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At New Year's Eve the most widespread song in Scottish homes is Auld Lang Syne, a song sung all over the world on many occasions.
The song is accompanied by a collective ritual: in a circle we hold each other's hands during the first verse. Then the arms must be crossed by grasping the hands of the neighbor during the last verse.
The title is composed of three terms in Scottish that mean old, long, since three words to indicate the past time, "the good old days". This is an old song that Robert Burns says he heard from an elderly singer, Burns also states that the song had been passed down only orally. Here is the correspondence between Burns and the publisher George Thomson (1793): "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man's singing, is enough to recommend any air"
Similar rhymes and melodies date back to 1500: in particular two, the ballad Auld Kyndnes Foryett -in Bannatyne Manuscript 1568- and the ballad attributed to the court poet Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638) published in 1711 by James Watson in "Choice Collection of Scots Poems" collection; for the latter some verses are the same that are found in the Burns' ones.
Should auld Acquaintance be forgot,
and never thought upon,
The Flames of Love extinguished,
And freely past and gone?
Is thy kind Heart now grown so cold
In that Loving Breast of thine,
That thou canst never once reflect
On Old-long-syne?
In 1724 Allan Ramsay wrote in his "A Collection of Songs" the song entitled "Should auld acquaintance be forgot" (perhaps taken from the sixteenth-century ballad Auld Kyndnes Foryett) and the song was then published in Vol 1 of the "Scots Musical Museum" 1787, with the title "Auld Lang Syne" but the verses are light years away from those of Burns!
THE MELODIES "O Can Ye Labor Lea" ♪ "For old long Gine my jo" ♪ (from Playford in "Original Scotch Tunes" 1700)
Johnson publishes "Auld Lang Syne" from the first version of Burns in the Scots Musical Museum, vol 5, 1796; but Robert Burns sent his writings about this song even to the publisher George Thomson, and in particular his third version. Later, Thomson learns from Stephen Clarke that Johnson already had a copy of Burns' song and that the melody was always transcribed by Johnson in the version of Ramsay. Burns, so he replies:'The two songs you saw in Clarke's are neither of them worth your attention. The words of 'Auld lang syne are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. The other tune you may hear as a common Scots country dance.' Burns 1794.
So the first melody that Robbie calls "an old air" is that published by Johnson "O Can Ye Labor Lea", while the second melody "For old long Gine my jo" is the one in Playford.
Burns' merit was to write a couple of verses and to modify and arrange the others. A fragment written by Robert Burns in 1793 is kept at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (see)
WhenGeorge Thomson published "Auld Lang Syne" in the "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs", 1799 replaced the first melody with the much more popular one in the eighteenth century called "The Miller's Wedding" (formerly in "Scots Reels", Bremner 1759) and commonly called 'Sir Alexander Don's Strathspey' because also played by the famous violinist Niel Gow: a typically Scottish dance melody the strathspey!
George Thomson republished "Auld Lang Syne" in 1817 with a new arrangement by the Czech composer Leopold Kozeluch
Burns had already reused the same melody in two songs: "O can ye labor lea" ( "I fee'd a man at Martinmas") and "Coming thro 'the rye.
Lately on the web (of course only on Italian sites) in the wake of Jesse Blackadder's novel "The Raven's Heart", 2011 they have spread the attribution of the melody to Davide Rizzo (or David Riccio as they called in Scotland ). The journalist and writer Renzo Rossotti (in "Assassinio in Scozia" da "Piemonte magico e misterioso", Newton Compton Editori, 1994 see) in his "Assassinio in Scozia" reports an italian legend according to which David Riccio is the author of "Auld Lang Syne", but this is indeed a legend.
Two old friends, meeting after many years of separation, remember the youth and toast to the old days!
Robert Burns 1799 (George Thomson)
Dougie MacLean in Tribute– 1996
Velvety voice, pronounced seductively scottish, guitar background, a delicate arrangement
AULD LANG SYNE Robert Burns in SMM vol 5 1796 (James Johnson)
Jim Malcolm in Acquaintance
Velvety voice, pronounced seductively scottish, a splash of notes on the piano, guitar and violin background. The melody is slightly different as the sequence of strophes I, IV, II, III, V and the theme of the Waltz is recorded in the final played by the guitar alone
Paolo Nutini
Eddi Reader
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear(1),
For days auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For days auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes(3)
And pou'd the gowans(4) fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit(5),
Sin days auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid(6) hae roar'd,
Sin days auld lang syne.
And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp(2)
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness(8) yet,
For days auld lang syne!
And there's a hand my trusty fiere(7),
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught(8),
For days auld lang syne
1) or "jo"
2) stowp= vessel,
3) braes= hills,
4) gowans= daisies,
5) monie a weary fit= many a weary foot,
6) braid= broad
7) fiere= friend,
8) right guid-willie waught= "cup of kindness" good toast, friendly draught,
The song has been translated all over the world (in at least forty languages). The popularity of "Auld Lang Syne" derives most probably from its inclusion with the title "Farewell Waltz" in the film "Waterloo bridge" (1940) directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. This film was the prototype of the typical Hollywood melodrama.
The famous scene of the waltz.
The Farewell Waltz version was arranged by Cedric Dumont (1916-2007) Swiss composer, author and conductor and it was translated / arranged in Italian by the authors Larici & Mauri in 1943 like danceable. At the time, the Anglo-Saxon melodies were forbidden in Italy by the war censorship, but it was enough to change the title and arrangement and here is "Il valzer delle candele"!
Tati Casoni
Domani tu mi lascerai
e più non tornerai,
domani tutti i sogni miei
li porterai con te.
La fiamma del tuo amor
che sol per me sognai invan
è luce di candela che
già si spegne piano pian.
Una parola ancor
e dopo svanirà
un breve istante di
Ma come è triste il cuor
se nel pensare a te
ricorda i baci tuoi
che non son più per me.
Domani tu mi lascerai
e più non tornerai,
domani tutti i sogni miei
li porterai con te.
La fiamma del tuo amor
che sol per me sognai invan
è luce di candela che
già si spegne piano pian.
Nini Rosso.
The melody has finally become a new song titled "Il Canto dell'Addio" well know by all those who have been scouts, or have spent their summer in the italian colonies, or at the shelters run by priests and the like.
È l'ora dell'addio, fratelli,
è l'ora di partir;
e il canto si fa triste; è ver:
partire è un po' morir.
Ma noi ci rivedremo ancor
ci rivedremo un dì
arrivederci allor, fratelli,
arrivederci sì.
Formiamo una catena
con le mani nelle man,
stringiamoci l'un l'altro
prima di tornar lontan.
Perché lasciarci e non sperar
di rivederci ancor?
Perché lasciarci e non serbar
questa speranza in cuor?
Se attorno a questo fuoco qui,
l'addio ci dobbiam dar;
attorno ad un sol fuoco un dì
sapremo ritornar.
