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Gallery: Marshall vs. Indiana State, Nov. 21, 1981
Marshall University (dark jerseys) lost to Indiana State (white jerseys), 0-42, on Nov. 21, 1981, at Fairfield Stadium. The 1981 team had a 2-9 record under coach Sonny Randle.
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1981 Marshall University football roster, from the media guide
1, Carl Lee, S, Junior, South Charleston, W.Va.
2, Barry Childers, K, Sophomore, Clifton Forge, Va.
3, John Huth, WR, Senior, Canal Fulton, Ohio.
5, Tony Stott, WR, Sophomore, Potomac, Md.
6, Larry Fourqurean, TB, Sophomore, Low Moor, Va.
8, Tony Henderson, CB, Junior, Milton, Fla.
9, Scott Hutchison, TB, Sophomore, Proctorville, Ohio.
14, Steve Harding, QB, Sophomore, Fredericksburg, Va.
15, Jon Sharretts, QB, Junior, Toccoa, Ga.
16, Tony Konopka, QB, Sophomore, Pittsburgh, Pa.
17, Scott Moyer, QB, Junior, Hialeah, Fla.
18, Andy Hamilton, S, Junior, Erie, Pa.
19, Rob Jones, P, Sophomore, Proctorville, Ohio.
21, Sidney Arrington, DB, Freshman, Roanoke, Va.
22, Darnel Richardson, WR, Senior, McKeesport, Pa.
23, Greg Fourqurean, CB, Sophomore, Low Moore, Va.
24, Billy Hynus, DB, Freshman, Huntington.
26, Clifford Wright, CB, Junior, Orlando, Fla.
27, Ken Lindsay, CB, Senior, Cincinnati, Ohio.
29, Rich Van Alphen, CB, Sophomore, Hudson, N.Y.
30, Carey Michael, FB, Sophomore, New Martinsville, W.Va.
31, Don Johnson, FB, Freshman, Hamilton, Ohio.
32, Jimmy North, FB, Junior, Charlottesville, Va.
33, Dickie Rollins, TB, Junior, Kistler, W.Va.
34, Gilbert Orr, TB, Sophomore, Cincinnati, Ohio.
35, Charles Hurt, DE, Sophomore, Bluefield, W.Va.
36, Eric King, FB, Junior, Man, W.Va.
37, Vincent Long, RB, Freshman, Maitland, Fla.
38, Paul Buckley, FB, Sophomore, Westwood, N.J.
39, Mike Nardo, NG, Sophomore, Weirton, W.Va.
40, David Hawkins, LB, Junior, Henderson, N.C.
41, Tommy Mason, RB, Freshman, Triangle, Va.
42, Terry Echols, LB, Sophomore, Corrine, W.Va.
43, Trey Duffy, LB, Freshman, Bellaire, Ohio.
44, C.R. Howdyshell, TB, Sophomore, Sistersville, W.Va.
45, Jesse Bandy, LB, Junior, Beckley, W.Va.
46, Greg Jones, CB, Junior, Lynchburg, Va.
47, Rocky Williams, WR, Junior, Charlottesville, Va.
48, Tony Lellie, LB, Freshman, Weirton, W.Va.
49, Greg Wiley, LB, Junior, St. Louis, Mo.
50, Brian Blosser, OG, Junior, North Canton, Ohio.
51, Thomas McConkey, C, Freshman, Wheeling, W.Va.
52, Poncho Borgese, NG, Junior, Pittsburgh, Pa.
54, Willie Wilson, C, Senior, Huntington.
55, Juan Stout, OT, Freshman, Lexington, Ky.
56, Moke Riggs, C, Sophomore, Middlebourne, W.Va.
58, Randy Hawkins, NG, Sophomore, Roanoke, Va.
59, John Harbert, OL, Freshman, Haywood, W.Va.
60, Greg Liebe, OG, Junior, Wichita, Kan.
62, Mike Staggs, OG, Junior, Gallipolis, Ohio.
64, Chris Prokesch, OT, Junior, St. James, N.Y.
65, Jim Devine, LB, Senior, Monroeville, Pa.
66, Dale Rice, OG, Junior, Princeton, W.Va.
67, Mark Taylor, DT, Sophomore, West View, Pa.
68, Mike Radford, OL, Freshman, Beckley, W.Va.
69, Steve Wendt, OL, Freshman, Titusville, Fla.
70, Troy McNett, OT, Junior, Kansas City, Kan.
71, Jeff Borman, OL, Freshman, Cincinnati, Ohio.
72, Tony Evans, DT, Senior, Wichita, Kan.
73, Jerome Curry, OT, Freshman, West Jefferson, Ohio.
74, Greg Lohman, OT, Freshman, Loveland, Ohio.
75, Earl Miles, OT, Junior, Arkansas City, Kan.
76, Steven Stoll, OT, Freshman, Cincinnati, Ohio.
77, Jim Hynus, OT, Senior, Huntington.
78, Joe Fralic, OT, Senior, Pittsburgh, Pa.
79, Doug McCoy, DT, Senior, Ligonier, Pa.
80, Jeff Durrette, DE, Junior, Cincinnati, Ohio.
81, Dwayne Thompson, DE, Sophomore, Columbus, Ohio.
83, Raleigh Collins, DE, Sophomore, Kimberly, W.Va.
84, Dan Metropoulus, DE, Junior, Aliquippa, Pa.
85, Ron Victor, S, Sophomore, Cincinnati, Ohio.
86, Ted Jackson, TE, Freshman, Woodbridge, Va.
87, David Booth, TE, Junior, Radford, Va.
88, Dean Roberts, TE, Junior, Chicago, Ill.
90, Derryl Strong, LB, Senior, Akron, Ohio.
91, Brian O'Dell, TE, Sophomore, Roanoke, Va.
92, Marty Palazeti, DE, Dearborn, Mich.
92, Gary Michael, DE, Sophomore, New Martinsville, W.Va.
93, James Wynes, DL, Freshman, Talcott, W.Va.
95, Greg Dillon, DT, Freshman, Matewan, W.Va.
96, Gerald Hopkins, DT, Sophomore, Fayetteville, W.Va.
97, Mike Lindsey, DE, Sophomore, Bowling Green, Va.
98, Alan Huff, DE, Freshman, Chester, W.Va.
99, Bruce Gilbert, DE, Junior, Easton, Pa.


