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Garrett Fuller responds to this month's article in PC Gamer on Warhammer Online, the recently debuted title from Mythic Entertainment. You can find the article that inspired this in their April issue.
You can read the full article here.
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Mr. Fuller misses the mark again with an article that wanders widely, focuses nowhere, and has no hard data. Heck, in the middle of his comparisons of WoW to WaR, he blurts out : "It frustrates me to see writers comparing Warhammer to Warcraft.". Well duh! Also, Mr. Fuller needs to understand that this is MMORPG games we are talking about here. Blizzard has been on the map with Warcraft for many years and many blockbuster games, starting with 'Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans'. What great games have been based on Warhammer? All flops. Mythic is a great, great, maker of MMORPG and much can be expected of them. But, I think it is premature to be making any comparissons WoW to WaR. Let's remember what happened to Mythic's last great project, Imperator, and not count our MMORPGs before they hatch.
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I was a bit surprised by the tone of the PC Gamer article towards its comparisons of the two games... but I was more surprised by the candor of Mr. Fuller's response. For the latter, I'd have to chalk it up to (from my perspective) hypersensitivity to a great product in development being compared to another great product already established on the market. The less-informed will quickly compare the two MMOs based on the strong presence of their respective histories if the graphics are even slighly close.
One thing to keep in mind here is that WoW has a good graphics model. They rely less on heavily detailed textures superimposed on high polygon models and seem to try and squeeze artistic representation out of simplistic renders for the sake of FPS and texture memory. I don't really know the exact details of what it is that they do differently because I'm not a game developer, but there is certainly a distinct difference. This style leaves their characters and creatures a bit more cartoonish, but affords their client the power to render more things onscreen and offers smooth gameplay. It may be that the author of the PC Gamer article saw the same trend (and feel) in his trial experience of Warhammer. If Mythic has come close to the same level of performance in their client, regardless of whether they use the exact same methods that Blizzard does, then hats off to them. It should be noted that Mythic will probably have to go as minimalist as possible on graphic resources as they can without sacrificing game quality so they can render as many players on a battlefield as possible. But, having said that, if you create a streamlined graphics engine similar to WoW's with green orcs and big weapons, you've got a recipe for comparison.
I know enough of the mythos behind both intellectual properties to know that Warhammer will be a very distinct beast in terms of character development, gameplay, and PvP. Warhammer does indeed predate Warcraft (or Blizzard for that matter). But there's no reason to get hypersensitive over it. They're moving into a new medium of presentation, where a whole new legion of fans can take up the Warhammer flag. But they are the new arrival to this area of gaming, and having 20 years jump on Blizzard as a game company, but not necessarily as a computer game company, does make a difference. Time will tell. If you think the MMO public is going to automatically consider your product inferior because they perceive that you're cloning WoW... prove them wrong. =)
If anything ends up demanding comparison between the two games, I hope it's one thing - quality. There's a reason WoW's got such a huge following and is so well-received. It raised the bar for client performance, reliability, and overall fun. It redefined the MMO genre and none so far have been able to follow the new course of this industry since they arrived. Even Everquest (and I played it for 6 years) had a great many reasons for its success, but quality was rarely one of them. If Games Workshop and Mythic can manage to at least come close to or surpass WoW in quality, I will be ecstatic beyond words.
I'm already excited by the prospects. Games Workshop's Warhammer universe combined with Mythic's RvR experience a la DAoC? How could anyone that knew the two companies beforehand not be?
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comparisons of WoW to Warhammer, lol well non of us know how good or bad Warhammer will be.
All I can say is I love what Mythic has done with DAOC, and I like Games Workshops and the 20 years of deep storys and lore that come with them. On the flip side love it or hate it Wow is king for now, they have made a fine MMORPG. Gratz to Warhammer you have our attention, now dont let us down.
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Warhammer's yet to have a game that satisfies me (Dawn of War is exception but its 40k) but Warcraft has had many that have. Warhammers lore and world though absolutely owns Warcrafts and if they create the warhammer world of the lore and world they will have a game that will be giant compared to WoW.
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Point 1: If people did their research they would know that the models used for warcraft were based on the Warhammer miniatures.
Point 2: Blizzard makes ok games. Nothing spectacular and little to nothing new. RTS? Well, strip command and conquer/dune down to its most basic gameplay elements and you have warcraft. Change the models and the backdrops and wala you have starcraft. Take Baldur's Gate, strip out the party mechanic, turn it into a click fest where the player doesnt have to maintain a single thought for longer than 20 seconds and you have diablo. WoW may have 5+ million subscribers, good for them. Millions of people watch the Jerry Springer show. Does that make it good? Umpteen millions of people read magazines like the Enquirer, does that therefore make for good literature? I have tried warcraft... long enough to level 2 characters to 60. Been a part of many firsts in that game but it's not something that can engross me as a player for as long as other games had in the past. UO and SWG to name two.
Point 3: I believe the two games will appeal to completely different players, which is a very good thing imo. I believe that W.A.R. will attract a more mature and stronger overall community than warcraft. Warcraft is riddled with wanna be leet kiddies and their bastardized form of leetspeak that went out of style before they were even done drinking from sippy cups.
Point 4: one of the posts above this mentioned Imperator. It looked like a fascinating game. Warhammer was being developed by someone else at that same time. That deal fell through, Mythic got the rights and shelved imperator. Makes good sense in my eyes. Who knows? There is a chance that it could still be in production with a very small team that will ramp up after W.A.R. ships, or alot of the gameplay mechanics that they had set up for Imperator are now the heart of W.A.R. with the lore and history that has been compiled over the past 20 years backing the game. Sounds good in my book.
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The only here that do a complelty uneducated comparisson between Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft, is the writer of the editorial.
