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Snow slows Maine power work; Mich. effort ongoingBy DAVID SHARP
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Tom Henson sorts through frozen food that hes keeping frozen on a deck outside his home in Litchfield, Maine Thursday.GARDINER, Maine Snow fell Thursday in places still hustling to get power back on after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada.
Eastern Maine and parts of the states interior that have been without electricity since Sunday anticipated 3 to 7 inches of snow by the time the latest system pushed off the coast Thursday night. Utilities worried that the additional weight on branches and transmission lines could cause setbacks in the around-the-clock efforts to restore power.
We dont think its going to help us much, thats for sure, said Susan Faloon, a spokeswoman for Bangor Hydro Electric in Maine. There was some concern expressed over the last couple of days about that storm coming because obviously we still have lot of stuff weighing down trees and lines.
The system is pretty compromised out there, she said. We expect we will have more outages.
In Michigan, where about half a million homes and businesses lost power at the peak of the weekend storm, an inch or so of snow was expected. Utilities there reported 101,000 customers without power Thursday morning and said it could be Saturday before all electricity is restored.
Tony Carone lost power in his Lapeer, Mich., home Sunday morning. The 52-year-old lineman for Detroit-based DTE knew there were long hours ahead.
I was one of the casualties, he said while taking a break from restoration work Thursday morning.
Maine reported more than 21,000 customers still out, down from a high of more than 106,000. There were more than 101,000 without power in three Canadian provinces Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick including 54,000 in the city of Toronto.
Day five without power was met by tired but mostly stoic Mainers.
Bob and Katrina Johnson spent Christmas Eve at a family members house that had no electricity. Christmas morning was at their powerless house in Pittston and that afternoon meant a trip to Katrinas mothers house in Gardiner, which also had no electricity. Nonetheless, they exchanged presents and celebrated.
By Thursday, the couple had grown weary from hauling a portable generator back and forth between their home and her mothers home to keep a freezer-load of moose meat from spoiling and run the heat long enough to keep pipes from freezing and bursting.
You have to go with the flow and adapt, and do the best you can, Katrina Johnson said. You learn how to deal with it. Do you like it? No, but you deal with it.
In hard-hit Kennebec County, where the state capital of Augusta is located, glistening trees sagged under the weight of ice. Many tree limbs had snapped, littering yards.
On one road, workers in four bucket trucks from Massachusetts N-Star utility company worked patiently to get a power line lifted back into place as snow fell sporadically. Paul Graham, the crew supervisor from Waltham, Mass., and a veteran of the devastating ice storm of 1998, said it couldve been worse, even as his team worked its third consecutive 18-hour shift.
Honestly, you got lucky, he said. If it was a little more ice, poles would have been broken. Things would be on the ground. Thats my take. If there was another quarter of an inch or a half-inch of ice, people wouldve been out for a long, long, long time.
But Im sure no one is thinking theyre lucky, right?
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The groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion to the Derry Patterson Wingo School of Nursing building today marks not only a physical expansion but also an increase in enrollment.
The 16,100-square-foot building expansion provides space for skills teaching labs, a Home Health Suite teaching lab, an interactive space for nursing students and additional classrooms and faculty offices.
The expansion of the Derry Patterson Wingo School of Nursing will allow the program to admit more of our qualified applicants and provide them with state-of-the-art learning resources, said Dr. Tara Hulsey, dean of the nursing program.
The Wingo School of Nursing has a 96 percent six-year average pass rate on the national exam required to receive a license to practice (National Council Licensure Examination). Hulsey said, This is the highest six-year pass rate of all accredited BSN programs in the state of South Carolina.
The nursing alumni and faculty set the stage that the expectations are high for us, said Elizabeth Ash, a senior nursing major from Summerville. Our professors constantly push us to do well.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute of Medicine report is calling for 80 percent of the nations nurses to have a minimum of a bachelor of science in nursing by 2020. Hulsey said, Fifty percent of nurses in the nation hold a BSN, and only 30 percent of nurses in South Carolina have a BSN.
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Higgins: I love a parade … notWritten by Tim Higgins | | firstname.lastname@example.com
This is the weekend of the Mission Family Festival, an extended weekend carnival found here in Kansas that's staged just a block away from the place I call my haven from an increasingly misguided and often rather silly world. Oh, don't get me wrong, there's nothing really wrong with the city deciding to use a few pleasant days in spring to celebrate. Of course this weekend, while warm, promises the potential of rain and thunderstorms on Saturday and rain on Sunday; but sitting on metal rides in such conditions to me only adds to the bargain of a $20 unlimited ride wristband.
Who am I after all, to deny the city its opportunity to have a few harmless carnival rides seemingly right beside the poor refuge of my deck … until of course they turn the damn things on. There is nothing after all, that inspires calm and peace of mind that one seeks after slaving away in the salt mines all week like the rattling of rides that have long since had their day, and the screaming of young teenagers whose only real fear is that their friends will see their parents waving at them smilingly from the crowd below (when it probably should be over the safety inspections performed by poorly trained state workers).
