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Television host Glenn Beck sounds off on the state of the economy.
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WORLD NEWS Sharon to Bush: Conquer the Mideast ... or Else
by Roggie McFadden
WASHINGTON, DC -- November 20, 2002 -- In a conference call involving high-level US defense department chiefs, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon instructed US President George W. Bush to conquer the entire Middle East -- or else.
"My patience is wearing thin, Bushie Boy," Mr. Sharon said at one point. Sharon and Defense Department chickenhawks have been critical of the delays in invading Iraq caused by the US's present course of seeking approval through the UN Security Council. Going through the UN signifies a complete U-turn from the highly effective, tried-and true "bomb first, ask questions later" approach originally planned.
Sources say Mr. Bush was visibly affected by the meeting, one witness saying that the President was literally "quaking in his penny-loafers."
It is unclear what sort of threat the Prime Minister made to Mr. Bush. Speculation has it, however, that, if the United States does not agree to conquer Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Libya, Sharon plans on orchestrating a smear campaign against the President, going for the Achilles' Heel of this administration: President Bush's singular lack of any intellectual ability whatsoever.
"It's just this simple: if Ariel Sharon goes all out and starts saying 'Bush is too dumb to conquer Iraq,' that's gonna have serious consequences on the President's popularity rating," said political pundit Harvey Holmebois.
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Recently, an Egyptian Candid Camera prank type TV show turned very ugly and violent when the guest, an Egyptian actor, was told he was on Israeli TV. The prank was done on several guests with similar reactions: extreme violence and hate speech against Jews who were described as the most cursed by Allah in Islam.
I personally was not surprised by the video clip, but a lot of American friends of mine were shocked by the responses they witnessed on camera. Many books have been written about why Muslims hate Jews but I decided to write my own explanation, which I detailed in chapter four of my most recent book The Devil We Dont Know.
No true Muslim dares to ask why Islam is consumed with hatred of non- Muslims, especially Jews. When I was a Muslim, I never dared to ask that question, let alone objectively answer it. I never dared to question why our religious leaders curse, lie and preach hatred and violence from the pulpit of mosques. To the average Muslim, cursing of Jews in mosques feels normal and even holy. That intense hatred of Jews was especially intensified in the last ten years of Mohammeds life and it was not a new development in Islamic countries after the 1948 war.
After a lot of thinking, analysis, research and writing, I discovered that Jew-hatred in Islam is an essential foundation to the Islamic belief system that Muslims cannot seem to be able to rid themselves of. Jew-hatred masks an existential problem in Islam. If Jew-hatred is removed, Islam itself would self-destruct. This is why:
When Mohammed embarked on his mission to spread Islam, his objective was to create a uniquely Arabian religion, one created by an Arab prophet, which reflected the Arabian values and culture. Yet to obtain legitimacy, he had to link it to the two previous Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Christianity. He expected the Jewish tribes who lived in Arabia to declare him their Messiah and thereby bring him more legitimacy with Arabs, especially with his own tribe in Mecca, the Quraish. Because his own tribe had rejected and ridiculed him, Mohammed needed the approval of the Jews, whom he called the People of the Book. But the conversion of Jews to Islam was part of the scenario that Mohammed had to accomplish in order to prove to Meccans that they had made a mistake by rejecting him.
That was one of the reasons Mohammed chose to migrate to Medina, a town that had predominantly been settled by Jewish tribes and a few impoverished Arabs who lived around the Jews. The Jews allowed Mohammed to move in. In the beginning, the Koran of Mecca was full of appeals to the Jews, who were then described as guidance and light (5:44) and a righteous people (6:153154), who excelled the nations (45:16). But when the Jews rejected the appeasement and refused to convert to Islam, Mohammed simply and literally flipped. The Quran changed from love to threats and then pure hatred, cursing and commandments to kill Jews. Rejection by the Jews became an intolerable obsession with Mohammed.
Not only did the Jews reject him, but their prosperity made Mohammed extremely envious. The Jewish Arabian tribes earned their living from legitimate and successful business, but Mohammed earned his living and wealth through warfare, by attacking Arab tribes (some of whom were from his own tribe) and trade caravans and seizing their wealth and property. That did not look good for a man who claimed to be a prophet of God. The mere existence of the Jews made Mohammed look bad which led Mohammed to unspeakable slaughter; he ordered the beheading of 600 to 900 Jewish men of one tribe and took their women and children as slaves. Mohammed had the first pick of the prettiest woman as his sex slave. All of this senseless slaughter of the Jews was elaborately documented in Islamic books on the life of Mohammed, not as something to be ashamed of, but as justified behavior against evil people.
