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That HJ was due to having the caps lock turned on and not noticing until after hitting send.
: : Even if you have poor/no venting, that is not the problem. You have an obstructed sewer line and it needs to be snaked to allow it to flow freely.
: : : My home is a one story home built on a concrete slab (probably a garage at one time) and has poor to no venting. The only vent pipe is a 1" 1/2 pipe chest height coming out of the ground right up tight to house out back. You can pull it out of the ground and see that it fills up with water when you drain something. The toilet drains poor and sink,, tub when you do a load of laundry in the drain cycle it backs up and come up at the toilet flooding the bathroom. without jack hammering the house how can i vent toilet, tub etc i know i can get one or two of those baffled vents for under the sink but what about the toilet tub and washer drain.
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A growing number of the 12 million Americans with food allergies are ignoring widespread food-label warnings about the possible unintentional presence of allergens, putting them at increased risk for a potentially serious reaction, a new study suggests.
The label warnings, known as "advisory labeling," are intended to inform consumers that the products could unintentionally include an allergen (e.g., peanuts), and include such statements as "may contain [allergen]," "manufactured on shared equipment with [allergen]," and "manufactured in the same facility with [allergen]."
Advisory labeling, which has become increasingly common, is voluntary rather than mandatory, and is not regulated. People with food allergies depend upon food labels to determine food safety, as even a small amount of an allergen could cause a serious allergic reaction.
The new study, reported in the July issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, attempted to determine whether food-allergic consumers heed advisory labels, and whether products with such labeling contain detectable amounts of allergen. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Two separate groups of attendees at FAAN seminars for parents of children with food allergies were surveyed: one group in 2003 (625 parents), and the other in 2006 (645 parents). Parents were asked whether they heeded advisory labeling on products containing food allergens.
The results of the survey showed a disturbing trend: 85 percent of the parents surveyed in 2003 heeded the advisory warnings, while in 2006 the rate dropped to 75 percent. In addition, parents ignored the advisories to differing degrees, depending on the wording.
For example, 88 percent heeded items labeled "May contain [allergen]," compared with only 65 percent who would not use products labeled "Made in a facility that uses [allergen]." Yet when food products bearing advisory statements for the presence of peanut, a common allergen, were analyzed, it was found that the wording used to warn consumers did not correlate with frequency or amount of peanut detected. In fact, peanut was found in more products and at higher levels in items with "shared facilities" in the advisory label than with other wording.
Overall, seven percent (13 of 179 products tested) had detectable levels of peanut - in amounts that, in some cases, could cause allergic reactions.
"We believe that allergic consumers are increasingly ignoring the advisory labeling because the warnings are now used so frequently that consumers assume they are not serious," said study co-author Scott Sicherer, M.D., of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. "Our study shows that there truly is a risk, that the particular words used in warnings do not reflect the degree of danger, and not heeding those warnings is tantamount to playing a hazardous game of allergy roulette with food."
"Advisory labels are well-meaning, but their increasing use and the wide range of terminology are confusing and often misleading for consumers," said FAAN CEO and founder Anne Mu�oz-Furlong. "Industry, government regulators, and food-allergic consumers must partner to determine the best course of action to ensure that food is free from unintended allergens and to improve advisory label use."
Founded in 1991, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is the world leader in information about food allergy, a potentially fatal condition that afflicts approximately 12 million Americans, or one out of every 25, and is rapidly increasing in prevalence.
A nonprofit organization based in Fairfax, Va., FAAN has 30,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and 62 other countries. It is dedicated to increasing public awareness of food allergy and its consequences, to educating people about the condition, to advocating on behalf of all those affected by it, and to advancing research into its causes, prevalence, cure, and prevention.
FAAN provides information and educational resources about food allergy to patients, their families, schools, health professionals, pharmaceutical companies, the food industry, and government officials.
The FAAN Medical Advisory Board, which reviews all of the organization's educational materials, is comprised of 14 of the leaders in food allergy science and medicine in the U.S. and Canada.
In addition to its printed materials, FAAN also sponsors such awareness programs as Food Allergy Awareness Week, the Mariel C. Furlong Awards for Making a Difference, food allergy conferences, and fundraising walks.
For more information, visit FAAN on the Web at www.foodallergy.org.

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Marie W. Cowley was born in Huntington on April 17, 1922 to Clinton and Jennie Wakefield. Her family will celebrate her 85th birthday on April 21 with an open house at the Huntington First/Fifth LDS ward building from 2:30-3:30 p.m.
DeVon Oldroyd celebrated his 85th birthday on April 16.
He married Rita Robertson on Oct. 1, 1939. It will be 68 years of marriage this year. Together they have four children; Beverly (Gary) Hall, Buddy, Barbara (Jim) Dresslar and Scotty (Kelly). They have eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. DeVon will celebrate with family and friends.
James Mussatt will celebrate his 94th birthday on April 24.
He was widowed after 50 years of marriage to his wife June. He has two boys and two girls.
He has been a longtime resident of Sunnyside since 1945. His home sits in the canyon where the bighorn sheep come in to feed, which he enjoys watching.


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AS A SENIOR IN 2012WWPA All-Academic Team ... Posted a season-high three goals, one assist and one steal against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (10/26).
AS A JUNIOR IN 2011Led the team with a .778 (7-of-9) shooting percentage... Accounted for seven goals, seven assists and six steals ... Scored twice in 15-6 win over Cal Lutheran (9/4) ... Scored a goal in three consecutive wins (between 9/10-9/16). AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2010Tallied a pair of assists and seven steals in reserve action for the Tritons ... Named to WWPA All-Academic Team. AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN IN 2009Scored 11 goals with 16 assists in 2009 ... Scored two goals in a 17-6 win over Cal Lutheran at the Triton Invitational ... Also tossed in two scores in a 14-13 win over conference opponent Santa Clara (11/7).
