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ARDMORE, OK -- Just two days from the anniversary of his death, family members of a fallen Ardmore soldier are honoring his legacy of giving to others.
Family members of Michael Phillips, more affectionately known as Pokey, say his mission in life was to help and give to others.
"My son gave blood all through high school from the time he was 16 years old and allowed to," said Angelia Phillips, Michael's mother.
It's why his mother and family along with the Southern Oklahoma Blood Institute hold an annual blood drive in his name.
Pokey passed away after an IED exploded while he was on patrol in Iraq on February 24, 2008.
"This one is special because it's in honor of a local, not only a local fallen hero but a local blood donor," said Tessa Green, Blood Program Consultant.
Those who stopped by to donate blood say it made them reflect and think of their own families.
"If I can help somebody help save their life it means as much to me as if somebody was to save my family's life," said Whitney Owens, a blood donor.
On Saturday, just two days away from the anniversary of Michael's death, organizers at the drive set a goal of 30 donations.
The blood institute says the state of Oklahoma uses 700 units of blood every day and every bit helps.
With a need like that, Angelia couldn't think of a better way for Pokey to continue to help others.
"I made up my mind years ago I would not wallow in the grief but instead try and celebrate my son's life by doing the things he loved and continuing his legacy of giving to others," said Phillips.
Green says 49 people came out to the blood drive an met its goal today with 31 units successfully donated.


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Ping-Pong by Noise.
Mark has created a digital DM campaign to help launch the first annual "Ping-Pong by Noise" inter-agency ping-pong tournament with a bang.
The piece comprises a specially designed iApp (pictured) that enables two players to ping it out via their iPhones on a dinky mini table. The centerpiece of the campaign is a Dean Tirkot-directed web film, shot in the style of a Nike commercial with a comical twist, starring Aussie table tennis legends Paul Pinkewich and Trent Carter.
The ping-pong smash will be held over three consecutive Thursday evening in May and June. The hefty prize pool includes $1,500 for first place, $600 for second and $300 for third, plus a stack of extra Noise-related items and spot prizes for best-dressed. The winners will also take away the priceless Ping Pong trophy and associated glory.
Check out the website for details.

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Policy Date: 11/10/2009
Policy Number: 20099
Transportation and land-use policies are significant factors in the built environment that affect (a) rates of injury and death caused by traffic crashes, (b) ease and safety of physical activity, (c) air quality, (d) greenhouse gas emissions, and (e) access to key community resources such as health care and healthy food. Land-use policies pertain not only to the movement of people but also to the movement of freight and goods from ships through ports and on trucks and trains, which affects communities and workers across the country. In the United States, transportation and land-use patterns have historically favored automobile travel, spawned sprawling development, and taken an unnecessary toll on human life.1 Traffic injuries and fatalities are an enormous public health and health care problem in the United States, accounting for more than 41,000 deaths annually,2 2.5 million nonfatal injuries,3 and more than $200 billion in annual expenditures.4 In 2007, there were 4,654 pedestrian and 698 bicyclist fatalities in the United States and more than 100,000 combined injuries from nonmotorized travel.5 The health costs associated with motor vehicle emissions were estimated to be $40 to $65 billion in 2000,6 and climate change is estimated to be responsible for more than 150,000 deaths per year along with devastating effects on global climate patterns.7,8 Although transportation and land-use policies affect all people, the cumulative health impacts are disproportionately borne by low-income communities and some communities of color. National health care expenditures in the United States surpassed $2 trillion annually in 2006 [approximately 16% gross domestic product (GDP)] and are projected to constitute 17% of GDP by 2011.9 Effective transportation and land-use strategies can not only improve the health and well-being of Americans but also decrease demand on an already overextended health care system. This resolution explores 4 major health impacts of transportation and land-use policies that take some of the largest tolls on health, equity, and the economy: traffic injuries and fatalities, physical activity and nonmotorized transportation, air quality, and health equity and the disparate impact on vulnerable populations. This policy is in accordance with action steps 1 through 6, previously adopted by the American Public Health Association in American Public Health Association (APHA) policy 2004-04, Creating Policies on Land-Use and Transportation Systems that Promote Public Health.10Traffic Injuries and FatalitiesTraffic crashes are the leading cause of death in the United States for people younger than 34.11 By 2030, traffic-related deaths will be the fifth leading cause of death worldwide.12 Native Americans are 1.5 times more likely to die from traffic crashes than other Americans 13 African Americans make up approximately 12% of the population, but they account for 20% of pedestrian deaths.14 However, traffic injuries and fatalities can be prevented through effective traffic safety policies and practices.15 Strong evidence indicates that traffic safety legislation has been effective and largely responsible for increasing people's use of passenger and occupant safety features.16,17 Enforcement of stricter laws and public education has contributed to personal choices that favor safety (e.g., avoiding impaired driving, reducing speed, wearing helmets, and using child safety seats and safety belts).18 An estimated 301,000 lives were saved between 1970 and 2006 because of legislation associated with occupant protection, motorcycle helmets, and drinking age.19 Diversifying transportation options to accommodate safe walking, bicycling, and public transportation use can result in fewer traffic injuries compared with communities built to accommodate motor vehicles alone.20 Contrary to the widespread belief that increased bicycle and foot traffic will lead to more cyclist and pedestrian injuries, increasing the numbers of nonmotorized travelers may actually make walking and bicycling safer.21 Residents of transit-oriented communities also tend to have lower per capita traffic fatality rates.22Physical Activity and Nonmotorized TransportationAccording to the US Surgeon General, 60% of US adults do not meet recommended levels of physical activity, and 25% are completely sedentary.23 The causal link between physical activity and health is well established, with sedentary lifestyles estimated to contribute to as many as 255,000 preventable deaths per year and physical inactivity being a major contributor to the rising rates of chronic illnesses such as type II diabetes and heart disease.24 An emerging body of evidence shows that particular transportation and land-use patterns can influence people's decision to engage in physical activity, making transportation and land-use decisions an opportunity to increase levels of physical activity.25–28 These land-use characteristics include high-density and mixed use development, good public transportation, and proximity to destinations.29,30 Characteristics such as bicycle and pedestrian facilities, good street connectivity, presence of parks and open space, and residents' perceived safety have also been shown to enhance physical activity in some communities.31–34 Particularly in low-income communities where only 73.5% of low-income households own cars compared with 91.7% of all U.S. households, nonmotorized transportation is a good opportunity to meet daily recommended levels of physical activity.30 However, the quality of nonmotorized infrastructure is often lower in low-income and minority communities, contributing to higher pedestrian fatality rates.35 Forty percent of the lowest income transit users meet the recommended levels of physical activity solely from walking to and from transit, making public transportation an important strategy to improve activity rates among vulnerable populations.30 Because walking and bicycling remain more dangerous than motorized travel, per trip and per mile,36 improving the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians must have a high priority. Ensuring that public fears regarding violence and overall