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US Organic Industry Praises US and Japan Partnership in Organic Trade
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the United States and Japan formed a partnership that will recognize the two organic programs as equivalent and allow access to each other's markets.
Formal letters creating this partnership were exchanged earlier today in Baltimore, Maryland at Natural Products Expo East, one of the largest trade shows for organic products in the United States. The equivalency arrangement was signed by Anne L. Alonzo, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator; Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, U.S. Trade Representative Chief Agricultural Negotiator; and Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Director General, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau.
USDA continues to expand markets for American organic products abroad, works aggressively to break down barriers to trade, and assists U.S. businesses with the resources needed to reach consumers around the world. U.S. organic exports to Japan are currently estimated at $80 million, with growth due to the arrangement expected to reach at least $250 million in 10 years.
Through the National Organic Program, USDA has helped farmers and businesses create an industry that today encompasses over 17,000 organic businesses in the United States alone, and has grown to $35 billion annually in U.S. retail sales.
Representatives from the U.S. organic industryincluding trade associations and organic producerspraised the U.S.-Japan partnership.
"This monumental agreement will further create jobs in the already growing U.S. organic sector, spark additional market growth, and be mutually beneficial to producers both in the United States and Japan and to consumers who choose organic products,"
Christine Bushway, Executive Director and CEO of the Organic Trade Association
"This is welcome news for the U.S. organic grain industry, which will see its products more easily traded and welcomed in the burgeoning Japanese market. Organic grains are a vital part of organic offerings, and crucial to global trade."
Lynn Clarkson, president of Clarkson Grain Co. Inc.
"As an organic certifier with a significant foot print in the west, we see the Japanese market as an important opportunity for organic companies. This agreement will benefit many small, medium and large organic businesses by reducing their costs, simplifying their certification and giving them access to the JAS seal, the official mark of organic products in Japan. Nearly 600 of CCOF's farmers and processors will benefit directly and immediately from this change."
Jake Lewin, Chief Certification Officer, California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)
"This agreement is vital to specialty crop growers, who number more than 2,000 in California alone. These producers will be able to expand sales in a vibrant Japanese market, inspiring growth in a sector that is already creating jobs and economic opportunity."
Cathy Calfo, Executive Director, California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)
"We increasingly live in a global economy. Any time countries can collaborate to eliminate or reduce trade barriers, the market is strengthened. This agreement will allow our company to greatly simplify exports to Japan our largest export market for organic walnuts, and increase organic production here in the United States."
Jenny Lester Moffitt, Sales and Marketing for Dixon Ridge Farms
"All of us at Amy's Kitchen truly welcome this news. We are especially encouraged that the larger shared values and practices relative to organic and sustainable food production between us are no longer overshadowed by minor, technical differences. This new understanding now facilitates an unimpeded flow of Amy's products into the Japanese market, creating jobs in our U.S. production facilities and making our organic offerings available to the many Japanese consumers who are seeking a higher- quality organic vegetarian meal option."
Andy Berliner, founder of Amy's Kitchen
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Headline News: 2013 kickoff
Revs open up the 2013 season on March 9th against Chicago.
December 19, 2012
The Revs will kick off the 2013 season earlier than ever, with the season opener scheduled for March 9 in Chicago and the home opener set for March 23. Fans can find out more about next season at New England Soccer Today.
On Tuesday, MLS announced the 2013 home openers for all 19 clubs. The season kicks off on Saturday, March 2, with six scheduled matches. Check out MLSsoccer.com for more details.
In today's daily soccer re-set, Steve Davis takes a quick look at the FIFA world rankings and Michael Parkhurst move. You can learn more about today's soccer news at NBC Sports' ProSoccerTalk.

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Grunchy...so much jelly in me!
Grunchy...so much jelly in me!
it's so warm and cozy!
i would love the zip-over hoodie. perhaps next christmas?
Finally saved up and got that nose job:
your just daring me to put on warpaint
sam wont even show me teh pic of mah joker face
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Please, put on your war paint.
Haha nice. I felt really bad about my post until I saw yours.
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I have today through Sunday night off (don't go in until 2AM on Monday night/Tuesday morning) and I didn't shave before work yesterday. Gonna try to see if my beard will grow in enough to keep before then.
Not a bad start for a little over a day of no shaving and four to go. I've been keeping the goatee/mustache since my Halloween costume because it looks OK and since I haven't had time to fully grow my beard, I didn't feel like looking like an infant for awhile.
I giggled.
SUPREME DICKTATER, indeed.
I posted this in the badge thread for getting my pink dumbbells, I'll throw it here to so Tarvu can enjoy my ass shot: (red trunks)
Shit, like we needed help picking your ass out of a line-up.
Did the winner get to take all those swords home?
I hope those swords weren't just for show.
Everyone got a sword, they were literally participation prizes. He must know a blacksmith. The show was called battle of the swords so....
So swords wasn't a euphemism...?


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It is the Moorland Honeycomb cardigan from Classic Elite. I have changed the pattern a bit. I didn't feel like doing the 1x1 rib for 6" at the beginning, so I changed it to a 1" garter edge. I am also going to make the neckline a little higher.
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"I coached against Jeff when I was at Richmond and always liked what they did offensively," stated Huesman. "His teams were always well-coached and hard to defend. Jeff's approach is in line with what we are trying to do here, and I think it will be a smooth transition for both our coaches and players."
During Durden's first season as offensive coordinator at JMU, he helped guide the Dukes to the 2004 FCS National Championship. James Madison has posted a winning record in each of the last nine seasons, advancing to the FCS playoffs five times during that period.
Durden's JMU teams ranked in the FCS top-20 in rushing yards eight times. The Dukes accumulated more than 400 yards per game four times and averaged more than 28 points per game six times in his nine campaigns calling plays.
The 2008 JMU squad was second in the FCS with 38.1 ppg and fourth in the country in rushing at 282.8 ypg. The Dukes won the Colonial Athletic Association that season with a 12-2 overall record and an 8-0 league mark. JMU was also No. 22 in the nation in total offense at 401.4 ypg.
Durden has coached many top quarterbacks during his career, including former Walter Payton Award runner-up Rodney Landers. Landers was second-team All-CAA in 2007 when he set JMU's single-season total offense record of 2,951 yards. He was the CAA Player of the Year and National Player of the Year runner-up in 2008 when he eclipsed JMU season marks for total offense (3,304), touchdown passes (21), rushing yards (1,770) and run-pass touchdowns (37).
Prior to joining James Madison, Durden gained experience in the Southern Conference as an assistant coach at VMI from 1999-03. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Keydets his last two years in Lexington, Va. VMI set team season records for points in 2002 and points and total offense in 2003.