Lest one accuse me of denying the kiddies of a few hours of harmless excitement, let me point out for those not already enticed to attend by the titillation of rides long ago rejected by "Worlds of Boredom," there is in addition an equally exciting exhibit of special vehicles featuring (oh, be still my heart): A John Deere tractor, a DUI trailer (?), a D.A.R.E. car, a fire department ladder truck, a Kansas City Power and Light bucket truck, and a battle tank. (Oh, just give me half an hour in that battle tank and I'll show kids and parents alike some adrenaline-filled hysteria that they'll remember as long as they live.) There will also be a few food tents operated by local businesses, with the largest purveyor of tasty treats being provided by the local grocery store.
And if these were not enough to make you abandon whatever village or glen bereft of such an entertainment triumph that you happen to reside in and make the pilgrimage to my humble community; perhaps the Saturday night concert, featuring a live performance by Funky Mama (undoubtedly some exceptionally loud and misguided tribute to Mother's Day) should certainly do the trick.
But lest you think that these constitute the bulk of the festivities for this weekend's gala, let me beg to differ. As the title of this effort takes great pains to point out (pun intended), there's a parade. What kind of merrymaking would there be during an election year if we weren't to allow locally elected officials to sit in the back seats of open convertibles, the beds of even more open pickup trucks (this is Kansas after all), or completely open hay wagons; while practicing their best insincere smiles and hand-waving.
Of course it won't all be that glamorous, some of those participating in this pompous procession of local gentry stretching for some six to eight blocks will be local "movers and shakers," members of fraternal organizations, and (cringe) members of local marching groups. Note that I said "groups" and not "bands." After all, even cranky bastards like me enjoy a marching band as much as the next guy. These however, are instead groups of young people who will be performing what are purportedly carefully choreographed routines to pre-recorded noises perceived in some circles to approximate melodic interpretation. The only thing that can be guaranteed by these efforts however, is that what they may lack in tonal quality, you can be assured that they will more than make up for in decibel levels.
The kids will be oh so cute, marching in their matching outfits, twirling and tossing batons and occasionally clapping or stamping their feet to provide extra emphasis (though it's unlikely such efforts will be heard in the cacophonous noise). The parents will be so proud of little Johnny or Jenny (as they should be), even if the routines don't always come off as planned. And the children themselves will be a bit tired, though happy and proud as they approach the end of their efforts and pass RIGHT UNDER MY BALCONY. Oh yes, make no mistake on this one my friends. I will have a front row box seat (in the balcony, no less) to every bit of the parade, since it ends a mere 30 yards from my patio.
Spring only comes once a year (if at all) and the Mission Family Festival is only one weekend a year (something for which I must remember to thank the Mission City Council properly); so I must take great "pains" to enjoy it while I can. While the event may present some petty annoyances that must of needs be dealt with, it does at least provide a ready excuse to self-medicate this weekend with a bit of 12 year-old C2 H6 O. But while this may produce something akin to a bright side to the situation and a generally warm feeling to my fellow man, I must still in the end come to the conclusion that I Love a Parade … Not.
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As part of the ongoing arts project at St Francis Hall (the Multi Faith Chaplaincy), a 'Water of Life' mosaic is being created in the newly repainted Worship Room. This will be a multi-faith image, created by students and staff and capturing an image of water that speaks to many different faiths. You are invited to come along at any time between 11:00 and 18:00 on Wednesday 4 June when chaplains and experts from Eastnor Pottery will be on hand to help you make your tile. This could make a welcome break from the stress of exams and revision or even - if you are lucky enough to have finished by then - a great way to finish the year. The tiles created on the day will be taken and fired, and the finished mosaic will be mounted in the Worship Room over the summer vacation, ready for the new academic year.
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I simply replied that based on your post, you were saving money between the products and then you listed the 13-18-22 analysis. I pointed out that more bags would be needed (based on the analysis, to provide 1# of N per 1,000 sq.ft. I never once stated that you ripped people off. By the way, your 13-18-22 analysis sounded more like a starter fertilizer than a regular fertilizer. I'm glad that it actually turned out to be an 18-13-22 instead. However, that's a lot of P to be applying on a regular basis and because P doesn't move through the soil, you're taking a chance at having an overabundance of it. Phosphorus levels in my neck of the woods are all through the roof and that's why the majority of the companies out this way use products that are very low in P.
You go on to state that you customize all of your lawn programs and apply what each lawn needs. With that being said, you must do extensive soil tests for each and every lawn and offer 100's of different programs? That seems highly unlikely and would seem like a perfect way of "over-analyzing" something to the point where it wouldn't even be profitable.
By the way, I don't use any 46-0-0.
Yes I do soil samples for EVERY lawn EVERY year. Many of my jobs are in the same neighborhoods which allows me to be able to customize the programs. I have 9 homes on one street and they all have the same soil results. Also you didn't read closely because if you did you would have read how I apply this to lawns that NEED this fertilizer the same way I have put down 9-23-30 before.
