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Enough with this WoW clone crap
I've heard this thought echoed across the internet for months now and it's getting a little old. Aion Online is not a "WoW Clone." By repeating that little bleet, all you're doing is proclaiming your ignorance of what the game is even about.
What is it that makes a game a clone of WoW anyways? That is has quests? Classes? A UI? You'd might think that if you believe claims like these. Well, let's get this straight, any MMO worth it's merit has these things. Stop proclaiming any game that doesn't re-imagine the UI is a clone of WoW. LotRO and WAR both got the same rap and, you know what, neither of them are clones of the golden god of 800-lb gorillas.
You know what I'll cop to? The game is reminiscent of WoW in the questing/PvE progression model. The added truth behind that? That makes up less than half the game if you play it to max level, unless you explicitly choose to make it your main game.
At level 25 you get to the core of the Aion Online experience and that's the Abyss. And, guess what, the Abyss is not Lake Wintergrasp.
If you're going to grasp at straws the game has more in common with DAoC than WoW, but most of the people throwing these criticisms wouldn't know that. These are the people that probably started and will finish their MMO careers with World of Warcraft. To those people, let me point this out, WoW is an Everquest clone dumbed way down. Every new fantasy game that comes out is a "WoW Clone." Well, WoW didn't reinvent the wheel anymore than other games out there.
You know the sad truth of the argument? At it's core, Aion does have a big similarity to WoW. You know what it is? That it's taken the ideas of other successful games and made them their own. It's taken that melting plot philosophy to heart and added to it. The questing model is similar to WoW. The story delivery echoes of LotRO. The leveling grind echoes of Final Fantasy XI. The PvPvE takes the best parts of DAoC and WAR.
Tell me how combining all of these things together and polishing it to a gleam is a bad thing. Games forever have borrowed from one another. And, you know what? At this point, it'd be pretty hard to be totally unique anyways. Try to write a book or a song that hasn't already been imagined some way before. You won't be able to do it.
All of this WoW Clone crap just reeks of bitterness. WoW is a PvE game with a PvP option. Aion Online is a PvPvE game. They're all tied. If you're yelling about Aion being WoW in a new setting, you haven't played it long enough or are reading the wrong sources. Leveling =/= clone.
- Chris
PS: If you're looking for what's similar and what's not, check out these articles:
- Q&A: Aion vs. WoW – Keen and Graev
- Comparing Aion vs. WAR – Keen and Graev
- Extendable Weapons – Aionic Thoughts (this is just cool, does WoW have these too?)
I havent played Aion but I agree with you in a broader sense.
There are poeple out there comparing Champions to WoW lol.
All MMOs will have common elements and it's only good business to use a successful model of an existing product when entering the market place.
WoW is the most succesful product out there and as you said it's an Everquest clone. Before WoW I believe EQ held the top spot for years. why wouldn;t new developing studios use these tried and tested methods and apply them to new games with a few different features?
Its like the Whopper the Big Mac and the Teen Burger.... someone realized a cheese burger would sell so they sold a bunch, the next guy wanted in and came up with his own variation, and so on. All cheeseburgers but with a slightly different flavor and in a different wrapper.Fri Sep 11 2009 12:52PM Report
I can't help but to agree with you gamebynight (although I wouldn't have it any other way, you're just right).
When you get right down to it, at some level or another, 99.9% of all MMORPG games ever released (yes, I said ever: some people are stupid enough to ignore release dates) could be called WoW clones by some poor soul, somewhere in the world. I'm trying to think of an MMO that couldn't possibly in any way, shape, or form and the only one I can come up with is DDO. It's kinda sad, actually.
I think this "WoW clone" stuff has gone waaayy too far. Yes, some games are "legitimate" WoW clones, but I don't play those sorts of games, so I don't care. So to all the "OMG ITS ANOTHER W0W CLONE!!!1!1!!11" people out there i say, please stop wasting my bandwidth with your pathetic attempts at conversation. Or in other words, GET OFF MAH INTERNETS YE NUBS
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always leading up to a moment admired -- in every frame you capture -- the simplicity of colour tells more than we see -- later days
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I dunno if anything that tree looks feminine to me. Maybe it's a queen. XD Yes I'm weird.
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Terrific B&W!!!
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perpendicularity ..................invisible right angles everywhere... very clean, sharp and minimal.
Initially you think this is a simple shot, minimalistic and abstract like. Then the closer you look you realize the skills required to capture the cimplexities of the scene. From the composition, lighting to the exposure and any post capture work if any at all that may have been done. This is a truly stunning visual masterpiece of the standard many aspire too including mysel, but very few achieve. Excellent work indeed. Simon
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I'm one half of Team2Bit, an indie video game studio developing 8-bit futurist titles for a variety of platforms. We are proud members of the IGN Indie Open House, a collective of independent game developers that work in the IGN HQ. Under the name TEAM FIST PUNCHER, we competed on and won the IGN/YouTube show THE NEXT GAME BOSS with our game WASHINGTON'S WIG, a sidescrolling platformer featuring an intrepid canine racing to return his master's wig. Our first major release, FIST PUNCHER, will be coming to Xbox and PC later this year.
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Thanks for the let's play, Jon!
Definitely two games that inspired us! Glad you like it!
Stay away from his jump kick and try to rely on special attacks (move done when holding the right trigger or R key). Throwing other enemies at him is also a good strategy. If you try to go toe to toe, I recommend throwing 3-4 punches and then retreating using the roll escape (second analog stick or O,P or ctrl,shift on keyboard).
At present, the game is local coop only. However, if we got on Steam, there is a much higher chance of us adding online coop.
Reminder on controls. The game is designed in XNA and Xbox controllers are recommended. However, the game does support keyboard input as well. Here are the keyboard controls:
Arrow Keys - Left stick (Movement - double tap and hold left or right to run)
Space - A (jump)
1 - X (punch)
2 - Y (kick)
3 - B (grab)
R - Right trigger (hold down to perform special attacks)
A - Left trigger (defend)
O,P or ctl,shift - left and right on Right Stick (use to do quick roll escape)
Tab,Z - Left and Rght bumpers (move through characters on Player Info screen)
Escape - Start (access Start and Pause menus)
For those with USB controllers, we do have it on our long-term list of features to add (we're only in alpha so many things are still going to be added to the game). In the meantime, simple apps like JoyToKey can be used to map the keyboard controls to a USB controller:
Thanks for the question. At present, you cannot fullscreen in the Alpha. We originally planned for the game to be an Xbox release so resizing or fullscreen wasn't needed. It's on the list of features that we'll eventually get to later this year for PC.