From 1995-98, Durden was the offensive coordinator at Morehead State. In 1997, the Eagles led the FCS in scoring and was second in the nation in total offense. Durden also coached at California (Pa.), West Georgia and Georgetown (Ky.) earlier in his career.
As a student-athlete, Durden was an all-conference defensive back at Georgetown (Ky.) where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Education in 1988. He also holds a Master's in Education from West Georgia (1991). He has a son, Jakob (19), and a daughter, Hannah (16).


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The activities a pack, troop, or crew is able to participate in hinges on their finances - both how much funds are available as well as the plan on how those funds are used. It is important to plan out your unit's budget in advance to match the plans of your unit's program calendar. There are several components that go into managing a unit's account and budget throughout the year. This guide can help as starting place for some of the basics for planning your unit's budget.
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Good move, David! I'm all for supporting developers, and I love David to death, but I did feel like my interests as a loyal customer weren't considered. The loyal early adopters were the ones to get "screwed" in the end. As a customer who loves supporting developers, I'm more inclined to make an in-app purchase now, probably the $9.99 one. Before, my annoyance with the ads kinda turned me off from making an in-app purchase. But since I know David personally, I would've probably still made a small in-app purchase because he really is a great guy just trying to support his family. But thinking from an average user's perspective who doesn't know or care who the Dev is, I completely understand the outrage. The "think about the dev" mentality goes both ways -- developers need to think about their customers. And this is precisely what David has done. He realized he made a bad move and is fixing it. Love that guy.
Timer 2.0 removes in-app ad, apologizes to customers
App Cubby, the company behind Timer 2.0, will be removing the in-app ad -- an icon advertising another app -- and has issued an apology to their users for inserting it in the first place. It's a classy and extremely customer-centric move. App Cubby's David Barnard said:
Given all the mistakes and bad assumptions, it's clear that the best choice here is to immediately change course. For now I'm going to replace the ads with an apology, and later today I'll be submitting an update to Timer that removes the ad completely.
Please accept my sincere apologies for making a mess of a great app.
Barnard considers the mistakes to be a) underestimating how many Timer users had bought the app in the couple of months before it went free, b) forcing the update on those past users, c) making the ad too clever (so much so that users don't realize it's an ad).
I understand the ambiguity argument when it comes to the ad. An app icon on a grid amid many other icons could easily be mistaken for an action item instead. Personally, however, I have no problem with the core idea of ads being added to apps. I'd much prefer that than the app being discontinued because the developer can no longer afford to keep it going. Business realities change. The App Store economy changes. Developers have to respond to those changes or go out of business.
Some people think users don't care about developers having sustainable businesses, but if users stop being able to find the apps they want, or even really good apps of the type they want, they'll start to care. Developers, just like all of us, are trying to figure out how to make enough money to feed their families. They'll try things, they'll stumble, they'll get up, they'll adjust, and hopefully they'll hit it big.
Kudos to David for recognizing a faulty tactic in what looks to still be a sound strategy, and hopefully he hits it big with the next revision, or the next app. In the meantime, go download Timer 2.0, still for free, on the App Store. Ad or no add, it's a terrific app.
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Timer 2.0 removes in-app ad, apologizes to customers
Muy Bueno Señor Barnard. Those ads just weren't App Cubby style. I'll now gladly support you with an iAP purchase of a theme.
My vote goes for Min (by Tea), because I prefer minimalism and efficiency over features.
Love Due. It also is pretty minimalistic & efficient. Glad to know there are so many options for all of us.
I love that all three of those apps have 3 letter names.
LINKS to all three, for comparison shop:
Nag https://itunes.apple.com/app/nag-multiple-timers-alarms/id391957434?mt=8...
Min https://itunes.apple.com/app/min/id511900470?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im
Due https://itunes.apple.com/app/due-super-fast-reminders-reusable/id3900179...
Sadly, Nag is not universal.
Got a lot of respect for David for doing this, for most of us it wasn't about the money just the ad suddenly invading app originally paid for. And realistically what other developer would backtrack like this?
Picked up the ultimate bundle today because its more than worth it and want to support one of the store's top devs.
Great post, David! I understand both sides... I will make one of the in-app purchases for support!
oh, and its a great app!
Ask Siri to set a 5 and a half minute timer, when you have a bad connection. Or when Siri just doesn't feel like working. If Siri had 100% uptime, could understand all accents, was 100% accurate, was much faster and could do half minute increments, it would be a great timer. Sadly it's none of these things. And in certain circumstances, you can't talk to your device for a timer, or just don't feel like it. To each his own.
you paid 99c for it. 69.3c goes the to the dev. an ad doesnt seem like such a big deal in my eyes.


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At least somebody is commenting on what we have been saying for some time now. Check out the full article here. And ladies and gentlemen, this is only the beginning. Slowly but surely others will start to see it. M is dead.
The suspension might get them too! I mean obviously part of it is on the sales person to educate the consumer as well. Likewise, there are certainly a fair share of braggarts out there that just want to show-off. Those people should be laughed at... : )My point is these people would be happier with the standard cars (usually) if they aren't into the driving experience thing, perfect example: I know a guy who loved the 2005 bodystyle Mercedes CLK so he went in and got the most expensive one...the CLK 55 AMG. After two years of owning it, I asked him how he liked it and he had exactly two complaints: it drank gas and the tires were too expensive (so it was expensive to own) and the ride quality sucks. I told him he would have been way happier in a regular Benz than an AMG so when he sold it he went and looked at a regular 550 and that's what he ended up buying, he absolutely loves the non-AMG.
I see so many people around me in AMG SUVs...it's nuts. I have to think that most of them just bought them for the visual upgrades because I don't see them driving fast, and usually it is a woman and/or family inside. I'm sure some of them had to have the most expensive model as well. I see G wagons and loaded rovers frequently as well. They are the most expensive SUVs on the road and almost no one is actually taking them off-road...
It would be interesting to see some actual market research on all this.
The posers are necessary so the companies get the revenue to make the true sports cars.....as long as the company doesn't lose sight of what true enthusiasts want. Why BMW won't make a lightweight edition, higher hp, track oriented e9x m3 is beyond me. These special edition current m3's with different paint, wheels, etc. Are just attempts to keep things interesting until they come out with the next generation m. Right now the competiition is fierce and BMW desperately needs a home run with this next gen m3.
