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Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.
Now, I am all for a new column, by anyone, and I am sure Dragons has some interesting things to say and has experience to help shape those opinions.
I do not like the way it feels that MMORPG is setting this guild apart from others as if it is the only one worth talking about. Yes, I read what Stradden said, but I can't believe no other guild leader has ever wanted to do this sort of thing.
I do not like the way The Syndicate seems to portray itself more as a company than a gaming guild. I don't like the way people keep talking about them having clout with developers (that concerns me greatly). And I don't like the way this website seems to be showing them preferential treatment.
That said, I am sure to be the guild leader *cough* CEO of a large group like that, Dragons knows a thing or two about gaming communities, and would be worth seeing what discussions we can have about them.
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Joined: 11/08/08
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Originally posted by Dubhlaith
I will have to agree on most points made,. especially the one I highlighted. However the text in red, I will say I have to disagree with.
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Joined: 4/06/11
I don't understand the people's hate in here. So we have a guy (who is apparently a very experienced guild leader) talking about gaming communities, call me odd but I fail to see how this is a bad thing. In fact, it's going to provoke rather interesting discussions.
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Joined: 1/06/05
Originally posted by Stradden
My personal feelings is that I don't have personal feelings toward the guy or his guild. I'm always for different viewpoints as I find it spurs conversation.
Having said that is seems a very diverse group of guilds will have to be featured in order to apease a lot of people who have some issues with the start of the column.
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Joined: 9/19/04
I will have to agree that it is pretty ironic that all the news about The Syndicate strikes up a massassive flame war on all the new columns. YET they bring in the leader to LEAD news columns.
I look at this as they favor The Syndicate and make brash decisions on somthing that could have great potential.
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sorry. hey Sean, cant wait to read your column. i know everything i just said is exactly what you dont have in your guild, I was upset i guess. i do know about your guild i think it would be awesome to see what you have to say. so... welcome :)
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Well the mod edit messed up the context of my post. I was replying to an angry post full of four-letter words. It was basically claiming that the leader (sorry CEO) of The Syndicate was a God, and that everyone who didn't know or worship him was detritus.
This post beautifully outlines why communities in MMOs are often found lacking. The language is appalling and the anger apparent. People may not like the idea of a column by this guy, who it is quite understandable that people may not know, but at least they can put their thoughts in to words without going over the top with anger and abusiveness. Attitudes like this ruin MMO communities because there is always someone willing to be an aggressive and damaging factor.
There are too many people that damage MMO communities to make them wholly successful. Just look at the arguments that have insued from the EQ progression servers. There is constant debate about who killed what, who trained who or who had rights to a kill. It's not only arguments but the throwing back and forth of insults and bad language.
There is nothing wrong with forming a criticism of something, it is the way people do it. They can present it eloquently or they can become rude and lacking in sense. There's too much of the latter in MMO communities. Can anyone do anything about that? The developers probably can not without a strict set of rules, but maybe the communities can by isolating the damaging factor.
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Joined: 9/28/09
I don't get it. Why is a new writer coming on board a bad thing? Personally, I am looking forward to reading some of his work. If I agree or disagree it's all good if in the final analysis I acquire new information or a new viewpoint. You simple learn to learn and expand your world, or become roadkill. It's called life and there is no getting over it.
Originally posted by kzaske
I don't think anyone thinks it's a bad thing to have a new writer on board. I believe it's the context that has got people double taking. Here is some guy that has led a long lasting MMO guild across a number of games. It doesn't appear that he has ever made an MMO or run an MMO's community team, yet he is being promoted as the person to lead us in to a new era of MMO community filled pleasure. Yes, it has been noted there's some hyperbole attached, but what's the point of a serious column shroude din hyperbole?
I certainly agree with a need to discuss why MMOs seem so lacking in community, but I think it's something for a round table, or big discussion, not some guy who's led a guild. That only addresses the community of a guild, and I don't think it's a huge, huge accomplishment to keep a group of friends together for twelve years.
There's far more pressing factors that damage MMO communities that can only be addressed by those who develop the games.
I welcome the guy on board, because I'm sure he has some interesting stuff to say, but there's a fair amount of pessisism from me that this is going to change our genre. I'd love to see some community improvement from it though. Maybe some developers will take note of what transpires here.
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Well I didn't read the full article becuase I lost interest while reading the self loving gloating from the author about his massive achievments. Anyways He did make a few valid points in what I did read. How guilds come and go, implode, etc. How there really are no other guilds as large that have been around for as long as his. So with this in mind, how does this guy have a clue about player communities at all, clearly his 1,200 strong community is nothing at all like the communities the rest of us play with.
