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I've been lazy about trip reports, so I'll do a round up in this thread. We've been trying new terrain's, seasons, and have gotten down to official ul base weight's this year so this might be fun for noobs.This was our firs true 4th season trip. It's on Assateague Island National Seashore. The temps never got above freezing.As you can tell we didn't hit that 10 pound goal, I carried around 16 #'s bpw, she was around 14. We also lugged a gallon of water each. For heavy loads these osprey's, and aether and aura are good sturdy packs.
oops, Well thats our luxury condo tent, a REI half dome 3, it's really better as a car camping tent at +4#'s but it's comfy and we have fit 3 in it.Cool right?Another day on the beach, in February, on the east coast, in 35mph winds and 15 degrees f. Where's the chicks in bikini's and Gary Hasslehoff???Obligatory sunset.Cheers
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Old Rag (SNP VA) is a loop that can be done as a day hike, no problem. We camped like 2 miles from the car. More winter hiking, this time with some elevation.The Shennadoah Valley.I wearing an Osprey and not my trusty GG Mariaposa Plus since my "Posa" was in the shop getting the curved stay upgrade.This was our first trip with prolonged scrambling. I had a blast.The wife? Not so much.I was defiantly happy to drop 3#'s of tent and get back into my super awesome tarptent! God bless you, Henry Shires.After this trip i nixed that ground cloth.
Putting the blue in the blue ridge Yo!Old Rag!
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Looks like fun times!Where did you camp near Old Rag? A friend of mine and I were interested in trying to incorporate that into a backpacking weekend but it doesn't seem too feasible. -Dave
How far are ya'll looking to hike? The Old Rag Fire Road is like a main vein. If you do big days you can take the fire road over to the cedar run/white oak falls are. Camp off Cedar run. Small day there's a few options, I'll post soon, gotta get my book.Tell you what, give me milage and I'll give you some options. My wife and I are close to hiking all 500 miles in the park. We've done some weekends in the area. Do you already know about the little parking lot?
My buddy is more familiar with that area than I am. We're no distance hikers that's for sure so under 10 miles a day would be nice. This would be a overnighter type thing for us. Drive in Saturday morning and get home Sunday night.
Sorry it took so long to get back with you. First trick go to the second parking area! The trip we took was 10 miles total. It was more a "test our ul winter kits" than a big hike. But those 10 miles take extra time because of the scrambling. We went:1 Saddle ridge2 weakley hollow fire road3 camp @ junction with corbin hollow trail.If you want more miles on the second day you could "out and back" these 1 Robertson mt is steep and rocky but the summit is great and not many people know about it 2 Nicholson Hollow is a nice, fairly level, walk along a very pretty stream, lots of good camping and trout as well. You could drop stuff off at the car and hit the porta-pottys if you want a little civilization with your hike.Happy trails
More cold, we got a little snow this time, nothing stuck. My 'posa was on the way back from Austin, so I'm still in my osprey.Ultra-wife in double duty sleepy socks. Pink of course!We came up with this hike ourselves so we could see the backcountry in the Nicholson Hollow area.
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We figured out that laying a space blanket on top of our GG thin-light pads, and then our therma-rests on the bottom kept us warmer, and kept our pads from sliding around. Muy Bueno!These are our marmot bags, warm and cozy but heavy. We got JrB quilts now.
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The wife has a Gossamer Gear Murmur now. She loves it.The last time I will ever stuff a tent in a stuff sack! What a waste of time and weight!
Don't ya just want to hike off into that? Oh man!!!
Here's me and the Mrs. on a foggy journey in the SNP backcountry. This is the classic White Oak Canyon Cedar Run Loop. This is the hike for waterfall heads. Wh hiked it after a major storm. It was awesome.<img src="/backpackinglight/user_uploads/1252009808_15827.jpg" alt="falls2" width="550" height="413">
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Here's me in my trusty Gossamer Gear Mariposa Plus.I've lightened up this set up a bit. I switched out that nightlight pad for the sitlight pad. I carry an xxl driducks jacket instead of that poncho. It fits over my pack. Saved me 2 oz. I got rid of that blue stuff sack and carry my first aid/survival in a ziplock. And I got rid of that gator clip on my hydration system.
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Now a major motion picture event. It's the feel good hit of the summer!http://www.youtube.com/user/cheehytrailhead#play/uploads/4/6LR3Yzjtaf0
Rick...what map is that? I hike Old Rag several times a year, and would like to find Nicklolson Hollow. Is it a PATC map?Thanks!
One for good measure
That's a National Geographic map. The patc are great as well. Nickolsen hollw is nice.
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Many in the islands and around the world watched from afar the horror of events 11 years ago, while a Hawaii paramedic witnessed first-hand the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the aftermath, from his job in New York.
For the past 26 years, Chico Caballero has been responding to emergencies.
"I feel I have a good day when I make a difference," said Caballero.
But not all days have been good, especially the very dark day of September 11, 2001. On that day, Caballero was in charge of paramedics and based at a New York Hospital.
Paramedics were among those who rushed in, along with firefighters and police officers, when the World Trade Center Towers were hit by two passenger jets hijacked by terrorists.
Many paramedics brought in hundreds of victims from ground zero to the hospital, but some never made it back. Only their final terror-filled moments were able to reach the hospital's emergency communications system.
"From time to time, we'd get calls from people for police backup, fire backup. But hearing people scream for their lives was something so blood-curdling. The more I think about it, the more it gives me chicken skin now," said Caballero.
After 9/11 Caballero said everything changed. There was stepped-up security, and plenty of scares in the months that followed.
But the attacks also made many first responders realize living their lives to the fullest was just as critical as saving lives.
"Spending time with family and friends became very important," said Caballero.
Not only did the 9/11 attacks change how safe people in America felt, it also changed the way personnel responded to emergencies.
Now, Caballero makes sure every first responder he rides with or trains knows to safely enter any emergency scene -- instead of just rushing in to help.
"Any call we go on could turn into something else. You always have to be aware of your surroundings, and not take anything for granted," added Caballero.
While he felt like he needed to leave New York, Caballero is still doing what he loves: responding to emergencies and helping those in need.
There were many heroes who died on 9/11. Along with the hundreds of firefighters, and dozens of police officers that will be honored for their sacrifice, Caballero hopes people will also remember the EMTs and paramedics who also gave their lives eleven years ago.

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|BETHLEHEM, Pa. - For the second game in a row, Army had a one-goal game on its hands but for the second-straight Saturday the Black Knights came up short. Juniors Garrett Thul and Alex Van Krevel netted two goals apiece, but it was No. 11 Lehigh surviving Army, 9-8, on a sunny Saturday afternoon in the Patriot League opener for both teams at Ulrich Sports Complex.
A staunch defensive battle on both sides of the field, the teams entered halftime tied at 2-2. The Black Knights dug out of a 6-3 hole in the fourth quarter, while Thul's second goal of the day with 1:05 remaining in regulation kept Army alive. Senior midfielder Derek Sipperly, who put together a dominating 12-of-17 performance in the "x," won the ensuing face-off, but the Black Knights could not score the equalizer over the final minute.