So he plays World of Warcraft now, good for him, that does NOT mean everything that is developed including Humans and orc has to be compared to World of Warcraft, like that is someoriginal the rest of the world need to live up to. WoW is the copy, a copy of among other things Warhammers tabletop and RPG. The graphics of Warhammer comes from.. Warhammer tabletop and RPG, it has NOTHING whatsoever to do witht he graphics of WoW. Now, the otherway around might be true!
Please... Its ok if you live in your own little WoW world, tons of kids do. But WoW is not the original, WoW is just another copy of preexisting games...
Warhammer is sticking to their original look and feel,t he same look and feel they have had since the 80s.. They should be credited for that, not dragged into some uneducated gutter for singleminded fanbois.
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though they are somewhat graphically similar, along with similar aspects of gameplay that are kinda hard to get passed:
WAR is not warhammer, or vise versa. they are to compleatly different entities. but just to make sure and to drive this point to being mute:
warhammer was here long before warcraft ever was, and a lot of the warcraft art looks like they borrowed ideas from warhammer....
at anyrate im just looking foward to trying my hand at chaos.
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Blizzard is a company that has made games I have enjoyed. Warcraft is my favorite. I expect good products from them. That does not make them a top contender of my list on games but as a company.
Games Workshop is a company that has made games that I loved and thoroughly enjoyed. I did not like the cost and so did not play much other unless I borrowed from someone else. I expect great games from them. They make the top of list as game contender but not as a company.
Mythic is one company that I have only really experienced with DAoC and I have to say that it does top my MMO list. It is always in the top three. I am not saying that there is stuff I don't like they have done with DAoC but overall is one of the most enjoyable to me.
I respect the companies and what they bring. I will not make comparisons or really look at discussions of such. I don't think of the two games as being the same. If W.A.R. stays true to Warhammer then I can't believe they will be alike.
It would be awesome to that battles could be set up in W.A.R. though. I always enjoyed the way the tabletop worked but I accept would be difficult to really put the same thing in the MMO.
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Warhammer 40K: Winter Assault <- Widely acclaimed expansion pack for DoW
Both of these are very successful, enjoyable and fast paced games based on the Warhammer universe! Great online and offline, I highly recommend them if you like RTS and multiplayer games
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Also keep an eye for the forthcoming fantasy RTS.
Anyway I'm happy someone has spoken out about these unfair comparisons, yes WoW and WAR are looking similar in the screens, but for god sake this is the new character area, its bound to be lighter - the Warhammer world is a very dark and I doubt Games Workshop would let them make a world this fluffy...
Keep your eyes pealed and don't get yourself locked into a position where you slate the game for the first few screens!!!
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There actually were some good Warhammer Fantasy games, but those were some years ago - Dark Omen for example, which does not run well on Windows XP - which is a shame.
What i can not understand is another thing: There are many, many MMO with mor cartoony/exaggerated styles, most of them from asia - do those get compared to WOW, too - just because they are not done in a hyper-realistic style like the one EQ2 uses?
Sure: WOW and WAR are both using the old Citadel Warhammer Miniatures as inspiration, and both have very similar orcs and dwarves - Blizzard were sure great fans of GW games. If you look closer, they do have a lot of differences - Mythic is not such much into animation-inspired style elements as Blizzard is, they have more detailed textures, too.
The game however, seems completely different . Apart from the fact that both are using some of the races tolkien also used in LotrR.
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I actually picked up Dawn of War because I've always been curious about Warhammer, and this new WAR mmo has peaked my interest. I haven't played a RTS game in 6 years, but I'm enjoying this one.
I wish WAR was being set in the 40k era, I like it alot.
I used to play Warcraft for about a year.. I left because that game is taking too large of a PvE Endgame focus, and I've already been-there-done-that in EQ. I bought it hoping for a Dynamic PvP Endgame, but then the Honor System and Battlegrounds turned out to be a wretched grind.
I'm hoping WAR will deliver where WoW failed. I want a dynamic world pvp system where players need to take control of area's by capturing castles/keeps in order to access certain content within the area.
In most games you have to PvE just so you can PvP... I want a game where you have to PvP to be rewarded with PvE.
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As we see more information about W.A.R. emerge I'm sure that most straight comparisons will just show how completely uninformed whoever makes the comparison is.
The graphics will have some similarities (green orcs, similar armor style inspirations etc.), partly because WoW was inspired by GW miniatures but also becuase they have many other sources of inspiration in common (Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné for one, gotta love those armor styles) but will diverge pretty heavily when it comes to the darker parts of Warhammer, the engines also have different strengths which undoubtedly will make things look different once in movement.
The games may have similarities in so far as being fantasy MMO's with dwarves, elves, orcs etc. but WoW is a designated EQ killer PvE raid game with a little PvP thrown in to throw a wider net and where gear and level is god. W.A.R. is and RvR game which with a focus on PvP with PvE added to round out the game (yeah, I might be wrong), because of the focus on RvR it is very likely that a fully geared out character won't be 3-4 times as powerful as an equally seasoned character with more mediocre gear.
I will keep telling guildies that doesn't use numbers instead of letters and enjoy PvP about W.A.R. and Age of Conan but I guess I have to add every time that they need to look past any surface similarities between WoW and W.A.R. and look at the potential for a working and stimulating end game instead :)
The one thing I do hope W.A.R. takes after WoW in is that hopefully it will allow me to just jump in and play and hopefully let me get to the end game without investing years in the game.
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I am looking forward to Warhammers W.A.R. I've been playing the miniatures for 7 years and have had a blast with it and I'm really curious how they are going to take the PvP. Never played DoAC, I played EQ and then went to WoW and still have fun with it.