I know these guys are constantly tapped for betas and their feed back is requested and valued higher then other gamers. This is very disturbing to me when to me its clear this guild is a fluke and most likely only successful because it is run as a business. The rest of us play games to escape work. In any case, I hope developers are inteligent enough to take anything this guy has to say with a grain of salt and realize that while his guild is large, in fact it is the minority of their potential player communities and in no way as the author says himself, a reprsentation of the typical or average guild.
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Joined: 3/08/04
Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
wasnt there a column a little while back warning us all of the dangers of using hyperbole and why it isnt good?
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Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
/sigh yeah, Bullfrog made great games... their destruction by EA makes the NGE look like a tickle.
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Joined: 11/19/05
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
From my perspective, this will be a new column and not a blog. Why did that occur? We have a number of excellent writers who have earned 'blog' spots but are not 'guest writers'? Paragus, Teala, Sovrath (who doesn't have a blog but should IMO). These folks have proven track records within the community. Why not something from them?
I personally don't care a whit about the Syndicate. . What does matter is self-aggrandizement. We could have had a new writer (guest if you will) without the grand announcements of 'CEO of the Syndicate' and '1200 members unlike the misquoted # here on this very site'....blah, blah, blah. Just write without the self-promotion.
I suppose the 'spin' argument to my issue would be that a CEO of the oldest 'Virtual Community' on the web with only 6-8 members of 1200 leaving per year would be a true success story and know everything there is to know. (Apparently 85% of whom rejoin so they have only lost 18 members over 15 years...) . *blinks* Really?
To the folks who call this group a guild, remember that 'The Syndicate isn't a guild, we are the industry leaders in gaming excellence and the most successful virtual community in the history of online gaming.' By their own definition.
I'll read the articles that are posted but the first time... actually to be generous I'll say the 2nd time, I see something to the extent of 'We at the Syndicate...' it will be the last time I read.
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Joined: 11/08/08
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Originally posted by holifeet
Yes I read that post last night, he was very angry there was no less than 20 expletive's. And yes he was very mad at any of those of us who dared to say anything negative about his guild. In fact we had several of there guild members show up in this thread with anger as well, all but one of them have had their post modded or out right deleted. However that guy was way over the top.
I get it, I understand they love their guild, and they don't want to be dished, It is obvious they are not used to be challenged, something they are going to have to get used to if they are going to stick around here.
It should be interesting to hear what this fellow has to say at his next column, and see the results. I expect more of the same. A lot of disagreement, and a lot of bashing of folks who disagree. It just the way these forums work nowadays.
Disagreement is always warranted and nothing would be acheived without it. The problem with much of the internet is that disagreement often ends up being abusive and argumentative. How many threads do you see that quickly turn in to flame wars? Community is broken, and not just in MMOs. It's a hard thing to fix when so many people are intent on putting wedges in reasonable discussions.
I actually think MMORPG.com don't always help with their modding. They are rather quick to weed out the seriously abusive and inapplicable posts, but they are equally quick to weed out stuff that might well be useful along with editting bits of posts to make threads look disjointed and hard to follow. There was a column a few weeks ago and though I can't recall exactly what it was about, it descended into a bit of a frcas very quickly, though it was never an overly abusive fracas, but just a few people asking someone with blunt and non-constructive posts to elaborate a bit. The mods ripped the thread to bits even though there were some good points.
Maybe the answer to building communities is to help ourselves. Weed out the bad element and support the good. Just don't be so destructive at weeding out the bad that the whole place descends in to a fracas.
I guess control is one thing this Dragon guy can teach us. He must have had his moments where he has needed to resolve disputes and he's obviously done a good job at that. How do you maintain a peaceful community without coming across as a dictator?
Of course maybe we're in a losing battle already. It's often in the press over here in the UK that society and community are wrecked. If it's like that in the big, wide world, then what hope do MMO communities have?
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Joined: 1/26/04
The hostile posts that the mods deleted that purported to be from "Syndicate members" were merely trolls attempting to stir up controversy and make the members of The Syndicate look bad. The kind of people we recruit do not engage in hostile posts, name calling and trolling. There are also guild rules prohibiting that kind of conduct that results in loss of membership if its broken.
The suggestions on topics for this series were collected and passed to Dragons. Thank you for posting those.
This is one of the things I am curious about. How do you manage members in a guild that is reported to be large and spans numerous games? Is it a case of one rule infringement and you're out? If so then is that community or simple organisation? Does community mean members are less liable to transgress? I doubt that somehow.
