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Anticipation is building as KidsPeace Foster Care in Baltimore fine-tunes plans for the Second Annual 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, October 29, 2011 through the neighborhood of Canton and Patterson Park. Click here to register online. The hosts of this fundraiser are Angela and Buck Showalter. They are enthusiastic supporters of KidsPeace foster care efforts to successfully place foster children and teens with carefully matched families. The aptly named "Trick or Trot" race promises to be a wonderful family (and that includes pets) event with features that include:• The first 400 registered runners will receive an Under Armour race t-shirt. • Fantastic gift certificates for top runners and age group winners. • Food and Halloween fun following the run/walk in O'Donnell Square with the Oriole Bird and the Chick-fil-A cow.• Everyone is encouraged to dress for Halloween, and prizes will be given for best individual, family and pet costumes.• Register as a team and raise funds for foster care youth; the top 3 teams that raise the most money win awesome team prizes like tickets to a 2012 Orioles game, a Wine Tasting for 20 or a large bar tab to a great Baltimore watering hole!• Be a "Snooze Button Runner"; if you are not able to attend, "run" from the convenience of your bedroom.• Attend a pre-race party on the Square Friday, October 28, where you can pick up your race packet, have a Natty Boh, listen to some great local music and enjoy the restaurants and shops on the Square.• Every registrant will be entered into a drawing for prizes, with winners being selected at the awards ceremony after the race(must be present to win). • There will be Trick or Treating and face painting for the kids courtesy of O'Donnell Square businesses • Parking will be on streets surrounding DuBurns Arena and O'Donnell SquareCompany and individual sponsors and volunteers will be very welcome. Please spread the word at work and home that every contribution and effort will directly benefit KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs of Maryland and help raise awareness and funds for youth in foster care in Maryland.According to Program Director Diane Sancilio, last year's event was a huge success, raising more than $25,000 in cash and from in-kind donations and sponsorships from businesses in the O'Donnell Square area. "Business owners arrived at the finish lines with their families to provide crafts for the children, food, beverages and even electricity for the speaker system from one enthusiastic restaurant. All of the merchants and volunteers truly embraced the race/walk and the foster children KidsPeace serves."For more information, to volunteer or to become a sponsor, please contact Gina Seyfried (410) 964-9329 or email@example.com.
KidsPeace Receives Verizon Grant to Help Stop Bullying
On Saturday, August 20, KidsPeace officially received a generous grant from the Verizon Wireless HopeLine Program and the Verizon Foundation to fund a new anti-bullying section on TeenCentral.Net. The check was presented during KidsPeace's 14th Annual Soccer Invitational, which was sponsored by Verizon Wireless to benefit TeenCentral.Net as well. Mario Turco, President of the Philadelphia Tri-State Region of Verizon Wireless, presented a $20,000 check to KidsPeace CEO and President Will Isemann and Director of TC.N and PC.N Dr. Julius Licata. Some 80 teams competed during the tournament, and all received information about TeenCentral.Net in their team packets. Bullying is a serious problem that affects teens from every part of the world and is growing at alarming rates. The leadership at Verizon Wireless realizes that bullying is reaching epidemic proportions and chose TeenCentral.Net to reach out to the teens of the world to let them know that they are not alone and can receive help, counseling and information from the site to support them and help them cope with bullying by other teens at school, in their neighborhoods and in cyberspace. The $20,000 will fund the development of a comprehensive section of TeenCentral.Net to address bullying and its dangerous consequences. Verizon Wireless has also donated funds to continue their support of the TeenCentral.Net Domestic Violence section on TeenCentral.Net.
Mario Turco, President of the Philadelphia Tri-State Region of Verizon Wireless,
presents check to Dr. Julius Licata and Will Iseman
About TeenCentral.NetTeenCentral.Net is KidsPeace's award-winning website for teens. It is anonymous and free, and is a safe site where teens can write in with their questions and issues and receive advice from Master's and PhD level counselors within 24 hours. More than half a million teens are members of TeenCentral.Net where they "log in and work it out" about any topic. The site format ensures that all posts by teens are reviewed and approved by our counselors, and responding posts from other teens are screened before being published as well. In addition to teen posts, TeenCentral.Net also contains pages that address important topics for teens such as domestic and dating abuse, weight issues, smoking cessation, books of interest to teens and news. Additionally, TeenCentral.Net contains stories from celebrities in sports and entertainment who experienced and overcame similar issues when they were teens.Earlier this year, KidsPeace launched ParentCentral.Net to help parents deal with the issues of raising children in today's world. Similar to TeenCentral.Net, ParentCentral.Net offers educational information and replies to posts by parents within 24 hours. The Bullying section on TeenCentral.Net will also be accessible to members of ParentCentral.Net, helping parents recognize the signs that their children are being bullied or bullying other youth.
The public is invited to celebrate the annual harvest of the Maine garlic crop at the 13th Annual MDI Garlic Festival Saturday, Sept. 17th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Smuggler's Den Campground, Southwest Harbor. Presented by Nostrano, owned and operated by chef Frank Pendola, the event will feature garlic dish tastings from numerous local restaurants, a farmers' market, garlic growers, live music, and more.
In the fall of 1998, Pendola and a few of his friends gathered to enjoy a variety of foods cooked with garlic. They smoked meats and made "Garlic Festival" t-shirts. The following year, the chef and his friends cooked for 100 people, and 350 friends and neighbors showed up. Since then, the festival has grown and has raised thousands of dollars for local nonprofits.
"Life is good," says Pendola. "I've been blessed and it's time to give back. This festival is a perfect way to bring my chef friends together and put on a good show of our specialties for the public to sample – all for a great cause."Chris Sylvester, Admissions Manager and Client Services Representative for the KidsPeace Graham Lake Campus, is grateful to the local chef and his dedication in organizing this festival.
"Frank has inspired others to become involved in this event and is tireless in his time and energy spent to make this a success. KidsPeace is extremely grateful to be the selected charity to benefit from this festival."
Sylvester explained that the proceeds will benefit the Autism program that provides treatment to manage mental health issues and teach functional living skills to improve the quality of life for local children. The Graham Lake residential and day treatment programs serve from 25-30 children at any given time.
Event sponsors include: WNSX 97.7 FM, Smuggler's Den Campground, Darling's AutoMall, Granville Rental, Subway, Clarke's Portable Toilets, Time Warner Cable, Maine Camp Outfitters, United Bikers of Maine, Keybank, CTI, Trenton Flooring, Annie's Pride Farm, Pepper's Pub, Sylvia's Café, Ellsworth Chiropractic, Main Street Auto Care and Hale and Hamlin, LLC.