Iddio che tutto vede e sa
la speme di ogni cuor;
se un giorno ci ha riuniti qui,
saprà riunirci ancor.
Ma non addio diciamo allor
che ancor ci rivedrem:
arrivederci allor, fratelli,
arrivederci insiem!
Fratello non dolerti se
la fiamma langue già:
doman la stessa fiamma ancor
fra noi risplenderà.
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If an event has requested NCAA certification to allow Division I coaches to attend and observe prospects participating at the event, an educational session must be scheduled so that all prospective student-athletes (high school and two-year college student-athletes) attend an in-person or video presentation including the mandatory topics (i.e., NCAA initial-eligibility standards, sports wagering, agents and drug use). The provision of handouts, signage, provision of information to team coaches, or Web postings can be provided, but will not satisfy this requirement on their own. The use of sign-in sheets is advised.
Discourage use of the NCAA video
Operators are NOT REQUIRED to utilize the NCAA video. The current NCAA video was created in 2011 and with the anticipation of a new approach to this requirement in the future, will not be updated this year. In that regard, many of the prospects participating in your event have already seen this video. This results in the prospects becoming disinterested, disruptive and it becomes difficult to get them to attend the required educational sessions. In that regard, it is advised operators not rely on the NCAA-produced video and instead do an in-person session when possible. That being said, showing the NCAA video will still meet the legislation requirements for certification.
Participants are clearly more engaged by an in-person presentation of the materials. It is the operator's responsibility to make sure that all prospective student-athletes participating in their event attend the educational session; so it may be to your benefit to not utilize the video, but showing the video will meet the educational requirements if an operator is unable to present the information in another format.
Who must attend
Prospective student-athletes.
Prospective student-athletes are girls who have started the ninth grade and boys who have started the seventh grade and not yet enrolled in a four-year institution. Two year college athletes are considered prospective student-athletes. If NCAA student-athletes will be participating in addition to prospects, the currently enrolled NCAA student-athletes are not required to attend the educational session. See: Definition of a Prospect - http://www.ncaa.org/enforcement/basketball-certification/definition-pros...
NCAA initial-eligibility standards,
- NCAA Eligibility Center Website
- Basketball Poster (8.5x11)
- Guide for the College Bound Student-Athlete
- Initial Eligibility Brochure (one two-sided page – full color)
- Your Path to the Student-Athlete Experience Presentation (for Counselors)
- Eligibility Rules General Info
- Initial Eligibility Quick Reference Guide
- 2016 Division I New Academic Requirements Guide
- Definition Core Course
- Deadline for Taking Courses
- Sports Wagering Information [ ncaa.org/enforcement/sports-wagering]
- Agents
- Amateurism Information [ncaa.org/amateurism]
- 2019 NBA Educational Memo
- 2019 WNBA Educational Memo
- Drug Use
- Drug Use Information
- Banned Drug Information
- Report All Medicines Poster [ncaa.org/sites/default/files/10.%20Report%20all%20medicines%20poster_0.pdf]
ECAG Educational Videos
This professionally produced video is being released just prior to the summer of 2011.
To link to this video for viewing: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/web_video/enforcement/bb_cert.html
Once the video opens, you can right click on the video and choose "Save Target As" and you can save the video to your computer. You can then use whatever software you have to convert the video and burn it to a DVD. For those of you with multiple event sites, this will also allow you to make as many copies as you need.
DVD copies were not ordered so we do not have copies that can be mailed of this production.
The previous professionally produced video was released prior to the summer of 2008. However, due to institutional staff changes, the 2008 version of the video is no longer permissible for use. So, we have filmed the 2008 script with new hosts.
To link to this video for viewing: http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/basketball/certification/index.html
Once the video opens, you will see a link in the lower right-hand corner that will allow you to download the video. When you click the link, the video will open in Windows Media Player. The Windows Media file can be copied to a DVD and played directly on many newer DVD players. Older players will require the file to be burned to the DVD standard before playing. This requires a DVD-burning program on the user's computer because multiple files are created during this burning process. You can also click this Rip It tab and proceed to burn the file to a CD. The file will still need to be shown through a computer and not a regular DVD player, but this will allow you to show the video even without Internet access at the event site. For those of you with multiple event sites, this will also allow you to make as many copies as you need. Because this video is being posted so close to the beginning of the July 2010 evaluation period, DVD copies were not ordered so we do not have copies that can be mailed of this production.
Because the certification staff was unable to produce another professional video in 2010, this amateur video is being released as another option for the educational session.
To link to this video for viewing: http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/basketball/certification/2010BkbCert.html
Once the video opens, you will see a link is available in the lower right-hand corner. Click this link and the video will display full screen. Right click the same link and you can download the shock wave file to burn to a DVD/CD for use at your event. For those of you with multiple event sites, this will also allow you to make as many copies as you need. The NCAA does not have copies on DVD that can be mailed of this production.


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The Giants were booed off the field at halftime, mostly because of a confusing series where the team had more than a minute to work with and two timeouts.
Let's look at the plays...
(1:18) 1-10, 20: Manning is sacked for a loss of six yards. The Giants immediately take a timeout.
(1:07) 2-16, 14: Peyton Hillis on a draw play to the right side for a Gain of 12.
(0:39) 3-4, 26: The Giants go no huddle instead of using a timeout. Hillis gets the ball on a shotgun toss, gains 5 yards.
(0:13) 1-10, 31: Giants go no huddle again, hand the ball off to Hillis for a gain of 4.
They go into the half having not used one of their timeouts in a three-point game when they were possibly two plays away from getting into field goal range.


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Most of my readers are either political junkies or people interested in politics, government, public policy or commentary. So here are "must reads."
Political polling always seems a mystery to those not engaged in the practice of campaigns. There is an excellent piece on political polling in today's Charleston Daily. Zack Harold the Capitol Reporter for the newspaper uses both a nationally known pollster and Mark Blankenship who runs a Charleston-based research and polling firm. Don't miss this easy to understand explanation by clicking here. A side – by side piece explains 'margin of error' which is found by clicking here.
Two college professors are writing about today's youth being turned off by politics. There commentary has appeared in newspapers across the country including The Charleston Daily Mail. Having lead the WV Young Republicans in the 1960's I recall when most colleges had Young Republican clubs and nearly all counties had YR clubs.
The trend today is disturbing and requires the attention of our educators among others. We must assure civics is being taught in our schools. Political organizations must create activities that attract young people as politics can be fun. And finally community leaders need to make room for young folks in civic organizations, which could be the first step to becoming involved in government.
Be sure to read the column by professors Richard Fox and Jennifer Lawless.