One does not have to be an authority on human behavior to see how tormented Mohammed must have been after the massacre he orchestrated and forced his fighters to undertake, to empower and enrich himself and his religion. To reduce his torment, he needed everyone around him as well as future generations, to participate in the genocide against the Jews, the only people who he could not control. An enormous number of verses in the Quran encouraged Mohammeds fighters to fight and kill and curse those who wanted to escape fighting. The Quran is full of promises of all kinds of pleasure in heaven for those who follow Mohammeds killing spree; it curses and condemns, meanwhile, all those who choose to escape from fighting. Muslims are encouraged to feel no hesitation or guilt for the genocide because it is not they who do it, but Allahs hand which is behind the killing.
Mohammed never got over his anger, humiliation, and rejection by the People of the Book and he went to his grave tormented and obsessed that some Jews were still alive. On his death bed, Mohammed entrusted Muslims to kill Jews wherever they found them, which made this a holy commandment that no Muslim can reject. Muslims who wrote Sharia, understood how Mohammed was extremely sensitive to criticism and that is why criticizing Mohammed became the highest crime in Islam that will never be forgiven even if the offender repents. Mohammeds message on his deathbed was not for his followers to strive for holiness, peace, goodness, and to treat their neighbors as themselves, but a commandment for Muslims to continue the killing of, and the genocide against, the Jews. Killing thus became a holy act of obedience to Mohammed and Allah himself.
Mohammed portrayed himself as a victim of Jews and Muslims must avenge him till judgment day. Sharia also codified into law the duty of every Muslim to defend Mohammeds honor and Islam with their blood and allowed the violation of many commandments if it was for the benefit of defending Islam and Mohammed. Thus, Muslims are carrying a huge burden, a holy burden, to defend Mohammed with their blood and in doing that, they mandated to kill, lie, slander, etc.
Mohammed must have felt deep and extreme shame after what he had done to the Jews and thus a very good reason had to be found to explain away his genocide. Thus, by commanding Muslims to continue the genocide for him, even after his death, until the Day of Judgment, Mohammed expanded the shame to cover all Muslims and Islam itself. All Muslims were commanded to follow Mohammeds example and chase the Jews wherever they went. One hundred years after Mohammeds death, Arabs occupied Jerusalem, and built the Al Aqsa mosque right on top of the Jewish Temple ruins, the holiest spot of the Jews. Muslims thought they erased all memory of Jewish existence.
Mohammeds genocide of the Jews of Arabia became an unholy dark mark of shame in Islamic history, and that shame, envy, and anger continues to get the best of Muslims today. In the eyes of Mohammed and Muslims, the mere existence of the Jewish people, let alone an entire Jewish state, de-legitimizes Islam and makes Mohammed look more like a mass murderer than a prophet. For Muslims to make peace with Jews and acknowledge that Jews are humans who deserve the same rights as everyone else would have a devastating effect on how Muslims view their religion, their history and the actions of their prophet.
Islam, therefore, has a major existential problem. By no will of their own, the Jews found themselves in the middle of this problem. Islam must justify the genocide that Mohammed waged against the Jews. Mohammed and Muslims had two choices: either the Jews are evil subhumans, apes, pigs, and enemies of Allah, a common description of Jews still heard regularly in Middle Eastern mosques today, or Mohammed was a genocidal warlord and not fit to be a prophet of God, a choice that would mean the end of Islam.
Then and now, Mohammed and Muslims clearly chose the first worldview and decreed that any hint of the second must be severely punished. Jews must remain eternally evil enemies of Islam, if Islam is to remain legitimate. There is no third solution to save the core of Islam from collapsing; either Mohammed was evil or the Jews were evil. Any attempt to forgive, humanize, or live peacefully with Jews is considered treason against Islam and Mohammed. How can Muslims forgive the Jews and then go back to their mosques, only to read their prophets words, telling them they must kill Jews wherever they find them? It does not add up, if someone wants to remain Muslim. (Copyright © 2012 FrontPageMagazine.com 07/26/12)
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Towards a Low Carbon Economy and Society
On 17 January, 2012, the Department of Statistics of China announced that, for the first time in its long history, there were more people now living in urban agglomerations than in the rural sector. This is a major milestone in the history of the country and one that marks a major transition and transformation – an urban transformation - with major implications for the future of the country. China's urban population will continue to grow rapidly in the coming decades with between 300-350 million people moving into urban areas in the next two decades.
