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The Program for Culture & Conflict Studies provides a central hub for analysts to understand the provincial impact of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. Our current focus is on Eastern and Southern Afghanistan, areas most affected by the influence of opium. The following pages provide overall summaries of regions in Afghanistan, as well as drop-down links with greater detail on individual provinces within Afghanistan.
Opium Trends and Reports from Afghanistan 2009
In August 2009, the UNODC reported a 22% nationwide decrease in poppy cultivation but only a 10% decrease in opium production due to enhanced farming techniques which resulted in higher yields of opium being produced (56kg/hectare).The number of "poppy-free" provinces has increased from 18 to 20 according to the same report. Additionally, the UN has revised its estimation of the Taliban's financial gain from the drug industry, claiming the Taliban acquired $450-600 million from taxing the industry over the past four years. More bad news regarding Afghanistan's narcotics conundrum is the steady rise in cannabis cultivation, the plant needed for hashish production, of which Afghanistan is the world's number two producer of (see Afghanistan's Other Narcotics Nightmare article below). The UNODC is expected to release their first Afghan Cannabis Survey in late 2009.
New reports regarding the Afghan Opium industry have been released throughout 2009 and are available here for download:
CCS Narcotics Glossary of Terms (PDF) (New)
UNODC Opium survey 2009 (PDF)
UNODC Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: the Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium (PDF)
UNODC Laboratory Bulletin 2009 (PDF)
UNODC Laboratory Bulletin 2008 (PDF)
Afghanistan's Other Narcotics Nightmare, World Politics Review, October 1, 2009
Opium Trends in Afghanistan 2008
Opium cultivation remains a serious concern for Afghanistan, particularly in the south where 98% of the overall poppy output is confined to seven provinces; Helmand, Kandahar, Farah, Uruzgan, Nimroz, Dai Kundi, and Zabul. The refinement and processing of opium into morphine and heroin continues to be conducted in-country. The UN estimates two-thirds of all opiates leaving the country have been refined into either morphine base or crude forms of heroin. Additionally, criminal networks and insurgents continue to merge in southern Afghanistan, sharing profits, tactics and anti-government ideology.. Suicide attacks against eradication personnel have surged in 2008 and have continured in early 2009. (Read on...)
Senior Drug Trafficker Arrested 2008
In late October 2008, authorities in Jakarta, Indonesia apprehended Afghan drug kingpin Haji Juma Khan, an ethnic Balouch who ruled the Baramcha heroin distribution center since 2001. Khan, who ran one of the largest opium/heroin trafficking organizations in Afghanistan, could trade morphine base in quantities as large as 40 tons or refined heroin in quantities as large as 100 kilograms. Khan represents the most senior Afghan drug trafficker ever arrested. Khan has been extradited to the United States and is charged with several counts of narco-terrorism. He currently awaits trial in New York and faces a sentence of 20 years to life. Click here to read Khan's unsealed indictement (PDF).
Opium Trends in Eastern Afghanistan (2007)
Opium cultivation and production is an epidemic in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban in late 2002, opium production has steadily risen from near nothing to capture over 90% (93% according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime) of the world's opiate trade. This affects rural farmers, government ministers, and everyone in-between. By some estimates opium revenues, all unofficial, illegal, and untaxed, account for half of the Afghan gross national product. At the cultivation level alone the revenues exceed one billion dollars, before the transport, refining, and export are tallied. (Read On...)
Opium Trends in Southern Afghanistan (2007)
Opium production in Southern Afghanistan has risen rapidly, mostly in Helmand, Kandahar, and Nimroz. In those three provinces alone, production has increased by over 36,198 hectares (an area approximately as large as the Gaza Strip, or Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn together), an increase greater than the entire production of Eastern Afghanistan. In fact, Southern Afghanistan accounts for approximately two-thirds of the globe's opium. (Read on...)
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Northwestern @ Minnesota
#2 Ohio State @ Illinois
#21 Michigan @ Indiana
#11 Wisconsin @ #25 Michigan State
#23 Penn State @ #18 Iowa
Texas A&M at Oklahoma State
No. 9 Florida at No. 1 Alabama
No. 16 Stanford at No. 5 Oregon
No. 19 Miami (FL) at Clemson
No. ? Texas vs. No. 8 Oklahoma
Virginia Tech at North Carolina State
Navy at Air Force
Kentucky at Mississippi
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Northwestern @ Minnesota
#2 Ohio State @ Illinois
#21 Michigan @ Indiana
#11 Wisconsin @ #25 Michigan State
#23 Penn State @ #18 Iowa
Texas A&M at Oklahoma State ANOTHER THURSDAY GAME ALERT!!!! OOPS! Darn Thursdays!!No. 9 Florida at No. 1 Alabama
No. 16 Stanford at No. 5 Oregon
No. 19 Miami (FL) at Clemson
No. ? Texas vs. No. 8 Oklahoma (Texas got whipped on, but Cincy gave Oklahoma a game)
Virginia Tech at North Carolina State
Navy at Air Force (to all us vets out there)
Kentucky at Mississippi
A watched plot never thickens.
Hoosier Red so kindly pointed out to me that I didn't pick the Texas-Oklahoma game.
I am going with the Sooners of Oklahoma. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
A watched plot never thickens.
Illinois' defense is giving OSU a hard time in the 1st half. OSU up 14-10 on a late TD.
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
Pryor has a mild quad strain which they wrapped tightly and he's back in. Since his return though, OSU's play calling has gone all conservative empathizing the running game and allowing Pryor to throw very little.
Tressell ball in play now. Geez.
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Now Pryor has to be helped off the field.
This has been an ugly effort by Ohio State. Totally predictable conservative play calling.
24-13 now with 1:16 left. That last scoring drive was much needed by OSU, but I hope this game was a wake-up call. Since Pryor came back the offense ran 24 plays with 20 of them running. I'm wondering if Pryor's injury had a lot to do with that decision to go all conservative? You never can tell with Tressell. But watching Pryor over on the sideline, Pryor is limping around a bit.
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Gotta love Tressell ball.
Thsi should end the Pryor for Heisman conversation. I never thought he's been Heisman worthy this year. He's played pretty well, but he's still not a good enough passer to be considered a Heisman candidate.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
What a game between Michigan and Indiana. Indiana scores on 4th down with just over a minute left. Tie game 35-35.