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Both Global Voices and Programmable Web have recently looked at how environmental activists are using web 2.0 tools to bring attention to environmental concerns. It is no surprise that Google Maps plays a central role in many of the examples that both examine. Here is a quick run-down of the web sites mentioned in the Global Voice and Programmable Web articles that utilise Google Maps (and a couple that they missed):
Explore our Planet is a Google Map with a huge number of layers which can be turned on or off. The map doesn't exclusively highlight environmental concerns but some of the layers, such as the CO2 Emitter, Nuclear Power Plants and Population are of interest to anyone with an interest in the environment.
Terra Pass allows anyone to check the amount of CO2 emissions of a airplane flight before they take it. The map has an intuitive interface. You just enter your start location and end location and your flight is plotted on Google Maps and the CO2 emissions of the flight are calculated. Entering a city will automatically display the list of available airports which is useful, especially if a city has more than one airport.
If you decide that the plane is too environmentally damaging Carbon Emissions Commute is a Google Map that let's you evaluate the impact of your automobile travel instead. Users enter start and end locations and the map works out the driving directions, the distance to be travelled, the likely gas consumption, the cost of the gas used and the pounds of carbon dioxide that will be released.
Mibazaar has a couple of environmentally themed maps. The Climate Change 2030 Map looks at the likely effect of global warming on sea levels. It shows images of US coastal locations now and how they are likely to look in 2030 after a 5m sea level rise.
Mibazaar's Most Polluted Cities Map tags the ten most polluted cities in the world and explains how they came to be so polluted.
Flood Maps also looks at the effects of sea rises on the world. Unlike the Mibazzar map it allows you to adjust the level of sea rise so you can examine the effect of different levels of sea rise on the planet.
The Greenspace Carbon Emission Map plots carbon emissions in the UK. The map can be searched by location and by different causes of carbon emission. You can therefore examine whether the carbon emissions of a particular area are caused mainly by domestic combustion, industrial combustion, road transport etc..
Google's UK Carbon Footprint Project is an iGoogle page that allows UK citizens to calculate and plot their own carbon footprint. The page includes a user contributed map. Anyone can add themselves to the map and inform the world of their carbon footprint.
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Former UFC welterweight interim titleholder Carlos Condit has fought both St-Pierre and Hendricks and was asked his opinion on the title bout during a recent edition of UFC Tonight.
I think Johny Hendricks has a punchers chance, said Condit. Hes obviously a big puncher. Hes got the power to make it a short night for GSP, but I feel like GSP is going to out-technique Johny Hendricks.While Hendricks has the advantage in punching power, Condit believes it will be St-Pierres wrestling that will be the determining factor in the fight.
I think his wrestling, and Im not an expert on wrestling, but I think his wrestling is going to make the difference and Georges is going to be able to take him down and control the fight, he said.


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Russell C. Magness Sr. and Genevieve (Bolin) Magness were married in Springfield, S.C., on June 21, 1953. They celebrated their 60th anniversary with their family on Friday, June 21, 2013.
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Incorporation by reference allows agencies to comply with the requirement of publishing rules in the Federal Register to be codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by referring to material published elsewhere.[1] The practice is first and foremost intended to—and in fact does—substantially reduce the size of the CFR. But it also furthers important, substantive regulatory policies, enabling agencies to draw on the...
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Incorporation by reference allows agencies to fulfill their legal obligation to publish rules in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by referring to standards or other materials that have been published elsewhere. For example, when an agency adopts a standard created by a private standard-setting organization as a mandatory regulation, it typically publishes the standard by incorporating it by reference into the CFR. Such incorporation by reference is common in part because federal policy requires regulatory agencies to use voluntary consensus standards in lieu of government unique standards where this is not impracticable or inconsistent with statutory mission. This policy builds upon Conference recommendation, No. 78-4, "Federal Agency Interaction with Private Standard-Setting Organizations in Health and Safety Regulations," adopted in December 1978, which encourages the use of voluntary consensus standards in health and safety regulation. In the more than thirty years since the Conference issued Recommendation No. 78-4, agencies have promulgated thousands of regulations that incorporate by reference standards published elsewhere.
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My husband used the new aquacorners to build me a raised herb bed 1' x 2.5' x 15' and installed a wonderful soaker irrigation system. The product made the construction quick and easy and the watering of my new herb bed a piece of cake. I can turn on my aquacorner faucet and do other gardening tasks while my raised bed is well watered. Thanks for the inventive approach to raised bed gardening.
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The Aqua corners are well made and very substantial. Made it simple to put a 4'x8'x12" bed together in minutes. the garden is neater in appearance now that there is simply a leader hose to the bed. I can't dedicate a faucet to the bed and found it difficult to unscrew the hose (being so close to the ground) each time I watered, so I added a good brass quick connect to snap the hose in and out.
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We wanted to add more square footage to our raised beds. Constructing your own bed from scratch isn't difficult, but with plans and more cuts of wood, way more time consuming than I needed in a weekend. These corners make it dead easy, and all screws are included. You just need straight lengths of decent wood. Came together in about 1.5 hrs (built an extra long bed using the inline connectors in conjunction) including ground prep. Hose bib is of decent quality, and I always get comments on it.
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Raised bed planting. It is the best I have ever used.
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Bought this for my son and his new bride. She wanted to grow a few veggies and herbs. Works great! Put landscaping fabric underneath to keep out rocks and weeds. You can use any dimension wood you want and if you put it together with screws you can move it or replace the wood when it rots. Only con is wish it came in taller dimensions for deeper rooted vegetables.
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I have a sloping yard with just a few inches of topsoil/lawn over bedrock, so no ready-to-purchase raised bed was possible. I used 2 sizes of these corners to build two side-by-side 3x8' raised cedar beds on my hillside - one size for the 4 lower corners, and the smaller size (and spigot aquacorner) for the uphill side. To prevent downhill movement, I drilled stainless rods into the bedrock which protrude up into hidden drill holes in the side boards of the bed. Using the Snip-n-Drip system, I connected soaker hose from the first bed to solid hose running down the inside of one corner, along a groove in the soil, and up through the corner of the second bed. For neater corners where the hose changes beds, I ordered black PVC elbows from an irrigation store and drilled the corner end caps to fit.
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Originally posted by Tigasnake
Talking point #201 on on the herd's official rant on the evils of ToR is "The Hero Engine sux!!!!!11!!one!!!!".
That's pretty much it. Most of them don't even know what a game engine is, in any meaningful sense, they just regurgitate the same crap over and over.