You really can't compare the 2 games really. True maybe the graphics looks similar, but the PvP will be greatly different. According to WoW lore, there is a treaty between Horde and Alliance that is degrading fast. So basically its kinda like the Cold War, except skirmishes taking place all over. Where as in W.A.R. treaties are almost like a joke. Everyone and there mother is at war.
As a big fan of Warhammer, both fantasy and Sci-fi, I really hope they make this one a hit so they can bust out with the 40k version.
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<<<<<What great games have been based on Warhammer?>>>>>
Well - The whole Warcraft Series!!!!!!
I don't know this - but its seems a reasonsable hypothesis that there was a warhammer fan working for Blizzard (ok maybe a general Fantasy fan familiar with a whole range of fantasy wolrds and game systems - DEFINATELY including Games Workshop's (GW)offerings), who siad lets make a cool command and conquer like game based in fantasy - and clearly boorowed form the fantasy images he was already familiar with. Definately the look of the ORCs were borrowed from GW art.
Then look at this in the context of the next release - Starcraft. GW was quite unusual in trying to set it's fantasy wargame in the future - originally with Space Dwafs, Space Elves, and Space Humans, oh yeah and Space Orcs = Orks!, now with Space Dark Elves, and Space Undead!
The same Blizzard guy said - right let's do likewsie - we've done the fantasy, now let's do the future, and again borrowed from a variety of sources for inspiration - apparently including GW games.
I haven't actually played Starcraft (wish I had I'm about 10 years behind on my computer games playing), and only played a bit of warcraft on a friends computer. - So I can't really go into details, but i've heard that a t least one race was quite close to a Warhammer 40k rafe (Tyranids?).
Of course Blizzard did a great job of computer game design, but if we are talking about pure concept, we must credit Games Workshop with being the bigger innovators here (and of course they in turn borrowed from Tolkein etc...).
And no doubt Blizzard thourgh their work have created something that is now Warcrafty and not anything else.
But the point is that Warhammer fans anticipating this game are keen that it holds true to the Warhammer universe they know and love - and given the history I've put forward above, people who only know the Warcraft Series of computer games, might well see the realisation of the Warhammer Universe being done for WAR, and say that Warcraft has been copied, when really the WAR developers are just trying to make things faithful to thea lready existing Warhammer Intellectual Propoerty out there.
In fact every time some points to WAR being so similar to the Warcraft Series, they are just adding more evidence to the hypothesis that one series of great games that has been based on Warhammer (Fantasy and 40k) has been the whole Warcraft and Starcraft Series.
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The Toledo biker community will be out in full force at Toledo Speedway on Nov. 3 for the 24th annual Bikers of Northwest Ohio Toy Drive/Poker Run to raise money for the children of Harbor.
If the weather cooperates, organizers expect up to 900 bikers will participate. The event brought in $9,000 last year for Harbor, the largest provider of mental health services in Northwest Ohio. About 500 children who experience some form of mental or behavioral challenge will benefit, said Jean Drees, Harbor's marketing director.
Everyone is welcome. Check-in is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Toledo Speedway. The cost is $10 or a toy donation. Organizers would prefer cash because "only certain kids can have certain kinds of toys," said organizer Mike "Big Mike" Wenzel. Also, toys are limited to the nonviolent variety, such as arts and crafts, sports or educational. GI Joe figures and toy guns are not acceptable.
The event is all about giving to the children, Wenzel said.
"There's no reason why our children in the United States of America should go without food, clothing or toys. That's ridiculous," Wenzel said. "Just thinking of a young child getting up for Christmas and not having anything to open breaks my heart."
Participants can eat free hotdogs and hamburgers provided by Toledo Speedway, listen to live music by the Michael Fisher Band, a bluesy rock and roll band, and enter a raffle for a chance to win a big-screen TV.
The poker run is a bike ride starting at the speedway with stops at Rayz Café in Genoa and Cousino's Steakhouse in Oregon, two of the run's sponsors. At the end of the run, participants draw cards and those with the best poker hand win cash prizes of $100, $75, $50 and $25 for first, second, third and fourth place. The last time to leave for the run is 2 p.m., Wenzel said.
"A lot of people are content to stay and listen to the band, eat, have a few drinks and participate in the raffle," Wenzel said. "Last year, there were 800 at Toledo Speedway and probably 350 went on the poker run."
Turn the clocks back 24 years to December 1989 and Wenzel and a group of friends were sitting around a table at a bar, eating dinner. Wenzel decided he wanted to have "one last ride" of the season to do something for the kids. The bike run was born with a toy drop-off at the bar.
"Someone contacted Sunshine Children's Home and they would welcome us," Wenzel said. "That's how we started it; one last ride of the season and it just grew and grew and grew."
During the past two decades, there's been some changes. At the first run, 40 to 50 bikers participated. Today, 800 to 900 participate. They've also had several different host sites over the years and moved on for various reasons — one was torn down and another couldn't handle the number of bikes. Then about 12 years ago, the bike run met up with Harbor.
In the beginning, organizers held a parade complete with fire trucks and Santa, but that was dropped the past two years because of timing. Wenzel wants to hold the event closer to Christmas in spirit of the toy donation, but Wenzel said the Sheriff's Office stops providing traffic escorts sometime in the fall. Wenzel won't budge on the date, and might hold a parade "with or without" a police escort in honor of the 25th year anniversary, he said.
Mayor Mike Bell, a Harley-Davidson rider, has led the parade in years past and organizers said he is expected to participate in the bike run this year, which falls two days before the Nov. 5 election. Bell is running against Councilman D. Michael Collins.
The fundraiser typically brings in between $5,000 and $12,000, Drees said. The money goes to children in Harbor's school program who may have issues with anxiety disorders, anger or post-traumatic stress disorders. They're given a toy or a $15 gift card to Wal-mart. Children in general treatment working through issues such as divorced parents will get a gift car or a donated toy as well.