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December 11, 2013
Aggies are remembering one of their own following a car crash that claimed a life.
Lauren Lewis, who would have turned 21 Saturday, died in a wreck Monday near her hometown of Tyler.
The Texas A&M senior was involved in a number of campus activities, including in the Maggies Women's Leadership Organization.
A vigil for Lewis was set for 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center in Room 224.
Funeral services are tomorrow in Tyler at 3 p.m. at First Christian Church.
The family is asking that donations be made to:
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(jiří macek) If you do not know what to wear in this heat, you might appreciate the Minimal Dress designed by Digna Kosse, who studies at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Her fashion paraphrasing of the fairytale about the princess who was neither dressed nor naked explores other issues as well.
Digna Kosse focused primarily on limiting the consumption of materials within the fashion industry. Although it may sound absurd, when we imagine how many clothes the fashion industry spews out and does not sell every year, not even through discounts, our smiles fade. Another interesting aspect of this attire/jewelry is the moment when the attire turns into jewelry, i.e. how much must we wear not to be naked and socially unacceptable. How minimal may the Minimal Dress be? What do you think? Would you dare to wear the robe by Digna Kosse to a beach or a party? Or to a theatre?
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Good grief. It is our ancestors' history, it is our country's history and it is important to preserve. Then why would you continue to tear down old barns and reuse the wood, instead of leaving them standing?
West Virginia's government doesn't get it on the decongestant, the Sudafed and things. They can come in and buy their limit and then send other people in to buy for them. So this is not going to help.
I don't know if anybody else looks for the Easter eggs in Bizarro, but the one Saturday was tricky.
There ought to be a way to just fire all the incompetent Republicans in Congress and have an emergency election.
What happened to the Mountaineers? Did the coach take the players out Friday night and get them drunk? They sure do play like it.
What's the big deal with WVU's football uniforms anyway? It's football, not a fashion show.
One prominent Democrat described Obamacare as a train wreck. I think he missed it. The better term is it will be a tsunami.
Natalie Tennant will make a fine senator because she loves West Virginia as much as Robert C. Byrd did.
Marshall should have easy sailing with its remaining eight games with its high school schedule.
In the past five years I have lowered my health premiums by $3,000 per year. The American people better wake up.
Medical marijuana in West Virginia? West Virginia won't do that. West Virginia is last in everything.
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I think it's unconstitutional if the Supreme Court justices, Congress and the president do not have to be covered by Obamacare. Or they cannot ask one other person to be covered under it. If they do that's wrong. John Roberts made this deal with Obama. Make him take Obamacare.
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Police detectives in St Catherine are now at the scene along the Spanish Town By-Pass where the decomposing body of a teenage girl was found this afternoon.
She is Shanique Hazel, a 16-year-old student of the Spanish Town High School in St Catherine.
Hazel who is of a Hampton Drive address in Hampton Green Spanish Town, was last seen alive on Tuesday last week.
Residents stumbled upon the remains near the El Prado Housing Scheme about noon and called the police.
The police say the throat was slashed and Hazel appeared to have been raped.
Meanwhile the Spanish Town High School is in mourning following the discovery of the decomposing body of Shanique Hazel. Shanique attended Spanish Town High School.
Students and staff broke down in tears after hearing the news today.