Greta game between Oregon and Stanford. That's one of the most entertaining football games I've watched in a while.
I miss Adam Dunn.
It's been said that people who don't learn from their mistakes in the past are doomed to repeat them. Last year my "inner voice" kept telling me to pick Michigan State and I wouldn't. It was screaming at me this week and I still ignored it. LOL Pretty much all of us, who went 4-1 in the B10, missed that Michigan State-Wisconsin game.
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My cousin is building a new place, the final home for him and his lovely bride, over in Shoaley Branch. So here I go to check it out. Cousin said I could rock with him on his new porch in his old age.
So I drive down the steep, wooded hill, cross the creek and turn off at the late Willie Baldwin's old place.
Willie died a handful of years ago. I don't come this way much anymore, and as I now pass his old house again I can't help but think back.
He had a farm on the side of Shoaley Branch hill. He had a gorgeous tract of rolling, green pasture that descended from the picturesque white church at the top down to the banks of Big Elkin Creek at the bottom.
I remember passing by the place one time and seeing the old man silhouetted against a pretty, fading dusk. With his back to the road, Willie stood stoically among the remains of the old chicken houses and surveyed his pastoral domain. A beautiful scene. I've remembered it since as The Silhouette At Sunset.
What thoughts must've been running through Willie's mind as his days were setting as well.
Willie's ranch house looked spacious, a fine place in its time. Willie kept beef cattle for a time, and his cattle had it pretty good, too. Rich green grass covered the hilly slopes and the Big Elkin ran clear and clean.
I first met Willie at church. He and I began attending about the same time, me upon my return to the hometown and Willie following the loss of his wife.
There was a lingering sadness in the old widower's shuffle down the right-side aisle of the old church house in his casual work clothes, his GI-style hair standing erect and at attention in its graying glory.
Willie became known for overly generous contributions to the church during his widower-hood. He bought the new church sign all by himself.
I began teaching the senior-men Sunday school class. Willie was in it. He would always take his seat on the back row, far left as you entered the right wing of the sanctuary.
He'd look up at me as I spoke, not down at his lap as did the others. I wondered about Willie. I could not read his silent, unchanging facial expression. It was a bit unnerving.
Then one day in a hallway Willie suddenly startled me with a compliment.
"Keep doing what you're doing," he told me. Short and to the point.
Hardly a finer compliment have I ever received.
Some time later I noticed someone had placed a sign with the name "Willie" on the handicapped-parking post in front of the church. Diabetes was robbing Willie of his ability to walk, so I took the opportunity to compliment him on the reserved sign.
"Yes, they did that for me," Willie replied. He left it at that. The humility and gratitude struck me.
So the news sometime later that Willie was hospitalized for a planned amputation moved me. I would see The Silhouette At Sunset no more.
The next time I passed by Willie's place I spied him in a wheelchair beside the driveway perched on two stumps. A For Sale sign invited passersby to stop and inspect some equipment, four-wheelers and the like.
I did not stop. I had no need of four-wheelers.
But the chief reason I did not stop was because I could not bear the sadness of the moment: a withered shell of a man placidly watching bits and pieces of his life melt away in an auction.
Even the essentials of our lives are only rented. Houses, cars. Spouse, kids. Jobs, hobbies. They will come and go, if not before we go as well, then after.
I thought back to The Silhouette At Sunset, then compared it to the sight of the horde wearing ball caps and heavy overcoats on a chilly, gray winter's day and waiting for the auction to begin. The sight of Willie and his wheelchair and the horde were too much.
It all goes away, all the stuff we accumulate, all the things we do, all the loves we cherish. Finally, one day we move on as well.
The memory of passing by Willie's place for the last time while it was still Willie's place has stuck with me.
I doubt Willie was sad that day. I think he was appreciating all the good things he had had and how long he had to enjoy them. I was touched by the scene.
My time will come, too. The sight of Willie's auction took me to a similar, future scene when a horde will gather on my front lawn and pick through the pieces of my life as well as those of my late parents because the place here in the hometown really is their place still.
Then the auction will end, the nick-knacks will be toted off, then perhaps a young family will move in and start the cycle anew as we did here back in 1966. And that's OK.
I acknowledge the rules and do not resent that dust must return to dust and time waits for no man. I do look forward to the better place promised by Christ and do not fear The Reaper when he comes.
But in the meantime I will carry with me The Silhouette At Sunset and feel good about things, as I suspect Willie did.
Rest in peace, Willie.
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The Coal River Group has announced the election of new officers and a new board member for 2013.
The non-profit river restoration organization announced that Linda Costilow, a long term volunteer and resident of St. Albans, was elected as a new member of the Group's Board of Directors.
Chuck Hirst, a computer systems specialist, was elected to serve as the new Vice President of the board. Richard Milam became Vice President of Government Relations.
Re-elected were former officers President Kris Radford, Treasurer Bob Miller, and Secretary Anna Shahan. Bill Currey, the co-founder of the organization, serves as the Chairman Emeritus.
The CRG also announced the formation of a new committee for the Little Coal region. Chairman of the Little Coal River Branch is Jeff Nelson, Director of the Boone County Career and Technical Center. Members of the newly formed branch include Vice Chairman Jim Gore, Secretary James Sutphin, and members Ricky Starkey, Larry Ladota, Russell Thomas, Bill Cook, and Joy Underwood.
The Coal River Group's Big Coal Branch is chaired by Mary Browning of Racine, WV.
In 2012 the Coal River Group hired Sara Cottingham of Austin, TX, as an OSM/VISTA volunteer. Cottingham's first yearlong term expires in February, but she has agreed to continue to serve with the Group through February 2014. The OSM/VISTA program is sponsored by the Appalachian Coal Country Team with funding support from the WV Stream Partners program.
President Kris Radford reported during the board meeting, "2012 was a banner year for the CRG." The Group's accomplishments in restoration and education for the Southern West Virginia region were significant and came about as a result of the hard work of our many partners both from the public and private sector. Noteworthy among the many programs is the $3 million major river restoration program for the Little Coal River that has been funded and supervised by the WV Department of Environmental Protection.
"As citizens of the region," noted Radford, "we are proud of the accomplishments we have brought about for the rivers and streams in the region. But we are not finished and we have much more to do to restore the Coal Rivers."