M is dead, but N is very much alive! there is hope
You may not agree with the direction of the company, but I don't see how you can equate that with a matter of pride. It's not as though they are turning out $#@!ty vehicles. They are still very good cars/savs/etc. overall. BMW is figuring out how to offer TONS of options and still make money. That is pretty cool. I just hope they keep some models I'm excited for around...like I said, I think the next M3 will be a great preview of the next 5 years of the strategy as it relates to enthusiasts.
The M is the most aesthetically pleasing car.
what they need to do is just suck it up and make variants, the stangs, 4 cyl, 6 cyl, with close, but not really the same with the 8 cyl-then a few more variations, ie GT, MACH 1, BOSS, Saleen and GT500..
maybe not so many, but keep the M the top tier.
I guess I'm just not as worried quite yet as you are...I'll join you if I don't like the next M3.Of course I can. They sold out principles for profit.
They are not $#@!ty vehicles but just because something does not suck does not mean it is as good as it could or used to be.


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Guillaume Desbiens has faced more than a few hurdles in his career, but he keeps putting one skate in front of the other to make the most of his opportunities.
Plenty of hockey players dream of suiting up professionally one day. Guillaume Desbiens thought he'd made it by age four.
"My brother Alex is five years older than I am and he was playing hockey (for the Rimouski Cougars). His coach asked me to be the mascot of the team," Desbiens said. "I would skate on the ice before the players came on. I had a flag with the logo of the team on it and I felt like I was playing in the NHL doing that. I wasn't even playing hockey really, but I loved it."
Suffice it to say, Desbiens made a few strides since then. The 27-year old Alma, Quebec native is back with the Chicago Wolves after two stints with the team from 2005-2007 and a 28-game run during their 2008 Calder Cup season. But this past summer, he wasn't sure where he was going to end up. Without a contract for the first time since summer of '08, Desbiens finally signed a one-year pact with the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, an organization he'd played with twice before.
"I never felt much anxiety in this business until I didn't have a contract," Desbiens said. "With the NHL lockout looming, teams were saying 'let's wait, let's wait' and weren't signing players so it was pretty stressful. I was able to sign and that was a bit of a relief but I only signed for one year so I'm right back to where I was at the end of this season. You have to perform really well so you get another contract."
Good thing Desbiens has never shied away from proving himself. When he departed from the Wolves after the '08 season, the right-winger had the opportunity to walk-on with the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose (then the Canucks' affiliate). It was a 25-game contract he turned into a three-year stint with the team. Scott Arniel, now the head coach of the Wolves and former coach of the Moose, remembers well the impression Desbiens made, and acknowledges how far he's come.
"When I coached him in Manitoba, Guillaume was just a young kid trying to find himself professionally," Arniel said. "Since then he's rounded out his game, figured out what his strengths are and he's developed into a physical presence, but one that can make plays. He's matured in his game."
Desbiens took enough steps with the Moose to earn his first NHL experience with the Canucks out of training camp in 2010. Stepping onto the ice for his first game was a "surreal" experience, and he wasn't the only one in awe of the moment.
"When I first started playing hockey, I really wanted to play in the NHL, but everyone says that," he said. "For me, I don't even know if I really believed I would do it, but I knew I wanted to. I got emails from my neighbors, who would have seen me playing hockey in the street when I was really young, and they'd be like 'remember when you use to say you were going to play in the NHL? You actually did it.' I was always the youngest kid and the smallest kid and everyone was always beating up on me, so in my head I thought their praise was pretty cool."
Desbiens making it to hockey's highest echelon was an inspiring moment for his family as well. To Alex, Desbiens' success was proof of the long way his little brother had come since the days and nights they spent playing puck in the streets, where Desbiens wasn't exactly a popular pick.
"Growing up, Guillaume always wanted to see me practice and was always at the arena to watch all the players," Alex said. "He wasn't really old enough to play too much then but he always wanted to learn. We played hockey on the street all winter (as kids) and he was the guy that never got chosen for teams because he was the youngest. I always had to take him on my team and I made him be the goalie because nobody ever wanted to do that. Now everyone would want him on a team."
But the thrill of Desbiens finally achieving his childhood goal was soon overshadowed by struggle. During a Canucks' game against the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 25, 2010, Desbiens broke his hand in a fight. It was right before the team travelled to Montreal, close to his hometown. The disappointed friends and family who hoped see him in action, though, was nothing compared to Desbiens' personal turmoil.
"It was hard breaking my hand. It was an emotional roller coaster," Desbiens said. "You work so hard to do something like that. I worked so hard that summer and making the team was awesome and I couldn't believe I was there. Even when my hand was broken, I still had the feeling I'd stay up there with the Canucks so when I was sent down to the Moose, that was pretty shocking. I was heartbroken. When your girlfriend dumps you, it's hard. But this was even harder."
While it may not have been the fairy-tale ending he hoped for, Desbiens never relented. While playing with the Abbotsford Heat last season, he earned a 10-game call-up to the Calgary Flames, but the ghosts of his past followed. With the Canucks, Desbiens didn't register a single point, and he was determined not to taint his second chance by making the same errors.
"The first time I was in Vancouver, I was nervous. You don't play like you usually do when you're nervous, you're just playing not to make mistakes," Desbiens said. "It's good not to make mistakes, but you don't want to play nervous all the time. When I played last year in Calgary, I was way more comfortable because I had been there already. I felt like I was actually playing the way I was supposed to. It made me wish I had played that way during my time in Vancouver. Maybe it would have made a difference, but it's all 'if.' If I get the chance again, I know how I'll do it differently."
Until the NHL ends their lockout, Desbiens' NHL goals will just have to wait. In the meantime, he was named an alternate captain of the Wolves' this season, a decision Arniel didn't hesitate over.
"Guillaume's a real character player. He gets a lot of admiration from his teammates because he's out there blocking shots and sticking up for the guys," Arniel said. "He's a big part of the leadership group we have here. He's taken advantage of his opportunities and he's done it the hard way. His story and his drive are a great example for other players. I felt he earned the (alternate captain) letter."
Like many athletes, Desbiens' whole life until now has been consumed by taking steps in sport. But last summer he took a different kind of leap, tying the knot with his fiancée Ally on a beach in St. Maarten, in front of close friends and family. Now, they're getting ready to start a family of their own – Ally is due with their first child, a daughter, on Christmas Eve.
"With my wife being pregnant, I have this sense of needing to provide for my child. It's not about you or your wife, it's about this life you're bringing into the world and you want to give the baby the best chance possible," Desbiens said. "These days, we just moved into our place, so we're moving stuff around getting the nursery ready. We're buying her a lot of stuff. It's fun putting it all together."
Stepping into the role of first-time father can be daunting for some, but Desbiens considers himself lucky to have a mentor in Alex. The big brother he once idolized for his hockey skills is now the man he looks to exemplify through this next stage of life.