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2008Redshirt. HIGH SCHOOLAttended San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara ... Earned First-Team All -Channel League in 2007 ... 2008 Athlete of the Year and Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award ... Scored 97 goals in 2007, 84 goals in 2006 and 56 goals in 2005 ... Notched a 13th-place finish in CIF SS Division I (50 free - 21.83) ... Also played for the Santa Barbara Water Polo Foundation from 2003-07. PERSONALBorn Dec. 23, 1989 ... Parents are Keith and Linda Curtiss ... Has a sister named Rayshell ... A mechanical engineering major at Roosevelt College.


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NEW: OpenSolaris VPC Gateway Tool v0.1
By gbrunett-Oracle on Dec 02, 2009
[...] is a secure and seamless bridge between a company's existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future.
Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, I thought so. Back then, this announcement peaked by interest and I wanted to dive in and give it a try. Unfortunately, the VPC documentation leans more heavily toward configurations where a Cisco or Juniper device acts as my Customer Gateway to the VPC. That is certainly a problem as I do not have access to either of those kinds of devices. That got me to thinking...
Wouldn't be cool if we could just use OpenSolaris as a VPC Customer Gateway?
Even more interesting would be if I could create and access a VPC from OpenSolaris running inside of VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro! That way, I could have an on-demand virtual data center in the Cloud that I could access from anywhere!
It was from this concept, that I reached out to Dan McDonald and Dileep Kumar. Forming this virtual team, we applied our respective skills to this challenge. As things started to heat up, we pulled in Sebastien Roy and Sowmini Varadhan who provided invaluable support and architectural guidance without which we would still be in troubleshooting hell. (Thank you guys!)
So, where do things stand? (Drum roll, please!)
As it turns out... Yes, we were able to configure OpenSolaris (without any new development required!) to act as a Customer Gateway as part of an AWS VPC configuration. Our initial configuration used a dedicated system with an Internet routable, static IP address per the AWS VPC guidelines. So, question #1 is answered - yes, you can use OpenSolaris as a VPC Customer Gateway! W00t!
With this completed, I was still left wondering about by second question - getting this all to work from OpenSolaris running in VirtualBox on my laptop (or other non-dedicated system). As it turns out, it can be made to work as well - which is pretty cool, but since it is not supported by AWS at this time, it is not a configuration that I would recommend or support. That said, it is pretty cool to see this working (if even only in a "playground" sense).
Would you like to give this a try? Do you have VPC access but do not have a Cisco or Juniper device at your disposal? Well, fear not! Use OpenSolaris FTW!
Today, we are happy to announce the availability of the OpenSolaris VPC Gateway tool (version 0.1). As we stepped through getting everything to work, it was clear that nearly every aspect of the VPC configuration and creation process could be automated - so we automated it! The OpenSolaris VPC Gateway tool requires just a small bit of configuration after which you can quickly and easily establish a basic VPC configuration (with one subnet and one instance). You can customize the tool to make things more complex, but this is left as an exercise to the reader.
The OpenSolaris VPC Gateway tool is publicly available from the Kenai repository complete with installation, configuration and usage documentation.
Note that this is still preview-quality software with all of the necessary caveats that go along with it, but I would encourage those interested in OpenSolaris, VPCs, and especially in both to give it a try and send us your feedback! Thanks in advance and take care!
P.S. Looking for a good default instance to create? Try an OpenSolaris 2009.06 Immutable Service Container!
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Can anything really change in 24 hours? Can everything? Maggie Doyle has one night to raise fifteen thousand dollars, or it's bye-bye home and business, the only good things she has left. Her only option? Find the stepbrother she hasn't spoken to in years - the one who ruined her life to begin with - and hope against hope he'll cough up the cash.
Jack Major's got his life all mapped out. He's rich, powerful, and about to marry Boston's most successful attorney. So why can't he forget Maggie - the girl who walked out of his life ten years ago, and refused to tell him what he'd done wrong?
When Maggie's search for her stepbrother leads her to the Deveaux Ball, a high-profile charity event in Boston, she runs into Jack and the sparks fly. But is it too late for a first love to re-ignite? And if she reveals her secret, will Jack leave her for good? One night in Boston is all they have to find true love, or lose everything.
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Zigi Soho Gleam Sandal
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Create ultimate elegance in the Gleam from Zigi Soho. This satin sandal is dazzled with crystals, pearls, and bows for a girly and sophisticated look.
- Satin upper
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May 22, 2012
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"Thought these would be perfect for my wedding, but they are awkward. I love super high heals, but the angle on these are strange. Wish they could have worked out, it's exactly what I wanted. I wear and ordered a 7.5, and they were a bit short. Hopefully others will have better luck."
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(BPT) - It's National Health Center Week - a time to reflect on the commitment of health centers across the country to provide access to affordable, high quality, cost-effective services, including those that help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. The services they offer are critically important for more than half of all Americans who suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Every year chronic diseases continue to be the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. A survey recently released could explain why.
The "CVS Caremark Chronic Disease Awareness Survey" reveals the public's misconception and understanding of chronic diseases, with the majority of respondents admitting that they are not doing as much as they could to stay healthy.
For instance, nearly 40 percent of people think that what they eat has little to do with whether they get a chronic disease. And nearly 65 percent of people are aware they should exercise regularly, but do not. The increased consumption of unhealthy foods, compounded by the effects of physical inactivity, increases the risk of many severe and chronic health conditions, including coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and liver and gallbladder disease.
So what can be done to prevent chronic diseases?