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Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are continuing to increase their efforts to track down sex offenders who are falling through the cracks.
John Michael Enard is just one of 2200 un-registered sex offenders in the state. How many more out there are like him? How can this be stopped?
They live all around us; and the numbers continue growing…
'Sex offenders won't typically change their address with the counties they reside in when they move from place to place," said Washington County Sheriff Otto Hanak.
According to the Department of Public Safety, there are currently 70,000 registered sex offenders live in the state of Texas; 59 sex offenders are currently living in Washington County.
According to Sheriff Otto Hanak, keeping track of sex offenders is perhaps one of the most tedious tasks of all.
'It's time consuming and stressful at some points, but as long as you have an employee who is focused, like with any job, they're going to get it done," explained Hanak. "o it's our job and our focus to make sure if there is any movement that we know where that movement is."
Each month Sheriff Hanak and his men hunt the violaters down.
"if they're unregistered and our compliance investigators are aware of that then it's simple; we find them, we arrest them and place them in our jail and we have plenty of room for non-compliance sex offenders," said Sheriff Hanak.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office is required to monitor the actions of sex offenders living inside the county. But when some decide to break the law....
"We will show up day or night, weekends, holidays and we will make sure they are fulfilling those requirements of residency and they are not causing trouble," added Hanak.
Last week, undercover agents with the Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division joined forces with the Washington County Sheriff's Office in an effort to locate any and all un-registered sex offenders living inside the county.
In one day four men were consequently apprehended; and according to DPS, some even put up a fight.
"The fighting, the resisting and so forth; that is a bad sign of the person that we're after when they flee or resist arrest," Hanak said.
Sources say Michael Walker was arrested while off the clock at his job at Church's Chicken; Pete Martinez was apprehended at his mom's house on Wyandotte Lane; and Kasey Burton was arrested at the Sheriff's Office.
"There are no excuses and no exceptions related to non-compliance related to these sex predators," Sheriff Hanak said.
Failing to register as a sex offender is a felony and could send violators back to prison. If you want to know whether any sex offenders live in your neighborhood, you can find a few links, including the DPS Sex Offender Registry links below.
According to the Attorney General's office, 881 unregistered sex offenders have been arrested as part of what Texas DPS calls Operation Missing Predator.
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Charleston resident Adrienne Levy wanted to do something in response to the tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon.
The 27-year-old runner asked some of her friends whether they'd want to meet for a Sunday run to show their support for Boston, and she asked others via Twitter to join them.
The idea caught fire.
"The power of social media took over, and now everyone wants to come," the marketing account executive said. "This is amazing."
Local print and broadcast media have been spreading word of the run, and interest has gone beyond what Levy expected.
"So many people were touched in some way by the tragedy," said Levy, a Columbia native and avid runner. "The whole point of being together is to show Boston that the Charleston community is united (with them)."
The run will start at 8 a.m. Sunday at Colonial Lake downtown at the corner of Ashley Avenue and Broad Street. The informal 5K is free. It won't have chip timers, racing bibs or age group awards, but it will have spirit. A moment of silence will take place before the run, and participants are encouraged to wear one of their favorite racing shirts.
Levy also is applying for a city permit to secure a police escort before and behind the group.
Rick Martinez, founder of the Low Country Road Runners, has been helping Levy publicize the event and created a Facebook page for it.
"There's just this need, not just for runners, but for people to do something," he said. "It's going to help local people heal."
Runners are encouraged to join the Facebook group to give organizers a sense of how many people will be there. For more information, search for #chsrunsforboston on Twitter and Facebook.
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Last week I let you all know who my "Little Sisters" are but now I want to do real introductions! Check out their intros and then do not forget to stop by their blogs and give them some love!
Lil Mrs Housewife and her husband Mark. Lynzi and Mark were married on September 11th, 2010 but have been together since 2004. They bought their first home in 2009 and Lynzi is careful to tell you that it is their HOME, not just a house. Lynzi loves cooking, baking, reading and writing and I seriously love the recipes that she posts on her blog. Heck, I think sh needs to come here to Wisconsin and teach me a thing or two (or five or six, hehe). Lynzi, like me, is participating in 101 in 1001 and I love some of the things on her list, like learn to use Photoshop, bake 10 different types of cupcakes (if only I lived near Lynzi in Texas so I could sample those cupcakes) and learn how to make paper cranes (I want to learn as well). Lynzi is lots of fun and so is her blog so get over there and start reading!
Adventures in Love and Happiness. Cole and her husband Justin were married on October 16th, 2010 and they live in their sweet house that their working on remodeling with their dogs Layla and Edie Sedgwick and their cat Jack. Cole resides in Indiana and she loves to read, works hard with Justin on redoing their house and pretty much everything lovely. On her blog Cole has a feature called Real People in Love which is so much fun; if you need to find a little joy in life simply check out this series. How can you not be happy when you read about other people's happiness? Cole has also been participating in Vlog Friday, something I really think I need to do because I do want to do a vlog. Obviously I'm behind the times. Definitely go check out this super sweet couple and their adventures in love and happiness!
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GX - The game installed in usb:\games as expected. It did use a longer directory name than DMToolbox uses, with only game.iso (full 1:1 dump) in the directory.
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Originally posted by Neherun
And i don't. I don't play games that i have to replay portions again and again (xp loss).
The solution? Have an option. Like hard core in D3.
In fact, you should play hard core in D3 .. that is the as big as a death penalty can get. I won't waste my time on it though.
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Originally posted by madazz
Actually Everquest went to a Free to Play Model earlier this year, and I don't remeber them having corpse runs last time I subbed either. Then again, always being a tank in these games I accepted death as an inevitability a long time ago so death penalties don't really concern me one way or another.
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Same here, although taking repeated deaths in a bud guyk run back in the day as a troll SK were brutal lol
Originally posted by ice-vortex
What games are that? EQ had 600k subscribers after the game was about 4 years old, concurrent users, not total, total it runs in the millions.
Which 4 year old games have 600k subscribers? Not many.
Which games still have 12 servers after 11 years? Not many.
GW2 probably doesn't even exist anymore in 11 years.
SoE released stats in their 10 year anniversiry video, 12 million characters were created in EQ.
60,000 people applied for beta
You can say a lot of stuff about EQ, that you didn't like the death penalty, that you didn't like the gameplay, claiming it wasn't successful just makes you ignorant.
