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The Ashley Ridge girls didn't mess around Friday.
The Lady Swamp Foxes put their game with Beaufort away early, outscoring the Lady Eagles 11-4 in the first period and 17-3 in the second en route to a 45-26 win.
"We were just looking to push the ball and make sure we would win this one," Ashley Ridge senior Kim Cole said. "We played with a lot of heart and didn't take anything for granted."
Ashley Ridge improved to 11-7 on the season with a 6-2 mark in Region 8-AAAA with the win while Beaufort fell to 1-19, 0-8. Now the Lady Foxes have their sites set on Summerville and Colleton County. With an 8-0 start in region play, Summerville has clinched the region's top playoff seed and Colleton County also carries a 6-2 region record into play this week.
Ashley Ridge jumped out to a 9-2 lead over Beaufort with buckets from Ashley Tierney, Shelby Daly and Olivia Baum and free throws from Tierney and Brenna Swartz. Early in the second period, Daly put the first set of nails in the coffin, hitting back-to-back three-pointers for a 20-6 Ashley Ridge advantage.
The Foxes carried a 28-7 lead into the half and a 40-11 lead into the final period despite substituting heavily after Daly's final of three shots sank from behind the arc.
Daly finished with a game-high 13 points and Tierney added nine points for Ashley Ridge. Amber Britton led Beaufort with 11 points, all of which came in the fourth period.
The Lady Swamp Foxes faced Summerville on the road Tuesday after press time and wrap up their regular-season schedule with a game at Colleton County Friday.
Ashley Ridge 45, Beaufort 26
AR (45): Shelby Daly 13, Tierney 9, Bowman 6, Swartz 4, Cole 4, Bowers 4, Baum 2, Cousins 2, Richardson 1
B (26): Amber Britton 11, Wallace 6, Bolden 4, Simmons 3, Fields 2
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CRESTVIEW — Nobody could have blamed the Crestview High School volleyball team for being distracted in the District 1-7A match with Navarre on Tuesday.
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Gender-based violence (GBV) has been a chronic problem in Haiti for a number of years. Estimates indicate that approximately 35,000 women and girls have been victims of sexual assault and violence since 2004. Anecdotal evidence also suggested an increase in GBV immediately following the January 2010 earthquake, as displaced women became more vulnerable residing in displacement camps. Gender inequality, poverty, economic vulnerability, and cultural factors such as lack of education continue to place women and girls at heightened risk of sexual assault.
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- Strengthen and expand GBV programs at GHESKIO and at affiliated sites (Les Cayes and Saint Marc): GHESKIO is planning, implementing, and evaluating a series of training activities and materials designed to help individuals change cultural beliefs and norms in regards to GBV.
- Improve our understanding of potential barriers to empowerment of vulnerable women and girls in Haiti: GHESKIO is conducting in-depth interviews and surveys with groups of vulnerable women to learn more about factors that put women at risk for GBV and how to design culturally adapted interventions to prevent GBV in Haiti.
- Plan, develop, and implement vocational training opportunities to empower vulnerable women: GHESKIO is offering educational and employment opportunities to a sample of vulnerable women.
As of June 2013, through this USAID- supported project, GHESKIO has:
- Sensitized and surveyed over 114,951 people on GBV, including 387 staff, 87,617 patients, and 26,947 people at the community-level who are living in high risk areas;
- Provided 75 victims of GBV with psychological support, including 60 commercial sex workers (CSWs), 14 victims of domestic violence, and one victim of sexual violence (The HIV prevalence among CSWs at GHESKIO is 11.8%.);
- Referred 2,308 victims of GBV to voluntary counseling and testing for HIV services, reproductive health, and/or psychological support services;
- Provided vocational training to a number of vulnerable women: 76 attended a culinary and pastry school; 67 attended a cosmetology school; and 11 attended a child care school;
- Referred 46 women to ACME to receive micro-credit loans; and
- Referred 29 women to Kay Fanm for legal assistance.
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Mint Pesto
About the author: Joshua Bousel brings you new, tasty condiment each Wednesday and a recipe for weekend grilling every Friday. He also writes about grilling and barbecue on his blog The Meatwave whenever he can be pulled away from his grill.
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Mint Pesto
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- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 2 cups packed fresh mint leaves, rinsed and dried
- 3 medium garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest from 1 lemon
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Place almonds in a small skillet over medium heat. Toast until fragrant and lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Transfer to food processor fitted with steel blade.
Add in mint garlic and lemon zest into food process. Pulse until everything is finely chopped, about 5 1-second pulses, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary.
With the food processor running, pour oil through feed tube in a slow, steady stream. Keep food processor running until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl as necessary.
Add in feta and lemon juice; pulse to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week, or in a Ziploc bag in the freezer for up to six months.


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Let's make it an Official Round Robin Contest Thread.
Excellent article, IMO, well worth the read. There are indeed plenty of decent soft-keyboards out there. I'll let others chime in with their favorites to see if anybody can pick the right one. ;)
Round Robin: AT&T Tilt
For the past few days, I've been working with the AT&T Tilt, a Windows Mobile smartphone. I've used Windows Mobile before, so this isn't quite the new experience that the BlackBerry Curve was, but I haven't used the latest version of Windows Mobile (version 6) either. I used WM5 with a Treo 750 for a while, but I ended up dealing with a bad bug that prevented calls from ringing. That was pretty much a killer for the device, and I stopped using it.