It will be interesting to read how Dragons believes community works.
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Joined: 3/08/04
Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
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Saying that, I pretty much agree with what was said, it made sense, but it also failed to underline the core problem of MMORPGs... in that they ARE about community, but that this same community is in general 90% full of assholes and so the concept this genre is built on is simply broken on the wider scale. The people make these games, but most of the people in the modern hobby pretty much suck atttitude wise (as dictated by fashionable modern mainstream internet culture that says 'be a dick, it's cool and no one can hurt you'). So, little self proclaimed oasis of fantastic community aside, these games fail because the wider user base fails, and thats about it.
IMO, no amount of game design now can reverse the modern internet culture back to real 'community'. I used to think it could, but now I just think it's too late.
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I generally never post on this site due to the greater then normal amount of trolling but this column has finally brought out the troll in me, firstly because it is a well known fact that the syndicate are shameless self promoters to the point of arrogance. Secondly they would have you believe that they are the one and only long lived legacy clan when contrary to the columns statement there are in fact others just as long lived or almost so, my guild is 14 years old, stable, and large am i not qualified as well? Thirdly i would cite that anyone who has gamed or spent any significant time in a community would easily have this trivial knowledge including myself
truth be told i see this as just another soap box self gratuitous ego trip which will what? Educate me on the fundimentals of the social dynamics of guilds and gaming communities and the impact they have on gaming? Be real, we all know these things and before a justification comes barrelling at me citing the idea that this column and it's author is going to bridge the gap between game design and community relations by defining social and psychological under pinings associated with online gaming communities and to enlighten and educate not only those playing but the design companies as well is a farce and blatant aggrandizment on the part of the author to believe people to be this obtuse and obfuscate the true agenda here.
I get the impression that the author is treating the very same communities he is hoping to enlighten as children, and we require his unmatched knowledge in guild affairs to understand games? Frankly it's a slap in the face to assume that both players and game companies are unaware of the symbiosis of the two and from my experience game companies invest a great deal trying to understand us and have their own pathways to accomplish this hardly requiring this column or author to do so.
Besides any really educated gamer and guild builder or community manager knows that game design is built upon a foundation of money mechanics and draws inspiration through industry trends and standards, which means our communities don't impact the final product they impact the success of that product just as everyone already knows.
However what isn't known is game companies really don't see the communities the way we think they do thus the disconnect. Unfortunately this article alone won't do it and i personally do not require the author to speak on my behalf, i get my own say in my own way and don't recall hiring the author to be the the mouth piece of my gaming experience.
If MMORPG believes his conjured credentials then they obviously need his services more then we do to understand their own community, most gamers don't like being talked down to by one of their own, especially someone no better or different than themselves.
Good post with some great points, Drakiis. It could do with a few full stops though, but it doesn't take away any of what you say.
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Prep football: 2013 recruiting class one of best in area's history
Immokalee High School athletic director Tony Allen didn't understate the magnitude of this year's National Signing Day for the Indians.
"We expect a big day in the history of Immokalee athletics," Allen said.
Though he was referring to the five Indians who will sign Division I scholarship offers, Allen could have been referring to all of Southwest Florida. Wednesday is the first day high school seniors can sign national letters of intent to play for college football programs, and the area will have its share of Football Bowl Subdivision recruits.
On National Signing Day, 11 local players will make their commitments to Division I schools official. Eight of them will sign with teams in Bowl Championship Series conferences.
Immokalee will have the marquee class in the area, including one of the most sought-after players in the country.
ESPN's college sports network, ESPNU, will broadcast live from Immokalee's auditorium as defensive back Mackensie Alexander announces his college choice. Though he hasn't revealed much about his recruitment, Alexander, ranked the No. 4 player in Class of 2013 by ESPN, reportedly is picking between Auburn, Clemson, Mississippi State and Texas A&M.
During a signing ceremony, Indians quarterback Tshumbi Johnson will sign with Cincinnati, running back Jacky Marcellus will commit to West Virginia and defensive tackle Deadrin Senat to South Florida. Mackenro Alexander, Mackensie's twin brother, also will announce which BCS program he'll sign with.
The ceremony will start at 10 a.m. and culminate with Mackensie Alexander's live announcement on ESPNU at 11:15.
"Immokalee is probably one of the more unheralded programs in the country," said CBS recruiting analyst Tom Lemming. "Year in and year out they're one of the top programs at developing Division I talent. Whenever I visit Florida now it's almost like a must-stop even though it's a little out of the way."