EQ was the most successful MMO at the time, not UO, not Lineage, not AC, not DAOC, it wasn't until WOW came out that a game surpassed EQ in subscribers. What's more, those WoW designers were EQ players.
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Joined: 7/25/11
The problem with harsh death penalties is that it means devs make pve content that is considerably easier, because dying all the time would be demoralizing.
Im more of a medium penalty guy, so that pve leveling can be more entertaining,challenging.
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Originally posted by ice-vortex
You can't really compare EQ with anything today. The market size was miniscule. It has also been pointed out by SOE that over 5 million people have tried EQ. Not too shabby.
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Harsh death penalty ends up being boring to me, not exciting.
Unless... maybe some version of permadeath. But in this thread people are asking for lame shit like xp loss and corpse runs. That's just an extremely boring version of a death penalty.
Either go hard on the death penalty and design a game around it or make it minimal in my opinion. This corpse run/xp loss/money loss is just a retarded middleground that never should have happened.
SWTOR is the greatest mmo ever!
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I've got to side with the harsh death penalty (major exp lose and possible loot drop). I played eq1 for years, and dying was a quick way to ruin your day but I loved the immersion that the death penalty brought. I remember grinding for hours just to lose all the exp to one single death. I'm sure that it doesnt sounds like fun to some gamers who joined the scene in the last 10 years, but it build community and accountability. If you die deep in some dungeon, you had better have some friends to help you get your corpse out, or you are looking at replacing your whole set of equipment. It makes people think twice before being a jerk or ninja looting some gear.
I actually had it happen with my first character. I died, and then moved states and wasn't able to log in for a some time, lost everything and had to start over fresh. I know, again it doesnt sound like fun to some, but you REALLY get attached to your character when you can lose it all.
Just my 2 cents, but long live the harsh death penalty.
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This is a subject that's near to my heart, since I remember spending hours on corpse runs during the early days of EQ. My last experience with the game was on the Fippy Darkpaw server about a year ago, which while fun and nostalgic, did not have corpse runs. I remember it being something of a controversy when the server was in development.
As a matter of principle, I am for some kind of death penalty. A little bit of cash out of pocket for armor repair and a brief stroll isn't quite enough. On the other end of the spectrum, perma-death is clearly too much. There's a happy medium somewhere, though, and I think it begs discovery.
I'll be frank, though, if I never retrieve another corpse, that'll be too soon. The appeal of that particular mechanic lies only among the same nostalgia that makes other clearly counter-intuitive aspects of EQ1 seem charming in retrospect. Notwithstanding the absence of any in-world explanation for why you should be resurrected at all, yet stripped of your accoutrements, there was simply no gameplay need met by that penalty. It was punitive for its own sake, and I think modern game design philosophy, even among those developers most fond of EQ1, advises that you shouldn't create a system that allows a customer to pay to be kicked in the teeth.
That is to say, corpse runs didn't serve to incentivize good play, didn't teach players how to improve, and didn't reward players for doing well. If anything, they rewarded players for having friends in zone they could trust, money they could pony up to a Necro, or plenty of time on their hands. Now maybe those are meaningful game design objectives. However, any of those things could be accomplished without the added burden of inconvenience. The experience loss alone could account for the time loss involved in a death without corpse runs (and you could even scale to account for the distance from one's spawn point to account for the variable difficulty in a given run), game combat systems and difficulty can incentivize grouping and teamwork, and any sandbox worth its salt ought to have a grasp on player and class interdependency without a coffin sink.
Now let me be clear: I am not opposed to tedium outright. I don't have a problem with the game making me re-do the last day's play time if I die, and even though I also believe that de-leveling should be a thing of the past, I wouldn't object very loud if that were present in EQN. I don't mind having my hard-earned cash compromised by my mistakes, and I don't mind needing another player's assistance. However, I don't think any legitimate game objective is served by being prohibited from actually playing the game for a period of time after I die (i.e., due to being naked). And I would vehemently object to their being any risk, however small, of my entire persistent time-investment in the game being obliterated due to a comedy of errors.
To me, somewhere between launch DAOC and EQII reflects about the right amount of penalty. In both instances, you suffered experience loss (and in DAOC, you could mitigate the loss by visiting where you died), lost some cash, and had a brief (matter of minutes) idle timer attached to your ability to function. I think this is sufficient. I absolutely prefer experience debt to outright loss because I believe a de-leveling system results in enough abhorrent edge cases, aside from being somewhat nonsensical. However, I would strongly advocate that experience debt stack in severity for subsequent deaths. In COH, for instance, if you accumulated new debt, it just got added onto the end of the previous debt, so that, until it was all paid off, it took you twice as long to earn levels through experience. I think a better system would cause the debt to overlap at the point of accumulation, up to a cap, so that a particularly reckless player could see his experience growth grind to halt. This assumes, of course, that there are measures in place to avoid splitting up groups where, for example, a tank is likely to faceplant more often than anybody else besides the healer.
Let's face it, gang: even in EQ1, there comes a point after which death was trivial. You had a cleric on tap in any decent guild, and at that point it wasn't a question of meaningful death as it was who you knew. That created a system of haves and have nots that's vastly more troubling to me than whether or not corpse runs are in a game. So yeah, somewhat off-topic but I said it: Rezzes should cap out at 50%, if they're in the game at all. [What about raids? Raids aren't emergent content, and they need to be gone from the industry anyway. Bring on the flame.] If you're not going to make the high-level folks sweat the severity of an untimely demise, you shouldn't make the low-level folks either. Being level 75 has enough rewards and benefits already.
Most importantly, regardless of a particular set of values and systems, the point of the whole exercise is that death should matter. You want to avoid it because there are consequences. The consequences, whatever they are, should reflect the fact that the game strongly incentivizes you to stay alive. It does this affirmatively by the tools with which you're provided and the information you're given about the hostility of the game world.