"My brother has always been my biggest role model, and not just because he's my brother," Desbiens said. "He's kind of a smaller guy, so he never made it in professional hockey, but he had a really big heart. I know it sounds cliché but he was always working really hard. Now, in life, he is still working really hard. When I got married, one of the things I told him was if ten years from now, I can be half the man you are, I'll be happy."
The years between them have meant different realities at different times for the two brothers, but the fortitude and resilience Desbiens has exhibited throughout his career remain a point of admiration for his former protector.
"I always kept Guillaume around me when we were kids. I always wanted to show him the ropes and help him understand things when he was young," he said. "Some of those lessons were about hockey, but there was more to it. I'm very proud of his success because the steps he's taken have been big ones. When he left Chicago and didn't have a contract, he had to go to Manitoba and really prove to everyone he could play professional hockey. It was a very important experience for him and I was very proud to see him do it. A lot of the time, people just give up when things get hard. They'll decide they can do something else instead, but Guillaume never looked back, he just kept pushing and believing."
How far Desbiens – and the Wolves – push this season has yet to be written. Memories of the team winning a championship still stick with Desbiens, albeit adjacent to ones of a gut wrenching loss.
"When we won the cup in Chicago, that was a great experience," he said. "But I wasn't really a big part of that team. I was part of the team, but I wasn't playing a whole lot. I have good memories of watching the guys play but I didn't feel as much a part of that accomplishment as I would have liked to. The year after, in Manitoba, we went to the Finals. We didn't win, but playing in front of sold-out crowds in Winnipeg and Hershey, I felt like I was playing for the Stanley Cup. We lost, and it hurt like hell, but those are probably the best memories of my hockey career."
Now, he's making new memories, on and off the ice. Pledging to work on his consistency and maintain his physicality, Desbiens tries not to think about what could have been, lest he lose sight of what is.
"I'm not a one-dimensional player; I feel like I can do a lot of things," he said. "I would never have gotten anywhere close to the NHL if all I could do was fight.
I have a lot of tools and I work at developing them and bringing my game to the next level."


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Me, too. It's great to live in a country/countries where we can exercise our voting muscle/privilege/right/civic duty.
BTW — How do you get those little tags in your images? Is it part of your theme, or did you custom that? It's really nice.
Thank you! I post all of my gratitude images on my Jux (https://katienormalgirl.jux.com/) and it allows me to put those tags on there. Then I take a screen grab and crop it before I post it here. Whew…when I write it out like that it sounds a lot more complicated than it feels to actually do it!
Well done Katie…the sad thing is that there are so many people who don't exercise their right to vote. Over here in Australia, if you are registered to vote, you HAVE to vote or you get fined.
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Topic: June-22-2010 - Worldcup Score
Chile 1 - 0 Swiss
Portugal 7 - 0 Korea DPR
Spain 2 - 0 Hon.
A really positive score as we expected despite of the silly upsets, Spain started gaining there form, But what we see is Portugal getting furious.
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Novice Member
Joined: 11/07/08
The graphic in game is pretty "old fasioned" so there arent any new efect or anything like that to see. Lvling is interesting until lvl of 65 than t become really hard. Item shop is very expencive and without using it there are no reason to start this game at all. Game have a lot of bugs that have to be fixed and there arent anyone who care about it. The best thing about this game is that Metin is kinda cometative so u have some motive to play further and spent more money on it but there is a serious problem about that competition. No meter how much money and playing hours you spent what lvl u made there is some well organize group of players that will made it to you even harder. If there is posibility to get some good item for high lvls that is really rare there are no option that u could get it first few month of its existance coz there are GMs and their friends who must have it first. They are well organized and have their own chats where they agree about those stuff. After a long time playing I fidn this list on one forum and than everything start to fit up on its place:
List of Metin UK GMs playing characters:
Doxa - Kitaka
There are some new GMs now and some of this old one stoped to play but nothing will change. Some guy exxo is payed to take care about game and he hired game stuff. HE dont care, and they do what they can to made game more interesting to themselfs. They dont choose the way or object. Me and my brother was playing long time, made a pretty good characters and than we leave one guild (seems that American Metin GM was in it and that she is one of best online friends with metin uk SGM), she hated us for that. As my brother was really high lvl and long time playing player his high lvl friends start to comming to our guild and than other GM on Metin UK start to thinking that his guild will become poor so he agreed with that American friend they he will fack up us. From that time every item we try to upgrade failed, our guild land (cost really much) wanished (sry meintanance problem there arent any sign that u really have that land before meintanance). Drop from moobs wanished. Deamon tower runs finished before end with and bug problem (time is over). One of GMs take my brothers char while we was on vacations, change pasword, e-mail and ingame kingdom. Other GM take my account and write some stuff so my account get perm ban with pretty nice prove for it (but i was on boat without Internet connection for a month) .
After that one friend let me use his account, and everything was okay until i didnt start to write on call, than one other friend write my name on call and that account is banned again.
I dont know the reason maybe killing that GMs playing chars ingame or something like that, but that game seems to be not aloud to me and my brother anymore.
There is one more thing about GMs. They have permit to change your pasword, take your items, and than ban you account.
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Joined: 8/27/07
Is that not illegal If you buy a weapon from cash shop and gm takes it away next day thats pretty much theft lol.
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Joined: 5/23/09
95% of your post is just a lie or some speculations without any proof or pure nonsense , if u want to accuse someone on metin , accuse ppl , there are lot ppl who will just w8 a chance to scam / hack u , and they will not hesitate to do that , ... and u can accuse gameforge because of lack off upgrades ,
gms are not fault for anything , during exxos leadership there was only problem with lack of information , because he wasnt one of guys who will write or say a lot , now exxo is not anymore there , so there is no problem at all with gms only with ppl
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Joined: 5/09/09
Judging from the few lines of text i read in your post you're a cry babby. And everything you said went in one eye and out the other. Im going to give this game a try.
Go to metin2uk forums and read the threads (if they are still there,) concerning the player uprising against the G.M's. Also, try counting the threads concerning player abuse and hacking (the ones that they have left,) and then come back and explain how the op is wrong.
The UK version is crap. Fullstop.
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Joined: 12/10/07
I was actually going to waist my time downloading this game. Glad I read this post first.
I hate games where the cash shop rules at the end of the day. Very few F2P games have a strong balance of Cash shop vs Non cash shop users. This one seems to be one sided to the extreme.