Also I don't charge one price for fertilizing someones lawn they get a bid after the soil sample comes back then if its 9-23-30 they pay more but if their sample comes back A-ok then they will get for example 32-3-8. If you want to just be a Show and Go like ChemLawn and use the same products on all lawns then be my guest. I'm almost guessing you didn't go to school because if you did then you would have been taught that you can't give all the lawns the same thing.
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Video:How to Prepare a Seder Platewith Sue Carol
The parts of Seder plate all hold a particular significance related to Jewish traditions. Learn how to prepare a traditional Seder Plate for Passover and the meaning of each item.See Transcript
Transcript:How to Prepare a Seder Plate
Hello, I'm Susan Carol for About.com and today I'm going to show you how to prepare a Seder Plate for Passover.
Any plate will do but most people use a plate with sections specific to the items needed for the Seder. This plate is from Israel and has been on my table for over 50 Seders.
5 Items for the Seder Plate:
- Beitzah
- Zeroah
- Charoset
- Karpas
- Maror
Each Item on the Seder Plate is a Symbol
The Beitzah is a roasted egg and is a symbol of birth, renewal, and the spring season in which Passover is always celebrated. The Zeroah is a roasted Shank Bone and represents the Paschal lamb offered as the Passover sacrifice during biblical times. Next is the Charoset which has varied recipes, but mine is made by crushing apples, nuts, sweet wine and cinnamon together. The word Charoset means 'clay' in Hebrew and it represents the mortar used by Hebrew slaves to build the Egyptian buildings.
The Karpas is the vegetable, such as parsley, which represents the harsh labor suffered by the Jews, and is dipped into salt water during the Seder. The salt water reminds us of the tears shed when Jews were slaves in Egypt. Lastly is the Maror, which is the bitter herb – such as horseradish, and symbolizes the bitterness and harshness of slavery the Jews endured in Egypt. Here is the prepared Seder Plate. For more information please visit About.com. Thanks for watching.


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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by SoulStain
"I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game"
"As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money"
Those comments are exactly my point!
This change makes me feel like not playing any more, as I have now unlocked now without playing the game. This change has robbed me of upcoming gameplay, which is not hard as you pointed out and can get there soon enough. It was only changed so EA can now rob you of more money.
I would rather play the game, than pay the game, for all what the Cartel Shop offers.
The things that the Cartel Shop should offer, is more character slots as it opens up more gameplay, but it does not do.
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Joined: 7/09/03
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
I quit when the only legacy perk was a surname, fairly certain there was nothing else you got from legacy back then.
What was bothering me was that there was NOT these things on your ship.
These upgrades is good "news", to me.
I did try to login and play f2p but as a lvl 50 trooper the limits put on f2p made it if not impossible at least very hard to play.
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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Joined: 10/07/06
Originally posted by superniceguy
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by Emeraq
Why not, when F2P costs more? That is the point. Subbers get most stuff in effect for free, F2P people have to pay for stuff.
If you are not paying for it and game is completely free then I agree that you should not get what subbers get.
To get everything that subbers gets, it costs $28 per month instead of $15.
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Joined: 7/30/12
I don't think a lot of subscribers realize how much FTP (cash shop really) has already affected SWTOR's overall game design.
Here's my roughshod list of how it has already affected ToR. (Remember, they've been designing around the cash shop since Spring.)
1.) Content withholding. -
A] Since Spring they've only realiased (and that's including 1.5) 2 Operations and 1 companion.
B] Remember, that companion quest line was in game at Beta. As a part of their string out the subscribers/figure out a way to monetize everything, HK-51 was withheld. (His preview video was out in what June?)
C] The new unrealesed warzone Hypergates has been in playable form since August at E3 is still unrealeased. BW has said it will be in the next patch. That's 4 months of holding on to it.
D] Cathar- The Cathat have been ready, and previewed since June. They have been withheld until the cash shop was up to sell them to you.
2.) Restricting Itemization
A] High end gear since the descion to switch to FTP has just been reskins of previous gear. By withholding gear, it makes the gear hidden within the $4.00 lockboxes more attractive on FTP release.
B] Withholding a wide array of gear that was available in Beta. This gear which was seen over a year ago now, is still unreleased. Expect to see it in new rounds of lock-boxes. (Which is funny since they will say, "Look what we've been up" when tat gear was created over a year ago.
3.) Makeb
A] Makeb is being withheld as a paid mini-expansiion. This is exceptionally greedy because it was oriinally intended as a major Patch release (as in no extra money to play). Makeb has been ready since May, but will now be sold to everyone, FTP and subber as a mini-expansion.
4.) Legacy
A] Here is where design as been directly affected by the cash shop. BW has stated that Legacy is their greatest feature and will receive their primary focus. Well now you know why Legacy pre-FTP was such a mooney sink. As it stands, Legacy perks are available aither by paying millions per perk, or an instant purchase of about $4.00 per perk in the cash shop. Guess which BW hopes you purchase. Expect to see many, many new Legacy perks in the future.
In summary: Since deciding to switch to FTP (Who's primary purpose was the addition of the cash shop) Bioware has withheld, Makeb, Hk-51, Hypergate Warzone, the Cathar, and all the gear that was in Beta. Since the decision to switch to FTP, their decimated staff has designed no new content, just reeasing content which was already in the pipeline.
