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Antwone FisherBetter than Average
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Biography Romance Drama
1 hr. 53 min.
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December 19, 2002
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RACISM—What are the consequences of racial prejudice and false beliefs about the origin of races? Answer african americans FEAR, Anxiety and Worry—What does the Bible say? Answer anger and temper murder in the Bible What should we thank God for, and how should we praise Him? Answer THANKFULNESS—Tips for New and Growing Christians—GO Are you thankful to God? GO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY—Why do Americans celebrate it? Answer What is the origin of America's annual Thanksgiving Day? Answer Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving mother son reunion child abandonment child molestation I think I was sexually abused, but I'm not sure. What is sexual abuse, and what can I do to stop the trauma I am facing now? Answer Does God feel our pain? Answer Why does God allow innocent people to suffer? Answer psychiatry
"Fight fear. Face truth. Embrace life." Here's what the distributor says about their film: "ANTWONE FISHER is the story of a man who digs inside himself to discover therein lies a king… Volunteer reviewer needed for this movie—Request this assignment See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers. Positive—Great story! It re-enforces what the Bible teaches in that "what Man meant for evil, God uses it for good." The story of Joseph comes to mind. Antwone is a better and stronger person as a result of his determination to rise above the awful things that were done to him in his past. The Lord healed Antwone through the help of a caring doctor and a girlfriend who saw something good in him. However, the Name of Jesus is taken in vain once or twice.
[Better than Average / 3] —Jerry, age 50 Neutral—This movie is a powerful portrayal of brokenness and healing. The story of Antwone Fisher's painful childhood broke my heart. Denzel Washington gives an incredibly inspiring performance as a psychologist who helps Antwone deal with his past. However, I was troubled by the "inspirational" conclusion of the movie, which celebrated Antwone's triumph over the past—a triumph based more on confrontation of those who hurt him so profoundly rather than on forgiveness (although he does forgive his mother).
In the final scene Denzel's character congratulates Antwone for beating those who tried to bring him down—hardly the Christian image of healing and forgiveness. The implication that virginity is unnatural for a healthy adult was also disappointing. Finally, while the movie was not excessively graphic, the blood splattered across Antwone's face in the murder scene was unnecessary and the child-rape scene (heard but not shown on camera) was quite disturbing—with those two scenes, the movie deserved an R-rating and should not be viewed by young children. [Better than Average / 4½] —Fred, age 28 Positive—This movie is the most refreshing depiction of strong and caring men I have seen in a long time. Denzel Washington's role as Antwone's father figure/pschoanalyst was heartwarming and tender. Mr. Luke's portrayal of an angry young man was realistic and three-dimentional.
While the film's plot was simple, I believe that Mr. Washington's direction helped create warm and believable characters. Antwone's foster mother portrayal was horrifying and demonic; however the story was compelling enough to make this viewer have genuine compassion for both the victim and the beast of a mother. The most encouraging part of this movie was its omission of violent and sexual scenes. The story itself contains extreme violence and inappropriate sexual situations, but they are only suggested cinematically and do not leave the viewer with horrible images they'll have to forget. This is not a "Christian" movie, but has overwhelmingly hopeful overtones and teaches a strong pro-family message. Family, as in the Body of Christ is made of the people that dare to extend love to one another in spite of their circumstances and shortcomings. And finally, we applaud a sweet romance between two young people that was NOT centered around sexual attraction and superficial sentiment. Antwone's search inspires us all to challenge the anger and bitterness within our spirits versus allowing sociological circumstances to excuse our sin. This movie contains gentle strokes of realism and is flavored with profound moments of grace that help us understand the balance of suffering and triumph through our Christian journeys. [Good / 4] —Dawn, age 26 Neutral—How can a Christian positively comment on the many good things about this movie without mentioning the mocking of the Church and the jokes and discouraged virginity themes? While I enjoyed most of the film, those two aspects bothered me far after the credits rolled. For that fact, Washington, who says he is a Christian, shocks me once more after Training Day—and it does not make me glad. And the fact I have never heard four F words in a PG-13 (3 stated, one muttered)—the film is a R—an R worth seeing for the most part, but an R none the less.