The counterpoint to this whole issue is the fact that the games that had these systems, in general, placed a higher premium on character life. If my SK died on Fippy, it was a big deal. Something went bad, bad wrong. The fact of death changed the way I played the game compared to how I play others, even twelve years later. In GW2, great game though it may be, I could die a half-dozen times just crossing a high-level zone and just shrug it off. Inconvenient? Sure, but no big deal. If my Druid died three times in a row on the same day in EQ1, I was ready to take a couple days off lest I destroy my computer in a fit of rage. That's what this conversation is really about. I want to see EQN provide me with things like SOW, HT, FD, Egress, Mezz, Fade, CH, LOH, and plain old running-the-hell-away, specifically because those things make me feel awesome when they were working and like a total idiot if I died with them available. I don't think you have to have corpse runs to accomplish this. But whatever you have, I want to die infrequently because the game cares about me staying alive. The more durable the characters, the harsher the penalty can (and should) be.
Also: No penalty for PVP. Dying in PVP is punishment enough.
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I want it like EQ1 but better as well. I'm not sure that I want a super harsh death penalty though. I used to think the death penalty was adding a thrill to the game. But looking back as I play MMO's more over the years the thrill was more from the actual mob difficulty and immersive feel of the world. The death penalty with exp loss that is regainable partially through rez is fine and even equipment in your inventory being dropped would be ok. But overly harsh is pointless and adds nothing to the game.
Edit and offtopic: I'm always shocked at the lack of love EQ1 gets on these forums. I assume most of the people that remember EQ1 have moved on from MMO's. I play recent MMO's and there's not even an attempt at an immersive world in which the players are treated like adults.
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Originally posted by CalmOceans
LOL, yeah. The EQ was the most popular game ever fantasy. Put some some accurate numbers up. Lineage today still makes more and has more players than EQ ever has or will. It's one of the few games that has lasted 15 and is still subscription based.
rLineage today still makes more and has more players than EQ ever has or will. It's one of the few games that has lasted 15 and is still subscription based.
Lineage doesn't even exist anymore in the West, it was shut down. NCsoft said it wasn't successful anymore, so far for your lasting 15 years.
I personally know Japanese and Korean players playing EQ to this day, in fact there are still whole japanese guilds in EQ.
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Believe it or not I met my wife doing a corpse run in EQ. I did a summon corpse for her and the rest is history. :)
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Originally posted by ice-vortex
Interesting article, but too much of a generalization on how people react to harsher death penalties.
That's one of the major issues of people writing an explanatory article like that... they go off their own experiences and perceptions, which greatly limits the scope of the topic, and skews their conclusions.
FFXI and Lineage 2 both have/had harsh death penalties, and I thought it made exploration and gameplay more interesting, exciting and, of course, challenging. It didn't discourage me at all. One of my favorite pastimes is to go into an area well beyond my level or capability and see how far I could get without dying; test my knowledge of mob aggro types and range and my ability to weave safely around them.
I knew the penalty for dying in either game was pretty steep in terms of xp and possible level loss... but that made it more interesting. XP loss sucked but it was part of the game and it was only temporary. In the context of a game I had already spent hundreds of hours in, and would no doubt spend many, many more... having to gain some xp back was never a big deal to me. To this day, I don't understand why people freak out about it. It's xp. You'll get it back. What's the hurry?
Regarding harsh penalties resulting in people "only doing what they know". That's a pretty weak argument the article raises, considering people behave exactly the same way in MMOs with hardly any penalty. They stick to proven strategies, they follow quest walk-throughs and review raid tactic videos. They use handy-dandy UI add-ons to reduce the chance of failure in a raid. The presence or absence of a harsher death penalty has nothing to do with that.
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How about making Harsh DP optional to people that like that sort of thing with no bonus gain from doing so?
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wut... EQ never even had 600k subs, let alone concurrency which they would never give out. wow guys. fact check time.
Originally posted by adam_nox
they sure did, around PoP-GoD they reached 600k concurrently, you used to be able to see server player count and SoE released figures, whoever made this first graph used those original figures
what's more, SoE developers often said on the forum that their network reached those numbers when they talked about server mergers in relationship to server capacity
it also matches up with the new 10 year video they released where they mention figures
I wish I could find the old site, he had a reference to those numbers, another site took over the numbers, all of those data points were reliable, the only ones that weren't reliable were asian ones since they often gave internet cafe numbers
Do you have any facts to prove 600k was not correct in spite of developers mentioning it?
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i want this game to be unforgiving like eq was as well, i don't care how many subs there are as long as my server is full.
not everyone likes that style of MMO but there are plenty of other games that are easy to play already.
for me EQ was the most rewarding MMORPG i have played to date.
the harsh death penalties and harshness of the game is the reason why.
when you accomplished something or got the item you were hunting hours (or sometime even days or weeks straight) for, it was very rewarding.
unlike most newer MMO's where getting upgrades is never a huge deal and easy to do.
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Originally posted by CalmOceans
Funny you should quote that graph as a source. In 2009 - 2010 EQ had about 100k. On that same site on another chart (the next higher population graph with WoW and Runescape) Lineage comes in just under a million at around 950k. It used to be much higher. People playing outside the west actually count.
Originally posted by Torvaldr
Read my post, like I said before, that is not the original post, the person who made the first few years of that graph is not the same person who made the numbers post 2009, someone took over those numbers when he stopped doing it, the original owner only referenced if he was reasonable sure the numbers are correct.
In 2009 SoE didn't release subscription numbers anymore, nor did developers talk about numbers anymore, I assume because they weren't allowed anymore.
Numbers from Asia, were often NOT correct, because of the issues with internet cafes which means you're unable to detect who the person is, it could be one person, it could be multiple people playing, internet cafe owned the game and accounts were often free as is the case in Asia usually, or owned by the cafe.
(that's also why I don't take those numbers from Lineage serious, anyone could run into a cafe without paying for an account and hop onto a PC and play any game, including Lineage, internet cafe bought the games, not the players like in the West, does trying a game for 5 minutes make them a lineage player?)
Does that clear things up now? Anyway, I'm not going to explain it any further because I don't want to sidetrack the theard.
Don't want to believe EQ had 600k players even though developers said so then don't believe it, if that makes you happy more power to you, I really don't care either way.


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The responses to her question ranged from "Do it!" to "Are you crazy? No way!" This gives us a great opportunity to examine her question and answer with facts that can help parents make decisions. There will be no "naming and shaming" here, just answers to the comments and questions culled from the discussion.