Bioware intends to sell the Makeb patch as a mini-expansion, sell Cathat race unlocks, and put all the varied gear designed since before launch into lock-boxes.
In lieu of new content, Bioware will contiinue to add to its altaholic Legacy perk system. Those perks will now be obtainable by either grinding out million upon millions of credits, or purchasing them directly fro the cash shop.
When you can't get more money from more subscribers, you attempt to get more money per remaining subscriber.
If Bioware will be succesful in doing this, we shall see. Bioware is putting its faith in its remaining playerbase being content with no real new content and paying for cash shop purchases many times over what they already pay as a monthly sub.
The FTP option, is nothing but a tack on to garner a modicum of publicity, allow EA to stop reporting subs, but most importantly to Bioware, to sell, sell, sell micro-transactions in its cash shop. I base the FTP as nothing more then a ruse in that the restrictions are purposively unbearable, the servers are not designed for either the initial FTP rush or any real vast increase in players, there has been virtually no marketing campaign for the FTP switch.
Think about, why spend money on advertising when your customer already knows about the new product. SWTOR, (much I'm sure to MMORPG's chagrin) has not even bought a browser background ad here. (I see ads for RIFT, STO, GW2, EvE, a bunch of other Asian games, no SWTOR). EA is spending as little as it can on SWTOR both in content creation and marketing. All that EA/Bioware is doing is getting the most it can out of its leased Star Wars IP, and hoping that compulsive micro-transaction purchasses will help defray their losses on the development of SWTOR. Here's a party-Jawa, go drop a few hundred on cartel coins.
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Joined: 10/07/06
Originally posted by superniceguy
Everyone knows that Free to Play is not ever completely free to play, traditionally there are always limitations in F2P and players can spend more than they would if they were simply subscribing to the game.
I don't see why someone should have all of the access, all of the contents to the same game that I pay a monthly sub for, and it be completely free to them. If that were the case, why would anyone sub? And the game would be dead a lot sooner than later because money has to be made to keep the servers going.
It's my understanding that F2P get to play the main storylines free to end game. This is more than can be said about LOTRO F2P, where you are having to buy quests and entire zones, you have to buy storage/bags, you have to buy extra character slots (you only get two per server there as well), you have to either buy Warden and RuneMaster seperately or buy the expansion they came in.... In my opinion the only thing crazy about SWTOR's free to play is locking skill bars and PvP.
And what the hell are they buying every month that will cost them $28.00?
Novice Member
Joined: 9/07/12
Originally posted by superniceguy
You don't have to use the store. You still have to grind to unlock the perks based on what legacy level you have. Then you still have to unlock them with credits once you obtain the level. There were very few legacy perks that were free...Just the species ones unlock for free when you reach level 50 in that species. I could be wrong but still..your entire legacy doesnt unlock and give you every perk at level 10...or whatever. Sure...you can set up your Legacy quicker..but there is still plenty of playing and grinding for legacy xp and credits should u wish to avoid the cartel shop.
I have a sub 8 characters and a level 50 BH but still have only legacy 8....the legacy xp is slowwww grind. Even using the cartel shop..I didnt notice many higher legacies perks...it may open up in the shop as you level legacy..e.g. level 8 unlock wont be available in the shop until u reach level 8 legacy...same for level 9..not to mention many require a certain character level to use once u buy them from the cartel shop. So ..still plenty of playing and grinding involved.
The shop definitely has its bad points...but it has some good things too and in the end..you can always choose to ignore it or choose to sub. Pretty much the same as 99% of the other F2P models in existence.
Ultimately though..the difference, I think, between You and I is that, though i like SWTOR, I never thought the Legacy system was a big deal. A few "cute' things and thats about all.
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F2P is really a misnomer. I actually wish someone would go back in time and stop that phrase from ever being developed.
Think of it more as a very limited trial.
The only game I have played that doesn't severely limit content is APB:R. But then you get those annoying ads and have your experience diminished.
If you want to play the game in full, you're just going to have to subscribe. Thems are the ways of the MMORPG.
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Joined: 6/27/12
Originally posted by tiefighter25
Quoted for truth. They haven't done anything to get me to resub. The same complaints I had before haven't been rectified. Same bad game with even more bad freemium model.
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by Emeraq
$28 is the cost of everything added up. Quick slot bars + weekly passes + well, everything
I think you are not understanding what I am saying. The lack of charcter slots is dumb. I can not play the game at all in F2P because I can not even purchase more slots. If I could purchase more slots, then that means will have to buy more quick slot bars and everything again for the character, which is Win-Win - EA gets money from me and I get to play the game.
I am not interested in constantly playing Space Missions, Operations, Warzones, so they can be locked off completely as far as I am concerned, but would like to be able to buy more char slots. The reason for playing in F2P instead of subbing is so you can pay for what you want to play, making the end result cheaper. If you want the whole thing then you sub as paying in F2P is a lot more costly.