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Joined: 12/30/09
Oh wow Fun Fun! I am famous! My name is on mmorgp.com!! O__o
When wanting to play this game, don't take the first post in consideration. People say wild things when they are booted of the game for harassments and breaking code of conduct of the game.
I have been a player on Metin 2 UK since May 2007. I still love it ^^
Originally posted by SunGuru
What killed it for me though was, I think the 3rd maybe 4th mission which involved getting the perfume ingredients for the weapons merchant (Metin 2 UK).
It went:
Get 2 lilac sprigs from blue wolves. Ok thats fine.
Visit the cash shop and pay real money for a flask of oil. ????? eh.........wtf...............uninstall.
I don't mind putting money into a game but being asked to pay cash for a quest item when you have just started the game is extracting the urine. Not to mention it plays into the hands of merchants who will sell you said oil for inflated prices.
In fact asking for cash for quest items is just crap full stop.
Other points of fail are the merchant spam you get on entering a town, the lack of any decent character customization, no day/night, no weather, and just no character at all to the world or its inhabitants.
As someone else put it, Metin 2 is just a chat room with fighting.
As a follow on to my above statement I have since found out that the quest involving the musk oil should be avoided at all cost as once taken it cannot, as far as I know, be cancelled. Also, until you purchase the musk oil which will cost you a minimum of £7.99 just for 1 dragon coin for the oil, the weapon shops in all regions will be closed to you. If you try to buy/sell weapons all you will get is the quest text.
In short, unless you spend real money on a necessary quest item, the only way to get weapons is to find them or buy them off the merchants for sky high prices.
As I stated before, I dont mind spending money on a game, and have done so, but to blackmail players in this fashion is beyond disgusting. What a f****ng joke.
Stay away from Metin 2 UK.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 2/19/10
Maybe you should have spent a little more time READING what pops up in game ^^
You are correct in saying that Musk Oil is available through the ItemShop. However, had you actually read the information in the ItemShop you would have known that Musk Oil is available to purchase for 1DM. ALL new accounts have 5 DM pre loaded on activation.
Also, had you perused the player shops you would have found Musk Oil available there also. Many premium players will use their DM (you earn additional DM when you spend Dragon Coins in ItemShop) to buy Musk Oil, which is tradeable, to sell in their player shops so that those who created accounts prior to this mission being implemented and may not have DM to buy themselves (i.e. they dont use real money to buy Dragon Coins to spend in order to get DM) can complete the mission.
This mission is obtained when your Char reaches level 4 (takes no longer than 20-30 minutes if you are lazy) what else did you do exactly that gave you such a negative (albeit obtuse) view of this game? The mission is not implemented to force you to spend money. it just lets you know that the ItemShop is there ;)
I suggest in future that you actually PLAY a game before attempting to slate it. Ranting after 5 minutes of looking at something from a distance has never benefitted anyone in anything. (or maybe your just narked after getting pwned by wild dogs?)
Happy Gaming :)
Firstly, I should have made myself clearer in earlier posts, I re-opened an old account (A Lev 32 Warrior amongst others,) from last year which did not have the 5DM. I had played it before in early 2009. I decided to give it another look to see how far it had progressed re updates as I quit due to the boring grind in later levels and the asshat fanbois like yourself that plagued the community.
As to buying musk oil elsewhere, I perused the player shops at length and only found it once for more than I was willing to pay. The whole economy for this game is screwed. Far to many zero's for some items especially books. I also found that the grind hadn't changed and it was still at its core, much the same as before.
Finally, if the new player gets DM by default then why didn't all pre existing accounts get it as well since this quest seems to exist for all players regardless of level, until it is completed. Returning players are a bit stuffed while trying to make their minds up whether or not to give it another go.
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Joined: 6/21/10
I have had heard that the Metin is quite a mess with all the stupid hackers and BRs camping around the corners and kill monstor auto.
Not to mention that Z8games never try to fix the problems.
Novice Member
Joined: 12/25/10
ok this is bs a play metin all the time for a f2p its great and the graphics pretty good i mean its nuthin on wow but again its free so fuck off
Novice Member
Joined: 3/24/11
If someone is happy to pay 800 euros for one shield this game is very good for him.
Many peoples they defend this stupid game and the stupid company , that means they are to noobs in this game (les than 50-60 lvl) or they overburned them brain with matin2 and they have even not personal life (how they can? 1st they need all them money for the game and 2nd they need 25 hours / day for grinding)
My opinion, the game as game is not bad (but also is not something special). If someone like to have realy fun with this game have to find a good private server and is cool.
PS excuse me for my English.
PS2 I know persons in metin2.gr who have "invested" more than 30000 euros in this "game" and they goted ban because they said in chat something "ilegal"! (and they got them characters back with loyers against the company) ! also a person in spanish metin2 who spends 800 euros to take the right bonuses at his shield !
This is not game, is stock market!
ps3 I have to laugh with anyone say "metin2 is free" I bet all my money no-one can fix a normal (or even poor) character without spend thausants euros in item-shop except if we say about characters lower than 30 lvl
Novice Member
Joined: 9/02/10
I initially hated the game, specially for their visuals.
When the official Mexican server opened, I entered the less crowded server and unless for the grind (that usually is solved by doing massive party leveling) I liked it a lot. Items are cheap relatively, market economy isn't so bad, and I like a lot the combat system, because its based on collision detection, it feels like an action game, more like Final Fight or Double Dragon than like WoW.
GMs talk to players like twice per week, they organize events, that can be metin rains, lots of minerals, competitions between the nations to get a nation-wide experience bonus, etc.
I'm currently a lvl 48 Dragon Force Shaman there.
Novice Member
Joined: 11/10/10
Originally posted by mizanyx
They advertise as this game is free. Yes playing is free but 10 years old boy who spend money for the game can kill your character even your all skills are perfect. This game only depends on who spend more money for the game. Stay away from this game if you don't plan to spend 2000-3000-4000... euros or dollars for the game.
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Joined: 10/20/11
Originally posted by veleciraptor
Congratulations, I spent 200 Euro in Metin2 and sold some of my gears for 800 Euro already.
It depends how much you play, how long you know the game and if you know the stuff that makes your life there easier. And of course what server you play. Metin2 Singapore has a 100% tradable item mall which is 50-60% cheaper than Gameforges Mall, you're protected from scamming, Bugs will be fixed and the support is superb.
With regards
An Ex Lv88 Mage.
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Joined: 1/27/10
Some serious thread-necroing going on in the Metin 2 forums today.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
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U can close this thread now please
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain -- Spanish police on Friday detained the driver of a train that crashed in northwestern Spain, lowered the death toll from 80 to 78 and took possession of the "black boxes" of the train expected to shed light on why it was going faster than the speed limit on the curve where it derailed.