Quick comment on controls. The game is designed in XNA and Xbox controllers are recommended. However, at present, the game does support keyboard input as well. Here are the keyboard controls:
Arrow Keys - Left stick (Movement - double tap and hold left or right to run)
Space - A (jump)
1 - X (punch)
2 - Y (kick)
3 - B (grab)
R - Right trigger (hold down to perform special attacks)
A - Left trigger (defend)
For those with USB controllers, we do have it on our long-term list of features to add (we're only in alpha so many things are still going to be added to the game). In the meantime, simple apps like JoyToKey can be used to map the keyboard controls to a USB controller:
We're hoping to have a demo in the near future. If it's any help, the game was written in XNA so other 2D XNA games might be a good reference point for what's needed to run Fist Puncher.
Thanks for playing. Glad you liked it, and thanks for reporting the bug. We'd appreciate any feedback, input, or bug reports. Please feel free to post in the forum if you like to share anything else. Thanks again!
We might have to pay you royalties on those names. Gun Shooter is a wicked name.
Many thanks, and we're glad to get all of your input. We still might also put in a straight one-on-one mode. We'll see if it works out.
Thank you so much! The game is still in Alpha so there will be plenty of improvements. Since you're in early, we'd love to hear feedback. Feel free to head over to the forum and start a thread if you think of things you'd like to see added or improved.
Thanks for the question. The final game will have several modes:
-the main story or campaign mode that is turned on now - this is the main game
-a casual mode where you can work through a set number of levels with infinite continues and not worry about leveling up or cutscenes
-a competitive survival mode with friendly fire where you battle to be the last-man-standing
- a group survival mode where you work as a team to last as long as possible
Great input! Sounds like you're thinking right along the same lines that we are.
Pre-order Fist Puncher now and download the alpha version TODAY! Pre-ordering will give you access to the alpha release and all future versions of Fist Puncher. We're aiming for a wide release of the final version later this year, but if you get the alpha now you can give us valuable feedback about the final version and support the development of indie videogames. The alpha is far from complete (20 levels, 6 playable characters), but it should give you a nice taste of the kind of pixel bashing joy that Fist Puncher is known for. Thanks!
Several of the characters are based on real-world people (some famous, some not). With Dr. Karate is was more of an accident. We liked the idea of mixing two somewhat disparate talents (Karate and Surgery). The facial hair was actually more inspired by the fact that we're stereotypical bearded indie devs. Mix it all together and he came out looking a bit like Chuck!
We're at PAX exhibiting now, but we'll be putting together a demo once we get back from the show. It will probably include a subset of the playable characters (there are 14 total now) and the first few levels (they're are about 50 total levels at present).
One more thing, beta testers if you want to post feedback or discuss the Fist Puncher beta, we set up a forum here on Desura for that purpose.
Hi gang! A new Beta version of Fist Puncher is now live. We've added lots of content including new playable characters, new levels, new bosses, a new overhead map, more cut scenes, card unlockables, and a fully hooked up attribute and perk system tied to leveling up characters. One important thing, if you already played the previous version, you MUST START A NEW GAME. We changed the save file so previous games will not load correctly. Sorry about that.
PAX Prime is just around the corner in game-friendly Seattle. We're excited to announce that we'll be there demoing Fist Puncher as part of the Kickstarter Arcade. We'll be joined by several other successful Kickstarter alums (more details later about who will be joining us) as we show off our projects and talk about our Kickstarter campaigns. Huge thanks to Kickstarter for selecting Fist Puncher for exhibition. Even bigger thanks go out to our many generous backers. The money we raised through Kickstarter will directly support the costs of attending one of the highest profile videogame shows of the year. None of this would be possible without our backers' help! We'll be spending the next few weeks getting a PAX build of Fist Puncher ready, and we'll have more information about the Kickstarter Arcade in the upcoming days before the show. Seattle, we'll see you soon.
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Very nice, i love this texture
very amazing, how to make an art?
I really, really like the textures done here. Colors are bright and cheery.
loving the different colopurs ued in this painting
Wow, I love this one. I need to try to paint with oil one of these days. I always use acrylic.
thank you I don't like oil so much honestly, maybe because I'm not patient enough
This is amazing! I wish I could do something like this! <3
Fabulous texture! The sky looks gorgeous as well, it's definitely a very unique and beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower. Love it
wow a riot of colour and activity wondrous texture stunning gallery so varied in style
i love this!!!!!!
Really beautiful work.
this is just fantastic ^^
Wow the texture and colors are awesome!!
i love this one!
Love the textures!
It's very beautiful! I love the textures!
The combination of colours and shades in the sky is very eye-catching and affluent...draws attention to the reverence people have to the landmark I think.
Anyway, good show!
Anyway, good show!
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:22 PM
Your timing was superb as you weaved the kites around each other! And passing the kites so close to each other as you flew circles in opposite directions was amazing, as was the "Revornado"...
Loved it!!
Glad to hear that Broken Bells song in another vid too
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So awesome, i loved the dream sequences in the game, really gave shepard a depth that one would imagine such an icon to have
I loved these scenes great job.
Love the idea behind this, the way Shepard's N7 stripe stands out so. These dreams seem so very "Sleepy-Hollow"-like to me!
I liked the dream scenes, especially the one that plays after the romance scene. That dream really freaked me out.
I actually didn't like the scenes with Shepard's dreams as it assumes too mcuh on Shepard's personality luckily for me it suited my Shepard fine. The picture is really good though
That forest is like Shepard: it needs Shields.
Love the dreams, cheers!
I love those scenes with Sheps dreams,they showed that she/he is truly human,not just machine to complete missions.
Yet I truly hated that kid and it turns out that I was right...
Yet I truly hated that kid and it turns out that I was right...
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Celebrating Raheem DeVaughn Day? You'd Better Have Stamina.
We all know how to celebrate Cinco de Mayo: You eat your weight in Mexican food and drink cases of Corona until you can't see straight. But how would you celebrate "Raheem DeVaughn Day," the newfound "holiday" instituted by D.C. Mayor Vince Gray? My guess is that it includes lots of sex, slow jams...and, uh, more sex.
According to a press release, the DMV soul crooner is getting his own day and a key to the city because of his socially conscious lyrics and dedication to local youth organizations, among other things. There's no denying he's an active contributor in that sense.
But DeVaughn—who's also celebrating his birthday today—doesn't shy away from sexual references, especially on his Twitter page. " ... so ladies who wanna b my berfday cake?" he tweeted last night. Before that: "xo all over your body like lotion..." And let's not forget his super-sexy discography: "Garden of Love," "Woman I Desire," and "You" are just a few songs that come to mind.
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Freakazoid with bandana and earring
He looks so handsome. XD
this is some what....kinda hot...it's so weird to think of Freakazoid as a hot guy
hahaha xD
it's like thinking you wanna f*** a pony but yet you also think its weird to that's basically me like freakazoid actually looks hot in this pic but then your like its soo weird!