[Very Offensive / 3½] —Briley, age 23 Positive—I can't say enough about this movie. It is hard to watch all the abuse that Antwonne goes through, but the redemptive story is so awesome as he learns to overcome his past. It was quite an accident that we went to see this, but I am so glad I did. I left the film feeling grateful for my own family, even with all the mistakes made there, nothing was as bad as this man went through and he has accomplished so much with his life.
[Better than Average / 4½] —Joyce, age 55 Positive—The Atwone Fisher Story is Denzel Washington's directorial debut. It's based on the true story of Atwone Fisher. The movie is very compelling! First it shows how Satan can attack a person from an extremely young age and that racism comes in unusual forms. It even points out the evil that can grow and explode in our hearts if we never truly cast our cares upon our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It shows that a person can go to church and still be evil. With this movie parents can show their children that like Antwone Fisher, we too are SOLDIERS, in the Army Of The Lord Jesus Christ! We are armed and with our spiritual weapon, the Word Of God, we can chop down Satan's traps and come out victoriously in any situation! I recommend it especially if you are a Denzel Washington fan.
Importance of family, control of anger, and perseverance are also encouraged. There is little profanity, and although rape and premarital sex are evident they are not shown like most Hollywood films and do not seriously hinder the message and effect of the film. [Better than Average / 4½] —Brian Nzuwah, age 20 |


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Wednesday, June 20
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Transmedia Activism: Telling Your Story Across Media Platforms to Create Effective Social Change
Transmedia storytelling, a concept identified by Henry Jenkins, is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share assets and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. Transmedia immerses an audience in a story's universe through a number of dispersed entry points, providing a comprehensive and coordinated experience of a complex story.
There is a clear marketing benefit that arises from multiple entry points into a media property—and in allowing your audience to participate in creating content and new platforms to distribute it. (Luke Freeman has a discussion here concerning transmedia storytelling in the for-profit media world.)
But even more interesting is the door transmedia storytelling opens up for social change cause outreach. Nonprofits and creators of social change media have a challenge in making their content "sticky" and, in a crowded field with limited funding or distribution channels, it takes significant resources and expertise to create audience awareness and inspire action. There is a real and distinct opportunity for activists to raise awareness and influence action by distributing content through a multiplatform approach, particularly in which people participate in media creation.
Looking at this issue in the simplest of terms, "transmedia activism" is one of the best ways to have people connect to a cause, by exposing them to a variety of media properties over various distribution channels—which opens up avenues for dialogue and provides an audience an educational experience about workable solutions—and then working with the most creative and engaged audience segment to facilitate the creation of their own content that further explains the cause and inspires action around it.
Paul Hawken, who is turning his widely influential book Blessed Unrest into a film by inviting social activists to contribute stories that illustrate the book's "movement of movements" theme—the documentary will consist entirely of pieces culled from online submissions and aims to be at the forefront of collaborative media towards social change movements.
In a similar vein, Gael Garcia Bernal and Marc Silver, two of the creators of the upcoming documentary Resist, have set up ResistNetwork, a site to strengthen the film's outreach throughout its making, and to invite its audience to contribute stories of change that may end up in the final product or in ancillary media. The network already hosts short films and calls for action from its participants around the film's theme, a search for "authentic freedom" from economic inequity and instability. The network partnered with Amnesty International to set up a webcast exploring how decentralized communications networks can address poverty and its underlying causes.
Silver has also created Eye of the Storm, described as "a website, a public installation and a story," which encourages its audience to explore ways to find peace amid chaos, by contributing audio, video, images and writing, creating an ever-growing collection of user-generated content that will be streamed on web and mobile platforms and will also be part of a real-world installation.
Filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein writes about his current documentary project, What We Got: DJ Spooky's Quest for the Commons, for which the film's creators are also using a transmedia storytelling process to craft the film and its outreach strategy.
And on another front, Steven Starr, Executive Producer of FLOW, has leveraged the success of the documentary to create a website aimed at encouraging collaboration among Right to Water activists, who will be able to use the site as a global hub upon which to launch their own local sites.
Organizations have also been successful in executing transmedia efforts. One dynamic example is the Human Rights Action Center, which has been celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights each year through a variety of media it has created, collected or commissioned, including concerts, films, blog posts and spoken word.