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Originally posted by Karteli
Pretty much this.
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Originally posted by GwapoJosh
I meant the version of hero engine Bioware/EA used, not newer improved versions.
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Originally posted by ktanner3
Actually the investors - meaning shareholders when talking about EA - might be clueless. What they are "investing" in is the ability of the company to pay them a dividend / increase the share price; their ability to know what the consumers want.
And EA management haven't delivered in recent years and so there share price has fallen - which doesn't matter in the sense that shareholders (typically) do not invest directly in a firm these days. (Rights issues are an exception of course). If EA "run out of money" then it might matter - and they may have to cut back on the stock options ....
Now whether posters know what they are on about is another matter; I think it fair to say that some do - within an area of expertise - and some don't.
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Blaming all that ails SWTOR on the Hero Engine is pure ignorance.
Let's start by asking what the point of a game engine is, anyway. Let's suppose that you want to make a game. One option is to make your own game engine. This isn't nearly as difficult or expensive as some people seem to think.
It is, however, time consuming. Your engine will start at the level of "hooray, I can draw a triangle!" Then several triangles. Then triangles that aren't just solid colors. It will at least be weeks and might be months before you're far enough along that it's recognizable as a primitive game engine.
So how is time consuming not expensive? You don't have 100 people working on the game engine early on; you probably have one or two. But you can't go hire a hundred artists the day you start work on the game engine, as there won't be anything for them to do until the game engine is much further along.
Enter the option of licensing a game engine. A lot of the things that you implement in your game engine will have already been implemented in a lot of other game engines. If you license a game engine, you can use the code that someone else has written and not have to recode everything from scratch yourself. That lets you get started much faster and have something up and running within days that looks more advanced than what you'd have had several months in if you coded your own game engine.
But then comes the downside: every game engine wants to do things a particular way. If you make your own game engine, the way the engine will want to do things is exactly the way you want your game to do them. If you later change your mind about how your game should do things, you change the game engine to match.
If you license some other game engine, the odds that what the engine wants to do will exactly match what you want to do are basically zilch. If you do hit a perfect match, then you're trying to make a mediocre clone of something else and should cancel the project immediately. You can expect a lot of overlap between what the game engine wants to do and what you want to do, and indeed, choosing a game engine to license is largely about getting a game engine that already does as much of what you want to do as possible, and does it as well as possible.
At this point, the "license a game engine" option splits two ways. You can buy access to the full source code, fork the code base, and essentially have your own game engine that used some other as a starting point. Alternatively, you can just use the game engine as is and not get access to the full source code. This is basically using the trial version of a game engine.
If you take the latter option, then whenever you come across something where you want to do something one way and the game engine doesn't want to do it that way, you'll have to abandon what you had in mind and go with what the game engine can do. This might be fine for a very simple game that you make as a solo project over the course of a month in your free time, but you don't want to launch a commercial game with a 6- or 7- figure budget that way, let alone an AAA game.
The former option of getting access to the full source code gives you the option to change the game engine however you want. This is what EA did for SWTOR, and what pretty much any big budget game has to do if it wants any hope of being successful. This makes it so that when you inevitably come across something where you want to do things one way and the game engine doesn't, you can change the game engine to do things the way that you want to.
But this comes with considerable drawbacks. One is that as soon as you fork the code base like that, you can't get any more updates from the official version of the game engine. The official version will continue to make changes assuming that the game did things the old way. As soon as you start editing the source code of the game engine, it's now your own engine and anything else you want to add to it, you'll have to do yourself. While that may sound bad, it's not nearly as crippling as not having the option to alter the game engine.
Modifying the game engine also means that you have to do much of the work of creating a game engine yourself. If you had written your own game engine, then you'd probably just happen to have people on staff who knows exactly how it works and why it was designed to work that way: the people who wrote the engine in the first place. But if you've licensed a game engine, then it's going to take a lot of work to figure out exactly how it works and why it was designed to work that way. A lot of different pieces of code have to interact with each other, and if you change one without knowing exactly what the others do (or even what the others are), that can break all sorts of things.
If you license a game engine and then put in the work to understand exactly how it does everything and why it does everything that way, then you've likely put in enough work that you could have made your own game engine. Making your own lets you skip the licensing fees that you're paying to use someone else's game engine, too. Licensing a game engine still lets you get started a lot quicker, which can matter a lot if you're trying to get a tech demo out to raise funds on Kickstarter. But it can easily lose its advantages by launch day.
There is also a middle ground of buying access to the source code to make a relative handful of changes that you absolutely have to make for your game, while leaving as much alone as possible. That can be cheaper than either writing your own game engine or taking the time to understand exactly how the game engine you've licensed works and why it works that way.
The downside of this is that, at best, your game will be horribly unoptimized. A general principle is that even if you can take some general purpose tool and make it work for some specific purpose, the same effort at designing a tool for that particular purpose will give you a tool that works much better for that specific purpose. A Swiss Army Knife may be able to do a lot of things, but it can't do any of them as well as a tool built for one specific purpose. It can, however, serve all but one of its functions much better than the single-purpose tool.
A game engine will have a lot of capabilities built in to do things that you don't want to do for your game. At best, this is a bunch of extra cruft that makes your code base much more bloated and harder to maintain than it would otherwise be. There are also important trade-offs in game design, and you may be using a game engine that sacrifices important things in order to get capabilities that you're not going to use, anyway.
Worse, trying to only make minor changes to a game engine is likely to make your game into a buggy mess. You change something to create capabilities that you need, but then it doesn't play nicely with other code that relies on what you changed in complicated ways. It might be immediately glaring that there is a problem (e.g., now your source code won't compile), and just be a major pain to track down the source of it. Worse, you might not even be aware of the problem for quite a while, and by the time you discover it, you have no idea what change you made that created it.
The upshot is that EA licensed the Hero Engine, bought access to the full source code, and made a bunch of changes to it. Anything that the SWTOR engine does now is because of EA, not because it is--or perhaps more appropriately, was--the Hero Engine. That licensing a game engine can create a lot of problems for your game is intrinsic to the nature of licensing a game engine. The problems are all fixable or avoidable, even if you license a game engine--but only by putting in the work to understand exactly what it is doing, not by licensing a different game engine instead.
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Originally posted by Gdemami
Good job using stereotypes to defend your game. I'm sure you are fully qualified as well to judge everyones credentials. Heres a thought for you .. Anyone can inheriently know something they like versus something they don't like. And if they like something enough, they often times research into it further to become one of those mysterious "professionals".
Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History"
I am not judging posters credentials, I am judging content of posts made here so your "point" is moot.
In fact, thing is more complex once you try to make a business process out of it...
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Originally posted by Quizzical
Thanks for this. Well explained.
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If you watch some youtube videos on the Hero engine, you will see that it is actually a very versatile engine.
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The Hero Engine is available in "cloud" form for $100 a year, I would suggest trying it out, if you are a developer.
In my field, high tech chip design, we also have the same problem. Most companies in the old days built their own CAD tools to design chips, and their tools did it the way each company wanted it. Over the last 30 years, companies have moved to commercial software, and eliminated most or all of their in-house development.
Now, as a commercial tool builder, we have to be concerned with what ALL the companies want. If X wants a feature that no-one else wants, we probably won't do it, unless X is big enough, like an Intel. And, let's say X has a brilliant new idea, and wants us to put it in as a feature, do we tell all the other companies about it? That would give away X's special idea.
In layman's terms, EA/BioWare bought a prototype Corvette, and then replaced the engine, transmission, suspension, and steering. And guess what? It's not that good. Production Corvettes could actually be better.
Originally posted by Quizzical
Zod absolulely loathes long post, however I knew it would be a notable learning experience... Zod thanks you.
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Originally posted by ignore_me
yup ,,shit happens..but i sure wont pay people for it
im not a computer guy..i can barely upgrade my drivers
but it looks like SWTOR have some guys with the same qualifications
so whats the reason for me to pay them?
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Originally posted by Thorkune
those videos are not from the "biowared" pre-release version of Hero Engine.
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Best MMOs ever played: Ultima, EvE, SW Galaxies, Age of Conan, The Secret World
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Originally posted by Aeonblades
2. What? En engine doesnt really "look" at all. Sure, the hero engine is not the best around, and Bioware is using an old version but the games look have a lot more to do with art than the actual engine. Some moron decided that he wanted a "clone wars" look on the game instead of more realistic.
The engine do have its limits that affect graphics but with good art the game would still have looked great.
TORs failure to be the next Wow have very little to do with the engine (even if it didnt help). The art did have some things to do with it, but it was a lot more about the multiplaying parts were not good, the PvP was really boring and the fact that tons of voice acted sidequests gets annoying. The story is good but you just dont get people to play a MMO for years just for the story.
As for how much the heavy instancing was the engines fault and how much that were intended design choices Bioware thought would be fun I leave to be unsaid.
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I actually still like MMORPGs
Like most things around here, people just jump on the bandwagon. Stupid Engine! Hero Engine sucks! They hear it somewhere then laugh about it like they actually know what they are talking about.
I however don't know what I am talking about, so I won't say. It's the same thing with EQ2 everyone screams "idiots made it too CPU intensive!" not even realizing back then all games were more CPU intensive and SoE was trying to make it future proof (their predicitons were wrong) but thats how the cookie crumbles.
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I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
Why did Hero get a bad rep from SWTOR? In my opinion it's because the game doesn't look that good (artwork is fine, rendering effects are minimal) or run that well.
Repop, from the screens I've seen, looks far better using the current version of the engine.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
I believe that anyone who looks at this critically, with understanding about a lot of the things you mentioned, has no problem with Bioware/EA buying a pre made game engine and running with it.
The problem that I, and thousands of others, have is that they bought a completely untested engine when there are half a dozen very well tested engines out there.
Why not license Funcom's engine? The Dreamworld engine is, in my opinion, one of the best out there. Ok, lets say that they decline to license it out, which given their money troubles I highly doubt it, but lets say they said no. Well there's still several very good engines to use.
Why in the world would anyone with a brain in their skull buy a completely untested engine, and then write a AAA MMO around it? I can understand if you're an upstart company with limited resources, but we all know this is hardly the case with SWTOR. It had an amazing amount of startcup cash. More than probably any other MMO in history.
Also, you're missing a big facet of how MMO design works. Typically a company will up-staff with developers when they start working on a new title. They need to get tons of code written, animations created, databases back-ended... tons of work, and most of it done on the engine they are using. When the game goes live, they typically start dumping bodies. You need dozens of people to build an MMO, but you only need a fraction to maintain it and push out content.
What's my point here? That there are typically a lot of devs who have worked specifically with any given game engine, with their resumes floating around. So you license that game engine, then you go finding people who spent several years using it that are no longer employed by the company. Now you don't have to start from square one on learning how to use it.
For instance, there are probably enough devs out there with experience on the Unreal engine to fill a cruise ship. No need to waste time training a team up to write a game on the most popular engine in the world.
TL:DR, BioWare/EA wasted a lot of time and effort reinventing the wheel, when there are a half dozen wheels out there that they could have put on the car.
And that is the point.
If you have had any understanding of the matter, you would not say anything like you did...
Development of any proprietary technology results in something untested. Would you call anyone doing so stupid because they are using something untested?
You can look at it the way that EA bought specific technology they did not want to build in-house.
Warhammer Online and Skyrim use same engine just GameBryo running Skyrim is so massively modified it got branded as new engine - Creation Engine.
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Originally posted by Gdemami
Yes, in this case it's completely stupid. It's reinventing the wheel. I'm pretty sure I stated that somewhere. You only reinvent the wheel when the technology you need doesn't exist anywhere yet, and you are forced to innovate.
Necessity is the mother of invention. -Plato
Necessity. There was ZERO necessity to write a completely new engine to push out a WoW carbon copy. If, however, they were trying to break boundries and do things that no other game is doing at the moment, such as CCP is doing with the Carbon engine, then they would want to invest in coding a new game engine from the ground up.
BioWare/EA have absolutely zero innovation tied up in SWTOR. It's a pure hard copy of WoW with a bit of voice acting tacked on. A half dozen existing and proven engines, already on the market, do this already! No need to start over! None!
Like I said in my first sentence, I have no problem with them buying an engine rather than building a new one. My problem is with which engine they chose. They chose, what has turned out to be, a completely piece of garbage game engine for a AAA MMO. It might be fine for a much smaller game from an independent studio, but a game that is based off of a hugely popular IP, that can expect to draw millions of subscribers, isn't doing itself any favors adopting a game engine designed for small niche games.
I'm not even making that last bit up. Go read about the Hero engine on their own web site. They never intended it for games like SWTOR and were surprised that EA kept pushing to use it.