safety are fully addressed may also increase levels of physical activity.37,38Air QualityAccording to the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), 35 million people in the United States are exposed to air toxins emitted from road traffic.39 Particulate matter and other pollution are often present at high concentrations along traffic-heavy roads,40 especially when a large fraction of this traffic uses diesel fuel.41 Low-income communities and some communities of color are at risk for higher levels of pollutant exposure, because their homes are more likely to be located near busy roadways.42 Several studies have documented that children going to school near major roadways have higher rates of respiratory symptoms,43 asthma diagnoses, and allergic sensitization,44,45 and children living near major roadways are more likely to suffer from asthma.48–52 Adults living or working near roadways are also more likely to suffer from asthma53–55 and other respiratory diseases,56–60 as well as atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular problems.61,62 Other health effects associated with exposure to poor air quality near roadways include cancer,63–67 adverse reproductive outcomes,68 and impaired neurocognitive performance in children.69 The transportation sector is a significant source of harmful air pollutants, including greenhouse gases. Mobile sources emit more than half of the nation's benzene, toluene, and acetaldehyde, the air toxics of greatest public health concern, as well as approximately 91 additional air toxics that are known carcinogens or have toxicity reference concentrations in the USEPA's main risk assessment database, the Integrated Risk Information System.70 The US transportation sector emits approximately 10% of all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and more than one third of all transportation emissions worldwide. Over the next 50 years, greenhouse gas emission from the US transportation sector is poised to grow another 80% beyond current levels.71Health Equity and Disparate Impact on Vulnerable PopulationsIn addition to disparities in the incidence of traffic injuries and deaths, limited access to opportunities for physical activity, and exposure to poor air quality, barriers to necessary community resources have disproportionately contributed to poor health among particular populations in the United States, including low-income communities, communities of color, people with disabilities, children, and older adults.72 Nearly one third of the US population—including children, older adults, people with disabilities, low-income people, women, and rural residents—are transportation disadvantaged (e.g., they are unable to transport themselves or purchase transportation).73 Low-income households can spend up to 40% of their income on transportation expenses, further perpetuating the gap in economic disparities and isolation from essential opportunities and resources.74–78 Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, brought federal attention to the environmental conditions that have had disproportionately adverse health effects on low-income and minority communities,79 yet there have been no equivalent efforts to address inequities perpetuated by the built environment. Therefore APHA urges public health and social justice practitioners, advocates, researchers, and philanthropists to advocate and support advancing transportation and land-use legislation that will ensure the following goals—1. Federal transportation policy must prioritize health, equity, and safety for all travelers. Roadways should be safe and accessible for all travelers rather than being designed exclusively for motorized travelers.a. A greater share of federal, state, and local transportation dollars should be invested in safe infrastructure for walking, bicycling, and public transportation (including transit operating funds).b. All new construction and redevelopment of roadways should apply the Complete Streets model to make roadways safe for all users. Complete streets ensures that roadways are designed and operated with all users in mind, including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.80c. Federal, state, and local policy should create incentives for investing in underserved communities, particularly those with existing infrastructure to support nonmotorized travel- and transit-oriented development.d. Roadways should be designed to have good visibility, have traffic-calming features, and create greater distances and barriers between moving traffic and nonmotorized travelers (i.e., pedestrians and bicyclists).e. Community residents, public health, labor unions, transportation system employees, social justice, and other diverse stakeholders should be engaged in transportation policy development and planning.2. Transportation policy and subsequent implementation must prioritize using cleaner energy sources and reducing harmful emissions, including greenhouse gases.a. Reducing the transportation sector's contributions to global climate change should be prioritized at the federal, state, and local level.b. Environmental justice goals to reduce the disparate exposure to harmful emissions from mobile sources should be honored and advanced in transportation and land-use activities.c. Reducing adverse health impacts of goods movement and freight transport on low-income, minority communities and workers should be a priority in transportation and land-use policymaking.3. Community development and redevelopment activities should preserve historic, environmental, agricultural, and aesthetic resources.4. State departments of transportation and local agencies should partner with community groups to conduct Health Impact Assessments for major transportation and land-use activities.a. All agencies that make decisions that affect health should be held accountable and be responsible for these health outcomes.b. Public health should work with transportation and city planners to identify the health indicators and performance measures by which to evaluate such activities.5. 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As you're checking off items on your student's back-to-school list this week, a southwest Georgia business is asking for your help to do the same for other students in need this year.
Digital Express Premium Verizon Retailers is collecting school supplies at several locations throughout the region this week to drop off at schools in their areas.
After their first location opened in Fitzgerald in 2003, they say their communities have really embraced them and now they want to reach out from their 11 different locations to ease the costs of back to school shopping.
Each store has specially designed a box to attract attention for customers to donate anything on their back to school lists.
The store is also holding a drawing to encourage more people to bring in donations, by making entries of 5 dollars worth of supplies.
They began collecting on July 15 until August 9th and winners will be announced on the 12th, for technology and other prizes from the company.
The schools and students will receive the supplies after the promotion is over next week.
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Kris I can agree with that she does seem a little biased based on what I have heard but hopefully this will open up her eyes a little Ok I am thinking the "Oprah's Angel network" message board then under the Discussion "Making a difference" since that seems to be the most approaiate out of the available choices. I started a topic so everyone can reply with their stories and feelings so that it can be showcased, let me know asap if anyone wants to do it different, I did check and you do have to register in order to be able to post its free and if it gets our voices heard it is worth the time, lets storm the boards so to speak I just got done registering and posting heres the link Our starting post is titled "Our Angels, Our Stories, What we want to say" under my user name mommyofsebanna_sebastian
it should still be at the top of the page so lets post away. I did get some women from the MISS foundation togther also who are going to be joining usi n posting!!!! Hugs. OK COULD not get the the link to post, Laura someone if I can send it to you maybe you can figure out why its not wanting to work everything is ready though.


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WoWPro Chat
Unable to download newest version
First, thank you all for the amazing amount of work you have put into these guides. I've leveled numerous characters during the past 6 years.
I am running into a problem when I attempt to download the latest addon. I receive an error stating "The website declined to show this webpage" Most likely causes: The website requires you to log in.
I login to the site and receive the same error. Any and all help is appreciated.