Breakthrough is another organization whose entire mission and strategy is built on transmedia activism, creating and distributing content in a number of media forms and distributing it across a variety of platforms, including the relatively new and growing field of games for change (Games For Change is one resource to explore these tools).
Two recent game efforts have been Oxfam's A Seat at the Table; and Global Kids, which has created Ayiti: Cost of Life and Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City, by retaining a professional developer and working with youth in an after-school program.
So how do you do it? How does a nonprofit or media maker—particularly one with a tight budget or small workforce—engage in transmedia activism? As Charles Leadbeater has said, "[y]ou don't need an organization… to achieve large and complex tasks… this is about [community-building to] provide communities with tools, resources, platforms on which they can share."
To build a community and have that community connect with a cause, nonprofits should think through how they can execute a multiplatform approach. For this, there needs to be (1) a defined, sustainable strategy and (2) the attendant resources to create and acquire compelling content and distribute it.
With regard to strategy, an organization should consider how its business model could support a co-creation network, and how it can be innovative in minimizing its cash outlay while maximizing its outreach. In the context of social change—where media can be created by audience members, donors, partners or beneficiaries—a social change initiative should network with its stakeholders to encourage or solicit innovative media tools that raise awareness and inspire action.
To that end, a similar outreach effort to "friend-raising" will be required in terms of bringing together a co-creation network. (This brings up another potential benefit in terms of fundraising organizations, in that engaged audiences are more likely to donate money; an engaged stakeholder is more likely to donate time to create media, as well.)
This effort requires appropriate technology, staff capacity, and the management ability to collaborate with external consultants and partners. The Internet and related Web 2.0 technologies have opened up new and cost-effective ways for social change initiatives to communicate with their base and to foster a co-creation network—and has the added benefit of expanding the engaged audience and moving them from awareness to action.
There are also a number of technological tools such as wikis, virtual team environments and videoconferencing, to make interactions and collaboration easier—both internally and with external content creators. In terms of staff capacity and management capability of a nonprofit specifically, performing a communications audit can illuminate an organization's practices and internal capabilities to deploy staff to manage creation, curation and distribution of content, and engage with external content creators.
The question of resources, specifically funding, is more difficult. Some of the work of building a co-creation network and distributing content can be performed within an organization for "free," in that communications or development staff can be trained to do the work as part of their tasks. Although there is a transactional cost to using staff blood and sweat, there can be little direct cash outlay. (On a related note, during a discussion of social media networking tools at the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp, panel attendees estimated they spend around 2 hours a day maintaining their internet- and mobile-based communications towards outreach. A sustained transmedia activist effort would likely require a similar time commitment.)
Content that is produced by users in an open collaboration, particularly in the context of the social change world, could be accessed for free, as well—or if for payment, for less than an organization would pay a full-time staff person dedicated to content creation. But any sustained transmedia activism effort will require funding. There are still relatively few funders who support media outreach initiatives with any consistency.
In the past few years, The Fledgling Fund has emerged as a forward-thinking and consistent funder with a roster of innovative projects, some of its own making.
The Omidyar Network, Humanity United (which only funds mission-related projects involving mass atrocities and modern-day slavery) and the Skoll Foundation have all supported outreach initiatives employing cause-related art and media.
This past summer, BritDocs hosted a forum, The Good Pitch, bringing together third sector funders and organizations with media makers to explore the idea of collaboration and funding. Shooting People's blog contains a fuller list of some funding possibilities.
Nonprofits engaged in social change initiatives should view storytelling as a necessary component of mission-fulfillment. Any individual institution engaging an audience—whether beneficiaries, funders, board members, community or other stakeholders—is required to convey clearly and artfully what it does, how its does it, where its work is most effective and necessary, and why they should support efforts to continue or grow the institution's work.
In the larger view of systemic change, storytelling takes on an even bigger role, where a well-told story creates a shared experience and helps illuminate all factors (root cause and symptomatic) that effect social change efforts at both global and local levels, creating a comprehensive, connected, "best practice" view of achieving progress.
As Lichtenstein points out in his blog, his journey through this process of transmedia storytelling has changed him from a filmmaker to a content producer. Nonprofits dealing with social change don't need to get into the business of content production or multiplatform distribution—but it is a digital world now. It's likely time to add storytelling to the task list.