Robin without Batman
why do I feel sexually attracted to that drawing???
you draw him so sexy!!
you make him so sexy looking
I love the different clothes and styles you put him in~! So amazing ^^
I've missed him.
Oooooh! You draw him so perfectly, love the fact he rarely had pupils in your work!
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You cannot use more than sixteen colors at a time, and the first color on the palette is the background and will not show up. But remember, you have twelve palettes to work with. If you use the second color on the palette in palette zero, green, it will be the second color on the palette no matter which palette you use. It would be brown in palette one, red in palette two, blue in palette three, etc. Of course you can always edit the palettes.
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So you're saying that for one batch of the tiles I use palette 0 for their colors, and for the second batch of tiles just use palette 1 for their colors?
You see, I'm trying to add in some revamped HG/SS houses into a fire red hack but the 16 colors thing was stopping me.
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Well my three friends visited last week....and I promised them I would do my best to attend church on Sunday. Then pastor visited and said they'd installed a new electric recliner for me to use in church instead of the one there which every child under 15 had thought was a trampoline....it was one jump away from falling on the floor the next time I was to sit in it.
Then the next day my trusty friend Ralph came over to pick me and my rollator up to go out for lunch and to do some errands. Lunch went well. however in the car on the way to town (the temp was in the 90's and Ralph's car has no AC) I started to feel REALLY sick. Nauseous. dizzy. weak and exhausted. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I did manage to get through the bank visit (it was a drive up) and still had two more errands but I told Ralph I was done in. " No more...take me home NOW!!"
I got home and with the help of Nanette (my rollator's new name) I made it to my bed and zonked out for two hours. That was scary and something I do not wish to repeat. So now, Sunday looms. what about it? Will I make it? I have my promise on one hand and the recliner also beckons. But what if I get sick? Ralph sits on the opposite side of the church. I can set up a secret method of reaching his attention. I will tell him if he sees me stand up.....wait until I get to the back of the room and if I wave....then come and rescue me. I'll tell you--I do not wish that on anyone and its not something i want to encounter again.'
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Dr. Who Cat aka Dr. Mew by NicholasKayWatch
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This video shows my process while creating a commissioned piece. You can check it out here:
The subject matter is a Dr. Who inspired cat, full with hyper-sonic screwdriver and TARDIS call box.
This piece was featured on EGM's Geek page, you can check it out here:
In total this took 8 hours to paint and was done completely in Adobe Photoshop.
The subject matter is a Dr. Who inspired cat, full with hyper-sonic screwdriver and TARDIS call box.
This piece was featured on EGM's Geek page, you can check it out here:
In total this took 8 hours to paint and was done completely in Adobe Photoshop.
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Dr. Who Cat aka Dr. Mew is by ~Klausmasterflex ( Suggested by Astralseed and Featured by KovoWolf )
Finally the Doctor is a ginger.
*in dr who theme song* MEW MEW MEWWWW (badabado badabado)...MEW MEW MEW....(badadabedededew) MEW MEW MEW, MEW MEW-MEW MEW... (idk lol... derp)
this is cool :3
this is cool :3
can you hear me Dr. Mew, or are you the shadow of the man that I once knew, (lez make a chain)
This has to be the cutest Doctor who fanart ever
Awww Love it
this would be a good show
So much love for this. Fantastic artwork!
So beautiful. Absolutely, just stunning!
the docpurr!
This looks so amazing!!! So realistic! Seriously look like he's gonna come out of the screen or something lol Also impressive to see how it started on the video and the finished piece! Brilliant job!
(usually don't collect animal crossover...but yes anyway.)
just when i thought the dr. could not get cooler
It's a Kitty!!!!
A cat wearing the glasses! *squees*
This legitimately just made my day complete.
hahahahahha! Dr. MEW. Awesome.
Just made my day this pic did haha well done sir
Very cute. I loove it.
He's adooooorable!
Soo cute! The Doctor never looked so cool.
Ever play Blinx the Time Sweeper?
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Classic! Love it, big fan of the show.
ohhhhh!!!! it's the 10th doctor!!!! i luv it!!!!
XD Nice...
gorgeous work!
XD He is way cute, well done!
Down to the red Converse. XD
I Dr.Mew.
Bwahaha it's awesome how much it looks just like him.
Now I may get this wrong (I'm new to the series) but is this based off of the Tenth Doctor?
I'm just curious bc it looks like his clothing and I'm (Rather) sure it isn't the eleventh doctor (Who wears a bow tie and really needs to be fed more) and I'm fairly certain the Ninth Doctor wears something closer to street cloths. The other incarnations I know so little about I don't feel I have the right to even bring them up. Anyway, I really like the angles and the illusion of depth in this. Plus it's cute lol ^_^
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Early today (22-September-2015) — The latest version of Ancestry's app version 6.7 was released. Now 90.5MB in size.
The download is specific to handling images. The quality and ease of dealing with images in your smartphone was greatly improved!
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Early today (22-September-2015) — The latest version of Ancestry's app version 6.7 was released. Now 90.5MB in size.
The download is specific to handling images. The quality and ease of dealing with images in your smartphone was greatly improved!
The newest version of the Ancestry App 📱 (6.5) is here. Genealogy on the go has reached a new level of portability for those with an Apple Watch⌚ !
Lets see if the optimized matching is like MyHeritage or exactly what "enhanced search results" entails (more to come).
Option to delete trees within the app seems risky with touch screens. Caution would be advised and practice on a test tree before doing this for real.
🇵🇱 — I hope your using iOS 8.3, otherwise you may be seeing aliens (instead of iPhone, Apple Watch, Polish Flag)
530 years after death, Richard III honored before reburial
Richard III finally is buried 22-MARCH-2015 in a marked grave.
Update your family trees Anglo Genealogists.
RAOGK (Random Acts Of Genealogical Kindness) is back. Their website raogk.org is trying to rebuild the database of volunteers. The RAOGK pages on Facebook appear to be unconnected but were created to fill the void when RAOGK.org disappeared a few years ago.
Welcome back back RAOGK! If any of you are Polonia in the USA or are from Poland, then email me and I'll note it here in the blog. In my day, I too was a RAOGK volunteer.
Now you can provide raogk via Facebook groups (and yes even through the old Yahoo Groups that pre-dated Facebook), volunteer to do indexing through a local society or through FamilySearch.org, (or other Indexing projects, like Ancestry's World Archives Project). I have been a part of many of those too as well hanging out in Rootsweb/Ancestry forums.
Genealogy is collaborative. If you can go back 30+ generations (less if you are Polish like this blogger), then you are related to me and you are helping family. At least that is how I think about it. Also many have paid me this kindness, how can I not pay it forward too?