Barron Collier will have two BCS recruits. Linebacker Jake Berman will sign with Central Florida, a new member of the Big East.
Berman will be at the signing table by himself because tight end Mike Heuerman graduated in December and is already enrolled at Notre Dame. The Cougars will have Heuerman sit in on the ceremony via Skype.
South Fort Myers defensive back Jayron Kearse will make his verbal commitment to Clemson official in a 10 a.m. signing ceremony. Kearse has changed his mind a few times in his career — from Auburn to Miami to Clemson — but Wolfpack coach Grant Redhead said the defensive back is set on the Tigers.
"It's not changing," Redhead said.
Also at South, two-way lineman Joe Fennell will sign with Division I Western Kentucky, and defensive back Kenny Bishop will commit to Youngstown State, a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) school.
Naples High will have four players commit, highlighted by running back Manny Morgan signing with Akron.
"There are a lot more than that down here," Naples coach Bill Kramer said of the area's 11 FBS signees. "The area has plenty of talent. Even with all these kids, Southwest Florida is the most under-recruited area in the state the last two, three years."
Kramer might have been referring to Morgan, who didn't field any BCS offers despite rushing for 4,546 yards in three years at Naples. Morgan graduates as the Golden Eagles' second leading career rusher."(College) coaches are waiting in line on the East Coast (of Florida) for kids who are not as good as kids here that aren't being recruited," Kramer said. "(Morgan) goes down as one of the all-time greats at Naples High School."
National Signing Day isn't just for football, and the Division I talent isn't limited to the gridiron. Palmetto Ridge cross country runner Carlos Miranda will sign with Florida on Wednesday, while Naples senior Danielle Avery will commit to run track at Louisiana State.
A list of local high school seniors expected to sign with NCAA Division I colleges Wednesday:
Mackenro Alexander, Immokalee — Undecided
Mackensie Alexander, Immokalee — Undecided
Jake Berman, Barron Collier — Central Florida
Kenny Bishop, South Fort Myers — Youngstown State
Joe Fennell, South Fort Myers — Western Kentucky
Mike Heuerman, Barron Collier — Notre Dame
Tshumbi Johnson, Immokalee — Cincinnati
Jayron Kearse, South Fort Myers — Clemson
Jacky Marcellus, Immokalee — West Virginia
Manny Morgan, Naples — Akron
Kendrick Mouton, St. John Neumann — Navy
Deadrin Senat, Immokalee — South Florida
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Carlos Miranda, Palmetto Ridge — Florida
Danielle Avery, Naples — Louisiana State
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Posted: March 01, 2013|
Police are appealing for witnesses after a garden tool was stolen from a truck in Bournemouth.
An orange and white leaf blower was taken from the back of a truck parked in the Turbary Park Avenue area of the Dorset town at around 2:30pm on Tuesday February 26.
Police Constable Lee Harrison of Bournemouth Police said: "I am keen to trace the stolen item and would urge anyone who may have witnessed this theft take place, or may have information about those responsible to call Dorset Police.
"I would also urge anyone who has been offered a Stihl leaf blower in strange circumstances or at an unusually low price to contact police."
Witnesses and anyone with information should call Dorset Police on 101, quoting incident number 26:247.


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The PFO Research Foundation recently met in Washington, DC for its first PFO Summit which promised a breakout session discussing PFO-Exercise-Guidelines. I attended the event and was hoping for both practical and selfish reasons to get some clarity on PFO-Exercise-Guidelines from some of the world's top authorities on PFO. Instead, what I learned in the breakout session aimed at developing better PFO-Exercise-Guideline documents and educational materials for patients with PFO disorders was that we have a great deal more work to do to get better patient information out there on this controversial topic. I reference a recent post to my blog from Sept. 28, 2010, at know-stroke.org to illustrate this point:
I just found out I have a PFO after a cerebellar stroke and ministroke in 27 months. I am 45. Should I be scared to do cardio, how much, how long, what should I avoid? Thanks Dave, I appreciate reading something from someone who seems a lot like me.
What should this person do? Known PFO, positive TIA/stroke and would like to continue exercising. Is cardio fine? Are weights OK? What about swimming? Climbing at altitude? Diving? We know these situations may present increased risk but where do you draw the line? What should the medical community suggest for reliable PFO-Exercise-Guidelines ?
Patients are turning to the web and patient forums for guidance clearly because they are not getting answers from their physicians or device manufacturers regarding PFO-Exercise-Guidelines. It's simply not enough to tell patients "you can't avoid the valsalva maneuver*" in daily life. No kidding doc, really? Is that the best advice we can give?