Army (3-5, 0-1 Patriot League) out-shot Lehigh (7-1, 1-0) 34-30, while the Mountain Hawks held a 22-20 edge in ground balls. Both goalies authored solid performances with Lehigh rookie Matt Poillon making 13 saves and Army senior Zach Palmieri totaling eight.
"I thought Lehigh's goalie (Poillon) played a great first half with nine saves," said seventh-year head coach Joe Alberici. "Our face-off was dominant in the first half, but our first loss in there resulted in that first goal of the second half. That was a momentum shift, no question.
"I felt like we played pretty well defensively, but Lehigh is a really good group all the way around," Alberici added. "We knew it was going to be this type of battle. We just didn't come out on the right end of a one-goal game. They are a great team and now our job is to give ourselves an opportunity to see these guys again."
Lehigh improved to 7-1 overall and is off to its best start since 1969. The Mountain Hawks are nationally ranked for the first time in program history.
Both teams got off to a slow start offensively, but it was Thul breaking the silence and opening the scoring with 4:10 remaining in the first quarter. The 6-3 lefty corralled a pass from senior co-captain Devin Lynch to help Army take a 1-0 lead into the second quarter.
Lehigh answered with its first goal just 1:33 into the second quarter, but Lynch assisted on Army's second goal as well when he delivered a pass to senior James MacGibbon at 10:23. The 2-1 edge would be the Black Knights' final lead of the game.
The Mountain Hawks scored five of the next six goals, stretching into the fourth quarter, and took their largest lead of the game, 6-3, with 10:14 left in the game. Van Krevel worked around Lehigh's defense and scored from the left side at the 10:07 mark of the third quarter for Army's lone goal during the Mountain Hawks' critical run.
The Black Knights scored three of the final four goals of the game, but it was not enough to overcome the deficit. Van Krevel netted his second goal of the day with 6:56 remaining in the game, pulling Army within 6-4. Freshman midfielder John Glesener got the Army fans cheering, taking a feed from MacGibbon behind the goal as Army made it a 6-5 game with 4:21 on the clock.
Lehigh's Dante Fantoni completed a hat trick with 2:53 left, as the Mountain Hawks gave themselves a 7-5 cushion with time evaporating. Thul's goal with 1:05 on the clock kept Army's rally alive, as he drove through heavy traffic for his second goal of the afternoon. Army would get the ball back one more time, as Sipperly won the ensuing face-off. The Black Knight got two shots off with under a minute to go, but both rolled wide of the cage.
Fantoni's three goals led all players, while four different Lehigh players accounted for the Mountain Hawks' seven goals.
Army continues Patriot League play over the next five weeks. Next on the docket is a return trip to the Lehigh Valley and a visit to Lafayette on Saturday, March 24, in Easton, Pa. A 1p.m. face-off is scheduled.
Game Notes: Neither team committed a penalty over the full 60 minutes of play ... Lehigh is the fourth of six teams currently ranked in the top 20 of both current national polls that Army will face this season ... Army and Lehigh were the final Patriot League teams to begin conference play ... senior John Adair carried the American flag onto the field during pregame ... Garrett Thul extended his goal-scoring streak to 32 games.


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On my 11th birthday, I got a gift that would forever change my life..."Adam, you have cancer."
The first thing that was running through my mind was when I was going to get out of this creepy, cold hospital and get back on the soccer field! I was assured that chemotherapy would start the next day and I would be out of the hospital in 2 weeks. That was not the route that was written in my playbook.
The next day, my body took a hit from the nastiest player out there: Leukemia. I did not respond to the treatments and my body was beginning to shut down. My kidneys failed, I was put on dialysis, and my dosage was reduced dramatically. This all begin a 6-month stay that would define my life into the future.
During my stay, (I became one of those patients that everyone in the hospital knew) I was put into a drug-induced coma for 5 weeks because the pain was to substantial for me to withstand. During this time on my journey, it seemed as if I was caught in a run-down between second and third. Doctors told my parents that there was nothing more that they could do to save me; medicine was no longer a factor. A 10% chance of living and 90% chance of dying meant the same thing, but I had to start fighting them differently.
I opened my eyes in August of 2001 and the journey back to a normal life was about to begin. I left the hospital completely crippled to a wheelchair (I had developed drop-foot and muscle atrophy in both feet/legs); I couldn't walk, feed myself, or go to the bathroom by myself. I attended intense physical and occupational therapy each day, 3 hours a day. By December of 2001, I was walking with a walker and orthotics that came up to my knees. I have progressed throught the years and through the stages of orthotics and now walk without them, but still with drop-foot.
Before I was sick, sports were my life and they still are. I was always in the backyard playing with all the neighborhood kids, and I played soccer year-round. But after my diagnosis, playing sports unfortunately took a backseat. Each day of my life, I've regretted the missed opportunity to play football for my high school. When I was a kid, there was nothing more that I wanted other than to run out on that field, under the lights, with all my friends, and make my dad proud.
This new journey, the 2012 Chicago Marathon, is a new opportunity; an opportunity to prove physical and mental endurance, to prove that I can compete, to prove that I can finish, and to make those that love me proud.
Due to my physical challenges, I will be competing in the handcycle division for Team One Step. Now, I am not Lance Armstrong on the handcyle and I have never competed in a handcycle race. But I can promise you that my power of will and personal humility will carry me throughout this endeavor. I may not be the fastest, the strongest, or the best at anything...but I have the heart that will never let me give up.
Camp has been a part of my life since I was 12 (as a camper, and now a counselor), and the least I can do is ride for those kids that can't.
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Blaine F Pletcher, 94, formerly of Manhattan, KS died Thursday, April 5, 2007 at the Cambridge Nursing Home in Marysville, KS.Blaine Fredrick Pletcher was born February 7, 1913, on the family farm in Crystal Plains Township, Smith County, KS, the son of William Fredrick and Emma Francis (Barcus) Pletcher.He married Vera E. Crosby on September 9, 1936 at Smith Center, KS. They were married for 57 years. Blaine started farming in Smith County and then moved to Axtell, KS and farmed in Marshall County for over 20 years. He moved to Manhattan in 1959 and farmed in Pottawatomie and Riley counties until he retired in 2001.He was a member of the Axtell Methodist Church and the First Christian Church of Manhattan. He was also a member of the Lafayette Lodge #16 A.F. & A.M. of Manhattan.Survivors include two daughters, Patricia Carlson and husband Jim of Axtell and Janet and husband Jack of Manhattan; three brothers, Lloyd of Downs, KS, Paul and wife, Ginger of Smith Center, A.L. "Babe" and wife Gladys of Portis; three sisters, Ruth Shlatter of Lebanon, Faye Overmiller of Smith Center, Roma and husband, Carl Caldwell Jr. of Portis; six grandchildren, Jeanne and husband Roger Jacobson of Axtell, Judy and husband Phil Zimmerling also of Axtell, Jason Hurt and James B Hurt Clark of Kansas City, Brian Carlson of Madison, WI, Denise Carlson of Springfield, MO; and eight great-grandchildren.He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Sharon Lee Clark; brothers, Miles, William, and Marvin; and granddaughter, Janyce Milner.Funeral Services will be held at 10AM Tuesday, April 10, at the United Methodist Church in Axtell, KS.Graveside and burial services will be about 3:00PM at Crystal Plains Cemetery in Smith Center, KS.Landreth-Popkess Funeral Home in Axtell is entrusted with arrangements.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Axtell United Methodist Church in care of the funeral home.