For information on sponsorship opportunities or ticket information, visit www.nostrano.com.
KidsPeace Foster Care in Ithaca, NY, Receives Support from Buffalo Wild Wings
The KidsPeace Foster Care office in Ithaca, NY, has been very fortunate to be the focus of a month-long fundraiser by Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant in Ithaca. Every Wednesday in August, KidsPeace has been distributing information about the foster care program to customers. There is a table at the entrance staffed by KidsPeace Foster Care employees, and KidsPeace posters and balloons adorn the restaurant. This is a wonderful source for recruiting potential foster parents and educating the community about the mission of KidsPeace Foster Care. As part of the promotion, each time a customer turns in a KidsPeace "ticket" as they pay their bill, Buffalo Wild Wings is donating a percentage of that sale to KidsPeace. If anyone forgets to hand in a ticket, the restaurant staff has been wonderful about reminding them to ensure that KidsPeace receives a share of the total sale. It has been a great introduction to the community, thanks to Family Resource Specialist Jo Ann Myer-Foland and her son Mark who works at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Additionally, Buffalo Wild Wings has donated items including bottles of their famous wing sauce to go into a basket that will be raffled off on August 31. There are still two Wednesdays left to sample the delicious wings and contribute to KidsPeace Foster Care. The restaurant is located at 410 Elmira Road in Ithaca. KidsPeace is very excited that Buffalo Wild Wings will be holding a similar fundraiser for KidsPeace Foster Care in Elmira soon and at another site later in the fall.
KidsPeace is very grateful to Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurants for their kindness and assistance to the children of Ithaca who are waiting for a loving foster home.
Visit Soccer Tournament August 20-21
KidsPeace has locations in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York, Nevada, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, some small and some large. The Orchard Hills Campus in Orefield, PA, is the largest, set on 262 wooded acres in a rural setting. This location houses the KidsPeace Psychiatric Hospital and several residential centers for the care of young people with emotional, behavioral or mental health issues. Every year for a weekend in August, this campus becomes a very busy location as soccer players, coaches, family members and neighbors who all come together for the KidsPeace Annual Soccer Invitational. This year will be the 14th, and will be held on August 20 and 21. Teams from across the state gather for this first tournament of the season, where U9-U15 boys and U16-U19 girls compete. KidsPeace is a welcoming host, providing activities, entertainment, food, a camping area and a pristine setting with great views of the Lehigh Valley for all attendees. Typically, some 4000 kids and adults visit the campus that weekend, and everyone comes away with a positive opinion of KidsPeace and its employees. "The soccer tournament is a great opportunity for the teams and the community to visit KidsPeace," says KidsPeace President and CEO Will Isemann. "It is a great opportunity for us to show off our beautiful campus and give back a bit to the community that supports us." KidsPeace gives back to the community throughout the year, Isemann adds, in many measurable and intangible ways.The proceeds of the Soccer Invitational will help support the good works of TeenCentral.Net and ParentCentral.Net (both described below) over the coming year. KidsPeace invites our neighbors in the Lehigh Valley to visit our Orchard Hills campus and watch some great soccer on Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and 21st. The entire event will be staffed by KidsPeace employees who volunteer their time to help with this popular event. Admission is free.KidsPeace ContributesKidsPeace was founded in Bethlehem, PA, in 1882 to provide a home for children orphaned by a smallpox epidemic, and has had a close relationship with its neighbors ever since. From its humble beginnings, KidsPeace has grown to provide hope, help and healing to children, families and communities in PA and across the nation. Last year alone, KidsPeace and its more than 1100 staff in the Lehigh Valley provided care to 2840 children.KidsPeace employees are wonderful role models to the kids in care. They are enthusiastic volunteers for many causes and invite the children to participate with them. The employees and kids in the Lehigh Valley contributed many hundreds of volunteer hours to the community including:• Participating in numerous walks to raise money for autism, ALS, suicide prevention and more• Bake sales to raise money for local organizations• Volunteering at food banks• Helping at a farm for older animals• Visiting nursing homes• Performing for guests • Assisting with campus cleanups.KidsPeace makes a large contribution to the local economy as well. Last year, KidsPeace:• Paid $1,760,000 in local and state payroll taxes• Provided $10,400,000 in free and under-compensated care to children• Spent $5,000,000 on food, clothing and other products purchased in the Lehigh Valley• Paid employees $44,000,000, which were spent in the Lehigh Valley.Additional ContributionsKidsPeace opened it brand new Family Center last year on the Broadway site in Bethlehem, PA. This facility provides community based outpatient treatment to children and their families. Many services are coordinated through the Family Center, which provides free initial assessments of children, family and individual therapy, pediatric assessments, nutritional assistance and an array of services for children on the autism spectrum.KidsPeace also offers two exceptional prevention and intervention websites that help teens and parents in the Lehigh Valley and around the world. TeenCentral.Net is a free, anonymous site where teens write about issues that are bothering them, receive advice from Master's or Doctorate level counselors, read celebrity stores, learn about important issues such as domestic violence and weight awareness and post comments to other teens' questions. All posts are reviewed and approved by a counselor before they appear on the site. ParentCentral.Net is a website for parents that is also free and anonymous and operates similarly to TeenCentral.Net. No topics are taboo, and parents can receive answers to their questions in 24 hours from trained counselors with expertise in family issues. KidsPeace.Org contains a wealth of information for mental health professionals, educators and parents, including the award-winning Healing Magazine, brochures and fliers on parenting, information about KidsPeace services and locations and newsworthy articles. FosterCare.Com provides everything one needs to know about becoming a foster parent and providing the care that treatment foster children need. If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, you can fill out a form and get response from the nearest foster care office.