"The kids might have a challenging home life and they just don't have a lot," Drees said. "We try to give them back something of value."
Next year – the 25th anniversary — may be the last for the Northwest Ohio toy run. Wenzel said it's time for one last "hurrah" now that he's 63 years old.
"I'm thinking about having one last parade and making it a big deal," Wenzel said. "Twenty-five years is a long time to do anything. The girls at Harbor will probably try to talk me out of it because it's a big family for them. … I guess I'll just have to play it by ear, but I'm kind of planning on next year being my last."
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CS:S - Idling in Ladder
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If we look through the first places of each ladder we'll see a lot of teams, which didnt play a match since 2011. They got kicked because of inactivity, join again after two days, and got kicked again because of inactivity, and again and again and again.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Wando head coach David Eaton said that Tuesday would be a telling game for his team. Eaton wanted to see how his Warriors responded after their first region loss Friday.
Wando (19-4, 6-1) eased any concern of a slump with a 62-50 win at Stratford to keep its region championship hopes afloat. With one regular season game left for the Warriors, win, and Region VII championship is theirs; lose, and Goose Creek takes the crown, along with a No. 1 seed and home-court advantage in the playoffs.
And who better an opponent to be standing in the Warriors way than the rival West Ashley Wildcats?
West Ashley (6-15, 2-5) has struggled to compete this season in the top-heavy Region VII. The Wildcats were embarrassed at home in a 20-point blowout a week ago in the first game of the Wando series. But a win over the Warriors to ruin a championship 20-win season would no doubt be a highlight for the Wildcats this year.
Stratford never stood a chance of an upset Tuesday. Wando exerted its dominance early and coasted to the win. The Warriors allowed Stratford just two field goals in the first quarter while they opened an 11-point lead with two threes from Taylor Majewski.
Stratford made three field goals in the second quarter, but Wando countered with its highest-scoring quarter of the game to take a 16-point lead into the break. Five Warriors scored at least two points in the second quarter, with Andrew Glover, Jamez Rogers and Matt Pegram each scoring at least four.
Stratford trimmed the deficit down to nine through the third quarter, but Amp Moore responded for Wando with seven points in the fourth quarter to help seal the win. Majewski led Wando with 14 points, including four threes. Moore and Rogers both added 11 points, Pegram 10 and Glover eight.
Wando limited Stratford to 29 percent shooting from the field. Demetre Rivers led all scores with 20 points all in the second half but shot just 5-23 to get there. Antonio Stinson added 11.
Wando and West Ashley tip off at 8:30 p.m. Friday on senior night at Wando.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.---GoMocs.com continues its "Season in Pictures" series today recapping a memorable 2013-14. The fourth installment focuses on sophomore Casey Jones.
The New Orleans, La., was a leader on and off the floor starting all 33 games. Click the photo gallery link above for Alex's season in pictures.
Three-Point Shot: Casey Jones
1) The All-Southern Conference performer averaged 12.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game leading the Mocs in field goal percentage (53.5%) and tied for the most steals with 40. He added 61 assists (3rd on the squad) and 33 blocks (2nd) while shooting 72.5 percent (95-131) from the free throw line.
2) Top Play: Although there was an array of highlight reel, momentum-changing plays to choose from, Mr. Jones had one play standout and to no one's surprise, it comes on the defensive end. Martynas Bareika nailed a three-pointer with eight seconds to play at Western Carolina to tie the game at 70-all. The Catamounts in-bounded to star guard Trey Sumler who took the ball the length of the floor. His drive into the paint resulted in a blocked shot and rebound for Jones to send the game into overtime. Casey later made the game-winning basket in an 83-81 thrilling triumph.
3) Best game: With a season like Casey had, this is tough to narrow down. Prior to the season, Head Coach Will Wade lauded Jones' multiple efforts in practice so we'll go with a near triple-double effort keying the SoCon opening win at Furman. Casey produced 13 points to go with career highs in rebounds (13) and assists (8).
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iPhone 2.0: Want Exchange ActiveSync For FREE?
You've got your uber-cool new iPhone 3G or you're rocking the new 2.0 update on your iPhone 2G or iPod Touch, and you want to try out this Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync all the
kids suits are yabbering about. One problem -- you don't have an Exchange server. You're not part of some big megacorp with a massive IT department, you're not a developer with MSDC licenses for the "testing", and you're not even small-business'y enough to pick up a cheap (for Microsoft!) ActionPack with a couple of licenses (or even if you did, you don't have the geek in you to set 'em up and administer the high-maintenance little beasties).
What to do, what to do?
Hosted Exchange.
Yup, just like ISP's offer regular old email, and we services offer Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. for POP and IMAP mail, some companies will provide you with similar email accounts hosted on Exchange, ready for to get your ActiveSync iPhone nirvana on. Ranging in price, some even do it cheaply and some... for FREE!
The inimitable Lifehacker points us towards Mail2Web, which offers a FREE Microsoft Exchange based email solution, and provides handy-dandy setup and usage tips (though it looks like you might need the $4.45 a month version if you want to use it directly with Outlook on the PC).
TiPb's own cross-platformer-in-chief also points us towards some for-pay, but potentially better fitting solutions from some users, with Sherweb at the top of his list, 1and1 hitting okay, and 4smartphone serving up equal parts popularity and unreliability (lately).
Of course, Microsoft itself is also entering the subscription space, for anyone who might want an ActiveSync addy straight out of Redmond...
Any options we're missing?
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iPhone 2.0: Want Exchange ActiveSync For FREE?
No, actually exchange works on the standard plan also.
-This free exchange feature would be nice if it would allow changes made on the iphone to be reflected in the original email's mailbox. If I setup gmail to forward to the exchange server and then the exchange server to push to my iphone, when I delete messages on my phone they are still there in my gmail mailbox. Anybody know a way around this?