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At the American Music Awards last month, Taylor Swift's five wins and Adam Lambert's controversial performance got the most day-after headlines. But one other moment in the show had its own shock value: Gloriana won the T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist of the Year honor, surprising the pop-music scribes who assumed the trophy would go to dance maven Lady Gaga.
The AMAs are voted by fans, and the Breakthrough category is entirely decided via text messaging during the run of the show. So if that upset victory proved anything, it was that Gloriana has definitely engaged its fan base.
"Our fans vote," group member Cheyenne Kimball told Pollstar. "They are constantly looking us up on Twitter or Facebook, saying 'I'm voting for you! I'm voting for you!' They make YouTube videos. They do all that stuff. We were very hands-on with the fans and I think that makes a huge difference. They're very loyal, and it was because of them that we won that award."
Country music has long had the most personal relationship of any genre between the artists and their followers, and the Internet has made it a whole lot easier. Taylor was the first country star to establish a major audience through MySpace, and it's no coincidence that Gloriana's American Music Award came at the end of a year in which they opened for her on the Fearless Tour.
"We've learned so much from Taylor [and her crew]," Gloriana's Mike Gossin told Pollstar. "They've been nice enough to coach us in a way, give us good advice. I think we all agree it's very important to stay in touch with the fans on a lot of the Internet outlets — Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, all of them — because it gives them a chance to stay connected with us on a more personal level."
The band has plenty of opportunity to learn more from Taylor. Gloriana joins Kellie Pickler once again as an opening act when Taylor resumes her Fearless Tour in 2010. The schedule includes a sold-out performance June 5 at the home of the NFL's New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.


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Jazz sorely miss Favors in loss to Kings
DeMarcus Cousins got the ball on the block, spun left toward the middle of the key and tossed up a right-handed shot over Enes Kanter that bounced on the rim and rolled off.
In the fight for the rebound, Cousins, the Sacramento Kings' fourth-year center, raced to the corner, committing a loose ball foul that sent him to the bench early in the first quarter.
Foul trouble was one of the only ways Utah stopped the Sacramento big man in Saturday night's 112-102 loss to the Kings.
With a sore lower back keeping Derrick Favors out of the game, Sacramento exploited the Jazz's interior defense often.
"We caught a little bit of a break with Favors not being healthy, so we wanted to establish DeMarcus in the post," Kings coach Mike Malone said. "In overtime, we went to him almost exclusively with that one play and he carried us."
Favors, who had started all 21 games leading up to Saturday night, is considered day-to-day with his back injury. With the Portland Trail Blazers and All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge coming to town Monday, the Jazz would certainly miss Favors if he's unable to play for a second game.
Even with Favors on the floor, Aldridge racked up 20 points against Utah in a blowout Friday in Portland.
But the Kings' Cousins showed how difficult things can be for Utah without its best interior defender.
Saturday night, Cousins found himself matched up against a mix of Kanter, Andris Biedrins and Jeremy Evans.
And the Kings center finished with 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting, as the Jazz took their 18th loss of the season.
"Well [Cousins] is a load for most guys in this league," Jazz coach Ty Corbin said when asked about missing Favors' defense. "I thought the guys fought for the most part and he made some tough shots down the stretch and carried them a little bit."
Biedrins was perhaps the most effective on Cousins, but the Jazz big man's poor free throw shooting kept him out of the game down the stretch.
It was Kanter who found himself matched up most often with Cousins.
The Kings center hit a jumper from above the free-throw line with Kanter slow to come out. He established deep position for easy baskets. He scored in the pick and roll.
"He's fighting," Corbin said of Kanter's defense. "We've got to get better. Cousins is a load.
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Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Friday in Abuja warned candidates against "Internet fraudsters who are telling them they can upgrade their results''.
At a news conference called to announce the 2013 UTME results, Ojerinde said candidates should ignore such advice.
"Information reaching JAMB shows Internet fraudsters are already telling candidates that their results could be upgraded in one form or the other.
"This is pure deceit; the public and candidates are hereby advised to disregard these fraudsters since they do not have access to our data.,'' he said.
Ojerinde said that this years results were better than the 2012 edition.
"The general performance of candidates in this year's examination shows remarkable improvement compared with last year,'' he said, adding that a total of 704,622 candidates scored between 200 and 249 marks. He said another 571,298 scored between 170 and 199 marks, while 103,489 recorded between 160 and 169 points.
The registrar also said 33,115 candidates had between 250 and 269 points, while 628 students posted between 270 and 299 marks.
Only 10 candidates scored above 300 marks, he added.
Ojerinde said that after thorough processing of answer scripts of the candidates, the board discovered some forms of malpractice, adding that it had withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action.
"The results of 68,309 candidates from various centres are undergoing further screening to ascertain the culpability of 12,110 candidates' results.
" Last year, we had cases of specially-designed slippers otherwise tagged " Magic Slippers'' which desperate candidates used to perpetrate malpractice.
" This year witnessed a new turn as candidates wore long sleeves shirts that bore imprint of prepared answers, the vigilant eyes of my staff caught three of such T-shirts,'' he said.
"About 40,692 candidates' results were invalid due to either multiple shading or no shading at all. After processing all the results, the board also discovered that about 47,974 candidates were absent.''
The registrar assured the candidates that their results could be accessed on the JAMB Website: www.myjambresult.com using their registration numbers.
`Let me once again state that candidates are allowed to change their choices of institutions and courses once only; this change has to be effected within two weeks from today.
Ojerinde said the Computer Based Test (CBT) was scheduled to take place from May 18 to June 1 and appealed to candidates to reprint their e-registration slips afresh to further ascertain their CBT centres.
"This, of course, is the first UTME we are conducting in three modes, PPT, DBT and CBT.
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Redwoods, rocks, and palms."
While I pecked away at my dissertation chapter, I had to brush off a fleeting feeling of envy. Okay, a big, giant tidal wave of envy.
Writing is a lonely business. Most of the time I work at home and when the four walls start closing in, I trek to a nearby "coffice" (coffee shop office).
Somehow writing among people feels a little less lonesome. Until I notice folks enjoying their hobbies. People chatting with friends. Planning weddings. Solving crossword puzzles. Reading... for fun! And today, drawing.
Of course, one of my hobbies is to surreptitiously snap photos of interesting people and so I did. I snapped an image of the sweet drawing man for my collection and went back to work.
And then half an hour later, I looked up from my laptop to see the artist heading towards me. Without a word, he handed me the small white card and walked out.
Days later, I still feel entirely charmed by this wonderful gift, this random act of art. I am grateful that on one of my more lonely days, a stranger reached out and changed my attitude towards the world. Today, the drawing sits near my computer at home as inspiration and a reminder that I'm not alone, even if it feels that way in the depths of dissertation land.