The first steps toward preventing and treating chronic diseases are education and management. The national network of Community Health Centers plays a critical role in improving the quality of life for people with chronic diseases. As local, community-based health care systems in rural and urban neighborhoods, health centers are able to provide direct health services that are both affordable and accessible. Today, more than 9,000 health center sites throughout the country are providing care for more than 22 million Americans by increasing access to affordable health care services. The goal of these Community Health Centers is to treat people with quality primary care services before they are sick with a costly illness.
While changes in our health care system will qualify millions of more people for health coverage, it's still a challenge for many to find quality care that could help manage – even prevent – many chronic diseases.
To increase access to health care and help prevent chronic diseases, the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, a private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corporation recently partnered with the National Association of Community Health Centers to develop the "Innovations in Community Health" grant program, a $3 million, three-year initiative aimed at helping community health centers increase access to quality health care and directly support underserved patients who are managing chronic diseases.
"Through our partnership with NACHC, we are providing much-needed funding to support affordable community-based health care models that are producing innovative programming in the area of chronic disease management," says Eileen Howard Boone, President, CVS Caremark Charitable Trust. "The programs will use a variety of methods to help people manage their chronic disease and improve health outcomes – including the use of tele-medicine, nurse practitioners to monitor at-risk patients and wellness circles that bring people together who are living with and working to manage the same chronic disease."
Through affordable health care services, health centers provide solutions, and without them, chronic diseases will continue to affect the lives of millions of people nationwide and cost our health care system trillions of dollars every year. Fortunately, health centers generate $24 billion in savings to the U.S. health care system each year by treating chronic disease and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER use. With help from partners like the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, health centers will continue to expand their reach to more communities and create better health outcomes.


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Helen Randall
Funeral mass for Cortez resident Helen Randall will be held at St. Rita Catholic Church in Mancos on Thursday, March 20 at 10 a.m. Reverend Pat Valdez, C.R. will officiate. Interment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Helen went to be with our Lord. She passed away at Vista Grande Nursing Home at the age of 83. She was born July 5, 1930 in Mancos where she continued to live through her younger years. She later moved to Ogden, Utah where she spent the majority of her adult life.
Helen was preceded in death by her husband, Pat Randall; her parents; and five siblings. She is survived by her six children, Irene and Steve Grindle of Farmington, N.M., Dorothy and Jerry Montoya of Cortez, Sandra and Ed Muniz of Cortez, Robert and Cheryl Randall of Ogden, Utah, Gary Randall of Albuquerque, N.M., and Loretta Lobato of Cortez who has spent the past several years living with and caring for her. She is also survived by her dear friend, Alfred Vallejos; 20 grandchildren, 55 great grandchildren and 12 great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and many friends.
Our beloved mother, grandmother, aunt and friend was deeply loved and will be greatly missed.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one's choice. Services are under the direction of Ertel Funeral Home. For further information or to send condolences, log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com and click on the obituary section.


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U.S. Solheim Cup captain Meg Mallon has a motivated team ready to defend its home turf at the prestigious biennial international match-play tournament that will be held Aug. 13-18 at Parker's Colorado Golf Club.
Twelve U.S.-born players will challenge 12 European players in three days of match-play competition to see which team will win the Waterford Crystal Cup with a mahogany base that is named for Karsten Solheim, the founder of the manufacturing corporation that makes PING golf equipment.
The U.S. has won eight of the 12 previous Solheim Cups and the Yanks are 6-0 in home matches. However, Europeans stunned the Americans in the weather-delayed singles matches to defeat the U.S., 15-13, and capture the Cup two years ago in Meath, Ireland.
"You know, every Solheim Cup is so close and it's an exciting event, and Ireland was just an unbelievable event and I had some players on the team that are highly motivated," said Mallon. "They didn't like that taste in their mouth and they are ready to get the Cup back."
British Open champion Stacy Lewis heads the U.S. team. Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Angela Stanford, Brittany Lincicome, Lexi Thompson, Jessica Korda, Brittany Lang, Lizette Salas and Morgan Pressel also qualified for team spots via points or rankings. Gerina Piller and Michelle Wie were captain's picks.
Eight of the U.S. players have played in a combined 25 Solheim events and have won 52 points. Creamer is 11-3-5 in four tournaments to garner 13½ points and Kerr is 11-12-3 in six Cups for 13½ points. Pressel has also been one of America's best with a 7-2-2 record in three years.
"We're playing on all cylinders right now and I'm really excited about it," said Mallon.
Lewis and Creamer didn't retreat from the Europeans' celebrations after their victory in Ireland.
"I wanted to remember what it felt like," Lewis told GolfChannel.com. "With everything that happened that week, we probably still should have won. We're all ready to go and we want that Cup back."
Creamer says being on the losing team didn't feel good.
"It was a terrible feeling," she said. "I'd never been on a team that lost. That's never going to happen again."
European captain Liselotte Neumann will have players from eight countries on her team that will try to retain the Cup. Eight players were automatically selected via points or rankings.
Those players were Suzann Pettersen (Norway), Carlota Ciganda (Spain), Catriona Matthew (Scotland), Caroline Masson (Germany), Beatriz Recari (Spain), Anna Nordqvist (Sweden), Karine Icher (France) and Azahara Munoz (Spain).
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (England), Caroline Hedwall (Sweden), Giulia Sergas (Italy) and Charley Hull (England) were captain's picks. Hull is 17 years old and the youngest player in Solheim Cup history.
Five golfers on the European team have played in a combined 17 Cups and won a total of 39½ points. Matthew is 11-8-8 and Pettersen 12-8-5 and both have played in six Cups.