And in an interview with The Associated Press, an American passenger injured on the train said he saw on a TV monitor screen inside his car that the train was traveling 194 kph seconds before the crash — far above the 80 kph speed limit on the curve where it derailed.
The driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, was officially detained in the hospital where he was recovering, said Jaime Iglesias, the National Police chief of the Galicia region where the crash happened just on the outskirts of the regional capital, Santiago de Compostela.
Iglesias said that Garzon Amo would be questioned "as a suspect for a crime linked to the cause of the accident."
The driver, under guard by police, cannot yet testify because of his medical condition, Iglesias said, adding that he did not have details of the medical condition but that it could delay efforts by police to question him.
The revised death toll from 80 to 78 came as forensic scientists matched body parts with each other at a makeshift morgue set up in a sports arena in Santiago de Compostela, said Antonio de Amo, the police chief in charge of the scientific service for Spain's National Police.
De Amo said police are still working to identify what they believe are the remains of six people, and that the count could change as they continue their work associating body parts with each other.
Investigators, meanwhile, have taken possession of the "black boxes" of the train that hurtled at high-speed along a curve and derailed, court spokeswoman Maria Pardo Rios. The boxes record train's trip data, including speed and distances and braking and are similar to flight recorders for airplanes.
Analysis will be performed on the boxes but she declined comment on how long the analysis will take.
Stephen Ward, 18-year-old Mormon missionary from Utah, said he was writing in his journal when he looked up at the monitor and saw the train's speed. Then "the train lifted up off the track. It was like a roller coaster."
Seconds later, Ward remembered, a backpack fell from the rack above him and he felt the train fly off the track. That was his last memory before he blacked out on impact.
When Ward woke up, someone was helping him walk out of his train car and crawl out of a ditch where the car had toppled over. He thought he was dreaming for 30 seconds until he felt his blood-drenched face and noticed the scene around him.
"Everyone was covered in blood. There was smoke coming up off the train," he said. "There was a lot of crying, a lot of screaming. There were plenty of dead bodies. It was quite gruesome."
Clendenning reported from Madrid. Ciaran Giles and Brady McCombs contributed from Madrid and Salt Lake City.
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B.A., University of California, BerkeleyM.M., University of Southern CaliforniaEd.D.C.T., Teachers College, Columbia University (in progress)
Ruth Golden was a leading soprano at the New York City Opera from 1985-1991 and is currently professor of music and director of vocal studies at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Under the direction of Beverly Sills, Miss Golden appeared at New York City Opera as Mimi in "La Boheme," Marguerite in "Faust," and both First Lady and Pamina in "The Magic Flute," among others. In concert, she appeared at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Ravinia Festival and the Aspen Music Festival, and with the Orchestra Pasdaloup in Paris, Chartre and Rheims.
Miss Golden's students have gone on to study and perform with top companies, institutions and programs, including The Metropolitan Opera, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the New York City Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program, Fort Worth Opera, Lake George Opera, the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory, Boston University and the Music Academy of the West. In addition, Miss Golden has presented classes for the Julliard School, McGill University, the University of California, the New York Singing Teachers Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Miss Golden is an active member of the Metropolitan Opera Council Adjudication Panel.
Voice Performance, Vocal Pedagogy, Song Literature, Opera History and Performance
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Monday, May 2, 2011
the forever war
Osama bin Laden is dead, and so our culture has made the curious decision to return to the world of 9/12: outwardly confident, showily defiant, wrapped in assertions of our power-- and yet, pecking and cawing beneath it all, the dirty bird of our fear. I don't know of a surer sign of a weak nation and a frightened people than so many working so hard to signal their toughness. It's true all the time: those who work to show you they're strong are weak. And as we assemble more and more little insults-- I'm sure bin Laden's ghost is all tore up that you won't call him Mr., Bill-- to add to the grand narratives of American power and moral vengeance, all those little lessons we learned in the aftermath of 9/11 shrivel and die. It's black humor, but it is funny, the way that our media (especially the supposedly free new media of blogs) parrots the administration's version of events, and each commentator tries more desperately than the next to find some new angle to degrade our enemy. (That he may have used his wife as a human shield-- which I don't know, by the way, and neither do you-- seems to me to be largely insignificant, when you consider he murdered thousands of innocent people.) We can't merely secure our goals, we have to "win." We can't merely win, we have to emasculate our enemy.
You should be reminded of all the wrong turns we took following 9/11, and you should be worried now. Even if you don't feel a little discomfort at national glee over human death, you might remember how much these moments have cost us and will continue to cost us. There's no wondering if this action was legal; nobody cares. That's the sort of thing successful terrorists do to a free people.
Liberalism is the self-limiting discourse. In the small-l, classical liberalism, Enlightenment-values sense that I'm told all American political ideologies share, liberalism is not just a philosophy but a critique of all philosophies. In its only true form, it undercuts itself always, sets its own boundaries, and holds its own dictates to be immutable rules never. You can't go to war for liberalism; such a thing is a contradiction in terms. You certainly can't be a warrior for liberalism. And liberalism can't ever win, not really. If you ever find yourself in the kind of position that calls itself victory, liberalism tells you to question what happened, to never stop in asking questions. If you've really won, if you stopped and stood in a place you call victory, you've ceased to represent liberalism. It is a slippery, frustrating commitment, the commitment to liberalism. There's nowhere to stand. Ever.
There is no such thing as righteous violence and no such thing as confident liberalism.
We have longed for the declaration of victory, and this event, which has changed very little, gives us the pretext to do it. That this collapse into the symbolic is understandable makes it no less scary. Behind it all, the ceaseless, oppressive force of the cult of Obama pushes and pushes. I have never witnessed anything like it in my life, the way this man has become venerated by people who are ordinarily discriminating. At the height of Bush's popularity, I often wondered if the hero worship could go any deeper. But now I know that there's always another side, and here it is: so many liberals who so bitterly rejected the tenor of those times are now weeping and beating their breasts with adoration for our dear leader. I never cared much about what was American, but it is true that leader worship is un-American. It is true that it is antidemocratic. It is true that it illiberal. American progressives largely don't care, though; that was Bush. This is their guy. So much for them.
When people speak of Obama as a potential liberal Reagan, I ask them to really think about what they are saying. The problem of Reagan isn't just his policies. The problem is that the very idea of a fawning attitude towards a president gives us nothing. I like Obama's policies a lot more than I do Bush's. That does not make me forget the essential wisdom of distrusting authorities, and particularly our executive.