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- "The shots only prevent a few strands of the virus when there are so many more. My OBGYN also told me the other day that most young women will have HPV during their teen years but those cases should clear themselves up before they're 21." We'll ignore the incorrect biology here ("strands of the virus" probably means "strains", but the correct terminology is "types"). The truth is Gardasil only protects against four of the 120 types of HPV, but these are the types that matter. Types 16 and 18 cause about 70% of cervical cancers and nearly all of the other HPV-related cancers. Types 6 and 11 cause most genital warts, and while warts don't lead to cancer, they are certainly a public health problem. And while it's nice that "most cases should clear themselves up" this is not always the case. Pap smears are our current method of early detection for cervical cancer. The test is pretty good, but certainly not better than prevention. I would hate to deny someone the vaccine simply because the disease "should clear itself up", and then have to explain to them why they have cancer.
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What could she had done differently? The statement of the story was 'he kicked his way in'. Would a fire arm have helped? If the offender grabbed an opportunity and kicked the door or shoved it and pounced on her immediately a fire arm may have been of no use at all. It requires the ability to aim and fire and in a struggle it has as much likely hood of hurting the defendant as well as the offender. But to be assured of this we'd need more information as to what happened and how.
I don't feel however that people should be terrified in their own homes; and turning it into a fortress isn't going to help either. Statistically your odds of this happening are actually mostly in your favour.
*An estimated 3.7 million burglaries occurred each year on
average from 2003 to 2007.
*A household member was present in roughly 1 million burglaries
and became victims of violent crimes in 266,560 burglaries.
*Simple assault (15%) was the most common form of violence when
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These are excerpts only from the document but they suffice for this small piece of information. Now to answer the question of 'what could be done differently'.
Here in NZ guns are obscenely hard to come by. They are available but they are difficult to acquire and are grounded with heavy restrictions. That is as much an advantage as it is a disadvantage. So guns are out of the question; but not for an assailant. So what do we do in a situation like this?
- identify the person at the door; peep hole / camera / available window to peer through should always be available. You should always be able to identify the person at the door before saying anything. They don't know who is behind the door and if you aren't expecting anyone or if they don't have identification don't let them in. If you don't have a way of identifying who's at the door - install something. It could save your life.
- cellphones are your friend. In almost every case whenever someone comes to the door that my girlfriend doesn't know I tell her to call me. It doesn't take much she picks up the phone, she calls me and says 'there's someone at the door' I say 'no problems' and she keeps the cellphone in hand and answers it. I can hear people already yelling at me saying 'but cops take forever to arrive!' this woman was thrown around and then down the stairs. Had she called her husband prior to the incident medical assistance and enforcement would have been there much earlier. Aren't able to answer the phone? Text message. 'Someones at the door text in 5 if everything is o.k.'
- emergency service on speed dial; home phones with visual screens like cellphones where you have to dial the number and push send is ideal. One of these allows you to dial the emergency number and push 'send' in a pinch. Obviously try to use a home phone as a mobile isn't traced as easily.
- make the person behind the door feel uncomfortable. Ask lots of questions before letting anyone in. The more questions you ask; the more likely the person will get frustrated if they have an alternate reason for being there. Anyone that has a legitimate reason for being there should be able to answer any questions without too much trouble. This is especially true for people claiming to be authority. Ask for identification and an explanation as to why they are there. And if they ask to come in - ask what grounds they wish to enter on.
- if you DO for whatever reason have a self defense weapon; make sure you are trained and know how to use it. Flailing with a weapon can often lead to it being used on you. But people need to remember that training self defense for some people is like initiating the real thing. People panic even in training and it's this instinct you need to break. An offender in the home is no different to an offender on the street except you are on home ground. You actually have the advantage and if you are capable of fighting back being fearful will only get you hurt.
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I struggle to see what the woman could have done in that case. It seems she was taken by surprise and then (obviously) completely overwhelmed so even if you live in a country where you are allowed to carry loaded guns in your home, I think it wouldn't make a difference. Martial arts training ranging from Krav Maga to boxing to BJJ would have done the woman little good against a surprise attack from an an assailant this much bigger. She says in the video that she kept quiet in order to save her child, and maybe that saved her life too as well. Who knows. Probably only the assailant.
Outer defenses such as alarms, sturdy doors and windows and maybe high walls would help. If nothing else, then at least in order to direct the assailant to an easier target. A big dog would have been an asset too, if well trained.
I'm not so sure that a guy should call for another guy's life to be ended, but in this case I think it might be warranted. The assailant seems completely ruthless, and seems to have limited compatibility with a civilized society. Maybe the "silver lining" when it comes to a comparatively violent country like the US (compared with Europe) is that at least you have a death penalty for those utterly horrendous individuals that actually behave as badly as the guy in this video. Let's just hope he gets caught.
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Yes, sometimes it may simply be due to random chance. However, potential home-invaders want to get certain things and do not want to get caught. This will inform their decision re: which homes they'll target and which ones they will avoid.
When a home invasion occurs, an assessment must be made to determine such things as: was it obvious--even from a distance--that there was a woman alone in the house? If so, what can be done, in the future, to make that less apparent to anyone observing the home?
That's just one of many variables that can be examined. Of course, there is no 100% guarantee that any safeguards will work, but the focus should be on risk-reduction to the greatest extent possible.
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Just wanted to chime in on how difficult its to stop someone with edged weapons. Definitely not pointed towards Permalost though, permalost owns and knows how to use 'stopping power' type edged weapons, aka will chop off a limb or head type edged weapons.
I'm a big advocate of a full power (9mm and up) hi-cap (8+ rounds) handgun if you're gonna be shooting indoors and moving by yourself, and you're gonna invest time in training. (different story if you have a buddy that will stack up with you). If you are gonna suck at shooting, a long gun is much better at stopping a threat (AR15, Shotgun with 3 buck or bigger, Mini 14, anything semiauto or pump)
But really, my only credentials are like, 0 firefights and 0 guns ever pointed at me on purpose, so take it with a grain of salt (maybe Lord Skeletor, Rock Ape, Vorpal, Tgace, Diesel etc with professional experience and training can chime in)
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Today's Fabulous Friday bride is Kathryn. I'm a big outdoors fan, and Kathryn's wedding looks and sounds amazing (look at the stunning backdrop of nature). I love Kathryn and Dave are both beekeepers. I'm always impressed with how diverse, unique and fun our brides are! We don't have a mold of a typical Dolly bride - just awesome, strong and beautiful women. Kathryn is no excpetion.