Baltimore, MD… KidsPeace Foster Care of Maryland is excited to announce a great upcoming recruitment fair/fundraiser for the entire family. On August 20, 2011, families are invited to hang out at Ultrazone on the lower level of the Eastpoint Mall. Come celebrate National KidsDay – an annual event to celebrate the inherent value and worth of children -- and help foster kids in the Baltimore area. Attendees will have the opportunity to play laser tag and learn about foster care during this four-hour event at Ultrazone. Thanks to the generosity of Ultrazone, Dominos Pizza® and Coca Cola®, families will enjoy 2 for the price of 1 Laser Tag games, pizza and drinks from noon until 4:00 p.m., and face painting, sculpted balloons and arcade games and more will also be available. A small donation may apply to some of these activities.According to Program Manager Sandy Rappeport, this event will be great fun for families and give KidsPeace Foster Care an opportunity to reach out to adults who might be candidates to become foster parents. "This event will also raise much needed funding for our KidsPeace Empowering Youth to Succeed (KEYS) and mentoring programs for foster teens. These programs teach foster teens who will be aging out of the system skills for independent living," Sandy explains. "We teach these kids how to develop and stick to budgets, save money, apply for jobs, rent an apartment, get insurance and many other skills that they probably haven't learned in the foster care system." The teens receive a small stipend at each class, and KidsPeace saves an equal amount for them for when they leave the foster care system. "There are so many children waiting for foster homes in the Baltimore area," Sandy continues, "that we reach out to potential foster parents every chance we get." There are many misconceptions out there about who can be a foster parent, but in general:• You don't have to be married• You don't have to be rich• You don't have to have kids of your own (but having some experience with kids is preferred)• You do need a safe home with a space for privacy for your foster child• You need earned income that meets your personal needs• You need a background free of violent crime• You need an insured car or other reliable form of transportation to take your foster child to appointments• You need a flexible schedule and time to spend with your foster child• You need a loving heart to share with your foster child.Please join us at Ultrazone on August 20 to celebrate your own children and help our kids become independent adults.For more information, call KidsPeace Foster Care at 410-261-3232 or click here.
Good parenting is very subjective. Who is to say that one person is superior to another in such a personal role? Families are more untraditional today than ever before, meaning that it is even more difficult to apply labels to a parent. • Is a child being cared for better because there are two parents in the household? Not necessarily. • Is a child eating a good diet and getting enough rest and exercise? Hard to tell if he or she is in day care. • Do you spend enough time with your child? What is enough? If a parent is working 2 jobs to make ends meet, he or she is really tired and may not have time to just play. • Does your child watch too much television or chat with friends on the computer too much? What is too much – an hour, 3 hours? • Do you have time to monitor him or her to make sure he or she isn't viewing inappropriate subject matter? You can put alerts or controls on the television or computer, but there are ways around such things.• How do you discipline your children? You know that you should never strike or shake a child as punishment or make him or her consume something that will harm him or make her sick. You can also harm children by yelling and screaming and making afraid of you.• Does your child witness abuse between you and your spouse or other family members? That should never happen; studies show that seeing such behavior can be very traumatic to your child.• How is your child doing in school? Have her grades changed recently? Is he getting in trouble or being suspended from school? • Are you a grandparent or aunt or uncle raising a child because the parent isn't up to the task? Would this child be better off in foster care or living with you in a modest home?ParentCentral.Net hears questions like these all the time and understands the concerns of parents or parent figures. If you need some reassurance or advice on parenting, you can write your story and send it to ParentCentral.Net. Within 24 hours, you will receive a response to your post that has been written by a trained counselor and reviewed by a Master's or Doctorate level expert. The reply you receive will give you an objective assessment of your problem and provide you with resources you can contact for more information. You may also receive responses from other parents who have been through the same issues you are facing. These are also reviewed by our professionals before being posted anonymously. These services are safe and free and can help you get through a difficult time. ParentCentral.Net also contains articles on different parenting issues as well as podcasts that speak to the kinds of issues you and your child are facing. No subject is taboo, so you can feel comfortable discussing questions you have about sexuality, drug and alcohol use, abuse, punishment or your relationship with your child. ParentCentral.Net was developed to meet the needs of the many parents who often wrote into TeenCentral.Net, a website that has been advising teens since the late 1990s. Also anonymous and free, TeenCentral.Net helps teens with any concerns they choose to write about, from trouble with a boyfriend to teen pregnancy to bullying to body image. We believe that every question is deserves a respectfully answer not matter what the topic. This is why TeenCentral.Net has nearly 500,000 members and has been helping teens for well over a decade. Now parents have a site of their own site, their own podcasts, their own informational articles and their own resources. ParentCentral.Net will help get you through whatever issues you face, safely and with total privacy. Log in today.


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1-Where is Blizzard mistake?
2- DAoC is considered as best pvp game !!!!?? According to numbers of players i would say maybe mediocre game
3-Most people=Minority or rest outside of wow, right?
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Originally posted by Torvaldr
Absolutely -- no clue why they keep saying TESO has OWPvP, when it is restricted to a closed-off area. Hopefully ArcheAge will cater to those of us looking for actual OWPvP, unless Trion goes overboard with their westernization...
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Joined: 2/16/11
I'll kick your a**e so hard, you could build a swimming pool in the footprint!
Originally posted by eric_w66
Yep we have the same thing with SWG on these forums. DAOC's pvp was a good idea but the posts in favor clearly ignore the FOTM classes and the impact that had on RvR.
As to the OP what an increbiably arrogant post to make. So you know better because you can point out faults in other games and think the developers should cherry pick bits and bobs of things you do like in oihers?
Here's the thing even with all those elements you like the actually synergy between systems could make the entire thing fall apart, ( a large open world with 8 man group structure with roles would have enormous amounts of balance issues, amomgst other things).
I hope they don't listen to me nor you. I hope they don't try to cater to people who are living in the past. I hope they have some new ideas that work within whatever systems they decide to put in place. I hope to be plesantly surprised by them.
It'd be much better longterm then listening to those who can't seem to get over their first love..
This looks like a job for....The Riviera Kid!
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Joined: 7/24/03
While DAoC is considered by many, as having one of the best pvp systems for a MMO, I think a large degree of it's success was that it's RvR system hadn't been attempted before.
Essentially, you had 3 isolated PvE experiences with joint PvP experiences. When it first came out, it was fresh and new. The PvE was actually very lackluster. Considering it was based on various mythologies, it was actually fairly boring when it came to PvE - it lacked that mystery or that "hook" that made games like AC and EQ so memorable.
However, where it shined was its RvR warfare. Because it really hadn't been done before, players and their communities relied on one another. However, it once players started to get a grasp of the various intertwined mechanics that made the system - all sense of community and realm pride quickly went down hill (as players were now gaming the system as opposed to playing the game).
If you take each expansion for what it was, most of them were actually really nice. Shrouded Isles drastically improved the PvE experience. The new dungeons were actually "fun". The new encounters were actually "fun". The misstep here was neglecting the RvR experience and letting it stagnate.
With ToA, we actually got an entertaining expansion. However, while very interesting, it introduced a PvE grind in order to compete with the big raiding MMO EQ. As many pointed out, any competitive RvR player was now "required" to go through these grinds in order to remain competitive. Outside of this grind; however, RvR stagnated.
