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Hope springs eternal as long as there's another spring coming.
If no wise person ever wrote that, they should have. I'll be glad to take the credit for that one. That's credit for the part about spring, not the part about being a wise person.
In the famous novel for children, "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe," which has been portrayed on the screen many times, the latest version by Disney, one of the consequences of the land of the fictional Narnia being in the grip of an evil witch was that it was always winter. And with no Christmas.
Narnia had no spring coming until the young heroes of the story arrived to save the day and bring an end to unbroken winter.
In real life, people do not remain in a land that has no spring. Even the Inuit and the Laplanders and the others in the far North get a break from wintertime in July.
We have it good here. Spring starts early. The calendar tells us spring will start March 20, but we all know it starts earlier.
But just when will springtime arrive? For years now I've been looking for the surefire sign of the arrival of springtime, the time when the low-hanging sun begins to warm the bones, the time when the heavy coats are cast off for good.
And I've been lousy at it.
I used to look for the robins' return from the south as the surefire sign.
One gray winter's day I looked out the kitchen window here in the hometown, and there I spied a huge flock of robins covering a big chunk of my backyard and part of a neighbor's. I thought a hundred of them was a good estimate.
Oh goody, I thought, this has got to mean spring's coming early. I'd never seen such a flock of the birds with the familiar rust-colored breasts.
So I waited for spring. And I waited. And I waited. Gray day after gray day after gray day passed. Springtime seemed to come late that year. I've never trusted robins since.
Some start anticipating spring by Groundhog Day, especially if the day is gloomy. If a few mild days in February follows in short order, as they did last week, the expectation bubbles within. A few hardy souls will even go out and plant some early garden stuff.
I caught spring fever in 2007, and on a mild day I planted nine rows of Early Alaskan peas on the first Saturday of March, on the 3rd. Spring had arrived, I proclaimed to myself as I finished.
I'd planted peas even earlier in prior years. So I thought nothing about going out a bit early in '07, confident the bad weather had broken.
In two weeks I noted my first pea sprouts, and by April 7 I had plants as high as nine inches and growing runners. My pride swelled. I'm not very good in the garden, so when I do get something right I remember it.
The traditional end of the threat of frost was only about a week away, I gloated to myself.
Then winter struck with cruelty. It was clear during the day of April 14 that year but the night air turned bitter cold. The low reached down into the lower 20s.
OK, these are Alaskan peas, I thought. They should still be all right.
And the young plants endured the first night fine, it seemed the next day. But the thermometer plunged again the next night. And the next night. I began to worry. Nothing like this had happened to me before. It's not supposed to frost after April 15.
But we had four nights of mid-20s or lower, and every one of those beautiful early pea plants froze and died. I got two pods from one sole, surviving sprout. I have no idea how that one plant survived.
That year I had no mess of garden peas, my favorite. I stood at the garden, looked at the two pods in my hand that I plucked from my one surviving plant and just wolfed down the peas raw.
Some travel to the beach to greet spring early and hunt for some warm solar rays and ocean breezes.
Myrtle Beach has a promotion in mid-March, Canadian Days, and one time I was down there and marveled at the Canadians out frolicking in the surf while I'm walking on the beach chilly in a warm-up suit. The Canadians thought spring had arrived; I thought no way.
"It's feels warm to them," a storeowner explained.
It looks like we have a normal late-winter and early-spring in store as I check the extended forecast of the National Weather Service. So no Big Snow in March or garden stuff freezing in April, as I see it. Let's see if that proves true.
So following that two-day warm spell last week, here I go. I'm going to call an early spring. Again. It feels right in my bones. It feels like springtime. I got out the short-sleeve shirts and shorts.
Let's see how I do this time.
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Ellen Krausse competed in all 11 tournaments and 26 rounds in her final season at Cal State Northridge ... compiled an 81.9 stroke average after taking 2,129 strokes ... posted three top-20 finishes as a senior including 11th-place finishes at both the Big West Championship (Apr. 22-24) and the Lamkiin Grip Invitational (Nov. 7-8) ... also finished 15th and was CSUN's low scorer at the season-opening Circling Raven Collegiate Invitational (Sept. 13-14) ... low tournament score of 14-over 230 came as she finished 11th at the Big West Championship ... fired a low round of 75 on three separate occasions.
Krausse competed in eight tournaments playing in 21 rounds in her first season at Northridge ... compiled a 79.1 stroke average after taking 1,581 strokes over 21 rounds which was good for fifth-best on the team ... had one top-10 finish which came at the Firestone Grill Invitational (Oct. 4-5) where the Matadors posted their only team win of the season ... carded a three-round (+18) 231 to finish sixth among 47 players ... also had a top-20 finish after placing 12th at the Lamkin Grip Invitational (Nov. 1-2) with a two-round score (+8) 154 ... a second round 72 at the Price's "Give 'Em Five" Invitational (Oct. 11-13)?was her low 18-hole round of the season as was her tournament score of (+13) 229.