Cmon man, you are putting words into my mouth. I never said that they should buy an engine and then never improve on it again. I simply said that you don't buy a completely unproven engine to base your AAA MMO from. You buy one that is proven. One that has a solid network layer. One that has already been through trials by fire in other games. Then you build off of that engine for the life cycle of your game.
Face it. They made a critically poor decision early on that has been one of the primary factors that has lead to a mass exodus from the game.
Name recognition from a solid IP will draw millions to your game, but if looks and runs like shit, they won't stick around for long and that's where SWTOR is sitting.


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Great looking update and will for sure be picking up the IAP bits and bobs.
Dont mind the whole freemium thing either, though was a bit jarring to see an ad appear in a purchased app, cant help feeling they should have stripped ads for for early adopers/existing users many of which who will buy the iap anyway.
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No question that Blackberry is bleeding users to iPhone. A breakout of the ratio of Android users would add some meaning to this statistic. Was it one Android user, or is it the majority of the converters? I for one have gone back and forth. My 4S is sitting inactivated on my desk and I am happy with the Galaxy Nexus... for now.
38% of recent iPhone buyers are refugees from Android and BlackBerry
Recent survey data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that 42% of those in the U.S. that bought bought an iPhone in April were fleeing from another smartphone platform, 38% specifically from Android and BlackBerry. It's worth noting that the sample size was only around 521, which might not be big enough to be globally representative, depending on your standards, plus that sample was weeded out from an initial batch of 7,348 might color the results further. Still, I think the general sentiment that iPhone is roping in lots of folks from other platforms holds water.
Though this is only a measure of the gross influx of iPhone users, I doubt there are many outbound considering Apple's traditionally high loyalty rates. The research also shows that for 2% of buyers, the iPhone is their first mobile, and 22% were migrating from feature phones. That's a pretty small proportion, considering smartphone penetration in the U.S. is still under 50% in the U.S. Sure, it's a big leap to make from dumbphone to smartphone, and maybe the iPhone's adoption rate of first-timers is better than that of other platforms, but I would have guessed that iPhone would be pulling in more noobies than smartphone veterans.
Which smartphone platform did you come from before iPhone? Do you know anyone still packing a feature phone? You've been prodding them to get an iPhone, right?
Source: AppleInsider
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38% of recent iPhone buyers are refugees from Android and BlackBerry
Recovering Android user here. Typically the reverse, I had an iPad for nearly two years before getting an iPhone, though I have had an iPod Touch since it was first launched.
Now having had the iPhone for the better part of a year, I can only feel confident that I was right to covet one for so long. The long wait for my carrier to broker an agreement with Apple to get the iPhone was painful but well worth it.
I've had a winding road to get to my iPhone. I started with a sidekick which was just awful.
Think I had that for maybe a month before changing to a Motorola Cliq XT which I really liked. But typical for lower end Motorolas, it was big on promises ("we'll be upgrading it from 1.5 soon!") and low on results ("No 2.1 for you!")
Fortunately, I moved to an area with zero T-Mobile reception so was able to drop contract without penalty.
After that, and LG Ally. Garbage phone that was made bearable by the dev community.
All this time, I resisted Apple. Once I realized I couldn't deal with the flakiness of Android though, it was time to take the iPhone plunge. Love it. Got rid of my old Windows laptop and got a MacBook Pro as well.
I would be interested to see how many Blackberry users flee to Android as opposed to Apple. My sister works in IT for a university and they support both Blackberry and Android but not iOS. When it comes time for the IT folks to get their phones, they all go with Android (so she reports).
I come from an IT background and can say that Android is so much more flexible in terms of its possible uses which is what draws the tech crowd. iOS is basically an app launcher with notifications - but the apps are ridiculously superior. After realizing I wasn't using the apps and was simply collecting them, I came back to Android (for phone, still have ipad) which really is a far different platform in terms of reliability from just a year ago. It used to really frustrate me. My opinion is that as people become more technically proficient, as a whole, they will want the functions Android provides. I am sure iOS will mature in that direction when it is needed by the masses though.
I am in reverse. My friends samsung galaxy s 2 was able to do a lot more things in my iphone! Rip music from YouTube, send funny pictures with music attached to them... And just a bunch of other things that I could not do with my iphone! I switched to android and I've never been happier!
this is getting to be a serious misunderstanding with iphone users. You really do not have to use itunes anymore if you don't want to. I have 300 videos and over 4000 songs on my iphone and they were loaded unto it two different ways: one is real player, which makes it possible to download any video from you tube, convert it to mp4 and directly download it to the iphone and the other one is "copy trans suite" totally free and secure that gives you instant access to the iphone's file system to be able to load and unload any photos, songs or videos without itunes what so ever and it has been around for over a year and a half now. What's more, you really don't even need any of these things if you use cloud services such as dropbox, skydrive, and google music which all have apps for the iphone and can contain all of your files without having to resort to using your iphones internal storage. they all work well also.
real player has been around for a very long time, featuring rhapsody as it's music segment. real player (I believe it is up to version 15 now) will allow you to download any youtube or google video and many other videos (NO HULU). after downloading the video, which would be in FLV format, it includes an engine to convert those videos to many different formats. There is a tab on real player which allows you to burn CD's, DVD's and allows direct downloading of videos into iphone/ipod. Copy trans suite has been out for about a year and a half now and it is a GREAT method to get right into the file system of your iphone/ipod without having to download any other apps to do it or without the need to jailbreak if you are against jailbreak. While there are some things you have to pay for with copy trans suite - some like the photo part, but it is worth it, because it allows you to create different folders with different names in your iphone, but the transfer of video and music remains absolutly free with no gimmicks. You open copy trans suite on your computer, it tells you to hook iphone/ipod, and instantly you have your entire library of photos, videos and music right there in front of you. This computer based application then acts exactly like android in that it allows to you open up another window or finds your files and you then manually add/delete those files right into/out of you iphone/ipod totally without the use of itunes. It's extremely simple to use and self explanitory, but like any other drive hooke dup to your computer, in copy trans suite make sure you hit "eject" before unhooking your iphone/ipod. The only warning that I have for you concerning real player is this: if you have to connect your iphone/ipod to itunes for any reason and you hit "update" all of your files that were NOT originally loaded by itunes will dissapear, however, they will still be on your hard drive on the computer so you would have to reload them. Do as google seach on "real player" and "copy trans suite" I myself have been using copy trans suite since late 2010 and real player since 2002. Both very stable. good luck.