And that would be the end of the story, but for the Smartphone Round Robin. And here we are again.
First, Some History
When I last used Windows Mobile, I was frustrated at the lack of real estate -- I was used to a 320x320 screen from the Treo 680 (which I'll be using again next week), and the 750's 240x240 screen felt really small. When the pixels are limited like that, the seemingly glaring excesses of the Windows Mobile interface... the bars across the bottom and top of the screen, plus the right scroll bar: I was not a happy camper with how the real estate was divided. Dieter of WMExperts told me that WM6 was basically WM5, but with less bugs. The user interface, the way that Windows Mobile presents itself to people using it, was pretty much unchanged, and I figured that maybe I'd check out Windows Mobile again once their new version, Photon, was available. This was all pre-iPhone, so my options of escape were a bit limited.
But, that was a different device, a different Windows Mobile, and a different time. Which leads us, finally, to the Tilt.
About the Tilt
The tilt is a Windows Mobile slider, meaning that it has an iPhone-like front, except that it slides up along the middle to reveal a full-sized keyboard along the front. The form factor, except for the sliding part, is a lot like the iPhone. Oh, and the double-thickness. The iPhone is perhaps a centimeter longer, but half the depth.
The Tilt is huge -- not a device that you can use with just one hand. And there are buttons all over the place -- one for the camera, one for power/sleep, one for push-to-talk, two OK buttons, and a scroll wheel. Then there are phone, hangup, mail, browser, start, left menu, right menu, and (another) OK key. Then there's the 5-way directional pad. Many, though not all, of these keys are present yet again in the slider keyboard.
The Size is Deceptive
The battery life on the Tilt is a bit of a disappointment. With the iPhone, I'm used to leaving wi-fi on pretty much all of the time. I recharge the phone about every two or three days. With the Tilt, battery life is great -- as long as that Wi-Fi is off, and I don't have any programs chewing up bandwidth in the background. I suppose this could be said of any phone, but given the size of the Tilt, I kind of expect more battery life out of it.
Given the size, I also kind of expect more speed... response on the Tilt is a bit sluggish, which kind of surprised me. I don't know if it's a RAM issue or a processor speed thing, all I know is that the Tilt is kind of pokey. Windows Mobile ships with its own special version of the spinny beach ball that indicates that something is going on. You can't do anything while the ball spins, the mobile is pretty much locked.
Those are the bad things about the Tilt, off the bat. I'm still not a fan of Windows Mobile, I still find myself lamenting that the UI is bad. The start menu is too small to be thumbable accurately, for example.
But there are good things about Windows Mobile, there always have been. One thing that I do like about Windows Mobile is the power of it all. Real multi-tasking is a boon. Of all of the smartphones that everyone has been using over the Smartphone Round Robin, the Tilt is the only one that really has it. If you want to have GPS mapping going while you browse the web whilst music plays in the background, have at it. The Tilt may not be especially responsive during that time, but it will work.
Windows Mobile also has "a real file system." With that real filesystem come a lot of benefits. For most things, it means "real apps." If you want to download something to your phone, have at it. If you want Outlook on your phone, it's there. If you want to make powerpoint documents or spreadsheets or word documents, it's all there, ready for you to use. It's a very powerful system.
For Every Gripe, an Equal and Opposite 3rd Party App
And though there are a lot of things that I don't like about the way Windows Mobile looks and behaves, there's a slew of programs out there that attempt to fix it.
I don't like the Today screen, for example. I miss having a useful background image, and I don't like the way that the standard information is presented to me. There are programs out there that fix that -- the most notable one is probably SPB Mobile Shell, which I use to replace the default 'Today' screen.
The browser is really bad, too. Pocket IE is pretty much a joke -- it's incredibly slow and absolutely offsets any speed gains you get from using the Tilt with a 3G network. Opera Mobile to the rescue! It's not as good as MobileSafari on the iPhone, but it's a sight better than Pocket IE. You can use it to replace pretty much everything that PIE does -- download files, the whole shebang. Opera Mobile is one of the reasons that I've been looking forward to using the Tilt.
p>I also think that the software keyboard on the Tilt is very bad -- it's tiny and requires frequent use of the stylus. I'm pretty certain that there's an iPhone-like keyboard available. One of the times that I tapped the keyboard with the stylus, though, I got a menu where I could pick and choose from several less-bad software keyboards. The keys are still infintesimal on most of them, but there's a choice. And some of the helpful forum users have pointed me to other software keyboards that might be better, and I'm pretty sure that there's an iPhone software keyboard clone floating around on the itnernet somewhere.
Nothing to Reference
One of the things that sets Windows Mobile apart from the other smartphones we're all testing is that Microsoft doesn't actually make the device -- they just make the software. The rest is all up to HTC, or Palm, or Motorola, or anyone who decides to ship a Windows Mobile smartphone.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's a good thing because it's a platform -- it means that anyone that wants to build a smartphone and has the hardware know-how can build one, because they don't need nearly as many people to get the software side of things working. Since all of these hardware companies are using the same software platform, it means that it's a lot easier to get better apps to use and games to play with -- it gives Windows Mobile a lot of legs, in terms of what you can do with it.