Collaborate … Volunteer its good for you and for all.
Stanczyk wanted to wish all the best of the Season's Greeting !
— So today's blog article is what I wish for us genealogists.
Does anybody else have any good suggestions for wishes? Email me or Comment on this blog article.
Stanczyk enjoys PBS and Genealogy. PBS has the excellent series Antique Roadshow so why not a Genealogy Roadshow? This is another fine genealogical series that complements the excellent work by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr (Finding Your Roots).
Well the PBS crew, featuring genealogists Kenyatta D. Berry, Joshua Taylor and Mary Tedesco are coming to Philadelphia, October 25th and 26th to film. This will be broadcast during the winter season coming up.
You can attend this event too. The details are on the Genealogy Roadshow website .
For those unfamiliar with Philadelphia genealogy, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP). will be featured. Many of the founding families have their genealogies recorded in book-form in a lovely room chock full of leather bound books of family histories.
Stanczyk — has a great-grandmother, Aniela Major / Majer who was the daughter or Marcin Major and Katazyna Ozarowicz. I have found some Major in church records. But, as yet I have been unable to locate Ozarowicz records that connect to my family tree.
At the top is an image, of the OZAROWICZ (aka Uzarowicz) name as written in Russian/Cyrillic. My Ozarowicz were from Biechow parish (of Stopnica area in the old wojewodztwo Kielce). So today, I am announcing in this blog that I am searching for Ozarowicz from Biechow area.
Click on my Stanczyk image and drop me an electronic missive if you are one or know one. Thanks!
About two years ago Stanczyk wrote about a website, special because it was a Polish-German joint effort at Reconciliation. The website I am referring to is: http://www.straty.pl/index.php/szukaj-w-bazie — Which takes you to a database search page where you can search for, "Victims of Oppression". It for searching for victims of World War II inside Poland. Originally, I kind of ignored it because I did not have family who was sent to a Concentration Camp nor did any of mine get forced relation after the war. So I MISTAKENLY thought this database was not for me. Last week I learned a few things.
Today's blog is about the Mash-up of Geneteka database, Using Straty.pl (the above database of oppression) and a website of Concentration Camps, with a smidgeon of Genbaza.pl thrown in for good measure.
I went to straty.pl (use above link, for Polish) or paste the above link into Google's Translator (for English). I put 'Elijasz' into the field named "Nazwisko" (Surname) and clicked on the button "Szukaj" (Search). It returned four results for me:
Notice the third row, with Stanislaw Elijasz, whose "Miejsce urodzenie" (birth place) was Pacanów. When I clicked on the button with the number "3". Remember his birthdate: 1906-04-17 ; We will use this data in Geneteka to get the Akt # and in GenBaza.pl to get the image of the birth record. When I clicked on the number "3" button, I got a lot more info:
I immediately, understood my mistake. The oppression database returned data about my ancestor, Stanislaw Elijasz who was a soldier in the Polish Army when World War II started (1-SEP-1939). He is listed as a victim of the September 1939 Campaign, he was caught, in "Russland" [I presume they mean in the Russian Occupied territory as opposed to the German Occupied Poland.], he was the equivalent of a Lance Corporal in a Signal Corps Battalion. At any rate, he was interred in POW Camp (the 1st of three) on September 17, 1939. Imagine that, he spent the entire World War II as a prisoner of war.
The other details were vague and not clear to me from the data. Lucky for me in Facebook, I have a friend, named Jozef Taran (in Poland). He provided me a website for concentration camps:
This second mash-up link was website of German Stalags (Concentration Camps) in Poland, Ukraine and Western Russia. This website and wikipedia pages gave me the details to understand the data returned by straty.pl for Stanislaw. You World War II military buffs take note !
Ok, but now I wanted to find which Stanislaw Elijasz of Pacanow, born on or about 17-APRIL-1906 was this data about. So I went to:
Geneteka.pl — to see if Stanislaw was indexed and what his birth record number (Akt #) might be to help me in my search of GenBaza.pl and to confirm the birth date. I found on result number 46, a result for Stanislaw born in 1906 Pacanow with an Akt # 77. Now I had enough info to locate his birth record in:
GeneBaza.pl — That link takes you directly to Stanislaw Elijasz, born in Pacanow on 17-April_1906, Akt #77 [assuming you have a GenBaza login id and you are logged in]. This gives the the church birth record image:
Now we have a complete picture of our Polish ancestor by the mash-up of websites:
Stanczyk attended this conference this year after missing the last two occurrences. So it is with fresh eyes and yet a knowledge of now having attended 4 of these UPGS conferences over the years.
The presenters were a strong group: D. Joshua Taylor, Ceil Wendt Jensen, Greg Nelson, Sonia Hoeke-Nishimoto, Mark Olsen, and Tadeusz Pilat. The first two have been on TV genealogy shows and are therefore well known. Ceil has been a part of so many Polish Genealogical media/conferences/organizations that her credibility as a UPGS presenter is top-notch. Sonia and Greg are both members of FamilySearch.org and you can often find Sonia in FHL, plus she does Polish genealogy research for her own family tree. Greg Nelson is also the replacement Kahlile Mehr at FamilySearch and so his presence was welcome (as Kahlile's presence was missed). Mark Olson was from MyHeritage and Tadeusz Pilat a presenter from Warsaw Poland and a ProGenealogists.com professional.
The conference had 11 presentations over 4 days, leaving some time for research and to attend optional FHL classes. The evenings had special events, including a banquet and a Wesoły Lud Folk Dance Ensemble performance for attendees. There appeared to be about 70+ attendees but there was just a single tract (unfortunately no choice in presentations, but they were all in one place — no getting lost). The presentations were split between Genealogy and Technology as the 2014 Conference proceedings cover shows. The Conference proceedings was good quality and included the presentation abstracts plus extra material and sponsor materials. This was well thought out and organized, and the Schedule thoughtfully included the hours for when FHL was open. My only suggestion for the Proceedings was to mention the Conference Room for the Presentations, which in this case was the same room for all presentations. It was not a problem as the organizers were present to hand-out materials and answer questions and once you knew the conference room it was the same for all presentations — so only a small error of omission.
Josh Taylor did 3 presentations. Two were on Technology. The problem with Technology presentations is that you need to know your audience and deliver to their level but in UPGS people have computer/technology experience of varying levels. This jester has had an entire career in Technology and I know at least two others present also made their careers with computers/technology and one man from Texas had technology focus and his own website that he maintained and developed. Today it is hard to find a genealogist that has not embraced technology. None-the-less the crowd ranged from rank beginners to very advanced and Josh targeted the very beginners. This was a bad decision by UPGS organizers because there was only one tract, I had nowhere else to go, except to the FHL.