I actually liked Catacombs and Darkness Rising. By the time these expansions were released, the RvR experience was really just a shadow of what it was the first 2ish years the game was out. The experiences introduced here were fun, engaging and interesting. However, they really didn't add to the RvR experience. But these expansions *did* keep me in a game I once loved dearly.
My personal opinion is that Mythic really didn't truly understand its own MMO. Like a lot of older MMOs, it developed some feature bloat (there are what, 3-4 alternate advancement systems now?!) Some of the older content is far surpassed by its newer content.
At large, MMOs are mostly "gamed". Players "game" the systems. As long as MMOs utilize familiar systems, they're going to be figured out and "gamed" heavily. It's that simple.
I imagine with ESO, while the 3 faction warfare will "improve" upon experiences we've seen in the past, unless they add some fresh, subtle elements - I imagine it will lose its luster within a couple years.
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Joined: 9/17/07
I agree with you on most points, but long duration CC is just bad game design. Also "most people" don't know what DAoC is anymore, so I'm sure they wouldn't call it the best pvp game of all time.
More importantly than the issues you described though is a risk vs reward system. I am not sure if ESO will allow same-faction murdering, or teaming up with opposing factions even, but if they do then that would be great. It will need to be go along with fairly harsh penalties for dying though if you are flagged as a murderer.
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Joined: 7/29/08
Originally posted by boxsnd
One thing you didn´t mention in your original post and is kinda related to CC is ´what happens when you die´.
I think this ties into CC because for me, I hate long (30 plus second) CCs. I think WOW maybe has them a little short, but that is because WOW made another mistake, and that was letting CCs have too short of a cast-time (sometimes instant). The reason WOW has evolved to such short duration ccs is because they are impossible to block or interrupt. I think those two things go hand-in-hand. If you want a 30sec CC, then it better come at the end of a 4 second cast that screams ´interrupt me´.
Back to the issue of death. This is another ´killer´ in world pvp. Simply put, death needs to be meaningful and take you out of the fight for a signficant amount of time. I´ve played games where you actually wanted to die if it forced your opponent to use a long CD ability. The amount of time death keeps you out of the fight needs to far surpass even the longest of CCs. I think recently, devs have just been afraid of forcing players to stare at a grey screen.
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Joined: 7/20/04
Gw2 most certainly did it right, but yeah progression will be nice next month when they add it. It was a big success though. You can't really say it was a failure considering it is the most popular feature in the game and has been since launch. Considering the game's success, I would say they did pretty well. You may not like it, but it does not mean it was not done "right".
I don't think there really is a way to do world pvp right to be fair. You either don't like small groups roaming or you don't, you like zergging or you don't, you like soloing or you don't. People's opinions vary so widely on open world pvp and that is the main reason that is the one element of pretty much every MMO that has not remained consistant. If you like it you like it. If you don't you don't. The only games that have had truly successful world pvp are DAOC, GW2, and Planetside 2. (In terms of success)
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Joined: 7/13/04
"Free crack and everybody gets laid."
People lost in nostalgia land. Quick! Grandpa is posting on mmorpg.com again. Get him back to his bed before he rages and has another stroke!
But with all joking aside: nobody can agree on the best mmorpg pvp, nobody can agree that open world pvp is better then instanced based pvp, and nobody can agree on anything ever with mmos.
I never played DAoC, but I did play Warhammer Online and SWTOR - two games which Mythic developed (the latter with Bioware). Neither game had great or reliable gameplay mechanics. Ability delay in SWTOR was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Warhamer had abilitiy and global cooldown syncing issues. Both game's mechanics were far inferior to WoW's and Guild Wars 2. Basic gameplay mechanics, how your character moves, how he auto-attacks, how he jumps, how he reacts to terrain, how he fires a spell, how he fires his next spell, ect and then a combination of ALL those things, THEN throw in fighting other players and see how fluid it is: that is what determines a good pvp game from a bad one.
You can argue against this till you are blue in the face, but core mechanics are really what will make or break a game in pvp.
Originally posted by Azrile
Nice post. I agree with the cast times. It also applies to damage spells. For example the PBAOE in daoc felt so "meaty" and powerful/fun because it had a ~2sec cast time and NO cooldown and huge damage (if you ever played enchanter or eldritch you know what I'm talking about). A skilled player could avoid it / interrupt it though and that made it even better when it landed. On the other hand the pbaoe in WoW (mage) felt weak / cheap / no fun because it was insta + had global cooldown + low damage.
Now about death waiting time I don't agree. I think giving your enemies rps (feeding them), everyone in the area seeing your death spam in the chat and the time lost to rebuff / walk back to the battle is punishment enough. I hated waiting 5-10 min on pad for Visur after every death (and you know someone in the group always forgot their amulet and you had to wait another 10 min).
DAoC - Excalibur & Camlann
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Mythic didn't really work on swtor. The only "mythic" people at eaware are marketing drone types that joined during the ea take over like gabe amangetello, or the likes of Jeff hickman, a csr who knew how to kiss corporate butt and ended up running war.
All the real mythic people have long left, there's more of them working at arenanet and zenimax than there are at eaware.
Also I disagree on your assement of warhammer. While it ain't as good as daoc it has massively better pvp mechanics than wow. Wow Is after all primarily a raid grinder, with a minimal pvp game they tacked on at a later day for pveers to do for a bit of casual fun between raids.
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Joined: 9/02/10
Just a few thoughts, only about GW2 as that's the only thing I have played on your list -
GW2 WvW's mistakes:
- No progression (they promised to add it recently)
>> No progression in power is great as it focuses on skill, not who can grind the most. ANet made a small boo-boo with the ascended gear here, but they are makingthis easier to get soon, so everyone will be at the same power level again. Progression can be had through cosmetics, e.g. legendaries, dungeon armor, dyes.
- Main objective is taking keeps, not killing enemies. This led to one and only one playstyle: Zerging. Also this led to the losing servers getting discouraged / giving up easily.
>> Ok, first off: wrong. On so many levels. Taking keeps gives you personal rewards, like XP, gold, karma. Holding keeps is what gets your server points which is what you need to win the match. It's like playing football and just blindly throwing the ball forward. It's like going after the assassin medal in TOR's huttball. It completely misses the point of the game. And if you have never defended a keep against a larger force and felt the glee at denying them victory I just feel so sad for you.
- culling (awaiting fix)
>> Yea, culling blows and everyone hopes they will get this fixed soon. At least it's playable (IMO, and others', judging by the queues to get into WvW) and they didn't have to pull the whole zone *cough* like Ilum *cough*.