More than 120,000 fans are expected to watch and see if the Americans can remain unbeaten at home and regain possession of the Cup.
"We've never won over there (United States), so obviously it's a big challenge," said Neumann. "I feel like this is really the team that's going to do it for us.
"We've got some young girls, we've got some rookies, so we've got some big strong players and some players that can really hit it, which I think favors us. In Colorado, the golf course is quite generous off the tees, and we were looking for good, long hitters and some girls with great energy and I think this is the team that is going to do it."
Bicycles welcomed
With Colorado being a well-known haven for outdoor enthusiasts and exercise aficionados, the Solheim Cup is allowing and encouraging golf fans to ride their bicycles to Colorado Golf Club.
Cyclists and anyone attending will be able to ride their bicycles to the course and bike racks will be provided.
Anyone wishing to bike to the event will need to have their tickets in hand and will not be able to purchase tickets upon arrival.
Cyclists will only be allowed to enter Colorado Golf Club via the east gate off Hilltop/Village/Betts Ranch Road. Directional signs will guide them to the correct entrance.
Hickenlooper to speak
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will deliver remarks at the main stage near the clubhouse during opening ceremonies Aug. 15.
"We welcome the Solheim Cup to Colorado and are proud to showcase our state's world-class outdoor recreation opportunities," Hickenlooper said. "Colorado is the perfect location to host an international golf event, from our excellent fairways to the breathtaking backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, this will be a great experience for players and viewers. We wish both teams the best of luck and hope they enjoy their Colorado experience."
The ceremonies will be broadcast live on the Golf Channel at 5 p.m. and will feature the appearances of both teams, as well as comments from Mallon and Neumann. Fans are encouraged to attend the ceremony, which will officially kick off the three-day competition.
Ceremonial raisings of the team flags will also be held and both captains will announce their pairings for the first Foursomes matches that will take place Aug. 16.
• Aug. 13
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. — U.S. and European team practice
5 to 8:30 p.m. — Solheim After Sundown in Ping Pavilion
• Aug. 14
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. — U.S. and European team practice
6 to 9 p.m. — Gala dinner at Wildlife Experience
• Aug. 15
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. — U.S. and European team practice
2 to 5 p.m. — Front Row experience at driving range
2:30 to 4 p.m. — Three-hole PING Pro-Junior Challenge, holes 16-18
3:45 to 4:15 p.m. — Past captain autograph session
5 to 6 p.m. — Opening ceremonies on main stage
• Aug. 16
7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Four Foursomes matches
1 to 5:30 p.m. — Four Four-ball matches
• Aug. 17
7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Four Foursomes matches
1 to 5:30 p.m. — Four Four-ball matches
• Aug. 18
12:30 to 6:30 p.m. — Twelve singles matches
7 to 7:45 p.m. — Closing ceremonies


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IVGID trustees ax peer panel from GM interview process
November 15, 2013
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The process to hire the Incline Village General Improvement District's new leader became more streamlined this week.
District trustees voted 3-1 Wednesday to have the six general manager candidates be interviewed by only two panels next month — the board itself, and a nine-member group of IVGID senior staff.
The finalists — Keven Burnett, Tom Masterson, Rosemary Menard, Steven J. Pinkerton, Eric Severance and Kirk J. Wooldridge — will no longer be polled by a third "peer panel" of regional business managers and government officials.
Trustee Jim Hammerel proposed that panel be axed, and that trustees get feedback on their own from residents and officials to aid in their public interviews, to which trustees Jim Smith and Joe Wolfe agreed.
Trustee Bill Devine was absent Wednesday. Board chairman Bruce Simonian voted against.
"It would be a great opportunity for these … professional leaders … to vet the candidates," Simonian said after the meeting when asked why he voted "nay." "Sure, it's just advisory, but their opinions would be an integral part of the process."
The following regional leaders were asked to participate in the peer panel:
• Mike Brown, chief of the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District
• Lynn Gillette, president of Sierra Nevada College
• Claudia Andersen, CEO of the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation
• Richard Solbrig, general manager of the South Tahoe Public Utility District
• Fred Findlen, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe
• Stephen Mokrohisky, Douglas County Manager
As of Wednesday, Mokrohisky and Gillette had accepted, IVGID Interim General Manager Joe Pomroy said, while Brown and Andersen declined. The other two were undecided.
Some residents Wednesday also suggested the board do away with the senior staff panel.
"(Senior staff) work for the general manager … they should have no part in saying who that person is," said former IVGID Trustee Gene Brockman. "That's your job as trustees, and your job only."
Simonian said senior staff's knowledge is valuable because they spend 40 hours or more a week with the GM, where as trustees only spend 20.
"These aren't lower-level employees … they're senior staff, and if they are aware of things going on that are incongruent … I would like to know about it," he said after the meeting.
Moving forward, the finalists still will take part in an all-day public Q-and-A session on Monday, Dec. 2, Pomroy said.
While an agenda is being developed, it's expected to include statements and questions before both panels and an evening social reception allowing residents to speak one-on-one with the candidates.
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In last week's Devil's Advocate, we took a look at the MMO community's proclivity to "tear down" games that aren't the current favorites. In this week's follow-up, we take a look at the community's reaction to Victor's column. See what YOU had to say and our thoughts about it. As ever, weigh in with your thoughts in the comments.
Last week's Devil's Advocate got a lot of responses, and I wanted to take some time out to put five of these front and center for everyone to read and digest. These comments provided a great context for additional reflection, and I'm really happy to see these responses on The Devil's Advocate.Here are a couple of responses that provided me with some great food for thought or otherwise made me smile. After each, I've chimed in with thoughts of my own.
Read more of Victor Barreiro Jr.'s The Devil's Advocate: The 'Teardown Mentality' Mailbox.
I don't think we need to all start drinking the kool-aid but I wonder how the negativity surrounding MMO's is good for the industry. Consider, is a casual gamer more or less likely to start playing MMO's after reading the comments section. I have to say I quote TSW everytime this comes up.
"If you want to learn about humanity read the comment section on youtube".... "I hate the internet"
All this talk about locust eating up content and leaving... mmo was never about amazing story content. First story driven mmo was SW:TOR and it was released in December 2011 only a year ago. Yet there were hundreds of games released earlier with that concept in mind but they never asked you to pay continously for privilege of playing through story content. You buy your RPG game play throu it once or more the content never lasts for more than 100 hours but it's ok you paid for it. Publisher and developer get their money and everyone is happy (of course when game is crap you are not).
If you are gonna make game and scream loudly that it's RPG experience people who are not interested in long term mmo will also show up to play through the game as much as they want like they did with for ex. Skyrim and leave. Bethesda doesn't stand above their fans asking for money each month expecting them to pay because they made fully voiced RPG nor they have big ass servers to pay for.
I honestly don't think you can freely mix genres and expect every RPG or Star Wars fan to absolutely love MMO and play they game for year or two straight, can you ?
On the other hand the MMO crowd are usually people playing some other MMO game at the same time they probably already put few months or years into that game. They are going to compare and they have to go absolutely crazy about this new title to drop all of that time and/or money investment and fully switch to another game.
You can't be playing 2 MMO game's at the same time unless it's all you are planning to do and if you also have to pay 15$ for each a month it's only a matter of time when you switch to playing only one especially when some new good game comes up and you want it and have to dish out chunk of money for it.
You can't beat WoW with cheaper clone of itself. 12 years ago it was diablo 2 and many clones followed for none to repeat that success it had to be next generation since thing like torchlight apeared and got some recognition.
I don't think the game with copycat game play and skill mechanics would beat the wow unless without being ground breaking better. If it plays like WoW and is much better than why am I not playing WoW the blizzard subscriber would ask and probably goes back to game with which he has spent much more time.
Last thing would be the mysterious mechanics that hook you up to playing mmo for months and no one in my opinion done this better than WoW. Story content lasts only as much as it's needed to play through it but decent MMO mechanics with periodic updates keep people involved in pvp / pve constantly.
start of TL:DR; lots of words about wow don't ask me why kinda on topic.
You may say that WoW is not a grind mmo and you think that because of AAA masking of the grind mechanics that we always want. People like to work for the success getting top ranking gear in arenas can take months. It took me 2 weeks of 5 hour daily sessions on battle grounds to get first full pvp armor set. Same goes for pve you can rarely skip a tier on pve gear because you are gonna either die or no one will invite you to the group doing X dungeon when you don't meet gear requirements. In WoW at the time of getting max level you won't probably fit into requirements for 95% of PvE content and you have to go through it step by step. When you feel like you are done there's at least one or two classes you wanna try out.
My theory about WoW popularity are the big changes with content updates. Blizzard not only rises level cap and throws some new gear to chase after but they change good quarter of the previous class mechanics. Blizzard got somewhat lucky that they seemed to hit sweet spot of rpg world which contains almost all fantasy settings that you can imagine. We have death knights using blood rituals along with kung fu fighting pandas, steam punk dwarves and pirate goblins. IMHO it sounds ridiculous on the paper but it's blended and mixed so finely togheder that you can hardly spot anything wrong in this world of warcraft.
Right now I'm not playing WoW but it's hard to deny that It has huge quantities of qualities that are now impossible to match by any new title. Millions of players paying over the years made this game just a monster impossible to compete with without dishing out something close to billion dollars (isn't that the number that wow cash in every year)? And then you have to pray people will like it more...
Therefore I don't think it's possible to make such a game to be match for monster. It started small but it was AAA in every aspect and that's probably the way to go for the future. Game developers would have to remember that world is not going to breed X million of MMO players out of the thin air just because they made a game. Asking for 10 milion wow playerbase is a joke they have game you can't touch and extreme crowd on the scene doesn't help either.
P.S. I think I need my own column ;-)
yes @cypec86, you need your own column.
And no, next week will not have a mailbox, as I won't be able to write anything if you ate up all the space!
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Seriously? Not even ONE comment quoted that says developers just fail to deliver in general?
Many people are just fed up with overadvertised overhyped games that don't have enough value to support the sub model.
Of course, there will always be whiners and trolls. Always someone dissatisfied. But do you think if the games were better you'd have to write an article about the "teardown mentality"?
People are fed up with their governments - they rebel. It's basically the same mechanism.
In many cases if the game plainly sucked people would just go and stay away from it. But lately there have been a LOT of games which can be considered wasted potential. They have great X, but suck at Z... and Y is just meh.
And many developers dont socialize, don't listen, don't care as long as they get paycheck for their half-assed work.
So yeah, maybe lately people are overly angry. But don't they have reasons to be? Don't they? Really?
Is this "shoot the messenger"?
None of this matters anyways. Most gamers don't come here and read all the "negativity", and they still are walking away from the Themepark repetition and stagnation. Try to save it all you want, it just doesn't matter.
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Originally posted by maplestone
How many of us checked to see if our comment made the cut? The desire for attention, to rise above the din of other voices, can be a constant pressure that increases our volume. Whether it's deliberate baiting, a territorial need to react to our hot-button issues or an innocent escalation of our opinions, we are all on some level competing for the eyeballs of our peers.
I didn't even reply to the first one. I just thought "yeah, screw that."