If you had multiple tracts and the attendee could choose another presentation then it would be ok. In fairness, the technology presentations should also be evenly split across: beginner, medium and advanced experience attendees. But all of Josh's presentations were at the lowest level and the material even then was not very substantive. After his presentation, I asked the UPGS/UPGSA director why don't you have the presenters put their PowerPoints online so we do not have to write down links (URLs) or so that we can cut/paste forms into usable documents. Astonishingly, he said, "Because these are the presenter's property. Their work-in-trade." I did not have the heart to tell him that too many of the presentations were worthless if these were examples of that person's professional body of work. I did not want to argue that most large conferences do EXACTLY as I requested/suggested we at UPGS do. Almost every presenter said if you email me, I will send you my presentation. If that is so then why not upload the presentation online at the UPGS or UPGSA website?
This attitude on this UPGSA organizer's part of rebuffing suggestions is precisely why UPGS is only 70+ people and one tract of presentations and some of those presentations were sub-par. In truth the conference has not changed since I last attended in 2008. No growth and the quality of the banquet was less and it seemed less Genealogical Society support than in 2008 and before.
"Advancing Your Polish Research", by Sonia Hoeke-Nishimoto
"Maps & Gazetteers for Genealogy", by Sonia Hoeke-Nishimoto
"Immigration Agents", by Ceil Jensen
"The Peasant & the Palace: Research Manor Records", by Ceil Jensen
"This is Women's Work — Midwifery", by Ceil Jensen
"Creating Your Personal Family History Website", by Josh Taylor
"New Tools & Ideas in Research", by Josh Taylor
"Keynote: Family History in Pop Culture", by Josh Taylor
"MyHeritage.com", by Mark Olsen
"Notary Records In Poland", by Tadeusz Pilat
"Searching the 3 Partitions at FHL; LDS Filming Projects in Poland", by Greg Nelson
Can you see the flaws? Too few presentations. There needs to be at least two tracts so people have some choice. Further more, attendees should rate the presentations 1 … 11 (the # of presentations) so that organizers can see what the attendees like (or do NOT like). Also, 8 of the 11 presentations were by just three people. Nowhere near enough presenters. We need more diversity. You cannot tell me this was done to keep quality high, because as I said some of the 11 presentations were sub-par. No quality in limited presenters. Indeed, it causes presenters to "recycle" their efforts and the short durations 75 minutes probably meant that they cut some material from these recycled presentations leaving the attendee with an "unsatisfied" feeling from these content-lite (or content-free) send-ups. Perhaps if we had two tracts we could go to 90 minute presentations. These presentations could not be put up on the Internet??? Please organizers, you need to attend some more conferences and see how things are done BETTER and get some fresh ideas and perhaps decentralize the control of what is done/presented.
Don't get this jester wrong. Ceil Jensen hit another three home runs. Sonia's work was informative and appealing high quality. Josh Taylor did a very good job with the banquet Keynote presentation. Tadeusz's presentation was one I was looking forward to — to find new avenues of research in Poland beyond church records. It was well done and his English was good enough to present a high-quality send-up. I liked Greg Nelson's sharing of what was happening in FamilySearch for Polish Genealogists. Mark Olsen won me over about MyHeritage.com. You knew it was going to be a bit commercial, but he was convincing of the special technology that they have in their matching. He even made the commercial part disappear by offering EVERY attendee a free trial ! When this jester, needled Mark with a question about how many Polish genealogists MyHeritage had, he gleefully answered by showing us,within the tool itself, a map of how many accounts by country and the country Poland was over 1 Million members (on par with Germany)! Obviously some genealogists in the USA would need to be added on top but an accurate demographic of US genealogists by ethnicity, does not exist . I like the idea of the UPGS including a presenter from Europe at each UPGS. Obviously, a Polish researcher would be preferred but one with Eastern/Central European expertise would also be welcome. This "cross-Atlantic", cross pollination of information exchange is a valuable goal. It seems we have done many times already. So kudos, for keeping this idea going and for the selection of Tadeusz Pilat,
So it was really just the Technology presentations that I felt were not valuable and the organizer's entrenchment over simple suggestions that they could make for free and improve this conference. This only happens every other year, so you would think incorporating change and improvements would be easy and also be welcomed, given that much time to put on the next UPGS. Here is one more suggestion for the UPGS organizers. Perhaps the UPGSA needs to appoint a person whose sole focus is putting on the UPGS conference and training this person on how it is done now, what the costs drivers are and what the revenues are and asking the UPGSA members to provide suggestions for what they want to see in a new conference. Also I think the other regional Polish Genealogy Societies also need input into what would improve UPGS. I personally would welcome paying $25-$30 more (i.e. raise conference fee) for registration to get a 2nd tract of presenters. In my over 15 years of genealogy, I have NEVER once seen a call for papers or presentations. I have seen them for ROOTS Tech conference and I have seen them for the IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy. I have even seen the call for papers from FEEFHS.
I think the USPGSA and all regional Polish genealogy societies need to email ALL of their members and request papers/abstracts for presentations for each and every conference. I am a member of several societies and never seen it except for the conferences I have attended: ROOTS Tech & IAJGS Conference. It seems like the presentations are all done by people well connected to conference organizers. More diversity / more opportunity. OH UPGS organizers get some more presentations specific to Polish Genealogy. I was really disappointed by the presenters who said they have no Polish Genealogy experience … REALY at UPGS ??? What are you thinking? I did enjoy meeting old friends and long time Polish Genealogists again and doing some catch-up, perhaps we need some way of doing that.
This conference fails to teach new Polish Genealogists on Polish Genealogy topics. I think that limits the UPGS from growing. We also need to make it so genealogy vendors come and sell at the conference and they help defray the costs by charging for vendor tables. The UPGSA should produce an online PDF document, "How To Present At The UPGS Conference" so that other people know how to submit proposals, what they will face when they get to Salt Lake City and how to hook up their laptops to the projector. Make it a comfortable and welcome process for new presenters and for people to provide suggestions.
Each Polish Genealogical Society needs to sponsor one presenter at the UPGS (if their paper is chosen). That way we can see material from all over the USA from recognized genealogists and the costs of presenters is born by each society to share the expense of putting on UPGS while sharing control/input amongst them all. I missed seeing Matthew Bielawa, Jonathan Shea, Lisa Alzo. How long has it been since NY or Toledo had a presenter at UPGS? Perhaps other Polish Fraternal Groups could also help support this conference via ads or sponsorship of national speakers. Finally, show us Polish Genealogy bloggers some love: Give us quality pics of the speakers to use in blogs and access to any/all speakers for quick interviews. Why not make an UPGS organizer available for question & answer interviews to bloggers? Why not list bloggers and Polish genealogy websites in the Conference Proceedings?