I learned "off the record" after running a marathon that perhaps (running long distances) was not the best decision for me "down the road" with a PFO occluder on board. This inside information was shared with me by a physician recently after my primary cardiac physician had cleared me and stated after more than one year post PFO closure "if my legs could carry me that far and my brain was crazy enough to talk my body into 26.2 miles then my heart would be fine". OK, so, what is safe? What should PFO patients be doing for exercise 1-3 weeks after closure? How about after 6 weeks? What is really so special about 6 weeks? Why not 1 year (or more)? Should every occluder device have its own post-op protocol based upon the design? Perhaps. I personally had contacted the device manufacturer that built my heart plug several years ago after closure. I asked them,-NO-, I challenged them to get their patient education website completed and build a useful patient resource to assist patients that were in my shoes. That was well over 3 years ago. No site. Nothing. Still waiting…
Blame the FDA, insurance companies, poor clinical trial enrollment, whatever excuse we want to make, this is certainly not "best medical practice", it is not acceptable and is in fact poor medical practice to not have clear PFO-Exercise-Guidelines. As a practicing physical therapist, if I sent someone home after a total hip replacement and didn't remind them that there were clear post operative hip precautions that they should be aware of following their procedure (and based upon the technique and specific device they had implanted in their body), I could be fired and sued if they went home and blew out their hip because I didn't educate them. That is simply part of my job! Why are heart plugs different? The last time I checked they were still being inserted directly in the center of our most vital organ.
Patients can't continue to afford to be the pigs here. Patients are literally putting their "hearts on the line" and deserve so much better. I certainly hope this post serves as a challenge to industry and physicians to be more responsible and get our collective acts together to set things straight for patients. At least that is why I continue to write this blog, and yes, industry, this blog creation was and remains my direct response to your failure to step up and do something. Truth is, I write most of my content on lunch breaks and late on Friday evenings after my responsibilities as a dad and business owner are complete. (This is at least my excuse why I frequently have typos in my posts.) I write this blog because in some way it helps patients ask more educated questions and hopefully make their medical care takers stay on their toes, at least that's what I've been told. I have no financial disclosures to report, don't know any venture capitalists, and have no potential gain if PFO closure proves to be a slam dunk for stroke prevention or migraine relief. I just own the peace of mind that I did something. I urge all medical professionals and industry leaders involved with PFO to get together now under the direction of the PFO Research Foundation and draft clear PFO-Exercise-Guidelines. Now, I must get back to my patients, and then perhaps go out for a run later this evening when I get done here at work.
PFO-Exercise-Guidelines for PFO Patients Needed
By David P Dansereau,MS PT
Original article for know-stroke.org
[Personal Sidebar] Until we have better closure on this topic I advise PFO patients (and anyone running or exercising solo) to wear a medical alert ID. I think Road ID is great because they have the option of linking your medical info online to your ID band.
Learn more about David's Blog and PFO-Exercise-Guidelines
• *Valsalva maneuver: A maneuver in which a person tries to exhale forcibly with a closed windpipe so that no air exits through the mouth or nose as, for example, in strenuous coughing, straining during a bowel movement, or lifting a heavy weight. The Valsalva maneuver impedes the return of venous blood to the heart.
(PFO- Patent-foramen ovale)
• Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a small opening in the wall of the heart that separates the two upper chambers or atria. It is due to a persistence of the fetal circulation where a flap-like opening does not close as it normally should after birth. It is very common to have a PFO and is found in approximately 20% of the adult population. This flap-like valve enables shunting (abnormal mixture of blood between the right and left sides of the heart), which is often dynamic and of variable degree.-source: PFO Research Foundation
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Man, I miss Animaniacs. Actually, all of the Warner Bros. cartoons from that time period were great. They were smart, and they were funny. I remember many fond moments when my mother would crack up while watching the show with us, not explaining whatever was so funny and telling us we would "get it when we were older." It's amazing how much stuff they managed to slip in there for the grown-ups.
Today we've got a collection of posts from around the blogosphere highlighting good ideas for new players, good ideas for experienced players, and some good old-fashioned critical thinking.
- Life in Group 5 has a wonderful post with things to keep in mind for new or experienced resto shaman -- and everyone else in between, too!
- Mana Obscura shares some thoughts in defense of keeping the tank/healer/DPS trifecta alive.
- Restokin spotlights a good idea for those with cluttered bags and banks -- the Adibags addon.