But now he's back at it pushing an obvious agenda, so I made a comment here. So, no, I'm not competing for eyeballs. Especially not from someone who's not my peer so much as someone who's pushing an agenda that's contrary to my wants....and yes... my needs!
Once upon a time....
I don't think it is far off to say that a very good result in a creative effort is an accident. Takes good people, good ideas, and a large dose of luck. In any field. So there are very rare exceptions --- personally I think every movie David Lean made had something special. But that's the exception. More typical is Lucas...after three pretty fun Star Wars movies, with more technical ability and the same creative team he produced three so-so efforts.
Much of what we have in these columns is a desperate attempt to break down an MMO to find out why it wasn't the next great program. I understand the feeling, but a good, big program is not a simple sum of its parts --- it is a magical combination of things that work. Of course with really bad examples it is possible to point at things. But remember, when EQ came out it was buggy, had a steep learning curve, and could be so brutal it would make people cry. Yet it took off, and it is still here. So the point is even when it seems we understand why a new game isn't so good....it isn't that easy.
Creative stuff is magical, I repeat...because it is true. When you are hoping for the next great MMO, patience is a great virtue. I do not accuse people for promoting and being enthusiastic about MMO x. I think you have to have that to have a chance...but the truth is before the community gets out and plays it, you just never know, and the odds are not very good.
I am trying to stay hopeful, but I am getting old.
Rose-lipped maidens,
Light-foot lads...
Nearly every MMO is story based -- just most of them require you to fill in your own imagination and actually read the quest copy for interlocking clues. Some people don't do that; others just absorb it and move on without thinking too hard that this is narrative that's shaping their experience.
It never ceases to amaze me that if you take two people and sit them down and ask them, "What was the meaning of this quest line?" they will tell you completely different notions of what the ethics and set and setting of the whole thing was. One person will tell you that the quest line was about getting a lot of loot together through manipulating a set of nobles. Another will tell you that it was about being sent to this principality by your leige as an ambassador as a proxy to show that you could serve that district to pacify their enemies and bring them under the influence of your leige for a coming war. Both of these people read the same story content and brought their own characterization to it -- probably without the Bioware style 3-choice radials. And both of them might well think that their interpretation was the only story that could be drawn from that copy.
Which means there is no story right? How boring. Just sad text on a panel. But these things are often written with an ambiguous art to let multiple playstyles run through them without "roadbumps" derailing immersion. It's an art. And unless you talk to another player with a dramatically different play style and compare your feelings about the playstyle, or unless you are a roleplaying type fussing with replayability with different character concepts -- you'll never know. (or, of course, unless you're a dev...)
But even if you don't count that, LOTRO is completely structured around story content (to the point of being books and chapters of content in structure), and runs entirely parallel to Lord of the Rings, interweaving with the events of the LOTR trilogy and intersecting with the adventures of the Fellowship of the Ring and various factions that the Fellowship interacts with, and other entities of Middle Earth mentioned in the Silmarillion and other Tolkien sources. You can't get much deeper into story than that. My kin on Landroval is an institutional member of the Tolkien Society, and today our book club met at 3pm server time to discuss chapter 3 of The Hobbit, and part of the discussion included a comparison of Turbine's build of the approach from Bruinen Gorge to the gates of Rivendell against Tolkien's description in The Hobbit -- what details did Turbine get right? What did they leave out and what of those details did they leave out because they changed between The Hobbit in 1937 and LOTR's publication seventeen years later?
We don't just think about this, Turbine does too. The story and lore is deep in their game structure and the copy and artistic design of everything they do in that game -- I can tell you they love the books a lot more than Peter Jackson does! (noting that Christopher Tolkien describes him as "eviscerating" The Hobbit in the latest movie in Le Monde).
It's a lot easier for games drawing on strong IP such as Star Wars or LOTR to go deep into story. But it depends on the game company too. I don't see the superhero games as going that deep despite the strong tradition they draw on. I understand TSW made a stab at it drawing on multiple IPs (Lovecraft and Robert Anton Wilson and much high weirdness).
But SWTOR also draws on a talent pool that is all about story -- I've found references in the Imperial Agent storyline to Ian Fleming's Bond, to The Prisoner (vintage 60s Brit TV series that lost a close 2nd to getting the Hugo award to 2001: a Space Odyssey in 1969), and various. And LOTRO's team has a deep love of the IP that goes above and beyond the call of duty into a sort of literary geek passion equalled only by fans like my kinship (guild) who organize a book club, the periodic in-game music festival WeatherStock, and so on.
These interplays build strong community not only within the bonds of the fandom (we recently got our five year anniversary mounts and such) but also between the subscriber base and the devs.
Story goes unrecognized but it is there and it is powerful. Just because it doesn't club you over the head with millions of dollars in voice talent doesn't mean it isn't there at all.
btw, thanks for quoting me. But I think you are discounting the fact that I am not talking about the folks who stay and critique the LUA stats you are talking about from the WOW logs and all, though -- those people stay and tune and stick with the game longer.
I'm talking about the people who leave within months -- and those are hundreds of thousands these days.
You have to account for them. They are more "massive" than most game subscription bases. And they take down games.
I think people just tear down WoW because it was never that good, yet all the people who started out on WoW think that it invented the genre, there were better MMOs around before WoW.
There does tend to be an anti-hype brigade on here in the sandbox community for any themepark though. Rather than just accepting that the game doesn't suit their playstyle, they would rather just bash them repeatedly, as if that will change the themepark players opinions.