Let's grow this thing! Oh by the way, this jester's suggestions are in BOLD-RED UPGSA, just in case you want some feedback.
If you agree or disagree let this jester know. Just email me.
♥ Happy Mother's Day 2014 ♥ – First, Stanczyk wishes to thank my wife on Mother's Day and then to wish all mothers a day of joy.
I love my wife, Teréza, and one of my goals for my recent research trip was to find her paternal grandparent's ancestral villages. I have some clues from American records, but Jewish records are hard to locate. But I was able to locate a census of the Austrian Hungarian Empire for the Maramaros region and the village of Kovesliget in particular which is very near to the present day border of Ukraine (by Khust) and inside Romania. The only record I found for that locale was from 1828 census, so I cannot prove that Misek Volfe (Jewish) is a direct line ancestor of her paternal grandmother, Bessie Wolf. But it does confirm for me that I have the correct locale from the US records.
For my own mother, Rosemary, I was able to locate her Vespeks in Sarvas (Osijek-Baranja county of modern day, Eastern Croatia). This corresponds to the LDS microfilm: FHL INTL Film # 1739003 Items 1-3. I first had an inkling from my maternal grandfather, Jozef Vespek's naturalization papers. I also had seen some records that FamilySearch had posted on-line and so I had more than an inkling that I would find Vespeks in the LDS microfilm. I also found Reiter, which had been in the ship manifest for my mom's half brothers (Jozef & Vendelin when they came from their uncle Rajter).
Genealogy is all about your family … those people in your tree and Mother's Day is another fine day to honor those named therein, particularly the mothers.
Stanczyk has been busy with his research in metryki.genbaza.pl . One of my surprising finds was that my grandmother's eldest [half]-brother Jan lived in Rochester ( in Monroe County, NY ). I recently found Jan Leszczynski in the AP Kielce archive data on GenBaza – his marriage and a few children (with Antonina Sieradzka). Jan came from his son Feliks in Falecin, Stopnica parish, Kielce Gubernia, Poland and went to his son Jan P. Leszczynski in Rochester, NY. Also, Jan (the elder) had another son, Wladyslaw who also came to Rochester, NY.
So I am looking for genealogists tracing or related to this family of Leszczynski in Rochester, NY. Here are a few addresses:
302 Weaver Rd.
304 Weaver Rd.
13 Ernst Rd.
357 Wilkins Street
All are in Rochester, NY. All had Leszczynski related to me living at the above addresses. If you are related to them, then we are related. Please contact me (click on Stanczyk pic to email me) and we can trade info/pictures. It also appears that Jan (the elder) also had a brother Frank Leszczynski that lived briefly in Rochester. This Frank Leszczynski also lived in: Depew, Buffalo, Tonawanda too [All in Erie County, NY]. Both Jan and Frank are sons of my great-grandfather Tomasz Leszczynski.
I have attached a local map below of Rochester, Monroe County, New York of a small section of town known as the Polish Section which had two Catholic churches very near to my Leszczynski families. It is possible and likely that my ancestors would have been parishioners at one of these churches.
There was a Catholic church, St. Stanislaus on St. Stanislaus Street and a Polish National Catholic Church at 40 Ernst Street. Both of these would have been very near to the Leszczynski families I am searching for.
75 kopeks. The cost of that stamp on an alegata. In case, you cannot read Cyrillic or do not recognize it on the cancellation mark of the stamp — it says:
11/24 January 1907
This stamp appeared on an alegata document, describing my paternal grandparents, Jozef Elijasz & Waleryja Leszczynska. You can see from the civil and church records of theirs, that this is their marriage date.
So now I have three Polish authoritative sources for their marriage (date/place).
I found this alegata a bit fascinating. First it had the stamp. Second it listed my grandfather & his parents, but only my grandmother (without her parents — fortunately, the other two records listed those parents). Third and most puzzling is the marriage bann dates:
13th, 20th, 27th January [of 1907 implied]. But wait a minute, the date of the alegata is 11/24 January, 1907. That is three days before their marriage date. So this "official document" had listed a future date [of the marriage], I guess giving them permission to marry in the church assuming the 3rd bann was a foregone conclusion. The future date so messed with my mind and comprehension of Russian/Cyrillic that I had to check and recheck the three documents to assure myself I was reading it correctly and that they had used a future date in the alegata!
Oh, the 11/24 January 1907 thing? That is just the custom of "dual dating". The earlier date is the Julian date: 11-January-1907, as the Russian calendar was still using the Julian calendar. While the 24-January-1907 is the Gregorian calendar that we use today. Of course you can find liturgical calendars (Russian Orthodox for example) that still use the Julian Calendar for their religious events (i.e. EASTER). Why is it 13 days difference? They were in the 20th century and another day difference between the two calendars, as compared to the majority of the church records (1868-1900 during when the Russian language was the defacto language of administration records) in the Russian partition which were 12 days apart.
— — — Alegata …
As a genealogist, and many of Stanczyk's readers are genealogists, we are of course leaving a legacy in our research. As a Polish-American, I also leave cultural legacies related to Thanksgiving or 4th of July or Easter or Christmas.
But I wanted share yet another personal legacy that I am sharing. You see those colorful books at the top of the blog? They are a series of ten books by COLLIER — The Junior Classics. It was a series of hardback books filled with stories & poems across a spectrum of genres from 1938!
My parents bought me this set as a child. I was not a good bibliophile as a child and our books became gradually marred. I kept one book (orange) of poems. The picture is of a set I was able to locate via the Internet and purchase to share with the children from Teréza & my marriage. I wanted to share my love of reading with our children as my mother & father had done for me. So a legacy of reading, learning, and exploring and also a love for bound books … as anachronistic as that may be today or in the future. Thank God that someone else had preserved such a cultural treasure from the past — these books are 75 years old! I hope my and Tereza's kids can maintain this legacy and the act of reading stories & funny onomapoeiatic poems to their children too.
That is a legacy that connects our generations.
P.S. – kids, my favorite volumes were #1 & #3 and because of my father and his readings, also #10 .
In Stanczyk's first genealogical examination on Ayn Rand's genealogy:
Ayn Rand – A Genealogical Examination — 15th-August-2012
I omitted publishing her citizenship papers, which I am now including in this article.
"Alice" applied for citizenship on 29th June 1929. She declared herself to be a Hebrew (i.e. that she was Jewish), not Russian. She also said she emigrated from Mexico (clearly a lie) and that her last residence was Petrograd, Russia. Her occupation was 'clerk'.