The downside to all of this is that you don't necessarily get a strong design edge out of this method of doing things. It's a lot like Microsoft in the computer world -- maybe your average beige computer box is kind of ugly, but that's not Microsoft's fault, they just did the software.
And HTC's Tilt, though not by any means a bad-looking device, shows all the symptoms of this problem. There are huge buttons all over the place, but the hardest one to find and activate is the sleep button. The red phone button, which we've all been taught with countless featurephone designs, should turn the device on, or at least wake it up from sleep. Looks like someone missed that, as the red phone button does nothing. It may be that there's a way to swap those buttons in software -- if there is, please post.
Endless Customizability
One of the other things about Windows Mobile that struck me is that there's endless customizability. I'm willing to bet that many if not all of the things that I can find that I don't like, there's an app or tweak or registry edit that fixes it. All that matters is that you have the time, knowledge, and/or money to throw at the things you don't like about Windows Mobile. And that you have a parachute for the learning cliff.
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Round Robin: AT&T Tilt
Let's make it an Official Round Robin Contest Thread.
now, by soft keyboard, do you mean something similar to the Iphone's? or something smaller?
Great Article Mike!
Touched on a lot of things I didn't talk about...like YES..the multitasking capability is awesome. One of those things that makes it more like a mini-computer when using it vs. a smartphone.
And just realized something...I'm pretty sure I kept WiFi on the entire time I had the phone in my possession. Wouldn't everyone?! I'm guessing that will be the reason the battery needed a mid-afternoon recharge. I haven't had the pleasure of using a WiFi BlackBerry yet (8820 or 8320)...not sure how badly the battery gets sapped when WiFi is turned on those.
Looking forward to your next article!
The two software keyboards of the moment are Touchpal and PCMKeyboard.http://www.cootek.com/http://www.pocketcm.com/keyboard2.php
It seems to me all these round robins are more about the Out of Box experience than the eventual user experience. I get most newbies never customize their devices, but WM users are much more pro-active in general. Didn't Palm say recently 80+% of their users use 3rd party apps.
I know iPhone users are superficial, so maybe the first thing to change is the theme? I was shocked to see kevinBerry was still using the very plain default one.
There are some nice ones here, and a cab to make it all glossy blackhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1403151&postcount=828
You would also want to install HTC Album, which is their own image viewer.http://rapidshare.com/files/65505054/HTC__Album_mui_0409.cab
BTW, if you hold down the phone end key it locks the phone.
Great article Mike! I look forward to reading your final thoughts! ;-)
I look forward to seeing more comments on usability. I'm still unconvinced the WinMob 6 is any easier to use than previous versions. MS seems to be applying the same business model to WinMob as it does to Windows itself: each release gets more and more features, requires more and more memory and processor, but does nothing to solve the usability problems that have existed for year after year, version after version.
And the Tilt itself seems to add even more complexity, with its plethora of buttons and switches.
I guess that's why I'm still a Palm Treo user: In spite of its age, lack of pre-emptive multi-tasking, and less than glamorous interface, the Palm OS just plain works. It's simple, straightforward, and gets the most performance from the fewest inputs of any device to date.
The iPhone has potential, but even now there are oddities in the interface which makes some activities harder than they need to bem, especially when switching between apps. I wonder how well the interface will hold up with 50 or more 3rd party apps loaded, each with it's own interpretation of the "standard."
good write up
And the Tilt itself seems to add even more complexity, with its plethora of buttons and switches.
This is such nonsense, I am starting to doubt the sanity of the people who spew it.
So its more complex to open my e-mail app with a clearly labeled e-mail button? Or by browser with the same? Or my phone app?
And arnt most phone users trained in the use of soft keys and menus associated with them for ages? Isn't that how every Razr works?
If you use nothing but the browser, e-mail and phone you would never need to open up the start menu at all.
Maybe some-one need to explain to me whats so complicated, because I dont get it.
I think the complication comes from having so many diff ways to axxs one simple item, WinMob is cluttered and a user of WinMob has to find the "right way" to make the device function for them, once those options are set I think the OS will become easier to maintain and use, but until that happens the devices do feel complicated and awkward, the good thing about WinMob is it's customization options to remove some of the complication AKA Clutter,Bloat..how ever you wanna refer to it..is a simple process as long as your willing/able to dabble into long lists of .CAB files and such, but my personal perception still prevails here and no matter how many articles/reviews I read about WinMob usage will change that, it's just not a user friendly OS for the average user, you have to be interested and know what WinMob is and know the potential it actually has to want to purchase these devices, without that knowledge..chances are you'll be coming to the sad realization that the device you just purchased is way more then what you actually need/understand...in terms of other devices, the iPhone is slick and easy to navigate, the BB devices the same, these devices can be picked up and quickly understood by the average user in a matter of days, where with WinMob, a user could have the device and never end up fully understanding all the functions of it..like I said this is great for those "explorers" and gadget nuts, but average user...naww
So ... quick question.
Did you happen to have any issues with switching back and forth between Wifi and 3G? Its a frickin nightmare for me. I have to turn on wifi, then go into my mail account options and set it back to "the internet" from "medianet" before it will download email over wifi. If I try to use wifi to browse the web and then leave the house (and disconnect wifi) then I have to close PIE and reopen it before it will start to use the 3G network. Its ridiculous. My iPhone I switch between wifi and edge without any notice or issues...
Am I missing something?