- Orcish Army Knife has come up with a fun idea for bored guildies or friends: The Naked Dungeon Challenge!
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The centre-back has built a formidable reputation over recent seasons in the Premier League since moving to The Hawthorns in a bargain £800,000 deal from NEC Nijmegen in 2008.
West Brom last summer took steps to ensure Olsson would not leave and gave the Swede a new four-year contract but the terms are rumoured to include a £3million release clause.
That has led to speculation of bids from several Premier League rivals, particularly Arsenal, and also clubs in Turkey, but the 29-year-old has no plans to leave.
"It's flattering with the interest but I am focusing on West Bromwich Albion and the current season." Olsson told Expressen.
"I am happy at the club and, as I have said before, it should be something attractive if I should leave West Brom."
Olsson's club are similarly keen to keep one of their best players and Steve Clarke, who has guided the Baggies to an impressive seventh place so far this season, has no plans to sell.
Ahead of Saturday's FA Cup third round tie at Queens Park Rangers, he said in the Express and Star: "We can hang on to every single player. We don't have to sell anybody.
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Penguins center Jordan Staal, 23, enters this off-season with Dwight Howard type power from the standpoint that no team is going to give up significant assets for a player who won't commit long-term as Pittsburgh is in a position of weakness on the trade front if they were to entertain offers for Staal.
Therefore, don't bank on the rumor of Edmonton being willing to trade the No. 1 overall pick for Staal becoming any kind of a possibility as Staal has no interest in playing in Edmonton and sources inside the Penguins organization say there are serious doubts that GM Ray Shero will even consider moving Staal at the draft or before he can start negotiating with Staal on July 1.
Staal though has all the power on dictating his long-term future whether i'd be Pittsburgh or elsewhere.
One situation though that is very likely to emerge in the coming months and chatter is already heating up is Staal orchestrating his way to Carolina and play with his brother Eric whether it would be via trade or in free agency next July.


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It is said that the angel Sandalphon was created from the Tree of Life, and walked the Earth in human form as Elijah, the great prophet of Israel who weve read about in the book of Kings in the Bible. Toward the end of his days he was taken in a flaming chariot in a whirlwind into the Heavens alive and well to return to his angelic form.
Sandalphon, an Angel of Prayers, is also twin brother to Metatron, who interestingly is the only other angel who is said to have walked the earth as a man and ascended to Heaven without dying. Together they carry prayers through the different levels of Heaven to God.
Moses called Sandalphon a tall angel, and in fact, Sandalphon is so tall that it would take 500 years to travel from his toes to his head.
Sandalphon is also a guardian angel to all children.
When we need wisdom and clarity, we can call on Sandalphon. We live in a world where we may be unable to perceive the many miracles that are happening around us at any given moment. Sandalphon can help us to see that Gods miracles happen all the time, and that we have as much right to experience them as the next person!
Sandalphon wants us to ask for what we want! Then release those prayers to him to take to God. And we really need to release them. If you place an order through Amazon.com, you dont keep emailing them and placing the same order again over and over because it hasnt arrived on your doorstep, right? You wait expectantly! You KNOW your gifts are on their way!
Have faith that your prayers are heard and answered. Some things take a little longer, or maybe the timing isnt right. Just trust and know that your prayers have been heard. If you are feeling impatient about it, ask for the peace to carry you through until your prayers are answered. Or ask to see the wisdom in Gods plan for you. Sometimes we ask for things we want, but arent necessarily any good for us. Pray for guidance, and pray to be on the path that is for your highest good.
Sandalphon can help us to walk the path of our highest purpose. He inspires us and fills us with insights that guide us toward being who we are meant to be. And like all the angels, he is a messenger of the Divine and glorifies God in all that he does; all so that we may awaken to our Soul and Light the world.


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Wow, those screens are expensive!
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and i read engadget like religiously...
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I found a similar 7" click-on screen on some wii accessories shop a while ago. It wasn't that expensive, only around 125 dollars (700 danish kroner), complete with sensor bar, plugin for your car and everything. Ofcourse it was some chinese product, so i don't know about the quality.
If i stumble upon it again i'll add a link
its been done with xbox
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To say that special education teacher Shannon Putman "does things kind of differently" in her classroom is an understatement.
On a given morning, one can find students zipping back and forth on scooters answering questions about core curriculum, or turning in homework using a QR code scanner. But those are the words the Kentucky-based, Cochran Elementary School multi-modal communication teacher uses to describe her unique teaching methods, which blend sensory integration and technology to help students with communication disorders find alternative means of interaction.