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Joined: 4/26/12
the legacy system is much better now that you get it at 10 and can start earning legacy exp much earlier and not have to commit to 30-32 to get your first unlock so all this crying is stupid at best. People can sub if they want more than 2 toons as free to play considering they didnt fork out money to even buy the software like most of us did. Also enough of the hate on swtor free to play , about the only thing i think they should change is the action bars being limited to two. Other than that if you think its so bad please DO NOT come back and play as you want everything for free that subs pay for. The crying and bashing of this game from this community is getting old considering it doesnt merit it because YOU do not like it. If you hate the free to play restrictions carry your butt to another game and stop worrying people playing this one , you had a chance to keep this games item shop out of it by subbing yet people didnt want to sub and then wonder why they have a cash shop and restrictions....
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Joined: 7/05/11
Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Originally posted by DarkVagabond
Well considering launch was before f2p, i made no typo ;) If SWTOR was ruined before F2P, and launch came before F2P, thus it was ruined at all levels before F2P.
Brain power for the win
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Joined: 10/02/11
The Critical Hit Pretzel!
The legacy system was a bit of a mess to begin with honestly. Its far from a perfect system. A decent idea but poorly executed.
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Joined: 5/25/04
Originally posted by superniceguyF2P has ruined the game, because you can not create more than 2 chars, and leaves the game with a sleazy Cash Shop, and if people are subbing from it, then what is the point in there being F2P?
The thing is that people expect to much for free
Be glad that you can log on the game and play some of the content
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by Winterizer
That makes no sense
I can not log on and play more content, because I can not create more chars. I already played some of the content on 2 chars before F2P on $15.
Every other MMO allows you purchase more character slots
The free trial for SWTOR befiore F2P was free and you could create more than 2 chars
Unlocking more slots in F2P would not be free
The thing is people think that F2P is free
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Joined: 3/05/07
Originally posted by saxifr
lol .. My guess would be more cash shop stuff, and another tier of gear to grind for......
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I won't quote it because of length but that was a great post tiefighter25. I didn't realize what they had planned for makeb, I was actually suprised it wasn't released with 1.5. I'll have to look up the details and see how they spin that, if they even bother to at this point. A few things I wanted to add-
1) if your into MMOs enough to be here on this site posting, you are not the free player the devs are looking for. Your way to involved and you care to much. The type of free player they are looking to bring in won't share your concerns with the legacy system because they don't even know what that is. I'm not saying nobody here will choose to use the system, just that you are not the focus and they don't care what you think.
2) most of the problems with the f2p conversion (aside from it just being a terrible idea to start with) are the same problems the game has always had- incompetence of the developers, misundering the customers, lack of leadership and direction. They are grasping at straws trying to find ways to make any money they can out of this mess and screwing the fans over or taking advantage of impluse buyers doesn't bother them at all.
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Joined: 8/11/09
Originally posted by tiefighter25
Even Sevenstar cant fight these kind of facts. Quoted for Truth. I even like swtor, if Rift didnt exist id be playing SWTOR to get my themepark fix. It has awesome story conent, Decent looking graphics, the first battlegrounds ive ever liked. To bad EAWare had to release it will buggy ass content and literally nothing to do post story content. You either level and alt, grund hutt ball, or do buggy ops.
Playing: War Thunder, World of Warcraft, and Grim Dawn
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Joined: 6/15/12
Originally posted by superniceguy
I do believe the around 70% of the people that quit playing and caused the need for F2P will disagree with you...
Or are you one of the people from the main forums that are trying to tell everyone that the game was doing great and Bioware only made F2P out of the kindness of their hearts?
Anyway, SWTOR was ruined by fanboys that stopped all chances of Bioware ever learning there were issues with their game long before release...
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Joined: 7/22/12
"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words
I agree that F2P put content on back seat. Now that it's in game I hope we will see content coming in promised pace and that Makeb and other stuff already in work will show up soon.
Would I want content to come sooner? Sure.
I love the game and I support it. That's the old school. When EQ2 launched in 2004, there was no new content for year or two. Nada, zero. But we sticked with it because we loved it. Even despite LU 13 LOL.
I am enjoying the game immensely. Nothing compares to SWTOR's FPS and Operations... NOTHING!!!!
Damian Shubert:
With regards to Makeb/Level cap increase and other stuff mentioned in E3 of this year, has the FTP launch affected the release timing of these new content? Is there an approximate date when we can expect the release of these?
The Free to Play option and Cartel Market were built by an entirely different team, in order to ensure the Makeb team remained completely focused on their target date. We definitely have a date in mind, and there should be news about that coming soon!
So I am waiting eagerly for new stuff and continue to love the game.
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First the good news; gas prices have stabilized and the Federal Reserve has stopped raising interest rates (at least temporally). Believe me, those are not small issues. In fact, those may be the two biggest factors in the economy today. I have expressed many times that higher gas prices were eating into the consumer's budget, reducing the money available for other purchases, and higher interest rates are putting pressure on real estate sales.
Consumer sales and real estate sales together have been the driving force behind the economy for several years. I don't think we are going to avoid a recession but anything that reduces the severity of a recession would be welcome. Lower gas prices and lower interest rates would certainly help reduce any economic slow down.