Tags: Charleston Daily Mail, Jennifer Lawless, Richard Fox
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The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection
By Dawn Ades, Sir Elton John
Publisher : Aperture
2016 | 240 pages
Sir Elton John, musician and philanthropist, has built one of the greatest private collections of photography in the world. This book presents an unparalleled selection of modernist images, which introduce a crucial moment in the history of photography when artists were beginning to use the camera and darkroom to redefine and transform visions of the modern world. Technological advancements gave artists the freedom to experiment and test the limits of the medium enabling new imaginings of portraits, nudes and still lifes; and street life and the modern world was captured from a new, uniquely modern perspective. Showcasing only original vintage prints by the artists themselves, the book features key figures from the 1920s to 1950s, such as Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Man Ray, Edward Steichen and Alexander Rodchenko. Also includes a newly commissioned interview with Sir Elton John and essays on modernist photography and technology and innovation by Dawn Ades and Shoair Mavlian.
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The public profile of the Japanese photography book has recently boomed, from near-complete obscurity to great desirability. And not only for the aficionados. Photobooks that once were entirely unknown outside Japan (except to a few well-informed scholars and collectors) now sell at astronomical prices at auctions and online. And yet the photobook has been central to the development of Japanese photography, particularly in its postwar phase. To sketch the stages of this boom: 1999's Fotografia Publica included just one Japanese photobook, Kiyoishi Koishi's Early Summer Nerves of 1937, plus two photo magazines from the 1930s, Nippon and Koga; Andrew Roth's The Book of 101 Books (2001) listed four seminal titles by Hosoe, Kawada, Araki and Moriyama; but it was not until 2004, with the first volume of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's indispensable The Photobook: A History, that it began to be clear what a rich body of work awaited excavation. Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s may be seen as a culmination of this trajectory and, as such, marks a very exciting moment in photo publishing and in the history of photography. It presents 40 definitive publications from the era, piecing together a previously invisible history from some of the most influential works, as well as from forgotten gems, and situating them against the broader historical and sociological backdrop. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by an in-depth explanatory text, and sidebars highlight important editors, designers, themes and periodicals. A superb production, Japanese Photobooks is a landmark celebration of the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook.
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Drive-Thru Pumpkin Farm Experience & U-Pick Pumpkin with Wagon Ride – Tanaka Farms in Irvine
September 19 - October 31: This year, Tanaka Farms is offering two pumpkin experiences. Drive through the farm or take a wagon ride to pick your own pumpkin!
Sawdust Art Festival Outdoor Marketplace in Laguna Beach
Weekends, September 19 - October 25: Sawdust Art Festival's Outdoor Marketplace will offer a safe and intimate environment where guests can shop and enjoy outdoor dining and live music.
"A Pirate's Life for Me" Halloween Boutique – Roger's Gardens
Through OCTOBER 15: Venture underwater as you search through caves and discover treasures, surprises and frights to decorate your home for Halloween.
October 2020
Pumpkin Patch at Irvine Park Railroad
October 1-31: Pick the perfect pumpkin, go on a train or hay ride, play at the game booths, and smile for photo opps!
Fall Harvest on the Farm: Gigantic Pumpkin Patch & Pick Your Own – Underwood Family Farms in Moorpark
October 1-31: Enjoy acres of pumpkins, fall harvest decor, multiple photo opportunities, a country store, rides to and from the fields, and viewing of the animals.
Drive-Thru Scream Zone at Del Mar 'Scaregrounds'
OCTOBER 1-31: At the Drive-Thru Scream Zone, the only roadside assistance coming to your aid is a triple threat of zombies, serial killers, and killer clowns.
Kids' Free Month at San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Calling all kids! October is Kids Free month at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park, when children (ages 11 and under) receive free admission all month long (with an adult). One paying adult can bring up to 5 children free.
Halloween at Descanso Gardens
OCTOBER 1-31: Explore the gardens and enjoy a pumpkin house and children's hay maze, pumpkin arch and scarecrows, and pumpkin mandalas.
Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Drive-Thru Parade
OCTOBER 1-31: Throughout the whole month, enjoy virtual activities including Halloween art, musical acts, contests, crafts and more. Then on October 24, experience the annual Halloween parade as a drive-thru event in Downtown Anaheim. More details to come.
Haunted Aquarium Remix – Birch Aquarium in La Jolla
OCTOBER 1-31: Children will receive a Discovery Booklet, learn and touch spooky creeps of the deep including slimy seaweed, small sharks, and creepy, crawly critters like Sea Spiders, and explore the Haunted Kelp Maze.
Ghoulish Gardens – Los Angeles County Arboretum
OCTOBER 1-31: While engaging in a safe, self-guided tour of their creepier collections, guests are invited to learn about trees that strangle other plants, the ingredients in common witches potions, flowers that are pollinated by bats, and other fun, eerie plants while winding their way through the garden.
Gilchrist Farm Pumpkin Patch – Santa Clarita
SEPTEMBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1: Come out to enjoy Fall at the farm! Pick out the perfect pumpkin, enjoy making family memories, and capture the moment with plenty of well-spaced out photo opps.
Absolutely Halloween – A Santa Monica Playhouse Family Theatre Musical
OCTOBER 1-31: Absolutely Halloween is an absolutely 'don't miss' Halloween theatre treat for the entire family. Now streaming online.
Tina's Pumpkin Patch in Sherman Oaks
OCTOBER 2-31: Join the fun at Tina's Pumpkin Patch. Enjoy pony rides, petting zoo, train rides, and a free straw maze.
Mr. Jack O' Lanterns Pumpkin Patch in Los Angeles
October 3-31: Mr. Jack O' Lanterns Pumpkin Patch offers premium pumpkins, corn, games, activities, pumpkin decorating kits, pumpkin carving kits, and attractions.
HAUNTOWEEN LA: A Family-Friendly Halloween Drive-Thru Adventure in Woodland Hills
October 9-31: A massive, all-ages, friendly drive-thru experience. Keep the fun traditions and excitement of Halloween alive in a safe, engaging, interactive, and immersive format.
Annual Scarecrow Contest & Display – City of Mission Viejo
OCTOBER 12-30: Stop by to see more than a dozen unique and exciting scarecrows handmade by local Mission Viejo businesses and organizations. The public will be able to vote for their favorite scarecrows.
Escape Los Al: The Sanderson Sisters Cottage – City of Los Alamitos
OCTOBER 2 - DECEMBER 13: Escape Los Al hosted by the City of Los Alamitos provides an interactive puzzle experience for small groups. You'll have 60 minutes in a room to work together as a team and help solve the mystery.
Virtual College Fair – City of Lakewood
OCTOBER 13-17: Students will have the opportunity to connect to representatives from a variety of colleges and universities, take virtual college tours, view scholarship information and more.
Urban Legends Drive-Thru Haunt – OC Fair & Event Center
Wednesday - Sundays, October 1 - November 1: Guests will be entertained by live performances throughout their drive, plus experience four interactive show zones with an immersive show of lights, sound, special effects and monsters that will come alive.