- poor performance compared to the PvE zones
>> You get some lag fests for sure. If you think PvE is free of this go visit any of the dragon events.
- Relics kept getting hacked so they just removed them
>> Even if the relics wouldn't have been hacked they were flawed in the design, giving the winning server even more of a power boost. Anet said they'll be back later, but really? No one misses them.
- low duration CC system favoring larger groups
>> Yea, coz if it's one thing PvP players love is to get stun-locked for minutes on end. I totally do not see this as an issue. CC is used as a setup to kill individual players, not to "even the numbers" between a large zerg and a small group.
- No trinity means no healers which is favoring larger groups
>> Not sure how much trinity works in PvP. I mean, is everybody jumping on the tanks in PvP, too, while DPS stabs them in the back? No healers means you are by and large responsible for your own a$$. If you have no idea how to stay alive without your pocket healer you need to re-L2P in GW2, or you'll keep dying. A lot.
- 5 man groups (way too small for open world pvp)
>> Not sure what the group size has to do with anything. In GW2 it's more about squads, which can be much larger than 5. 5 man groups are more a thing for PvE dungeons.
- The downed mechanic favoring larger groups
>> Totally disagree with this. Larger and unskilled groups are more likely to get a member of a smaller group downed, but rezzing and rallying works great to keep smaller skilled groups going. Unskilled players don't go for rallies, they ignore downed players to focus on getting their kill, or they try to rez defeated players, which takes ages compared to rezzing a downed one. Obviously, if both groups are equally skilled, the larger one wins.
- siege way too effective against players
>> I don't think siege is "way too effective" at all. Arrow carts do moderate damage in an aera over a short time, but you can survive it for a while, or get out of it. Ballista will hurt you, but over longer ranges they will miss if you just keep moving. Siege is also stationary, an AOE magnet and meant mostly for defending structures. It allows small groups to defend a tower against a zerg. I think you'd have called this "favoring smaller groups". Siege in open field can help turn a battle fast, but siege is also very vulnerable to getting rushed, or destroyed before it's even built.
- siege can be bought with RL money
>> No. Wrong. Do you even play GW2? Siege >>blue prints<< can be bought with RL money. You still need supply and people to actually build siege and then man and defend it afterwards. If you have none of that your pretty blueprint isn't worth the bag slot it's stored in.
- names of enemies not visible, enemies changing every 2 weeks = impossible to build rivalries (one of the things that made DAoC so awesome)
>> If you read any of the forums and are part of a WvW community there is plenty of rivalry going on between servers and their guilds. Customization through armor and choice of weapons (eg legendaries) also makes player characters very recognizable. If you have a very visible legendary, like a great sword or staff, I hope you know how to play, or you will eat dirt a lot, because everyone and their mother will try to kill you, I mean: test you skills to see if you earned the legendary or bought it with your credit card.
- easy to transfer to the winning server
>> Yes, this used to be a huge pain in the rear. They just turned that off, though. Now, you pay (RL money or a fair amount of gold) for transfers, and you pay more to go to a high pop server.
- all 3 enemy realms are essentially the same realm (same classes/races)
>> True. It has something to do with balance. But I like that I can chose to play a high DPS character without being locked into playing for the green skins or the dudes with pointy ears, because they do DPS the best.
- no DF-like dungeon to fight for
>> I haven't played that, so I don't know what DF-like dungeons get you in open world PvP.
So what is the key of creating a great open world PvP?
1) permanent progression which is only achieved through open world PvP kills (primary objective) and taking keeps (secondary objective, much slower than kills). Progression should be endless or extremely hard to reach the max rank. It should be interesting: not +1 str per rank etc, give us PvP-only skills that can't be unlocked with PvE.
>> ... and create a nice, high barrier to entry for new PvP players. I'd seriously hate that. It'd be the same as gear progression, aka gear treadmill. The more you grind, the more power you have. No, thanks. ANet made a concious decision to get away from that.
2) A dungeon like Darkness Falls to fight over
>> In GW2, you have four maps to fight over with lots of keeps and towers, but I don't know what's behind DF, so I guess I'm not seeing the attraction.
3) The game should be optimized for large open world battles (without culling)
>> Yep.
4) Large duration crowd control system, large groups (8 players is optimal), no "downed mechanic", yes to the trinity(healers,tanks,dps) to allow for many different playstyles (zerging, competitive group vs group, soloing, small group, stealthing etc)
>> No to stun locks, thank you very much. GW2 allows for all mentioned playstyles. Obviously, a skilled, well-led group is required for small groups or soloing.
5) Relics (that don't get hacked easily) to fight over
>> Honestly, no one is missing them in GW2 after they were removed. Everybody is too busy fighting over keeps and castles to notice.
6) Names of enemies visible, same enemies all the time (to build rivalries and realm pride, and to make the whole war feel important)
>> You get "realm" and "guild" pride by having your server and guild names displayed. If you feel the need so badly to be recognized personally >>by your enemies<<, grab a unique armor set and recognizable legendary >>>and play well<<<. Your own guild and server will know how well you play anyway. I'm happy enough to have a message from the opposing server relayed to me through my GM about how they are seriously getting PO'd at me for contesting their keep's waypoint by myself for three hours. We shared a hearty laugh on TS3.
7) Make defending keeps much more rewarding than trading them with your enemies.
>> I think I asked this before: have you played any WvW on a higher tier server? No one, absolutely no one trades keep with their enemies. We may let them take a tower (worth 10 points) to take their keep (worth 20 points and much, much more defensible) in the mean time, but we don't just hand them the keys.
8) DON'T force us to PvE (much) to be able to compete in PvP.
>> Except for the recent ascended gear snafu you can level to max in WvW in GW2 and work your way to max gear. Now, to get the prettiest gear you need to PvE. If you want to call that forcing you to PvE, ok.
9) The skill system should allow skilled players to overpower zergs of lesser skilled players. If twitch.tv existed back in 2002, DAoC would be the most watched game by far. It was insanely competitive. But if the skill cap is as low as WoW's/GW2's it will never happen.
>> Ok, now I'm sure. You have not played GW2 WvW. At all. Smaller, skilled groups routinely crush mindless zergs. "Crush" here means that the zerg's morale is broken, about 50% of the zerg will run away and the other half will be killed. And this is not just when the zerg breaks on a good tower defense, this is in open field battles. Lots of examples of this on youtube.