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My daughter recently made a comment that started me thinking about the various relationships in my life. Driving home after attending our annual Open House, she and her brother discussed how they no longer knew the majority of my friends. When she mentioned it, I reminded her that she hasn't lived at home for over 12 years and things change. Those changes include the fact that I no longer commute to Calgary or throughout Alberta for my work as I now have the privilege of working from a home office. This makes it much easier for me to become involved in and get to know the people in my local community. Another change is the connectedness that I now experience via the Internet, a factor that is impacting the isolation once prevalent in rural and remote communities. Quoting Dr. James Tiller "...The Internet begat another innovation, the World Wide Web, which in turn begat many other innovations, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Wikipedia." Social media and social networking are changing the ways that people relate. Jeff Sonderman reports Twitter is more of an interest network organized by what you follow rather than who you know and is a key news source for only 2% of Americans. My analytical side enjoys Twitter as it assists in maintaining focus as I follow only those tweets relevant to my interests. It is also great that there is Twitter app for my phone, so when I'm waiting for someone or something, I have easy access. I am grateful that Facebook has reunited me with members of my extended family and old acquaintances. How awesome that I was able to see photos of the newest addition to our family tree within hours of his birth. This sharing of little pieces of our lives enables us to engage in richer conversations so much quicker when we meet face to face. It is interesting to see how connections cross over on a variety of levels. TouchGraph has a Facebook Visual Browser that provides a colourful graphic, a visualization of your social networks. Different groupings make it easy to identify your associations with others and the relationships within each cluster. To me each one represents a community that I am a part of either as an active member or remain attached to as alumni. Not all of the people I associate with use social media, in fact some do not relate to this technical age at all, so to stay connected requires a different effort. Reflecting on how relationships are formed and develop, I've learnt over time not everyone that comes into my life remains a part of my life forever. Sometimes they are just there for a season and/or for a reason. Then there are those links that neither time nor space separate. Dr. Patch Adams speaking in a conference I attended several years ago mentioned that the biggest need encountered in his global travels was the loneliness people experienced and an overwhelming cry for friendship and meaningful relationships. Every person we connect with will fall into one of the following categories:
According to Robin Dunbar, the director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, human biology and socialization creates a natural group limit. Known as Dunbar's number it says that 150 is the theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom stable relationships that can be maintained. A paper presented by KAIST at the 2008 Internet Measurement Conference suggests statistically that an on-line network up to 200 appears to be manageable; however, drops off after that. It is interesting to note that the social networking service PATH limits each user to 150 "friends" to encourage high quality connections. This perhaps speaks about managing connections on a physiological or psychological level; however, does not address what adds meaning to them. What is meaningful differs across the human spectrum; however, I believe that although individuals may choose to isolate themselves within society, there exists an inner longing for some sort of relationship. People that cross our paths can provide meaning and purpose for an hour, a day or a lifetime, when we live in the moment. It is therefore not surprising my children don't always know the people who may gather in my kitchen anymore. When I stop myself from being busy with all the things calling out for my attention and take advantage of those moments, I've found unexpected treasures that opened doors for personal growth, friendship, and business or just instances of pure pleasure. Relationships do change over time. Some provide a shared moment; a temporary helping hand or an unwanted but needed life lesson and others pass by the wayside. But there are those that grow and provide a richness that just makes us want more and sometimes we find them in the most surprising places. |


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Reflections on Sin
Published by Jeff Mikels, on May 25th, 2012 in Front Page, Leadership, My Spiritual Life, Tough Questions.Some Context
This past week, a number of stories came out in my local newspaper reporting on and analyzing the arrest of a local pastor. He has been accused of placing and monitoring video equipment in the female bathrooms at the church. If you haven't read the articles, don't worry about not knowing the details. I'm not going to address the specifics of that story, but it has burdened my heart so much that I feel a need to reflect here in my semi-public space what these moral failures reveal about God, humanity, and the state of the church. » Click here to read the rest. «
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"Our God" (a song)
Published by Jeff Mikels, on September 18th, 2009 in Front Page, My Spiritual Life.For a couple weeks now, I have been dissatisfied with the modern worship songs we've been singing in our church. The music is great, the beats are fun, the lyrics are powerful, but honestly, they aren't very deep.
In particular, the majority of modern rock-style worship music puts God in the second person. Everything is about how great "You" are or about our relationship as humans to "You." The problem with that kind of music is that it only works for people who have a relationship with God close enough to call him "You." There are many people for whom God is only "God" or "He" and there are many times in our lives when we need to remember that God is "God" and not just another "You." » Click here to read the rest. «
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Organizational Insights from Numbers 2
Published by Jeff Mikels, on September 15th, 2009 in Front Page, Leadership, My Spiritual Life.This morning, I was reading the first few chapters of Numbers. I have to be honest with you, and I am somewhat ashamed to admit, I wasn't expecting much. Aside from a few interesting (and confusing) stories, the book of Numbers is filled with, you guessed it, numbers!