Shawns Pumpkin Patch – Los Angeles
OCTOBER 3-4, 8-31: Activities this year include train rides, petting zoo, free mini straw maze, sand art, and some carnival games.
Los Angeles Haunted Hayride: Live Drive-Up Experience in San Dimas
SEPTEMBER 25 - NOVEMBER 1: This all-new experience takes the best parts of a drive-thru experience and a drive-in experience, and twists them together while also adding a live performance element.
Nights of The Jack: A Drive-Thru Halloween Experience in Calabasas
October 1 - November 1: Expect to see some larger than life pumpkin installations as well as detailed artist depictions of your favorite movie stars, superheroes, and animated characters.
Outdoor Spooktacular FilmFest – The District at Tustin Legacy
THURSDAYS, OCTOBER 1-29: Families can reserve their own socially-distanced table to dine and watch the movie on a 20' screen outside. Enjoy trivia, table activities for kids, and giveaways. Costumes encouraged.
The Haunted Shoppe – Walkthrough Haunted Attraction in Chino Hills
THURSDAYS - SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 1-31: Come face-to-face with the creepiest sights and scariest creatures. This petrifying adventure is certain to give you chills and thrills.
Halloween Events at American Girl in Los Angeles
OCTOBER 8, 15, and 18: Enjoy spooky Halloween cupcake decorating, spooktacular haunted house decorating, and spooky hairstyling for their dolls.
Halloween at Starlite Movies in San Clemente
THURSDAYS - FRIDAYS, OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 1: Enjoy family-friendly Halloween films on Southern California's largest, outdoor inflatable screen and professional grade FM transmitter.
LA Arts Society Drive-In Cinema in Gardena
THURSDAYS - SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 1 - NOVEMBER 1: Enjoy a "Spooky Series" and "Dark Series" of Halloween movies all month long with the Los Angeles Arts Society.
Haunted Car Wash: Tunnel of Terror in Huntington Beach
THURSDAYS - SATURDAYS, OCTOBER 15-31: Get a world class car wash and experience a haunted tunnel! The Tunnel of Terror is a carefully, curated experience, with ghouls and ghosts popping up throughout the wash, and special effects for a truly terrifying ambiance.
SeaWorld Spooktacular
FRIDAYS - SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 2 - NOVEMBER 1: SeaWorld Spooktacular will feature a pumpkin scavenger hunt, a candy trail that will lead to a safe and fun trick-or-treating experience, cookie decorating with some furry friends and a Sesame Street Dance Party.
HalGLOWeen at San Diego Zoo
FRIDAYS - SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 9-25: The San Diego Zoo will light up with special activities and seasonal fun for the whole family during HalGLOWeen, the Zoo's annual Halloween celebration. Activities and entertainment include Bubble Dance Party, Python Path, Dr. Zoolitte's Mask-erade, Acro-Catz and Acro-Batz, and more!
Fair Food Drive-Thru with OC Fair
THROUGH OCTOBER 25: The Fair Food Drive-Thru will offer treats from food vendors bringing a taste of the OC Fair to go.
Knott's Taste of Fall-O-Ween
Fridays - Sundays, September 25 - November 1: Experience one-of-a-kind themed food and treats, a cornucopia of Harvest and Halloween décor, exclusive event merchandise, a fully-themed Camp Snoopy Trick-or-Treat Trail for Junior guests, and so much more.
FrightVision presents Carve-Con Halloween 2020
October 9, 16, 23, and 30: FrightVision is hosting a free, family-friendly, virtual Halloween. Activities include Sketch Night, Science Laboratory, Game Night, Tales Around the Fire, and more!
Halloween in Miniland at LEGOLAND
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2-31: Visit LEGOLAND for a Halloween-themed outdoor retail and dining experience. Enjoy festive LEGO décor, distanced character meet-n-greets, and individual family activities.
Halloween Snap & Treat (Photo Opp) – Crown Valley Park Amphitheater in Laguna Niguel
OCTOBER 16-17: Take photos in front of the boo-tiful Halloween themed Amphitheater. There will be five spook-tacular scenes available for photos.
El Dorado Frontier Pumpkin Market – Long Beach
OCTOBER 3-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, and 30: Visit El Dorado Frontier for their outdoor Pumpkin Market in the park! Family package include a family photo, two pumpkins, and panning for treasure.
Night of the Living Dead – Maverick Theater in Fullerton
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16-31: Guests will follow actors through various locations as they try to escape the flesh-eating zombies that lurk everywhere. You will get stage blood on you so don't wear anything you don't want stained. It's a 1/3 mile excursion with some quick paced movement and narrow passages.
Ghost Golf – Castle Park in Riverside
FRIDAYS - SUNDAYS, OCTOBER 2-31: Go for a game of mini Ghost Golf, spot the Lady in White lurking, play arcade and carnEVIL games, and enter the open-air haunted Trail of Terror.
LA Zoo Drive-In Movies
OCTOBER 16-NOVEMBER 1: Visit the zoo for a drive-in movie series, featuring cool themes, tasty treats, and a special preshow video presentation with the zoo's biggest animal stars, trivia challenges, and more.
Halloween at Starlite Movies in Brea
THURSDAYS - FRIDAYS, OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 1: Enjoy Halloween films on Southern California's largest, outdoor inflatable screen and professional grade FM transmitter.
Film & Food Fest Series – City of Los Alamitos
OCTOBER 16 - DECEMBER 18: Twice a month, enjoy a variety of drive-up movies and food truck meet ups. The Sandlot (10/16), Hocus Pocus (10/30), Aladdin (11/6), Free Birds (11/20), The Grinch (12/4), and Elf (12/18).
Norwalk Nights at the Drive-In – City of Norwalk
OCTOBER 2, 9, and 16: Celebrate Halloween with the City of Norwalk all month long! The Addams Family (10/2), Hocus Pocus (10/9), The Nightmare Before Christmas (10/16), and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (10/23).
PumpkinLiners at Fillmore & Western Train Rides
Weekends October 10-31: Take a 2-1/2 hour scenic train ride to visit two locations options! First stop will be at Prancers Pumpkin Patch. Second stop will be at the Loose Caboose. Buy tickets on their website.
Pumpkins in the Pines – Skypark at Santa's Village in Skyforest
Weekends, October 10 - November 1: Visit Skypark at Santa's Village for Pumpkins in the Pines. Enjoy the pumpkin patch, puppet show, The Wacko Show, pumpkin painting, trick or treating, and the spooky Fantom Forest.
Dead Last Drive-In Haunt in Orange
WEEKENDS, OCTOBER 2-31: Dead Last Drive-In is a brief (10-20 minutes) immersive, drive-in themed haunt.
Halloween Classes at Lil' Chef School
OCTOBER 10-31: Join Lil'Chef School for a month of spooky classes and workshops! Make apple crisp, red velvet cupcakes, mummy pizzas, rice krispy spiders, ghost cakes, or drop your kids off for Parents Night Out.