In mid-August ,I was in South Florida (my two sons attend college there) and took some time to assess the real estate market in that area of the state. I was astounded at the number of homes for sale. Asking prices have not dropped much but sales have pretty much come to a halt. The situation seems to be that sellers are not willing to reduce prices to a point that will attract buyers. The question is, who will hold out longer — the buyers or the sellers? Interest rates will have a major impact on who wins the test of wills. If interest rates continue to rise, some sellers with adjustable rate mortgages will not be able to make the payments as the rates adjust up. However, if rates stabilize or move back down, the buyers will be encouraged to start paying sellers' prices.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Matt Cain will make one of his final tuneups for the San Francisco Giants before the postseason tonight in the middle installment of a three-game series versus the Arizona Diamondbacks at AT&T Park.
Cain has won a career-high 15 games (15-5) this season and is 5-0 in his previous eight starts. He has allowed one run in each of his past two outings and threw eight innings of one-run ball in a 7-1 victory versus Colorado last Wednesday.
The right-hander lowered his earned run average to 2.86 in his 30th start and will face Arizona for the fourth time this season. He is 2-0 in the initial three appearances and 12-6 with a 3.48 ERA in 26 career starts in this series. Cain also owns a 7-3 record in 14 starts at home in 2012.
Tim Lincecum, however, hasn't fared too well at home, falling to 4-9 in 17 starts at AT&T Park following last night's 7-2 loss to Arizona in the series opener. Lincecum was shelled for seven runs and five hits in four innings.
"He was just off tonight, not much to say about it," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner.
Buster Posey knocked in a run and Ryan Theriot added a pinch-hit RBI double for the NL West-champion Giants, who have lost two in a row following a six- game winning streak. Posey is one RBI shy of 100 on the season.
San Francisco is 6-2 on a 10-game homestand.
The Diamondbacks are 5 1/2 games off the final wild card berth in the National League with eight to play and it's highly unlikely that they will make a run.
Arizona has won seven of its last nine games and improved to 4-1 on a seven- game road trip with Tuesday's victory by the bay. Paul Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer and finished with a career-best five RBI, while Aaron Hill went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and Justin Upton crossed the plate on a wild pitch for the Diamondbacks.
D-backs starter Josh Collmenter gave up just one run on two hits and two walks with four strikeouts over five innings for the win.
"He did a great job for us today," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said of Collmenter.
Wade Miley looks to keep Arizona's spirits up when he toes the rubber Wednesday night. Miley has won two of three starts and benefited from plenty of run support in Friday's 15-5 bashing of Colorado at Coors Field, where he yielded five runs and 10 hits in six innings.
The All-Star Miley is 4-2 in his last six decisions and 16-10 with a 3.25 earned run average in 30 games (27 starts) this season. He lost to the Giants on Sept. 15 in a 3-2 affair in which he gave up three runs in seven innings and is 1-1 with a 2.45 ERA in two games (1 start) lifetime in this series.
Arizona is 9-7 against the Giants this season and has won four of the last six matchups between the division foes.
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It takes a young person with a special heart to spend their free time providing joy and relief to seriously ill children. Jeffrey Herskovits, a medical student at Touro's Lander College of Arts & Sciences (LAS), has demonstrated that compassion for three summers at Camp Simcha, located in upstate New York. As Camp Simcha's mission statement describes, they exist to provide "fun, friendship and hope" to kids who are facing debilitating or terminal illness. And for Brooklyn resident Herskovits, it represented a chance to satisfy his natural urge to give back.
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Highway Gas Leak on U.S. 441
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A major North Central Florida highway was shut down for an hour Thursday afternoon when a gas line was ruptured.
Marion County Fire Rescue tells TV 20, U.S. Highway 441 at southwest 32nd street was closed at 2:30 p.m. when a car crashed into a natural gas valve stack, rupturing a two inch line.
U.S. 441 was closed for three blocks, and people nearby were advised to shelter in place.
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Randi Rhodes was mugged on Sunday night on 39th Street and Park Ave, nearby her Manhattan apartment, while she was walking her dog Simon.According to Air America Radio late night host Jon Elliott, Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week. At of late Monday night we have not able to locate any press accounts of the attack and nothing has been posted on the AAR website.snipElliott was extremely agitated when he reported on the incident. He opened his show by saying "it is with sadness that tonight I inform you that my Air America colleague Randi Rhodes was assaulted last night while walking her dog near her New York City home." Pointing out that Rhodes was wearing a jogging suit and displayed no purse or jewelry, Elliott speculated that "this does not appear to me to be a standard grab the money and run mugging.""Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own," he asked. "Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we're winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us." Some of blog posters also expressed concerns that the attack on Rhodes was hate crime. Other posters warned that we need more facts before any judgements are made.
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Kevin Bieksa's double overtime winner put the Vancouver Canucks into Stanley Cup Finals for the only the third time in their history. It was a momentous occasion, and there was little for Vancouverites to complain about. the That said, there was one minor issue: the confetti.