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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is hosting its first annual Baker Scholars Research presentation. The undergraduate scholars will display and discuss their research projects and other initiatives, which are mentored by UT faculty and staff.
UT Institute for Nuclear Security Hosts "Uranium Bowl"
A team of terrorists attacked a nuclear material facility in Knoxville, but were successfully repelled by the facility's guard force. Then the guards and terrorists switched roles, and did it again. Luckily, the attack was fiction and response was just an exercise in the inaugural Uranium Bowl—a physical security "play-off" between students at UT and North Carolina State University.
UT Economist Matt Murray Tapped to Lead Baker Center
Professor Matt Murray, associate director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at UT Knoxville, has been appointed director of the Howard H. Baker Center Jr. Center for Public Policy. He will begin immediately. Murray, the Ball Corporation Professor of Business, will take the place of Carl Pierce, who has directed the center since June 2009.
Nuclear Weapons Scientist to Speak on Iran, North Korea Nuclear Programs
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Very Comfortable!!
By Benz11
from Fonthill, Ont
I wore this recently on a flight and was quite happy with the style and its ease of movement. I ordered the mink and wear it with my mostly black closet. A nice change. Yes, the fabric could be softer and I would not realy call it a knit. But, I quite like it. I buy an expensive knit line and this would be 3 or 4X more expensive if it was that designer, so, I'm pretty happy with the jacket. Great fashion and chic!!! I always watch for Marla to return!!!.I like her and a lot of her fashions!
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Functional and Stylish
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This was okay in the Mink. I did keep it to introduce variety in my wardrobe.I did not have a problem with the fabric and the colour could have been richer. The worst feature I found was the back of the jacket as it needed more "swing" to it. I should also add that I would have preferred a button/loop closure rather than a pin closure, which is a pain.
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Nice but...
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While I love Marla Wynne's styling, however, I'm finding that I am increasinly disappointed with the quality of her products. This jacket is indeed very cool-looking but the fabric is quite thin and makes the jacket not worth the money that is being charged. It looks great, but it doesn't keep me warm in an indoor setting as was promoted, and I feel as if it's going to tear quite easily.
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Nice design but....
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What a shame...such a beautiful design...such an awful fabric. The fabric feels not too much softer than zero-grade sand paper. I really wanted to love this jacket, but the stiff, rough, scratchy fabric made me return it. I have lots of boiled wool pieces - but, I've never had one that felt like this one. Sorry Marla...please bring this design back with a fabric upgrade. I'd buy it.
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stylish jacket
By northern girl
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I purchased this item in mink. It is nicer that I even expected. Like the other Marla Wynne items I have purchased, the quality is impeccable. It is very comfortable on . However,if wool bothers you,remember the material of this piece is boiled wool so you would want to wear a long sleeved top under the jacket.
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Beautiful but....
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A beautiful coat, style and fit but the wool unfortunately made me very itchy. The only way I could wear it would be with a heavy sweater and at this time in my life sweaters are at a minimum:). I would recommend this product to another if wool doesn't bother them.


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Stop the Slaughter of Wild Horses
Our government is taking wild horses off land because of special interest groups and are putting them in government pens. If the horse is over 10 years of age, (less than half of their lifespan) or were not adopted, they are sent to be slaughtered. This situtation is not right! Instead of letting our nation\'s true symbol graze freely, they are being killed to make room for cattle and oil drilling. Let\'s bring back Federal protection for the horses. Please help us by signing this petition, which will go to Washington.
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WANDA GRAY, United States
1 year ago Comments: The targeting of America's horses for sale to out-of-country slaughter houses includes this nation's wild Mustangs AND are making a handful of individuals in this country rich. This is not only inhumane practice because of the methods used but it is immoral and threatens one of this country's historical features - the wild Mustang herds. Americans should also be appalled at the millions of tax dollars being spent to destroy these innocent animals.
State: Washington
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Cheryl Renn, United States
2 years ago Comments: The federal government has to stop serving special interest groups! We need to protect our earth, fellow creatures like the horse population. I disgusted by the greed that drives business to dispose of some of God's greatest gifts. When will it end when the world is nothing but malls and concrete. The demise of humans will result from greed and the disinterested. When we lose interest in saving any of God's creatures, we are taking steps to the destruction of ourselves and generations to come. Very sad to me that there are still so many that have not evolved enough to understand this basic spiritual concept.