Drive-In: The Nightmare Before Christmas in Fullerton
OCTOBER 17-18: Enjoy a drive-in movie event featuring The Nightmare Before Christmas at Craig Regional Park. Tickets are $10 per vehicle. Moviegoers are welcome to bring food and drinks.
Kids Class: Pumpkin Paintorama at Sherman Library & Gardens
October 17: Kids, wear your messy clothes for this one! Dissect and observe a cornucopia of squash, create natural stamps for a unique work of art, and choose a pumpkin to paint.
Kayaking Tours at Ocean Institute
October 17 – November 28: Get on the water for a two-hour interactive kayak tour around the Dana Point harbor. Learn about the history of the harbor and its unique ecosystem from expert naturalists. Must be at least 12 years old to participate


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"If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness."
A quotation by Boyd K. Packer. The whole conference is focused on The Plan of Happiness with each presentation centered around The Plan. We are asking all the attendees read President Packer's talk on The Great Plan of Happiness and to begin their own "framework on which [our children] can organize the truths [we] will share with them." (Boyd K. Packer, The Great Plan of Happiness) If you feel you can present your subject with an emphasis on and/or a link to The Plan, we invite you to fill in the information below.


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I really like the Phoenix area.
Not necessarily the traffic, noise or crowds. But I do like the warm winter weather and broad mountain views and tons of hiking right in the heart of the city.
Last year Jeff and I spent a couple of weeks driveway surfing in Mesa leading up to Ironman Arizona. Thanks to a high school buddy from California, we were hooked up with an awesome family who had full RV hookups right in their driveway. The driveway surrounded by orange, grapefruit and pomegranate trees make for a very private RV'ing experience…better than any RV park in the area.
We contacted our host family again and they were happy to let us stay again this year for the same reason.
We had an invitation by our friend Marshall to a night hike the day we rolled in. Quite frankly, I didn't want to go after a day of travel. But Jeff talked me into it…and I am so glad he did.
We met a "meet up" group at South Mountain for a 6-7 mile hike just as the sun was setting in the horizon. The views are not your typical forest or fauna but of broad city views that begin to twinkle with each passing minute. Although, I did hear that you WILL experience snakes here in the summer!
The 1000' elevation gain was tough and the footing tricky, but my first night hiking experience is one that needs to be repeated for sure!
Jeff happened to roll his ankle for the 4th time in a month. So when I started talking to Marshall about hiking the infamous Flat Iron in the Superstition Mountains, Jeff decided it was best to stick to flat land training leading up the his race. Marshall and I made arrangements to meet Sunday for the hike.
So here is where things got very interesting!
Flat Iron by way of the Siphon Draw trail is about a 6 mile round trip hike that will challenge the best of hikers. Overall elevation gain is around 2600' and not for the faint of heart. You need strong legs AND arms in order to pull yourself up over boulders, slick slabs and at times, shear vertical climbs. Lots of bouldering and scrambling here and good shoe treads are a must!
It's very common to see hikers wearing gloves to protect their hands, but hiking poles are of no use…even dangerous (IMHO).
Marshall and I headed out about 9AM with water and snacks. Marshall carries a pretty big pack and when I made fun of him questioned him about what all he carries, he just told me, "stuff I might need". Well ok then!
We made the hard scramble to the top and appreciated the spectacular 360 views over jerky and trail mix. We were surprised by the amount of people that were on top of the mountain…probably 75-100. All of us enjoying our accomplishment!
But as I have said before, getting to the top is only half the hike. Especially this one! Marshall and I headed back down the trail, carefully choosing our line of descent. I tend to get a little overly cautious at times like these ever since I had back surgery 3 years ago. With screws and rods in my spine there is always a bit of carefulness in the back of my mind.
But as I stepped down on a boulder my feet slid out to the left and I toppled over another boulder on the right and I landed with a thud about 4' below. My first thought was for my back as I lay there assessing the damage.
Surprised, I didn't feel pain anywhere! WOW! Could I have just dodged a hiking bullet? I guess I did! Yahoo, yippee, skippy!! But when I told myself to get up…I couldn't move. As hard as I told my body to get up, something was holding me to the ground.
And then I saw it. My right wrist the shape of a Z.
Now there are a lot of things that can run through one's head in times like these and my initial thought was that I have to get down this mountain before the pain kicks in! But when I went to stand the pain hit and my wobbly legs lowered me back to the ground. How on earth was I going to get down this mountain?
Within minutes (just after he almost lost his cookies!) Marshall opened up his big backpack and pulled out an enormous First Aid kit and started unpacking everything we would need to stabilize a fracture. We were instantly surrounded by other folks who were asking what they could do to help.
We tried to get the splint on but I couldn't stand the pressure to mold it to my arm. So another hiker, Andrés, offered up his ice filled camelback bladder and we wrapped that around my wrist with gauze. I had instant relief from the numbing ice!
Then we wrapped my entire arm around my body to further stabilize it.
Between 3 other hikers I had 1000mg of Ibuprofen in my system and we started hiking down the mountain.
While I was getting bandaged up another hiker called 911. Since the initial word was that I couldn't walk (due to the pain), the sheriffs department relayed that I had a broken leg AND arm and a helicopter was dispatched.
I have to admit, when I heard about the helicopter I had visions of a $15,000-$20,000 bill landing in my mailbox. So as soon as I was stabilized and able to walk we called off the joy ride! Search And Rescue was dispatched instead.
For 4 more hours, between Marshall, Andrés and another hiker Harold, every line and every foot placement was deliberately chosen. I spent most of the hike scooting on my bum, the trail being too steep for my wobbly legs.
(Funny side note…after 30 minutes of Harold helping we looked at each other and realized that we had met on La Luz hiking trail in Albuquerque just a few weeks before!)
Three hours into the slow descent we were finally met by search and rescue. They re-bandaged my wrist (OUCH!) and started checking my vitals every 5 minutes. The EMT felt I was going into shock and they called for an Ambulance to be waiting to take me to the hospital. Another hour later we were finally down.
Jeff was waiting for me with the Sheriff and ambulance. I didn't know it but Marshall had called his parents in Apache Junction and made arrangements for them to pick Jeff up and take him to the trailhead. He put on his running shoes when he got there but the Sheriff told him to take them off. He didn't want another "helper" up there getting in the way.
Also, I asked Marshall to communicate to Jeff on top of the mountain that I would need surgery and to start making some calls to find out who and where we should go.
I had been pretty stoic and tried to be in good humor on our scoot down the mountain. But on the way to the hospital my mind now had nothing else to focus on but the pain. By the time I hit the ER I was crying hysterically from the experience and the pain…all the while apologizing to my caregivers for how bad I must have smelled!
They x-rayed my wrist, knocked me out and reduced the fracture with the help of 4 others holding me down. Thankfully, through local friends, we were scheduled with an incredible hand surgeon the next day for an evaluation…and surgery followed 2 days later.