Great article mike. I must say that as a veteran user of WM devices, the whole platform is sluggish a lot of the time. However, I believe that the sluggishness is offset by the power, customizability, and hardware that ships with many of these devices. My current device is also the Tilt, and I haven't thought much about the Treo 750 at all.
Nice article! Can't wait to see what you think of it after going back to the 680 for a bit. I'm on the 680 and curious if I should go WM. Your +/- on it in a short window like this will surely be helpful!
You truly "get it". :)
This coming from a 7 year veteran of Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) devices.
Too bad AT&T is the devil!
I'm curious if you ever get "stuck" going back to edge speeds and how the handoff between 2G and 3G is. Thanks for the great articles!
Do you like how the phone actually tilts, or have you messed with the old style sliders and prefer them?
Too bad AT&T is the devil!
How does that fit in, lol?
Long live unlocked devices.
I must say this pretty much mirrors my experiences with an HTC TyTN. Big, not that easy to use, and a bit slow. My biggest gripe is not really covered above - it's not very easy to use as a phone! Dialling a number that isn't a speed dial or on voice command is a pain - even with two hands!
Do you like how the phone actually tilts, or have you messed with the old style sliders and prefer them?
I think sliders are kind of a gimmicky form factor. I tended to use it vertically without sliding, just did the sideways for the emails. I'm convinced that brick / candybar is the way.
With the tilt and slide stuff, I can't help but think that maybe the device would have better battery life or thinner profile if they didn't have to do the extra engineering. ditto with styluses. ditto with the duplication of keys all over on the tilt.
I viewed this review more as a review of windows mobile than I did of the tilt specifically, though. I think that's really the point of the smartphone round robin -- to check out the other platforms and report on that; we're just doing it through the lens of what's hopefully that platform's latest and greatest. With the possible exception of the Treo 680. :rolleyes:
So any gripes I have about the Tilt's form factor should be taken with a grain of salt -- there are other windows mobile phones out there with better form factors. It's not WM's fault that I think that sliders are a gimmick doomed to the rubbish bin of time. :D
The tilt of my Tilt actually makes it useful when I am not actively using it - when I am at my desk.
When plugged in to my laptop to tether, the HTC Home screen makes a good desktop clock, and you can see your push e-mail arrive as it arrives.
Secondly, when you sync photos (same way you sync music) you can use it as a nice digital photo frame.
Also, text entry is slightly easier with the screen tilted (but not too far, as it encroaches on the keyboard them).
Finally, it works well as a built-in stand when watching video for example.
Anyway, I find the Tilt feature desirable and useful.
I agree that some manner of tilting often desirable. there are cases (if memory serves, the belkin acrylic clear case?) that provide a tilt function for the iPhone. For desktop use, there's always the cradle that ships with the iPhone.
I think that the Tilt makes a lot of sacrifices to engineer that tilting functionality -- slow processor, mediocre battery life, and thick form factor. It's almost too big. Still usable, of course, but it looks awkward in a pocket. When you double the surface area and hinges, you add bulk, you have to engineer a safe connecting mechanism, the little ribbon thingy, etc. They still pack a lot of stuff in -- wifi, gps, etc, but they still made some big sacrifices.
At any rate, that's why I think candybar / brick is the way. I'll probably see if I can finagle an LG KS20 out of Septimus for a fairer iPhone / WM comparison in the future.
I think that the Tilt makes a lot of sacrifices to engineer that tilting functionality -- slow processor, mediocre battery life, and thick form factor. It's almost too big. Still usable, of course, but it looks awkward in a pocket. When you double the surface area and hinges, you add bulk, you have to engineer a safe connecting mechanism, the little ribbon thingy, etc. They still pack a lot of stuff in -- wifi, gps, etc, but they still made some big sacrifices.
Most of that is for the sliding mechanism, not the tilt. The new Touch Cruise for example has no sliding keyboard, but is a similar dimension, but only 3.5 mm thinner. The penalty for the sliding keyboard and Tilt is therefore only 3.5 mm and 60 grams weight.
The Tilt is actually 3 mm thinner than the Tytn, its predecessor, which has a sliding keyboard but no Tilt mechanism. The Cruise, Tilt and Tytn have the same size 1350 battery BTW. And the Cruise has the exact same processor speed, and other features like WIFI and GPS.
I think the main sacrifice associated with the tilt feature is weight, as I assume there is plenty of metal in there to keep the structure sturdy. I dont think the dimensions suffered appreciably.
Most of that is for the sliding mechanism, not the tilt. The new Touch Cruise for example has no sliding keyboard, but is a similar dimension, but only 3.5 mm thinner. The penalty for the sliding keyboard and Tilt is therefore only 3.5 mm and 60 grams weight.
The Tilt is actually 3 mm thinner than the Tytn, its predecessor, which has a sliding keyboard but no Tilt mechanism. The Cruise, Tilt and Tytn have the same size 1350 battery BTW. And the Cruise has the exact same processor speed, and other features like WIFI and GPS.
I think the main sacrifice associated with the tilt feature is weight, as I assume there is plenty of metal in there to keep the structure sturdy. I dont think the dimensions suffered appreciably.
3.5 mm doesn't sound like much until you math it -- it's around 20% less. The extra weight didn't bother me at all, actually. I expect 3G phones laden up with features like 3G, 3MP camera, GPS, wifi, etc to be thicker, but there is a limit to what I'll gladly put in my pocket. Driving while trying to get the tilt out as it rings = bad.