As soon as the Canucks scored the winner, flakes of coloured paper began raining down from the ceiling. It looked really nice until it landed on the ice, creating a mess that jammed up the players' skates, looked horrible to clean up, and would have made it impossible to continue the game had the goal been waved off, like some initially suspected it might.
That said, it could have been much worse. Through much investigative journalism, hacking, and espionage, PITB has acquired a list of 50 items suggested and eventually rejected by Rogers Arena event staff before they settled on confetti. One perusal of this list tells you things could have been much, much worse.Continue Reading —›
Though the rest of Canada has been slow to get behind the Canucks during their current playoff run, it's hardly mattered, as their march towards the Stanley Cup has shone a light on how global Canuck nation has actually become. First, there was a Canuck flag waving proudly at the Royal Wedding. Then there was the surprise that the Canucks have pockets of fans in West Africa, most notably Ghana and Nigeria. Now comes the news that there's even Canuck support in Austria, as Vienna-based freelance artist Peter Diamond presents The Twins. If you've ever thought of the Sedins as damnable warlocks that don't bleed, but merely leak ichor, and mount the skulls of their victims on bare trees in a heinous forest, Diamond's got you covered.Continue Reading —›
You'd be hard-pressed to find a hockey fan that would claim last night's bizarre series-clinching goal was not the strangest OT-winner they'd ever seen. The goal, scored by Kevin Bieksa when the puck hit a stanchion and squirted out to him at the point, fooled almost everyone, including every play-by-play guy calling the game (except for John Shorthouse). Chief amongst the players fooled was Antti Niemi, who lost sight of the puck, and didn't find it again until it was bouncing out of his net and Kevin Bieksa was streaking down the ice a hero.
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I have finally got round to posting some of my images from my Florida trip. I will post a new one every few days or so. This is a sunset at Siesta Key, Sarasota. The walkway on the left leads round to another small beach off the main beach and a group of rocks that people were fishing from. I liked the blurred people walking along the walkway, it seems to add a bit of movement to the foreground.


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Mikael Samuelsson easily dispensed with the low expectations he rode in on after signing a three-year, $2.75 million deal to come to Vancouver. He tallied a career-high 30 goals and 53 points in his first year as a Canuck, not to mention another 7 in 6 games in the first round of the 09-10 playoffs. Here was a player projected to bust and bust hard , and he had instead proven to be one of the savviest signings of Mike Gillis's career as a general manager.
As a result, expectations for Mikael Samuelsson's second season with the team were sky-high, and this time, he failed to meet them. Even though he reached the 50-point plateau again, registering only three points fewer than the season prior, the 12-goal regression stood out to fans like a sore thumb, and Samuelsson's season was viewed as a disappointment.
Much of the ill will towards the Swedish winger came from the sudden diminishment of his skating ability last year, and the perception that he had either lost a step or lost motivation. That said, I don't think we quite understood the abdominal injury he was attempting to play through. Sports hernias are painful muscle tears in the core area that cause severe discomfort to hockey players when skating or battling in corners. If Samuelsson looked a step slow, it's because he played an entire season with this pain.
Consider that newcomer Byron Bitz didn't play a single game in 2010-11 because he was sidelined with the same injury. While Samuelsson was still able to play, he simply wasn't able to play at the same level. Bearing in mind that he still almost put up the same point totals, there's cause to be a little more impressed than most were with his season.
By the playoffs, fans had gotten so used to a plodding Mikael Samuelsson that they had forgotten how important a healthy Samuelsson was to the team's success. In game 5 of the Canucks' series with the Nashville Predators, when a puck battle with Nick Spaling exacerbated the tear, the sight of Samuelsson sprawled on the ice was met with a collective shrug.
When Iain MacIntyre suggested two days ago that a healthy Samuelsson could have made the difference in the Final, it seemed like an almost novel opinion. Most people had pointed to Mason Raymond and Dan Hamhuis as the great losses but, when you think of what cost the Canucks — a lack of composure and an ability to get pucks past Tim Thomas, especially on the powerplay — composed, experienced, powerplay-quarterbacking, trigger-happy Samuelsson was a pretty substantial loss.
People don't quite understand the role Mikael Samuelsson plays for the Canucks. He's a wild card, and while the phrase "wild card" often conjures up the image of something unpredictable and unstable, that's not the picture I'm trying to paint. Granted, Samuelsson is markedly unpredictable; he shoots or holds when others would pass, and passes or holds when others would shoot. But, when I say "wild card", I mean in the Crazy Eights sense where, without one, you're going to have a Hell of a time winning a round. As constructed, the Canucks rely heavily on Mikael Samuelsson to make the team complete. Samuelsson is perhaps the most versatile player the Canucks employ. At even-strength, he can play anywhere from the first to the fourth line, and he can generate offense regardless of where he is.
