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Thu, 27 Oct 2022 - 04:16 GMT
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 - 04:16 GMT
CAIRO – 27 October 2022: A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
According to the report, the combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the Paris Agreement could put the world on track for around 2.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century.
Today's report also shows current commitments will increase emissions by 10.6% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels. This is an improvement over last year's assessment, which found countries were on a path to increase emissions by 13.7% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels.
Last year's analysis showed projected emissions would continue to increase beyond 2030. This year's analysis shows that while emissions are no longer increasing after 2030, they are still not demonstrating the rapid downward trend science says is necessary this decade.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2018 report indicated that CO2 emissions needed to be cut 45% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels. The latest science from the IPCC released earlier this year uses 2019 as a baseline, indicating that greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030. This is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent and severe droughts, heatwaves and rainfall.
"The downward trend in emissions expected by 2030 shows that nations have made some progress this year," said Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change. "But the science is clear and so are our climate goals under the Paris Agreement. We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world. To keep this goal alive, national governments need to strengthen their climate action plans now and implement them in the next eight years."
UN Climate Change analyzed the climate action plans – known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) – of 193 Parties to the Paris Agreement, including 24 updated or new NDCs submitted after the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) up until 23 September 2022. Taken together, the plans cover 94.9% of total global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
"At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last year, all countries agreed to revisit and strengthen their climate plans," said Stiell. "The fact that only 24 new or updated climate plans were submitted since COP 26 is disappointing. Government decisions and actions must reflect the level of urgency, the gravity of the threats we are facing, and the shortness of the time we have remaining to avoid the devastating consequences of runaway climate change."
This is UN Climate Change's second such report, providing a critical update to last year's inaugural NDC synthesis report. While the overall findings of the report are stark, there are glimmers of hope.
Most of the Parties that submitted new or updated NDCs have strengthened their commitment to reducing or limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and/or 2030, demonstrating increased ambition in addressing climate change.
A second UN Climate Change report on long-term low-emission development strategies, also released today, looked at countries' plans to transition to net-zero emissions by or around mid-century. The report indicated that these countries' greenhouse gas emissions could be roughly 68% per cent lower in 2050 than in 2019, if all the long-term strategies are fully implemented on time.
Current long-term strategies (representing 62 Parties to the Paris Agreement) account for 83% of the world's GDP, 47% of global population in 2019, and around 69% of total energy consumption in 2019. This is a strong signal that the world is starting to aim for net-zero emissions.
The report notes, however, that many net-zero targets remain uncertain and postpone into the future critical action that needs to take place now. Ambitious climate action before 2030 is urgently needed to achieve the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.
With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) just around the corner, Stiell called on governments to revisit their climate plans and make them stronger in order to close the gap between where emissions are heading and where science indicates they should be this decade.
"COP27 is the moment where global leaders can regain momentum on climate change, make the necessary pivot from negotiations to implementation and get moving on the massive transformation that must take place throughout all sectors of society to address the climate emergency," he said.
Stiell is urging national governments to come to COP27 to show how they will put the Paris Agreement to work in their home countries through legislation, policies and programs, as well as how they will cooperate and provide support for implementation. He is also calling for nations to make progress at COP27 in four priority areas: mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, and finance.
"COP27 will be the world's watershed moment on climate action," said Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President-Designate. "The report from UN Climate Change and before that from the IPCC are a timely reminder for all of us. Raising ambition and urgent implementation is indispensable for addressing the climate crisis. This includes cutting and removing emissions faster and at wider scope of economic sectors, to protect us from more severe adverse climate impacts and devastating loss and damage."
"The synthesis report is a testimony to the fact that we are off-track on achieving the Paris Climate Goal and keeping the 1.5 degrees within reach," added Shoukry. "This is a sobering moment, and we are in a race against time. Several of those who are expected to do more, are far from doing enough, and the consequences of this is affecting lives and livelihoods across the globe. I am conscious that it is and should be a continuum of action until 2030 then 2050, however, these alarming findings merit a transformative response at COP27."
COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "It is critical that we do everything within our means to keep 1.5C in reach, as we promised in the Glasgow Climate Pact. These reports show that although we have made some progress - and every fraction of a degree counts - much more is needed urgently. We need the major emitters to step up and increase ambition ahead of COP27."
Press release from COP 27 Presidency
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If you haven't read my article on Must visit places in Nairobi then you are missing out. This is one of the places I mentioned in my 2019 bucket list after giraffe center. Did you read my experience at Giraffe center?? How I found bae and we kissed at first sight? check out the article here.It was one amazing experince.
I then found a hidden gem. In my previous article I had already written about the location and how to get to Ngong hills. It is less than an hours drive from Nairobi CBD and the road to the hills is now well done as you can drive up to the top of the first hill where Kompass is located. Kompass is the new joint at Ngong Hills which offers you alternative activities to do apart from the normal hiking which is the most commonly known activity about ngong Hills.
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Kompass was opened about a year ago and it has really changed the experience at Ngong Hills. It is a restaurant/bar on top of the hill which offers you activities like zip lining, cycling,camping, paintball, archery, quad bike riding and it also has bouncing castles for the children.
The entrance fee to Ngong hills is 200 per per person. Quad bike racing goes for 1,000 shillings for ten minutes. This is for those who love the adrenaline rush. You can ride on your own or you can be carried by another person. But where is the joy in being carried?? Kaa ngumu and do it on your own haha.
Archery will cost you 1,000 shillings for 20 arrows. The place is pretty cold so you should be warmly dressed coz that breeze is no joke. By around 6pm the place is almost covered with mist and it is extremely cold.
For ziplining, you should wear really comfy clothes preferably a trouser or sweatpants, t shirt plus a jacket and comfy sneakers/sport shoes. The zip lining is not too long. It is almost one kilometer one way so 1,000 shillings for 2 kilometres is not really bad. It is worth it.
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When you are done with your activities you can sit in the bar/restaurant and have a meal or a drink. They always have a drinks offer whereby you buy five beers at 1,000 bob instead of 1,250 shillings. Their food prices range from 800 to 1,800 and the accompaniments range from 100 to 300 kenyan shillings.
I found their meat being a little bit on the higher side considering it is Ngong where they have a lot of cows and goats! But now we had no option since we were already there. The first time I was there I found their wet fry really nice but this second time it was not all that. It was actually really oily.
But all in all the zip lining experience was totally worth it and some of us who don't know how to do archery tried it for the first time and we did not kill anyone yeeey me!! Now I think I am ready for bungee jumping and skydiving. Yolo. Yes??


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ACE Women's Network invites you and our New England colleagues in town for the NEASC Conference to please join us for the Annual ACE Women's Networking Reception that is being held at the NEASC conference site.
We welcome you to stop over after the NEASC meeting; however, you do not need to register for the conference in order to attend the reception. All are invited!