Since this experienced happened I am in awe and so grateful of others who got me down that mountain (Marshall, Andrés, Harold and the 4 search and rescuers), those who provided transportation for Jeff (Marshall's parents), friends who made medical connections (Paul and Laura), our host family who made me hot soup and home made bread (the Brooks family), Dr. Spencer Stanberry who has a passion for wrists and the nursing staff at both the hospital and surgery center (all top notch).
We will be stationed here in Mesa for 8-12 weeks of PT, which I started two weeks after surgery. I consider myself blessed to have had such support & prayers during such a tough experience.
I can only hope that I can pay it forward someday!
And Marshall…I will never make fun of your big backpack again!


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Every Friday, Omnivoracious turns the spotlight on a graphic novel. You can let me know who or what you'd like to see featured by commenting on this post. And please welcome Alex Carr next week, as he and I will be trading off doing this column every other week...
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair! Slog through a swamp, lasso huge watersnakes, and come out West!"
Huh? Odd. That's not the way I remember the old fairytale. Nor do I remember Rapunzel finding out her real mother is slaving away in a mining camp while she lives it up in a weird castle. And my memory's foggy on her escape from a huge tree, encounters with wild pigs, cowboy adventures, magical vines, "wanted" posters with her face on it, or anything else in this exuberant, fun-for-all-ages romp re-positioning Rapunzel in a setting reminiscent of the Old West.
Bold, brash full-color art drives the engine of Rapunzel's Revenge, and, strangely enough, it works!


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There are some musicians / groups who are so distinctive that it is almost sacrosanct to try to cover their songs. Amongst this select band I would put the Swedish super group Abba, whose sound was so distinctive, not least because of the composing / songwriting skills of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and the stunning vocals of Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad.
Recently I was listening to a programme on the radio and a couple of young ladies were being interviewed about their latest record, a Swedish duo by the name of First Aid Kit.
The folk duo consists of the sisters Klara (vocals/guitar) and Johanna Söderberg (vocals/keyboards/autoharp/bass guitar). When performing live, the duo are accompanied by a drummer, a pedal steel guitarist and recently a keyboard player. In 2008, they became internationally known by their YouTube video cover of the Fleet Foxes song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" that gained significant Internet popularity. They have now released four albums, two EPs and a handful of singles.
At the time I didn't have time to listen to their singing on the programme but decided to check them out at a later date. So I did a little YouTubing and came across numerous performances by them, not least a wonderful version of the old Abba song "Chiquiqita"
Initially when I saw this come up I was somewhat sceptical that the sisters could really do the song justice, how wrong could I have been. Their harmonisation is wonderful and as one critic has commented "they sound a bit like a female Everly Brothers!
Give them a listen, I guarantee you will not be disappointed.


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text: The baritone Uwe Schenker-Primus was born in 1974 in Rosenheim. His early experiences with the Windsbacher Knabenchor prepared the ground for his stage career. He completed his studies with Monika Bürgener at the Würzburg Musikhochschule in 2006, having already sung leading baritone rôles. His various prizes and awards include a scholarship from the Wagnerverband in 2001, from the Deutschen Bühnengesellschaft in 2002, an award as finalist in the Wiesbaden Mozart Competition in 2003, in the Würzburg Armin Knab Singing Competition in 2004 and in the official international Würzburg Mozart Competition in 2006. From 2005–09 he appeared at the Mainfrankentheater, Würzburg in rôles including Shaunard, Valentin, Guglielmo, Papageno, the Father in Hänsel und Gretel, Ping, the Sacristan, and Wolfram in Tannhäuser. In 2009 he joined the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, singing Don Giovanni, Silvio, Eugene Onegin, and the Count in Wildschütz.


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Originally published in October 2013
Shawn Edwards is a "film critic" for a FOX TV affiliate in Kansas City. His segment, entitled The Screening Room, runs three days a week on FOX 4 News. Edwards is also part of a group of people derogatorily known in the business as "quote whores." For those of you who may not know, quote whores are people who provide glowing reviews of (usually bad) movies to the major motion picture studios. (They're the ones responsible for saying things like "Getaway is Taken meets Drive.") Those quotes are then used in TV and print ads to make it appear that a particular film has been well-reviewed. It is widely believed that they do this for money and/or ego. Edwards' bio on the FOX 4 website boasts that he "has been quoted on more than 300 movies" since beginning employment there thirteen years ago. This gives you an idea of the mindset. Forget writing well or having an interesting opinion; it's all about how often you get quoted.
Every Tuesday, Shawn tweets mini-reviews of the week's new DVD releases to his 2,600+ Twitter followers. Yesterday, something unusual happened. He tweeted this:
Ouch! Harsh words, huh? I agree with him. The Hangover Part III is really bad. But when I read that tweet, a memory was triggered in the back of my mind. I went to YouTube and searched for TV ads for the movie, where I found this:
Say what?! Shawn Edwards has been caught in a lie before. During the press tour for the movie Alex Cross, star Tyler Perry asked Edwards on-camera if he liked the film. Edwards said that he did. His actual review, however, was negative. That was bad, but this incident with The Hangover Part III is worse. It constitutes the most substantial evidence yet that quote whores are selling words. There's not a minor difference between what Edwards said in the ads back in May and what he tweeted this week; it's a complete 180. In fact, his tweet goes directly against everything he was quoted saying in that TV spot. He is, in short, a bald-faced liar.
This leads to a few questions. First, how does this happen? Not surprisingly, the quote whores – including Maria Salas, Mark S. Allen, and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers – are notoriously tight-lipped about their practices. What we do know is this: the whores often receive all-expenses-paid trips to press junkets, where they get to see the movie early and interview the stars. These junkets also put them in direct contact with studio PR folks. There have been reports that the publicity department will supply whores with pre-written quotes they want put into the ads; a willing whore can pick the one they want attributed to them. Bingo! You get to brag to your friends that your name is on TV! You have influence! While no one knows for certain, it stands to reason that some sort of business transaction takes place so that the whores are paid for their willingness to supply their "thoughts." I've heard through the grapevine that Travers' deal was orchestrated by Rolling Stone, which gets the free advertising that comes with having its logo plastered all over TV and print advertisements. I have no idea whether or not that's true, although it sounds logical.
Of course, the problem with all of this, as Shawn Edwards so ineloquently proved this week, is that the quote whores don't even believe the shit they're saying. Edwards clearly hated The Hangover Part III – and yet he was willing to completely sell out that opinion for an easy buck and/or an ego massage. It's shameless.
Next question: Why should we care? Legitimate film critics care because it makes us look bad. When people see a quote calling Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters "the magical thrill ride of the summer" or saying that Beautiful Creatures is "superbly acted" and "spellbinding," they're likely to think, "Ugh, critics are so stupid!" Our livelihood depends on people coming to our websites or other outlets and reading our reviews. When moviegoers think they're just going to get a shovel full of garbage, they aren't likely to bother seeking out film writing.