The first few chapters are all about counting the people of Israel. This tribe has 60,000 people. That tribe has 40,000 people. With twelve tribes to go through, the lists of numbers and names of people can get tedious. » Click here to read the rest. «
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Protected: Request for Armor Bearers
Published by Jeff Mikels, on March 14th, 2009 in Prayer Requests.Popularity: unranked [?]
Prayer for the next level
Published by Jeff Mikels, on October 23rd, 2007 in Front Page, My Spiritual Life.Lord in Heaven, I'm sensing your call to take my steps into a new level of relationship with you. It's more than a desire in my heart. It's more than a thought or a notion. It's a repetitive prompting that you have more for me and a constant reminder that I need it.
I've washed over it quite often. I've filled my life with entertainment, tasks, busywork, meetings, and even family responsibilities because of course those things need to be done, but then when I'm alone in the quiet again, and I allow my soul to quiet down, I sense the lack.
My lack is not a lack of knowledge. Although I know there is much still I have to learn, this next level is one you have already taught me about.
My lack is not a lack of desire. I've been longing to go to this next level with you for a long time without actually getting there.
Now, I'm convinced that my lack is not a lack of your willingness to take me to the next level. I'm certain that you have something for me.
My lack is mostly a lack of faith—will I step up onto this new level or not?
What's holding me back? Fear mostly. What if I step up, and you aren't there? What if I step up and people I love don't understand? What if I step up, but I fall on my face because I'm not actually ready?
Lord, I want greater depth with you. Lead me deeply into the waters of who you are. Open my heart to see with the eyes of faith where you are moving, and prepare me for the step to come.
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Great Weekend… Or Not?
Published by Jeff Mikels, on September 3rd, 2007 in My Spiritual Life, Prayer Requests.This is just a quick post to say that I had a really fun weekend on one hand and a really bad weekend on the other.
- At T.G.I. Friday's (where I just started to work part-time as a waiter), I had a section of two tables only, but in the brief couple hours of lunch, I managed to make over $30 in tips from only $140 in sales. That means I was making people happy and they were tipping me more than 20%. Man that was a good feeling!
- As soon as work was done, I talked to a core member of our church who has decided to go with his wife and kids to another new church in town. He was supposed to be our drummer for the week, so I spent all afternoon trying to reschedule another drummer and plan a time for practice. None of it came together until about 7pm, and I didn't get back from practice till after 10:30pm!
- Though I got 4 hours of sleep and a late start this morning for church, I prayed and asked God to help me have a positive attitude despite the potential stresses of the morning (our first Sunday in the swanky Holiday Inn downtown.) He answered the prayer by giving me an absolutely incredible worship service for me. I was really sensing His presence at work in me and in the people who came. I felt great about it. (Even though we had some big issues with the sound system and the computer).
- When service was done, I met a man who volunteered to join our setup team for next week!
- But soon after that, I encountered some people who had been completely frustrated by the hassles of today's setup and tear-down process with a healthy dose of fear regarding the financial future of the church.
All in all, I had a great weekend personally, but I'm surrounded by frustrated people, and I feel responsible for their frustration.
Lord, teach me the lesson you have for me in this quickly so that I can bring some healing and restoration to others and repair some relationships. Give me the ability beyond myself to organize the systems of the church well. And Lord, please meet our financial needs.
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Productivity: August 13, 2007
Published by Jeff Mikels, on August 13th, 2007 in Front Page, My Spiritual Life.Today's Accomplishments
- I mowed the lawn.
- I read a chapter from Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time
- I sent an email to Greg, Kyle, and Josh about our Four Guys and God meeting. (We are going to work through the 10 commandments in our discipleship).
- I've taken a closer look at the ning.com social network creation site to see if that would work better than maintaining our own church website.
- I processed a few emails.
- I wrote three blog entries.
- I printed mailing labels for 350 postcards and affixed them to the cards (Jen helped).
- I invited some neighbors over for dinner.
- I read the kids their bedtime story and got them in bed while Jen was at Bible Study
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Ok, now that you have attacked the messenger for having an opinion, how about speaking (if you can) to his point. There was a lot of "Redneck" this and "Gamewarden" that bitchin' going on for years. We all heard and saw it, now the shoe is on the other foot and all you got is the poster is a bad person ?? Let me guess, how is that Hope and change working for you ? Amen that !
Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesLooks like the same old scat to me.
Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesI was around prior to the merge, during the merge, and for years after. There was PLENTY of complaining on both sides of the aisle. The fact is, there WAS plenty to.complain about. The transition was handled poorly and great talent from both agencies was pushed aside. The failure to merge the agencies is clear even now, 10 years later. What's funny is many of today's complainers were only in high school or middle school at the time of the merger. Officers that know nothing of the real FMP or the real GFC come on here talking about grey legged cry babies and redneck game wardens.
The fact is, people who make it to the top of the agency food chain have consumed massive quantities of the company koolaid and will say and do whatever it takes to, not only preserve, but get ahead in their cushy jobs. They work banker's hours, get free health insurance (for life), and make decent money. They aren't going to risk that for the sake of making change. They're all about the status quo. Your job is what it is and its not going to change. If you are hoping it'll change you are going to be disappointed. I realized long ago that Tallahassee cares only about image and perception. They only want to create the public perception that the FWC is out there making a difference. That can be accomplished by simply putting a uniformed officer in a truck, or boat, or whatever, and sending them out to wave the company flag. Then, they have a PIO get the agency on the evening news once in a while. They don't really care if you are ACTUALLY doing the job. Do the job because YOU want to, because YOU think its important, because YOU care. Don't talk badly of your fellow officers, because they are the ones that understand the job. They are ones that have your back. When the job stops being enjoyable, then move on (as I did), becase its not worth being both unhappy and broke. For me the grass was greener.
Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesLooks like the gray coats got you a 3% pay raise- internally funded. How many raises did the greenies get you? Looks like FWCDLE members are the only state employees that are getting a raise.
I guess the "change" you've been looking for will be in your check (chump change).
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So money is everything to you, and you are cheap at that ! Spoken like a true Gray-Legged Cry baby. Yeah you're right , everything is just great.
Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesUm, HELLO! I was trying to be a smart ass. That was an attepmt at sarcasm/humor. Three percent is chump change. What does that work out to- 50 bucks a month after taxes? There is no significant change coming, no matter what uniform color the boss wore ten years ago.
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Sorry, I will stand corrected Smart a$$. Please don't spend that "internal raise" yet, no matter who has promised it.
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Well it has been over a year. Really great changes, don't you think? How many good people have we lost ? What a joke !!
Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesI've watched you pound your highchairs with your little spoons everytime something happened that you all did not agree with.
That is without a doubt, the funniest line of the whole website!!!!! Thank you.
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This is still oh so relevant !!
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Re: Gray-Legged Cry babiesI am saddened as a former member of the FWC to see how this forum damages the FWC's reputation. All kinds of people read this forum and form negative opinions about the agency. I had my own reasons for leaving the FWC. I came to realize that the job is what you make of it. I enjoyed working for the FWC. There were issues with my supervisor(s), and there was always "talk of a raise". There are issues with any job. However, I realized early on that the leadership in Tallahassee only care about a pay raise to the extent that it does not affect their perception with legislators, personal reputation in the agency, and career. If you (the posters) do not like the job then go do something else. There are lots of careers out there that would recognize the skills you have obtained from FWC. I know this because I did it. It is funny and sad to read this forum. I hope everybody on here can get along and maybe make a positive decision about their future with FWC.
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The Upper Peninsula Association of Home Builders has seen an increase in people who want to build homes
MARQUETTE -- The president of the Michigan Association of Home Builders is in the U.P., researching homes and seeing how they compare to the rest of the state.
Michigan's home building economy has been slow to bounce back after the recession; that's according to the MAHB.
The association is here to see just how the U.P. is doing, and from the looks of it, things aren't so bad.
"I kind of expected you were even harder hit up here, but frankly, I've turned my mind to think that this is not hit as hard, and maybe you've been a little more stable up here, so maybe you didn't have the rise, so you're not having the fall," said President of the MAHB, Colin Herren.
The Upper Peninsula Association of Home Builders has seen an increase in people who want to build homes.
"We're seeing growing interest in homes and condominium purchases; traffic's up in the models. I think there's a growing return of consumer confidence," said the president of the Upper Peninsula Association of Home Builders.
One of the biggest reasons the association wants to see an increase in home building is to get more people employed. According to the MAHB, for every one home that is built, three jobs are created.
For the Northcreek Townhomes in Marquette, there are at least 25 people who will work on each building.
But, overall home building numbers are still down in the state.