Others do Putman greater justice.
"Shannon is very much a zealous, very enthusiastic ideas person," said Timothy Dowling, whose twelve-year-old daughter Rebecca has a dual diagnosis of autism and Down syndrome, and is in her seventh and final year of the multi-modal program.


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Based on the book by John Updike.
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The "witches" are three modern-day women yearning for Mr. Right in a quaint New England town. Wealthy Daryl Van Horne arrives in town and sets out to prove he's a devil with the ladies.
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The Oakland school district's special-education programs will take a $4.3 million hit next school year under a plan to fix a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall discovered just a month ago.
The plan to slash the department's budget by more than 6 percent just weeks before the budget deadline was quietly announced on the last week of school in an internal memo to a group of special-education employees. The memo outlines how costs would be cut: bigger class sizes, caseloads pushed to the legal maximum and fewer teachers, aides and other employees, mostly reduced through employees gradually leaving and not being replaced.
Special education will take the brunt of the budget-balancing blow because, according to the district administration, that department was the primary source of the shortfall. An influx of federal stimulus funds masked that the district was not properly monitoring the revenues and expenditures of its special-education programs, Oakland school district spokesman Troy Flint said.
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In a recent advertisement he taped to promote his own show on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann earnestly says, ŌĆ£The point of the show is to illuminate. It is not to throw off heat; it is to throw off light.ŌĆØ HeŌĆÖs right about one thing: If televised ŌĆ£heatŌĆØ is generated by varying points of view and the sparks that fly in vigorous discussion, the temperature in the ŌĆ£CountdownŌĆØ studio is below freezing.
Yes, Olbermann is notorious for only inviting guests who will reinforce his own point of view. So as a little experiment, I decided to look at every single question Olbermann asked of his guests this past week (just four shows because of the July 4 holiday) and break down his questions by the kind of responses they provoked in his guests. Are guests just the nodding yes-men they seems to be?
At the risk of sounding like a yes-woman, well, yes.
In this official, rigorous, super-scientific survey, I found four patterns of questions and responses.
1. EXPLICIT AGREEMENT: In which a leading question provokes clear agreement as a response, such as ŌĆ£Yes,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£YouŌĆÖre exactly right,ŌĆØ and ŌĆ£Yes, yes, yes, dear God, IŌĆÖll say anything to keep being asked to come on TV and agree with you because seeing my face on television is the only source of my meager self-esteem.ŌĆØ
OLBERMANN: He has PhD in bogus-ity, does he not?
GUEST: Absolutely.
OLBERMANN: Is that as crazy as it sounds?
GUEST: In my view it is.
2. IMPLIED AGREEMENT. Leading questions that evoked tacit, but not explicit, agreement with the questionŌĆÖs premise.
OLBERMANN: After the Olympics, shouldnŌĆśt the president not say anything at all about sports?
GUEST: He has become the walking, talking ŌĆ£Sports IllustratedŌĆØ cover curse of this century
3. SUBSTANTIVE EXPANSION. In which the question is sufficiently open-ended to provoke an answer that includes genuinely new information. The closest thing youŌĆÖll see on ŌĆ£CountdownŌĆØ to journalism.
OLBERMANN: How it is possible for Jindal and Haley Barbour to go in and criticize the administration response to the oil disaster without not only just the measure of credibility, but a measure? [YouŌĆÖll notice this question is not exactly unbiased. Or clear.]
GUEST: Well, they are both in the interesting position of being more defensive of BP than BP itself is.
4. DISAGREEMENT. In which the guest disagrees with a question. Extremely rare!
OLBERMANN: Is there any expectation that if Governor Manchin gets the ruling he wants on this, that he could have a special election in 2010, that he would actually leave the seat open until then?
GUEST: I donŌĆśt think so. [Guest is swiftly beheaded at commercial.]
And now, the grand total for this week … drum roll please …
Yes, thatŌĆÖs right. The ratio of agreement (49) to neutral responses or disagreements (24) is slightly more than 2:1. In other words, ŌĆ£CountdownŌĆØ guests are indeed little more than nodding puppets.
Luckily puppets are easy to procure, because Olbermann lost one this week. Regular nodding head Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, was banned from appearing on MSNBC after ŌĆ£publicly antagonizingŌĆØ MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough via Twitter. This is coming just weeks after Olbermann quit writing for Daily Kos in a huff, then returned a few days later. Boys, if you canŌĆÖt all learn to play together nicely, IŌĆÖll take your low-rated cable show away.