At this reception, you will be connected to a wide range of fellow women leaders and have the opportunity to discuss ways in which you have provided leadership and mentored others as well as mingle and share and hear about further opportunities for involvement and advancement within New England higher education and beyond. This reception offers an ideal opportunity to (re) connect with women higher education professionals in New England as well as get better acquainted and further involved with the Massachusetts Network of Women Leaders in Higher Education.
Cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres will be available, and a drink ticket will be provided to all attendees.
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Date: Thursday, December 14 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
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This morning I was reading an article which contained the following statement, "The Soviets engineered Ulaanbaatar for a population of 400,000. Now the city holds three times that number."1 I have seen variants of this statement in other articles over the last few months, and there is something about it that seems dubious. It has the feel of something that was first expressed informally as way of conceptualizing the extraordinary population growth and poor city management in Ulaanbaatar over the last few years, and then morphed into a "fact" in its subsequent retelling.
Employing an apocryphal story of my own, I imagine there once was a group of professionals at Millie's Cafe discussing the deteriorating infrastructure and over-population of the city and someone chimed in with, "Just think, when the city was originally built it would have been for a population of 400,000 or so." To which everyone at the table nodded their heads knowingly, because that made perfect sense as an explanation for the world they perceived just outside the cafe's doors. Not too long after that one of the professionals at the table relayed this "fact" to a journalist doing a story on Mongolia. Yet, does comparing the city today with some alleged Soviet plan in the past make sense? I don't think so, and here's why.
According to the Capital Statistics Office, the population of Ulaanbaatar reached 400,000 in 1979.2 By 1990 the city had a population over 560,000. Then about 1998 the annual rate of population growth in the city significantly increased, rapidly pushing the population to 1.2 million by 2012 (see Graph 1). So, if the Soviets engineered the city for 400,000 people, when did this happen? In 1960? Maybe. That would mean that they were over engineering given that the population was 145,000 that year. In 1980? Maybe. But, that would mean that they were building a city already at its population capacity. Is this evidence that Ulaanbaatar was "built" by 1980 even though the population grew another 40 percent over that decade? Or, maybe I have completely misunderstood. Is it that the heating and power infrastructure constructed during the Socialist period was designed with a theoretical capacity of 400,000 people connected to the grid, and the apartment building boom of the last few years has taken the infrastructure well beyond this theoretical limit? But, isn't that something different than saying the city itself was designed for 400,000 people, especially given its long history of supporting outlying ger districts off the grid? A lot of questions with few good answers.
It is said that Rome was not built in a day. The meaning, of course, being that something as large as a city develops slowly. It is not the product of a single decision or plan executed over a finite period but rather the product of dynamic interactions unfolding continuously over time. I understand the sentiment behind the Soviet-engineering statement. Ulaanbaatar's infrastructure development has not kept pace with its population growth over the last fifteen years, and the city today is a treasure trove of examples of urban planning and civil engineering gone horribly wrong. But, the statement just doesn't withstand even lightweight critical analysis even if one accepts the premise that somewhere in an archive there is a city plan for Ulaanbaatar with a population of 400,000 in mind. Ulaanbaatar today is the product of complex actions and reactions played out over several decades–not a single plan made by Soviet engineers. The point the statement is trying to make, I surmise, is that the city seems to have stopped being planned in the not too distant past and subsequently turned into the chaotic urban landscape visible today. That is fair enough, but is it necessary to express that sentiment with allusions to Soviet planning? After all, Ulaanbaatar does have a city planning office (see here), and it has had a democratically elected mayor and city council for more than two decades.
There is no argument that Ulaanbaatar has changed dramatically over the last few years, in some ways for the better and in others for the worse. Wind the clock back twenty or thirty years, and many parts of it are physically unrecognizable. It is true that the city's layout and much of its heating and power infrastructure were first established during the Socialist period, but much of the city's skyline and surrounding ger districts have sprung up in just the last fifteen years. Plans drawn up decades ago in the heady days of the Socialist era may have lingering impacts on the city today, but they are only part of a very complex story.
This is exemplified by the city's roads where past design has arguably hampered contemporary function. Yet, is the problem a decades old Soviet design that failed to scale, or the unregulated construction of buildings in the city's previously abundant open spaces without regard for critical secondary infrastructure such as roads, power, heating, and sewage? As Prime Minister Batbold pointed out in parliament in 2011, although Ulaanbaatar's building and housing capacity had grown 3.5 times since 1980, the major road system had basically remained unchanged to that point.3 Graph 2 shows the number of passenger vehicles (cars, trucks, buses; etc) in Mongolia from 1991 to 2007. The number grew by almost four times over that seventeen year period to over 160,000 vehicles. Compare this with 1980 when there were approximately 32,200 vehicles in the entire country, and the majority of those were cargo trucks.4 In Ulaanbaatar there were 108,000 vehicles by 2008, and this nearly doubled to 210,000 vehicles in the city by August 2012.5 Ulaanbaatar's population has increased significantly since 1980, but this is nothing in comparison to the increase in vehicles on the city's roads in just the last few years.
Whether or not one accepts that Ulaanbaatar was designed at one point for 400,000 people, today it is most definitely not a city of Soviet design. It retains some elements of its Socialist past, but for better or worse it is the capital of democratic, free-market Mongolia. The lack of regulation in producing secondary infrastructure to support the growth in buildings around the city is a better explanation of the city's current and inadequate layout than irrelevant allusion to Soviet engineering. The problem isn't that the city was designed for another population, in another economy, in another time. The problem is that the city's development over the last two decades has not adequately adapted to its present population, in the current economy, now. Of course, I think that is what is meant by the Soviet-engineering statement, but it goes about it all wrong by making it seem as if the central planning of the Socialist period is more relevant than the lack of regulation in the democratic, free-market era in understanding Ulaanbaatar's complex urban environment today.
1. Brett Forrest, "James Passin, the American Who Bought Mongolia", Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-16/james-passin-the-american-who-bought-mongolia, 2013-05-16.
2. See http://www.ubstat.mn/StatTable=11.
3. "Монгол Улсын Ерөнхий сайд С.Батболдын Улаанбаатар хотын авто замын сүлжээнд 2008-2011 онд хийж гүйцэтгэсэн ажил, цаашид авах арга хэмжээний талаар УИХ-ын чуулганы хуралдаанд хийсэн мэдээлэл", Mongolian Embassy in the United Kingdom, http://www.embassyofmongolia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144%3A-2008-2011-&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=50&lang=en, 2011-11-19.
4. "1929-2008 ОНУУДАД МОНГОЛ УЛСЫН ХЭМЖЭЭНД ТООЛОГДСОН АВТОМАШИНЫ ТООН ҮЗҮҮЛЭЛТ", Mongolian Traffic Research Institute, http://www.traffic-institute.mn/h_research/h-01/h-01-01-01.html, (accessed 2013-05-15).
