorey Park, 2999 Darbytown Rd. A 2K dog walk will begin at 11 a.m. There will also be live music, children's activities, pet-related vendors, a pet costume contest and more. Dogs will enjoy the new, fully-fenced-in Dorey Dog Park which features dog exercise equipment, "misting stations" disguised as fire hydrants and low water fountains just for pets. Registration is $25 for the 2K walk. Admission is free. Rain date is Sept. 30. For details, call HHS at 262-6634 or visit http://www.henricohumane.org .
The Festival of India will take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 29-30 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. There will be classical and modern live performances, as well as East-West fusion dance and music. Traditional Indian clothing, jewelry, movies, music and souvenirs will be available for purchase and a variety of Indian cuisine, including vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies, will be prepared fresh in front of patrons. Admission is free. For details, visit http://www.thefestivalofindia.org .
Safe Harbor's third annual yard sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 29 and from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 30 at the old Best Products location, 4909 Marshall St. Items for sale include furniture, electronics, home goods, collectibles, clothes and accessories, toys, books, movies, DVDs and more. All proceeds benefit Safe Harbor's work to provide shelter, counseling and support groups for survivors of sexual and domestic violence. For details, visit http://www.safeharborshelter.com .
The fourth annual Richmond Walk Now for Autism Speaks will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Richmond International Raceway, 600 E. Laburnum Ave. There will be children's activities, a resource fair, refreshments and live entertainment by The Diggity Dudes. Families will have a chance to meet firefighters and police officers from Henrico and Hanover counties. For details, visit http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/richmond .
Lavender Fields Herb Farm, 11300 Winfrey Rd. in Glen Allen, will host its Fall Herb Faire and Open House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be classes, demonstrations and a farm tour. Admission and parking are free. For a schedule of events, visit http://www.lavenderfieldsfarm.com .
Richmond's Tony Cosby and his band of thespians will present The Sam Cooke Experience, a musical and theatrical tribute to gospel great and R&B legend Sam Cooke, at 3 p.m. at Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. WLEE radio personality Jack Gravely will be the guest M.C. for this variety show starring the talents of home spun thespian troupe Theatre&Co and features local recording artist Delores Fox and Justin Morris of the Soul Stirrers. Tickets are available to Barkys, 18 E. Broad St., and The Gospel Book Store, Fairfield Commons Mall on Nine Mile Rd. For details, call Tony Cosby at 218-6970 or visit http://www.sowerinc.com
10th annual Filipino Festival coming in August
The 10th Annual Filipino Festival will be held Aug. 7-8 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 8200 Woodman Rd., beginning with opening ceremonies at 5 p.m. Friday and continuing with live entertainment, food and exhibits until 10 p.m. On Saturday the festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with a full schedule of performances featuring traditional Filipino dance, music and song.
Filipino cuisine, including BBQ, pansit, lumpia, adobo, halo-halo, lechon, empanada and leche flan, will be available for purchase. The festival will also feature a children's area, church tours, exhibits, and health screenings. > Read more.
CMoR reopens at new Short Pump site
The Children's Museum of Richmond last week opened its new Short Pump location at Short Pump Town Center, to the delight of children who attended a sneak preview of the location July 10. The new facility, located under the forthcoming LL Bean store (formerly the food court) is 8,500 square feet in size – much larger than CMoR's former Short Pump location at West Broad Village, which opened in 2010. The new space includes The CarMax Foundation Service Station, the Silver Diner, a grocery store, a performance stage and an art studio, as well as a giant Light Bright Wall. > Read more.
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The Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Henrico Police are both presenting community events tomorrow, Aug. 1. The Feria Community Resource Fair at Richmond International Raceway brings together community service providers, embassies/consulates from Latin American countries, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and corporations that impact the Latino community. The Division of Police's Community Day will feature demonstrations and displays from police, fire, animal protection and sheriff's office, as well as family activities, food, entertainment and more. Other events this weekend include wine, chess and theatre! For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Damn. I love the remolds. I really hope they don't decide to stop releasing other characters simply because they'd just be remolds. Or not bring over the asterisk line because collectors "wouldn't be interested."Originally Posted by Tycho
Damn. I love the remolds. I really hope they don't decide to stop releasing other characters simply because they'd just be remolds. Or not bring over the asterisk line because collectors "wouldn't be interested."Originally Posted by Tycho
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
Yeah, I know Tycho is passionate about Hasbro Star Wars and Transformers, but I kinda wish they wouldn't listen to him because his collecting habits are WAY outside the norm in both lines.