Well I've been living with the Tilt for a month, and it's going back tomorrow.
Things I didn't like about WM6:
1. You must upgrade at least to Outlook 2002 to be able to sync with your PC
2. Fewer button mapping is available, only 5 verses 12 for WM5 with the Samsung i-730. This makes it less one-handed friendly
3. They didn't bother fixing the forced reset when you swap the battery, over WM5.
What is the advantage here?
Hardware drawbacks:
1. Power plug gets in the way if you use the keyboard
2. Hands-free is a non-standard connector
3. No included hands free, holster, extra battery
Application drawbacks:
1. Camera takes about 5 seconds to take a photo, after you press the button
2. GPS didn't work when I needed it; isn't ready out of the box
3. Can no longer "recognize" handwriting in Notes (convert to text)
I am appreciating my old i-730 much more now. And I don't see anything that is really worth buying right now...all have their shortcomings...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Crawford captures fishing title on national TV
Congratulations to fisherman Patrick Crawford and his family.
Patrick is the winner of Animal Planet's Top Hooker competition. Top Hooker is a reality fishing show that featured 10 contestants, all with fishing backgrounds, in elimination challenges that spanned eight episodes.
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Patrick deposited the cash in a college fund for his daughter, pulls his boat with his new truck and has a display case for his giant trophy.
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Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
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- Griechisch (5) (remove)
- The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically (2006)
- The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a verb V means roughly "cause to Vintransitive" (see Levin 1993). The discussion revolves around two issues: the first one concerns the similarities and differences between the anticausative and the passive, and the second one concerns the derivational relationship, if any, between the transitive and intransitive variant. With respect to the second issue, a number of approaches have been developed. Judging the approach conceptually unsatisfactory, according to which each variant is assigned an independent lexical entry, it was concluded that the two variants have to be derivationally related. The question then is which one of the two is basic and where this derivation takes place in the grammar. Our contribution to this discussion is to argue against derivational approaches to the causative / anticausative alternation. We focus on the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in passives and anticausatives of English, German and Greek and the set of verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation in these languages. We argue that the crosslinguistic differences in these two domains provide evidence against both causativization and detransitivization analyses of the causative / anticausative alternation. We offer an approach to this alternation which builds on a syntactic decomposition of change of state verbs into a Voice and a CAUS component. Crosslinguistic variation in passives and anticausatives depends on properties of Voice and its combinations with CAUS and various types of roots.
- Instrument subjects are agents or causers (2006)
- It has often been noticed that one syntactic argument position can be realized by elements which seem to realize different thematic roles. This is notably the case with the external argument position of verbs of change of state which licenses volitional agents, instruments or natural forces/causers, showing the generality and abstractness of the external argument relation. (1) a. John broke the window (Agent) b. The hammer broke the window (Instrument) c. The storm broke the window (Causer) In order to capture this generality, Van Valin & Wilkins (1996) and Ramchand (2003) among others have proposed that the thematic role of the external argument position is in fact underspecified. The relevant notion is that of an effector (in Van Valin & Wilkins) or of an abstract causer/initiator (in Ramchand). In this paper we argue against a total underspecification of the external argument relation. While we agree that (1b) does not instantiate an instrument theta role in subject position, we argue that a complete underspecification of the external theta-position is not feasible, but that two types of external theta roles have to be distinguished, Agents and Causers. Our arguments are based on languages where Agents and Causers show morpho-syntactic independence (section 2.1) and the behavior of instrument subjects in English, Dutch, German and Greek (section 2.2 and 3). We show that instrument subjects are either Agent or Causer like. In section (4) we give an analysis how arguments realizing these thematic notions are introduced into syntax.
- Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure (2008)
- In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are licensed by distinct functional heads, respectively. We argue against a conceivable alternative analysis, which links agentivity and causation to the prepositions themselves. We furthermore identify a particular type of Voice head in Greek anticausative realised by non-active Voice morphology.
- Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP (2003)
- The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP. Section 3 briefly discusses problems for both approaches. Sections 4.1, 5.1, and 5.2 draw from Alexiadou (2001) and contain a discussion of Greek DS and its relevance for a re-analysis of the word order variation in the Romance DP. Section 4.2 introduces refinements to Alexiadou & Wilder (1998) and Alexiadou (2001). Section 5.3. discusses certain issues that arise from the analysis of postnominal adjectives in Romance as involving raising of XPs. Section 6 discusses phenomena found in other languages, which at first sight seem similar to DS. However, I show that double definiteness in e.g. Hebrew, Scandinavian or other Balkan languages constitutes a different type of phenomenon from Greek DS, thus making a distinction between determiners that introduce CPs (Greek) and those that are merely morphological/agreement markers (Hebrew, Scandinavian, Albanian).
- Adjectival modification and multiple determiners (1998)
- The present paper deals with the distribution of the definite determiner and certain related aspects of adjectival modification in Greek DPs. As (1) shows, determiners in Greek DPs precede adjectives and adjectives precede nouns. All three categories overtly agree in gender, number and case.


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Joined: 5/02/08
Originally posted by furh98
Hate? Why for?
These are just facts.
BTW check AoC and WAR...