Krausse lettered during the 2008-09 season at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, Calif. ... earned first team all-conference honors and was a state qualifier in 2008-09 ... the Renegades won the conference championship and were state runners-up in 2009 ... played for coach Larry Cook ... earned her associate of arts degree in liberal studies with a 3.3 grade point average.
Competed in both golf and softball at Garces Memorial High School in Bakersfield, Calif. ... lettered all four seasons for the Rams golf team and won a league championship for coach Lela Steiber ... earned second team All-Area as a catcher for the softball team which won the Valley Championship in 2008 ... graduated in 2008 with a 3.0 grade point average.
Born July 30, 1990 in Bakersfield, Calif. ... parents are Lynn and Jeffrey Krausse ... has one younger brother, Paul ... favorites include the Los Angeles Dodgers, PGA golfer Tom Watson and the movie "The Italian Job" ... major is Photojournalism.


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Following the remarks by UFC fighter Bryan Caraway denouncing marijuana use, as he received the submission of the night bonus late, due to Pat Healys failed drug test for marijuana metabolites Bellator fighter and former associate Michelle Ould has taken to Twitter to accuse Caraway of selling performance enhancing drug (PEDs) in the past.
Dude use to sell my ex roommate PEDs but he hates weed -go figure, said Ould.
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Since the comments, Ould has continued to defend her comments on Twitter, assuring that it was in fact Caraway sellings PEDs.
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Waterbury LEAP, the town energy committee for Waterbury and Duxbury, celebrated its first successful Waterbury/Duxbury Solar Year on Monday, March 11, in Waterbury, at the home of Peter Plagge and Erin Mooney, homeowners who recently installed solar panels on their home.
The towns of both Waterbury and Duxbury were celebrating the doubling of residential solar capacity within 11 months.
Duncan McDougall, chair of Waterbury LEAP, opened the press event. McDougall highlighted the success of reaching the ambitious goals set last April: "Last April at our sixth Energy Fair we set yet another aggressive goal. We announced the Waterbury/Duxbury Solar Year with the goal of doubling the residential solar capacity in Waterbury and Duxbury in only one year. We are here today to celebrate the successful achievement of that milestone in only 11 months."
The doubling of solar will also be celebrated at Waterbury LEAP's seventh annual Energy Fair, set for April 13 at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury.
Governor Shumlin praised the progress of Waterbury and Duxbury and thanked Waterbury LEAP and local government for helping to achieve the vision outlined in Vermont's Comprehensive Energy plan.
"This type of local initiative is just what we need to meet our state's aggressive renewable energy and carbon reduction goals. We read and hear about towns debating the role of renewable energy in their communities, and too often these discussions focus more on what folks don't want. Here in Duxbury and Waterbury you've focused on the positive clean energy that you do want in your communities. You've walked the walk, and my hope is that other towns will follow your example," Shumlin said.
Peter Plagge, solar homeowner, pastor of the Waterbury Congregational Church and host of the press event, highlighted the moral and ethical reasons that his family decided to install solar panels, stating, "We can no longer think of nature as the self-sustaining machine that western philosophy had proposed…. We must find balance."
Jessica Edgerly Walsh, lead organizer at SunCommon, a Waterbury-based solar installer, described the financial program that allowed customers like Plagge and many others to install solar without upfront costs, noting, "We help families stay within their current utility budget and we help them power their homes with the energy source they want – solar. We also offer different kinds of financing, including lease and loan options, so that we can find the best fit for every Vermont family."
Rebecca Ellis, state representative and Waterbury Select Board member, congratulated Waterbury and Duxbury on meeting their ambitious goals and thanked the governor for his strong support and leadership on solar energy.
"It's always a little frightening to set ambitious goals like this because you might fail to achieve them. I am both impressed and pleased that Waterbury and Duxbury not only met their goals but are on the path to surpass them," she said.
Tom Stevens, state representative, praised the economic models that allow homeowners to easily install solar, stating, "The secret to a larger transition to renewables is in diversity, but the more important secret is in affordability and ease of transition."
Jamison Ervin, Waterbury LEAP board member, echoed praise for both towns but cautioned that even this success is not close to what is needed to meet the state's ambitious goals. She said, "If we are serious about achieving the goals of Vermont's Comprehensive Energy Plan, then we must redraw the contours of our ambitions, and we must radically accelerate the rate of adoption of renewable energy by families, schools, businesses and municipalities across the state." She cited that "…the single most important policy change that would trigger whole scale adoption of solar would be to allow Vermont's families and businesses to sell back excess energy to the grid, above what they consume annually."
As a backdrop to the press conference, Waterbury LEAP displayed more than 100 photos of homes from both towns, with a wide range of solar arrays. The homes ranged from modest mobile and modular homes to expansive homes on large estates. Waterbury LEAP board member Ervin remarked, "This photo display highlights the diversity of solar installations in our towns, proving that renewable energy truly is for everyone, regardless of economic circumstance, and that towns can play a key role in meeting the state's energy goals."