It's ok to make a wish list for what you would like to see in a open world PvP game. It's somewhat ok to make "most players would agree" assumptions about what should be in the game, though expect to get some challenges here. It's not at all ok to throw out assumptions and guesses as facts when you have no clue what you are talking about. Expect to get called out here, and badly so.
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Originally posted by boxsnd
ill just quote some1 from a dif thread on a simillar topic not so long ago on theese forums,,,
"sigh, the long lost art of crowd control"
my very favorite proffession of all mmorpgs ever, is Anarchy Online's Bureaucrat: it was the ultimate CC master proffession, basicly your toolset was:
- huge evade skills ( both passive skill ammount and active "perks" that gave short lasting bonuses on top of that )
- extraordinary CC skills unmatched by any other profession out of the two dozens mmo's i played so far ( ultimate CC "spells" ((since AO's story is taking place allmost 30k years into the future, humankind was able to create "magic", wich is in fact nano technology)), both single target and AOE, both "roots" ( glues you target to a point on ground ) and "snares" ( slowing your enemy down, in some cases debuffing into negative ammounts was possible ), single target/aoe de-snares and de-root nanos(spells)
- pet(s) - depending on lvl one or two offensive pets, alltho middle lvl pvp crats, like mine could just not bother with the ninjabot, it was utterly gimp for title level 5
- allmost NO heals whatsoever, besides healing stims/kits, and one generic perk avaible to every1, and few tricks not usable to every build, like unequipping your weap to use a martial artist heal skill, or switching to meele for dimach etc,,,
no other feeling like standing infront of big bad enemy guy, letting him swing and miss you at will, dancing and showing off that he cant move you hp bar down, even tho you have no heals, or keeping a whole zerg at bay, just behind the corner, all rooted, while you rip them apart one by one, using LoS as you ally
aaaaaahhhhhh teh nostalgia, give me a mmo with an old school CC class ASAP, the new school low dura CC shit is boring as hell,,, and evades that matter!!
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Originally posted by rwyan
Good post. The para I put in italics especially. DAoC changed a lot during the years. In particular, RvR changed a lot from the first couple years to what came after. Early in the game, RvR was a true realm-wide experience. You took pride in defending keeps, and when artifacts were threatened, many people who seldom RvR'd came out to defend, including many sub-50s.
But after a year or so that started changing, and not long after (after SI but before ToA) I could see big change already. It became more of an 8v8 game. Hardcore players developed elite groups, and they wanted little part of the 'zerg', just the opposite, they wanted 8v8 action. I remember when the most hardcore guild on Albion Nimue refused to come out and help defend keeps during an artifact defense because they didnt want to risk getting zerged. And they certainly wouldnt come out if they couldnt put together a near-ideal group. Another time they did come out, but they wouldnt help defend the artifact, they wanted to kill stragglers in the rear areas to get easy realm points. It was pretty sad. Their desire for realm points meant far more to them than defending the realm with their realm-mates. Things like that just increased the growing gap between hardcore players and more casual players, and when ToA turned the game into a hardcore grindfest, well that was the icing on the cake.
Mythic I think realized they were losing many players, but were afraid to alienate the hardcore players. For example, they allowed buffbots to provide buffs outside their group with no range limit (which meant an 8 man group didnt need to waste a slot on a buffer, they got those at the portal keep). That was purely because they didnt want to lose the money from duplicate accounts. But of course it just made the gap bigger between hardcore types with two accounts and more casual types, and was one more reason for casual players to leave.
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Originally posted by vmoped
If your going to do open world pvp guilds should be able to create factions and pick the emblem/flag and declare war/peace all while being able to build and destroy cities. Shadowbane and EVE with corporations did this right.
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Originally posted by boxsnd
Agree with everything you have posted accept for this. DAOC never displayed the names of enemies, and I don't want to see it in ESO. There is no need for it. Once someone has destroyed you in pvp you can look into your log and see who killed you, but outright searching out people in combat via their name isn't needed.
I also don't know if this type of PvP could really be considered open world PvP. Open world insinuates that PvP can happen anywhere at any time. Where as the PvP in DAOC and ESO is more RvR style, or a gigantic battleground. Not really open world pvp.
Originally posted by ButeoRegalis
I see the GW2 defense force has finally arrived.
Just to make something clear though: Long duration CC (at least as it was in DAoC) didn't have any stunlocks. You could get stunned once (for up to 9 sec depending on skill) and then you had full immunity for 1 minute to stun. You could also use your purge to get out of the stun and essentially spend the 1st minute of the fight without getting stunned at all. In GW2/WoW though you can get stun locked. for example the wow rogue can stun you 3 times, gouge you 3 times, sap you, blind you 2 times etc. The gw2 thief can annoy you with his unlimited vanishes etc. In other words long duration CC is far less frustrating/annoying than low duration cc.
It's funny how you started defending GW2 when I talked about its mistakes and you KEPT defending it when I was suggesting thinkgs for ESO. How do you feel about Anet adding progression to WvW though (they promised it about a week ago)?
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You could see your enemy's name if you clicked on him with your mouse. Baddie detected :)
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If I can't see enemy names I wont be playing long term
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Originally posted by ShakyMo
Agreed, seing an oposing player that you have biilt a rivalry is pretty awsome, even better when its a rival guild
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Each week, the Moultrie News and Mount Pleasant Recreation Department will feature one local lacrosse athlete. Josh Verhanovitz, 11, plays goalie for the Red Rockets of Heather Bosse State Farm.
Question: Who is your favorite lacrosse player or what is your favorite team?
Answer: My two favorite players are Casey Powell and Thomas Harris. Coach Tom very cool, supportive, and a great friend. My favorite team is the Duke Blue Devils.
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Q: What is the best advice you have gotten from a coach?
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A: I'd say the most difficult would be midfield. Those guys have to run a lot and have to be both attack and defense. The most fun is goalie, because you have balls coming at you from all directions; it keeps you on your toes. It's pretty funny when you block a ball off of your helmet or shin.
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The UFC plans to put Cung Le front and center for the first Chinese edition of "The Ultimate Fighter."
Sources with knowledge of the situation told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that Le, a former Strikeforce champ and current UFC middleweight, will serve as a coach on the reality show's fourth international edition, which currently is casting and is set to begin filming later this year.
On Monday, UFC President Dana White told MMAjunkie.com Le would be a good fit for "TUF: China" and said there was "a real good chance" that he would lead a squad of fighters hoping to secure a UFC contract.
UFC officials recently put out the word that the promotion is holding auditions this month for featherweight, lightweight and welterweight talent to try out for the show, which will air on the Chinese-language Liaoning TV. Auditions are being held in Beijing, Singapore and Macao.