As for the rest of the week (back to a full rundown next week!): Olbermann prayed to Oprah to ŌĆ£crushŌĆØ Rush Limbaugh (Tuesday), called for Clarence Thomas to resign (Wednesday), and said the immortal words ŌĆ£if I were a third as smart as Glenn Beck, IŌĆśd still be a spermŌĆØ (last Friday). He also compared Sarah PalinŌĆÖs new video to Osama bin LadenŌĆÖs, complaining that the video was offensively boring, then playing it on-air and spending a seven-minute segment picking it apart. Guest Alex Wagner of Politics Daily said of PalinŌĆÖs ŌĆ£mama grizzliesŌĆØ theme: ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs interesting that sheŌĆÖs chosen animals not known for their nuance and their firm grasp of the ins and outs of issues.ŌĆØ Stupid grizzly bears, why canŌĆÖt you be more like those notoriously wonky badgers?
Finally, on Thursday, Olbermann boldly claimed that Glenn BeckŌĆÖs latest on-air gaffe was ŌĆ£worse than Mel GibsonŌĆÖs equal-opportunity racism.ŌĆØ This is a surprising judgment call from a man who is prone to cry racism when he sees a young girl ordering a vanilla cone at Dairy Queen. Sure enough, Olbermann gave Gibson the *bronze* for Worst Person in the World Thursday for a vicious tirade including a racial slur. Then he named Beck the top Worst Person in the World award for making a mistake about the exact point that television cameras were allowed on the Senate floor. I need to stop being shocked at OlbermannŌĆÖs complete absence of proportion; itŌĆÖs like receiving defibrillation five nights a week, which canŌĆÖt be good for my heart. If only I could get my hands on some of the stuff Olbermann gives his guests to make them calmly smile and nod their way through ŌĆ£CountdownŌĆØ every night.


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Deputy Attorney General James Cole answers in the affirmative a question posed to him by Rep. Darrell Issa regarding the National Security Agency's bulk data collection programs.
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Not this guy. And, no, not her either. ("Heroes" official site) If there's one thing we can all learn from a time-traveling hero like Hiro Nakamura, it's that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it — no matter how many times you blink back to that past and try to […] [Read More]
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We're back to the paint-by-numbers plots, but this one has a twist–because Topher is a "genius" (at least in his own mind). He's managed to change Echo at the glandular level: she is able to nurse the baby at the center of this week's job. It seems the client's wife died in childbirth, and because […] [Read More]
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Boom! Here's How to Protect Your Hearing This Fourth of July
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
The Fourth of July is only two days away, which means firework displays are right around the corner–maybe you've even witnessed a show already!
As fun as fireworks are to watch, listening to those big booms can cause some serious hearing damage. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association notes that instantaneous loud noise–not just damage over time–can harm one's ears.
To protect yourself, ASHA recommends that you stand at least 500 feet away from fireworks (and do the same when in the presence of firecrackers and speaker systems), pop in a pair of ear plugs (ear muffs will protect kids under 8 years old), and simply know your limits by avoiding noises that are too loud, too close, or too long.
If you will be setting off your own fireworks this season, take a moment to review these fireworks safety tips! Happy Fourth!
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This will only be Rebecca's second full UK tour ever, her first in 2012 climaxing with triumphant shows in Liverpool and in London at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.
Ferguson's debut album, Heaven, was released in December 2011 to commercial and critical success, peaking at number 3 in the United Kingdom. Co-written by Ferguson, it was certified two times platinum in the UK and platinum Ireland. The album yielded six singles including lead single "Nothing's Real But Love", which enjoyed commercial success throughout much of Europe and Oceania, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 10. A deluxe version of the album included the single "Backtrack", which entered the charts in October 2012 at number 15, giving Ferguson her second Top 20 hit.
Ferguson's second studio album, Freedom, was released in December 2013, being met with positive reviews from critics and commercial success in theUnited Kingdom where it charted at number 6 and has since been certified Gold by the BPI. The album's lead single, "I Hope", peaked at number 15 in the UK; whilst "Light On" was released as the lead single in mainland Europe.[2]
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Use this grinder bit with all your glass-crafting projects. Bit fits all "Max" grinders.
It fits most Diamond Max and Most Inland and Glastar models.
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does the job for grinders. fits most style grinders. 3/4 is a good size for MOST projects in glass .
not much can say about a grinder head. they do there job very well, hold up nicely if you keep the cool when in use. do not run with out water. try using the grinder coolant for better cooling
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