Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your neighbors, tell your dog, Allods Online is going Open Beta! The Allods Online team is pleased to announce that the Open Beta will officially go live on February 16th, 2010! All players will be able to access the game (no beta key needed) and all current content through level 40 will be available for play!

The More Loving One                  

                               ————W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least ,
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn .
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am ,
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them ,say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die ,
I should learn to look at an empty sky ,
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

Sarwan Singh holds onto his beard prior to a ceremony in Surrey, British Columbia November 11, 2008. Singh was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest beard. Singh's beard measured at 1.895-metres.

    What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
    What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
    What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
    What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
    What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
    What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
    What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.
    What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
    Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
    It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
    Choose to live a life that matters.