Alain Vigneault, who has gone on record as saying that he works primarily in pairs, capitalizes on Samuelsson's versatility in a big way. From Daniel and Henrik to Kesler and Raymond to Malhotra and Torres, Vigneault built his top three units last season around three duos, then used a stable of alternates (Samuelsson and Hansen, usually, Alex Burrows occasionally) to flesh out the lines. If the duos began to falter, it was often the alternate that got shuffled somewhere else, just to change things up. The Sedins are the best example of this, as a string of bad shifts with Alex Burrows often necessitated a quick turn or two with Mikael Samuelsson.
In order for a system like this to work, you have to have a few quality alternates — guys that won't take it personally or complain when shuttled around the lineup with impunity, and guys that will mesh strongly with whomever they're deployed. In this sense, Samuelsson is vital. He scored 13 even-strength goals last season: 3 on the first line, 5 on the second line, 2 on the third line, and 3 on the fourth line. Contrast him with a player like Raffi Torres, who really only had success when playing with Manny Malhotra. It's impossible to roll three or four lines without guys like Samuelsson.
But Samuelsson isn't just a valuable piece at even-strength. He's also incredibly helpful on special teams. When Alex Edler went down last season with a back injury, Samuelsson was promoted to the top unit, and he didn't disappoint. When Alex Edler returned to the lineup, Samuelsson remained on the powerplay. While fans were baffled by the Canucks' bullishness on this issue, Newell Brown explained that the unit actually had a higher conversion rate with Samuelsson. Now, with Christian Ehrhoff departed to Buffalo, Edler and Samuelsson will likely find themselves sharing the back end this season.
And while Samuelsson doesn't kill penalties, he does allow Alex Burrows — the Canucks' best penalty killer — to do exactly that without forcing the Sedins to miss a shift while Burrows catches his breath. After almost every penalty, Daniel and Henrik come over the boards with Mikael Samuelsson, fresh as a daisy, often successfully wresting the momentum away from their opponents in the process. This is an important shift, and without Samuelsson, it doesn't happen. It didn't happen during the Final, either, as Alain Vigneault ran out of wingers for the second line proper, let alone alternates for the Sedins.
Finally, there's the mental aspect. Physically incapable of violence though Samuelsson may be, he's also a huge part of the Canucks' mental toughness. When the Swede was declared done for the season, Kevin Bieksa told a humorous story about Samuelsson's insistence, upon arriving from Detroit, that the team play more composed. "Mikael Samuelsson was the first person to say, 'Let's go whistle to whistle. Let's stay off the refs,'" Bieksa said. "At first we kind of teased him. 'Whistle to whistle…? We're not a whistle to whistle team.'" Considering how the Canucks' abandoned this advice and wound up back on the refs' bad side in the Final, one wonders if they missed Samuelsson's leadership as much as his play.
Samuelsson has now fully recovered from the surgical procedure he underwent to repair the tear. When asked by Iain MacIntyre how he felt now, Samuelsson said he felt stiff. "Every time you step on the ice after summer, you feel stiff," Samuelsson said. "And that's what I feel now. It doesn't feel different from the other years. That's a good sign. I actually feel stronger in the area I had surgery on." Stiffness we can work with. Severe abdominal pain? Not so much.
Canuck fans should have been excited by MacIntyre's report, but I don't think we quite remember anymore what Mikael Samuelsson actually is for this team. Here's hoping a healthy season from the feisty Swede will jog our memories.
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Good writeup. Intuitively, I feel that for the exact same money, if Samuelsson had had the same statistical season in his first year with the Canucks that he had last year, fans would have been pretty happy with the signing. A 50-point UFA! Whoo!
Expectations are a funny thing.
I think you meant "conversion rate", but if not, it's nice to know they're communicating more out there with Samuelsson on the ice
Great article though, and I agree that his role on the team isn't widely understood, and could have been pivotal in the final if he were healthy.
So I don't post something for 5 days and it's a story? Nice to know I've been missed.
In reality, I'm in the midst of quitting from my job at one of our busiest times of the year. I'll have a post or two up soon on the camp invitees, then next week I'll have quit my job and will have more time for blogging.
Nero has a good point. I remember Samuelsson's unconventional decision-making to be great north of centre ice, but often disastrous on the breakout. He creates chances by going against the flow of play, but it resulted in about as many broken plays as opportunities.
Great post. I have admired Mikael Samuelsson since his arrival and hope that he has a bounce back season following his injuries. His importance to this team is self-evident and he personifies the Red Wing values that GMMG seems to be trying to re-create in the Canucks organization. I look for aa great seaon from Mikael and the Canucks.
Good post. I'll own up to being one of those that forgot why FU Sweden is so valuable to the team. 09-10 seems like such a long time ago. Hopefully his versatility can help us in the early weeks while we try and cover the Kesler and Raymond shaped holes on the second line.
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"The Manster" (1959) stars Peter Dyneley as unlucky reporter Larry Stanford and Jane Hylton as his arguably more unlucky wife Linda. Dyneley acted mostly in stage productions prior to 1954, when he began working in films. Many of his plays and films were done with Hylton, his real-life wife. Although he was British, Dyneley was a master of the American accent, on display in "The Manster" as well as in the mid-60s TV series "Thunderbirds," in which he voiced animated character Jeff Tracey (and others).
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