@Keith06T -- making Gmail look and feel like Exchange is the holy grail for me too, so far I haven't found a perfect solution. :-/
I've used 4SmartPhone for 4 years now and they've always been reliable. I know they hit a snag for a few users last year, but after their migration to Exchange 2007, realibility is a given. I like it because if my new iPhone dies or gets run over or lost in the ocean we live next to, I just have to get a new phone, plug it in and everything is there as it was previous to ruining the phone, which has happened before. BTW, I like the way you laid out the options in the posting.
I've used Mail2Web for about a year, and I think it is fantastic. In fact, I have mentioned it several times in postings here on TiPB, and would strongly encourage anyone to at least try it out. Heck, it's free, so why not.
I, too, have a different primary e-mail address that I give out (mostly because it is easier for other people to remember than the "@mail2web.com" address. As Keith 06T suggests, I forward everything from my main e-mail address to the Mail2Web address. However, I set the preferences in my primary address to "forward and delete," and then I just don't worry about retaining anything in my primary inbox. Instead, I manage everything from my Mail2Web inbox. It makes things a lot easier, because the phone and the web-interface are always in sync. And to me, if someone mails me at my primary address, it's not a big deal if I reply to them from the mail2web address. I think it's great, and best of all, IT'S FREE!!
1and1.com's MS Exchange plan for $6.99 might be an affordable option for iPhone users.
I found an amazing FREE exchange activesync solution that actually acts as a gateway to your GMail calendar and contacts - see www.nuevasync.com
Very very impressed with this service. Update your contacts on Google / iPhone and they're automatically pushed across to update.
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Sunday, Feb. 10, KSU Orchestra Celebrates Concerto Competition Winners in Cartwright HallPosted Jan. 14, 2013
The Kent State University Hugh A. Glauser School of Music's Orchestra continues its 2012-2013 season with a performance highlighting the undergraduate and graduate concerto competition winners Sun., Feb. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the University Auditorium at Cartwright Hall.
The graduate concerto contest winner, cellist José Luis Herrera, will perform "Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33" by Camille Saint- Saëns. The undergraduate winner, senior music performance major and violinist Yang Zeng, will perform "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 53" by Antonin Dvořák.
The orchestra will also perform "The Planets," an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst. Tickets for the performance are $10 for adults, $5 for students with valid ID and free for all full-time Kent Campus undergraduate students.
Graduate winner José Luis Herrera began playing the cello at age 17, when he picked up the instrument in a music theory class and completely fell in love with it. Herrera had previously played electric guitar in a punk rock band, but when he found the cello, he said he "traded the band for the orchestra and Green Day for Bach."
Before attending Kent State University and studying with Keith Robinson and the Miami String Quartet, Herrera studied at Conservatoriode las Rosas in Mexico. Herrera said the concerto competition gives students great stage experience and a sample of the competition atmosphere that they will need to be prepared for once they graduate.
Saint-Saëns' "Concerto No. 1" was one of the first major pieces Herrera ever learned, and he found it very challenging when he first took it on years ago. Because of this, Herrera said he decided to try the piece again for the concerto competition. This second time learning the piece made the concerto seem "totally new and exciting," Herrera said.
Undergraduate winner Yang Zeng said it is hard to describe the exact emotions of the Dvořák piece he will perform, but audiences will sense Dvořák's patriotism and spiritualism in his work. "You do feel the love through the music—a feeling of the love you have for your family and your country," Zeng said.
Zeng, born in Yunnan, China, has been studying violin since he was 6 years old. He has performed with the Orchestra of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Middle School, the Orchestra of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Sinfonietta.
Zeng also participated in the Kent Blossom Music Festival in 2011 and 2012. He is currently a student of Cathy Meng Robinson and has also studied violin with Benny Kim while at Kent State.
Tickets are available weekdays 12 to 5 p.m. at the performing arts box office, located in the lobby of the Roe Green Center in the Music and Speech Building at 1325 Theatre Drive on the campus of Kent State University. The performing arts box office accepts Visa, MasterCard and Discover, in addition to cash and checks.
The Cartwright Hall box office will open one hour prior to the performance for walkup sales, and will also accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Tickets and more information are also available by calling 330-672-ARTS (2787) or visiting kent.edu/music.
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The Pensacola Kung Fu School
So I went in expecting the worst and hoping for the best. I read the bio of Master Coughlin on various web sites. I spoke to the instructor, Jared, who is a senior student. He was very inviting and offered for me to come in and check them out. I was a little reluctant after 10 years of kickboxing and 5 years of grappling, but figured I would try them out.
So I went early, as is my nature, and Master Coughlin was there with Jared. I recognized both of them from the website, and was a little taken back to be meeting such a high level master on the first day. I was hoping to be able to practice for a few months that way I wouldn't look like the idiot that I did!! So we talked for a while as he was sizing me up and making sure I wasn't a psycho(I guess). He told me a lot about his history and what he does currently, which was even more humbling.
Master Coughlin showed me some stuff on his senior student, that was very impressive. Not jumping-flying-twist-kicks. When he put his weight into Jared, to demonstrate a strike, Jared flew a couple of feet back. Not chi flying which was evident when you heard a loud thump of flesh contacting flesh.
Then we got down to what I was there for. To see what this Kung Fu is all about. We went through a warm up for them, which is called a work out where I'm from. I was exhausted, and they were hardly breathing! Then we did some techniques, which were awesome! Not what I thought Kung Fu was like. It wasn't secret hidden techniques. I could see the combat application as soon as we started. Very effective.
A lot of the stuff was similar to stuff I've done in wrestling and BJJ. Then striking was directly applicable to any kickboxing that I have done. The training was fun and difficult at the same time. It left you tired and yearning for more.