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All is Dust and DNA
Jim Stump explores the meaning of the Lenten season from the perspective of evolutionary creation.
Responses to David Barash on God and Evolution in the Classroom
Here are some of the best responses from around the web to David's Barash's controversial editorial about God and Evolution in the New York Times.
The Tradition of Wisdom for Today: a Relational Theology of Science
If discussions of science and religion sometimes get bogged down in Genesis, perhaps that is because they have not made the preparatory journey through the rich material of the Wisdom books.
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New BioLogos content editor Brad Kramer reviews Chapter 1 of "Surprised by Scripture" by NT Wright, and sees Wright's work as a signpost for the future of the science/faith debate.
New Creation: The Hermeneutic of Love
For Augustine, the literal sense of scripture is not a scientific narrative of physical reality, but a liturgical and poetic narrative of God's awesome power at the dawn of history. This is a vital thread in the story of how to read Genesis.
Christ, Trinity, and Creation, Part 2
Christ is the reason the natural sciences work: he is the source of the laws of nature, and he contains and underpins the natural sciences. Christ is the pattern for all created things, while the Spirit – his presence in the created world – breathes the divine fire into the equations.
Interview with Ronald Osborn
We must press beyond the various creation narratives in the Hebrew Bible, including the final chapters of Job, to the picture of God revealed in the New Testament—the Creator who does not rationally explain away the scandal of suffering but who instead enters into it.
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We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
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The Challenge of Cosmology
The idea that the story we know is only the very beginning raises a new question in place of Feynman's objection that Christianity is provincial. Is it presumptuous to claim that in such a grand universe, possibly with intelligent life arising in many places, the redemption and transformation of the entire cosmos starts here, on our pale blue dot?
God's Extravagant Love in Creation
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NOIRMOUTIER, France —Visitors to Crestview's sister city can expect red-carpet hospitality from big-hearted host families.
Some visitors, however, receive a bit more.
Jocelyne and Gérard Pontoizeau have welcomed more than 50 guests from Northwest Florida since Crestview and the French town Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile formed a relationship through Sister Cities International.
Gérard — known as "Pompom" to friends — and his father-in-law built the couple's six-bedroom, two-bathroom and three-water-closet stone house nearly 30 years ago.
The Pontoizeaus are well-known among Northwest Florida State College show choir students, who perform every two years in Noirmoutier.
"Older students pass the word, 'Stay with Pompom,'" said Montavius Diamond, who is with the 22-person Crestview contingent that recently returned from visiting the island
Guests become part of a large, extended family. Chris Embree and Marie Anne Fella, members of the current Crestview group, stayed with the Pontoizeaus.
"We had shrimp and crab for lunch today that Pompom and I caught this morning," Embree said. "We went out in his boat, pulled the traps and got the crabs."
"Jocelyne made us quiche with herbs from the garden and eggs from their hens when I stayed here," Diamond said. "Everything is always fresh from the sea or the garden."
Jocelyn Pontoizeau prepares meals that include regional dishes and treats, like homemade pizza, that are popular with student palates not adjusted to French country cooking.
"I like staying with people instead of hotels," Embree said. "People who stay in hotels miss out on this," he said, waving his arm around the sunny courtyard. He and Fella sat drinking coffee from cups that were more like small bowls.
"I can sum it up in one word: awesome!" Fella said. "I feel like I'm family here."
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Originally posted by InsaneMembrane
No I didn't pledge enough for a house.
First, just let me clarify that I'm not saying it is a bait and switch. It just feels like it, because of the way things played out.
Since there wasn't much information available when I pledged, there's no way I could have known how the housing would work. I only knew that at some point in the future, there may or may not be housing available to players. I couldn't have known how much it would cost, or that it would cost anything...
Also I thought this game would have multiple modes (single-player, coop, MMO). Is that still a part of the game? Are the housing plots unavailable in single-player/coop modes unless you fork over the cash?
EDIT: Here we go. I read this from their official website before I pledged, and before the housing plot announcement:
"Players can specialize in a wide range of combat and non-combat skills, provided by a robust, classless skill system, and full-featured crafting and housing mechanics." - https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=28012
If they had added "Housing plots are limited and cost an additional fee of $X.XX" then I wouldn't have pledged. Instead, all I knew was that the game would have housing at some point, not that it would be limited and cost additional money. Not sure if that's bait and switch, but it's shitty enough to regret pledging money.
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Originally posted by gigat
All I can do here is refer you to Dallas' statement on the matter:
"We sincerely apologize for the confusion created by the "tax free" statement in the Player Housing section of our Kickstarter page. It was not our intention to imply that the tax free property deeds were going to be exclusive to Kickstarter backers only, although we certainly understand how the wording of that statement would create that impression. During the Kickstarter campaign we endeavored to clearly specify if a reward was going to be reserved exclusively for Kickstarter-only backers (sometimes referred to as "founders", or "early backers"). We readily admit that things were moving fast during the campaign and some things were not presented as clearly as they could have been. To clarify, once the game is publicly launched, players that did not pledge for any of the housing tiers will have to pay regular taxes and commissions on basic property deeds and vendors. And to answer some of your posted concerns, the number of property deeds is limited, and can only be increased when we expand the size of the map.
All of you Early Founders that made SotA possible by backing us during the Kickstarter campaign are extremely special to us. To show our appreciation, Early Founders can purchase/upgrade their tiers for about 10% less than new backers, and Early Founders have significantly more (and cooler) rewards per tier reserved exclusively for them. And Early Founders have priority on property selection. Quite honestly, we feel that we stripped the tier rewards to the bare bones after the grace period and left just barely enough rewards for new backers to find the tiers appealing enough to pledge, while simultaneously providing our Early Founders with a strong sense of special exclusivity. We are committed to delivering to you the best game that we possibly can, and all additional funds that we can raise during the development of SotA are going 100% into making a better game for you. Raising more development funds with housing tiers is important to continuously improving the game, and including tax free rewards for the housing tiers is fundamental to their appeal to new backers.
Once again, we apologize for the confusion or frustration this matter has caused some of you. If you are dissatisfied and feel you have been mislead by the tier information you pledged toward, please contact us directly at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will strive to resolve your concerns."
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@last post about kickstarter promises:
It sounds as though Richard Garriott gets the last laugh.
Wait until the final game you make in your lifetime before you start burning bridges .. then light them ablaze! Well this game wasn't about getting huge numbers of players, as is apparent :P
Rather is was a seemingly successful cash grab. I mean $500 per house isn't very attractive to new players, but donators get to play amongst themselves .. apparently ..in virtual houses ..
with themselves, and nobody else .. sounds fun.
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Originally posted by Swedish_Chef
Correction, NO, it is NOT essential to playing the game.
You can hold anything and everything in your bank. In fact, it's far riskier to place things in homes, as they had limited placement and lock down slots depending on the style and type of home that you had. If you didn't come back to your home after a while, it would decay to a point where your walls would fall and everything inside was ripe for the taking. Plus, you had to pay 'rent', so to speak.. Also, if you had a NPC vendor, you had to pay them or they would drop your shit.
So no, it wasn't essential. It didn't even really help you do anything. All it did was gave you a space that you could potentially create a shop and show off your house designs to your friends. It didn't make you better in combat. It didn't give you extra experience. It didn't increase your stats. It didn't allow you to carry more loot or store more loot. It was not essential. At least not in an open world virtual simulator like Ultima Online. Which I played, and I can tell that you didn't. You are using theory in what you THINK you know, but do not.
Now, if Shroud of the Avatar is telling players, pay before it launches or you have no chance to own a home, then that sucks. If owning that home equals some great advantage over someone else, then that also sucks. It shouldn't be done that way, because any true sandbox is built by the players, not the developers. Clearly SotA is not a sandbox.
Originally posted by DAS1337
Agree with most of what you are saying, however I'd like to put the term sandbox in perspective. I would like to define a sandbox game as a game which allows great flexibility in allowing the player to interact with the game world and do whatever they want. That is how it is generally used.
So what you are saying, is that since there is a chance a casual player who logs in once a week for an hour to play SotA can't earn/upkeep a house, it isn't sandbox? Because if it was sandbox, that very casual player should be able to like chop down trees and build a house after one hour a week game time?
Not totally sure if that would fit in with the general definition of a sandbox game. See this video where they discuss both Housing and Sandbox:
I have read all pages of posts since I began the thread.
My concern is on several levels with this game.
I have been interested in a UO2 since they first started working on a botched version long long ago and scrapped it.
I have been following Richard (Lord Brittish) for a long time on facebook and actually had a short back and fourth with him about how gaming has changed and how great a new UO could be with his style and sense of game direction in place.
Then I started seeing Portalarium and some basic functionality he was talking about in reguard to a future game similar to the ultima and UO style. He talked about how collecting of objects was a passion of his and how everyone kind of enjoys collecting and becoming educated in certain things they find a passion for. This would be a big part of his new game that he was still working on a title for.
Flash forward to today.
We now have a very hybrid game which at the current time looks like a cross between final fantasy 3 overland map, and some instanced areas. Obviously this game is still very much in the process of getting made. Thing is though....they don't have a big team, they don't have a big backer, they don't have a publisher. Basically they are going the indi-game route. How many indi-games do you know of that are worth hundreds of dollars pre-release?
I am just baffled by how people shove hard earned money over for things that
#1 they do not actually own. (it's virtual property that belongs to Portarium
#2 It has only been shown in a demo form. (It may not actually ever get to a finished form you can download)
#3 The millions of $$ have no real accounting for.
If I told you that I was planning to build a small add-on to your house for $5000 but I need all the money up front, and there was no hand shake. There was no contract. Would you still give me the $5000 up front because I remodeled a bathroom or two several years ago? That is what many people are doing here.
Maybe I have been burned by this process in the past with another indi game developer. I still just find it annoying that a guy I had thought was above this sort of thing is deep into it. I get his reasons,but how they went about it was wrong in my opinion.
There will be a ton of things to collect. There will probably be weight and encumbrance in this game. There will be limited space in banks. There will be a clear need to have a house. People that do not have housing will actually struggle more. I do not agree at all with the no tax rule on housing for pre-payers at the house purchase level. This to me is just bad game mechanics.
Will the game be fun? I still hope so.
Will it be enough to keep me interested until the first expansion when housing will become available again? Maybe not.
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I have been waiting for uo:r2 second coming for all my life I played uo:r for 7 years and I know for sure this game won't be it. When I first saw the livestream from lb I went from wanting to kiss him to wanting to hurt him really badly.
Sota Sounds horrible in every way and won't be anything like uo ever was. Even when the interviewer asked him some questions that he probably expected from the game lb looked down while answering he was clearly embarrassed of the game as well. But investors made him do the game we gonna get now.
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Originally posted by InsaneMembrane
But that is just it. The extras are overpriced, well beyond reason. $45 for a core game I will grant you is a reasonable price--hell, a great price, but another way to look at is, the complete game is VERY expensive, but for $45 you can play this part of it, minus all this other cool stuff, which, by the way, many other games include for their $50-100 price tag, or as DLC/extras at much more reasonable prices than this game does.
Obviously, neither of us are going to have much influence on the other's thoughts, and in spite of the price you will see me poking around and checking in on the game. I am not writing it off, but am disappointed at the price point to buy into the "extras" which to me are the coolest parts of this game, just not at those prices.
Also, this talk about how you get more than one game for this price is putting the cart WAY before the horse. This whole thing could go tits up and you will get literally nothing for your pledge. That is the risk of crowd sourcing anything.
That $2 mill will alone will almost certainly not be enough to get this thing off the ground, but who knows how much other money is in there from other sources, but there is no guarantee one game will ever see daylight, let alone the follow on games. Also, you might see the first game, and never the others. This first one will have to be successful to see follow up games.
Originally posted by InsaneMembrane
This post seems to be about name calling a bit. I respect my fellow gamers and hope they respect themselves and they're wallets enough to not throw hard earned money away for something that may let them down in the end. The higher tier funding for nice houses in protected city areas are serious $$ that could be spent on actually improving your real life in some way. All green post is mine :)
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It's been 4 months since this subject was discussed.
Portalarium still has not addressed the concerns on this issue. The land barons chase dissenters out of the forums, will troll in order to get forums closed so that those raising valid alternative ideas are shut down or banned. They do not want open discussion. They have been treated like upper class people who have invested in the game, rather than given a donation for game development. It will be up to the IRS to zone in on these people who want to buy up and sell virtual real estate. Many have bought multiple plots to charge rent, or drive prices up so high that players will not be able to afford a house unless paying cash outside the game.
When you hear, "There will be plenty of land!" that is utter nonsense. The game doesn't have the budget for landmass that large.
It's an imbalanced housing system, from the little we do know of it, with no definite plans to make it any different. Promises from Richard Garriott are that if instanced housing is needed, they may implement it, but not at the expense of those who have backed the game and bought housing for real dollars. He won't allow their houses to devalue.
The game is not released yet, so changes could potentially happen. Basically, high level backers do not want anyone else the ability to own an instanced house, only their own persistent houses should be allowed. They want high returns on their (investment) donation.
Each city will allow only 50-150 plots. No one knows how many cities there will be at this point. But even if there were 100 cities, it would only allow 15,000 persistent plots total for the entire world. That's a high estimate. They created a class system before the game is even released. There is ample complaints in the forums.
This forum was closed due to too much debate.
There is still housing available in the Kickstarter store. But why? If people were so gungho for this game, you would think it would be bought by now. They assure users there will be lots more housing plots available when the game releases, even if the store sells out. But with the figures quoted above, you can see where that will lead. Extreme housing shortage.
Richard Garriott's own words are that housing will be rare, limited and persistent.
Will people need a house? We don't know. They haven't released information on how large bank space will be. But what they have stated, in the add-on store, is that owning a house will dramatically increase your storage space.
Why would a person need much storage? Only for trinkets? Think again. They have developed an extensive crafting system where a lot of tools and molds and goods are needed, in order to make game gold. These alone will require a lot of storage space. Not to mention having to haul it all to the "public crafting area" in the center of town.
Most (98%) of backers will be homeless. They will have public vendors in a public square, and have to use public crafting stations.
The class system is created before the game is even released. There are fights in the forums over these issues. Moderators openly side with the land barons and chase out the people who have reasonable and logical arguments.
You cannot get a refund if you backed. I'm only glad I backed at one of the lower levels and won't invest a penny more in what's sure to be an old school, outdated and lame concept game.
I played UO for many, many years. I was devoted to that game. But this game is a joke.
Originally posted by Steeleet
I am still introducing people, both old Ultima players and new non-Ultima players, to SotA whom have yet to hear about it from both categories. That is why there is still housing, until fundraising is closed new players get a chance to both help support the game and benefit from that support by getting something that is not required but nice to have in some people's opinion and or play style.
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Originally posted by KarbleE
When I started UO I couldn't get a place...
Originally posted by DeathmachinePT
Why would I do that? I'm not in the game industry or the finance industry. To inform myself about MMO budgets I'd need to know a decent amount of information on both sectors.
In any case as I am sure you are aware dev will continue past the first episode into the following episodes. This isn't a hire fixed number of devs for fixed time to rush out the door before summer type of project.
Sit back, take a chill pill, and enjoy the end result which I am sure is going to be much more interesting than any MMO your "friends" have ever worked on.
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There is, for the past 2 days now, a player marketplace already. People have bought up founder accounts and are selling them for a profit. Yes, gold farming is already taking place and the game isn't even out of pre-Alpha. That's the crowd they attracted when they offered housing as an incentive to back the game. It is an investment, just like the pledges are now. It's pretty terrible and makes me especially glad I haven't taken part in any of those scams.
Originally posted by Steeleet
You really should have made a new topic for this. In any case, it is a referral system and not really profit. If anyone does the wrong thing though it needs to be reported. This is the text on the Marketplace Forum over at SotA:
See here for more info:
You cant miss it. It is big, outlined, and bold. If you have a problem with someone in the market place, E-Mail or report via forum and end your problem and need to post here of all places about this issue where totally NOTHING can be done about it.
Originally posted by InsaneMembrane
OK Membrane....ok
I will share some new interest in the game since my last few posts. Obviously alot has happened. First I will admit the game looks like it will indeed launch at some point in the future. It will launch in a more polished fashion than "Mortal Online" did. I also couldn't help but take notice of the armors and weapons that were available in last beta. The striking resemblance they had with UO weapons and armors was impressive to say the least. Now I am wondering a few things. What is the area at the very bottom of the UI that looks like level bars all the way across the bottom of the screen? Have they switched to a level system or are they still set on old UO where you have X amount of points to put into whatever you want till you run out of points and simply switch whenever you wish and the points will de-level to allow another skill to go up?
What is the max gear that can be stored in bank? That will also make or break the need for a house. If I can store enough crafting and extra gear in case I get PKed and full looted I will not be as bent about the housing system as it stands. Also will there be the ability to steal from people within city walls? Like in UO if you were maxed on being a thief you could look into a person's bag and take something at the bank and deposit it in your bank before they even could call "guard" or there was the traditional one thief and 3 vulture tactic and one intended target.
Please feel free to elaborate on any of these topics of the full online part of the game.
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Originally posted by Karble
I will be searching these people out and offering them company and telling them how awesome of a person they are and how awesome the house they own is on a daily basis, all I ask in return is full access to all amenities and some of those free special harvest items and $19.99 a month.
I plan on making a killing.
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Originally posted by Karble
I am banned from SotA forum again, thinking about not going back in as IM. But we'll see.
Do you have a SotA forum account? Some of your questions have decent information posted already, some do not, some should be in form of ideas like, I want to be a Crafter, maybe cant own a house so what can your Bazar/Marketplace offer me?
I usually stick to the PvP side of things there so having me read or ask crafting posts is quite rare. I suggest you use SotA forum, plenty of info and people there to help.
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Hmm, I remember swg having open world housing that didn't cost people extra real money. If a game that began its development almost 15 years ago can let players having housing like that, then why can't this one?
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Marshall is now 104th in the country in third-down defense (48.4 percent) and the opposition has completed 6 of 9 fourth-down conversions.
"When your number gets called you have to go out there and make a play," Holliday said. "You practice those types of plays in practice and they are more comfortable when they see that situation in the game."
As Marshall fell behind Tulsa last weekend, 17-3, early in the second quarter, it looked like the game would be bleak for Homecoming fans.
However, the defense stiffened for the Herd and got off the field on six of seven third-down conversions between that point of the second quarter and into the fourth quarter as the team got back into the contest and took a 38-37 lead.
On Tulsa's next drive, however, the Golden Hurricane went 2-for-2 on third downs, including the game-winning 4-yard touchdown pass from Cody Green to Jordan James with 8:25 remaining.
The Herd also allowed Tulsa to go 3-for-3 on fourth-down conversions in the game. All three fourth-down conversions led to touchdowns for the Golden Hurricane.
The first was a fourth-and-1 play in which Tulsa bruiser Alex Singleton took a handoff and raced 48 yards for a touchdown after a Marshall player missed a gap assignment with the box loaded up against the run.
The second was more of a statement of how Tulsa was approaching the game.
Facing 4th-and-3 inside the Herd 10-yard line, Tulsa coach Bill Blankenship opted to go for it instead of kicking a field goal for a two-possession advantage.
A stop, and the Herd has momentum plus the ball, trailing by just seven points.
Instead, Singleton took the handoff and got three yards on fourth-and-3 to continue the drive before scoring on a 4-yard plunge two plays later.
The final fourth-down conversion came with the score tied 17-17. Tulsa took the ball out of halftime and faced a fourth-and-2 at the Marshall 36. At that point, the Herd had momentum after knotting the game just before the break, but once again Singleton took the ball, bounced off tacklers and gained six yards to continue the drive before capping the drive with a 2-yard run to put Tulsa back in front.
It was just three plays, but if the Herd gets one stop, the Golden Hurricane doesn't score. In a game where the final outcome is one score, those plays get magnified.
It is those plays -- whether third or fourth down -- that the Herd must learn to make to turn the season around.
If they make a few of them, the Herd is sitting at 5-1 right now instead of 2-4.
EYE-OPENING STATISTIC: Many people have started to panic because Marshall started 2-4 this season.
In looking at numbers, though, that should not be the case.
Marshall's four losses have come to teams with a combined record of 19-3. The losses include to a pair of undefeated teams -- No. 5 West Virginia and Ohio, who was ranked No. 26 this week in The Associated Press poll.
Another loss came to Purdue, which only has a pair of losses to No.7 Notre Dame and No. 25 Michigan, and the other came on Saturday to Tulsa, who is 5-1 and has a lone loss to Iowa State. The Cyclones are third in the "Others Receiving Votes" category, placing them 28th in rank. Tulsa also received two votes this week after their fifth-straight win.
In looking ahead to the back end of the schedule, the current combined record of teams on Marshall's schedule is 10-21. The only team in the next four games that currently has more than one win is UCF, who is 3-2 and comes to Marshall on Oct. 27.
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A 30-second ad created by an organization called Friends of the Earth portrays supporters of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as MOX, being constructed at the Savannah River Site, SRS as pigs in "lobbyist suits." That probably tells you all you need to know about Friends of the Earth. Any discussion involving them is likely to end in character assassination and assigning scurrilous motives to their opposition. This time they are after Sen. Lindsey Graham for his support of MOX. Their attempt to make this a political issue is unfortunate because the completion of the MOX project is important to all Americans as it represents the mutually agreed upon method for Russia and the U.S. to eliminate the plutonium from at least 17,000 nuclear weapons. It should not be cast as a liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat initiative. The project has enjoyed strong bipartisan support in South Carolina and in Congress.
Years ago, a deal was negotiated with the Department of Energy, which was trying to find a place to consolidate the nation's excess plutonium. At the risk of oversimplification, the deal was this – we (read that as SRS, South Carolina) will take your plutonium and you (Deparment of Energy) will provide the facilities at SRS to process the plutonium and send it on its way out of South Carolina. The deal was struck and the facilities were identified as the MOX plant, $4.8 billion, the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility, $3.2 billion, and the Waste Solidification and Storage Building, $4 million. The total for the three facilities was about $8.4 billion. In the intervening years, the cost of non-nuclear utility construction in the Southeast has increased by about one-third, so the cost of the three facilities might be expected to have increased to about $11.2 billion if they were not nuclear projects. Being nuclear projects makes the cost increases even greater.
Now fast forward to 2013 – the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility was cancelled and alternative ways to accomplish that scope were incorporated into the MOX project, thus increasing the cost of the MOX facility, but decreasing the cost of the overall plutonium elimination project. The new estimate for the MOX facility is about $7.7 billion. This is actually less than the combined estimates for MOX and the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility in 2005.
The Friends of the Earth ad also tries to appeal to a xenophobic attitude toward France as an outline of the country is prominently displayed in bright French flag colors and the claim is made that billions of American taxpayer dollars are flowing to France. The Washington Post thoroughly discredited this assertion and awarded the entire ad "Four Pinocchios" on their fact checking scale. This, the highest level on their prevarication scale is described as telling "whoppers." It should not surprise anyone that a global company of French origin, AREVA, with experience building and operating MOX fuel fabrication facilities partnered with one of Chicago Bridge and Iron, America's largest nuclear construction companies, who were competent bidders for the MOX construction project. The ad does not address the 2,000 workers employed on the project who have performed so well and who have internalized the enormous importance of this project. Since only a few are French, we must assume the rest are included among the pigs in lobbyist suits.
It's time to end the charade. If the MOX project is threatened it will not be because it is too expensive – any alternative will be much more expensive - but rather because plutonium-phobic political ideology has trumped sound science and hard – earned diplomacy. Shame on us if we allow rude behavior, character assassination and false information masquerading as facts to determine the future course of our nation's plutonium elimination strategy.
Clint Wolfe is the executive director of Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness and formerly chaired the Technical Advisory Panel to the Department of Energy's Plutonium Focus Area.
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Flu hospitalizations among the elderly rose sharply last week, prompting federal officials to take unusual steps to make more flu medicines available and to urge wider use of them as soon as symptoms appear.
The U.S. is about halfway through the flu season, which is shaping up to be worse than average and a bad one for the elderly, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New figures from the CDC show the flu epidemic is continuing, with widespread activity in all states but Tennessee and Hawaii.