Here is what history should teach you: every great act of evil in the history of humanity, every one, was committed by people who were certain. Certain that they were right, certain that they understand the world, certain that they had unique access to the truth, certain that they could plant their flag on one right thing, and take their stand. In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, you had this strange and constant assault on the various relativist boogiemen that, we were told, threatened our way of life. Few people asked what sense it made to complain about the Derridas of the world when it was men like bin Laden, who was as far from a relativist as any could ever be, who had committed the crime. But such talk was inconvenient. We had our own certainty and our own righteousness and the time was not for asking about root causes but instead for planting our own flags.
You'll likely find an opportunity to feel solidarity with someone who is usually your political enemy, in the coming days. Some shared moment where you look over to someone who you know you disagree with, and say, "we got 'em!" and along with everybody else in the office, you feel all one, for a little while. Here's Conor, celebrating that unity. He means well. Unity is just conformity wearing a nicer dress. And I have to say to Conor at this moment what I had to say, after five and three quarter hours of weakness, on September 11th: I don't want to be unified with you. Not in this. Not behind the righteousness of violence. Not in the orgies of nationalism. Not in anything. Not at the moment when so many ask for unity, because those are the moments when the refusal of unity is most necessary. That, too, is liberalism: dissent in the heart of all things. The scariest word I know in politics is consensus. You should flee from it, if you find it.
That the good people in America want desperately to feel proud of the country again, I can understand, although "my country" is a concept I walked away from years ago. That people feel tremendous anger against a horrific person who committed inexcusable crimes, I understand. And that I am tempted to take up the flag and get with the communal program, I can't deny. I'm human, after all. But I know how things start, and I know that, within the crowds of people crowing and whooping and letting forth with anger, hides the most dangerous impulse that ever resided in the human heart.
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Well, I guess this will now be the best thing written about the topic.
Though: "Every great act of evil in the history of humanity, every one, was committed by people who were certain." Uh? ... I can think of about 20 different ways that this isn't true, though I see your point.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- Freddie said...
Name some! I'm eager to hear it.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Josh said...
As ever: Thanks, man.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:25 PM
I don't know, Michel Foucault intentionally infecting people with HIV? A soldier conscripted into an army who goes along with a civilian massacre because he's terrified of reprisal (i.e. he's committing an evil act but not out of certainty; if anything, he's certain that it's wrong). Though I suppose "great act" implies something "more" evil ... obviously it's a tired example, but Eichmann? Was he acting out of passionate certainty?
Anyway, "People who were certain" ... certain about what? About first principles? About their reasons for committing evil? About the evil act as it's being committed? One finds certainty, confusion, vagueness, partial insanity, and a thousand other subjective states among both pacifist relativists (who can also commit evil acts, oddly enough) and cheerleading war-mongers.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM
There is no such thing as righteous violence and no such thing as confident liberalism.
The next time you whine about being marginalized, just remember that it's because you hold stupid and marginal opinions like this one.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Freddie said...
Perhaps the difference is semantic. You'll concede that the Nazi project was not undertaken by relativists, though, right? Eichmann was an instrument; Hitler was a believer. Joseph Stalin believed in Bolshevism. Mao thought he was doing more for the Chinese people than any other ruler in history. The Inquisition tortured and murdered in an ecstasy brought about by their feeling of God's love. American settlers committed genocide against the native population with the assured understanding that Manifest Destiny was ordained from above and that their victims were less than human. On and on....
- May 2, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- Freddie said...
Ah, but I love the margins, Phil, I always have. It's where I reside.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:43 PM
been waiting for this post. thanks for writing it.
- May 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Oh I definitely concede that much (as I mentioned, I do in fact see your point).
But to say "every great act of evil" ... I don't know. Yes, Bin Laden was a believer; Hitler was a believer; I'm not so sure that Stalin believed in Bolshevism by the end; the atrocities of the Inquisition were primarily carried out by civil/royal inquisitors (the ecclesiastical courts tried to stop it) ... but then there were, e.g., plenty of evil Roman emperors who weren't passionately certain about anything except their own licentiousness. And in any case, almost all of the evil acts contained within each "great evil" was committed by someone who was not passionately certain, which is an important distinction to make.
- May 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- somefeller said...
There is no such thing as righteous violence and no such thing as confident liberalism.
Tell that to FDR, sophomore.
- May 2, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Mysterious Man from the shadows said...
I disagree with somefeller's tone, but I admit that I too wonder how FDR (or Kennedy) fit in with that claim.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:32 PM
I was looking forward to this post (and to Larison's future post on this) so I didn't have to feel alone in not being excited about death.
- May 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM
Maybe you guys missed the "small-l, classical...that I'm told all American political ideologies share" part. Not big-L, American Liberalism, of the FDR sort, which hardly can be said to be shared by the whole country.
On the other hand maybe you're talking about WWII, which, well, you're not the only people in the world to think it was righteous violence.
- May 2, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- K-Tron said...
"Unity is just conformity wearing a nicer dress."
False. One cannot feel unity and solidarity with someone politically or culturally different from oneself? How easy would it be to find counterexamples to this bald assertion? Privileged white northerners fighting on behalf of black slaves? Jews from different countries fighting alongside each other in the 1944 Warsaw uprising, with a language barrier between them. I could go on.
- May 3, 2011 at 12:36 AM
- ovaut said...
the line paul h. picks up on has itself quite a 'certain' tone: 'Every [...] every one'
- May 3, 2011 at 2:18 PM


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2012 Season Review: With only one returning player on the roster, Andy Dvornski and Johnathan Snyder had a clean slate of golf habits to improve this year. Through their skilled instruction, the coaches lowered the Hawks' overall point total by 228 strokes from one season ago. Hilbert competed in five matches prior to the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship meet October 14 and 15. The Hawks hosted their third annual Hilbert Invitational at the Gowanda Country Club in early September as well as participating in other local tournaments over the seven week season. In between, the team worked on improving their mechanics at Harvest Hills golf course near campus.
Sophomore Ryan Ratajczak proved to be the Hawks most consistent golfer leading Hilbert five of the six matches. His lowest score was an 80 which he blasted on the lower course at Peek N'Peak (par 72) September 20. He ended the season shooting a 170 at the AMCC championships hosted by Oak Tree Country Club in Middlesex, OH. Other golfers who represented Hilbert in most matches were senior Gary Gawera, freshman Jacob Reinecke, who shot a team best 77 at Peek N'Peak, and senior Karl Blomback. Junior Ryan Tofil represented the Hawks in four matches with his strongest performance taking place at the AMCC championships and sophomore Jason Tabaczynski dressed twice for the Hawks. Senior Clinton Brown and junior Trevor Schmidt were on the Hawks' roster and practiced with the team though neither played the course during a scoring match for Hilbert.