Originally posted by Yolen
Seriously? Not even ONE comment quoted that says developers just fail to deliver in general? Many people are just fed up with overadvertised overhyped games that don't have enough value to support the sub model. Of course, there will always be whiners and trolls. Always someone dissatisfied. But do you think if the games were better you'd have to write an article about the "teardown mentality"? People are fed up with their governments - they rebel. It's basically the same mechanism. In many cases if the game plainly sucked people would just go and stay away from it. But lately there have been a LOT of games which can be considered wasted potential. They have great X, but suck at Z... and Y is just meh. And many developers dont socialize, don't listen, don't care as long as they get paycheck for their half-assed work. So yeah, maybe lately people are overly angry. But don't they have reasons to be? Don't they? Really?
You mean apart from the second comment in the article?
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Teardown mentality ftw.
This way companys know how suck thier suck games suck. Mmhmm.
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Originally posted by birdycephon
Seems a lot of people just wanna play games for free and without restrictions, and will stop at nothing until they get it.
This is a problem and is eroding the quality of games on offer in my opinion. Hybrid games are ok, but the cash shop games that we are getting more and more of seriously piss me off. If people were willing to support the games that they do actually like and spend time with, we wouldn't be facing the cash shop metagame for most games on offer like we are now. There is no gaming industry if we refuse to pay for it.
I think there many causes for as you put the tear down mentality and no one factor can be blamed. One I don't see touched on is firstly people spend years getting kicked around in one way or another by some MMO developers. Sometimes it's small stuff, sometimes it huge stuff that gets changed. They lose character names. Their characters get nerfed. Their skills get overhauled. They have an entire combat system changed that makes their character obsolete. They feel like they get ripped off. And hundreds of other things.
The final insult is whenever the developer decides to close up shop the player looses everything. If I buy a $60 non-mmo sort game even if it's been 10 years I can reload it and play it. (Sure I might have to mod it or find mod for it to get to run but I can still play it.) Not so in MMOs if it is closed down all the money for subs, expansion, or cash shop items Hundreds of dollars, time, items I gathered for years, things I've poured creativity into, things I've built and lastly most importantly the community of people are gone forever.
Some of us have gone through this multiple times. It's not hard to see some folks truly grieve when they loose a MMO, nearly exactly the same way they would react if they experienced a house fire, the lose of a loved one, or pet. Granted some of us are just ticked off we lost so much money, and time. So why wouldn't these people become bitter and distrustful of MMO developers as a whole. This resentment builds and is unleashed on other games, and cycle goes on and is building. It's lead us to where we are now, the collapsing MMO market.


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Today I have the pleasure of having Josephine Angelini on as part of her blog tour for Starcrossed. It just so happens that it fits with the My Favorite Things event as well. I LOVED Starcrossed and you'll have to be sure to check out my review.
Today we get to learn a bit about Josie through an interview and at the end there will be a giveaway as well as the info you'll need to enter to win the big giveaway for the Kindle 3.
But lets get to it!
Me too!
When writing Starcrossed what was your biggest obstacle to overcome?
The biggest obstacle was finding a way to make Helen and Lucas sympathetic. I had to do a lot of creative heavy lifting to set up a situation where two likable characters could start a war by falling in love.
That's a good point, but you did a great job so I'd say you succeeded smashingly!
Which of the characters is your favorite other then Helen and Lucas?
I love Claire, which isn't surprising because she's a mixture of several women who have been my closest girlfriends at different periods in my life.
Claire is a very likable character 😉 And that's very cool!
The cover is gorgeous, did you have much input in it?
I had a lot of input, but I can't take credit for how well it turned out. The art department at Harper Teen went all out, and my editor Laura Arnold paid attention to every detail. I'm so happy with the outcome!
Was there anything in particular that inspired some or all of Starcrossed?
I'm going to have to give Homer props right about now! The Iliad is the inspiration and the template. I just tried not to mess up that classic work too much.
*Blushes* I don't remember The Iliad though I think I read at least a condensed version in school.
Which character, from any book, do you have the biggest crush on?
Cyrano de Bergerac is my ultimate crush. I read Rostand's play when I was fifteen and I've never gotten over him. TLF.
Hmmm… no clue who that is… *runs off to look him up*
What is your favorite place in the world?
At the moment I'm going to say my kitchen table. I like to write here (I'm sitting at it right now). I'm comfortable. There are some flowers, my coffee, and a cat sleeping just behind my computer. It's all good.
There's nothing like the comfort of home.
If you could travel anyplace where would you choose to go?
I'm itching to go to Greece. Wonder why, right?
What are some of your favorite things to do outside of writing?
I'm a good eater. I can't cook, but I like to go out to dinner with friends or family and gab the night away. I also love to look at art. I can't draw or paint to save my life, but I really admire anyone that can. Music is another big part of my life, although I can't sing or play an instrument. I love exercise, but I'm really clumsy so I don't play any sports. Let me put it this way, I enjoy lots of things, but I don't have many skills outside of writing. I'm sort of a one trick pony.
If you were to pick actors for a movie of Starcrossed who do you picture playing Helen and Lucas (and any of the characters if you have an idea of who you'd pick)?
I have no idea! Any suggestions?
I don't. Yet… But I would like to hear some from the readers!
Josie was born in a tiny town in Massachusetts called Ashland. When she meets people from Massachusetts and tells them 'what part' she hails from, she usually gets one of two answers. The first is: "Ashland. Isn't that in Oregon?" And the second is: "Did you just say Ass-land?"
Her next stop was about as different from her hometown as it gets without leaving the country. As soon as Josie was legal, she packed a bag and moved to New York City to attend NYU. Somehow, she managed to squeeze in a little higher learning between bartending shifts and graduated with a BFA.
Massively in debt with college loans, she then moved to Los Angeles for reasons that are still a little blurry. Something about the weather was mentioned, and a vague idea to write poetry and find herself. She found that she is a terrible poet, but she never gave up on the writing bit.