I came to get an iPhone 4S from a BB9900 - I prefer the physical keyboard of the BB, but all my friends had gone over to the iPhone, so I went that way to stay in touch with people without Rogers killing me with text message fees. Yes, iMessage is what we all use as much as we can. I do have to admit - the apps on iOS are better than what was there for BB - and I don't have any fart apps installed!
Switched from android to 4s. I just got tired of the fragmentation. It seems like a lot of users want stock android and have to put up with custom UI's.
Also, and this may just be me, I tend to think apple devices age better than Android devices. I hate the feeling of having spent my hard earned money on what should be the latest and greatest device only to have some thing later and greater released a month later. I didn't get that feeling after buying a MacBook 2 years ago. Probably why I decided to try the 4s.
To be honest, there are times I miss android. This has become more infrequent after jail breaking and installing ncsettings.
If I could afford it I'd get a galaxy nexus just to fool with, but I'm happy thus far with the 4s.
Although I use an iPhone, I have to question the statistical relevance of such a small sampling. However people are migrating to the Smartphone of choice, you need a reasonable sampling to be able to make conclusive commentary on why they are making the change. It begs to the saying; "there are lies, there are bigger lies and then there are statistics."
I came from palm. I had a treo.
I had 2 Sony Ericsson feature phones (W580i and Z750a) before I got my first smartphone, the Palm Pixi Plus. Once that really started breaking, I got a 4S. Palm refugees unite!
I had a "smartphone" in 2006 Windows based with a slide out keyboard. It was great till the carrier discovered they were letting us get free data and the shut it off. I would have paid for the data but at the time the only had it for Blackberry. So I went to black berry, that was my phone then the iPod touch came out. I loved it it was like a dream come true. But on could get WiFi and I was on the road a lot. In 2010 my carrier got Android, bought the biggest most advanced one they had. A year later i gave it to my oldest son and got the Nexus S 4g. Late in summer of 2011 a friend of mine gave me a "broken" AT&T iPhone 4. Which was great cause my iPod touch and my MacBook air had just past away. I am a very mobile person with 6 kids. I use my phone for everything: games, videos, Netflix, and web. Android was to fragmented, and the iPhone suited me better. I got the iPhone 4S for Christmas and have not looked back. I don't get 4G where I live and the screen may be smaller but it is clear and I live with it. Still wish both Android and iPhone had better games, but they are getting better.
I picked up an iPhone 4S after giving up my BB Tour 9630. The iPhone is a great phone. Some of the apps are just amazing...but I am really looking forward to BB10. The novelty of the iPhone disappeared after a couple months. I realized that all the games and most of the apps for iOS are very cool, but most of them are not necessary at all and what I really want is a true communication device. I miss BBM, I miss my notifications, and I REALLY miss bridging my BB device to my BlackBerry Playbook. iPhone, Android, and even Windows Phone are all really good in their own way... I feel I'm a BlackBerry guy at heart and hope they regain their piece of the pie. More competition is better for everybody!
Ex BB nut job here.... Tried a DroidX and iPhone but always went back to BB. All my friends left BB, so I "stomached" the iPhone. After jailbreaking, I can say I'm happy with it. I could not imagine having an iPhone without JB though.... It's too locked down. I'm curious about ICS and the SGSIII. Just afraid of the flakiness of Android again, though I may give it another shot.
BB10 looks promising, if they can get dev support and some decent apps. I've got to see for myself the "new" iPhone and BB10 phones, then I'll make a decision.
I love to follow the smartphone revolution we are experiencing.
I had a Sidekick LX before getting an iPhone. The Sidekick was crap. Although it was cool to flip the screen over and over again, it lacked basic functionality and features. It would keep freezing, the OS was laggy and although it was connected to the cloud, the cloud services would sometimes just go down, leaving you without contacts and text messages and other essential 'phone' things. My friend at school was selling her first gen iPhone for 50 bucks. The phone was in perfect shape too. I bought it, unlocked it for T-Mobile and jailbroke it and never looked back. So happy I made that decision.
I would expect the iPhone's first-time-buyer share is lower than Simon expects because Android has less expensive models, and the carriers feature them both in-store and online. Yes, you can get a last-gen iPhone cheap (or free), but in your local Verizon or AT&T store, you will see 3 large sections -- one for the latest iPhone, one for the current flagship Android model, and one containing a variety of less expensive Android handsets. As importantly, the personnel in-store will steer the budget-conscious consumer in that way. If you are a first-time buyer, and want an iPhone, you buy an iPhone. If, however, you are a first time buyer and are looking for suggestions, and the in-store expert is telling you this phone meets your needs and your budget, you are going to lean towards following their advice, and Android.
(For the record, I went Treo -> Blackberry -> iPhone, my wife went Blackberry -> Droid -> iPhone 4s -> Galaxy Nexus, and we are both happy with our respective platforms.)
I went from PalmOS (Treo 680) to an iPhone 3G. When I fled AT&T to Verizon, I wound up with a Blackberry. 14 months of hell later, I drop-kicked the Blackberry and got a Droid X, because Verizon didn't even have the iPhone announced yet and the WebOS phones were the the wrong form factor for me. My next phone will return me to an iPhone, the iPhone 5. On Verizon.
I had a berry for years and still have a BB Playbook. I tried a DROID incredible when my Storm 2 died but the battery sucked and the OS was waaaaay buggy. My first iOS device was an iPad 2. Last fall I went to a 4s, bought a used ipod for the speaker bar in the house, new iPad on launch day, and am wishing to I had bought a macbook pro instead of my HP last December. I miss my berry sometimes but it would take a hell of a lot for RIM to get me back. I never say never but let's just say I'm not planning on it, especially if the new iPhone gets at least a 4 inch display.
My smartphone history is pretty short, as way into the days of smartphones I had a perfectly working LG Secret.. Nice phone.. :D Anyhow in 2009 I got the Palm Pre. Loved it and it still is my favourite. I then went to a Droid 2 GLobal, and while I find Android interesting and fun, I like things to work more or less perfectly, so now I am with an interim Iphone, and looking forward to this fall, where I will make the choice between ICS which is supposedly better than GB, or the Iphone 5, or maybe even Windows 8. Lets see.
i started off with a palm centro and i really liked it. Two years later a palm pre+ and i loved that thing, palm did homebrew right. This last September i got a droid x2 and i honestly hope that Motorola gets screwed in some way for their poor execution of updates and support the the ui felt smooth as sandpaper and quite often i couldn't even listen to music because it would stutter and skip. I have put gingerbread and ics on my touchpad so i know how good android can be but it keeps getting dumbed down by oem's. So im going to stick with the iphone for a while.
I am arriving here on iPhone from BB via Android. I don't think RIM or BB is dead, it is just dull and their marketing is horrid. I jumped to Android when RIM had no idea of when the QNX based OS would be out. I went with a Moto Atrix 2, what a fantastic phone except there was a huge pause in ending calls, among other things. The HTC Inspire ate batteries like a crack addict eating donuts. The Android OS is fine but not as smooth or integrated as BB. There were many things that took too many steps to complete in Android vs BB. The big screen and fast processor was quite nice and very user friendly but somehow all the keyboards I tried, I could not be as accurate or as fast as I could with BB and iPhone!
How does iPhone make the tiny keys seem so darn accurate/big? I never got as good with Android in one year as I had been with BB in a few weeks. There are many minor things in iPhone that seem curious like no press and hold a dialer number to speed dial. Android had it, BB always had it. I know some will say that is nothing for iPhone due to the number of taps to get there, but it still should not be left out, I should have the option to not use it. I am liking the iPhone so far (4) but the battery life is surprisingly short compared to the Moto and the BBs I have used. I am only a week on iPhone so we'll see how it goes from here.
Maybe many BB types are heading to iPhone, but that will reverse when the next gen BBs come out later this year. I know I cannot wait for the new OS with the magic that TAT has added to it. If it is as good as the demos, I am gone and back to a strong/efficient communication device in a heartbeat.
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LOL. They gathered information from 7,348 people for the study, and only used 521 people? How exactly were these 521 'weeded out'? Hand picked? Random draw? I'd like to know this before I really care about this article.
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I'm responding to Vance Sandretto's My View. I appreciate very much the points made and the story shared by Mr. Sandretto. I do think compost producers need to be good neighbors and that there's an opportunity for conflict resolution and prevention in all of this.
But we also have to answer these questions: Do we really want a working landscape with our fields and forests? Is there something better we can do with our food waste and manure aside from composting it? Should we dump it all in a lake or in a landfill, or burn it?
Growing up in Vermont and living surrounded by hay fields, our house was regularly inundated with disturbing odors from raw liquid manure being spread, with no legal recourse available since farms are exempt from Act 250.
Personally, I think we can do better and that's where compost comes in. If manure is composted before spread on fields, there's no odor on the fields and there are no runoff pollution issues, and we get better crop yields. This is the win-win-win scenario I referred to in my My View.
Since composting is the best approach to turning these "waste" materials into something of high value (healthy soil and energy), clearly we need to encourage and facilitate better methods of compost production and that's what I'm really hoping to draw attention to.
Clearly, we need to make some changes to how all of this works, to how we live and let live and to how we resolve and prevent these kinds of conflicts with neighbors of compost facilities.
As to the question of "Would I be glad to have a compost facility move next to my house?" the answer is yes, because I work in the field of developing and installing compost systems that are specifically designed to eliminate odors and capture energy.
How? I don't have space in this letter to explain it, but please review at www.CompostPower.org. These approaches create high-value compost without any offsite odors because air is drawn down into the material and into heat exchangers and bio-filters while capturing huge amounts of predictable thermal energy.
Mr. Sandretto, I hope you'll continue to be a good neighbor to the compost producer near you and see how you can help them move toward process improvements that will solve the issues you've been dealing with. Because if you don't and if compost producers are instead forced to shut down, Vermont's landfill capacity/odor issues (which you're also I'm sure worried about since you're also a neighbor to Moretown Landfill) are only going to get worse.
Gaelan Brown lives in Fayston.


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You know, I'm not using it as much as I thought. I have an iPhone 4 and a MacBook Pro from late 2010. I guess I fell victim to the advertising. I still like it don't get me wrong, but I'm just not using it as much. I originally bought it to use MyWi on from my iPhone...don't know about that anymore, we'll see.
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Poll: How are you enjoying iPad 2 one week later?
I wish I could get a second one. The wife's got the first one.
Still waiting ... but my love for my original hasn't diminished ;)
The best way to enjoy an iPad 2 is be a gamer.
Can't believe it doesn't have GPS. Jobs was showing off the maps, but if we have to use a phone to figure out where we are... thumbs-down.
I still feel like it needs a more sophisticated OS than iOS, with a "pad-top" or desktop or whatever where you can manage documents.
But it's super-fast.
I love mine more than I thought I would. I still have my original iPad and I hate using it because it seems so slow. The iPad 2 is spoiling me!
I love my iPad 2! I use it everyday for surfing the web and keeping up with all iOS blogs. I also use it for some lite gaming and for a daily GTD. I almost never leave home without it. 64gb 3G (white)! I'm not sure what I would do without this device.
I am enjoying the new form factor and the fact it feels peppier than my original iPad.
I wanted one white and one black 64gb and had to settle on 2 black 64gb.
My thought is that Apple (if they ever meet the backlog) is going to have more goodies for this model in the coming months.
Now I'm ready to update my iPhone 3GS and listening intently as the rumors come alive.
I'd be happy with mine, "IF IT WOULD FINAlLLY SHIP"... I know with all that's happened in Japan this is minimal at least, I just want to have it in my hands. I feel like a litle kid right before Chrismas... LOL Sorry to go off subject and those who find it that way I apologize already...
I'm really liking the device, other than no jailbreak. HDMI out is somewhat disapointed since you cannot resize the 4:3 picture to the edges of your TV. As implemented, you have black bars on all 4 sides, which doesnt make sense to me... Using tvout2 for my iphone 4, I'm able to stretch, resize, any way I please. I guess it's not a shocker that the jailbreak community is ahead of apple, and their sh!t came out a year ago ;(
I love it! MacBook is seeing less use. :p
Should the last option of "Don't Have an Ipad 2" really have been "I Ordered it but it has not arrived", especially in regard to the question. The prerequisite of the question is asking if you have enjoyed your Ipad 2 one week out. Well if you don't have one then you definitely will not have enjoyed it. In fact even my really should have been is void in the instance of your poll question because if it's been ordered and not arrived then you are not going to have enjoyed it either.
Dave, I'd say it's 50/50 whether Apple really launches the iPad 2 on Friday in 23 countries. Apple can't fill the US orders now, how can it launch in other countries on Friday?