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Joined: 7/22/12
"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words
Originally posted by furh98
The fun part is, that most of the haters are so obsessed with SWTOR that they actually still sub so they can post negative posts on SWTOR forums /grin
Novice Member
Joined: 5/02/08
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
We both know i'm no hater, just want the game to be much better ;)
The game won't improve if people keep praising BioWare when they keep half delivering.
(edit: half being generous)
Novice Member
Joined: 7/22/12
"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words
And it will improve a lot if all you hear is: don't bother even to play it because it sucks and it' will die soon or it's already dead.
Constructive criticism is good. Mindless hating and bashing game is not going to make it better, it's going to discourage potential players to even try it. If company does not have money to invest in game, you won't see any improvement.
You can criticize the game and give a feedback and suggestions - that's welcomed. Nobody is going to disagree with that.
Novice Member
Joined: 5/05/08
I was a pretty big fan boy for SWTOR but eventually the shine wore off and I realized the sad truth..... the game was just terribly designed at its core. Unfortunately I dont think the game can improve enough to climb out of the giant hole that Bioware dug themselves in.
I havent played in about 3 months and watching the pace of the updates and the terrible implementation of F2P just tells me that this games going into maintenance mode, I wouldnt be surprised if it is shut down a year from now. Especially with Disney buying the IP, they may want better representation in the MMO scene.
For those that still enjoy it, congrats I guess.
Ive pretty much lost all hope that a good MMO will ever get released. I just play skyrim now lol. If only somehow that game was an mmo...
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Joined: 11/08/08
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Actually the free to play guys can post on the forums as well. It let me log in there today without a sub to my surprise so this is no longer true.
Novice Member
Joined: 7/22/12
"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words
No they can't. You have to have sub to be able to post on forum. It has to be glitch.
You can log in to forum, but you cannot post.
Edit: there were few people who claimed they were F2P and could posted, but it was isolated incident and I think after they posted they access was cut off /grin
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Joined: 4/26/12
for me im no lover of swtor , i never had these high expectations that a lot of players here carry. So therefore i see the game as fine and a good game to enjoy a story and some okay pve. Its nowhere near as bad as people on this site make it out to be and i can agree with seven , if you want to really see it grow and become good or make it something entirely different the last thing people here are doing is promoting anything to do with fixing it. All senseless bashing without anything constructive at all said about it.
Ive been on this forum for years , on other older screen names and can tell you this has been going on here since wow was just out of beta . People destroy content as fast as possible then turn around and bash the games they played saying they should of added this or that. SWTOR is no different other than they spent more money on the budget and made bad design decisions on where the money went to . If people here really care about the game like they need to express whats wrong with it on the bioware forums and see what direction they take. Obviously people who created this had ego's and blame issues , but they are long gone and there seems to be content on the way and they seem to be receptive now to player suggestions. Space off rails is coming , they hinted at more factional pve and wars , and they already said illum is being redesiged months ago. So it sounds honestly like they are listening more now and people are coming back to play.
Also i agree content isnt that great for the quick releases but either was rifts fast patches , they tweek a few things add a raid or a chronicle and call it a day so how is it any different than other games. Hell to be honest if you want to talk about shakeup on content and making things decent for patches go look at the new lord of the rings patch on the public test server. While its raid content lite , its got tons of quality of life improvements to the game taken from other games .
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Joined: 4/29/10
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
I'll be honest, I stopped reading based on the title myself.
Both SWTOR and GW2 failed to triumph.
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Joined: 10/15/12
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
the Op quoted the guy who wrote the article. and the guy who wrote it didn't even work for EA in 2010. op just trying to stir the pot.
I think the prostitute mod corrupted your game files man. -elhefen
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Joined: 11/08/08
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Yep they fixed the glitch. I can log into the forums, the new post button is there, but now when I click it it says yada yada yada you must have an account to post. So it was glitchy for previous subscribers. I also noticed that my thread from today is no longer there lol. I guess free to play players are second class citizens as well.
Originally posted by Sevenstar61
Because they need hard lesson and weve all witnesses that unless you hit em where it hurts (pocket) nothing will change.
SInce they decided to spend lot of resources on F2P instead fixing the game they need more hard lessons.
And if they dont learn it will die (which how they handle things is pretty possible, within next year).
Just look at this:
Short while ago: "We will release some update every 6 weeks"
Now: "We aim to release some update every 6-8 weeks with next being 9 weeks proabably"
And 6 weeks for MINISCULE updates is still SNAIL pace.
Yah, its that simple.
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Joined: 9/05/12
SWG pre cu > all
Originally posted by Tiller
except SWG was a much more fun game and its potential was gigantic compared to SWTOR.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by LoverNoFighter
Yep, and SOE focussed on updating/improving the game instead of server merges. Even with the NGE it took over 3 years from that to start merging servers.
Server merges may solve things short term, but not long term.
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Joined: 12/17/10
Has there ever been a single soul who has watched star wars and seen the name star wars ever disassociated it from Lucasarts ?
I am also very curious when people say most people or everyone or a majority exactly what statistic they are using. By all accounts WoW would be much hated and despised and should have a population of a few hundred based on this site anyway , yet it thrives. Of course that is because Blizzard lies and cheats but their stockholders seem happy.
What one player enjoys is personal to them. As is evidenced games many others would not touch are enjoyed by others. Same with SWTOR there are people who love it even if many here are unable to grasp that and continue to shake their heads in disbelief that anyone can like SWTOR . There are players out there continuing to enjoy the game.