I say clearly a lie, since her Ship Manifest that records her REAL arrival on, 19-Feb-1926 as Alice Rosenbaum arriving in New York City, NY on board the SS De Grasse. I just wanted to emphasize that she was a liar on numerous occasions when it suited her purposes. So I guess I can conclude that Objectivism includes a tenet of lying — tough to base a philosophy/economic theory on lies. That is not intellectualism, that is an academic fraud.
On March 13, 1931 she was granted citizenship. You can see her citizenship is 5 years after her REAL arrival. So what was June 29th, 1929 if not an arrival date? It was a return from her honeymoon vacation! Do you see how she twists things to suit her purposes?
In the original article I did mention that she collected Social Security & Medicare to pay for her lung cancer surgery & medical bills. I forgot to mention that she had applied for Social Security before 1951 (probably in the 1930's like our ancestors) when she lived in CA. You can get her SS5 application if you are so inclined. I chose not to spend the $35 for that document but you can go to Ancestry.com and order the SS5 there easily enough.
— — — — — — — — — — Two more images of Alice O'Connor (Ayn Rand) :
Gesher Galicia has really been adding content and also a website redesign of late. I am planning on joining this genealogical society. The reason is their projects and current databases, maps, and variety of resources that can aid all genealogists and especially Jewish Genealogists with family from the former Galicia region (now western part in Poland, eastern part in Ukraine) of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire (aka Hapsburg). So Ukrainian and Polish genealogists take note!
This little tidbit was found because of a PGSCT&NE posting in Twitter/Facebook. So keeping tabs on events in social media (or reading this blog) can keep you informed on the latest contributions by genealogists, the world over. Follow these societies and join them and volunteer your time. I am sure Gesher Galicia members knew about this and active meeting goers may have been informed, but it is now the Internet/Cloud that keeps the vast majority of genealogists informed and involved. Keep up the good work!
The Gesher Galicia website has an article by Alexander Dunai. Alexander also has another, more complete article on his website which you should go read ( http://alexdunai.com/documents/item_11/) on Tabula Registers and their purpose, plus a list of towns is available with this genealogy resource at URL:
The list of towns from that article with Tabula Registers for the Villages and Towns of Galicia:
|Bania Kotowska
|Belz (15 vols)
|Bialy Kamien
|Blyszczywody (incl. in Mokrotyn)
|Brody (32 vols, 1794-1884)
|Brzegi Dolne
|Brzezany (12 vols)
|Buda (incl. in Wysoka)
|Busk (5 vols)
|Dobromyl (16 vols)
|Dobrzanica (incl. in Uszkowice)
|Dolina (10 vols)
|Dolina area villages (incl. in Lopianka)
|Drohobycz & suburbs (81 vols)
|Dunajow vicinity villages
|Folwarki Wielke & Folwarki Male
|Gaje Starobrodskie
|Gerynia (incl. in Witwica)
|Gliniany (8 volumes)
|Grodek Jagiellonski (11 volumes 1797-1880)
|Halicz (10 vols. 1753-1886)
|Hoszow (incl. in Stankowce)
|Hrusatycze (incl. in Strzeliska)
|Jaroslaw (50 vols. 1792-1892)
|Jasienica Solna
|Jaworow (9 vols. 1792-1893)
|Kalusz (7 vols. 1758-1822)
|Kamionka Strumilowa (21 books)
|Kniahinin (4 vols. 1801-1885)
|Kolomyja (30 volumes)
|Kropiwnik Nowy & Stary
|Krystynopol (7 vols. 1792-1883)
|Kuty (18 vols, 1781-1888)
|Lubycza Krolewska
|Mariampol (3 vols, 1807-1855)
|Mokrotyn, Smerekow, Przedrzymichy, & Blyszczywody
|Nadziejow (incl. in Lopianka)
|Neudorf (incl. in Bolechowce)
|Nojdorf (incl. in Zawidowice)
|Nowe Miasto (1 volume)
|Olesko (3 vols, 1798-1882)
|Prochnik (14 vols, 1814-1874)
|Przerzymichy (incl. in Mokrotyn)
|Przemysl with suburbs (56 vols, 1799-1894)
|Przemyslany (11 vols, 1816-1881)
|Radziechow (2 vols, 1827-1874)
|Rawa Ruska (12 vols, 1796-1882)
|Rozen Maly and Rozen Wielki
|Roztoczki (incl. in Witwica)
|Rudki (4 vols)
|Rybno with Slobodka
|Rymanow with neighboring villages (6 vols, 1782-1888)
|Sambor & neighboring villages (69 volumes)
|Smerekov (incl. Mokrotyn)
|Sniatyn (vols, 1791-1832)
|Sokal (vols. with index)
|Stanila with Stebnik and Kolpets
|Stanislawow & suburbs (99 vols. 1784-1882)
|Stankowce with Hoszow
|Stare Miasto
|Stary Sambor
|Starzawa Sanocka
|Stebne with Dolhopol
|Strzeliska Nowe and Stare
|Sulukow (incl. Lopianka)
|Tartakow (1 vol. 1817-1883)
|Tarnopol city (50 vols.).
|Trebowla (12 vols. 1803-1886)
|Truskawiec (incl. Tustanowice)
|Tustanowice (1802-1889)
|Untervalden (incl. in Uszkowice)
|Ustrzyki Dolne (1855-1880)
|Witkow Nowy
|Witwica incl. Roztoczki & Gerynia
|Wojnilow (3 vols, 1652-1839)
|Wysoka & Buda
|Wyzniany & vicinity
|Zablotow (3 vols)
|Zaleszczyki (4 vols)
|Zawidowice & Nojdorf
|Zbaraz (8 vols)
|Zloczow (50 vols)
|Zolkiew (24 vols)
|Zurawno (2 vols)
|Zydaczow (8 vols)
Thank you, Alexander Dunai, for this fine piece of research. I will be visiting your website and taking a further look at your other efforts too. Very nice website!
The minions in the Email-Room dropped off a missive at my virtual cubicle today. Today's question is about Polish Royalty & DNA as it relates to genealogy …
Hi, I stumbled across your blog and thought you might could help me. We are searching for my father's ancestry and think he is a Poniatowski. My grandfather Andrzej changed his name when he came to America in 1909. The story we always heard was that he was royal. So I have my father's yDNA markers but cannot find a surname project online for the Poniatowskis or other Polish nobles. Do you know of any? Maybe you can give me some advice? I sure would appreciate it! Thanks in advance for sharing anything.Sincerely,Kristian Krawford— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Welcome to the blog. DNA plays a role in genealogy in some ways, but it is NOT for every genealogist. It is due the certainty factor (I favor >97% certainty) takes you back beyond the number of generations that most people tracing Slavic/Polish genealogy can do UNLESS they have royal blood. Your question gives me yet another reason to endorse limited use of DNA in genealogy. I am in favor of using DNA in your case because, you want to determine if you have royal blood or not and specifically whether or not you are related to Poniatowski szlactha (nobility).