5. "Автомашины тоо эрс нэмэгдсэн нь замын насжилтад нөлөөлж байна гэв", Gogo.mn, http://news.gogo.mn/r/109525, 2012-08-15.


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Nawabs and their love to see self on canvas
By Shailvee Sharda
TNN | Nov 2, 2014
LUCKNOW: Narcissism omnipresent now in the form of 'selfies'—pictures people click of themselves—was manifest in the form of portraits the high and mighty got painted of themselves for posterity. Nawabs of Avadh contributed immensely to the Company School of Painting, a genre of portraits during the British Raj, providing opportunity for many artists. They created vivid testimonies of the socio-cultural practices of the period.
The nawabs' patronage to painters became a tradition. At a workshop in the city, Indian and Bangladeshi painters drew inspiration from 'How nawabs patronised the palette'.
* Tilly Kettle's Father and Son
Tilly Kettle (1735-86) was a portrait maker from London who traveled to India with the East India Company. He met Shuja ud Daulah in Calcutta where he painted his portrait and later accompanied him to Faizabad. He captured many facets of the aristocratic life but his most famous work was portrait of Shuja-ud-Daulah with his heir apparent Asaf ud Daulah. "The nuances of their work are remarkable. The intricacies as in the bejeweled 'bajuband' (armlet), and poise on the face of the two kings is an inspiration," says Vipul Varshney, a city architect. Painters from Delhi such as Mir Kalan Khan also found refuge in Avadh with Mughal aristocracy declining.
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What's surely was narcissism in their day today becomes an important record of history, and how people dressed and their environment and so forth.
Shuja-ud-daula on right with hand on 'Khanjar' in kamarband
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Launchpad May 2012
Wednesday May 9, 2012
Hairdressers know this truth best:
Women tend to neglect the back of their hairstyle becuase they can't see it. But since everyone else has a front seat to this rear view, a little aft creativity shouldn't be an afterthought. On the runways, backstage stylists weave mane creations meant for "hind" sight. Whether through suede rope (Michael Kors), black quills (Jason Wu), gold cage barrettes (Yves St. Laurent) or simple elastics (Herve Leger), giving baby some back accoutrements actually puts her tresses front and center. -Karie L. Frost
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Arundinoideae is not nearly as sharply defined as the preceding subfamilies. The 600 species of this heterogeneous group of primitive grasses grow mostly in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere. Phragmites australis belongs in this subfamily. The final two small subfamilies are Centothecoideae (11 genera) and…Read More


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"Progressing Faith by Grace and Deeds"
Sermon by Aaron Farnham
June 21, 2015
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I am particularly indebted to James Thobaben and Joseph Okello for their indirect and direct guidance while preparing this message.
I fancy myself methodical. In the expedience and efficiency that come from good, well executed practices I see a beauty and grace of movement that I enjoy. I tend to be content in myself most when I follow a daily, ordered, routine especially when I notice progress toward a long term goal. It is no wonder, then, that my preferred life illustration comes from "The Tortoise and the Hare." (Andrea would likely summarize what I have just laid before you by saying I am annoying.)
Alas, the rabbit holes I have pursued in writing this sermon have been numerous. Trying to follow them all would leave Alice with the desire to stay in Wonderland forever. Alas, no matter how far I wandered I kept noticing I was circling something, and last Wednesday's attack brought me in a downward spiral toward that something as quickly as it would jerk Alice back to reality. Hence, anything right and good that come from this message will be by the Holy Spirit's grace in this place.
My understanding of theology has grown to hinge on the right and capacity for self-determination: Autonomy. In fact, in the final paper I wrote in my philosophy of religion course I presented the importance of autonomy to such an extreme that I was offered the opportunity to declare the logical outcome of my thoughts was not my personal belief or face the possibility of being invited to walk away graciously from the seminary for theological differences. Why would autonomy be so important to me that it could have taken me to that point? In a nut shell, God created humanity to be in relationship with God. For that relationship to be genuine humans must have the autonomy to choose or not choose a place in God's story of love. If God had created us without the right and capacity for self-determination humans would be mere pawns or slaves to a tyrant self-absorbed in his own pleasure. From my limited perspective, that doesn't jive with the God of Scripture when Scripture is looked at through a holistic lens that sees the overarching theme of God. To spell it out, I believe that overarching theme is love.
As Methodists we believe that one must make a choice to be in relationship with God, through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. In other words, a person must make a decision that God cannot and will not make for the individual, but the Holy Spirit will provide all God's grace to see that decision, which is available by Christ's work, carried through. To be clear, by being in relationship with God I mean deciding to love God, to love Jesus Christ and to love the Holy Spirit. As an aside, I am referring to ideal situations. My God is big. My God is bigger than my capacity to understand, and I am confident that in that lack of understanding God has a means for those who, by being in a broken world, are unable to make an autonomous decision to be in said relationship.
Dr. James Thobaben, the pastor of Mt Zion UMC in Mercer County Kentucky, and Dean of the School of Theology and Formation, Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Professor of Bioethics and Social Ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary, is fond of illustrating the theme of relationship with God by relating that when he loves God primarily he finds his capacity to love his spouse and children grows exponentially. On the other hand, in times when he has put his relationship with his spouse before his relationship with God there is a very noticeable drop in his capacity to love her. When I ponder this illustration I dwell on Matthew 22:36-40 which in the NIV reads;
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
As stated in this passage we must understand and accept the former as a necessary precursor to the latter.
Traditionally Christians with a Methodist heritage have relied on the Wesleyan Means of Grace as the foundational activities of engagement in relationship with God. These include individual and communal practices of piety and mercy. For the sake of brevity, I am not going to read a list of these activities. However, I do wish to highlight a few works of piety (the individual practices of reading, meditating and studying the scriptures, prayer, and regularly attending worship, and the communal practice of Bible study) and one work of mercy (the individual practice of giving generously to the needs of others).
Now please consider some people who through the joys and perils of lives long and short made decisions to love God as Christians in the Methodist tradition. A tradition which, like the majority of the universal church, recognizes each week as a mini reminder of what I believe to be the most important Christian holiday: Easter. Throughout the world each Wednesday there are Bible studies, services of worship, communion and prayer. Yes, pragmatically, Wednesday is the midweek apex, but it reminds us of Ash Wednesday as we approach the first day of the Christian week, Sunday, which is the Christian Sabbath to remind us each week of Christ's Easter Sunday victory over the powers that held us subject.