"We need to build houses. Last year Michigan built around 8,000 houses. You do the math times three, and that's only 24,000 jobs. At our peak, we were building 30 to 40,000 homes per year. You do the math, that's a lot more; it's over 100,000 jobs," Herren adds.


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Don't forget the principals that are being sent to Harvard for a leadership class..........and how about that $30,000 + raise Mickey Lugo got to raise her salary up to where the Dixie Chicks are.....That's a teacher's salary. Someone needs to get these facts and post them for the public to see. Looks to me like those in the Ad building are doing pretty well while the teachers are working more than one job just to stay in Naples.
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Originally posted by wesjr That's right, and you talked to the cleric and got to know the cleric, you made friends with people and you needed to learn how to trust people. In many new games you can just zerg mobs and zerg missions without any repercussions, xp loss is a good feature. The best friends are made under harsh conditions, be it if you're sick, prison, war, natural disasters, just listen to stories of people, the harsher the condition the more you need to trust other people and bond with them, it's the same in MMO. You can no longer play with anyone if there's a death penalty in the game, you need to open up and talk to other people and find out who you can trust. |
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"Fable 2 and 3 were much better than Fable 1!" - said no one ever Removing death penalty is taking out the thrill. How harsh the penalty should be depends on the game, e.g. introducing permanent death into an endgame-geargrind-mmo could cause a few suicides. |
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Originally posted by Shorun Haha, when I see those "introduce permadeath" postings in this thread, I get the urge to answer "stop suppressing yourself, you know you want to demand that the player gets killed in reallife if his game character dies !" ;-) I think permadeath has its place. But if you make a game with permadeath, be aware this is a HUGE factor to make the game NOT hardcore. Having permadeath in your game means either its a special game mode of high challenge (like for Diablo 2), there are ways to prevent permadeath (like in EVE). But in general, permadeath actually means that the game is really low challenge, and low complexity, i.e. you just play until you die and then get a score and thats it. I personally prefer it if games go the other way. Have more complexity, have more depth, have more challenge than just some score. |
If nothing happens to you when you die then who would care? Really they should have more over less so people would actually care if they die.
I'm sure this has been said previously, but I'd like to reiterate... Haven't they already? I mean it's a trend in most video games now a days, and mostly always has never been a big deal in PC gaming (f5 f9). I'd like to see MMOs make choices matter more. I know that's been a discussion since 2006-8ish once WoW's mechanics started to be discussed in a more critical light. Still. MMOs may as well just drop them completely. I've not felt burdened by a death since Shadowbane. a yo ho ho |
Originally posted by MyBoot No you should not drop levels. The death penalty i fell in love with was the one in EQOA. When u died you would lose 10% of your current lvl exp. also you would have to pay 50% of all incomming next exp back into your penalty of 10% exp. So your leveling progress is cut in half for the amount of time you have replaced that 10% experience. This would stack up to 5 times and persists trough lvling up so when you lvl up you still have the same amount of exp to pay back into your penalty. below lvl 10 you don't give a damn but above it as the game got harder to lvl in trust me you did not wan't to die at all. it was a long and fun journey to get to the max lvl any delay's are very harsh:P When i finnaly got to 50 (CAP) first thing i did was attack some big monsters that we always where afraid of and for good reason haha, those things wacked me in 3 hits orso:P the chalange then is done you are max. it did not took you 2 weeks it was a real acomplishment. and then more stuff became avaiable in the terms of exploring the world at places you did not dare to set foot in before. |
I always liked having a death penalty because it made me respect the world.....Also it makes risk/reward possibility much greater.....I always like having that fear of dying when I played...Once games like WoW came out where it basically just took gold then it became an afterthought....I never had any fear of dying in WoW and as a result I never had much immersion.....WoW always felt too much like "everyone gets a trophy" and that just isn't very satisfying......Now permadeath is too severe but there needs to be something in place so that you have at least some fear.