Games can also continue to make money even if they do not have a large number of people playing if they are making a profit and only EA knows what that is even if we would like to speculate we are not in a position to know what that figure is and if indeed the game has been considered by EA as a complete loss. However SWG was shut down that is a fact. So even if it had more potential or what have you that game had a very small population playing it and in the end it was shut down.
City of X was shut down eventhough it was still making money. So what keeps games up or whether EA has every intention of shutting down SWTOR is all up in the clouds. I do not see any credible post here about SWTOR or the success of its F2P or failure all we have are disgruntled exfans who have a bone to pick with the game and cannot get over the reality that others may have a different interest from their own . Well hardly surprising when you see the number of insults flung at WoW players questioning their intellect and earning capacity to lodgings.
Someone mentioned Age of Conan's budget ,can you link a source for it as well as a link to the budget for making SWTOR. No rumours please let's deal in facts.
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Joined: 9/05/08
Its better to be quiet and perceived as stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I don't know what AoC's budget was, but one can make a safe assumption that TOR won't be shut down any time soon because EA has a ton of money invested into it that they need to get back, not to mention actually make a profit. What this sadly means is that they'll put the game on skeleton crew in order to invest as little as possible into it since it didn't turn out to be a multimillion subscribers deal, as evident by the fact that in almost a year since its launch TOR has had miniscule content updates spread out over that time period.
I can only assume it's the Star Wars brand itself that's keeping the game from going down the Warhammer Online route which it has zealously mimicking so far otherwise. It's both ridiculous and sad.
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by kitarad
I just do not see a future in SWTOR. According to EAs reports the subs have lost about 75% of players from launch, that is aboyut 1.5 million people who do not want to carry on playing.
SWTOR has now received merges and gone F2P, but what would have been better is them adding the content that it was supposed to have. They said they had enough story for SWTOR from KOTOR 3-9 and beyond. So where is it?
They have layed off staff, and the game has pretty much jumped straight to NGE status in 2006. At least with SWG they tried with CU and NGE, but I guess they are not doing a CU or a NGE because of the history with SWG, but the difference, for those who like each game, is SWTORs has an attention span of a few months whereas SWGs was infinite. There are plenty of things to keep you entertained in SWG, I do not see what keeps people playing SWTOR, it is just monotonous repetitive gameplay after a couple of characters, because EA/Bioware do not enhance the game at all.
The only bone I have with SWTOR is that they have given up on the game, and we are now not getting all that promised content. Also the way they handled the merges caused me to delete characters as being on the same server stuffed up my Legacy trees. SWTOR is what it is. Games like STO, WOW, TSW, Rift, LOTRO and all other MMOs are expanding and evolving all the time, with content first and mostly, with merges/F2P last
SWG and COH did shut down, and both had more positive aura about them staying active. Paragon Studios themselves were shocked by the fact NC Soft chose to shut it down. It went F2P only last year, and there were was more updates to come. SWG had several pieces of major content in the pipeline and both SOE and LA stated that SWG would still run alongside SWTOR as both games were different enough to co-exist, but then it shuts down on the day SWTOR starts early access? Too much of a coincidence to ignore the fact that SWTORs release caused SWGs shutdown - In with New, Out with the old, and leaves only one Star Wars game to go to, cutting out the cometition. If SWG had stayed active, SWTOR would be a lot deader than it is now. Convenient huh?
Add in the fact they still say the game requires the equivalent of 500K subs to break even. So unless they get this figure how can they make a profit on it?
The game has a boos nowt in population with F2P but History has proven that people do not stick with the game, and the game has not changed in any way to make people want to stay with the game, so in about 3 months time, it is quite safe to say that people will start leaving the game again.
SWG closing was far from nice, and for those loving SWTOR should just accept that, and get the most of it while it is active. If you think it is going to last for years and years and then it shuts down before 2014, then it will just hurt tonnes more.
Basically NOTHING coming from EA/Bioware is positive at all about SWTOR, unlike there was SWG and COH, but yet these 2 still shut down. I do not see the point in bothering with a game that has no future, and a company that treats players like scum. EA/Bioware are far worse than SOE
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Joined: 3/24/10
Confusius say: Man who go to bed with itchy bum wake up with stinky finger
Originally posted by superniceguy
I always enjoy a good conspiracy theory...
You should call up Georgy boy OOps I mean Disney and ask them how much for a license, then do the math.
I think a more plausible theory... Would be that the license expired and SOE didnt feel it was profitable to renew.
"If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you." - Bruce Lee
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by laserit
Both actually, the licence expired in 2012, not 2011, so closed down a few months early, but it all lined up neatly with SWTORs release. LA / SOE / EA all worked together to make it all happen. Plus if SOE was 100% (without LA or EA )with the closure then they would not have given 6 months notice, but only the usual 2 or 3. The whole SWG shutdown and SWTOR launch was all planned
There is no conspiracy theories just crappy mutual business decisions
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Joined: 7/30/12
Originally posted by Chieftan
I can't tell if you are being serious.
You provdie links to a site we aren't supposed to link to.
The links show a B2P MMO still holding #5 behind WoW's #4.
B2P depends more on boc sales and xpac sales then anything, cash shop is bonus.