I am tired of Hasbro talking big game about the Alternators jets, stop yapping about them and just DO IT!!! How many times do they have to make a claim in this department that they don't later back up?
BTW, this week's ep of TF:CY slipped way back into Armada/Energon territory. The kids are obnoxious (though that goof that was a shot at E's Kicker was a little funny) and Dolt, I mean "Jolt", he was supremely dopey and annoying. And how stupid is it that Vector Prime, Optimus, and the Autobots are digging out in the open and then fighting Thundercrackah & Starscream, but even though Jetfire is already nearly to where Bud & Scattorshot are in space and the Autobots are getting beat down by the 'Cons, VP tells "Massive Attack Mode" Optimus to go help Jetfire save Bud & Scattorshot instead. Plus, Scattorshot & Bud are thousands of miles away from this battle's location yet both the space bridge bubble AND Jetfire end up getting hit by STRAY fire from that battle.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Oh come on! I have great ideas. In mixing with Hasbro close to closing time one night, I suggested we get some drinks and discuss Mouse Droid 6 packs, as well as Transformers that convert into Mouse Droids.Originally Posted by JediTricks
A few drinks later I got the impression that the new Mouse Droid Universe Line will first be officially announced later this summer at Wizard Con!
We also put a bow tie on Hound (mine that had broken and that I'd traded back - if anyone noticed what he was wearing the last day in the showcase) and it was suggested that a new line of accessory clothing for Transformers might work to bring new excitement and cross-gender interest into play with the toys. For lack of a better name, the new Autobot / Decepticon clothing line will be called the Transvestors! Hasbro hopes this newly designed line will offer an alternative to Mattel's Barbie and SideShow's authentic clothing for their dolls. No other toy manufacturer is making robots that wear clothes. I pointed to General Grievous and his bodyguards' success with this.
It all makes sense to me.
Hahahahahaha!!!Originally Posted by Tycho
I missed the last ep. of Cybertron on Saturday.
I asked (Aaron Archer) why CN decided to screw us (didn't use those words) out of the first few episodes, making the first episode that they did show us so confusing. He said something about CN wanting to kick things off with an exciting episode. (I suppose the lack of a decent introduction or any kind of backstory does make for an exciting show.)
Saw the whole line of figures in person. Those beast type figures look good -- I'm sold on those.
I'm also sold on that miniature line of Cybertron figures. They're going for about $2.99 and we picked up two of them -- Optimus and Megatron -- and they're really fun. A great idea and a great price.
You made me laugh Tycho...but I'll still kill you if they decide not to bring over the Asterisk line because of youOriginally Posted by Tycho
I agree about the Cybertron minis. I'm probably not going to buy most of the larger versions of these figures, but the mini versions are incredibly fun with very little investment. I bought the whole first wave and, with the free Skywarp giveaway, they make for a really great set. If the rumors of Thundercracker coming to BotCon are true, I've got an extra to trade. It'd be awesome to have a War Within inspired seeker force!
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
I'm so sick of Archer's answers, if he's Hasbro's main guy he should have stood up to Cartoon Network on that issue.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
You have to understand: Archer is a tool. He wasn't always a tool. He used to be the fandom's greatest asset. Then Hasbro pulled a Manchurian Candidate on him and now he's a tool.Originally Posted by JediTricks
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
I honestly don't think he expected me to ask him that. I kind of jumped from, "What's up with the movie and are you guys still focusing on designing toys for it like you told me last year?" to... "Hey, the Cybertron line looks like a lot of fun, I'm much more enthusiastic about it than I was about Armada and Energon." to... "So, what happened to the first few episodes of the cartoon and do you think maybe the show can stay on at a time when somebody might want to watch it?"Originally Posted by JediTricks
I've discovered that I can pretty much ask any question that I want, if I follow it up by pointing to my son and saying, "Well, he loves this stuff, so I suppose you guys are doing something right." (At which point someone from Hasbro pops in from around the corner and says, "That's what we like to hear!")
ha, ha hahahaOriginally Posted by plasticfetish
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
I know Archer is a tool, but as a tool of Hasbro he should at least be looking out for THEIR best frickin' interests!!! By letting CN get away with this, he has basically shot Hasbro in the face.