Originally posted by h0urg1ass This is bullshit, if WoW was launched with player loot, it would still have the same amount of players. The WoW's success was not related to "casual masses". It was simplified MMORPG with proper animations and smooth gameplay, which tangibled the popular features and somewhat improved them. However the main and the primary reason for WoW's success was that it was a Warcraft and Blizzard brand game, and millions and million of dollars spent in marketing. Nowadays its pretty much a pop culture thing, making its features non-important altogether. Marketing 101 people. |
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Originally posted by Neherun Spot on, h0urglass. A harsh death penalty in WOW or a lack of death penalty in EVE would work against the rest of the game mechanics in either game. |
In the end, it's Ego versus Income. Sure, the devs can make your death suck so very badly that only .1% of the player base wants to stick around for it. A 90-minute corpse run, repeated fairly often, due to deaths that are essentially random (skill plays little or no part in avoiding this death)...that should do the trick, yes? Remember the 80s titles with no "save game" function, yet plenty of essentially random ways to snuff it? Now we've got some closet masochists who will endure that, just to prove to themselves (brag to others?) how hardcore they are. The more harsh you tune your penalty, the smaller the remaining slice of players will be. We're got the midpoint of the bell curve, where most people are fairly happy with risk/reward. And you're got the other end of the Bell, where people begin to feel that sense of accomplishment is disappearing. (This effect is of course much exaggerated by traditional casual-hate rhetoric, but certainly does exist). The supposition here is that the game developers should want to code for the left-hand tail... Clearly, that isn't to the company's best interest to limit their own audience/income, which is why it isn't getting done. Or at least not in many titles. (You can sell "hardcore" as a marketing bullet, as a few games have done. None of them very big games...) Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. |
Originally posted by Shorun the problem with that is that not everyone "feels a thrill". People actually experiencing stressful situations differently. that's why there is such wide set of responses when people talk about ffa pvp servers where one group does't think it's fun and another group "gets off" on the high energy of not knowing when/where the attack will come. Even though I'm a proponent for a death penalty it has to be more than a means of fast travel and less than something that will dissuade players from not taking risks. |
Thats why there is diferent games for diferent people. Im a fan of perma death or full drop if you die. :) Beta tester maniac |
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Truer words were never spoken. Yes, exactly. The WoW generation is grown up and posting here. Good for them as they are gamers, too. Lots of games available for them. Enjoy with my blessing. For the millions of gamers like me, there isn't anything to play. We want difficult puzzles to solve and adversity to overcome. We want primary gameplay to require teamwork. We are used to soloing (in single player games). The idea of an MMO that doesn't require teamwork seems odd and contradictory to us. Ours isn't a niche market; it is a market and it isn't being served. I'm not going to a party full of clowns (F2P), then offer to buy them all drinks. -GregorMcgregor Playing: XCom, Rome Total War, Master of Orion II, Majesty 2, and HOMM I. |
Originally posted by Icewhite If it would be that easy... The graph differs wildly based on target audience, available content, main focus and activities, complexity and difficulty of the game... The decision to focus on the mean is simple and straightforward, finding out where the mean is is not. Flame on! :) |
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Originally posted by Arclan ok thanks buddy! With me being a new comer around here that was a valuable insight... You missed the point in what I was saying I think. |
Originally posted by supertouchme Yes. Or put this in options. To me is enough of "penalty" corpse run as sometimes this can be pretty annyoing and far. As for "thrill" again pretty silly discussion .... I will always do anything I can to survive, even if death is imminent I will usually at least try to bring as much mobs as possible with me. Will not help even minimally having more harsh penalty. More likely will stop to play such game. |
I'll be honest, with how much of a joke death penalties are today in most mmorpg's they might as well be removed since they are mostly a minor annoyence if nothing else. Worse death penaltiy I have seen in a game I played was in a korean mmorpg called redmoon, at higher levels you need 3-4 billion exp to level, and you earn this at about 200k exp per kill, you can 1 shot stuff. Now say your at 3.8 billion of 4 billion exp needed to level.. You die somehow, you'll most likely drop some or most of your shit, but the real pain? you lose HALF of the current exp you have earned, so in that death you just lost 1.6 billion exp. The item loss can sometimes be alot worse than the exp too, cuz anyone can loot whatever you dropped.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either: A. Proven right (if something bad happens) or B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens) Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime! |
Originally posted by Robokapp +1 Bring back death penalties, i loved Everquest 1 death penalties, made you realy appreciate living death didnt happ[en very often in that game because people would try and live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bm_fOFyAhA |
Originally posted by TsaboHavoc Unfortuenlty inconviences are the key to making games fun, maybe you will see this aswell when they remove all the inconviences from games. Those who played pre WoW games know this well and even Vanila WoW player compared to new WoW players. |