Last Wednesday, as other Christians today and the saints for centuries before them, twelve disciples gathered to pray. (That number is not lost on me.) And I remind you, prayer is an autonomous act of love toward God which helps facilitate the Holy Spirit's outpouring of grace. According to the accounts I have read a thirteenth joined the twelve and they, recognizing his need, his spiritual depravity, gave generously to him in prayer and other deeds. They gave so generously that he admitted to police officers that he almost did not follow through with it because everyone was so nice to him. They loved God first, and that love allowed them to love their neighbor who would suddenly turn on them and take their lives. To borrow from the first Epistle of John, they lived in love, they lived in God, and God in them.
Through those twelve people it is apparent to me that the Holy Spirit offered this man all of God's grace and as a fully capable autonomous individual he made the wrong choice, he made a bad choice, and he made the most painful choice he could as he decided to reject God and proceed with his plan. Along with the hearts of so many people he broke God's heart, and I believe the first mourner of this event was the Holy Spirit which had and still does fill Emanuel AME. We know that God's grace still fills that church family because family member of those murdered have publically forgiven the man who pleaded guilty to this crime.
Nevertheless, killing our fellow Christians was a hate crime. It was a hate crime that had nothing to do with the faith they displayed. There are many investigative questions to be asked in response to last week's massacre at Emanuel AME in Charleston. The standard who-what-where-when-why-and-how's will be combed over and rehashed by people with and without official duties. It will be an intense and integral mode of healing in the mourning process for those with direct ties to the victims.
Removing faith from the equation the biggest scientifically measureable difference between the victims and the perpetrator was they had more melanin…It isn't that simple.
It isn't that simple. We live in a culture that is dependent on hierarchies, marginalization, otherness, dominance for personal gain often even to the point of hindering our offspring and throwing survival of the fittest out the window… We live in a culture very much like the one we encounter within the New Testament. Both are cultures that breed hate and racism. However, if you are a Christian you cannot deny that Jesus' ministry suggests that the Kingdom of Heaven will be realized first through the marginalized, the hated, the oppressed and the other. If you are a Christian you cannot deny a place at the table, in the communion of saints in the church universal because the story, God's story, is one of love primarily for the spiritually, physically, emotionally and culturally subjugated.
Some argue that in our culture all of Christendom is marginalized, but frankly, that position is as important today as saying Hashtag All-Lives-Matter. If it wasn't a means of overlooking the systemic cultural problems facing the marginalized in our communities it would be a wonderful complement for a "Pie in the Sky" faith. Marginalized lives matter just as much as those of the ones marginalizing, but in a culture that denies them that equality and ignores the racism that promotes it the Church must demand that marginalized lives are valued because "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world". Not just those of the people in power and certainly not just those with a particular melanin threshold. Furthermore, call me old fashioned, but I reject the notion that one's human essence is a thing alone on an island or some sort of expression of nothing or everything as various modes of Modern thought would leave us thinking. I believe the human essence is an embodiment of the image of God, and human identity comes, sometimes only by grace as I said earlier, with the necessary autonomy to reject or accept that embodiment. If the essence of each and every human being is the image of God then we absolutely must be against hatred, racism and marginalization. Because to not be against them is to be against the God we love.
While I take great comfort in knowing the nine people who died in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal accepted and nurtured the image of God within them I was overwhelmed with fear and disgust at the news of their murders. I found myself repulsed. I'll be honest, if it had been my friends or family that were slaughtered after some form of worship with their attacker I do not think my personal relationship with God is where it would have to be able to do what the families of the slain have done by forgiving the murderer so soon. I acknowledge that I have a long way to go in my pursuit of Christian Perfection.
We talk about our Methodist connection and typically mean United Methodist connection by that, but we share linage with the AME. In fact, Emanuel AME's website illustrates how marginalization at the hands of late 18th century Methodists in Philadelphia brought about the denomination's formation. These are our brothers and sisters. Likewise Depayne, Sharonda, Cynthia, Clementa, Ethel, Tywanza, Myra, Daniel and Susie were our sisters and brothers, and we should mourn with their families just as the Holy Spirit has mourned since that night even as we worship on a Sabbath intended to remind us of Christ's victory on the first Easter Sunday.
I dare say that mourning with the immediate community of Mother Emanuel because "our hearts go out to them" is the obvious action, it is the safe action, it is the act of conventional wisdom trying to grope at the same solution which has yet to bear real fruit. You see, conventional wisdom rarely takes into consideration God's laws. Conventional wisdom tells one spouse to love the other spouse before anything else. Conventional wisdom would tell us that if we ignore racism and racists they will vanish. Conventional wisdom would tell twelve African Americans who all knew each other intimately to be immediately wary of an interloping twenty something white male. Conventional wisdom would tell 26 year old Tywanza to save his own life rather than offer to die in place of his 87 year old aunt Susie because he was a good black man with a good future ahead of him. Besides, she'd already lived a good long life herself.
To best love our church family at Emanuel AME, to best love the marginalized we must first love God. It is my hope and prayer that at the very least you will come away from this message with a duty to pray for a minimum of seven days over the families of Clementa, Cynthia, Daniel, Depayne, Ethel, Myra, Sharonda, Susie and Tywanza, Emanual AME, the African American community at large that finds itself continuously under siege, and the judicial system that will dole out justice according to the letter of the law. Please give thanks for the lives and the examples of the nine, pray for the healing of the two survivors that were shot, pray for the emotional state of the woman who was intentionally left unharmed, pray for good restorative and healthy grieving, pray that people would learn to love God so they can learn to love people and pray for the grace, peace and realization of God's Kingdom here on Earth.
That is the easy request. Now comes what I am uncomfortable with. Please pray for Myra, Ethel, Clementa, Susie, Depayne, Tywanza, Daniel, Cynthia and Sharonda's murderer, Dylan. It is easy to pray for those we love, for those we know would be in worship today if they were still alive. It is an entirely different experience to pray for God's blessing upon someone we do not love for very just reasons. I believe the generous giving the twelve people in that prayer service bestowed on this spiritual void individual would have been in vain if we do not step in for them and pray God's grace mercy and peace poured over him no matter what the judicial system decides for him.
Yes, as we mourn those who have pasted and pray for their families and church I am asking you to pray God's blessings upon a racist. C.T. Studd, as turn of the 20th century missionary said, "Some wish to live within the sound of Church or Chapel bell; I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell." Praying for Dylan, in the way I have discribled, will firmly plant us as some of Studd's shopkeepers.
Finally, I would like to share with you're the words of Sister Jean German Ortiz as quoted on Emanuel AME's homepage saying, "Jesus died a passionate death for us, so our love for Him should be as passionate."
BENEDICTION (inspired by the African Methodist Episcopal Church's spiritual doctrine according to Emmanuel AME's website) As we leave today may God our Father, Christ our Liberator, and the Holy Spirit our Nurturer pour grace upon and from us so that the world will recognize all of Humanity as Sibling.


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Title: The Bitterroot Inn
Author: Devney Perry
Genre: Contemporary Romance
About The Bitterroot Inn:
Her past. His secrets. They have more in common than she knows.