Nine more children or teens have died of the flu, bringing the nations total this flu season to 29, health officials reported Friday. Thats close to the 34 pediatric deaths reported during all of the last flu season, although that one was unusually light. In a typical season, about 100 children die of the flu and officials said there is no way to know whether deaths this season will be higher or lower than usual.
So far, half of confirmed flu cases are in people 65 and older. Lab-confirmed flu hospitalizations totaled 19 for every 100,000 in the population, but 82 per 100,000 among those 65 and older, which is really quite a high rate, Frieden said.
We expect to see both the number and the rates of both hospitalizations and deaths rise further in the next week or so as the flu epidemic progresses, so prompt treatment with antivirals is key to preventing deaths, he said.
Two drugs Tamiflu and Relenza can cut the severity and risk of death from the flu but must be started within 48 hours of first symptoms to do much good. To increase supplies of Tamiflu, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, head of the Food and Drug Administration, said the agency had allowed Genentech to distribute additional doses that have old packaging information.
This years season is earlier than normal and the dominant flu strain is one that tends to make people sicker.
Health officials say its not too late to get a flu shot to help protect against the flu. Vaccinations are recommended for anyone 6 months or older.
Last week, the CDC said the flu again surpassed an epidemic threshold, based on monitoring of deaths from flu and a frequent complication, pneumonia. The flu epidemic happens every year and officials say this years vaccine is a good match for strains that are going around.
The government doesnt keep a running tally of adult deaths from the flu, but estimates that it kills about 24,000 people most years.
CDC flu: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm
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To North Carolina's shame, our state ranks in the top 10 (number eight) for the sex trafficking of children. This form of prostitution is nothing more than systematic rape for profit. Behind every sale of a child for sex is the threat of violence or actual violence perpetrated against a minor.
Recent studies have shown that within 48 hours of running away from home, one in three children is involved in prostitution. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, $32 billion a year is made on sex trafficking, making it the second fastest growing crime segment, just behind the trafficking of narcotics.
New legislation was recently introduced in the North Carolina Senate to take our state off this top 10 list of shame and, hopefully, move us to the bottom. The proposed law attacks, first and foremost, the prime movers in sex trafficking of minors – the pimps. It jacks up punishment as high as a class B1 felony, sending them to jail for many, many years. But it does not stop there.
The proposed legislation is actually a comprehensive "safe harbor" law that goes after the sex trafficking of children in every way possible. The excuse of consent on the part of the child is not a defense to prosecution, nor a mistake in the age of the minor. Besides throwing the pimps in jail, the law moves to seize their property and illicit profits. A law already passed by the Senate turns these sex traffickers into sex offenders who are required to register as such when they complete their lengthy sentences.
The purchasers of sex, aka "johns," are not overlooked either. When this legislation becomes law, anyone purchasing sex from a child will be guilty of at least a class C felony. The punishment goes as high as a class B2 felony if the crime is committed within 1,000 feet of a school. Additionally, the law allows for the impounding of a john's automobile and the levying of a $500 fee for its return after conviction with the money deposited into a victim compensation fund.
The most forward thinking part of the bill involves how these abused children are treated. Under current law, minors arrested on prostitution charges are placed in custody and treated like any other juvenile offender. If the minor is at least 16 years old, she is treated like an adult criminal.
The new legislation changes everything. It makes minors immune from prosecution. Instead, they are treated as victims and are subject to temporary protective custody. Law enforcement is required to immediately report an allegation of minor sex trafficking to the Director of the Department of Social Services (DSS) in the county in which the child resides. DSS is then required to commence an initial investigation into child abuse or child neglect within 24 hours.
This new law offers real hope for children caught up in the world of sex trafficking by treating them as victims and rescuing them from a living hell of abuse and degradation. It also metes out significant punishment to both pimps and johns who drive this train of rape and violence. It is past time that North Carolina was serious about ridding our state of the scourge of child prostitution. The new safe harbor legislation gives us a chance to take a bite out of this crime and get our state off the list of shame.
Thom Goolsby is a state senator, practicing attorney and law professor. He is a chairman of the Senate Judiciary 1 and Justice and Public Safety Committees. He is also a primary sponsor of this legislation.


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AURORA, NY – Hilbert College's Erin Smith turned away 22 shots on goal but, unfortunately, the Hawks didn't produce any offense of their own in the 2-0 loss in women's soccer at Wells College September 5. Shannon Blanford earned four points for the Express who improved to 1-1 with their non-conference victory.
Hilbert's Megan Van Norman was able to unleash four of the Hawks' seven shots on goal, but the Express keeper, Ashley Roser, stopped every shot and earned her first shutout of the season.
Blanford scored in the 34th minute after she evaded a Hilbert defender and took a through-ball up the middle to go unopposed against Smith in goal. She later notched her second strike 11:52 into the second half which dropped the Hawks record to 1-2 overall.
The women's soccer team travels to Alfred University September 8 to play under the lights in the 7pm game. They then have a week-long break before they host their home-opener September 15th at 1pm against Hiram.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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