But forget about us. There's a reason why you should care, as well. You're actively being lied to. Sure, all products are presented in their best light for advertisements. That's not what's happening here, though. You're being marketed to via fabrications, inaccuracies, and untruths. The people telling you how wonderful the product is don't believe what they're trying to make you believe. If any other product was pitched to you in such a knowingly deceitful manner, you'd likely be joining a class-action lawsuit, or at least refusing to buy the product anymore.
Perhaps blaming the quote whores isn't enough. The studios shoulder much of the blame. Warner Brothers could have gone to Rotten Tomatoes and found positive reviews of The Hangover Part III to quote in their ads. There weren't many, but there were some, and they were written by real, established, professional critics, including the Wall Street Journal's John Anderson, Film Racket's Bill Gibron, and former Associated Press critic Christy Lemire. WB didn't need to bring Shawn Edwards into the mix.
This leads to the third question: If there are real critics out there, why use the whores? Simple: the fake quotes are part of a carefully planned marketing strategy. The studio PR departments don't want a good review, they want a specific message. In the case of The Hangover Part III, they knew they were in trouble. The original Hangover was a hit. So was the sequel, although it was almost universally seen as a vastly inferior Xerox copy. Given that the series' trio of stars, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, had received extraordinary pay raises for the third installment, WB had a vested interest in making sure this one was a hit, too. Enter Shawn Edwards, fully willing to tell the lie that The Hangover Part III brought the series to "a glorious end."
Another egregious example of this came in 2010. A full month before the highly-anticipated David Fincher film The Social Network was shown to any critics, Peter Travers was quoted in ads saying it "brilliantly defines the decade" and dubbing it "an American landmark." Believe me, all of us in the film criticism business were scratching our heads and saying, How the hell did Travers get to see it already? Who knows if he even saw it early or not? The point is, Sony had a hot title, and they wanted to position it as a movie that defined an online generation. Travers was right there, ready to be the marketing department's lapdog and give them exactly what they ordered.
Quote whoredom has gotten out of hand. People like Travers and Shawn Edwards are hurting the reputations of respectable film critics with their unprofessional antics, and they're also harming the cultural discussion of cinema. By proclaiming crap to be gold, or by happily lying so as to avoid losing their ability to suck up to movie stars, they make the audience mistrustful. The dirty, duplicitous, repellant quote whores ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Note: If you want to learn more about quote whores, or keep tabs on them, Erik Childress does an awesome Criticwatch piece over at eFilmCritic.com. His ongoing work is well worth checking out.
UPDATE 10/11: Apparently, word of this article got back to Shawn Edwards, who tweeted this in the early morning hours:
This doesn't appear to be a very truthful statement, either. A "Screening Room" video posted on the FOX 4 website finds Edwards saying, "the second time around made me hate this movie even more." His original review from May (when the ads aired) finds him calling the film "not funny" and giving it "2 popcorn bags." Not exactly a "glorious" end.
If any further response comes from Edwards, I'll update again.


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"I have dreamed in my life,
dreams that have stayed with me forever, and changed my ideas; gone through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." ~Emily Bronte on Dreams
Always have a dream. It doesn't matter the size of your dream, it's much more important that you have one; that shining spot out in front of you, that keeps you going through the drudgery. The 'what if" factor keeps the spark alive in our hearts. Go ahead, catch a dream. What do you have to lose!
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Part 1: Box making steps
My wife asked me when I was going to make her a box to keep our business cards in when we travel. I had made a few boxes but never one upon request- especially from her. So I wanted this to be special. I went about making a bandsaw box in an unconventional way and I was having a problem with the hinge design. One night I had a dream of how to do it and wrote it down right away in the morning. Here are the steps I used to make the box using mainly the bandsaw and the scroll saw for one tough p...


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Analyst: Concerns About The Old Republic's Performance are "Overblown"
Analyst: Concerns About The Old Republic's Performance are "Overblown"
According to one market analysis group, people badmouthing the The Old Republic's sales performance are pulling numbers out of thin air.
Star Wars: The Old Republic was relased last month and managed to rack up one million subscribers in three days, the fastest any MMO has achieved that milestone. Its Metacritic score stands at a respectable 85 out of 100, and our own Steve Butts gave it hefty four-and-a-half stars
Yet despite all that, EA's stock has dropped by nearly 30 percent since the same time last year, partly due to what one analyst described as "creeping concerns" over The Old Republic's sales performance.
According to a report from market analysis group Macquarie Securities, "creeping," in this case, means "exaggerated." Ben Schachter, an analyst working for Macquarie, points out that his peers are basing their predictions on conjecture rather than actual data. He goes on to add that the fact EA hasn't released any sales numbers for The Old Republic doesn't necessarily mean sales of the game have been poor.
He accounts for the game's slow performance at retail, as tracked by the NDP, by claiming that the majority of initial sales may have been made through EA's digital distribution service, Origin.
Webush, another market analysis firm, agrees. The group reckons that more than 800,000 copies of The Old Republic were sold via Origin, and that EA is on track to have sold 2 million copies by the end of the year.
Of course initial sales aren't the most accurate measure of an MMO's success. The game's subscriber retention will be put to the test over the coming months. The Old Republic will have to hold on to a large percentage of its estimated 1.5 million subscriber base if it's to prove profitable, given its immense budget.
Source: Gamasutra
Even with over a million copies in the wild if the current numbers on the actual active population ~300k are accurate, that means an attrition rate of at least 65%-70% in the first month... now MMOs spike pretty sharply in their first month or two, but that sounds like a pretty extreme drop off.
Nice to see the very first post on this story showing exactly what Greg was writing about with numbers being pulled out of people asses with no sources to back them up...
A quick google search on star wars subscribers pulled up a front page full of articles and links claiming ToR has over a million subsrcribers, and there is an article on Gamespot from earlier last year citing Riticello(sp?) at EA saying the game will be profitable @ 500K subs. Which is good to hear, I haven't had this much fun with an MMO since WoW's launch and if they can keep up the pace of content release like they have been I will gladly fork out 15 a month for it.
4.5? Dragon age 2 scored higher on this very website
And given all the current controversy with unsubscribes, maybe the focus was on the wrong area for the study.
That's okay. You can't be bothered to quote me, I can't be bothered to go digging through my browser history. It's out there. In fact it's been posted on these forums before, with a citation to the original source, maybe you can find it, maybe you can't. I really can't see where you need that kind of evidence.
I hope Bioware can get their stuff together, as I actually like them.... But we'll see what happens.
So now can we all just realize that market analysts are pretty much talking out of their asses, as is anyone trying to predict SWTOR's future(both the optimists and the pessimists).