The second link shows a P2P game which took longer, and much more money to develop, only at #11 after a FTP conversion.
I know that the site you linked to isn't for directly compring one game to another, just to identify trends.
That said, even if I would use that site's analytics to compare the two games, I'd say your evidence was less then compelling for your argument.


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Comment Re:Hi-res picture you say ? (Score 1) 104
I'm one of the 0.16% of the population with a 1 pixel display you insensitive clod.
I dunno, 49% of the population have a 1-pixel display, usually encoded as up or down.~
Comment Re:Hyperbole or stupidity (Score 1) 571
The think-of-the-kids mentality is almost solely responsible for this pussification of the USA.
Along these lines, I saw this video a couple of months ago. It's maybe a fraction overdone, but he makes some good points. Nutnfancy - Lessons of my father - depussification. Worth the time.
Comment Re:Yay for common sense (Score 1) 612
Teaching someone how to learn is like fucking them into virginity.
Ultimately ineffective, but amusing to try?
Submission + - Why don't we buy sysadmin books anymore? -> 4
Has our need for documentation changed, or just our sources of it?
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Comment Re:Where's the applications? (Score 1) 271
I am an Australian so I already know the outcome of games involving my team but that wouldn't stop me from watching the game.
Aussie Aussie Aussi... Ah, fuckit, lets go to the pub and watch the game there.
Comment Re:Hey! (Score 2, Funny) 215
Don't call my ass "nothing", you insensitive clod!
I'm sorry, I forgot how hard you've worked to get it that big.
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 378
Comment Re:Honestly, I hope the US (Score 1) 378
But I'm doing some other stuff on the side to hedge my bets.
I've got mod-points, but I'd rather provoke a discussion: in broad-brush terms, what are the sort of things you're doing? Currency or precious metal investments, or more along the lines of buying extra tins of food every week, on the assumption that TEOTWAWKI is coming?
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 378
The picture of the woman shoving wadfuls of marks into the furnace should be burned into everyone's mind.
Got a link? I haven't seen it before, though I've heard stories similar of hyperinflation in Turkey.
Comment Re:Hmmmm (Score 1) 698
Slashdot really needs a filter to replace fuck with frack,
well maybe not really needs, more like I'd like it to have an option for it in the preferences.
That would be what greasemonkey and a script would be for. Have fun.
Comment Re:Here's what's in it (Score 1) 97
So... how many people are going to be hospitalized with poisoning symptoms after mixing large quantities of this in the hopes of drinking the elixir of immortality?
Hopefully at least one.
Comment Re:Automatic transmissions fail before engines, no (Score 1) 609
The second clutch (performance) was destroyed by my ex-wife driving it uphill and she slipped the clutch the whole way (like 5 miles).
Now I know why she's your ex.


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A candidate for a N.C. House seat representing northern Orange and Durham counties wants to restrict the ability of county governments to force changes to the staffing of volunteer fire departments.
Republican contender Lewis Hannah took to his campaign Web site in February to say "a vote by the fire district['s]" residents should be required before a county acts on plans to replace volunteers with paid firefighters.
"Not to denigrate the professionalism of paid firefighters and their dedication to the effort, but the volunteer brings the 'neighbor helping neighbor' spirit that harks back to the volunteer militias that protected their neighbors and assisted in this country's fight for independence," he said.
Hannah vowed if elected to the House District 50 seat to introduce to implement the referendum proposal.
The posting came as Durham County commissioners were mulling the advice of a consultant's study of Durham's rural fire service that among other things advised requiring the Bahama Volunteer Fire Department to beef up staffing at its main station.
The move would have forced the department to have three firefighters posted there 24/7, instead of the two that are now customary.
Bahama officials objected on cost grounds, prompting the commissioners and Deputy County Manager Lee Worsley eventually dropped the idea.
Like every other "volunteer" fire department in the county, Bahama already makes heavy use of paid staffers. But when the county's consultants did their work, it was the only one still majority volunteer, paid firefighters accounting for 26 of its 67-person roster.
Hannah said it's clear that volunteer departments have "almost become not necessary" in the southern part of Durham because the city has annexed so much formerly rural territory.
But in northern Durham, volunteer departments like Bahama are still important institutions, "so making a countywide change would not necessarily be helpful to them maintaining their community identity," he said.
He added that an additional problem is that the Durham commissioners aren't necessarily representative of rural views, given that the vast majority of the countywide voter base is in the city.
In consequence, rural residents "just don't have a proportional voice," Hannah said.
The issue isn't one the other GOP candidate in the House 50 race, Rod Chaney, is pushing.
Chaney said he "doesn't have any thoughts on it" currently even though there are discussions even in Orange County about the proper division of responsibilities between town and county governments.
Hannah, a banker, and Chaney, a minister, are facing off in a Republican primary that will conclude on May 6. The winner goes on to face state Rep. Graig Meyer, a Democrat and the appointed incumbent.
Counties now have the authority under state law to structure the rural fire service more or less as they see fit, by negotiating and signing service contracts with whatever organization they decide should provide coverage.
The N.C. General Assembly wound up under Republican control after the 2010 election and in the years since has shown itself willing to intervene in local-government business.
But the intervention impulse, historically speaking, is common to both parties.
Former House 50 state Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, triggered a move to district-based election of the Orange County Commissioners last decade after floating legislation that would have forced the conversion.


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