In turn, I'm thinking of ways to share random acts of kindness of my own. Since I draw like a 4-year old, this will probably manifest as cups of coffee and being more helpful than usual. And speaking of, next week is Random Acts of Kindness Week. Check out this site for a bunch of wonderful ways to infuse kindness into your world.


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Just last week we got to see the Selena Gomez Who Says video sneak peek, but today we get the official video in its entirety. The Wizards of Waverly Place actress has thrown in her empowerment pop song to the already awe-inspiring list of female rocking anthems. And I admit, it is a catchy jam. We've got the video and more here!
Today March 11th, 2011, Selena Gomez released the official video for her single Who Says. The video is directed by Chris Applebaum and features the actress turned songstress on her way home from a fabulous photo shoot. And yes, of course, Selena looks amazingly gorgeous per usual. I mean come on, the song is about beauty, so yeah, she's gonna look fierce. All I have to say is, eat your heart out haters! The Biebs has landed himself a hot one!
In the vid, Selena can be seen wandering barefoot through the streets of Los Angeles. On the walls of the buildings that she strolls past, lyrics and different phrases from her song can be seen.
Sure she looks glamorous and beautiful but it is at the end of the video that Selena strips off her makeup and changes her classy attire for some more laid back wear.
Selena sure has come a long ways since this video shoot.
Just last month, Selena confirmed that her video was complete. She took to her Twitter to announce, "Just wrapped the music video for my next single! Thank you to all of the amazing fans that came out can't wait for y'all to see it!"
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TYLER, STANLEY CUSHING (1857–1927). Stanley Cushing Tyler, Panhandle pioneer, was born in 1857 to a wealthy banking family in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a student at Harvard University when he was advised to go west for his health. He moved to Hansford County, Texas, in 1879 and bought four sections of land from the state for a dollar an acre and another four sections from an individual. He leased an additional 100,000 acres from the state. On this choice rangeland along North Palo Duro Creek, Tyler grazed his cattle, which he branded with the VZ Bar. Tyler was among the pioneer ranchers who met at Mobeetie in 1880 to form the Panhandle Stock Association of Texas. The first improvements on his land were a small two-room sod house, a pole barn, and a rock corral. After spending five years learning the cattle business, Tyler returned to Massachusetts to marry his boyhood sweetheart, Mary Elizabeth Ayers, daughter of a prominent family from Charlestown, Massachusetts. The newlyweds traveled by train to Dodge City, then by buckboard 185 miles to the ranch, followed by wagons bearing their belongings. Ornate furniture and draperies from the East provided an enclave of elegance in the rough sod house. The Tylers had five children while they lived in Hansford County. For the births of the first two, Mrs. Tyler returned to Charlestown, where the best medical attention was available. After each birth, the young mother, accompanied by a nurse, made the long railroad trip to Dodge, where she met her husband for the overland journey back to the ranch. The last three children were born at the ranch, where their mother was attended by community physicians and nurses from Kansas City. When Hansford County was organized in 1885, the citizens petitioned that Tyler be appointed justice of the peace. This request was granted by the commissioners court in Mobeetie. Later, in 1894–95, Tyler served as county judge. In 1891 the Tylers built a spacious Victorian mansion on North Palo Duro Creek near the old sod house. It had seven bedrooms, a parlor, a dining room, a kitchen, and a full basement. From Dodge City, Tyler brought in two skilled craftsmen, who worked with eight cowboys a full year to complete the two-story home with rock walls and a high gabled roof, with Gothic arches above each window and door. The stone was quarried about three miles from the building site. Cottonwood logs were hauled from the Canadian River, and other building materials were freighted in from Dodge. Furnishings from New England completed this Panhandle showplace, in which the Tylers hosted many parties and dances. Neighbors from miles around would come, bringing extra food and blankets so their children could sleep in their buggies. In 1907 S. C. and Mary Tyler moved to Guymon, Oklahoma, to "enjoy the comforts of city life." The ranch was subsequently broken up and sold to settlers. Tyler instigated the construction of the Guymon utilities plant and organized and owned the town's telephone company. He was an active Mason and a member of the local Presbyterian congregation. He also served as president of the First National Bank and was involved in the dry-goods business with his son-in-law, L. E. Latham. The Tylers remained in Guymon for the rest of their lives, and both were buried there. Tyler died in 1927 and his wife in 1936. Tyler's genial personality remains a part of Panhandle lore. In the 1980s some of his descendents still lived in Guymon, and others lived throughout West Texas.
Hansford County Historical Commission, Hansford County, Texas (2 vols., Dallas: Taylor, 1980?). Pauline D. and R. L. Robertson, Cowman's Country: Fifty Frontier Ranches in the Texas Panhandle, 1876–1887 (Amarillo: Paramount, 1981).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.H. Allen Anderson, "TYLER, STANLEY CUSHING," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fty06), accessed October 10, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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text: How will Twitter grow up? Twitter 17 November 09 by Steven Levy Christoph Niemann This article was taken from the December issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing onlineLast August, the people who putatively run Twitter - the small crew that three years ago launched the world's fastest-growing communications medium - announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions. The tweak would have a small effect on retweeting, the convention by which Twitter users repost someone else's informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers. Retweets start with RT, for "retweet", and usually cite the first author by user ID. And, importantly, retweeters often add a word or two of commentary about the repeated content.But there was a problem: Twitter itself didn't invent retweeting, it was created by Twitter users. In a blog post explaining the changes to retweets, the company's second-in-command, Biz Stone, called the changes "a great example of Twitter teaching us what it wants to be". The good news, he said, was that Twitter was building retweets right into the site's architecture. The bad news was that "project retweet" didn't make any provision for the commentary that users might like to add.It didn't take long for Twitter users to respond: how dare Twitter mess with... Twitter! A self-described "social, search, and viral-marketing scientist" named Dan Zarrella posted a passionate cri de coeur, writing that Twitter was about to "completely eviscerate most of the value out of retweets". That night, Zarrella created a Twitter hashtag - another grass-roots Twitter convention, which lets users group their conversations - called #saveretweets. A few tweeters liked the plan, but the general consensus was summed up by one user skilled in Twitter's uncompromising brevity: "Very bad plan we hates it."The "retweet incident" is a distillation of how Twitter has come so far so fast - and how tricky it might be to keep up the momentum. In an amazingly short time, the messaging service - which does little more than circulate bursts of text limited to 140 characters to a list of people who have chosen to receive them - has established itself as a staple of social networking, commerce, electioneering, celebrity culture, public relations, media and political protest. According to internal documents leaked earlier this year, the company expects to have 25 million active users by the end of 2009, and 100 million by the end of 2010. In 2013, it hopes to become the first internet service to sign up a billion users.There's a big difference between one million adherents - roughly the number of people who receive tweets from Twitter's CEO, Evan Williams, whose recent messages reported the birth of his first child - and one billion, which puts you up there with Google and football. Can something as elementary as Twitter become an enduring pillar of the internet?Perhaps, but Williams and Stone are going about it in an unusual way. They're not obsessed by how to fend off Facebook and Google - which are madly integrating Twitter into their own business plans even as they take steps to neutralise or maybe buy it. And they don't seem to be worried about money. The company's revenue will be a modest $4 million or so this year. Even so, they reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook last November, and seem perfectly happy to burn through its roughly $150 million in investor funds.Instead, Williams and Stone spend lots of time concocting schemes to boost the happiness quotient of a workforce that's still only in the double figures - stuff like free lunches and inspirational visits by politicians, folk singers and cult directors. The idea is to establish a corporate culture that will abide even when the number of employees explodes. "I feel like we're one per cent into this," Stone says. "We don't want to be that child actor who finds success early and grows up to be weird."But Twitter is already weird: it rocketed into the mainstream without really knowing what its service was - its users defined it. It was they who made Twitter into a global organism that delivers instant opinion and eyewitness reporting on everything from presidential debates to football injuries. Though the company held a debate earlier this year called "What do we want to be when we grow up?", the mission statement is still a work in progress. "If there are three sentences I'd use to describe Twitter," Stone says, "one of them would be 'I don't know'."As the company pursues those billion users and its own business model, however, it may need to move past a studied ignorance of what it wants to be and shape its product more aggressively. The challenge is to do that without alienating the very community that is currently fuelling the company's rocket-ship ascent. Christoph Niemann It seems easy to write Twitter off as a happy accident, a right-place-right-time fluke, but that misses the point. When Twitter's creators designed the service, they made a series of crucial decisions - ones that seem brilliant in retrospect - that created the conditions that allow users to innovate.The first was a commitment to simplicity. A little history: Williams' previous company was a podcasting venture called Odeo. After podcasts were made available via Apple's iTunes in June 2005, Odeo became pretty much redundant, so Williams started looking for a new idea. Jack Dorsey, one of his engineers, had one for him: status updates - specifically, brief reports that answered questions like: where are you? What are you doing?Dorsey suggested a system that mimicked the simplicity of text messaging to let users send messages from the internet or their mobiles about what they were doing from wherever they were. In March 2006, a small group including Dorsey and Stone built a prototype in two weeks. "The important thing was that we spent a lot of time getting it down to its essence," says Noah Glass, a co-founder of Odeo who managed the so-called "Twttr project".The system would receive a message from the sender and then forward it to the right people. Nothing else. Simple.The second key decision was crucial: creating asymmetry between writers and followers. They didn't need to be "friends" or in any way on equal footing. Anyone could read a writer's updates, and that was powerfully liberating. "One thing I didn't like about social networks was that awkwardness of friend requests," says Williams. He wanted Twitter to be more like blogging, where readers pay attention to whatever they like: "That frees up creators, because they can do anything they want."The implications were profound - and unexpected. No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would use Twitter to apprise fans of their activities, or that businesses would use Twitter to announce discounts or launch new products. Allowing unrestricted following meant that P Diddy could share the progress of a tantric sex session with a hundred thousand followers, and that the Kennedy family could use Twitter to keep the public informed about developments in Uncle Teddy's funeral. It obliterated the line between the confidant and audience.The third key decision was to open up Twitter to software developers from the start, letting them build their own apps and services. They could even build sites that replaced the Twitter home page with a spiffier, more functional interface. "It just seemed like geeks would hack it, and that would be cool," Stone says."We didn't know that it was going to be a whole huge thing."Outsiders have enhanced the value of Twitter in countless ways, like creating software dashboards that let users navigate the Twitterverse the way a Las Vegas security guard monitors the casino floor. Other services allow you to link tweets to pictures or video. Twitter has also led to a boom in URL-shortening services, a former backwater of internet utilities, which became vital when people wanted to include links in their tweets without the URL taking up half the space. "There may be some 50 people officially working at Twitter, but it's more like 5,000 people work for Twitter, and they all deserve as much credit as we do," says Stone.The most transformative hack has been the ability to search through millions of tweets, even those posted just seconds earlier. It means anyone can monitor the hottest current topic of discussion or simply get a real sense of what people are saying, in real time. A Virginia company called Summize was one of several to come up with a way to search Twitter. The technology turned out to be so important that Twitter acquired Summize and hired most of its engineers.The evolution of Twitter spawned a whole new grammar, and the Twitter community created many of the conventions now integral to the service. This includes hashtags (marked with a # symbol) and the @ prefix before a user name. Companies using Twitter to track financial information adopted the $ sign in order to identify stock names. Heavy retweeting by the tech guru Tim O'Reilly helped to popularise that practice.To Twitter fans, 140 characters was not a limit but a starting point. It might have seemed obvious that something as brief as a tweet was unsuitable for a press release, policy analysis or novel, but people have used Twitter for all these things anyway, sending multi-tweet streams that constituted a new internet genre. Essentially, Twitter left a ball and a stick in a field and lurked on the sidelines as its users invented baseball. If Twitter is going to make any money, however, the company has to take its own turn at batting. For most of the past two years, the focus has been simply to keep things running, reducing the irksome down time that has plagued the service and stemming the rising tide of spam. "We are finally emerging from this fire-fighting mode," Stone says. From here on, the company wants to put its own mark on the service, improving its home page, producing services of its own, and refining the best ideas of its users - like retweeting.The company has gone on a hiring spree: recent arrivals include Douglas Bowman, a key Google designer; Alex Macgillivray, a former top lawyer at Google, who will handle possible technology acquisitions; and new COO Dick Costolo, co-founder of newsfeed company FeedBurner. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is an investor. And after closing a round of $100 million funding last September, the company will certainly hire and grow even more. As it does, it will need to balance humility and ambition. "We don't want to get too clever and think we know everything," Stone says. "But maybe we can serve our developers better by creating the real future they want."Of course, those developers won't be too happy if Twitter winds up competing with them. And users may not embrace Twitter's attempts at improvement. Every move the company makes comes under harsh scrutiny. Consider something as innocuous as its "suggested users" list, a collection of roughly 200 Twittering celebrities, companies and experts that the service flags as an interesting starting point for novices, unveiled last February. Outrage ensued. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis (who has never made the list) saw it as an unearned gift to favoured users and offered to buy three years of inclusion in the top 20 for half a million bucks. Tech legend Dave Winer, who describes himself as one of the site's biggest fans, was alarmed by the company's ability to alienate its core users in such a way. "We need to get that power out of their hands," he wrote on his blog.Stone and Williams hope to minimise such tensions. But they also need to assert some control over their own product. After all, there's only so much you can do when millions of your users access your service in a way that bypasses your home page. And, unbelievably, Twitter doesn't even make an app for mobile phones or other mobile gadgets, basically ceding that development to outsiders. "It's nice to have the ecosystem out there innovating," says Kevin Thau, the Twitter exec in charge of mobile. "It has created this whole communications system where people are saying, 'What Twitter client do you use? Which one do you like?'" Christoph Niemann It's not that Twitter lacks ambition. The scale of its vision was revealed last summer when a hacker stole hundreds of the company's confidential documents and leaked them to TechCrunch. The key bullet point, straight from a February 2009 strategy meeting: "If we had a billion users, that will be the pulse of the