Ludo broke it ;)
Its all fixed now, download away.
Can somebody submit my fix to WPL Horde? :)
I'm not sure I have a good handle of how this site works - I found an error on the WPL page and posted a fix to it in a comment (since I don't seem to be able to edit it) and I'm just wondering how to get that in.
Can't remember skipped steps
I'm having a problem where all of my guides are always forgetting my skipped steps every time I log in or reload. Just installed version 2.6.4 and still happens. I tried deleting the saved variables for wowpro and it's still happening. If there's somewhere better to post this, let me know :)
Can't Right Click TomTom on Map Coord In Leveling Guide Any More
I used to be able to right click on the map coordinates for any of the quest items in the leveling guide and the arrow would switch to that coordinate, but it hasn't worked since the last update. Can someone please tell me what to check to make it work right again? Do I need to delete files somewhere to clear it out and reset it or was that ability (right click on line item map coordinates to get the TomTom arrow to point in that direction) taken out in the latest wow-pro update?
I used to use this all the time and I've been through all the wow-pro screens to try and see if anything will let it do that again. I couldn't find anything. Could someone help me try to figure out how to get it to work again? All it does is highlight the line item now - no coordinate direction at all. The two quest enablers are on in TomTom.
Many thanks.
addon locking up game
Sorry came to chat looking for help with addon. With 5.3.0 wow-pro+2.6.0a (BigBang) i'm get game lock up when logging in but only on 4 toons that are lvl 85 - 88 and on the pandara leveling guides . i have 2 90's that work fine with the daily guides (but lock upwith thunder Isle or pet dailies) and 4 pre 85's that also load fine and on lvl'ing guide steps . All 10 are Hoard . wish i could give you error report but nothing loads when it happens complete lock of game and most times comp too . love addon and any help or info of a known issue would be great
thx <3
WoW crash on 2.6.0a 5.3
Whenever I try to change the selected guide to Thunder Throne dailies or I believe any dailies WoW stops responding until I have to close it and re open it.
I tried no addons enabled but still the same. I tried a full reset too. Don't know what to do next :(
Getting DC'd when loading jade forest guide
Hey as the title explains when i go to load the jade forest guide my computer just freezes and wow stops working it loads the rest fine but 2 of the pandaria guides just freeze and crash wow. No error comes up it just freezes.cheers
2.6.0a freezes WOW completely
I recently had downloaded the updated version (v. 2.6.0a) of Wowpro after WOW had updated to 5.3. When Wow loads up it will freeze the game to a point where I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of World of Warcraft. I have disabled the addon and WOW boots up fine so I had managed to isolate the problem. I even was able to load up the addon without loading any modules and it worked fine. It only freezes when I either check guides or try to load up a guide. At this time I have disabled it so that I may progress in the game but I reeally miss this addon so any solutions you may come up with would be appreciated.
Pandaria Guides Not Working...Freezing
I updated to the newest version of the leveling addon today, believe it was actually updated today. Last night it was working just fine with the new patch and no update. Today when I went to login with the newly updated addon, my character in Jade Forest wouldn't load. I switched to an alt at 85 and tried to open up the Jade Forest guide and that toon froze too. Anyone have a workaround or at least a link to the previous version of the addon? Thanks a lot!
Crashing WoW - Patch 5.3
I just installed version 2.6.0a by deleting all the old WoWPro folders and then putting the new ones in. Everytime I try and launch WoW with the addon enabled, it hangs and I have to crash it to close it. Any suggestions? I saw that the a version was meant to fix that issue but for me it isn't. I want to get back to levelling my alts with the XP reduction :P
FPS drop when WoW-Pro enabled
Since the last update I have a problem with my FPS. When the WoW-Pro addon is disabled my FPS is 60-80. Once I enable the addon my FPS drops to 1 - 10 and the game is unplayable. When I disable it again, my FPS goes back up to 60-80. I don't get any errors.
I am using the latest version, downloaded it from the site, removed the old version and did a clean install.
Trouble getting wow to register both
I am having problems getting wow to show both wow-pro & carbonite in game, I have the trial version of wow-pro & have updated it but when I load into wow via the launcher directly it will laod carbonite just fine but no wow-pro & if I load the launcher via wow-pro I only get wow-pro & no carbonite, what am i doing wrong.
All i want to do is try this out first, before i decide to buy.
Re: Trouble getting wow to register both
I'm not sure what your problem is specifically, as I am not sure what this launcher is that you are referring to.
However, I am sure that the Trial version is out of date and that I forgot to update it when I released 2.5.0 .
I'll update it tomorrow. It has some fixes for carbonite, but there have been other reports of compatability issues.We definitely work better with TomTom.
carbonite/wow pro
I really don't know why its not working for you . Im sorry about that. But...what I really wanted to address was your last sentance. Wow-Pro is free :)
Are both carbonite and Wow Pro showing as enabled on the addon list that comes up when you click on "addons" from the character menu? Are you seeing any messages when you log in about either of them loading or not loading?
Quests auto-accepted but guide isn't continuing
I am currently on the Hellfire Peninsula guide with one of my alts. When the guide tells me to accept a quest, the quest does get accepted but the guide doesn't move to the next step I have to manually click off (right click) the step but then the entire quest gets ignored all the same and the next steps for this quest aren't shown. This happened to me a lot at the Silithus, Tanaris, Dustwallow Marsh, etc etc guides as well. I don't get an lua error, the addon just doesn't move on to the next step a lot of times.
Same here. Accepting quests
Same here. Accepting quests but it still says to get the quest from the guy. Tried reinstalling and deleting the files from WTF, but didn't help. Still the same issue. Seems not to be a problem with the guide as I've had this issue from lvl 80 to 84 now. Just doesn't work :(
Me too....weirdness
I have just started experiencing this in Grizzly Hills. Not sure what happened but it just stopped tracking and just listed points of quest pickup.
Similar issue
The guide seems to skip the quests to pickup and goes to next action step. When I pick up a quest I know would normally be picked up, it will back up to that action step.
Unable to select Worgen starting guide
I installed the guide for my daughter who is new to the game and she plays a lot of worgen characters. Recently her addon has bugged and will not let her select the worgen guide at all. I have tried to reset the guid by shift+clicking the guide in the guide list and it is not working. I even reinstalled the addon with no luck. Is there a master reset to reset the whole addon and forget it was ever used?
Re: Unable to select Worgen starting guide
Yeah, the big red button labeled "Reset the current guide" does a heavy duty reset.
What happens when you try to select the guide? Does it go to another guide? Do you get an error?