The latter of those locations is where the Vietnam-born Le made his most recent appearance in the octagon. In the UFC's first event held in China, he knocked out ex-champ Rich Franklin in the main event of UFC on FUEL TV 6.
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FINALLY! A thoughtful analysis of this festering problem and someone who calls out the hypocrisy on both sides. Perhaps it will help some of us listen to each other. Thank you Mr. King.
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FINALLY! A thoughtful analysis of this festering problem and someone who calls out the hypocrisy on both sides. Perhaps it will help some of us listen to each other. Thank you Mr. King.
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What do I think of it? Uncle Stevie said everything I would say only much, much better. Thank you.
I thought it was a tour de force and I hope more people read it.
I find your nit picking on the subject of SK's profit (as it were) from the sale of this essay to be in bad form.
Questions surrounding Sandy Hook, of course.... we will never know the whole story, because the shooter is dead. Be that as it is, Stephen has as much right as anyone to express his views. The first amendment is as valid as the second amendment. I am an avid gun owner, and I disagree with some of Stephen's thoughts, but I still respect them. He's an articulate man with a very valid opinion. He should not be suppressed simply because he has a larger audience.
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Finished the essay last night- gave me some stuff to think about. I really enjoyed a lot of the points he made and that he did it in the writing style I know and love. That being said- I'm always open to reading more from both sides of the story. When I was done reading, Amazon told me I should consider buying "Stephen King Don't know ****" by Rick Carufel. Anyone here actually purchase and read that one yet? Like I said, I'm open to both sides, but not if one resorts to name calling and attacking another's view point rather than just presenting their own argument.
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New, ultra-thin iMac available starting November 30
Apple's all-new, all thin iMac will be available for your purchasing pleasure starting November 30. The 21.5-inch model will be available through Apple Online, Apple Retail, and select Apple resellers, while the 27-inch model will be available for order through Apple Online and will ship sometime in December (no word on in-store availability for that model). Lest we forget the details, originally announced over a month ago at the October iPad and Mac event, Apple has issued a press release to remind us:
Redesigned from the inside out, the new iMac packs high performance technology into an aluminum and glass enclosure that measures just 5 mm thin at its edge and features a reengineered display that reduces reflection by 75 percent. The new iMac includes 8GB of 1600 MHz memory, a 1TB hard drive, third generation quad-core Intel Core i5 processors that can be upgraded to Core i7, and the latest NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors that deliver up to 60 percent faster performance. Fusion Drive is an innovative new storage option that gives customers the performance of flash and the capacity of a hard drive by combining 128GB of flash with a standard hard drive to create a single storage volume that intelligently manages files to optimize read and write performance.
The 21.5-inch iMac is available with a 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.2 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M for a suggested retail price of $1,299 (US); and with a 2.9 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M for a suggested retail price of $1,499 (US). The 27-inch iMac is available with a 2.9 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M for a suggested retail price of $1,799 (US); and with a 3.2 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX for a suggested retail price of $1,999 (US).
Apple is using a process called "friction stir welding" to adhere the iMac front panels to the casings at the molecular level, and rumor has it that's not the easiest thing to do at commercial scale. Supplies might be constrained going into the new year, so if you've been waiting on the new iMac, shop early and shop fast.
Anyone planning on picking one up?
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I don't see why Apple neglects the DVD/Blu Ray drives. Yeah, that thin design looks nice, but I need those drives. That's literally the only thing keeping me from switching to Mac.
I'm frustrated that Apple thought it smart to reduce functionality by removing the DVD drive just for the sake of thinness when desktop thinness is not a priority.
I'm going to upgrade anyhow. Would be helpful to know what the expected option costs are, e.g. How much is the 2TB / fusion drive upgrade? Other upgrades?
For those missing the optical drive on the new iMac (and the rest of the Mac line for that matter). While I'm sure the thinness played a part in the decision to drop the optical drive I doubt it was the only part or even the main part. In the mind of Apple, they see the DVD and BluRay business as going the same way as the CD business, essentially going away. Remember, I don't believe Apple sells any DVD or BluRay movies but they do sell/rent movies via iTunes. ;)
Also, if you really must have a DVD you can pick up an Apple Super Drive (DVD only) for $79. If you want a BluRay experience, I believe I've read a few forum posts regarding what BR players work with OS X.


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How to use a third-party remote to control your Apple TV
The Apple TV remote that comes with the latest Apple TV 2 is very small and can be very easily misplaced or lost completely. Luckily, Apple has included a very easy way for you to use a third-party remote control as an alternative. Sure you could use your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and the Apple Remote app but if you don't want your kids, friends, or spouses, bugging you every time they need to change something on the Apple TV, you'll want something dedicated.
Here's how to set it up, and you should do it now before you lose your current remote.
- Power on your Apple TV
- Go to Settings in the main menu
- Click on General and then Remote
- Choose Learn Remote
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- Apple TV will display icons that represent the six buttons on the Apple Remote with the "Up" or "+" button highlighted first.
- Using your third-party remote, press and hold the button you would like to use to control the "up" function until the blue progress bar is full as shown below.
- Apple TV will then select the next button function. Repeat the above step using a different button
- After you have programmed all six button functions, you can now use your third-party remote to control Apple TV. You can optionally setup specific playback buttons for Fast-forward, Rewind, Next chapter, and more.
If you see the "Button Already Learned" error message, this means one of the following:
- A different, previously learned remote, has a learned button with the same IR code as the current button that you are trying to program.
- A previously learned button of the current remote has the same IR code as the current button that you are trying to program.
Either use a different button or delete the previously learned remote if it is not being used.
That is all there is to it, a very easy way to use a third-party remote as a backup for your Apple TV remote!
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It worked,NICE :)
I tried this a few months ago with my directv remote and it would not finish programming, anyone have any luck with a dtv remote?
I have FiOS and the programming of that remote for the Apple TV would not finish when I tried to get it to learn one of the directional buttons. Is this similar to your problem? When I would press and hold the remote button, the progress bar on the screen would just stop and reset. The work around is to rapidly press the button to keep the progress bar going.
Also, I eventually just bought a Logitech remote that can download the Apple TV code. The reason? Because if you lose your Apple TV remote AND your universal cable/sat remote you're screwed. Especially if you have to do a rest on the Apple TV (which in my experience can be common due to it's buggy behavior) since post-reset it will not remember the previously learned remote.