planet."Considering how far Twitter has come, that audacious boast is a plausible goal. (Another bullet point from the memo, "Are we building a new internet?", is a stretch.) Twitter envisions building its international audience by making deals with carriers to sell phones with Twitter connectivity built straight into the browser or text functions. (This will help boost Twitter use in developing nations, where text messaging still rules.) The company also envisions delivering content from Twitter to and from every connected device in your life - ie radios, game consoles. Pulse of the planet indeed.That's why competing internet giants are deeply interested in, if not outright obsessed by, Twitter. Over the past few months, Facebook has made alterations that reek of Twitter envy, such as the ability to make status reports available to all Facebook users and adopting the @ sign for user names. A stripped-down version of its service, Facebook Lite, seems to show that when Facebook is reduced to its essence, you get a real-time feed that looks like a close cousin of Twitter.Google has made suspiciously Twitter-oriented adjustments too. One is something called PubSubHubbub, a server protocol that could push content to users instantly, whether from a blog, Facebook, text message or Twitter. It has the potential to blunt Twitter's uniqueness by commodifying short bursts of information: instead of a Twitterverse, we'd have a Statusphere distributed across dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of companies.The plans suggest that all manner of content could be "Twitterised" in the future. It's just like email, Winer argues, it should not belong to anyone. On his blog, he suggested a system that allows Twitter to interoperate with "140-character networks formed by others including Yahoo! Facebook... who knows?"Williams and Stone, as you'd suspect, don't want Twitter to become a commodity. They want to amplify Twitter so it's as vital to your social life as Facebook and as important to your searches as Google. "We want to make Twitter indispensable, so it tells people what they need to know and what they want to know and hopefully not much else," says Williams.If Twitter does that, he believes, the company will be wildly profitable, no matter what the skeptics say. Last summer Williams was invited to the exclusive Allen & Company confab of bigwigs in Sun Valley, Idaho. He was astonished to hear Barry Diller and John Malone, two pillars of the pre-internet world, proclaiming that Twitter would never make much money. "I didn't argue my case," Williams says. "But all the internet guys there were laughing at those media guys. Are you kidding? Do you understand how money flows to the internet? When you understand that Twitter is a vehicle for directing traffic and information to large audiences, you realise there's obviously a huge business here."But what is that business? Twitter isn't talking much about it, although a recent change in its terms of service opens the door to exploiting Twitter's assets financially. Stone does say that the first stab at serious revenue will be providing services to businesses that use Twitter, helping them analyse discussions and providing them with "verified accounts" to let them communicate with their customers. That doesn't sound like much: Twitter will probably make more cash with Google-like targeted ads, one of the other possibilities mentioned. Maybe the most promising revenue streams will come from analysing the information from the billions of tweets that are collected exclusively on Twitter's servers. "We have a hell of a lot of data right now," Williams says. "And we'll have an unfathomable amount in five years." Given those possibilities, the revenue goal outlined in the leaked memos - generating a dollar per user - doesn't seem overly ambitious. Williams even sees a bright side to the theft of the documents: "Ironically, they may have dispelled the misconception that the company is frivolous or a flash in the pan." When he envisions Twitter five years from now, he sees an independent, profitable business with thousands of employees. "We definitely will be bigger and better, and hopefully that's about it," he says.Of course, the strength of Twitter is that the company already has thousands of people defining and redefining it every day. And Williams doesn't have to supply them with a desk or free food. But whether he can keep that workforce happy is a story that will unfold - 140 characters at a time - during the next few years.Want more Wired UK magazine? Get your copy every month by subscribing online today Edited by Michael Conroy Comments It's fitting that as part of the twitter phenomenon, I got word through twitter from @rolandharwood that @Biz Stone (twitter), @StephenFry and @quixotic -Ried Hoffman- (Linked-In) are going to be talking about the future of twitter and other 'social media' at NESTA in a live streamed event this Thursday (19th November) at 12pm.You can twitter questions adding #svuk to your tweet.http://bit.ly/14udoe@Jonbuggins Jon Nov 18th 2009 Reply to a comment Name Email Comment Submit » Latest on wired.co.uk


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The headline: North Portland neighborhood groups consider resolution against school names that honor slave traders. And that is going to do what for the school's performance? These parents don't have their heads on straight.
See the data from the Oregonian database on two schools named after former slave holders: Jefferson High School; Madison High School. The schools' rather dismal performance has nothing to do with their names. Maybe it has more to do with the irrational and illogical reasoning processes of the parents.


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Poll: Which final fantasy's are a must play? (181 votes)
I skipped 11 and 14 cause they are MMOs
I skipped 11 and 14 cause they are MMOs
This again!?
I feel like this thread pops up every few months.
Final Fantasy 1 is something you should only play if you have an academic interest in where this whole series began. I don't think it holds up particularly well these days, even though it's been re-released several times.
Never played 2 or 3, but 2 is perhaps the only one that I've never heard any love for.
I'm playing 4 right now. If you want a good place to start, you might as well start here.
I don't know much about 5, other than its introduction of the job system that Tactics, Bravely Default, and FFXII International use.
6 is often considered the best one these days.
7 was the most popular in its day but is often outshined by 6 and 9
8 is extremely divisive. Some say it's the worst, some says it's the best. I haven't played it, but I do hear that it's easily broken.
9 takes a break from all the serious-faced drama that the series had been building up. And then goes on to be pretty serious in its own right despite being more cartoon-y than the other PS1 games.
10 is pretty linear and it marks the start of Final Fantasy changing battle systems. There's no ATB here at all.
12 is probably my personal favorite, but others really dislike it. There are no random encounters, it's very open, its world is interesting, Balthier pretty much is the main character as far as I'm concerned, and the annoying teenaged brat character is very useful in battle and doesn't actually have much to do with the story.
13 is probably the most divisive. You should play 13 if only so you can understand where each group is coming from.
So, all of that useless stuff said... I don't know where you should start. I don't know where anyone should. I've personally played (though not finished) 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, and 13, and I think that all of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. Just pick a random one and start there, eventually one of them will stick.
I say VI, IX and XII (XII is fantastic, and it disgusts me when people dismiss it - like when Brad or Patrick say X was the last good Final Fantasy). YI_Orange's call of FF Tactics is also a great one. X has a great battle system with an even more fun battle system in X-2, it could be worth checking out the HD remakes when they hit.
Bravely Default is FF in everything but name. In fact, I'd say that it's the first one that really feels like it belongs in the series since X. It's stellar. You should play it.
XII is a fantastic game, and XIII is interesting and has a fun battle system. But both feel like they were made by different people and just had the Final Fantasy name slapped on them.
9 all the way, I may be biased though as it was the first FF title I've played.
pretty much play them all, except for 2. 2 has serious problem in it's design and simple in theory "use magic, level up in magic." Then it doesn't really balance everything else out, unless you sit there and whack your team mates in between battles because your defense isn't leveled out.
And tactics, don't ignore tactics, and 7 kinda aged a bit oddly, might be fandom's nostalgia of it. But it's really slow combat compared to the GBA ports of the SNES games which are fun to just level grind in those games. You might want to play these games portable, nice to grind to.
I guess that depends on your criteria for a "must play" game. If you mean in terms of quality, opinions will differ. Final Fantasy is such an inconsistent series that no one can agree about it. If you mean in terms of historical importance? Probably 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13. If you're just trying to learn about the series? Here are my thoughts:
1 is not an enjoyable game by modern standards. Though in terms of importance it probably ranks up pretty high being the first and all.
2 I actively dislike. Most people don't care about this one because it didn't come out until the ps1 days I believe. Also because it's not very good.
3 is probably the least known Final Fantasy. It didn't come out in America until it had a remake on the DS. It's not as bad as the two before it, but everything it does, 5 does better.
4 (known as 2 until the ps1 days) is a classic. Likely because it was the first SNES game, got a release outside of Japan, and introduced the ATB system that would be used until Final Fantasy 10 got rid of it. This is a must play I'd say. The story and gameplay aren't aging super well though. I think in a few years people will say the same things about 4 that I said about 1. So play it while you have a chance. Jeff's favorite for some reason.
5 is also a lesser known game, likely because it didn't receive a release outside of Japan until the ps1 either. It's sort of an oddity in the series because it focuses a lot more on gameplay than some of the other ones do. I like it a whole lot!
6 is the final super nintendo entry and widely regarded as one of the best in the series. Story wise it holds up way better than a lot of the others, and the gameplay is great too. One of my two favorites. Absolutely play this one.
7 is the first ps1 game and one of the most well known in the series. It's one of the most popular in the franchise but the cool kids don't like it anymore. It's my other favorite. It's aging pretty poorly though. I'd definitely say you should play it.
8, pretty much what Believer says. Some people love it, some people hate it. I love it, though not unconditionally. Probably don't need to play this one.
9 is great. It intentionally tries to evoke some of the older trappings of the franchise, which they began to stray from in 6 and 7. By the end of the game though, I'd say it really comes across more half and half. This game is wildly popular on this site, ranked 1 or 2 next to 6. I haven't seen that sentiment echoed elsewhere though. A lot of the classic Final Fantasy fans I know think it's too much like the modern ones, and vice versa. Certainly an interesting one. Probably play this one.
10 is the last Final Fantasy that people seemed to agree was good. It adds a few things, changes a few things, certainly falls more on the modern side of things than the classic side. Most people I know who love Final Fantasy 10 are latecomers to the series. Still holds up great.
12 is another divisive game. I don't care for the combat, because it's not very engaging at all. I think the story is ill executed, and I think 4 of the 6 main characters are far too shallow to care about. Some
weird people like it though.
13 is generally disliked. Most people say it's too linear, takes too long to get going, has generally annoying characters, and an incomprehensible story. When you stack it all up like that it sounds pretty horrible, though it's not as bad as some people make it out to be. It's still pretty bad though. It does have its supporters though, particularly on this site.
I'm really fond of 4, 5, 6 and 12 (and I'm kinda getting into 14 too).
Oh, and the Final Fantasy Legends games on Game Boy don't get enough love. I especially loved Final Fantasy Legend III.
This tune alone is probably one of the best songs in the entire Final Fantasy series:
We get this thread enough times that I feel like I've said what I'm going to say a thousand times already:
Final Fantasy is such a varied (and divisive) series that there isn't any real definitive answer to that question. For my part, I don't think you'll find much objection to skipping all 3 NES installments, and I think most people are going to tell you to play all 3 of the SNES ones (or at least I will, because I like FF V). After that its sort of up in the air.
Look, let's get real. Final Fantasy 7 is over-rated. Come on, go back and try to play that game, my nostalgia got the shit beaten out of it after I went back to that game.
FF 6 is hands down a MUST play. It's really fantastic.
FF 8 might be fantastic or awful in your eyes, really have to form that opinion for yourself.
FF 10 is an interesting one, 10-2 isn't good.
FF 12 is Star Wars, not joking, should really check it out.
No offense, OP, but we get this every few weeks.
I'd say @believer258 has the right idea. XII is my favorite, too.
I'll leave it at that.
1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are the most important ones, and the ones most worth looking at.
1 can be substituted for 3 if you prefer, 3 is definitely more playable (and the ds remake was pretty good).
4 is okay and a lot of peoples favorite. It, like 3, has a ds remake that makes it easier to get into.
6 is probably what most people around here consider to be the best one.
7 is worth playing if only to see what people were talking about and where all the love comes from.
9 is worth playing after you've played the other games, and probably loses value to people who haven't played the other ff games.
Keep in mind also that all of these games are old and the mechanics in each are incredibly dated, simple, or broken (and sometimes all 3). I assume you're asking because you have some interest in seeing what Final Fantasy is all about and my list was compiled as such.
You should play Tactics
Also this.
Can't really say because FF is one of those series where everyone has differing opinions on. My favorites are 7 and 13. Bravely Default is sort of a modern day combination of all the FF's in some way or another.
definitely the original on NES
But play all of them because they all have randomly triggered encounters (except 12 and 13) and therefore are highly enjoyable.
Don't play 12 and 13, everyone knows they suck. People who defend them are FF series apologists who feel the need to defend every aspect of the series.
Every one of them, so a person can form their own opinion about which games they personallylike and which ones they personally do not enjoy. Because when you're unable to distinguish between personal opinion and objective quality, you get brilliant people who say that games that sold very well are "generally disliked" and that "everyone knows they suck".
You will receive every answer except 2, 3, 5, and 13.
Edit: Some people may say 13 but I think they're being contrarian and would admit it's really not a 'must play' even if they like it.
Here are my opinions
1: Basically nothing more than a template for the mechanics and the general story many of the others will center themselves around. Some people talk about playing games because of history. Definitely don't play it for the game.
2&3: I played fan translations of these years and years ago. I can only say they didn't hold my interest; I don't remember anything else.
4: A good debut on 16 bit systems that is the first to integrate an interesting cast of characters. I couldn't have been less interested in the story.
5: Oh wait, I could have been less interested in the story, because that's how I feel about 5. This game is very grindy because it incorporates a job system.
6: This is the first in the series to experiment with a non-generic fantasy setting, which makes it interesting on its own. It's also the first to spice up the combat with key input special attacks. I'd say it's the first "must-play".
7: I have a lot of nostalgia for this game. The combat isn't as interesting as 6's, but its world is probably the most interesting in the series (some might pick 8 for that) and it has a great cast of characters. I don't know if I'd rate it a must play because of the dated graphics, but if you can put up with the screenshots, go for it.
8: This game has a great setting and a pretty interesting story, but I really disliked its characters, and people's opinions of its attempts to innovate on the gameplay of Final Fantasy range from "somewhat tedious" to "broken".
9: Sort of like playing a child's story. It's a fun game, but the art style never stopped bugging me. Maybe it's a must play, I'm not sure.
10: Really interesting story and setting and has the best character in FF history (Auron). You'll probably end up hating some of the others. I like the way they changed combat and am sorry they didn't keep it. Never played the sequel. Must play
12: A few very good characters and a few very weak ones in one of Final Fantasy's smallest casts. The combat was a major step backward for me and the setting wasn't so great but man, I really loved the dialogue. Very mixed feelings on it.