Post the error log!
2.4.3A Errors
Getting tons off messages and errors in 2.4.3A and it keeps trying to compare all quests I turn in with my current quest in my log WoW-Pro addon which is a lowbie one i decided to do on my 90... and it compares Current progress with ALL quests dailies, holiday dailies whatever. It also gives the error about the Loot one someone else mentioned.
Debug Mode
When I click the green V to see the debug log, it crashes my wow all the time, giving me a critical error. I'm not sure if it's me or if this is a bug.
When killing things I also get this error all the time (with every kill)
Message: ...ce\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:971: attempt to call global 'GetLootTrackingInfo' (a nil value)
Time: 02/10/13 00:48:12
Count: 3
Stack: ...ce\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:971: in function `UpdateQuestTracker'
...ce\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:616: in function `RowUpdate'
Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro_Broker.lua:147: in function `rowContentUpdate'
Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro_Broker.lua:171: in function `UpdateGuide'
Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro.lua:373: in function <Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro.lua:325>
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NewModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:256
EnableModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:348
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name = "WoWPro_Leveling"
OnInitialize = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling.lua:11
IsEnabled = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:467
orderedModules = <table> {
Error = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro.lua:78
DisableModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:366
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Setup_TitleRow = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro_GuideList.lua:199
GetAvailableSpells = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:980
AutoCompleteSetHearth = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:879
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NextStep = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro_Leveling\WoWPro_Leveling_Parser.lua:46
Print = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\WoWPro.lua:58
GuideList = <table> {
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Problem installing
Can someone help me? The tutorial says to install in C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons but i haven't this directory,should i create it?
(I could swear I just answered this 5 min ago. but the answer seems to have vanished... so if it shows up, sorry for the double respons)
No, you should not create this directory. You need to fine where YOUR addon directory is. The easiest way to do this is to right click on your wow icon and choose properties (probably the bottom option). On the Shortcut tab there will be a directory listed after the words "start in:" That would be your wow directory. Add Interface\addons after that to navigate to your addons directory.
If you are using a mac, I have no clue :\
Just curious if there is a way to have the guide relize that a user has BOA items and to move more quickly threw the guide.
Maybe some kind of check box to select the BOA's you currently have from 1-5 pieces, and addes the percentage bonus to the quest guide.
Not sure if this has been asked before but seems possible beings you all are so programmer savey that you where able to create the awsome guide.
Thanks for all you do.
Quest Flow
The RANK system is indeed meant to skip some quests if you don't want to do the whole zone. The problem is that this RANK system was implemented before WoW: Cataclysm, when there were still lots of quests in most zones that could safely be skipped. With the complete redesign of almost all quests that happened in Cata, this is no longer the case: In order to continue questing in a zone, you need to do almost all quests or the followups will not be offered.
Kind of a lame change in design from Blizzard, since they specifically designed Heirloom items to level faster, then changing quest design so you still have to do everything :P
If you just want to level as fast as possible and don't care about the background story that is told through the quests, my advice would be to do a zone until you have the required level to start the next one. Then you can abandon all quests you still have and start the next zone.
Life isn't like a box of chocolates, it's more like a jar of jalapeños: What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow.
Auto RANK
... just so you know what evil tricks are in Ludovicus' head. I am working on a change that would automatically generate RANK tags for all quests in a guide. Imagine that we had filled in all the PRE tags and LVL tags in each guide. For each quest we assign a number which is equal to 1 more than the sum of all the PRE quests. If a quest has no PRE in the quide, then its value is 1. Now look at all the quests that are not listed in any other quests's PRE tag.
Those quests are the end of quests lines. Now the weights assigned to the termini are going to over-weight some of the quest lines which feed off another quest line. Once I figure out how to detect those, then I will be able to assign the prime lines to RANK1, the secondary branches to RANK2 and the rest to RANK3.
I think all the information I need can be provided by the Grail addon; I just need to do some graph analysis on the quest tree.
some of the guides have been written with RANKS. You can adjust this setting up or down to do more or less content on the guides that support that. That being said. Not all guides use ranks.
You can find this setting in the Guide Display options.
Grizzly Hills not updating...
Any time that I attempt to quest in Grizzly Hills, WoW-Pro doesn't update, nor does it communicate with the Quest Log when steps are manually checked off. I don't know about whether it does the same thing for me in Dragonblight or not since the updates. I can tell you that it USED to work in Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills pre-MoP.
"Death is a release, not a punishment." - Inan, from the motion picture 'Dragonheart'
"Please...I use real sarcasm; never canned." - Anita Blake, from the Laurell K. Hamilton novel 'The Laughing Corpse'
I'm experiecing this in GH as
I'm experiecing this in GH as well. It was working....then stopped.
(Anita Blake is AWESOME btw)
Collapsed Headers in the Quest Log
I reproduced a problem where a guide would get "stuck" if the quest log header where the quests were landing was collapsed.
The addon now expands the collapsed headers, scans the quests and then puts it back the way it found things.
Fixes the problem for you too, I hope!
I had the same problem with leveling through there a few weeks ago.
Re: Grizzly Hills not updating...
So the usual questions:
- What version of the addon, TomTom/Carbonite are you using?
- Horde or Alliance?
- What do you mean by "does not update"? Do you mean the arrow is not tracking the quests? Do you mean that you accept a quest in the guide from the NPC and the guide does not update? A step by step description is key!
Re: Grizzly Hills not updating...
I'm having the same issue, and as far as I can tell, the problem is that every time your character interacts with anything, the Grizzly Hills section of the Quest log is contracted (as if you've clicked the "-" next to the zone name). I guess the way the levelling module works (I've seen the same bug before with TourGuide and others), it "reads" the quest log to check on your progress, and if you've contracted the quest log for the given zone it'll bug out.
Re: Re: Grizzly Hills not updating...
Oh! That is a great clue. We do read the quest log to see what quests you are on. I'll try miminizing the quest log on a toon of mine and see what happens.
1) I'm using WoW-Pro version
1) I'm using WoW-Pro version 2.4.1 and TomTom version 50100-1.0.2
2) Horde
3) It does not update the arrow, it does not track the quests, and it will reset back to the beginning of the guide the moment I kill ANYTHING. When I accept a quest, the addon doesn't update, nor does it update when I complete or turn in quests. It works the way that it's supposed to everywhere else (as far as I've seen) EXCEPT for in Grizzly Hills.