Couple's Name: Kathryn & David
Location: Paradise Montana (it is really named Paradise, honest!) on September 28, 2013
"We got married at the exact site (at my parent's cabin right on the Clark Fork River) where we had our 'first date'. I took Dave fly fishing on the river (I wore waders and a ballcap, but I guess it worked)."
Theme/Colors/Style of wedding: "Outdoor wedding, vintage/shabby chic, honeybees (we are both beekeepers) sunflowers, wildflowers, mason jars and our guestbook was a typewriter!"
Dress: "The Cambridge, Pink Label Collection. The long sleeves came in handy since it was 50 degrees and raining on our wedding day. Chilly yes...but so beautiful! The only change I made to the dress was pockets to hold my hankie!"
Favorite moment(s) from the wedding: "Where do I start? The whole day was a beautiful blur but some of my favorite moments are: my mother helping me into my wedding dress and putting her mother's pearls on me (every woman in our family gets married in these very special pearls...I cried of course! :) Our first dance to Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon', our first married kiss and all of our wedding guests happily dancing the night away under a clear-topped tent!"
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BOSTON (AP) - State public health officials are reporting 18 flu-related deaths in Massachusetts already this season and the city of Boston has declared a public health emergency.
A spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says the city is working with health care centers to offer free flu vaccines and also hopes to set up public locations where people can go for vaccinations. The city is reporting four flu-related deaths.
There have been about 700 confirmed cases of the flu in Boston so far this season, about ten times higher than in the same period last year.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says the state is one of many reporting above average flu hospitalization rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned of a harsh flu season, which usually peaks in midwinter.
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Who Is Rita Ora, Rob Kardashian's Ex-Girlfriend?
Rob Kardashian and Rita Ora's relationship breakdown took centerstage in this week's Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, and their relationship definitely didn't end well. Recently, Rita even told reporters that, in a a game of "Shag, Marry, Shoot," she would "definitely, definitely shoot Rob Kardashian." These two certainly have feelings for each other — they're just not exactly loving. If you blinked twice this past winter, you may have missed this rocky romance , and you may even be wondering who is Rita Ora, exactly?
Born in Kosovo on November 26, 1990, and raised in the UK from the age of one, Rita is a rising star in the pop world (both in England and across the pond) signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label.
From a young age she loved to sing, and she began her musical career contributing guest vocals to artists like Craig David and Tinchy Stryder. She made the rounds singing in bars all over London before she was discovered by a Roc Nation A&R representative in 2009. The same year, she appeared in music videos for Jay-Z's "Young Forever" and Drake's "Over" before officially signing to Roc Nation.
Her debut album, titled Ora, was released on August 27, 2012 and shot to the top of the UK Albums Chart. The first single from the record, "R.I.P.," also reached no. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Rita was a guest judge on the ninth season of The X Factor in the UK and was nominated for three awards at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Rita's style and music is often likened to Rihanna, and she's flattered by the comparison.
"I admire Rihanna," she told Complex in July. "She works her *ss off. She hasn't had a break and she has given people hit after hit after hit. That work ethic and discipline is hardcore. That's the kind of s**t that I want to do. That I will do."
At the rate Rita's career is going, we're certain she can!
Watch the video for "R.I.P.' below.
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Pearl Harbor day marks Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii. The attack destroyed many airplanes and ships, including the USS West Virginia, which suffered massive damage from torpedoes and bombs. Two officers, including the captain, and 103 crew members died on the USS West Virginia, according to the West Virginia Humanities Council. More than 2,400 people were killed in the attacks, according to the U.S. Navy.


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Ohio State CB Bradley Roby was arrested on Sunday for operating a vehicle while impaired, reports WBNS in Columbus.
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Former Utah junior CB Dominique Hatfield was charged with misdemeanor assault stemming from a fight at a July party.
Pittsburgh junior WR Tyler Boyd has been suspended for the first game of the season against Youngstown State.
Michigan State senior QB Connor Cook's quarterback rating greatly improved when he was blitzed, according to Pro Football Focus.
Michigan State coaches are calling senior LB Ed Davis one of the best players at the position in recent program history.
The court case involving Ole Miss junior T Laremy Tunsil and his stepfather has officially been dismissed.
Texas HC Charlie Strong suggested senior RB Johnathan Gray could see close to 30 carries per game.
Former Clemson graduate ILB Kellen Jones transferred to Wisconsin.
Former Detroit Lions president Matt Millen predicted that Penn State junior QB Christian Hackenberg will apply for early entry into the NFL draft in 2016 and go in the top five.
Florida redshirt freshman QB Will Grier has gained a significant amount of weight and now stands at 215 lbs.
Ohio State junior RB Ezekiel Elliott forced 41 missed tackles in 2014, according to Pro Football Focus.


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We are thrilled to announce our Earth Awareness lesson plan contest winners! We hope you will check out these dynamic lesson plans and try them out with your students! A special thanks to all of our BrainPOP Educators, from Florida to Hawaii, who submitted a lesson plan highlighting BrainPOP and IMAX's educator resources.
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For some area churches, supporting Toledo Pride is 'a natural choice'Written by Joel Sensenig | Managing Editor | email@example.com
Embracing the potential hot-button topic of homosexuality and religion, several area churches say they are proud to be a part of Toledo's annual event celebrating its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
While some church congregations are struggling with their stance on homosexuality, others know exactly where they stand on the issue.
For the churches taking part in Toledo Pride, it's not even an issue.
"It's a natural choice for us," said the Rev. Beth Marshall, senior pastor at First Unitarian Church of Toledo, of being involved with Toledo Pride. "We're a welcoming congregation. We're openly welcoming of gays, lesbians, transgenders and bisexuals. (Toledo Pride) is a natural place for us to be."
Another church, Central United Methodist, made headlines last year with its billboard campaign stating "Being gay is a gift from God."
"For us, being associated with Pride makes perfect sense," said Lynn Braun, chairperson of the lead team at Central UMC. "We just think it's crucial to be supportive of the LGBT community. It's really important to let people know that we don't see any incongruence with being LGBT and Christian. Part of it is supporting (Toledo Pride) itself, and also to make sure we get a message out (to those in the LGBT community) that they're perfectly fine."