It's called ToRstatus.net http://www.torstatus.net/
this part specifically http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us/total
So who's pulling numbers out of their ass again? because from what I'm looking at the game barely has 300,000 active players at the moment. Now does this tell us "X people are subscribing" no but what it DOES tell us is server and population trends. In fact you can check out which servers have a decrease and increase in activity
That's certainly interesting information, but we really have no way of knowing exactly how many subscribers there are based on it.
I know I just said that, see?
It does tell us how many people are playing however, the drop offs and gives us a chart over time.
From there we can defer Subscriptions, or someone with a much higher grasp of theoretical math can
It also shows how many people are joining/leaving servers, which is another important thing when your servers show a downward spiral (you can find this under the Server Stats tab) and the Population trends show how well the game overall is doing via Heavy, Full and Light servers.
So I don't think the concern about it's performance is overblown, especially when we have Tera, Guild Wars 2, and other MMO's all hitting the market this year, and lets not kid ourselves, they all do WAY MORE to change up the game than TOR did, in the case of GW2, it's F2P as well, Hell TERA includes a system where you can transfer weapon and armor stats across items, so you can run around in the armor you like the look of, with end game stats. Which keeps people from looking alike (honestly this system should have been in MMO's a long time ago)
This looking like another Warhammer to me is all I'm saying.
It does kind of mesh with the 800k subscribers number they put out after the PvP blowout.
The 800k subscribers number, and the million subscribers number before it are kinda fake numbers. As someone else on the cancel button news post pointed out, that actually includes people who are still in their first month, and haven't actually started paying yet, but entered a credit card number to validate their accounts.
Forewarning: The without access to better statistics, the margin of error on all this analysis is ~20%.
The interesting thing there is where the numbers bottom out, in the middle of the night (~120k). There's two ways to look at that number, either add it to the peak time (for ~420k), on the rationale that players will be playing at one or the other time but rarely both. (This isn't statistically sound, but it should roughly eat up the loss of players that log in less frequently than daily, but are still regular players.)
The alternative is to look at that as the game's stable population that's actually going to remain with the game, and are indicative of the real loyalists. This leaves the game with a long term stable population of 100-120k. This is kind of a worst possible scenario, but it actually still paints the picture of, what in MMO terms, is a very healthy game.
Again, without better data, I can't say any of this with real confidence, but if there is a problem for TOR it isn't in the number of players subscribers, it's that Bioware may have set the minimum bar for success someplace in the upper stratosphere.
On the whole, yeah. This is sort of like a population growth figure for a nation. The only ones in the green are three US servers, everywhere else is dropping faster. To be fair, MMOs do this. They'll get an artificial spike at launch, and then the game will break down into it's real subscriber base after two to three months. We're still in the artificial launch statistics right now. If they were experiencing continued growth at this point, that would actually be pretty damn surprising.
I'm not sure if Warhammer's the best analogy. I think TOR could easily find 100-200k players, which, again, is very healthy for an MMO. I'm also pretty sure that those numbers are far below what Bioware and EA wanted.
Most definitely, I don't think TOR will 'Die'. I think it will fail to meet it's intended target, which has always been to make GANGBUSTERS of money, thing is it really depends on what the budget was. The rumored and often cited 300 Million? In another thread I showed that this is a very daunting figure, with the Analyst predicted 500 Million? it would take a little over a decade to make back it's money.
The most daunting thing, something Bobby "Satan Himself" Kotick brought up, was that Lucas takes, at minimum, a 30% cut. Of everything. More often than not he would take a bigger slice of the pie, but for all Theoretical Math I assume to average number, so 30%.
In the 'Cancel Subscription Button Missing' thread I posted why this was daunting.
Now obviously that doesn't account for the now alledged 2 million copies sold, and it also doesn't account for all those people seeking refunds. It also assume the earned money is 'Pure Profit' which it wouldn't be because most copies sold will be retail chained and...
Have I mentioned I hate math?
Interestingly, that "2m copies sold" isn't an actual number, if you look at the link carefully, you'll see it's a sales projection, which was raised from 1.5 to 2.something million for this quarter. If that was actual sales it would be a sign that the game was going down in flames, in that it would have managed to achieve a 60% attrition rate before the trial month was up.
But, yeah, even at 200m, this game was basically forced to be the next wow or die trying. I'm not sure what the nominal budget for an MMO is these days, but the market as is can't sustain that budget.
Also, the captcha is asking for an umlaut, anyone got one?
That's only because DA2 was a better game. :p
But in all seriousness, the Escapist reviewed a single player RPG, and basically ignored the MMO elements for the entirety of the review.
The fun thing with re captcha is it gives 1 word for you to type out, and then 1 dummy word. You can always tell the Dummy Word because it has something like a comma or an umlaut.
All you have to do is type a letter like "a" and then write out the correct word and it will pass through
Funny thing about that is, in this case both were legitimate German words with non-English characters. *Shrugs* Did not know that about recaptcha though.
EDIT: At least I think they were, I was pretty tired when I wrote that.
How ignorant are you people? 300k active players every day means at a minimum 7-900k active subscribers since, surprise surprise, not everybody plays every day. Hell, it fucking says that API has nothing to do with number of players on the page in red lettering.
We're ignorant enough to read the rest of the thread, and comment on their published figure of 800k subscribers. We're ignorant enough to do basic statistical analysis of the data. We're ignorant enough to understand exactly what the API does and does not tell us. We're ignorant enough to read, learn, and understand stuff.
I get if you're not thrilled with the current online reputation for TOR, but the fact is, this was a fairly coherent discussion, until sleep deprivation and recaptcha dragged it off topic. If you have something to contribute, then, please, do.
You can't see where he'd need that kind of evidence? You can't construct a valid argument by saying "TOR is failing." and then just leave it at that. A valid argument would go something like "TOR is failing. Here is why. Here is source #1, 2, 3, etc... showing sales and subscription cancellation numbers."
All he did was call you out on your own shit. To which you responded "I know I didn't post any sources for my statements but they're out there and if you need to see them google them yourself or something but I don't see any reason you'd want to do that you can trust me fellah."
You said it yourself. You don't have hard access to accurate numbers. All you and SpaceX are doing is speculating based on a website that doesn't even appear to be an official Bioware or EA site. One that shows ACTIVE PLAYERS
Because given a game that has been sold on both sides of the planet not all subscribers are going to be online at the same time.
One final thought. It's clear from both your posts and especially SpaceX's posts that you're not fans of the game or Bioware. Why do you continue to spend energy posting over and over again the same basic argument "This game sucks and is going to fail" Move along. God damn.
Something folks should remember about Market "analysts":
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You can already do this in SWTOR.
that is all.
As does Aion, Rift, Guild Wars, and even WoW lets you do it now too.
Something folks should keep in mind when reading about information on internet forums http://torwars.com/2012/01/20/troll-the-swtor-devs-bad-idea/