Josie still lives in Los Angeles with her husband and now writes YA fiction.
You could win aKindle 3with a specially designed Starcrossed skinand including a letter from Josie to the winner.Ummm… WOW!
- In order to enter to win a Kindle3 WiFi, including a copy of Starcrossed, a personal letter from Josie to the winner and covered in a GelaSkin of Starcrossed's cover art, you must collect the pink highlighted words from Lucas's love letter to Helen that are provide each day at the individual tour stops. The daily words can be joined together in sequential order to create the winning secret message. Once you've constructed the winning secret message, you will need to enter that message on Starcrossed's tour home page (http://www.kismetbt.com/upcoming-tour/starcrossed-by-josephine-angelini-on-tour-mayjune).
- No purchase, affiliation, status as follower to a certain blog or any other association is required to enter.
- Full rules for the contest can be found at the Starcrossed tour home page (http://www.kismetbt.com/upcoming-tour/starcrossed-by-josephine-angelini-on-tour-mayjune).
- Winner of the Kindle give-away will be announced on Josie's homepage (http://www.josephineangelini.com/blog/) on Tuesday, June 7th.
This letter was exclusively written for this blog tour.
If you want to know what Lucas told Helen in the letter then you'll need to stop by each tour stop.
Each day a new piece of the letter will be revealed and one or two words will be in pink.
It is these pink words you'll have to collect to enter the grand prize giveaway at the end.
Today's bit of the letter is:
At the end of the Tour can follow this Link to the official Blog tour page to enter Lucas' sentence to be eligible to enter thebig Kindle 3 WiFi giveaway!
This is open to US addresses only and ends June 4th at 12 pm EST.
Leave a comment with contact info! That's it!
Also feel free to let us know who you think would play Lucas and Helen if you were to cast for the movie.


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Mary E. Genet, 87, passed away at 9:45 a.m. at Saline Care Center in Harrisburg on July 26, 2013.
She was born to J.T. and Nancy (Alldredge) Ralph and she grew up on Ralph's Fruit Farm near Eldorado. She loved her flowers, sewing, quilting and was a very good cook and homemaker.
Mary is survived by her four children, Carolyn (Dewain) Barrett of Eldorado, Frank Genet of Eldorado, Roger (Gena) Genet of North Carolina and Toni (Dave) Wiman of Harrisburg; and a daughter-in-law, Linda Ann Morrissette of Eldorado; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Frank; four brothers, Ernest, John, Louis and Thomas Ralph; an infant sister Laura; and a grandson.
As she wished her body has been cremated. Watson Funeral Home in Eldorado is handling arrangements.
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1. Tearing the place up, as in deliberately vandalizing someone else's business or home, or destroying someone else's possessions.
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2. (preferred) Plowing a gaggle of 'hood rats.
My ho called. Looks like tonight I'll be wrecking shop on her and her friend.
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- Indigestion
(Dyspepsia; Non-ulcer Dyspepsia; Non-ulcer Stomach Pain)
|Locations of Indigestion Symptoms
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Risk Factors
- Overeating
- Eating too quickly or at irregular intervals
- Eating greasy, high-fat, or spicy foods
- Drinking caffeine, alcohol, or soft drinks in excess
- Taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen or naproxen
- Smoking
- Psychological stress
- Pain or burning sensation in the upper abdomen or chest
- Nausea
- Abdominal bloating
- Belching or regurgitation
When Should I Call My Doctor?
- Having trouble swallowing
- Vomiting with most episodes
- Experiencing weight loss
- Having a family history of cancer
When Should I Call for Medical Help Immediately?
- Severe abdominal pain
- Blood in your stool or dark black stool
- Blood in the vomit
- Trouble breathing
- Chest pain
- Barium x-ray
- Ultrasound
- Endoscopy
Dietary and Lifestyle Changes
- Reduce your intake of fatty and spicy foods.
- Eat smaller meals throughout the day instead of three large meals.
- Reduce your intake of alcohol, caffeine, and carbonated beverages.
- Quit smoking.
- Avoid nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen.
- If stress is related to your symptoms, find ways to manage stress.
- Lose weight if you are overweight.
- Exercise regularly.
- Antacids—to help neutralize stomach acid
- Acid suppression agents
- Prokinetic agents—to help the stomach empty its contents more quickly
- Antibiotics—to treat a bacterial infection if tests confirm that you have this infection
- Avoid overeating
- Eat slowly and regularly
- Avoid greasy, high-fat foods
- Limit spicy foods
- Do not smoke
- Drink coffee, alcohol, and caffeinated beverages in moderation
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Exercise regularly
American College of Gastroenterology http://gi.org
American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org
Canadian Association of Gastroenterology https://www.cag-acg.org
The College of Family Physicians of Canada http://www.cfpc.ca
Dyspepsia: treatment. American Academy of Family Physicians Family Doctor website. Available at: http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/dyspepsia/treatment.html. Updated February 2014. Accessed December 18, 2014.
Karamanolis G, Caenepeel P, et al. Association of the predominant symptom with clinical characteristics and pathophysiological mechanisms in functional dyspepsia. Gastroenterology. 2006;130(2):296-303.
Mertz H, Fullerton S, et al. Symptoms and visceral perception in severe functional organic dyspepsia. Gut. 1998;42(6):814-822.
Tack J, Talley NJ, et al. Functional gastroduodenal disorders. Gastroenterology. 2006;130(5):1466-1479.
3/1/2010 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com: Maalox Total Relief and Maalox liquid products: medication use errors. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm200672.htm. Updated September 9, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2014.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Daus Mahnke, MD
- Review Date: 12/2015 -
- Update Date: 12/20/2014 -