Dave, I understand, I lived in the UK last year when the iPad1 launched and hated waiting for the UK launch. If Apple does push back the UK launch date, at least you'll be happy you didn't take the day off of work on Friday!
Would be nice if I had mine already! Ordered on the 11th and still waiting?
Waiting till it's released in Canada and then am taking the plunge.


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All classes to 100. Check. Currently playing Final Fantasy XIV. Homogenization is extreme, but classes are still fun.
My opinions: 5.0 was the golden age of content, the pruning was far too light and 6.2 is actually an enjoyable timesink.
Garrosh got updated for Cataclysm and then again for MoP. Don't think its out of the realm of possibility. They need to do it if only to update his facial animations, after all.
Of course, on that note they still haven't gotten rid of Garrosh's Cata model from the game. That looks completely awful when you remember what his current model looks like.
a new....WARdrobe :P
Ok yeah Baine needs it much more then anyone else. Poor dude.
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I'm sure Baine will benefit from the updated Tauren models.
New model? Don't be silly..
New outfit? Probably.
I am perfectly fine with him being how he is...this has nothing to do with him being nearly completely naked, why are you looking at me like that?
Ah, who am I kidding. He could stand to be wearing even less, in my eyes.
(usually he is)
He doesn't need a whole new model, but if they could paste some, I dunno, Horde armor on there, in addition to the troll stuff, that'd be nice. It's not like there isn't any room for it. He's not just a troll now, he's the Warchief. Thrall wore Doomhammer's old plate. Garrosh wore the tusks of Mannoroth. Both symbols of the Horde. Because that's what a Warchief is. His weapon doesn't have a name. Whose skulls are those on his spikes? Is there any particular significance to his greasy loincloth? In short, where's the history here? Doesn't have to be orc history. There's got to be some Horde troll artifact they can slap on him.
You should have put up the Warcraft 3 version too you know.
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To The Editor:
This letter is addressed to Waitsfield voters.
In this economy and in this place called the Mad River Valley we would be smart to re-use, recycle, renovate, rebuild, repurpose and re-instate a suitable property for our town offices. As Jim Boylan pointed out in his My View piece last week – an "available real estate" tour of Irasville and Waitsfield Village quickly leads one to rethink the strategy of building a new building. With rethinking added to the list, you realize there are far better, more suited and established sites that could be used for town offices and make us proud.
Please cast a vote, your vote, at the polls or by absentee ballot, at the end of this month to reject the Farm Stand option. Our select board stands ready, willing and able to pursue an adaptive re-use option and the state Community Development Block Grant office stands ready, willing and able to help us. Please do not cast your vote based on a fear of losing out on "free money." Join me, and hopefully hundreds of others, in voting no to the bond article and support the greenest, safest, smartest option of all – adaptive re-use.
Thank you for your consideration...and thank you for the water system and the sidewalk!
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Ever since we found out that Sammi Sweetheart has a sister, we've been hoping to see more of the dynamic duo. Though they aren't identical — in fact, Nikki is older than Sammi — they are both stunning brunettes with gorgeous smiles.
It's been quite a few months since we caught up with them, but luckily, Sam Instagrammed some photos of their coordinated outfits at New York Fashion Week! They hit some shows together in black ensembles with tan-colored boots, posing pretty for cameras before taking their seats.
We think they look very similar, especially when it comes to their facial features. Sadly, Nikki doesn't have the same long, sleek hair as Sammi, but we like that they complement each other that way!
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"In Johannesburg there is a neighborhood called Soweto," said Barbara Sears, an impeccably dressed woman of palpable charm who looks like she might let slip a little off-color joke if she warms to you.
"You find everything from lovely brick houses to small shanties that are made out of any kind of building materials found on the side of the road," she said recounting her recent trip to Africa.
Later, she does.
Soweto, which began as a gold mining camp in the 1880s, was later a veritable prison camp, where black Africans were segregated to live and work under the strict rules and curfews of Apartheid by the white Afrikaner government. Today, residents who can now live anywhere and work in whatever profession they wish, still call Soweto home, Sears said.
"This is their home and they are determined to make it better," she said. "There's a pride in those people there."
President of the Ashe County Frescoes Foundation, Sears lives in Warrensville, and took the trip to Africa with 29 other members of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. For 30 years the wife of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Scott Sears, she was widowed in December, 2011, when her husband lost a long battle with multiple systems atrophy.
Sears volunteers at the Ashe Free Medical Clinic, where she serves as a Spanish-English translator. She also works as a personal affairs liaison for the Military Officers Association of America, New River Chapter.
"We went to the Kliptown Youth Program to plant an olive tree," she said. "While we were there we met Thulani Madondo."
Madondo, Executive Director of KYP, was selected as one of CNN's Heroes of 2012 for his community work in Kliptown, Soweto's oldest residential district. He co-founded KYP, a before- and after-school program with a mission to "eradicate the poverty of mind, body, and soul and to fight against the disadvantages imposed on the children of Kliptown," where unemployment reached 72 percent in 2005.
"The prevailing theme that I saw throughout that part of South Africa is that education is power," said Sears. "The world is your oyster if you're an educated individual."
The school children of Kliptown each have a laptop donated by a group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she said.
At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, visitors were given ticket stubs that read "whites" and "non-whites" based on skin color, and were obliged to use entrances, restrooms and other facilities bearing those labels.
"At various stops we had lectures in the evenings," Sears said.
The first lecture was in Capetown, and began "Welcome home, all of you." The bones of an early hominid were unearthed there with over 98 percent of it's DNA shared across the entire living human population of the earth.
In Botswana, a lecturer told of a former Ngwato tribal leader's frustration with nepotism and graft in his country's white government. Seretse Khama took his grievances to England, won the backing of the British government, got elected president, and, re-appropriating his country's diamond mine revenue, brought education and medical care to every village.
On Robben Island, Sears visited the prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, the tour guided by a former inmate who served time with the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Photos on her hard drive show his tiny cell – no plumbing or bed – and the small recreation yard where he buried pages of his book, "Long Walk to Freedom", written on pieces of paper concrete sacks and stuffed into bottles to be smuggled out piecemeal by accomplices.
Sears has dozens of photos from Africa, including one at a hotel near Victoria Falls. It shows a family of warthogs rooting around the lawn just a few feet from her breakfast table.
Drawing comparison between poverty in southern Africa and poverty in southern Appalachia, Sears said "It does not seem to be a burden to them…it's not naivety or ignorance…they are positive about their situation."