Worked great for me just using my DVD player remote. And for anyone wondering about the play/pause button, hitting select will pause then play your movie
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As the release date for the iPhone 5 nears, more photos of what it might look like are leaking online.
The website UBreakiFix received photos of the full front panel of a next generation iPhone from one of their distributors.You can view the photos by clicking here.
The new Nokia Lumia Windows 8 phone may be the phone to beat when Apple releases its iPhone 5, according to Examiner.com .
According to the report, a 4.3-inch Windows 8 Lumia Smartphone, at a similar price as the iPhone, is in the pipeline from Nokia.
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The upcoming rumored iPhone 5 September release and the bad economy are apparently causing people to hold off on buying new phones, Examiner.com reports.
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With the anticipated Apple announcement of the next iPhone, retailers are slashing prices on previous models.
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Sprint was the first to slash the price of the 4S by $50 last week. The carrier priced the 4S model at $150 with a new, two-year contract. Sprint also waived its activation fee for online purchases.
Best Buy began pricing the iPhone 4, 8GB model at $50 with a new contract just a few days earlier. The offer still stood on its website Monday afternoon.
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The joke has always been there. Now there's a real effort to make it happen.
As arranged by Baseball Hall-Of-Famer Ozzie Smith (and backed by an international brewing company InBev), a petition on the White House website has been drafted in an effort to make Opening Day a national holiday.
Opening Day has always been a bit of an unofficial holiday. According to a study done by InBev, 10% of Americans have called off work to attend a game. In cities with major league teams, streets shut down to handle the influx of foot traffic. Here in Toledo, people go nuts for the Mud Hens home opener: downtown is packed solid with people either going to game 1, or going to one of the dozen or so bars that have popped up around Fifth Third Field. Even if the weather doesn't fully cooperate (see also: last year), the fans make a day out of it.
But a national holiday?
Okay, being real for a second, anything that means a day off, I'm all about. Except, of course, because I work in broadcasting, opening day actually means a longer day for me. But I'm setting that aside for you, because I'm not exactly sure Opening Day is the day you want to declare a holiday.
Namely, because there's more than one Opening Day.
First off, the MLB has plenty of false starts: On March 22nd and 23rd, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks are playing two games in Sydney, Australia, and they count as regular season games. Is that Opening Day? Then on Sunday, March 30th (Which is also my birthday, gift cards accepted), the Dodgers play the San Diego Padres in ESPN's "Opening Night" game, a day before everything else kicks off. Is that Opening Day? Or is Opening Day when everybody else gets started on the 31st?
(By the way, I'm still angry that the Cincinnati Reds don't start the season anymore.)
Secondly, when Opening Day does occur, you forget that for half of the teams, they haven't opened their stadium yet. So you'll have this day off, and nowhere to watch a game! You'll have to wait until they come home, and then you're still taking your PTO.
Finally, for us minor league markets, our season starts even later than that! The Toledo Mud Hens open their season at home on April 4th against the Louisville Bats. So the 31st (or 30th, or 22nd) date is useless to us!
On top of all that, there are other sport related days that could be holidays. We're always talking about needing the day after the Super Bowl off, but I honestly don't know if we could handle ourselves. Who would we talk to about the game if we couldn't gather around the water cooler to discuss it? Then again, give it 10 years, and nobody will want to talk about the game the day after, because we'll have all talked it out on Twitter that night. Kind of like how high school reunions have been decimated by Facebook.
It's a neat idea, but it's too confusing. Too many variables. Unless, you know, they want to make all of those days holidays. Now that's a petition I'd sign.
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One last trout before heading for home.
Chad Toepfer caught this mangrove or gray snapper near one of the larger gas wells in eastern Corpus Christi Bay.
This is about the size mangrove snapper we expect to catch along the rocks.
Even though I hooked this Spanish mackerel in the tail, it still frayed my leader.
Within seconds of anchoring at this rig, we caught this speck.
We suspect that when bay temperatures dip into the low-60s, these mangrove snapper might move from the bayfront to the bay's deeper wells.
This flounder just barely tickled the 14-inch mark, so I released it.
This is where the gray snapper were concentrated for us. But they're just as likely to be elsewhere on a given day.
Tighten your drag and hold on. These mangrove snapper fight harder than their size might indicate.
This fish was representative of the larger mangroves we caught. But Buddy has caught plenty twice this big on other days.
Everybody likes convenience. And this spot is about as convenient as they come.
Some gray snapper, such as this one, are much more colorful than others.
Buddy Toepfer shows off his catch, just off the Bayfront. The midday action was nonstop for about two and a half hours.
There is no bag restrictions or minimum size on gray snapper, in part, because state regulators consider them temporary residents along much of the Texas coast. One good cold snap and they're gone.
We just put these on a stringer for a photo.
This was the only black drum we caught that day. Usually we catch more.
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The bite was not as good along the outside of the rocks that day.
The taste of Gray snapper rivals that of their pink cousins. And mangroves are a lot less expensive to catch.
Chad Toepfer caught a juvenile red snapper at this Corpus Christi Bay gas well. This is rare.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on behalf of a 75-year-old Indiana farmer who is challenging the seed company Monsanto over its patent policy.
The farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, grows soybeans, corn and wheat on a 300-acre farm. At issue is a Monsanto requirement that farmers who plant Monsanto's seed must agree not to save the seeds so farmers have to buy new seeds every year.
Each year, in accordance with Monsanto's regulations, Bowman plants his main soybean crop using seeds from Monsanto that contain the company's trademarked Roundup Ready gene. The seeds allow farmers to spray crops for weeds using Roundup without hurting their crops.
After planting and harvesting his first crop, Bowman planted a second crop late in the growing season using commodity soybeans he purchased from a grain elevator. Because the late crop has a greater chance of failure, he did not want to pay for the more expensive Monsanto seeds. The seeds he purchased from the grain elevator came from a variety of sources and some, most of them, were Roundup Ready.
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His agreement with Monsanto was not to save his own seeds; it did not specify that he could not purchase seeds from another source, including commodity seeds. That agreement did not specify that farmers who purchase seeds from Monsanto could not sell them on the commodities market.
The case has raised interest across a variety of industries including biotechnology, Apple, Microsoft and others because of the ease with which software can be pirated and the potential for using patented technology to produce unlimited copies of the original invention. The U.S. Justice Department supports Monsanto's position.
The case is likely to hinge on the specifics of patent law and in 2008 the Supreme Court affirmed the principle of patent exhaustion when it ruled that once computer chips were sold to a manufacturer, the seller's rights were exhausted.
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