"Death is a release, not a punishment." - Inan, from the motion picture 'Dragonheart'
"Please...I use real sarcasm; never canned." - Anita Blake, from the Laurell K. Hamilton novel 'The Laughing Corpse'
What seems to happen is that
What seems to happen is that the Grizzly Hills quest directory in the quest log, collapses every time you kill something, thereby not allowing the wow-pro addon to communicate with it. I have to manually uncollapse (expand) the quest directory every time I kill something to keep wow-pro up and monitoring.
Having an Issue with the Profession Guide
I checked the FAQ, but didn't see my particular problem on there. The profession guide will only show the first step, about going and training the profession. I already have some of my profession built up, but it won't even let me manually skip the step.
Just downloaded the add-on today and I've got to say, I love the questing guides. It's a great add-on!
Professions Guide
Unfortunantly, the guy who is doing the professions module had some challenges, including among other things a hard drive crash, there were some major changes for MOP and he hasn't been able to get it updated yet. We are glad you are enjoying the rest of the guides.
Profession Guide Update??
So, with your guy down because of a hard-drive issue, when will the profession guide be fixed? I see that some things are populated to advance, but like the other poster said, it only shows when to train to the next level. It doesnt go to the leveling steps.
Great guides!
Not displaying guides
My guide list is totally empty. I followed all of the instructions in the troubleshooting guide. It's showing up for some characters, but not showing up for others. The guide acts like I'm still on a quest that I finished a long, long time ago and won't let me reset.
troubleshooting ?
Which characters is it working for? not working for? Is it faction specific? race specific? Did it work right previously and with this update quit working or was this an original install? Are you seeing any error messages (either in your chat box or the middle of the screen)? Which modules do you have enabled? Do you have the same (other ) addon's on the chars it works for vs the ones it doesn't? Anything else you think might help pinpoint the problem?
TomTom problems
I've been having problems with Tom Tom not clearing the waypoints since the latest update of WoWPro. I tested Tom Tom by itself and it cleared the waypoints, yet it didn't with WoWPro active. This is an annoying bug.
TomTom problems
I've been having problems with Tom Tom not clearing the waypoints since the latest update of WoWPro. I tested Tom Tom by itself and it cleared the waypoints, yet it didn't with WoWPro active. This is an annoying bug.
Not working at all for me.
Alright, I installed the plug in as needed. Its showing i have 85 of the 307 quests done in Azshara but iv only done maybe 50? Also its giving me quests i can't even get yet. Any idea why this is happeneing?
Problems in Azshara
As to the 85/307 that means 85 steps, not quests. Most quests have 3 steps (accept, do, turn in) so at a guess you have done about 30 quests in the zone. As to the more important part of your question... What level are you?, what race (maybe its a problem with pandas?) what version of wow-pro, what version of tom tom? And lastly what was the last step that worked properly?
Issues with my addon
I've been using wow-pro for a while, and leveled quite a few toons with it. However, recently on my warrior, it has been acting strange. When I was questing in Dragonblight, there were no way point arrows for any quests so I had to keep using the map. Now I'm in Grizzly Hills and the guide is not updating. It will accept the quest, but not update the guide to the next step. Also if I am on quests like "loot x items" it no longer tracks how many I've looted to update when complete.
I switched to other toons to load the Dragonblight guide to see if it was character specific, and same thing - no waypoint arrows.
I saw another person was having problems with the Dragonblight Alliance guide. I believe the problem is caused by the addition of the "dragonblight" map level in the Dragon Soul raid. Alas, I don't know how to fix it :(
editted to add... I verified in game, that is the problem, it is mapping to locations on the Dragonblight/Demon Soul map.
Just thought I'd add, I found a really crude fix. If you open the guide file (in a text editor like wordpad) while you are logged out of wow. Change where it says dragonblight to 488, it will map to the correct spot. Unfortunantly it will also say 488 as the name of the guide on the guide list and the guide pane.
- WoWPro.Leveling:RegisterGuide("JamDra7475", "488", "Jame", "74", "75", "JamGriA7577", "Alliance", function()
That will at least let you play thru dragonblight until someone who knows how can fix it right.


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SebastianxReader chapter 15Sebastian x ReaderChapter 15---Your pov---Days passed and there was no news from Sebastian and Ciel. Lizzy had almost finished planning the wedding, she had given me a blue bracelet and a new purple and gold necklace. Everything was almost ready
almost perfect all I needed was him.That was the night I went to my room early I brushed my hair and slipped into a nightgown. For a while I sat by my window gazing at the stars and I wondered if he was doing the same. I heard pluto bark and then there was a flash of orange light. I looked down and saw Pluto lying calmly at the feet of a tall stranger with giant white wings. The stranger stroked Pluto and pointed at a tall tree just outside the window. Pluto almost seemed to nod before standing and opening his mouth. The giant dog took a deep breath and burnt the tree to cinders in one breath before running around the mansion breathing fire all over it. What on earth. I sprouted my large black wings and dove from my window towards the
SebastianxReader chapter 13Sebastian x ReaderChapter 13---Your pov---It's true what they say in stories that time slows down when you are in danger. It was as though the razor sharp glass shards flying towards everyone were falling in slow-motion. Sebastian had moved instantly to protect Ciel. Mey-rin's glasses had been pushed on top of her hair, (her eyes were really pretty) and she had a pistol in each hand. Baldo was carrying a rifle and was hurrying to the broken window to take position. And Finny
well Finny had picked up a statue with ease and held it high above his head
I don't know how he did that. I knew I had to do something I saw a group of five children around Lizzy they all had tears in their eye's but Lizzy was trying to protect them, I knew what I had to do.I thought really hard about changing. My arms sprouted feathers and grew into a massive pair of black wings. I silently thanked Sebastian for showing me how to do that, as I ran to the children. I wrapped them in my new wings.Then
SebastianxReader chapter 14Sebastian x ReaderChapter 14---your pov---I woke up that morning feeling very sick. I ran to the bathroom and threw up in the toilet
it wasn't pretty. I drank some water before getting changed into my maid uniform and hurrying downstairs to start chores for the day.Mey-rin was sweeping up some broken glass in the ball room so I offered to help her do that. I knelt down and held a dustpan so she could sweep the glass in easily."So, Mey-rin
where did you learn how to
shoot people." I had been curious since I had seen her jump gracefully out of the window and shoot with absolute precision while still in mid-air."It was about two years ago." She answered quietly while leaning on her broom. She took a deep breath and carried on. "I was an assassin, people hired me to kill others who had wronged them...I'm not proud of what I used to do. One day I was meant to kill someone
but I couldn't do it, Sebastian found me and brought me here." She looked at me. "I pose as a
SebastianxReader chapter 11Sebastian x ReaderChapter 11---Sebastian's pov---My hands were still on her stomach
I didn't think
I didn't know that
"B-but demons can't have children!!" I shouted, I'd never heard of such a thing, it had never happened before. "Not with humans at least
normal hum-oh." I laughed a little at my own stupidity, of course I could have a child with her
she wasn't a normal human. I raised my left hand to cup her face. "Don't worry milady. Now we should really go shopping, the both of us need costumes for tomorrow's annual fancy dress ball." I smiled into her confused eyes, she clearly didn't understand."b-but I can't have a baby
.I-I-I d-don't
.I-I-I can't d-do it-t
..S-Sebastian I-I'm only eighteen! I c-can't be a m-mother I w-wouldn't know where to s-start" She stammered. I held her close to me in my arms. I could only smile, the thought of becoming a father it was all a little too much for me. What could the child possibly look lik
SebastianxReader chapter 7Sebastian x ReaderChapter 7---Your pov---I stood in front of my mirror for hours with my finger to my lips to remember his kiss, the way he felt, the way he smelt and tasted, I couldn't. I felt the ears on my head to see if I could make my body tingle the way it did when he touched them, I couldn't. I tried to dance by myself without him just to see if I could, I couldn't. Without him I wasn't whole. Without him now I just felt as if I was broken.When we had left the ballroom he had walked me up to my room, I silently begged him to come in, to hold me and kiss me and sleep there next to me, but he didn't. I wanted him to tell me he loved me, but he didn't. He looked sad, as if he was hiding something, but I was so happy inside. I wondered if I had kissed him wrongly, if my dancing was terrible, if I looked ridiculous. My thoughts were muddled and erratic. I felt like I needed to escape, just to get some air. I wondered how though, it seemed I was learning how to transform more easi
Sebastian x Reader Chapter 6Sebastian x ReaderChapter 6---Your pov---"This is a nightmare." I muttered as Elizabeth handed me tons of dresses and accessories and shoved me into the bathroom to change. I pulled out a pair of pink bunny ears, and a pink dress with lots of frills and little pink bunnies all over it."Put this one on first!" she had ordered me after handing me the dress. I sighed and frowned
I couldn't I'd rather go back to living on the stre
no no I wouldn't. I shuddered, I knew what I had to do. My job was to distract Lady Elizabeth for Ciel. This would be one hell of a distraction (ooh I liked the sound of that). I sucked it up and put on the dress* and ears and walked out of the bathroom.Waiting for me were Elizabeth, her maid Paula, Mey-rin, Finny and Baldo. Apparently they were there to help Elizabeth to pick which dress to give me as a welcome gift. I looked like an idiot in front of three of my friends and two
acquaintances. My friends were laughing at me, Elizabeth was squ
SebastianxReader chapter 5Sebastian x ReaderChapter 5---Sebastian's pov---I made my way to my young master's room, the walk was long so I had far too much time to think. I couldn't see her anymore this was dangerous. If both she and the Young Master were ever both in danger, who would I save, I have an obligation to the little bra-master but
no I have to try hard to avoid her. I must get unattached
but she wouldn't be of any use to Ciel if she cannot learn to transform into something more protective. I stopped at my master's door and let out a long sigh."Good morning young master, today's tea is-" I had been so distracted I forgot to bring his tea up. "My apologies
My lord, I have forgotten your tea." The brat
Ciel smirked. There was no fooling him for a human child he was wise far beyond his years. However, selling your soul can do that to a person I suppose."Not a problem Sebastian I will receive my tea in the dining room today" He said raising his arms so I could dress him for the da
SebastianxReader chapter 9Sebastian x ReaderChapter 9--Your pov---I let out a loud yawn as I stretching to make myself feel more awake. I pawed at the area to my right trying to feel Sebastian, with my eyes still closed. All I felt was a soft fabric and a rough piece of paper."Damn," I said aloud to myself. I'm not sure what I was cussing about; the fact that he had left me another note that I couldn't read as I still hadn't told him I was unable to, the fact that he had left me a freshly washed and pressed maid uniform on my pillow (which seemed significantly more revealing than my last one). Or possibly it was the fact I had missed an opportunity to watch him sleep. I pulled on my uniform before looking at the note folded up on my clothes. I smiled at the piece of paper as I opened it, instead of his curly calligraphy style writing there were beautifully drawn diagrams and pictures showing my day's jobs.To start he had drawn a picture of a feather duster and the living room. Then a sink of wat
SebastianxReader chapter 3Sebastian x ReaderChapter 3---Sebastian's pov---That afternoon was strange, many things had happened that day that even I had never seen before, Ciel lost a game of chess, and he also let someone win."Your move" Ciel repeated, he seemed to have been getting impatient with her, surprisingly this put me on edge. During breakfast I had told Ciel about our guest, he seemed very interested in her power having never met a shape shifter before. Although I wasn't sure she could control it fully yet, I however know a lot about the odd things that often occur in this world. Being a demon has its perks you get to meet a lot of interesting people and learn a lot about them. I told Ciel that if he could let her stay as perhaps an employee I could tutor her on how to shape shift more effectively, so she could be of more use to him in his game. However I would have to spend more time around her and I wasn't sure that I should, she was distracting. How could I continue to be one hell of a butler,
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 7Chapter 7 You kissed Sebastian back, you weren't able to think straight and your mind felt all fuzzy. Slowly you rested your hands on Sebastian's shoulders, allowing yourself to drown in the kiss and forget any lingering negative thoughts. After what seemed like an eternity, he pulled away so that you could catch your breath. His red eyes watched you carefully as if to make sure he hasn't broken you. "S-Sebastian
can you do that again?" you ask quietly, your face warming up fast, going a shade of pink. His signature smile crossed his face and he nodded. He reached out and tucked your hair behind your ear much like how Finny had. "I will ___, because I am one hell of a butler, and you are one hell of a girl," Sebastian whispered. His pale lips met yours once more and this time you responded to the kiss automatically, savoring the taste of his lips and the feeling of being close to him. "What is going on in here
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 10Chapter 10 "Sebastian," you call miserably when you enter the house, closing the door slowly and quietly. He looked away from Baldroy and towards you. His red eyes widened a bit when he saw the tears on your face, talking to Finny had upset you so much. You watched him turn to Baldroy and say something quietly before hurrying down the stairs. Baldroy nodded his head in your direction and smiled sympathetically before climbing down the stairs also. You watched him head into the kitchen before turning your gaze up towards Sebastian. Slowly he held his arms out to you and you automatically hug his waist, burying your face into his chest. He held you closed to himself, lightly resting his head against yours. "How are you feeling?" Sebastian asked you softly and you bit your bottom lip hard. You shake your head a bit, keeping your face hidden in his chest. "I think I'm going to rest," you told him and finally pulled away so that he could see your face. Carefull
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 5Chapter 5 "You have no business with Miss ___, leave her alone," he said, his red eyes glowing a pink color briefly. Finny laid back in the grass again, rubbing his sore cheek and jaw. "Do you like her Sebastian?" he asked. That was the only reason he could figure out as to why Sebastian would be mad at him. He studied the Sebastian, his green eyed narrowed a bit. Sebastian took a step away from the gardener and glanced away for a moment. "You know you are going at this in the wrong way?" Finny asked, sitting up, becoming more confident. Sebastian kept his face emotionless as he looked back at the Finny. "What are you talking about?" he asked. Carefully Finny pushed himself up into a standing position again, his jaw hurt when he spoke but he continued anyway. "If you like someone, you can't just treat them like anyone else. You have to talk to her, hang out with her, tell her what you think, and show that you care. Not what you do. All you do is stand ther