13: This game is basically the opposite of 12. The dialogue sucks, the setting is strange but more convoluted than interesting, but the gameplay is really good - they're just a bit slow in rolling it out. I enjoyed myself enough to beat it and even gave 13-2 a shot (but did not beat that). It's a very 'fresh'-feeling game, just not a particularly good one, if that makes sense.
I'll start by saying that Final Fantasy XI is the best in the series, and its unfortunate that you can't enjoy it in the same way I did years ago.
I think the ones you absolutely should play are 4,6,7,9,10, and 12. 4,6 and 9 are the ones I really like out of those, 12 is fun too and gets a bad rap. Enough people really dig 10, and its getting an HD release soon, that you should play it, but thats one I could never revisit, its just too stupid for lack of a better word. And 7 is way too up its own ass, but again its a seminal piece of fiction, that you should definitely experience.
Play them in that order too to get the "full" effect.
You should basically play everything from 6-14 up. 1-5 are just so outdated that they are mostly not fun for new players anymore. Maybe skip the sequels and spin offs completely. And personally I think 7 and 9 are the worst modern ones with 8 and 10 the best ones.
Also something very important to note: The story in FFXI is one or maybe even the best story a FF game ever had. Yes it is a MMO and today very easy and casual but the story is still more than worth it. 14 is a fun MMO to play as well but since there is not as much addons and content as XI has you do not need to play it in general.
I voted for FFVI and nothing else, because it was my first Final Fantasy game, and every other Final Fantasy game I played was mildly disappointing at best in comparison to that experience. If you enjoy JRPGs, you should be fine with any of 'em from IV upwards. The first few are just too... old and generic by any standard.
Little piece of advice regarding FFXII specifically. Play the International Zodiac Job System version if you can. I am currently playing through it now after not liking XII when it came out and it takes a hot mess of a leveling/license systems and actually makes it decent through the introduction of jobs with their own unique license board. It is a true game-changer.
4,6,7 and 9.
Some of the others are pretty good, but those are the absolute must plays.
All of them or none of them .... I finally found out that with this series is always about personal opinions what some consider unbarable some consider great and vice versa. In my case I love most FFVIII and FFXIII/2 (well playing right now , so fas so good) and yet I deeply hated and disliked IX and XII . But I think that is good because theres something for everybody.
I think it's worth playing all of them, if only for academic reasons. The Final Fantasies, especially from 5 and on, all get really varied in their themes and sensibilities.
Just no knowing what might click. Play 'em all and join the divisive conversation.
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you get brilliant people who say that games that sold very well are "generally disliked" and that "everyone knows they suck".
People enjoy every game they buy?
Tactics, Chrono Trigger, and Xenogears.
IV, V, VI, IX, and XII
I'll admit, I loved VII and VIII when they came out, but they don't hold up well at all and aren't the timeless classics that I mentioned above. FFVII is not a must play from a "wow, what a great game" standpoint, but it's kind of like required reading, if you will. FFV I feel is the most underrated in the series among gamers outside of Japan. Really more people need to play that because it rarely gets mentioned in opinion polls like this. It's my personal favorite.
4,6,7 and 9.
Some of the others are pretty good, but those are the absolute must plays.
This is a nice way to put it so...
Would give you a good taste of the types of things going on in that series.
I mean they aren't great stories, bloated, the best ones have aged terribly and the new ones were tripe to begin with.
At a push I'll say Tactics and 6 but everything else was very much a game of their time, I tried to replay FF7 recently after adoring it as a child and it's not held up at all.
The ones I'd recommend as must-plays would be:
Final Fantasy IV (preferably The Complete Collection version)
Final Fantasy VII (and if you liked that, then try Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)
Final Fantasy Tactics (preferably The War of the Lions version)
Tactics. (i liked 7, 8, 9, & 10 as well)
I would go with 4 and 6
IV, VI and VII, IMO
I mean they aren't great stories, bloated, the best ones have aged terribly and the new ones were tripe to begin with.
At a push I'll say Tactics and 6 but everything else was very much a game of their time, I tried to replay FF7 recently after adoring it as a child and it's not held up at all.
Final Fantasy VI, VII, VIII, IX and X are as good today as the day they were released.
Final Fantasy IX especially.
My first FF experience was FFX and I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed X-2 and XII. I had a mostly miserable time with XIII due to finding Hope, Snow and Vanille completely unbearable and the rest of the cast very dull. The previous instalments on PS1 never really clicked with me going back, they've just dated so much. I've played pieces of the SNES stuff and they seem fine.
Also I am loving the hell out of Bravely Default which is pretty much just an FF game without Chocobos.
IV, V and VI are all you need to play. Everything past that has been awful. If you hate your life, go ahead and play VIII, X, X-2, and XII. The stories and voice acting. . . ugh. It's sad because XII has a damn good battle system, reminiscent of Vagrant Story but the story is so terrible that it sucks all of the fun out of the game.
Well I generally like 4-12 but I think if you are a new comer 6 and 10 hold up the best.
Look, let's get real. Final Fantasy 7 is over-rated.
I don't know if this is true anymore. It seems half the time it is mentioned today is to say how terrible it is.
Well I think VI and IV are the pinnacle of the series.
but I suppose if I had to pick one and only one it would be Vii even though it's not close to being my personal favorite. Just as the game got too much praise back in the day, it gets too much hate now.
It was the most culturally significant and probably offers the best fusion of the old and new sensibilities. It would provide a pretty good glimpse into the series a whole.
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Do you still deduct points from "postponing" an item? If not, why and can it be optional? I would love that additional incentive to keep from postponing items. Thanks!
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Hehe, I would ask that if it is considered, it is definitely a settable option, since my due dates often change. For me, postponement is a normal and necessary part of my day-to-day task management, as my tasks for a project are generally in the system early with a tentative (and usually aggressive) due date so I can start assessing my weekly and monthly calendar. As projects solidify schedule and more information is available, due dates change. I'd hate to be tentative about putting a stake in the ground with regard to due date because I'd lose karma points if I have to postpone - and I like the karma system as a way to give me incentive to stay on top of my task management.
Sounds like you're on top of it Trish! I have on my todo list to finally check out the Todoist video on GTD, with the intent of being more systematic with my approach to Todoist. But honestly, what first attracted my to Todoist was how organic my beginning was: logged in with my gmail account, and created a todo item. Period. No application. Zero setup. Now as it has become the central management system with many many projects and todo items coming out the wazoo, I can now start thinking about solidifying my approach to GTD, a theory that I believe in but have yet to fully implement.
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Dr. Xu, one of the leading scientists in the world, discovered in 1984 the existence of "regenerative cell" which was confirmed to be keratin-19 positive stem cell after 2000 (US patent 6991813B2), during his study of burn treatments that has benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries, claims his good reputation in the community was defamed by a statement published by defendants, The Nobel Assembly, causing damages to Dr. Xu by their conduct. The suit alleges The Nobel Assembly has been successful in garnering media attention for their Nobel Prize announcements in essentially every major news organizations and publications world-wide, proving they can affect the perception of an individual by misreporting information.
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