PF, if you can keep them off-guard long enough to get straight answers out of them by using your kid as cover, I say "get more children, STAT!"
"That's what we like to hear" - corporate doublespeak for "we pretend we know what we're doing and when anybody bolsters that erroneous belief of ours, we appreciate them not scratching at the wet-sand foundation of our lies."
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.


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Google Video first replaced Froogle on the homepage in 2006, two months before Google acquired YouTube.
A year later, Froogle replaced Google Video on the homepage and it was rebranded as Google Product Search.
And now Google Video is back on Google's main navigation, while Froogle is available in the "more" drop-down.
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BY Robert A. (Bob) Kinsler, US Army, Ret, DAV, VFW Post 3658, Adjutant/PAO (Public Affairs Officer)
Well the first article did it's Job, it started the conversation going again. I was called about various VA Challenges people are having (and set up appt to take further action on those cases) and visited about the Parade and when we have our VFW meetings. One comment though, I did not list my military retired rank since we do not wear rank at the VFW but provide our services as comrades.
We have these business card sized Invite Cards that list when our meetings are, our website and Facebook page location along with our fund raising events that happen each week. So if you get one, pass it to those that want to know about the Antlers VFW we have a lot more to pass out. And would you believe I am getting calls from other VFW posts about where to get these, I already answered those questions.
Rocky Woolman is our Service Officer for our local VFW, (and recently found out that there are no others within Pushmataha County) although with those that have internet connection and can visit this blog – Blog.va.gov/Vantage/9648/get-the-fastest-claim-decision-file-a-fully-developed-claim/) you can help provide those needed services too.
What the blog is showing is something new for the Veterans Administration- a checklist style procedure that one can send in with appropriate documentation via the VA website and get decisions in half the time as submitting it with paper documentation via the VAMC (and we here in Pushmataha have two different VAMC systems [the Dallas and Oklahoma City]). Just read and help out those that do not have internet connection, please.
For those who have friends or relatives still serving, remind them to get a complete copy of their medical records before processing out of service. This can eliminate a lot of time getting those claims processed. The procedure where the individual services were transferring your medical records to the VA is not ongoing right now due to budget cuts.
The hard problem (which the VFW is working on) is while the Active Duty and Military Retirees have Tri-Care (which for the first time-Retiree Standard Tri-Care will cost $140 a year and going up for those under the age of 65); our veterans who have families and did not retire will have to purchase one of those Medicare plans thanks to Obama Care (yes even the President refers to his Health Affordability Act as Obama Care). The veteran can get his/her medical insurance with VAMC, but that does not help with the other family members. At this printing nothing has come out on a preferred plan yet, but VFW is looking for a good solution.
I understand that those who are over 65 years old and qualify for Tri-Care for Life and use the VA Medicare System too better be careful as with Obama Care challenges a recent Tri-Care internal audit found that Tri-Care had been paying for non-service connected assessed by the VA on the elderly veterans. This will end come October 1, 2013. The challenge seems to be that while VA Medicare Centers are a Tri-Care For Life (TFL) provider they are not Medicare certified (why not, I really do not know). I will have a copy of this article at our next VFW membership meeting for all to read.
That reminds me; per the Quarter Master of VFW Post 3658 the hall is open for rental. Contact Jerry Fain at 580-298-7258 for more information on that. We also are cleaning up the space behind the Post so that one can walk around back there. Hopefully soon we will also have picnic tables for your enjoyment. There are plans to do more but we will have to insure we have the finances to get those in place.
Lastly knowing that some of our veterans are looking for work – I would check out Family Dollar and General Dollar stores here in Antlers they seem to need a little leadership in the Assistant Manager position (full time). Also one might just spot by the Red Barn Liquor Store and put an application in there too (part-time).
More next week.
By the way, if you want to complain, add your support, or have something you want added to this article contact me at 580-271-0897 or Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com [1]. This is the veterans news and if you have something let me know, please.
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