The only thing that was bad in the whole experience was the knowledge that I could have been training here for years and wasn't. But, better late than never. I'll be going for more training on Wed, and I hope to be there for a long time!!!
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I actually had to check my calendar when I read this.
But seeing as today is the 30th of march, and posting an april-fools joke two days too early would be epic fail... I am sure you are way above such trivial failure.
There can never be too many good kung-fu schools. Someone has to make up for all the bullshit. Rock on!
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The main reason I didn't change it to 10 was because there is not an active MMA team competing. And I actually feel that they are more restrained in the sparring. Sparring is done and there is equipment to do it with, but it is not the only focus of the school. It is not done every lesson and it is not done imediately. Master Coughlin does have a group of people that go to his school in Destin on weekends to train in full contact sparring.
But mainly it was just because there is no active MMA team. Otherwise I would have made it a 10.
As far as grappling goes, the teaching is based on body mechanics, movement, and motion. It is not the way a BJJ school does it, with drilling on the ground for hours. The mechanics of why a technique works is shown and then the individual is able to use it with their own body composition to make it their own. I will probably talk more about this when more grappling is done. I can tell you that they think very highly of BJJ, Sambo, and Judo as far as grappling focused training. Also many of the members have competing in local grappling tournaments and done well.Combatives training log.
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wait, did you observe the grappling training? did you HEAR about it? Or did you PARTICIPATE in it?There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice.
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Is the school really 10,000+ square feet? That's what a size of 10 refers to. If so, damn. If not....
Is the striking really a ten? Given this definition: 8-9: Pressure-tested, full range striking and proven success in limited restriction, top level competitions or high level self defense situations.
10: Superior excellence including A-level competitors/instructor
I'm not saying you are wrong, I do not know the school, it just surprises me.I do not aspire to be great, or even good, I hope to suck a little less then last class.
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Wondering if anyone had this situation? I had what I was constantly told was a healthy normal pregnancy (I complained of swelling and excessive weight gain a lot but was told it was normal, being the middle of summer and later being towards the end of a pregnancy). My BP stayed around 110/60 for the second half of my pregnancy until it was measured at 197/112 when my eyes were swollen shut, I was finding it really hard to breathe and I was vomitting a lot (morning of 40+1).
Luckily, I was diagnosed with HELLP quickly (2 hours after going into emergency) and had a c-section under general anaesthetic 6 hours after that. I spent 2 days in ICU but my son was fine. He went to SCN because it is a rooming-in hospital.
I'm now incredibly scared of falling pregnant again (nightmares) and now at 4months post partum that's a known possibility (got my period this morning). Of course we do take measures to prevent it, but nothing's fail-safe.
Reading all your HELLP stories, I feel so very lucky that we didn't have the early birth and NICU experience or worse, but its scary all the same, especially when there weren't any warning signs I recognised at the time. I can look back and see them (headaches I thought were tension headaches, URQ discomfort I thought was bruising from his constant kicking, swelling that was so bad by the end of the day that I could hardly walk, etc.) but I thought they were all normal parts of pregnancy and couldn't imagine why anyone would enjoy it!


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SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko's girls track team split a three-way meet with North Miami and Tippecanoe Valley Monday night.
Whitko placed second to Tippy Valley, which had 81 points, but defeated North Miami, which finished with 17 points. Whitko tallied 66 points on the night.
The Lady Wildcats had several first-place finishes, led by the Craig sisters.
Reghan Craig placed first in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18 seconds. Cagney Craig, her older sister, took first in the pole vault with a height of 7 feet.
Regan also came in second in the long jump at 13 feet, 7 inches.
Both sisters were on the second-place 400-meter relay team, along with Taylor Zwick and Holly Frantz.
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It seems to be that the vast majority of people in the church still regard the devil as a being, rather than a facet of our nature, as this discussion calls the "adamic man" or "ego."We think that subversive temptations are the workings of "the devil", and therefore have their origin from an external source. Christ said the opposite:"It is FROM WITHIN, from men's hearts, that evil intentions emerge[/u]: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a man unclean." Mk. 7.21-23He didn't say that these evil intentions are spurred on by the devil, in the sense of external provenance, and then implanted into our hearts. All of the intentions have their origin from within the hearts of man. These evil (opposing) intentions have their root within the selfishness of man. The pure intentions have their root within the selflessness of man. In this light, the "battle" between good and evil can be seen as the inward struggle between selflessness and selfishness, respectively.
Hi,The whole of the scriptures need to be taken into account I think, it is so easy to come up with an idea then collect some scriptures that seem to support that idea then make a religion around it - That is where calvinism/armin... /eternal torment/denominations, etc have come from.
Since I can't physically see the spiritual and we have so little understanding of the full scope of the human mind I am not going to just declare that this line of reasoning is wrong.I think one problem with this is where this often ends up. If the negative (Satan / Devil)aspect of our thoughts are only in our mind, what is there to keep the positive (God) aspect from being the same?With that said, I believe that the battle we do have in our mind is much more spiritual than it is physical.One reason I have doubts along these lines is the account of Job. In Job, Satan is depicted as walking to and fro "IN" the earth and walking up and down "In" it. I believe this represents the spiritual nature of the world that Satan has power in. Some have suggested that Satan and Devil are separate but it still means adversary from the greek. Jb 1:7 Yahweh said to Satan, From where are you coming? Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking about in it.I believe that Satan is a real spirit created by God as the adversary and has power over us in the scope of Gods plan. Isa 54:16 Behold! I, I created the artificer who blows into the fire of coal, and brings forth an implement for his occupation. And I, I created the ruiner to harm.Then we see one purpose for creating such a thing. Lk 22:31 Now the Lord said, "Simon, Simon, lo! Satan claims you men, to sift you as grain.Jobs physical life was affected by Satan, this was not only a battle in Jobs mind. Satan also was subject to what God allowed him to do, but nevertheless we can read what God allowed.We also just do not really like the following verse because it conflicts so hard with our emotions. People say all kinds of things to say that this verse cannot possibly mean what it says. In my opinion, saying Satan is only in our mind is one of those things. Isa 45:7 Former of light and Creator of darkness, Maker of good and Creator of evil. I, Yahweh Elohim, made all of these things.