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 6Chapter 6 You swim up towards the surface of the red liquid. Once you reached the surface and could see Sebastian standing outside the fountain, you gasped for air. You slowly climb out of the metallic liquid and fall down onto the grass, trying to calm your racing heart. "Why'd you shove me?" you snapped and looked at the butler, this time even more of his skeleton was showing. He wasn't wearing his gloves so you could see his hands which were only bones but on one hand there was a purple sign engraved into the bones. "What is that on your hand?" you ask shakily and slowly scoot away from him a bit. You weren't as scared of him this time around but you were still a bit startled by his appearance. His red eyes turned and looked down at his hand, he pulled a glove from his pocket and covered that one hand with it. Again he was strangely quiet and you wanted him to talk, say anything at all. "Have you ever tasted a soul?" Sebastian asked, not answering eithe
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 11Chapter 11 You had never seen so much pink and red in your life till today. It shocked you that Ciel had reluctantly agreed to decorate the mansion in pink and red since those colors were associated with Valentine's Day. With a shake of your head, you carefully adjust your cat ears head band, and smooth out your red dress that practically matched the color of Sebastian's eyes. When this thought crossed your mind, you peered around and spotted Sebastian at the door greeting guests. A smile crosses your face as you watch him, and as if he feels your gaze, he glances in your direction and smiles. You look down and blush, a small giggle escaping your lips. "Lizzy, my coat is fine!" Ciel snapped impatiently beside you. His fiancée, Elizabeth had arrived at the party early and made a habit of messing with how Ciel looked. You glance at them and smile, they'd make a cute couple, they already argued like a couple would
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 13Chapter 13 You shoved the door of the mansion open and ran down the stairs. Finny spotted you and smiled in relief, he grabbed you and pulled you into a hug. "Thank goodness you are okay
hey why are you crying? What happened in there ___?" Finny said and stared up at your face. You put your hands against his chest and push, trying to get out of his hold. "Let go of me, I really have to go," you tell him urgently and squirm in his hold. The gardener set you down on your feet but kept a hold of your hands. "Let go of me," you snap, wanting to get away from the mansion as soon as possible. Finny gasped and winced at the harsh tone in your voice but he did as you asked and let go of your hands. You glance at Mey-rin
then Baldroy
then Finny and you give them a sad smile. "I'm sorry," you told them quietly before turning and continuing to run. You weren't sure where you were going, but you knew for sure it wasn't back into that mansi
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 3Chapter 3"Where am I?" You shout, spinning in a circle. You were wearing a flowy black dress that just barely covered your ankles with a white ribbon at your hips that formed a bow on your back. It was incredibly dark and you could barely see a foot in front of your face. You reached out your hands and tried to feel around. When your hands touch something you; feel it more carefully between your fingers. "A leaf?" you asked, suddenly able to see a huge bush before you; as you looked around more, you could see that it was a very dark maze that you were in. "How..?" you practically cried and stumbled away from the bush boundary. "This way ___ (name)," said a voice and you wheeled around quickly for the source. You spotted the red-eyed man and you gasped. "Sebastian!" you called and frowned when he turned and started to go farther into the maze. For a terrible moment you stand there, not sure if it would be smart to follow. Finally, you figured following him would be better than standing
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 4Chapter 4 As Sebastian had said, Finny was out front. He stood with his legs apart, garden shears carefully being held above his head as he trimmed the higher parts of the bushes. Unlike the last couple of times, he was actually wearing his hat to shield his delicate face from the sun. At the moment he had his hat on so as you approached you noticed something on the back of his neck; you frowned and stopped behind him to peer at his neck curiously. "Finny, if you don't mind me asking
what does this mean on the back of your neck? S-012?" you ask and he jumped. Finny hadn't heard you approach and nearly dropped the shears in his hands. He turned around so that he faced you and smiled a bit nervously, his green eyes meeting your own ___ eyes. Normally he wouldn't tell someone he had just met what it meant but he felt comfortable and like he could talk to you so easily. "I was captured and my friends were killed. My capturers liked to experiment. It's le
Cat Me-ow? SebastianXReader 8Chapter 8 "You really love cats don't you?" you turn and ask Sebastian with raised eye brows. He nodded and a smile spread across your face. One mystery about this man was solved, maybe you would learn a lot more about him today. You turn and face the mirror he had stationed you in front of and carefully adjusted the ears. "I'll let you buy them for me ONLY because you are buying and you are persistent," you told him and you look around. He had grabbed a shopping cart so you set the head band inside. You look up at him and blush. "What?" you ask, he seemed to be watching you more closely than usual. Sebastian smiled and shook his head a bit as if to say 'nothing'. You nod and grab his hand, pulling him down aisles of the store. When grabbing clothes you were careful to watch the prices since you remembered what Ciel had said about money. Usually you would just buy the clothes since you knew the sizes you needed, but Sebastian was here. You slow them to a stop outside of the changi
SebastianxReader chapter 12Sebastian x ReaderChapter 12---Your pov---When Sebastian and I burst into the ballroom Lizzy had fainted in front of a woman wearing a bright pink dress and a tall pink top hat with a veil. I walked up to the woman in the centre of the commotion and lifted the thin veil covering her face."Arrgh!" I shouted
okay so it wasn't a woman, it was a man. It was him the one from the graveyard, the one who told me Sebastian was a demon. "Jeez, you scared me. Why on earth are you wearing that?""Heeheehee, It's a fancy dress ball, so I came in a fancy dress. Heeheehee." I raised an eyebrow, Ciel who was dressed as a king, (with a crown and everything, it was very cute) sighed and stood in front of the man."Undertaker, I told you, you could come if you wore something that wouldn't scare people." 'Undertaker? That's a weird name' I thought to myself
though he was a weird man. Ciel sighed again. "I thought you would do something like this." Ciel rubbed his brow. "I prepared another co
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Fresh grilled Prawn
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Fried goat cheese with Sundried Tom marmalade
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Meat ball stuffed with mozzarella with homemade pasta
Vino Nobile di montepulciano
Shrimp ravioli with tarragon butter sauce or Ricotta egg raviolo with brown sage butter
Braised lamb shank or Beef wellington
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Pear poached in red wine with Pistachio mascarpone filling
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I think that's dead on. It makes me think about two branches of how things tend to go. They extend in opposite directions. One makes me think of comic books, and the other of photography.
Everyone knows Action Comics No. 1. Or rather, they know it because of the seven figure prices that good copies of it command. This fact has inspired several generations of collectors to preserve their comics until the day when 'they're worth something.' It doesn't take a degree in economics to see the problem with this. Action Comics No. 1 is expensive because it was once valueless, and so very few copies of it have survived. If comic books are treasured nowadays, they will never be scarce and so there will be no market for them in the future. This fact turns all those plastic sleeves into transparent coffins, where the value of a comic book rots away even as its body is perfectly preserved. This is an example of how an unintended consequence can reach back to strangle the entire enterprise. To nobody's profit except the manufacturers of little plastic sleeves.
There's another way that unintended consequences can frustrate our intentions. And in such a way as to make the death of our intentions into the birth of something much more interesting. The invention of photography is a good example.
Around 1800, there was an intense desire to make descriptions of the world that approached objective truth. Isaac Newton and Pierre-Simon Laplace had shown how every motion in the universe was 'really' an expression of simple mathematical relationships. The industrial revolution had shown how the optimized motion of a machine could drastically increase production, slash labor costs and excrete the difference as titanic sums of money. These mathematical and mechanical ways of treating our experience would hybridize to become the scaffolding of the world which we presently inhabit.
Enter Nicéphore Niépce, Henry Fox Talbot and Johann Erdmann Hummel.
Niépce is usually credited with being the first person to make a permanent record of an object, solely by projecting the light it reflected onto a sensitive surface. Talbot did the same thing, ten years later and in England. Their contributions to photography are well-known. What is less well-known is how their photographic experiments emerged from an inability to draw. Niépce had a hand-tremor that made him incapable of drawing a straight line and Talbot was simply untalented. Both men initially saw the permanent photographic process as a means of producing mechanically what they couldn't create artistically: realistic and objective records of the world they lived in. Niépce and Talbot couldn't draw to save their lives and so had to invent chemical photography.
At precisely the same moment, 1831, a German artist named Johann Erdmann Hummel was inventing photography from the other end. His subject was an enormous granite bowl, commissioned by the Kaiser and installed in Berlin's Lustgarten. Hummel would paint two pictures of this bowl looking through a variety of lenses to flatten its perspective and enhance its detail. These paintings depict the bowl with such incredible realism as to be far and away the most photographic images for twenty years after the invention of chemical photography. In the sense that Hummel created 'realer' images of his subject than anything Niépce or Talbot could produce, it isn't an exaggeration to call him the better photographer. The fact that photography would come to be understood only as the chemical production of images from reflected light shouldn't get in the way of seeing the much more important point: Hummel invented photography too. And in a form that satisfied the age's desire for an objective record far more successfully than any other process available at the time.
The reason I bring this up isn't to monkey with who gets credit for inventing photography, it's to explain the why of its emergence. Photography wasn't an accident and it wasn't created by tinkerers. It was the result of longrunning project to see the world in an intensely rational way.
But reasons only satisfy reason, and people like Niépce, Talbot and Hummel destroyed realistic art with them. Photography's ability to perfectly reproduce any object that would reflect light ended up making realistic painting first obsolete, then tedious and finally anesthetizing. This last quality would undermine the conception of our world that gave rise to photography in the first place.
What's the point of dedicating your life to the exquisite observation of the world so you can later record it in paint when there's a machine that does it for you? Very few inventions have been as devastating to the human faculty they made obsolete as was photography's detonation of realistic art. For something equivalent you have to go back to whatever written language must have done to memorization. Or spoken language to smell. All this becomes painfully ironic when you remember that the fuse was lit by three men who thought they were advancing realism in art.
By bringing reason to bear on a problem that doesn't properly concern it, these men erected the same empty scaffold that goes up every time rationalism exceeds its authority. Photography certainly does produce realistic images of the world but its facility at doing that eventually empties those images of meaning. Cheapening not only photographs, but everything that tries to be realistic. This is because—after photography—realistic works of art seemed not to resemble their subjects, but only photographs of them. (If you don't believe me, remember that the World Trade Center towers seemed like nothing so much as scenes from an action movie as they collapsed. And that actually happened…) And all we're left with is an unpleasantly rigid way of seeing the world. But that's what life is like in the empty scaffold that science x industry is as skilled at erecting as it is inept at filling.
The point here is that photography killed what it tried to perfect. Killed it just as dead as greed has killed the future market for comic books. But whereas the unintended consequences of greed tend to sterilize, photography's destruction of realism made art almost uncontrollably fertile. Greed is inherently small-minded. It has to operate inside the dense scaffolding of economics and so frequently strangles itself as it tries to expand. The rational scaffolding that photography represents spread contagiously and nearly consumed art in the 19th Century. But not entirely. And in an organic, human domain like art, anything less than complete eradication ends up only pruning.
Clearing the field for a realization.
Photography's perfection of realistic art—barren as it was—forced a long-overdue recognition: reality is not the same as realism. Moreover, that a surplus of realism doesn't sharpen our awareness of reality, but anesthetizes it instead.
Enter the spate of famous artists whose work demonstrates this point. Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Rothko, Dan Flavin.
the works of art themselves have in turn been consumed by precisely the same cycle of greed as Action Comics No. 1. And on an industrial scale. The expansion of the science x industry scaffold produces a lot of money. Which has been used to capture art, and once again embed it in a scaffolding foreign to its nature. The only difference is that artists—unlike Marvel—can decide that they no longer want to play. They can decline to find their place in the scaffold. Cease to create the ever more expensive anesthetics the wealthy need to absolve themselves of guilt. Cease to manufacture the kind of culture that makes life in the scaffold bearable. In favor of one that prefers ashes to expansion. And dirt on its ass to vertiginous heights.
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