Cheri Holdridge is pastor at The Village Church, a church started in 2009 as a combination of the United Methodist Church and United Church of Christ denominations. It meets on Sunday mornings inside the Maumee Indoor Theater.
"From the beginning, one of our values was to be inclusive of all people. It's just part of who we are to want to be part of Pride," Holdridge said. "Honestly we have plenty of churches for people who aren't comfortable with gay people, but we don't have a lot of churches who are comfortable both with LGBT people and welcoming of straight people who want to be in a more progressive church."
Holdridge estimates more than half of the 60 people in the church each Sunday are in the LGBT community. The Village Church also helped launch a monthly transgender support group meeting attended by up to 25 people.
Holdridge has participated in Toledo Pride the past two years.
"The first year was fun and the second year was even better than the first with even more people attending and the addition of a parade. Our church participated in the parade and we thought it was a great addition," she said. "The afternoon was just a fabulous celebration of community. It was a safe place for gay and lesbian people to be out and to walk down the street holding hands with their partner and to bring their children."
Holdridge even stayed for the drag queen show, which is performed after the more family-friendly afternoon hours.
"It was lovely," she said with a laugh. "I think I was the only pastor who stayed because it was kind of late on a Saturday night. But it was fun; it was great."
The three pastors realize their message isn't one shared by everyone — much less everyone who goes to church on Sunday mornings.
"A lot of congregations in other denominations struggle with (homosexuality)," Marshall said. "It's natural for us. It's like breathing — it's just what we do. For us it's not a hot-button issue anymore. … We are trying to create a loving, spiritual community where everyone is honored for who they are. Trying to respect their dignity, their worth as human beings, is more important to us."
Holdridge said she believes discrimination against homosexuals is an issue Christians will eventually come to apologize for, as they have done for other social-rights issues.
"For a very long time, there were good people on both sides of the argument that thought the Bible told us it was OK to have slaves," she said. "And there were very good people who began to think that it was wrong to have slaves, and we debated that for a long time. People said if we stop having slaves, it's going to tear our country apart, tear our churches apart. Or if we start having black and white children together in schools or let black and white people marry, it's going to tear the fabric of our culture apart. Gradually people said, 'You know, we were wrong about this, and we need to change our minds' and eventually, we have to apologize for our racism and we have come to believe that we were wrong."
In talking to those in the LGBT community, Holdridge said she often tells them, "I can say to you that I am convinced we will come around on this issue, too, and someday we will apologize to you just like we have apologized to African Americans for slavery."
Although Central UMC will not be at Toledo Pride this year due to a scheduling conflict, Braun said participating in Toledo Pride is just another opportunity for Christians to have a conversation with the LGBT community.
"Our real campaign is 'Being you is a gift from God,'" she said. "That's really what we believe on a larger scale. We just recognize that LGBT people aren't used to Christians thinking that they are part of the 'you,' so we decided we needed to send a more direct message to the community."
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iPhone 2.2: Safari Tweaked, Cut and Paste Freaked?
Wired's blog picked up a story from iPhone Atlas today about a minor MobileSafari browser UI change that sees the (defaults to Google) search box surfaced right on top beside the URL address box (currently it only pops up when the top box is activated to save on vertical real estate). To compensate, the Refresh button gets demoted and tucked inside the refresh box. Not sure about the usability on this change yet...?
The more interesting speculation is about cut and paste, which Wired claims NO specific info on, but offers this as part of the ongoing search for some reason why Apple hasn't yet implemented this seemingly core functionality:
It's possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can send that file (or text string). This would be like the existing "Open with" option available in the Mac's right-click menu -- each application effectively reports to the OS exactly what kind of files it can handle and the OS remembers this. Thus a picture could be sent to not only the Photo app, but to any other photo program. Text could be sent directly to any open dialog box in, say, Safari.
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iPhone 2.2: Safari Tweaked, Cut and Paste Freaked?
Omar - man, when did you drink the koolaid!?
I know it's disappointing but the most likely reason cut/paste hasn't made it in yet us just because apple is too busy with other things. They are expanding like crazy and for the moment they probably can't spare their programers for anything short of essential bug fixes. It's the same dillema every company faces - balancing happy customers with happy investors
...but because Apple is reinventing it.
Yeah, yet I do not know whether that is a good reason. While it may indeed be that they prefer to implement something "new" rather than first something that already works for many other devices... Still I think that they are limiting the possibilties for a reason.
Furthermore, a functionality that lets you paste/open in multiple applications only seems to be more interesting when you can actually use multiple applications at the same time... which is yet another feature we are anxiously waiting for.
Dont believe that for a second! If they wanted they could make a phone miles ahead of anything out there at the moment. But they won't because they can sell a bunch more slightly advanced versions before then.
I bet the programmers are working on iPhones two or three generations away...
damn, can't they put a decent SMS application that works like iSMS or SMSD. Damn, Apple is a pain. I am becoming pissed off with the iPhone. It can't do what a basic mobile should do. Cut/copy/Paste, forward SMS, Send business card, MMS. This is damn basic stuff. Shame on you Apple. Nice gadget, useless in reality.
I agree with Superman, windows mobile is miles more advanced. I have a Nokia E65 which can tether with basic Bluetooth. The iPhone cannot do that & PdaNet is way too slow to compete. Everything beats the iPhone in comparison to WM phones. The iphone only wins on look & feel! Nothing else!!! The 3g is a battery killer as opposed to any symbian phone!! Bluetooth is so limited & pathetic! Steve jobs go back to the drawing board & jackup these basic features quick cos clients are starting to hand there iPhones back. They are totally pissed!!!
Easy to agree, when you share an IP :)
iPhone is killing in satisfaction levels, so while it's possible its lack of certain previous gen cell phone features hurts it with old school power users, the user experience is just killing for new users, or for users with different requirements.
One word.
The most obvious reason to me for the continued lack of cut and paste or simple clipboard functions in iPhone 2.2 is that AT&T and Apple have agreed that this will not be included due to the bandwidth demands it would create.
If we can cut anything we please from the web or emails or wherever, and then paste it into emails and SMS messages, this will greatly increase the bandwidth needed by AT&T to keep up with users' needs. Limiting us to sending only what we can type with that silly screen keyboard will cut the bandwidth demand by orders of magnitude.
Alright, a few dozen words...