Hey, Nancy, believing that God is IN everything is a panentheist belief. A pantheist, such as myself, believes that God IS everything. I think Now includes the past, present, and future. It depends on whether you are viewing life from the perception of linear time, or timelessness. All things are happening Now. Heaven can be now if one stops judging things as right and wrong, good and bad. I have done it before, but who can stay in that place? The things in this world shout that they are to be judged. Death, pain, sickness, war, cruelty-these things are loud! They hurt. But, you know, I can't imagine living in a world where there was none of this. The story is interesting. Why else do we watch movies, play video games, read books? What would happen in a world without death, war, pain, sickness? Well, for one, we would stay the same, we would not change, we would not grow-we would never know healing or forgiveness or compassion again.
Hi, Jesus said that the pharisees were the children of their father the devil - he didn't say that they were the devil. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++meerkat, That is right Jesus did not say they were the devil, and a good point to bring into discussion on this thread.Peace,Fire Walker
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Nancy, What do you mean by "heaven"?Maybe that might help me understand what you mean...because for me, (for example) as long as my dead loved ones are not here with me...this ain't heaven.I can imagine the day when we will be reunited...but I can't literally see them, talk to them, etc.I can live my life being at peace..knowing that one day there WILL be peace.But I can't say that peace is now, because I would be in denial about what is going on around me in this world. Further... If Tolle were to spend a day in Iraq... would he say that heaven is now?I'm just not following this...How can this earthly plane be considered heaven? We can think heavenly thoughts and dwell in peace... and this physical world can seem like heaven at times, but you can't deny what is going on all around.. Is that what he is suggesting? To deny and just say "this isn't reality"...?? I don't understand.I was kind of understanding "living in the now" thing as far as not dwelling on the past, and not worrying about the future... but this "heaven is now" thing is something entirely different.Can you help me understand what you mean? ,sparrowP.S. you said:Quotebecause for the first time in my life, the teachings of Christ have come alive... I'm glad to hear that... That's really awesome, Nancy.
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Google has recently added a birthday field in Google Contacts and many people asked for an integration with Google Calendar. Creating a birthday calendar shouldn't be very difficult: Google created one for orkut friends, even if the calendar has a lot of limitations.
Until Google adds this feature to Google Calendar, you can try a third-party application that generates a public calendar for the birthdays associated with your contacts. The application uses Google App Engine and Google Contacts API, so your password is safe. Another good thing is that the calendar is updated automatically when you add new birthdays or you edit the existing ones. Add notifications if you want to receive an email or an SMS one day before each birthday.
The major downside is that the calendar generated by the service is public, so anyone who knows its URL can see it. To use the service, you need to grant it access to your address book and Google recommends to do only if you trust the site. It's always a good idea to export your Gmail contacts before using an application that is allowed to has write access to your data.
Update: Google Calendar added the same feature. Go to the Settings page, select the Calendars tab and click on "Browse public calendars", then add the calendar "Contacts' birthdays and events". Unfortunately, Google's built-in calendar doesn't support notifications.
For some of your contacts, you'll see their birthdate even if you didn't add it to Google Contacts. It's likely that the information is obtained from Google Profiles.
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Tornado, new jobs, Republicans win, Rutherfordton celebrates 225 years
FOREST CITY — An EF2 tornado ripped through the Piney Mountain Church Road areas of Ellenboro, shattering the peaceful communities on January 11, 2012.
Left in the path of its destruction were three homes, literally torn apart and lying on the ground, as eight people sustained injuries, some critical. They survived to tell their stories and return home throughout the year.
The historic tornado story was among the top stories in Rutherford County in 2012.
Across the Ellenboro and Bostic areas, other homes, buildings, barns and establishments sustained significant damage. When the estimates were finalized, damage was in the millions.
Almost a year after the devastating storm that brought emergency personnel roaring to the scene at 5:50 p.m. that Wednesday evening, all the families are back in their homes and doing well.
Shirley Wood and her family moved into their new home provided by FEMA just last month.
The mobile home, where she lived with her daughter and four young grandchildren, fell in around her when the tornado touched down. She was airlifted to Carolina Medical Center for treatment.
She has lived with family members while her home was being prepared.
Harold and Barabara Henderson returned to their new home in June after a community of volunteers helped build the senior citizens a new home at the same location.
Their grandson, Bryon Cole, who was literally lifted from his mobile home and blown out into his yard, recuperated from a serious leg fracture, and returned to his home in the late summer. He is back on the job as a bus driver for East Rutherford High School.
North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue and Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton were on the scene just a couple days later,
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encouraging families and thanking volunteers.
Lyn Triplett, North Carolina Division of Emergency Management, said of the volunteers, "These are North Carolina residents at their best."
Economic news
The best economic news of 2012 came with the announcement of California based pasta maker, Valley Fine Foods — Pasta Prima — deciding to open a factory in Forest City in the former building occupied by Simeus Foods, off US74B.
The manufacturing facility in Forest City will create at least 305 jobs over the next three years.
The Town of Forest City worked with Simeus to make sure operation continued to allow the sale of the facility to a new owner. Forest City has expectations this facility will become the largest utility customer.
The manufacturing facility is the second major economic project to locate in Forest City in recent years.
The Forest City Facebook Datacenter has continued to build out its facilities and in 2012 the first building became fully operational. Building permits have been issued for completion of the second building in 2013 and a smaller third building that will begin construction soon after the new year.
While Valley Fine Foods is rehabilitating the food manufacturing facility, the construction of Horsehead Corp. is ongoing off US 221 near the South Carolina line.
Horsehead is constructing a state-of-the-art and diversified metals production. The plant is working toward becoming fully operational in the second half of 2013. Forest City renegotiated its water agreement with Horsehead in 2012. Opposed to using unprocessed water from the Broad River in their production, Horsehead and the Town of Forest City negotiated an arrangement to buy processed water from the Town. By the end of 2013 Horsehead will most likely become the Town's largest water customer with an estimated daily usage of 800,000 per day in addition to employing approximately 250 people.
In addition to the new plants, Diamondback Tactical in Spindale continues to expand its operations, and relocated its production to the former Mastercraft building on Oakland Road.
Manroy Inc. located off Yelton Street, is also continuing its operations, bringing jobs to the area.
Although the county's jobless rate continues to be in the two-digits and remains among the top five highest in the state, Rutherford Conty saw some improvements from the January jobless rate of 15.4 percent to the latest in October at 12.3.
The 2011 jobless rate for January was 15.5 and in 2010, it was 17.9 percent.
US 221 widening project; landscapes forgotten
The US 221 four-lane widening project continued progressing toward US74, while the $66 million project snarled traffic, drastically changed traffic patterns and interrupted the county's landscape, leaving some areas strangly unrecognizable.
With a rash of accidents in the early days of construction, the 45 MPH speed limit and no passing zone along the 11 miles of construction, has eased some of the accident problems.
New search for Isothermal President
Isothermal Community College is searching for a new president after Dr. Myra Johnson announced in November her intentions to retire in the spring of 2013.
Citing her 30 years longevity with the college system, six years as president of Isothermal, Johnson said she's going home to spend more time with her family and grandchildren. She preceded Dr. Willard L. Lewis, who was at the college more than 20 years.
County Seat celebrates its 225th
The Town of Rutherfordton, celebrated its 225th anniversary with pride, hosting year-long events that brought thousands to the county seat of Rutherford for various events and festivities, including a huge turnout for a July 4 celebration that included a fireworks display.
In late September, when UNC-TV's public television held its premiere broadcast of a 30-minute documentary, "Gold Fever and The Bechtler Mint" the world turned out for the event at R-S Central High School.
Newspaper editor, Thomas Frei, came nearly 5,000 miles from his home in Germany to attend the world premiere. Frei edits the Germany newspaper, "Pforzheimer Zeitung."
Pforzheimer, Germany, is the hometown of Christopher Bechtler, Sr., who minted the first gold dollar coin in the United States.
Since his visit to Rutherfordton, Frei has written several stories about Bechtler gold and Rutherfordton — the latest story is in his Christmas edition.
Rutherford Regional becomes affiliated with Mission Health
After an extensive search to identify the best possible long-term partner for its health system and community, Rutherford Regional Health System decided to move forward to negotiate a formal affiliation agreement with Mission Health.
Based upon a unanimous decision by the health system's board of trustees, RRHS and Mission Health are negotiating a non-binding memorandum of understanding.
"We are honored that the leadership of Rutherford Regional Health System has selected Mission Health for a potential partnership," said Ronald A. Paulus, MD, President and CEO of Mission Health. "In all of our discussions with Rutherford, we focused extensively on our unwavering commitment to quality, with a patient-centered focus in everything that we do."
Personnel changes at the top
After nine months with County Commissioner Bill Eckler being the county's interim manager, Carl Classen, was hired in February to lead the county.
Former county manager, John Condrey, who resigned his position in 2011, became City Manager of Forest City, upon the retirement of long time city manager, Chuck Summey, who resigned the end of June.
Also in Forest City, the town's finance officer, Scott Webber and town attorney, David Lloyd, resigned their positions.
Former county finance officer, Julie Scherer was named the town's finance officer while the former county attorney in Forest City.
Rutherford votes Republican
More than 65.24 percent of the county's 43,910 registered voters went to the polls on November 6, the majority voting Republican.
Voters elected a new Republican County Commissioner,Greg Lovelace; re-elected Republican Mike Hager to the NC House; re-elected Republican Patrick McHenry to the US Congress; and Republican Ralph Hice to the state senate.
In a surprising vote, Republican Pat McCrory was elected governor, defeating Rutherford County native, Democrat Walter Dalton.
As in 2008, Rutherford County also voted Republican in the Presidential Election. Governor and President of the United States.
Sad closure on story
The end of the year ended on a sad note for the family of Dolly Robert Twitty, 76. After being missing since July 17, Twitty's remains were discovered on Dec. 14 in a deep thicket about one-half mile from his home in Union Mills.
Twitty's sister Shirley Twitty said the family has closure now, but is sad. "And now there is no hope," she said that he would be found alive.
He suffered from Alzheimer's disease and left home without his medicine.
In February 2012, Steven Hawkins, went missing from the Forest Lake Retirement Home in Forest City. His remains were discovered a month later, also about one-half mile from his home. Hawkins family said he has had medical issues.


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Representing the Fisher House, Executive Director Kim Henderson received a check for $33,000. Those funds will be used to assist military families with a loved one undergoing local, medical treatment.
"Having family close by helps those who are wounded to heal much faster and we wouldn't be able to do it without partners like you,"
Receiving a $21,000 check on behalf of Sandestin Foundation for Kids was Board Member, Sara Becnel. The donation will be put to great use, Becnel said.
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Giving back has been a component to the Sandestin Wine Festival since day one, said Mark Hodgdon, general manager of Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Now, in its 27 year, it has kept that tradition for almost three decades and will continue to do so in the future.
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