Now to the crux of your question. You have your family DNA and want to compare it. Ancestry.com has some capacity, but perhaps because they have so little Polish emphasis in their data, their DNA may be lacking from Polish genealogists families. So…
You can Google:
Y-DNA project of Polish Nobility families
That led me to:
This web page had a very extensive list of family names with their DNA markers. I hope you can find your markers in these that are available. Notice that is "Y-DNA". The mt-DNA will not work for you as that is the maternal/mitochondrial DNA that is passed from Mother to all children (relatively unchanged, except by mutation) and the Y-DNA is the paternal DNA passed from father to sons (23rd chromosome). The rest of the DNA is called autosomal / atDNA (see Genealogical DNA test). This link is a good link for introduction of DNA terms to the genealogist.
Good Luck!


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13:12 9th July 2014
Defender and winger training well
Kevin Foley could yet force his way into Kenny Jackett's plans after a promising start to pre-season.
Some niggling injury problems limited Foley's impact over the first half of last season, but, having been available for offers, he returned to make five appearances on loan with Blackpool towards the end of the campaign.
Back training with the first team squad, the Republic of Ireland international now has the chance to try and add his quality and experience to a defensive department which registered a club record 25 clean sheets in League One last season.
"Kevin has been playing mostly left-back but he is a left back or a right back," said Jackett.
"There hasn't been any interest in him but also he has started the pre-season pretty well and has looked fit and in the sessions he's done o-k.
"So we will assess it and see how we go along.
"He came on at Preston in the first game of last season and played well at left-back and then obviously had his injury problems but I think he's good enough on the ball to play either full-back.
"He's certainly got the experience. And we also have Dominic Iorfa who generally has been brought up as a centre-back but did play right-back for Shrewsbury last year at times."
Moving further forward Bakary Sako reported back on Monday having had an extra fortnight off due to appearing in several internationals for Mali over the summer.
Whilst acknowledging there may be more speculation ahead surrounding the winger's future, Jackett insists the situation hasn't changed and that he will continue to be a key influence should be remain with Wolves next season.
"Bakary came back on Monday and there are no problems," he said.
"He played against Croatia and then had a couple of weeks off.
"He then did his running programme and feels good.
"It will be exactly the same situation now – Bakary is a player who gets linked in the press and we understand that.
"Sako is here, he is a good player who is settled at the club and I think he will play well for us this season."
Gaffer keen to build around striker
4 hours 40 mins ago
Young keeper reflects on unforgettable loan
5 hours 18 mins ago
Gaffer on Flatt and Deslandes
1 day ago
Gaffer on the 'big picture'
1 day ago
Williamson ready for positive season
2 days ago
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"$5 Cover Seattle," the Lynn Shelton-directed and MTV-produced docudrama, has released live footage of discordant local indie trio The Lights performing "Buttons vs Boulders." As a music video for the song (the title track on this year's Failed Graves), the footage makes perfect sense: it's tightly shot, with up-close sweaty images of lead singer Craig Chambers,
lead singer bassist Jeff Albertson, drummer PJ Rogalski and head-bopping crowd members. It's a smartly controlled mess, just like The Lights' music.
A few things about this video, though, don't make much sense. The exact location of the show being filmed is unclear: the video's first few seconds include an exterior shot of Pike Street on Capitol Hill, and it seems to imply that the Wildrose is the venue in question. Since the video video includes mostly tight shots of the crowd and the musicians, it's tough to get a read on the venue's interior, too.
If anyone remembers this show being filmed last August , I'd be interested to know where.UPDATE: It was indeed filmed at the Wildrose, according to Albertson.
The other burning question: When will "$5 Cover Seattle" debut online? Fans have been asking about it on the show's Facebook page to no response, and MTV's own website isn't revealing much, either.
Anyway, for those who care more about The Lights than a semi-scripted docudrama, the band plays August 19 at the Sunset Tavern.


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Sculpted Marble Ceiling
This ceiling is over an outdoor hallway leading to the basilica.
September 2015
Mural Detail
This is a center detail of a mural depicting Peter receiving instructions for the establishment of the church.
September 2015
Mural - Heaven and Earth
This mural depicts Jesus and the 12 Apostles assembled in heaven, as Constantine and others are assembled at an earthly altar.
September 2015
Ceiling Artwork
This photo shows the artwork directly above the mural of Constantine's proclamation.
September 2015
Proclamation of Constantine
If memory serves, this mural depicts the procalmation of Constantine as head of the church.
September 2015
Ancient Map of Italy
This map depicts the entire coutry of Italy while many others in the same hall show details of Venice, Rome, and other major cities.
September 2015
Ornate Ceiling
A sample of the style and quality of the artwork found on many of the ceilings in the Vatican, this one is similar to the Sistine Chapel, but lacks the sequential story line found there.
September 2015
Hall of Tapestries
Our guide is shown on the left, explaining the details of one tapestry.
September 2015
Rare red marble burial chamber
Only two of these on display, with exquisite carving on all sides.
September 2015
Sample mosaic on floor
A devilish character, possibly plays for the Toronto Blue Jays.
September 2015
Sample Sculpture
Taken in the Great Hall. Character's name was explained during the tour but now forgotten due to so much information given.
September 2015
The Great Hall of Statues
These marble statues are remarkably well preserved, and are portraits of famous historical figures.
September 2015
Artwork over the entrance to the great hall of statues
Taken along the tour, in the first indoor hallway.
September 2015
Papal Emblem carved in stone
Taken along the route to the main exhibits
September 2015
The dome of St. Peters Basilica
Taken from the Vatican Museum courtyard.
August 2015
Inside the Vatican Museum.
Incredible beauty and amazing art works.
June 2015
notre guide
Nicolas le guide nous explique les peintures de la chapelle sixtine à l'exterieur


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President Barack Obama: To Be Really Disliked
It must be hard to know that the majority of Americans don't think you're doing a very good job. But what's it like to know that the people who don't like you REALLY DON'T LIKE YOU?
According to Rasmussen Reports:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-seven percent (47%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23 (see trends).
That's the highest level of Strong Disapproval and the lowest Approval Index daily rating yet recorded for this president. However, while the daily ratings are sometime volatile, a Month-by-Month review of the president's numbers continues to show a high degree of stability. On a full-month basis, the Presidential Approval Index has stayed between -14 and -17 for eight of the past nine months.
Twice as many people have strongly negative as strongly positive opinions of his performance. Indeed, almost half of the population strongly disapproves of his record.
It ain't easy being Barack Obama these days!
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