Maisy is happily content with the life she's built for herself and her young son in small-town Prescott, Montana. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they've ever been. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. She made that mistake before with another man. The man she murdered.
Hunter was a different man when he first saw Maisy Holt from afar. He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. But years later, he's back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. He shouldn't have tried to find her but he never was good at rejecting temptation. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past.
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Maisy is happy in her life in Prescott, Montata with her toddler, family and friends. Her child is growing up loved, her business is flourishing and everything is finally all into place. Then he comes along and turns her World upside down. Just his voice makes her heart race but it's his gentle heart that she keeps falling for more and more everyday.
Hunter has never been the same since the day he laid his eyes upon Maisy Holt. He pines for her but can never go near her. But his heart didn't get the memo and all of a sudden he is staying at her Inn and spending time with Maisy and her adorable kid. This is all her ever wanted but he knows the secrets he hides are the ones that'll destroy everything he yearns for.
THIS BOOK, Y'ALL!!!!! I am destroyed by the sheer amazingness of this book. I know I am making up words rn but I CAN'T DEAL!
I would like to say that this is THE BEST BOOK in the series and I am saying this after really fucking loving the other books. I am obsessed with everything Devney Perry and at this point I'll read her grocery list with the same enthusiasm.
Maisy is a freaking role model. The fact that she is still sane after all the things she went through is mind boggling. SHE IS QUEEN A LEGIT QUEEN! I would really like to be bffs with her because come on she has her life in order and I'm pretty sure just being friends with her would make mine too.
I wanna point out that Hunter is my boo thang from now till eternity. I have never loved a fictional book boyfriend like I love Hunter. Also, I might have a problem because I had ZERO ISSUES when he refused to share much details about himself. I know if it was a real guy it'd be problematic but damn if I care when it comes to Hunter. Like he can leave my messages on read and I'd thank him. As I said, I have a problem.
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Devney lives in Montana with her husband and two children. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her kids. She loves reading and, after consuming hundreds of books, decided to share her own stories.
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Heal Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, Manifest Your Dreams through Intuitive Meditation
Next Intuitive Meditation - Monday January 22nd at 7 pm Taught by Kawena Charlot on Zoom
Learning how to control your energetic space and create more effectively is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. In this Intuitive Mediation series, you'll learn simple yet powerful psychic energy tools which will radically change your life. Take a step forward and
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When you are in a state of curiosity, openness and "kindergarten," it is easier to heal and create the life that you want. Come and explore your intuition and heal, in an environment that is fun, non-judgmental, free of competition and full of laughter. Many of the students feel like it's an oasis from their regular lives and the stresses of the world. And they look forward to being their Intuitive Meditation Class all week long.
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A Word About Welsh
"Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh." -- Shakespeare's Henry IV
Of all the Celtic languages still in use, Welsh is still spoken by the greatest number of people, although most Welsh men or women also speak English. It is not a dialect of English, as commonly believed, but a distinct language with its own pedigree that is older than English.
An Indo-European language, Welsh is more allied to French, German, and the Scandinavian languages than English. The Welsh people and their language originated with the Celts who came from Britain from across central Europe, a mixture of the Germanic peoples in the north, the Slavs in the East, and the Hellenic people in the South. These tribes belonged to the Roman Empire and spoke Celtic languages most closely related to present-day Welsh.
The Welsh language, called Cymraeg, borrows heavily from English today, although it's based on a completely different grammatical system. Only one-eighth of Welsh people speak Welsh as a first language. The language is one of the most difficult in the world to learn. If you want to tell a Welsh girl (or boy) that you love her (or him), it's said "dw I'n dy garu di" (doo een duh gar-ee dee). It sounds better in French.
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Let's take a moment to talk about the magical dragon tree plant–once you're done "ooing" and "ahhing," over the mystical and enticing name of this very special plant, that is.
All done? Okay. Good. Now we can move onto why you should be keeping a dragon tree plant, also known as Dracaena massangeana, or the mass cane plant, in your home.
What is a Mass Cane Plant?
This species of the Dracaena plant is a well loved household plant that is best known for its (almost magical) air purifying abilities. It originally hails from deep in the jungles of Madagascar but is well adapted to indoor life when properly cared for. You have probably noticed this popular indoor plant in offices and homes without realizing–it often stands out as being incredibly attractive, but there's more to it than that!
Why You Need a Mass Cane Plant
If you enjoy the pleasant ambiance that indoor plants can bring to the home or office but are looking for one that can offer both beauty and functionality, the mass cane plant is the indoor plant for you. The plant itself is striking with its tall, woody stalks and sharp emerald bundles of high-perched, leafy-green clusters that almost resemble a plot of miniature palm trees when potted.
But this plant isn't all looks! The dragon tree plant is also well adept at filtering harmful household pollutants out of the air, especially xylene and trichloroethylene which can both cause significant risk to human health. Its use isn't as broad-spectrum as a properly installed air purifier, but with a few placed strategically around the house in tandem with other air-purifying house plants, you can build yourself a relatively effective (and quite aesthetically pleasing) home or office air purification system. It's not going to rid the air completely of the type of toxins that cause allergies or asthma, for that you will need a specialized air purifier that's good for asthma sufferers, but it can do a good job of keeping certain toxins to a minimum.
Mass Cane Plant Care
As mentioned, this plant originates from the jungle climates of Madagascar, so it's important to care for it properly if you want it to thrive and grow in the home or office environment. Luckily, the plant doesn't require too much maintenance. They naturally grow lower down on the jungle floor, so they need a mixture of light and shade–but please, no direct sunlight!
The plant should be potted in standard potting soil or hydroculture. Try to keep the soil moist but not overly-saturated by watering once a week, and water less frequently in the winter. There is no need to feed this plant. It thrives best at temperatures between 60-75°F.
If desired, the individual stalks of the plant can be braided together to create an aesthetically pleasing affect as it grows and ages. The brades may loosen over time, but the plant is resilient–simply unbraid the loose braids and re-braid over time. Tie the plant with gardening tape or wire to keep braids in place.
As the plant matures, some of the leaves will begin to go yellow in color. This is completely normal–just make sure to trim off the dying leaves to keep your aging plant healthy.
Mass Cane Plant Placement
If you notice your plant's leaves turning brown or grey rather than yellow, this is a sign that the conditions are too cold, not that the plant is dying. Try to move the plant to a warmer environment. Remember, after all, that the mass cane is a tropical plant and needs to live in conditions that simulate its natural environment. If you notice that your plant's leaves begin to curl up and inwards, it is receiving too much sunlight and is attempting to protect itself! So be a pal and move it somewhere better shaded.
You can really place this plant anywhere you would like as long as you keep in mind that it does need to be in a semi-shaded environment. We also recommend keeping this plant on the ground as they can grow to be up to 6 feet in height! A corner space or open area next to your desk are examples of ideal locations to keep the cane plant, but feel free to get more creative.
Pet Alert!
Something important to keep in mind if you have furry friends is that the dragon plant can be harmful and even poisonous to cats and dogs. Its leaves contain toxic compounds known as saponins which can cause vomiting with blood, lethargy, loss of appetite, excessive salivation and dilated pupils in cats and dogs–so it's important to keep Rover at bay. So it might be better for pet owners to get a real air purifier. If you do decide to keep one of these plants in a household where pets are a part of the family, place them in rooms that your pets do not have access to or block off the plant area with with a pet gate.
There are so many house plant options to choose from when you walk into the gardening section that it can be overwhelming. Hopefully, you now feel a bit more confident in making your indoor house plant decision. The Dragon Plant is a great option for those looking for both beauty and air purification qualities, so why not pick up one (or a few) today!


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This past April, representatives from Junior's Place of Hope (JPOH) were invited to attend the Pan-African Congress on Autism in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference took place from April 25th to April 27th. As Vice President, I was looking forward to learning more about new research in the field and to presenting the stellar work that JPOH is doing.
These goals were accomplished, and more! It was invigorating to meet other passionate parents, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and people living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), All of us are working towards the same goal – destigmatize autism and increase awareness of local efforts to address the needs of people living with ASD. Bring on next year's conference!
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With Coronavirus Spreading, Now Is Not The Time For Restrictions On Animal Research
The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in China is rapidly turning into a global public health emergency. More than 200 people have died. Thousands of cases have been reported across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. More than 100 people in the United States are being tested for the infection.
Fortunately, several U.S. companies are working to develop a vaccine. Two of those firms say they'll be able to begin testing in animals within a month.
The fight against the Wuhan coronavirus is only the latest example of how crucial animal research is to medical advances. And yet, just over half of Americans oppose animal research, according to the Pew Research Center.
Perhaps an animal-derived coronavirus vaccine will change their minds.
Coronaviruses are respiratory illnesses that incubate in livestock. Once these viruses cross the species barrier, from animal to human, they can be transmitted from human to human.
Researchers now believe that the Wuhan coronavirus was first transmitted to humans from a live wildlife market that has since been shut down. They are working to trace the animal origin of the virus in order to better understand how it spread among wild animals, who in turn infected humans.
The first major modern coronavirus outbreak came in 2003, with " Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" -- commonly called "SARS." Emerging from the Guangdong province in southern China, SARS ultimately infected 8,000 people and claimed roughly 800 lives.
Fast-forward to the summer of 2012. Another deadly coronavirus popped up in the Middle East. This variant -- "MERS," for " Middle East Respiratory Syndrome" -- was especially vicious, killing one of every three people it infected.
Research in animals has shown how the coronavirus that causes MERS can adapt to infect new species. One experiment involving 16 bat species discovered that the virus could not efficiently enter cells with receptors from the common vampire bat. After several generations, the virus eventually evolved to adapt to those vampire bat receptors.
Scientists believe these and other findings related to the different types of coronaviruses could help develop a vaccine.
Vaccines for many other infectious diseases have their genesis in animal research.
Consider the measles vaccine, which has saved about 20 million lives over just the last two decades. In the 1960s, scientists experimented with cell cultures extracted from chick embryos. They refined the vaccine over seven years of animal research before packaging it with vaccines for mumps and rubella in 1971.
Or take the polio vaccine. The virus used to kill thousands of children each year. After nearly 40 years of research in monkeys and mice, scientists produced an effective vaccine in the 1950s. That vaccine has prevented 18 million people from becoming paralyzed -- and saved the lives of an estimated 1.5 million children.
In recent years, animal research has delivered vaccines much more quickly. In 2013, a vicious Ebola strain popped up in Africa and quickly grew into a pandemic. Existing treatments proved ineffective; the virus ended up killing 11,000 people.
The Public Health Agency of Canada immediately set to work developing a better vaccine using research with macaque monkeys. That work has generated a miracle -- a new treatment that's 100 percent effective.
When Ebola re-emerged in the Congo in 2018, the World Health Organization quickly dispensed the new vaccine, prevented another pandemic, and saved thousands of lives.
The end of the coronavirus outbreak is not yet in sight. But that end, when it arrives, will be the product of animal research.
Matthew R. Bailey is president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research.
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Swtorcrafter's Top Ten Info Drops From SDCC 2011
After the flood of info from San Diego Comic Con came in I decided to have some fun with it and ponder just what was my top ten info releases for me personally. I start with number ten and work my way to the one I felt to be personally the coolest. I wonder if your interests are similar to mine, or if you have even seen all this stuff yet?
# TEN: In game camera droid perk from the collectors edition. This thing is very cool and it surprises me as well. It is something I had no clue about and shows Bioware's creativity to me once again. I am excited to see what is possible with this device. Hopefully I will find ways to cleverly integrate it into something I might do in the future with this site.
# NINE: Special VIP store location to purchase items, only available to purchasers of the Collector's Edition. This was also something I felt was very cool, and as a CE buyer I am looking forward to this. I feel very rewarded by this because I spent the extra money to support this company by buying their most expensive offering, so I in turn don't mind being rewarded for that.
I just hope it remains this way in that only CE buyers will be able to access this vendor and that they don't give access to others in the future who did not spend the extra cash to have the ability. One of the best ways to give an item value is to create exclusivity through scarcity as we are reminded by Damion Schubert Lead Systems Designer, let's hope they stick to this strategy and don't ruin its exclusivity later down the road.
# EIGHT: More definite launch time frame given as "Holiday 2011". This is something that makes me happy because it perfectly falls in line with my own personal belief that I have had and stuck to for over a year and a half now. I have personally believed and speculated that we would have a Nov-Dec 2011 release and now that seems like a certainty based on this info.
*Rampant Speculation Here Folks*
If I had to hazard a guess based on this new info, I would say that the game will most likely release on black Friday the 25th or on the Tuesday after the Thanksgiving holiday the 29th, because we all know big games get released on Tuesday right? 🙂
There, I said it, now I am on record with a guess. Barring any major difficulties turning up in the beta testing, I could see this being a reality. Keep in mind though this is just a guess and is not based on any information other than speculation and careful watching of the games development, and hands on time at Bioware Studios and at cons and so on, so I could be totally wrong.
#SEVEN: Companion customization options and AI abilities. Based on the new info we got from Dallas Dickenson we now know that we will be able to customize our companions in lots of ways. From the standard skin color and physical features, we will also get full control over the gear they wear. That will allow us to create the look they have with their equipped gear.
This will go a long way in allowing us to make our companions have a different look than everyone else, a big plus in my book. This is one of the smartest moves they have made with the companions to date and because of great tester feedback they decided to add it to the game.
(It also gives me a couple of ideas as to how this can be used to our advantage that I do not think they have thought of, but that's food for another article coming in the Swtorcrafter, crafter article series.) 😉
Then they also said that they have re-visited the companion AI giving the player more control and options in the way that they handle their companions due to feedback from testing, way to go testers! I am just hoping now that it is at least similar to the AI control abilities we had in Dragon Age, that would be awesome.
#SIX: The new mounts, and customization options that exist for them. This one really made me happy and very hopeful. For one thing the speeder bikes looked awesome I cannot wait to get one of those. The land speeder it was said was a mount that only a fully maxed out character would possess. The STAP aka the "segway" was OK in my opinion. I will use it but I will be going to a speeder bike as soon as possible, and then on to a land speeder unless there is something cooler still under wraps.
Some of the big news to me about these items is that we will have the ability to upgrade the armor on the mounts and the weapons and shields of the space mini game ships that you will use. It was said that the armor upgrades on the mounts would allow you to stay on the mount longer while using it, as you are receiving damage from mobs or possibly other players trying to PVP you off it I would assume.
The weapon and shield upgrades on the space mini game ship you use would allow you to do better in the instanced space mini games, allowing you to deal more damage and take more as you upgrade.
One thing about all this that was not mentioned was where or how you will acquire these "upgrades". Will they be looted or possibly, will they allow us to craft these items through one of the crew skills? As a true crafter I have to be excited about this because I hold the hope that they will allow the crafters to have exclusivity to these items, only allowing them to be acquired through something like the "Underworld Trading" crew skill maybe? There is a situation from the lore I can remember where parts for pod racers had to be acquired this way. Please give crew skills the power to create these items Bioware!
# FIVE: The announcement that the planet Illum will be for endgame lvl 50 solo content. Honestly I do not know what to make of this. The endgame content I understand but the "solo" part throws me??? This is very interesting and I will have to get more information on this soon.
# FOUR: Advanced class re-specs are in the game! This one is a big one for me. We have speculated for quite some time that they would eventually have to allow this. For a long time they have been sticking to their guns and saying that they didn't want to allow it. To be realistic though they need to because so many people that are going to be playing this game have become accustomed to this feature in so many other mmo's and will not want to live without the option.
Me personally I am glad. I am one of those types of gamers that has grown familiar with this mechanic and I love the ability. It allows me to be flexible and be able to try other play styles out without having to delete characters or re-roll every time the mood strikes me. They will not be free however, and they will come with a credit cost per use of the ability that will increase with each time you use it. That's fine with me however I think it is a great way to keep it from being over used, making it a more important choice when it is done.
# THREE: The announcement that the legacy system is still in the game. I am a sucker for this kind of thing. Although they really didn't go into too much detail with this one they did say that possibly it involves re-rolling a maxed out character and taking them through the leveling process again to have the ability to access new races or ? Not really sure what this system involves at the present time but honestly when have we? This has been one of their closest guarded secrets, even going so far as to imply that it was not in the game to throw us off the trail. What ever the case I am very glad to know this is in the game.
# TWO: Announcement of the beta weekends in September. I was very happy to hear this because it means that things are progressing and that we will finally be able to get into beta soon. Hopefully someone at Bioware will hear our plea and get us in there. I am about to die to test this game and the crew skills system. Cant hold on much longer……..
*akkkkkkkkk falls on floor feigning death hoping someone at Bioware will see and have mercy*
# ONE: Pre order announcement with early access perk. For me the single most important reveal of the show. This is the sound of the choo choo off in the distance. This is the flag that when raised lets you know the end is close at hand. This is what we have waited for, for over three years now. There is no turning back at this point I already have my collectors edition ordered and code registered. The CE set itself is a masterpiece, it is chocked full of awesome items that I cant wait to have displayed in my collection, and if that wasn't enough the early access perk as well is a great thing indeed.
I know there are a lot of people that do not like this sort of thing with certain people getting access to the game early but I sure do like it. I think it is not only a blast for me but it is also good business sense allowing them to spread the population out initially and not have us all hit at once on launch day causing server crashes and log in queue's. This is a smart practice that more companies should take under consideration.
Those are my top ten info drops from Comic Con in San Diego this year, what are yours?
Thanks for reading! 🙂
17 Responses to "Swtorcrafter's Top Ten Info Drops From SDCC 2011"
# grenithon 24 Jul 2011 at 11:20 pm
credit lock on AC respec is an even worse decision than the allowing of said respec, gold farming sites will be drooling from here to launch over that bit of news, personally i hope they end up putting a limited number on that respec npc 4 or 5 times sound good to me, since they insist on allowing it.
I have been looking forward to your thoughts on the event. #9 is interesting, as the ability to customize your toon is a money maker in all genre's. As a gamer it interests me to have access to it, as a crafter it actually dissapoints me. I'd rather see the playing community relying on the crafting community for these sought after customizations to spur the give and take of the economy.
# Daeldaon 25 Jul 2011 at 3:09 am
#8 – I will have to say that the chances of a November 25th (Friday) Launch are *highly* improbable! Not only is it the biggest shopping day of the year in the USA, but it is also right before a weekend – thus ensuring a *hammering* of the Servers. Not a good plan, in my opinion.
Tuesdays are almost always MMO Launch days. In addition, I think that EA will want to have the game out and already in play for Black Friday. Thus, my personal speculation would be that Launch will be either November 8th, 15th, or possibly the 22nd, but no later (not counting Early Access).
hehehe …. I am one selfish crafter to be sure 🙂
you know when #9 came out for a split second I thought it would be a store in your pocket. Like in a few other games, a traveling sales point. The selfish crafter in me thought "Damn stright, now I can never worry about bag space, and anything white, grey, etc I can sell and never worry about it" but sadly it seems I was just projecting.
# prenerfedon 25 Jul 2011 at 6:16 pm
On AC respecs: They mentioned that the first time you change your AC there it will be fairly easy, but afterwards it will be difficult to do. That doesn't sound like they're just using escalating credit cost. I really hope it's something significant to the story, like a solo-only quest or something rare that you have to find, kill, or accomplish, rather than just visiting an NPC and giving them some money (and NOT using a huge gathered materials cost either, because that's just a slightly larger money-sink really). Expensive =/= Difficult, at least not when those gold/credit farmers inevitably get involved.
However, escalating credit costs have been confirmed as the method for respeccing your talents within your current AC. Need to be sure those are two different kinds of respecs.
Legacy System: I think it's for new characters you roll up after you get your first 50, or reach some other threshold beyond 50…? For awhile I thought they might release additional playable species through a cash store, but I like this option better if that's what the Legacy System does.
As for everything else: I ordered my CE within moments of reading about the goodies it contains! =D
# Endeeon 25 Jul 2011 at 8:04 pm
CE edition was sold out by the time I got around to pre-ordering(I pre-order the day it was announced), so I was a little bummed out but went with the digital deluxe. I think it would be fare to give the digital deluxe buyers the CE Store and the Mouse Droid as we are paying more than the standard Ed. buyers and we are not receiving any physical items at all. O well at least I get all the other in-game goodies and hope they don't just give them out to everyone else in a few months time after release.
I like the suggestion for AC respecs where you would say have to do a quest chain before you can respec to the other AC. Here's hoping BW hears that suggestion.
# MrWarlockon 26 Jul 2011 at 1:09 am
The Con was a blast and all good reveals, and more than I could of hoped for.
The legacy system will be very interesting if the ship with race abilitys. It may make the re-roll very important to end game.
Totally stocked about the solo world. Very few mmos offer good solo content outside crafting. Being as I spend more time than most playing this gives me something extra to do when I wait for a good team to raid with.
# Daeldaon 27 Jul 2011 at 10:14 pm
I am *extremely* excited about the announced Solo World! I am disabled, and thus I am able to play 40+ hours a week. This is great in many ways, but after a while, I just get TIRED of being in groups and want to Solo for a while. A world where I can go to do just that – Paradise!
# BloggingTORon 27 Jul 2011 at 10:31 pm
Thanks for all of the good information. I can't wait to start playing!
The only weird thing about the holocam is that what is going to make it different than using print-screen? Is it going to take still images and give them a holo-feed effect? I don't know, but I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.
I somehow missed that mounts are going to have shields in all of my data mining. Sounds interesting. I like that better than making it so that mounts are all different speeds. Would be nice if we could customize their appearance.
I also didn't realize that Illum was going to be the solo planet although I heard that there was a world dedicated to endgame solo content. That's pretty cool because I really like this planet lore-wise. It only makes sense since the best lightsaber crystals are found on that planet.
# Joeyon 28 Jul 2011 at 12:14 am
Unfortunately, SWTOR has to deal with being the new SW IP. So it has to deal with the most whiny and childish MMO fanbase in the form of Star Wars Galaxies.
I am pretty sure they are going to complain over and over onthe CE vendor, the two extra items in game. If Bioware can ignore their continued rants than they may have something special. SWG fanbase won't be happy until they have a full clone of their boriing game.
# The Foundation for Microtransactions in TORon 29 Jul 2011 at 6:22 pm
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# Smarfon 02 Aug 2011 at 1:34 pm
While the Collector's Edition VIP store is a so-so thing, I don't want you to get your hopes up. The producers stated at Comic-Con that it basically sold the same geared stats you could get elsewhere but with a different skin. So while it's cool and all, it's not mindblowing.
I'd rather have something like Rift did with their collectors edition, where the items are practical and useful to every character you make:
– Trinket that gives 20% experience increase up to level 20.
– Mount that can you use way before others can get a mount, it also scales speed with others you get.
– Larger backpack.
Most of the ToR stuff is cosmetic or vanity related, which gets old once you see everyone else with one.


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what are backlinks
A backlink is formed when one website mentions another website on their website through a clickable link.
Alternatively, you can say when a webpage link to another webpage from a different domain is called a backlink.
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Why backlinks are important
Search engines like google consider the 200 ranking factors to rank any website in SERP. Backlinks are one of those.
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Improve organic ranking & helps in faster indexing
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It's a sort of vote or recommendation for the search engine. However, getting a backlink from the authoritative website from your niche is important.
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Blog comment links
You can get Backlink by commenting on the blog. Blog commenting is the oldest method of getting a backlink, and it still works.
It's very simple. Find some blog in your niche and make meaningful comments on any post; don't just say thanks or a great post.
Try to comment on the article and add value to the post. It's better to get a link from your niche websites.
Guest post links
You can get a backlink by writing a post on another website. If the website owner allows adding a link to your website in the post you can get a backlink from there.
It is better to find a website in your niche for guest posting. Try to write an article that adds value to their website.
Don't just write for the sake of getting a backlink. Try to provide value so you can get a backlink and referral traffic.
Lots of debate going on these days whether to do a guest post for a link or not.
However, if you do it in the right way, the white hat way, then it's a great way to get a backlink for your website
You can get a backlink through the forum also. You can sign up in any forum related to your niche.
Interact with members there. Try to solve their problems.
Consider domain authority or spam score of the forum before signup. Try to remain active in the forum, and don't ever spam with your link
Backlink from resource pages
Many websites these days have a resource page. Check If in your niche resource page exists.
Webmasters use to link important tools or service providers that they consider useful for their visitors.
Backlinks from testimonials
You can get a Backlink through the testimonial page.
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So, in that case, you can get a backlink from there from your profile if you want. Usually, testimonials are on the home page.
Backlinks through infographics or images
If you can create a unique and great-looking infographic, it not only will help you get more shares on social media.
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Editorial backlinks
This type of link can give you great authority and traffic. Backlinks from authoritative news websites like the Guardian and Forbes can come under this category.
Niche directories
Not all directories are good, so carefully choose before getting a link from directories.
Only pick directories with a good reputation if you submit your blog or website to poor directories.
Then you are doing more harm to your website than good. So again, I will suggest you choose a directory carefully before submitting
Do keep this in mind before planning a backlink strategy
- Don't be in a hurry or hire someone who can give you bulk backlink building service
- Focus on quality backlinks, not quantity poor backlinks
- Have Natural-looking backlinks
- Building quality backlinks take time & great effort
- Not all backlinks are good so choose them carefully
- Try to get backlinks from relevant websites in your niche
- Do not spam anywhere or anybody to have Backlink no benefit at all.
- Do follow Backlink
Do follow link allows search engines to follow links. It will give link juice. If the link is do-follow, then both search engines & humans can follow you through that link
No-follow Backlink
As opposed to the do-follow link no-follow link does not allow the search engine to follow the link. It does not pass link juice & will only give a no-follow backlink
Anchor text
Anchor text is clickable visible text with a hyperlink. Usually, it's blue, but the webmaster can change its color.
Internal links
Internal links are hyperlinks that point to the same domain; it's a link within the website to its own page.
It's going from one page on a domain to a different page on the same domain. It helps the user to navigate a website, establish hierarchy, and spread link juice to all pages of the website
Low-quality links or bad backlinks
A bad backlink comes from an irrelevant and untrusted website. From a site that is violating google webmaster guidelines.
It's advisable to check the website background before you plan to get a backlink from it.
Websites that are penalized by search engines won't do good for your website
Linking root domain
It's some unique domains linking to your website. you may get multiple backlinks from any website, but it will be counted as one linking root domain
Link juice
Link juice is the value passed from one page to another. It is passed through hyperlinks from one website to another, allowing the search engine to follow that link.
As search engine sees it as a vote by another website to link.
It thinks it is valuable information that others are referring to & promoting too on their websites
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