As a team, Hilbert fired their lowest score, 333, at the Behrend Invitational (Peek N'Peak). In the AMCC Championship tournament, which was the final match of the season, the Hawks took 10th place with a 710 overall score on the par 71 course for the two day tournament.
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After the race the Mercedes team had this to say
Nico Rosberg:
Michael Schumacher:
Ross Brawn said this in term of the car cars new package:
Norbert Haug:
Alonso won his first race this year in his Ferrari. It was a special victory for the team, They won their first race here 60 years ago. Alonso capitalized on a botched pit stop which saw him pass Vettel, who was the race leader. Vettel finished second after Team Red Bull told Webber, who came in third to back off, which prevented him from passing Vettel for second place. Hamilton came in third mear inches ahead of Massa. Rosberg finished 6th after dropping to 12th place at the start, who had a relatively quiet race. Schumacher, who started 13th, worked his way up to 9th place, On lap 9 he made contact with Kobayashi after trying to pass him and lost his front wing. After getting a new wing and swapping to dry soft tires, he climbed back up to 7th place, but then was slapped with a 10 sec stop and go penalty for his collision earlier. Schumi ended up finishing the race in 9th place.
Here's a run down of what the team had to say
Nico Rosberg, 6th place:
Michael Schumacher, 9th place:Nico was quite pleased with his result: First of all because in qualifying we had the potential to be in the top five, and secondly we had a really good strategy in the race. My start was not good, so being able to eventually finish in sixth place is a nice result for us.
And hopefully it's the start of an upward trend, before our next home race in Germany, so I'm looking forward to confirming our performance at the Nürburgring. In the next few days, we will analyse the whole weekend with our new developments on the car, and will work hard on improving it even further.
Ross Brawn:My result today is a bit of a shame, and of course I am not happy about it. I think fifth or even fourth place would not have been out of question today thanks to the superb job the guys back in Brackley and Brixworth have done. I would so much have wished to bring them some decent points this evening when we go back to the factory for a BBQ with their families.
But unfortunately, and due to my fault, I cannot. Having used DRS for the first time in the race, I was arriving at the corner with over-run. Underestimating the effect, my braking was not good and this is how the collision happened. It was right to get a penalty but why it had to be a stop-go, and not a drive-through penalty, I would like to understand better as I felt it was too hard. Anyway, the good thing is that step-by-step, the hard work of our team is paying off more and more, and this is a good feeling heading towards our next home race.
Norbert Haug:After starting ninth and 13th respectively, Nico and Michael made was a good progress up the field. They had mixed fortunes at the start - Michael gained four positions, while Nico dropped three places as he lost out in the first few corners. Michael's race was obviously spoiled by his collision and it carried a double penalty, as he did a slow lap to the pits and then had the stop-go penalty. However, after that he drove very well and climbed back from as low as 17th to score two points.
Nico's race was more straightforward, but we set him a real challenge asking him to go the end of the race from lap 30, and he did an extremely solid job to achieve that. This was the first race for this car specification, with new exhaust outlets and aerodynamic developments, and we had only an hour of dry running, mainly with one car, before qualifying. With that in mind, we can be encouraged by our performance today. One of our previous difficulties had been making the tyres last properly, but both drivers managed to run over 115km on a set of options this afternoon, which suggests we have made some good progress in this area.
Full Race Results:Nico lost three places on lap one whereas Michael gained four. Taking into consideration that Nico completed the first lap in 12th, sixth place is a respectable result. We showed today that we could handle the tyres during a two-stop strategy, when most of the top ten finishers chose three stops. Michael had an eventful race, touching Kobayashi's Sauber in the early stages, which forced him into the pits early for a nose change, and some laps later, a stop-go penalty. He then dropped back to 17th, so his recovery to ninth place was impressive. Well done to our team at one of our home races. We all will work very hard to further improve our package for our next home race at the Nürburgring in a fortnight.
1 F Alonso (ESP) Ferrari
2 S Vettel (GER) Red Bull
3 M Webber (AUS) Red Bull
4 LC Hamilton (GBR) McLaren
5 F Massa (BRA) Ferrari
6 N Rosberg (GER) Mercedes-Benz
7 S Perez (MEX) Sauber
8 N Heidfeld (GER) Renault
9 M Schumacher (GER) Mercedes-Benz
10 J Alguersuari (ESP) Toro Rosso
11 A Sutil (GER) Force India
12 V Petrov (RUS) Renault
13 RG Barrichello (BRA) Williams
14 P Maldonado (VEN) Williams
15 P di Resta (GBR) Force India
16 T Glock (GER) Virgin
17 J d'Ambrosio (BEL) Virgin
18 V Liuzzi (ITA) HRT
19 D Ricciardo (AUS) HRT
Awesome race! Glad Vettel didn't win even if Alonso won it. It pissed everyone off at the race when we found out that Webber was ordered not to pass Vettel and keep his distance. i was already mad that they gave Schumi a 10 sec stop and go penalty rather than the normal drive through one. That ruined his race. If it wasn't for the penalty he could have finished 5th or even 4th. I did get a bunch of pictures, once I get off work, I'll get them uploaded. The schumi pic above is one of the ones I took.
The FIA had decided before the race that there would be no drive through, but only stop and go penalties, due to the pitstreet layout. Because you cut 2 corners the time penalty would not be sufficient with a drive through, so they said.
All penalties were stop and go. MS was no exeption.
Starting a race with half the circuit soaked and half the circuit dried out made for an interesting race. Where were you on the circuit Scourge?
I didn't hear about FIA's decision for the penalty rules. I guess quite a few people (even Mercedes GP) didn't either cause alot of them were wondering why he got that harsh of a penalty. They could have just lowered the speed in the pits. 10 seconds in the pits is a very long time. Close to 30-40 sec of race time.
I was sitting on the Farm Curve stands. I could see the first corner, the pit exit, and through the S curves at Village. I got to see Kobi's engine go and Button's retirement. If you're a racing fan, F1 is a must to see live.
Great writeup! You capture the excitement very well.
I was over at a friend's place to watch it live at 6 AM. What a great race! Camera work was incredible and the excitement second to none. (Made up for Valencia...)
The pits contained greater than average excitement too. Everything from missing wheel nuts to near collisions (resulting in violation of Force India's air gun), to the longest 10 seconds in sports.
Here's a couple of pics from the qualifying session:
Here's the link to the full gallery
Once the race pics are done uploading, I'll post a link to it.
Here's some pics from the race:
Here's a link to the full race gallery: