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England defender Lucy Bronze says her side are not nervous ahead of Wednesday's Women's World Cup semi-final clash against Japan.BBC Sport » 4h
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Melissa wrote:
> > I recorded tonight's episode (thank you for not giving away spoilers,
> > btw.)
> Ack! Ok, well, there's this longish scene where the captain and Malcolm
> walk around a cave with flashlights. The music is very energetic, but
> really, it's just two guys in a cave with flashlights. (That's not too
> much of a spoiler is it?)
Too late! I just finished the episode! :)
My taping stopped right after the preview of next week's episode. So I
guess no Linux commercial for me... :(
Two guys in a cave with flashlights *is* dramatic when there are people
chasing 'em and you don't know who they are and whether they're gonna get
out and is wondering how the heck T'pal's tricorder can figure out things
and theirs can't and then why they don't all use the vulcan tricorders or
at least make theirs better or how the heck she has vulcan issue
tricorders when she uses earth pistols, and by that time you realize the
captain's out of the cave and why one of his men is stuck in there and you
think about how badly you'd feel if you were a captain in charge of
someone and that someone was left behind and you'd wanna trade places if
you could but can't and....
You know how the waiting makes the phone conversation with your loved one
that much sweeter? Thinking about her (or him) as you're waiting by
the phone, wondering what she'll say this time around, whether she is
thinking about you, wondering whether she'll even call, or whether she
feels the same way about you as you do. What is she wearing
today or did she go to work as she normally does, counting every minute
and second because you wanna hear that phone ring but that darn thing
doesn't and all you feel like is screaming but you know you can't because
the neighbors might start knocking on the door, and that'd be horrible
because then you'd have to answer that door and you wouldn't be able to
answer her call, so you keep yourself calm for that call but all you can
do is wait because it's still not ringing.
It's the drama...
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Captain Richard Phillips and the Pirates
"I got probably 50 feet. I popped up and took a look around. The moon was fully out, and it was very light. I said, 'Oh s—,' because they'd see my head. I went right back down. I could see them spinning around and yelling, and they were seeing me, and I started doing the crawl toward the Navy ship as fast as I could …"
The pirates moved to where Phillips was swimming. He tried to hide beneath the boat.
"I went back underwater and [the pirates and the lifeboat] are doing circles, and I went from going side to side up and down in the water to listening to footsteps. I was underneath the boat [holding on] by the cooling tubes … I could hear talking, yelling, and arguing, people running around the boat, so when I heard them coming, I'd go to the other side, and I'd hear them come [and] go back to the other side … I was hoping they'd give up. Eventually I popped up, and there was a guy right there, and he took a shot at my head and I said, 'Okay, okay, you got me.' They were irate, screaming, swearing. They kicked, hit, slapped, whacked me with the revolver …"
As the hours stretched into days, tensions aboard the lifeboat intensified. The pirates' leader, sensing impending trouble, arranged to be taken aboard the Bainbridge "to negotiate." President Obama had authorized the Navy to use whatever force necessary to free Phillips if his life was in imminent danger. On Sunday, April 12, a gunshot rang out in the lifeboat. The Navy saw an AK-47 aimed at the captain's back. Three concealed Navy SEAL snipers were ready.
"There was animosity building [among the pirates]. Then a shot went off, and the young crazy guy went up to the cockpit, just disgusted, and the other two went up to assure the Navy that everything was all right, no problem. They did something then that they'd never done. And that was the first time, unbeknownst to one another, [that] all of a sudden they were all seen. The military took its chance and gratefully so … I was lucky. I could have died. But I'm alive. So I'm ahead of the game …
"When I came [aboard] the Bainbridge, the men and women on the ship tried to tell me how much of a media maelstrom it was and the eyes that were on it throughout the world, and I couldn't believe it. Because I can remember just sitting in the lifeboat, saying, 'I'm in trouble, Rich. I'm in the middle of nowhere with four pirates. I'm in a tough spot. How am I gonna get out of this one? And who knows I'm here?' So I was just ambushed by [the media attention]. I just couldn't believe it … It was as surreal being at home as it was on the lifeboat, to be honest. I tell people this, and I really mean it: I think Andrea had it worse with the media than I did with the four pirates. I mean, I knew what I was dealing with.
"I was asked a few days ago, 'Do you wish it had never happened?' Two months after the incident, it was 'Okay, I'm not gonna wish it didn't happen,' but now, [eight] months later, yeah, I wish it had never happened. I'd be fine just keeping on the way I was. But you don't get to make that choice …
"I stopped answering the phone. Because it would just ring from 6 in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. I'm just getting over that. A month and a half into it, [Andrea and I] had this conversation up on our bed: 'We can just walk away; we don't have to do anything anyone says. No one tells us what to do.' Andrea and I got together [and decided], 'We can't do everything. Let's do things we like to do. Let's do things that can help people. Let's do things locally.' … So that was our criterion. And we got to the point that I said, 'Hey, if we're feeling this bad about this, let's just walk away from everything. Let's just go back to work. No book. No movie. And refuse everything …'
"A SEAL gave me this advice. He said, 'When you get home for the first month, don't make a decision … Then take advantage of your opportunities. Pay for your kids' college. Pay your mortgage. You went through a tough time. Get something out of it.' … I know it's a good story. And we don't have a lot of good stories out there …
"I honestly thought I'd be back to work two weeks after I got off the lifeboat. I really don't know [my future]. And that's the most unsettling thing for me, because before, it was just the known, and now it's a lot of unknowns, and that's what is different for me. Where will I end up going from here? If it's back to sea, I have no problem with that.


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Dublin's The Dudley Corporation return to the UK in May and June after a successful debut tour of these shores and excellent reviews for their second album, 'In Love With The Dudley Corporation'.
Support from a plethora of media, including OK! magazine of all things, has enabled Dudley and his chums to take a little Springtime trek around Scotland, before heading south in June for a trio of English dates.
28th Glasgow Stereo with Large Mound and Pan
29th Aberdeen Dr Drakes with Large Mound
30th Edinburgh Subway with Large Mound
24th London 93 Feet East with Large Mound and The Tycho Brahe
25th Brighton TBC with Large Mound and The Tycho Brahe
26th Birmingham TBC with Large Mound and The Tycho Brahe
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text: I was 8 when the first of my 2 sister were raped. I found out when my 2nd sister was raped when I was 14. It was hard to even think about sex in a good way at first when sex is what hurt my sister. I went to one of the first ever counseling groups for family of raped and abused victims. They included fathers, husbands, brothers, boyfriends. to make a long story short, in our first meeting changed my life forever. In the middle of the meeting after a few expressed our anger and wanting to kill the rapist, the monitor. Said I have your experience, so I know how you feel. And have thought of doing the same thing many times. Until I realized my wife needed me more. I had to decide did I love my wife and do what she needed more then I hated the man that hurt her, and get revenge. If we got revenge most likely we would not get away with it and go to jail. Which my sister might have blamed herself because I said I did it for her. For the next 25+ years I became a rape and abuse counselor. Fighting for my sisters, and everyone else's mothers, sisters, wife's, brothers, and children both boys and girls. It is not as bad as it was in 1972, when the judge told my sister; quote, what do you expect from a red blooded man when you wear sexy clothes. First, how she was dressed should never had mattered, even thought her waitress dress was an inch above her knee, and in those days called a mini skirt. Also the man who raped my sister was the pizza delivery man, and never went into the bar she worked in. I with a lot of help fought to change things. I took training and lectured on rape and abuse in high schools. I also counseled girl, women, boys men personally who were assaulted. Things got a lot better, but still needed more to be done. It appeared to be 70% better then when I started, but in the last few years it has slipped backwards about 10%. Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing to stop it.


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Sticks and guards of bone/ivory, painted in bodycolour, varnished and gilt (28+2). The head of each guard is strengthen with tortoiseshell. Blue ribbon concealed by paper painted in two shades of blue. Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washer. Front: Within an horizontal oval reserve with a gilt frame, a gentleman and lady are seated on a see-saw in a garden, watched by another standing on the right. On each side there is a smaller, vertical oval reserve with an ogee top, similarly framed, containing a lady with her left arm raised, standing in a landscape. The ground is decorated en camaieu in blue, and in blue, green and buff, with buildings and landscapes. At the shoulder there is a horizontal gold border, decorated in black with crosses, below which are four Chinese figures: a boy holding a parasol over a seated figure, flanked by seated Chinamen in oval panels. The head is undecorated. Reverse: Three reserves similar in shape to those on the front are outlined in red. The central panel contains a tree and grass against sky, the flanking panels are outlined in black with a lady holding up her left arm, standing in a landscape. The background is outlined in black with buildings in landscape. Below the shoulder there is a spray of red flowers and foliage. Guards: On both sides, horizontal bands of decoration including a flower, a seated Chinaman ,green, red and blue diaper.
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Sticks and guards of bone/ivory, painted in bodycolour, varnished and gilt (28+2). The head of each guard is strengthen with tortoiseshell. Blue ribbon concealed by paper painted in two shades of blue. Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washer.
length: (guards): 21.2
1st half 18th century
circa 1720 to 1740
bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
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Diablo III Loot Comparison - PC vs Console
Erick played through Diablo III on both PC and Console to compare the quality and frequency of the loot drops.
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That's Blizzard's way to fuck with PC people... you know, the people that played their games for more than 20 years. Thanks Blizzard, you're the fucking best... NOT!
Having a blast with my 360!
Lost all my Legendary Bows and Crossbows..on my PS3. After playing Multiplayer. Gahd..jealous people out there. =\
Hope The exansion isnt suppose to be bought :_) Since they fucked up the game so much
i played diablo 2 for about 10 years on the pc and i barely got any legendary loot, nor did i complete any set.
Funny. When this pathetic excuse of a game called Diablo 3 came out on PC with all the ridiculous stuff Blizzard shoved into everybody's faces I came to this very comment space and said some truths about it. I've almost got banned for that while getting offended by several fanboys. Now I see gamespot video demonstrating how abusive was Blizzard towards PC players and I see people massively agreeing and saying "Blizzard isn't the same". That's exactly why more and more traditional gaming companies do not respect players anymore.
@jacypThey realised world is full of sheeps, so they don't need to hear the fools coz they're genius and they proved it, respect word is insult for them, but the time will come when they'll show the sainity like beggers.
i don't see anymore the real players, now a days the players are "Mom Mom i want diablo 3 game" mom: "but son you don't know how to play" son: "whatever, i just want it" game companies make cash by such kiddos, in such situation i don't think they ever passed beside of RESPECT.
I have been saying since day 1 how Blizzard screwed up Diablo 3. This is a big part of that. The auction house was a blatant money grab by Blizzard, they were trying to turn Diablo into their new cash cow. It turned out they basically wrecked the game instead. The console version is what the PC version should have been from the start. It is sad that PC Diablo fans were terribly abused by Blizzard. At least they are finally moving in the right direction here. Too bad it took them years to make this change.
With the cancer that's the Auction House extirpated and the Loot "2.0" update in the future, we might be seeing a decent overhaul on PC... next year.
Enjoying the game in PS3!!
Played the PC version since day 1, and I found 3, MAYBE 4 legendaries in total. 1 I found twice, the other(s) were unique. The only found one I still have is weak compared with others of it's kind, but it's the best helm for my DH that I've found in all my time playing. All other legendaries I own were bought from the GAH at rock bottom prices (except my bow: that was given to me by a friend)!
With almost a quarter million kills and a little shy of 9000 elite kills, I think I've tried. And now, I think I will be getting the XBox version since it seems so much more loot friendly, and I have friends who will actually play it... no-one I know plays the PC version anymore. It was fun while it lasted!
From Erick's comments, it almost seems like the reason the console gets better drops is because it's harder to play the game on a console and you need the look to compensate for that. He stated it gave him loot "when he was struggling", while he said that on the PC "It felt easy, even though [he] didn't have that many rares."
Therefore, from this experiment, it seems the real takeaway is that the PC has better controls or balancing or something while the consoles have better loot to make up for it.
@dbb00kw0rm Bad wording I suppose. Game's easy either way.
and sheeps still wana play it on PC,.... a very big slap on the face of PC users,.... 1st it was online (which make it MMO) and now loot comparison make it worst.
@Naswari Some people don't have consoles and can't afford to buy a console. Personally, I bought it for PC when it first came out and while I never got a legendary, I had plenty of rares drop.
@dbb00kw0rm PC players are elite, whatever they get that become a walk in the park for pc players, but my points are GREED & INEQUITY.
I agree ,i ve played about 150-200 hours on PC version ,and i got only one legendary item WTF???????After that i quit it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol what a slap in the face to those of us that play their games and have on PC, blizzard blows.
The loot SUCKS in PC. In the other Diablo games, you can actually use grey stuff once in a while. PC -- hell no, all grey is trash. Why even put it in the game? Now I play Path of the Exile, and it's way better, and it was free. WTF Blizzard :/
The game was geared towards making users use the auction house take out the auction house what do u get just some light adventure thats linear bah I may get this on console when its twenty bux but other then that not worth sixty dollars...
fuck you blizzard
I own the PC version and i am not satisfied (atm) with it.so all i need now is a medallion that gives me +500% patients.
I have this on both PC and PS3 and I must say the loot system in the PS3 version is much better!
@GH05T-666 i enjoy it more for consoles myself after playing the pc version.
I have this on PC and I'll admit I had fun with it. However, when I played online with characters that were at my level (lvl 30), they were a thousands times more powerful than me. Point is, for them to be that powerful (and still only lvl 30) they had to have purchased their gear at the AH. If they grinded for that stuff, they wouldn't have only been a level 30.
I then downloaded the D3 demo for PS3 and I gotta say, I would take that any day. Just the control scheme worked so much better. Endless clicking seems like a really stupid way to control a character. It reminds me of when Doom first came out and we controlled the character entirely with the mouse. Anyone remember pushing the mouse forward over and over and over again to make the character move forward?
I'll just say it, D3 works so much better on consoles with better loot. In fact, I'm not really sure what the point of grinding is. If I have to beat the same boss 100 times to get one legendary item, by the time I get it, I'm bored of the game.
I guess I'm not a "Diablo purist". Flame me if you want, I've got better ways to spend my time than endlessly grinding.
@93ChevyNut I recently finished Inferno on the PC version, then picked up the Ps3 one. You're dead right. I'll be playing Reaper of Souls on Ps3, ta very much.
Ive been grinding for weeks with my 60 (11) Monk and not a single legendary dropped on PC... its pretty amazing.. lol but when a legendary drops its the best feeling ever... except for when the random stats sucks so bad that it's not even an upgrade...
@Sharkspawn80 The problem for me is that all legendary sucks, I get normally 3 to 5 legendary in 2 to 3 hours of game, but all of them sucks. some not even worth to sell.
The loot was so common on console that the game became ridiculously easy. Inferno was actually easier than normal. That is no exaggeration. Console would make any veteran player of the PC version sick.
uninstalled this piss of shit long time ago...and will never ever buy another game from this new blizzard
@commander1122 SC2 is awesome
@commander1122 when march the 14th hits just pretend you have a new game to play :P.
And as far as RTS goes SC2 still wears the crown proudly.
its not about getting loot
its about getting loot relevant to your character
@aesir05 I say both. But relevant loot is indeed more of priority.
All i heard was PC has to work for their loot while consoles get it handed to them on a silver plate... Think i'll stick to the PC loot.
@somahound @Kisalon Since you started off with the name calling i'll go on... All i heard there was Uhh im an idiot.... I was talking BESIDE the AH which will be gone soon anyways.. and why the fuck would i want to dodge roll? you suck so much you NEED to use evade? Learn to cap your stats mate.
@Kisalon You are SO wrong. I have played with a monk LvL 60 paragon 18 and guess what? Never had anything good and i have work the shit out of it. Why nothing? go buy something on the market you idiot. That's what the game is saying. A friend of mine had a mage like, LvL 50 and stronger/better than mine cause he spend 50$ in the market. PC's version is pure garbage. And the console version have a better interface, can make your character dodge roll with the second joystick, can play offline, 2-4 players on the same screen... Fuck PC's version so much.
@dhayter really when? console version of Diablo 3 just shows even more how NOOB friendly consoles need to be compared to PC's
It's insane... rare loot is like regular loot... at the beginning it's a bit pricey, but in few hours you're so rare equipped it's great! And legendaries drop not as often as he made it look... in first wizard play-through on normal-medium I got less than 10 legendaries total... some were actually crap... >.<
But, people who exploit the console duplicating system, you can duplicate legendaries BEFORE you identify them... so with 50 unidentified legendaries in the inventory, you're bound to get amazing ones (since their status are randomized upon identification) , other you either refine for rare materials or send to other characters if you decided to play multiple times with other characters as well.
Yes... I do use duplicating exploit on x360... I'm a lowlife miserable jerk, I know, but I don't care... the duplicating system allows me to play on master 5... I love to lvl up fast!
@Shinteikun theres a console dupe cheat!?! dammit i should stop playin for a bit and start readin a little.
i have to admit that console loot is a bit much. but the PC loot doesn't sound very fun at all. but when you try to higher master levels, you begin to appreciate why lower difficulty loot is as such.
my take on it, Blizzard struck gold with target audience. why? because casual players will most likely enjoy their first few romps pickin up bling left and right whilst those who are using their first 4 runs from normal hard to inferno hard as preparation for the master difficulties will also appreciate that the game didn't consume 60 hours of their lives for nothing.
i'm on inferno hard. hopefully i can gear up enough for my first trip to inferno master 1. i happen to like what i have but im not where i want to be yet. hopefully i can archon wiz up sooner
@ryan_sr97c_1 @Shinteikun there are plenty duplicating videos on youtube! check it up!
Thanks for spoiling all the bosses.
@Ripper_TV Have you been living in a POW camp the past two years?
@Ripper_TV He just showed Diablo, who everyone should know
@ck10304 @Ripper_TV NO. Super spoiler.
your master V is equal to Monster Power 10. I've been there done that thanks.
Grim Dawn > Torchlight II > Path of Exile > Diablo III PC.
I hope the game gets better with Riper of Souls, Loot 2.0 and without the AH.
@RyuRanVII Reaper*
@RyuRanVII diablo 3 PC should not be on a fucking list to begin with
@RyuRanVII A game that isn't even out and has been in development for a stupidly long time (complete with outdated graphics/UI) is somehow at the top of your chart?
I'll go ahead and assume Diablo 2 is too old for you to play anymore.
Personally, I didn't enjoy TL2 that much. Aside from the fact that it had no right-click driving, a key part of Diablo 2 (which I need nowadays to prevent RSI), I just didn't like the theme of the game and the lack of the old barbarian-esque class kinda ruined it for me. Played through the story once and gave it up.
I enjoyed Path of Exile far more than TL2. It is the true Diablo 3 (which I refer to as DIablo 2.5),
As for Diablo 3, there is no denying that the actual combat (ignoring the severely limited amount of skills) is very fun due to its explosive, visceral nature. That's probably the only redeeming factor D3 has. It's a far worse game in every other way than Diablo 2.


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Sahara/ Kyle Cross
As a war propaganda tool, I thought Sahara was an ideal film to promote democracy and patriotism. As the movie moves a long, we learn a lot about intimate details of wives and children connected to the crew of soldiers that was made up of members from such allied powers as France, Great Britain and the United States. These stories really represent what these soldiers are fighting for, freedom for themselves and their family. Sahara really portrays the enemy in a negative way, except for the Italian prisoner, who in a conversation with the German prisoner reveals his true feelings about Benito Mussolini. He talks about how the Italians are like slaves under Mussolini's regime. It was a very anti-authoritarianism moment in the film. The scene in the film where the French soldier is shot in the back as he leaves his negotiation with the German general reaffirms the dirty stereotypes of how Germans fought in battle. Another thing we see from the enemy, is racism and ignorance when the German soldier requests another man to search him besides the Sudanese soldier. Overall, the film successfully sets up a negative stereotype for war methods and attitudes of the axis powers. Sahara also displayed the resilience and dedication of the allied troops throughout their struggle in the desert in a personal way, while the enemy was portrayed in a very impersonal way. The mercy shown by the crew of soldiers towards their fellow soldiers and even the enemy may be unrealistic, but is represented by the scenes where enemy soldiers aren't left for dead in the desert and treated with equal respect.
The Sudanese soldier, who is not amongst the ranks of the U.S. military represents an important role for a minority. He bravely chases down the German pilot before he gets back to his ranks and reveal the secret plan while eventually making the ultimate sacrifice. The only racism towards him comes from the enemy, which probably isn't fair since minorities were segregated by the U.S. These minorities played huge rules in WW2 just like the character in Sahara. I think the absence of women in this film represents their roles on the home front. The roles may not be as visible as those of the soldiers in the film, but without their "behind the scene" contributions the WW2 would have been lost.


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Unidentified material that washed ashore in southwestern Australia and is being examined for any link to the lost Malaysian plane is unlikely to have come from the jet, an official said Wednesday.
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A day after expressing optimism about the hunt for the missing Malaysian jet, Australia's leader warned Saturday that the massive search would likely continue "for a long time."
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Three separate but fleeting sounds from deep in the Indian Ocean offered new hope Sunday in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as officials rushed to determine whether they were signals from the plane's black boxes before their beacons fall silent.
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Originally posted by DMKano
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Originally posted by Iylz
Why would be this good? So every endgamer could complain after few months how boring is endgame because did all over and over again several times? And how would you LEARN to play your character to be able to play at all? Etc etc. Ok, one solution would be that encoders spend all time for zillion of dungeons instead of concentrating on travel part ... but this does not appeal to me.
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Joined: 10/11/11
How about they let there be the option for those of us who like storylines and lore building characters? I personally wouldn't care how many chose not to and skipped to the end, because that is what sony did with heroic characters being level 85. You can buy them in the marketplace with 280 aa baubles for real money now. Some players didn't want to do all of the leveling and were speed/power leveling and buying gold from gold sellers.
So, if you take that out you don't have to support gold sellers and hackers as much anymore. You can make gear attainable with decent 10% or 33% drop rates, and not make gear insanely rare ala WoW's mount drop rate or Everquest 2's early Runnyeye the Gathering healer/tank cloak drop rates.
Make items reasonably attainable in 30 or so runs, not 200 or 1000 runs, and give people the choice if they want to skip ahead or go slowly at their own pace. How can this be done? Well, the game would be level-less with skills attainable and yet not fully required for raiding and grouping.
You could start off with enough skills to raid, sort of like slow somewhat tedious but possible raids, and then build up to new tiers and new raids and fancier skills that make raids faster and easier more exciting and fun, open up more bosses in new wings of that raid...
Not everyone who levels to max level knows how to play the game or cares, because people are always going to be distracted regardless, even if they took 7 years to level their char, they might show up and do terrible at any given raid.
Some people are atrocious at raiding, because to learn how to raid requires raiding, soloing a character to 80 or 100 isn't going to make you a good raider, it makes you a good soloist. Grouping is going to make you a good grouper, and slightly better at raiding, but you're still not necessarily used to teamwork and mass cooperation. By going straight into raiding, they can make raids really challenging and difficult like Everquest 1, and quit making everything boring and easy like on WoW, where players aren't experienced at raiding and are mostly only good at soloing and zerging dungeons.
How can you be raiding, when you have 90 levels of experience at soloing/grouping, but 0 levels of experience at raiding? You should have raid where you can gain experience, and grow as a raider. Now the lore should be there present in everything the raid does, like Everquest 1's planes of power killing the Gods themselves, defeating the Plane of Time, you feel epic and you see the lore right there in the raid. You should loot books from corpses with the lore stories, and see interactive and cinematic cutscenes, watch the npcs show up and talk to you and each other, meanwhile soloists can get the same storyline information from reading books out in the world and doing solo quests/shiny artifact collections etc.
Originally posted by daltanious
Most MMOs don't last that long anyway.
Think of it as an action game. Many SP games have no leveling, and you are "at end game" right from the start. It is really about if the content is fun.
May be playing many different dungeons with only loot progression is fun for some? People played Diablo 1 & 2 just for that for years.
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These raids would have difficulty levels to seperate players, they would still have some equipment ilvl gear score requirements, something that flags you like Everquest 1 etc.
Something like challenge mode only available to player with the achievement from defeating standard mode raid bosses. Not everyone would be able to enter all raids immediately. There would be easier raids for you to learn and grow in, you'd learn your class the obvious way, bothering to read your skills, bothering to experiment and read online, bothering to ask questions, and just plain having fun enjoying the game and creating new strategies to beat raid bosses.
If players aren't cutting it, they can still get kicked like on WoW. You don't need to keep players who are terrible, the bosses would range from easy to extremely hardcore god mode hard.
As long as there are some types of ranking, players would not just waltz in, it isn't any different from getting players in Downfall LFR wearing Timeless Isle gear, who never even did Throne of Thunder LFRs , and just waltzed right in on their brand new level 90 that they only played for about 2 or 3 days.
It is already happening, lets just make use of that kick functionality, and try to communicate tell people what to do, teach them how to raid. People show up all the time not doing their jobs on their max level 90's, so it won't even matter. I'd still level myself through endless solo content like I do now and some groups, because that's what I enjoy, but hey, let us not keep supporting gold sellers and hackers forever, by supporting the power level services and free ebayed max level characters!
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I look at this discussion and all its valid points and I wonder why there's so much of an issue when most games reduce the difficulty, so much so that you can hit end-game faster than installing the game. (exaggeration, but you get my point.)
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Originally posted by soratta
I guess it depends whether you consider leveling content "the important stuff", or not.
Back when dinosaurs roamed, leveling content was "all there was". So us old guys tend to frequently think of it as "the True game". (Capital T on True).
Yet, people keep piling up pressed against the cap...spending more and more time there...way more time than how long it took to cap out...maybe that's "the True game".
And regardless which way your company turns on this particular issue, someone is going to say "ur doin it rong".
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Joined: 10/11/06
How about just no levels. Make it so i can do simple quests on day one of playing a game, or likea real person, make it so i can go journey to a far off place and help kill a big bad monster. I can rake the leaves in my yard today or i can go white water rafting. So instead of an arbitrary level and gear requirements to do so many things in a game, make it so things are doable, but you get better at them with skill upgrades thru questing and make most quests rewards money or skill points so you can quest anywhere and still make progress. On big raid or pvp battle you could still have fun and be useful, just not as much as someone with more skills, skill ponts, and money for supplies. At least there would not be that 50+ level barrier to entry just to do " end game" things, and it would also make eaier content more meaningfull to complete or even go back to.
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Originally posted by Iylz
Games have tried this. The most recent example being GW2.
The problem is, that when you do that, gamers complain about there being a lack of 'progression'. People like that feeling of 'ding'. Of the game telling you 'hey, you're getting better!', or 'wow you're awesome!'.
Look up the skinner-box model. There's a reason we now see some form of it in almost every game nowadays. It exploits a fundamental part of the human psyche, and there isn't much sign of us wanting different any time soon. People have questioned it for years. Have explained numerous times the problems w/ designing a game that way. And yet we still insist on playing games that way.
It's not unlike how millions of people know Mc Donald's is terrible food, and more expensive than eating healthy. However, millions of people still eat the food, because it's easy.
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I would love a game that started at endgame and didn't waste money on the leveling process. It boggles my mind how companies pour so much money into a part of the game that in the end will constitute at most 5% of their most loyal players' game time.
If instead all that money were spent on endgame we could have a truly amazing endgame catering to all different play styles, no to mention you would be able to play with all yours friends since you'd all be the same level.
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Originally posted by Icewhite
I have been playing online games since '93 and I would say that even back then a very small percentage of my play time was spent leveling. Most of my time was spent at max level. Sure, there was not much endgame back then, but even though leveling was slower you still hit max level quite quickly if you were a devoted gamer. End game back then mostly just meant chatting with people and helping lowbie guild members.
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It is easier to keep players happy with the idea they are doing something by going up levels than it is to create interesting end game play. This has left MMOs in the tricky position of trying to be two games in one. You can put players in end game at the start, PS and PS2 do that. But they are MMOFPS, not truly a MMORPG, so that's partly why it works for them.
End game systems revolve around group play, raids and faction wars or building be it crafting or houses. A MMO where you do the normal levelling in a quest environment, then reach end level and go out into the wilderness to sandbox gameplay might be the best of both worlds. You could try to start with a sandbox endgame of course, just don't expect your players to be in the millions.
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Originally posted by Svarcanum
I can point you at a title where you can't expect to cap out in the first decade, even if you're a two-percenter, if you like.
That was quite common in MUDs. Single-source XP, slow gens, lots of time sink, ascending log growth xp charts. Old old skool.
Note: I didn't say it would be a title you (or anyone, these days) would find enjoyable.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Originally posted by soratta
Because "faster" is relative. Take WOW as an example, it will take casual months to get to 90, and they think it is too long.
Sure a hard core playing night and day probably can do it in 2 weeks, but most people don't play like that.


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The Mississippi State men's basketball team refused to go away quietly.
The Bulldogs (6-7, 1-0) trailed South Carolina (10-4, 0-1) for most of Wednesday night, but were able to pull out a 56-54 victory at Humphrey Coliseum in the opening game of the Southeastern Conference portion of the schedule.
"(It's) great to get the first win in SEC," MSU head coach Rick Ray said. "For most of our guys, this is the first time they have experienced SEC basketball. For our guys to come out and get an SEC win is huge. Our guys did a good job of persevering."
The Bulldogs snapped a two-game losing streak in SEC openers.
After MSU freshman guard Fred Thomas missed two free throws with just under 10 seconds remaining, South Carolina's Bruce Ellington missed a 3-pointer that was deflected out of bounds by MSU freshman guard Tyson Cunningham with 0.8 seconds left in the game. The Gamecocks were unable to do anything with the inbound leading to the Bulldog win.
"I shot, they hit my wrist and they didn't call it," Ellington said.
MSU trailed 50-44 with 5:14 remaining in the game. The Bulldogs scored eight-straight points, capped off by Tyson Cunningham's steal leading to Fred Thomas's basket, to take a 52-50 lead with 3:25 left in the game.
The Gamecocks got two offensive rebounds in one possession leading to a LaKeem Jackson layup to tie the game at 52-52 with 1:18 left in the game.
"When you come down a stretch in a tight ballgame you have to have some calmness to it," Ray said. "You have assistant coaches in your ear. I said 'calm down we are going to be alright.'"
Sword knocked down two free throws with 46 seconds remaining to give MSU a 54-52 lead. He then got a steal and a dunk to give MSU a 56-52 lead with 30 seconds left in the game. Sword scored nine of his team-high 18 points in the last 10 minutes of the game.
South Carolina's Michael Carrera answered with a layup with 17 seconds left.
"A lot of credit to Rick and his kids," South Carolina head coach Frank Martin said. "I thought they played real hard. A lot of credit (goes to MSU). Those kids fought and clawed. All the adversity they have been dealing with, the personnel and roster, credit to them."
Mississippi State forced 24 Gamecock turnovers. South Carolina turned the ball over five times down the stretch.
"We just had bad turnovers," Martin said. "(When) you go on the road, if you can have a lead going into that last media (timeout), you are giving yourself a chance."
Sword, junior guard Jalen Steele and sophomore guard Trivante Bloodman all suffered from leg cramps in the second half.
"First time I twisted my ankle and then the cramps started coming in," Sword said. "That was my first time ever to catch a cramp. I just fought through it."
It was Steele's first start since coming back from a wrist injury. He had been coming off the bench in his first two games back, but Ray decided to give him the nod Wednesday night.
"I felt good," Steele said. "I still see that i need to get more game time shape. Other than that, I felt good. Energy was there and we fed off the crowd."
The Bulldogs were 0-of-10 from behind he 3-point line. MSU snapped a 262 game streak of making a 3-pointer. It is the first time the Bulldogs have won when not making a 3-pointer.
The last time MSU did not make a 3-pointer was Jan. 18, 2005 at Alabama.
MSU made 19-of-49 field goals for 38.8 percent, while South Carolina was 20-of-51 for 39.2 percent.
South Carolina opened the second half on a 5-0 run to push its lead to 31-26.
The Bulldogs opened the game on a 4-0 run, the Gamecocks answered with their own 12-0 run to take a 12-4 lead with 14:52 remaining in the opening half.
MSU then went on a 10-0 run to take a 14-12 lead.
The Gamecocks were led by Brian Richardson who had a game-high 20 points. Junior guard Bruce Ellington, fresh off playing for the Gamecock football team, chipped in 11 points and Eric Smith added eight points.
Along with Sword's 18 points, Roquez Johnson had 14 points to lead the Bulldogs. Colin Borchert and Thomas each had eight points. Borchert led the Bulldogs with six rebounds.
MSU travels to Georgia Saturday for a 12:30 p.m. tipoff. The game can be seen on the SEC Network.
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These are the most imporant and best-preserved Hopewell mounds in the western Great Lakes region. The Norton Mound Group was the center of Hopewellian culture in that area, from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. Excavations in 1874 revealed numerous burials rich in grave offerings, and later excavations in 1963-1964 provided information on mound construction methods. At one time some 40 mounds were present, and though fewer than half remain today, these are well-preserved in a Grand Rapids city park.
Seasonal flooding from the Grand River and the resulting erosion are problematic. The land and mounds adjacent to the I-196 construction burrow pit (lake) are dangerously close to slipping into the water to be lost as other mounds have done before. Invasive biota, wind-blown trees, trees growing out of the mounds themselves and animal/bird habitats preside. The dense overgrowth of invasive species threatens the biological diversity of the site by not allowing the growth of native species. Continued unmanaged growth could cause damage beyond the capacity to stabilize and maintain the site leading to a severe loss of integrity. The site is also prey to homeless citizen's make-shift campsites and other trespassers. A partial chain link fence and closing the site to the public has had limited results. The ongoing development of the Millennium Park continues to attract interest in the site and the Public Museum is anxious to provide education and solicit volunteers for site clearing and preservation initiatives.
The Norton Mound Group NHL Cultural Landscape Management Plan, funded by the Urban Cooperation Board, was completed in July, 2007. Since that time, in-house meetings have been held to discuss the next steps for the education, preservation and maintenance plans. A Grand River "Clean-Up" day has been designated for September, 2008. The Public Museum intends to recruit volunteers to assist in trash pick-up along the road and around the perimeter of the site. Funding to plan short and long-term education, preservation efforts and implementation continues to be a challenge.
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Scholars have long debated the relationship of art to the Holocaust, a debate often referred to as "the limits of representation". Does the sheer scale of the Holocaust mean that attempts to turn it into art always risk trivialising it, reducing the horror to a story that can be read, put away and forgotten? Henry, the protagonist of Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil, the follow-up to his Booker-winning Life of Pi, is a writer who decides to challenge the fact that no "poetic license was taken with – or given to – the Holocaust", and represent its evil and suffering in a new way.
Henry bears a striking resemblance to his author: his second novel, a charming, poignant tale of the humanity of animals, was an unexpected success, bringing prizes and fame. For five years Henry has laboured on his next project, a "flip book" that combines Holocaust novel with essay, representing the catastrophe in, he believes, an original way. Henry's publishers deem the book catastrophic, and Henry staggers off into writer's block and self pity. He and his wife move to some interchangeable cosmopolitan city – where Henry amuses himself , playing the clarinet and acting in amateur theatricals.
One day Henry receives a package in the post, with a letter and Flaubert's tale "The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator", a fable about a boy whose greatest pleasure is killing animals. If you don't know Flaubert's story, never fear: Martel devotes 15 pages to summarising and quoting long passages from it. He also explains that "hospitator" means host; at the book's end we learn that Henry's surname is L'Hôte. The package also includes part of a play about two characters named Beatrice and Virgil, standing in a road, by a tree, trading cryptic epigrams. Later they offer sophomoric philosophising about something they call the Horrors: "How can there be anything beautiful after what we've lived through? It's incomprehensible."
The letter writer lives in the same city as our prataganist and also happens to be calle Henry. He is a taxidermist and Beatrice, it transpires, is a stuffed donkey, Virgil a stuffed monkey on her back (see what he did there?); they are his "guide to hell". Martel helps readers struggling with all this literary virtuosity: "Hell? What hell? Henry wondered. But at least now he understood the connection to The Divine Comedy. Dante is guided through inferno and purgatory by Virgil and then through paradise by Beatrice."
Like the reader who needs help understanding Martel's allusions, Henry the taxidermist needs help writing his play, A 20th-Century Shirt (Beatrice and Virgil are living on a striped shirt – don't ask). Henry inexplicably agrees to assist. The result is a book by turns pretentious, humourless, tedious, and obvious. All the characters are there to be manipulated: Henry is endlessly blind to the evident, while the other characters are cardboard cutouts. Taxidermist Henry reads ersatz-Beckett out loud for pages at a time, or pontificates on the fate of animals.
Attempting to manage the problems he has created in trying to mix allegory, psychology, metafiction, mystery and a parable about the Holocaust (not to mention our inhumanity to animals) in under 200 pages, Martel also makes Henry explain the book's flaws: "There seemed to be essentially no action and no plot in it. Just two characters by a tree talking. It had worked with Beckett and Diderot. Mind you, those two were crafty and they packed a lot of action into the apparent inaction. But inaction wasn't working for the author of A 20th-Century Shirt." No kidding.
At the end, author Henry develops some "games", 12 questions posing moral quandaries: would you allow your son to endanger his life to try to save the rest of the family? If you knew people were about to be killed and you couldn't stop it, would you warn them? If only Martel had bothered to dramatise any of these dilemmas, he might have produced a novel that didn't show the limits of representation quite so painfully.


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Glee Season 4: Santana Stumbles On a Major Secret!
If we've learned one thing from Glee it's that secrets are no fun (and that Slushies are weapons of mass destruction), so expect some major sleuthing to go down during Season 4, Episode 15: "Girls (and Boys) On Film"!
Now that Santana (Naya Rivera) is living it up in New York City (concrete jungle where Gleeky dreams are made of), she's privy to all kinds of information. And now E! is reporting that she stumbles onto a huge secret between two of our favorite characters! Annnd, let the speculation begin.
Considering that Santana is currently shacked up with Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michele), we're wondering if they could be the mystery party in question...but what on earth would they be hiding? Other than the secret to perfect hair, duh.
Of course, it's possible that Santana finds out about Finn's (Cory Monteith) kiss-a-thon with Emma (Jayma Mays). That wasn't awkward or anything....
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Lenovo S860 launched in India
Lenovo announced Lenovo S660 and S860 in Mobile World Congress 2014, after launching Lenovo S660 in India now Lenovo has launched S860 in India.
Lenovo S 860 is a beautiful handset with aluminum back; the device has a whooping 5.3 inch display, but the sad part, the display is not full HD with only 1280 x 720 p resolution, the processor of the device is also not much advance, the device uses 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor along with 2 GB RAM, and the device comes with 16 GB internal storage but there is no slot for memory card to expand memory.
The device supports Dual-SIM, and comes with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, but I think it will get KitKat update soon. The build quality and the design is great, S 860 has a rear facing 8 MP camera with LED flash and 1.6 MP front camera, Now the best part of the device is, a whooping 4,000 mAh battery which promises a full day battery life, the device also has some built in applications for sharing between Lenovo devices.
The device is really good and is priced at Rs. 21,500 and is expected to go on Sale on 5th of May, the device will be available in Titanium Color.
Let us look in a brief some specifications of the device:
- 5.3 inch display
- 1.3 GHz quad-core processor
- 16 GB internal storage
- 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
- 8 MP primary and 1.6 MP front camera
- 4,000 mAh battery
speaking about S860, Sudhin Mathur, Director smartphones, Lenovo India, said, "The new range of S series smartphones complements the users aspirations, bundled with stylish design, blazing fast processing speeds, and integrated Lenovo proprietary apps, these phones provide customers a great user experience without sacrificing performance, we launched S860 at MWC this year and the smartphone completes our range of products like P780 and S660 that provides users an incredibly long battery life. It was also recognized as one of the best launches from Lenovo at MWC this year."
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text: Sorry no pics Headed out yesterday, early am, riding my 2000 VFR to the Mckenzie River to attend a Drift Boat gathering at the Eagle Rock Lodge near Vida, Or. (my 'excuse' do do some miles) Pleasant temperature at 8 am, leaving from the Wa. SR 14-end of the Klickitat canyon rd...(Yes, I know, "Why leave such a great bike road to ride elsewhere?") I fueled up at the local dispenser of No Ethanol premium gas (off Interstate 84 at the Dalles dam exit (Hwy 197 for Bend/Yakima) and back west a quarter mile on the old Hwy 30 heading into The Dalles Downtown, Independent station on the left across from the Les Schwabb ) I checked the function of my Beltronics Detector against the ambient signals as I passed the 'cop-shop' at the Dam...Oregon State Troopers out of that DOT headquarters work mostly the I-84, with a frequent radar/laser trap often being run just a few miles east of the Dalles around a blind right sweeper of the interstate. South from the Dalles on Hwy 197 through the back country of 'odd-named towns'...Dufur, Maupin, Shaniko, Wasco... SR 197 goes through downtown Maupin and climbs out of the Deschutes gorge through some of my favorite corners anywhere....long sight lines and good pavement. At the top of the plateau again, I stopped at the "Mountain Identifier" (rocks painted white to emulate the snow-capped volcano peaks visible all around...Hood, Jefferson, Sisters, Bachelor, Adams...) to pull on my neck gaiter...cooler up at ~4000' elevation. 197 joins Hwy 97 as it comes south from Biggs Junction, Wasco and Shaniko....Truckers use the 97 route, but until you reach Madras, it's still quite remote in character. I've often wondered about the R-2 Ranch, along this section of highway. There's a big fancy sign leaving Maupin..."Private Property, R-2 Ranch, next 28 miles" . They've restored all the fences and old buildings on both sides of the highway....Hmmm, whatsup with that? A LOT of acerage in 28 miles.... both sides of the highway.... At Redmond, I turned west towards Sisters and the Santiam Pass. As I climbed to the summit near Mt. Jefferson and Three-fingered Jack peaks, the clouds were spilling over from the west and the burned trees were emerging from the still deep snow cover. Very near the summit, there were isolated thin ridges of old ice on the road surface and the cinders were thick along the road shoulders but no problem riding. Except for trying stay attentive to the road, with all that spectacular scenery peeking through sunny holes in the swirling clouds...Gorgeous! A left onto 126, the McKenzie Hwy, towards Eugene and Springfield put me on downhill and the trees again showed more green as I dropped alongside the river. (Old McKenzie Pass road is still closed for snow) Surprisingly little traffic along this often busy tourist road. It is certainly a lot easier and more fun to negotiate on a competent sport touring motorcycle than it is in a pick-up truck or a VW van...I admit I was guilty of a few 5+ vehicle passes along here.. I parked the bike and shed about 30lbs of riding gear and clothing to spend a few hours admiring the boats on the sunny banks of the McKenzie..the back lawn of the Eagle Rock Lodge. Reversed the trip to return to Lyle, Washington with 450 miles on the odometer. Google quoted me ~4hrs one way for the trip, which I did in about 3 each way. My only complaint was a slightly tired neck from resisting the wind blast ....or maybe from rubber-necking all that beautiful scenery (that I was too busy riding through to stop and photograph) A couple of quick applications of my brakes when the Beltronics indicated incoming electronic surveillance. For the most part, I stuck to the prevailing speed + about 15mph... Don Hanson


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Slovenia´s healthcare system is relatively developed and effective, particularly compared with other markets in Central and Eastern Europe. The country´s health system faces short-term challenges as a result of austerity budgets which will limit public spending on healthcare andaredesigned to reduce the number of services covered under compulsory health insurance. Long-term threats concern the availability of public funds in a tightening economic and fiscal environment and projected rises in age-related health expenditure.
Headline Expenditure Projections
Pharmaceuticals : EUR762mn (US$1.06mn) in 2011 to EUR769mn (US$977mn) in 2012; +1.0% in local currency terms and -7.8% in US dollar terms.
Healthcare: EUR3.40bn (US$4.73bn) in 2011 to EUR3.42bn (US$4.34bn) in 2012; 0.5% in local currency terms and -8.2% in US dollar terms.
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Before superstorm Sandy pounded the shores of the East Coast, it had already claimed its first American victims. With the storm still a day from landfall, the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress signal from the tall ship Bounty located approximately 90 miles off the cost of North Carolina.
Tragically, the ship's captain and one of her crew were claimed by the sea, but a matter of hours later, 14 other sailors were safe on shore. All in a day's work for the service whose motto is semper paratus — always ready.


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Leukemia impact has local man out to Rock 'n' Roll
Happy Keller knew he wanted to run again but needed an extra push. Eleven-year-old Temecula resident Sarah Zdanowski gave him more than enough.
Nearly 20 years after he was hit by a car while riding his bike and forced to relearn how to walk, the Escondido resident and former high school track athlete had the urge to run marathons with his wife, Pattie.
But that wasn't enough.
The additional motivation came in 2004 when Happy joined Team In Training and met Sarah, his teammate who had been diagnosed with Leukemia at age 3.
Now, he's on a roll.
On Sunday, Happy, 44, will take part in his third Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and his fifth event with Team In Training -- an organization that has raised $109 million for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in San Diego since 1998.
And Happy doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.
"When there's a cure I'll stop," Happy said. "(Sarah) is almost like a family member. She was a cute young lady, very bright, just a great kid. I thought 'Wow, this is really the lightning strike of cancers. She's not swallowing cancer juice or smoking. If it can happen to her, it can happen to my nieces and nephews.' "
Pattie knew her husband needed a little extra to start running again.
She had been running marathons -- 16 of them -- since the couple moved to Escondido in 1998. But Pattie had been running solo. She knew Happy needed more structure.
Once Happy got interested in Team In Training, Pattie knew he was on the right track.
"I've always run by myself," Pattie said. "I was more independent, and I told him, 'You need to be organized with a group.' He's the funny guy in the group. He has a whole crew."
Consider Susan and Glen Zdanowski, Sarah's parents, part of that click.
The Zdanowski's found Team In Training as an outlet to raise money and physically do something about their cause at the same time. Since the couple has joined, they've combined to run in 10 events.
By joining, the family also gained an additional support group -- one that Happy has been a part of.
Susan recalled introducing Happy to his future honored teammate -- Sarah -- at a Team in Training meeting 2 1/2 years ago and feeling sure he would eventually join. Honored teammates are set up with participants who have not been individually affected by leukemia or lymphoma to give them an idea how they are helping those who are ill.
"He didn't join right away," Susan said. "But he came aboard six months later. He said, 'I'm doing it for her.' "
Happy's pledge was just another way the organization had helped the family.
"(Team In Training) is a very dedicated group of people," Susan said. "Not only with running and fitness but raising money and finding a cure. The running is secondary. Everybody goes beyond the amount their supposed to raise. … They're just a supportive group."


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DES MOINES (AP) - State environmental officials say a second black bear has been shot in Iowa this summer.
The most recently reported incident happened last week in Fremont County.
The more than 200-pound bear was shot by an Iowa Department of Natural Resources conservation officer who says the animal acted aggressively after raiding his garbage cans.
Another bear was shot by a citizen in Franklin County last week.
Officials say there have been a total of five confirmed sightings of black bears this year, including the bears that were shot. The other sightings were in Winnisheik, Johnson and Davis counties.
Before this year, the last confirmed sighting of a black bear in Iowa was in Allamakee County in 2005.
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Lagos — Police in Lagos have arrested two lovers for allegedly kidnapping a 14-year-old boy at Ikotun area of the metropolis.
The suspects identified as Raymond Quadri, 28, and Bolanle Fasasi, allegedly demanded N2 million as ransom from the parents of their victim, identified simply as Daniel.
Police report has it that both Quadri and the victim are neighbours at 51 Lasisi Ige Street, Ikotun.
The suspect confessed to have lured the victim out of their Ikotun residence, before heading to Ikorodu, where he kept the boy in custody of his girl friend.
"I told Daniel to accompany me to Ikorodu penultimate Saturday. It was when I got to Ikorodu that I told my girlfriend about the plans to collect N2 million from Daniel's parent," he added.
However, the second suspect denied being in the know of the plan to kidnap the boy.
"Quadri once introduced Daniel to me as his younger brother. So when they came to my place at Agric area of Ikorodu, I had no idea that the boy was being kidnapped," she said.
The 19-year-old hairdresser further said that she became wary of the whole thing, when she placed a call to her lover on Monday to demand to know if the victim was not going to school that day.
She said she first heard about the kidnap plot from the victim who told her that Quadri had arranged for him to be kidnapped.
"I strongly believe that the victim is in the know of the kidnap plot, but whether he knows what kidnapping really is, I don't know," she said.
Parading the suspects, the Lagos State police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide stated that luck ran out on the suspects when neighbours told Daniel's parents that they saw their son in company of Quadri on the day he was kidnapped.
"He was arrested and taken to Ikotun police station, where he denied having anything to do with the disappearance of the victim," she added.
Braide said the suspect confessed to the crime after he was transferred to the State Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).
"He later took the police to his girl friend's place at Ikorodu where he kept the boy," she added.


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Asadi v. GE Energy (Whistleblower Retaliation)
Date: 02/03/2012 (Date of Complaint)
Misconduct Type: Labor
Enforcement Agency: Non-Governmental
Contracting Party: None
Court Type: Civil
Amount: $0
Disposition: Pending
Synopsis: Khaled Asadi sued GE Energy alleging he was fired after raising concerns that the company's hiring of a woman "closely associated with" Iraq's senior deputy minister of electricity might have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Asadi, GE Energy's former country executive for Iraq, believed the June 2010 hiring was done to curry favor for the company's bid on a $250 million electricity contract with the Iraqi government.
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