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Marauders Era Alternate Universe RPG, Enter a Universe you have not yet explored. Attend Hogwarts or our very own Unique school, WolfClaw Academy of Magic, Join as an Original Character or Canon Character. Attend Classes, get a job and start working
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This is a non canon fairy tail rp site that takes place 50-100 years after the canon events. Create your own character, your own unique magic and much, much more.
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SAK clan is a stunters and deathmatchers clan, whose members mix those activities into one original and unique gameplay style.
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A unique and rapidly growing virtual airline for Infinite Flight enthusiasts.
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A Community devoted to the Ultimate Sports Mopeds dating back to a time when speed, style and being unique was everything
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Grasp at Stars is an original online RPG with a unique setting a heavy slant toward comics and anime.
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Welcome to a new Naruto based RPG forum with a unique system for maximized fun.
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A site meticulously put-together by a group of Dragonball enthusiasts, tailored to appeal to every passionate roleplayer. In an endless array of possibilities, here you will find the most credible can
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The CEP Nexus: A unique Neverwinter Nights Server
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Pokemon Legacies is a Pokemon roleplay forum that's still being developed in order to make it as unique as possible. More description to come later.
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There is never going to be any surf in the northeast. Not ever again. Everything surf related I own I'm just giving up - for free. Come take it off my hands. I have four boards, three wetsuits, a wetsuit top, swim fins, a hand plane, roof racks, two sets of booties, gloves, a half used stick of zinc, a 1/4used bar of warm water sticky bumps, 25 surf DVD's, 100 old surf mags, three extra leashes, a set of FCS fins missing the right box fin, a julie design surf sock from 2001 that is so caked with wax it stands on its own, a reinforced travel board bag, and a regular board bag, one unused traction pad, two old ding repair kits, and a couple wax combs. And a partridge in a pear tree.
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As pescas em Portugal Continental : o caso da Afurada
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AbstractThis work, although trying to clarify the present situation of fishery in Portugal in a general way, is essentially directed to the understanding of the importance of this activity in what space organisation is concerned. Therefore; firstly, you can generally characterize in an historical point of view the fishing activity in Portugal since the end of the 19th century until nowadays, by investigating the evolution of the variable directly connected with the production of the fishing structures namely the fleet used and the labour. The second half is built on a case study. It is about the evolution of the fishing activity in the special spot of S. Pedro da Afurada in a perspective of analysing fishery/territory.
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Ask Massively: Paying-to-win edition {Massively}
Nov 4th 2011 2:34PM There is no such thing as Pay2Win, or as someone put it Pay2Cheat. There is just a gap between what you think you should be playing and the game you actually are playing.
A design decision that allows you to not spend time "earning" an item but pay for it simply switches the mmo from consuming one scarce resource, your time, to another, your income.
For some reason people equate spending hours of your time on a virtual treadmill to get a virtual item as "correct" but spending money they spent time earning as "cheating" , personally I don't see the difference.
The Daily Grind: What's the most iconic MMO city? {Massively}
Oct 31st 2011 9:37AM Jeuno for me from FFXI, city built on a series of bridges, still is a fantastic place to walk around on the occasions I get nostalgic and re-sub for a bit
The Soapbox: It doesn't have to be for you {Massively}
Oct 4th 2011 5:11PM @(Unverified) Dragon Age 2, which is odd, because it's not an mmo
The Daily Grind: Do you care if players get free max-level characters? {Massively}
Apr 25th 2011 5:21AM @Rialle I personally don't see a problem with the grow with gear idea, ditch the levels, that way the raiding end game is a genuine extension of the main game, if everyone strips off you're effectively as you were when you started the game. I'd quite like an extension of the FFXIV system, where gear dictates role, so you can experience everything through one character.
I don't like the lack of crafting, currency etc though :)
The Daily Grind: Do you care if players get free max-level characters? {Massively}
Apr 25th 2011 5:14AM @Jorev Why is it unfair? I don't understand, the solo levelling process isn't even slightly competitive, it's X hundred people doing their own thing in the same space, you normally pass each other in silence, and really, they could just be computer controlled NPCs.
Even raiding isn't really competitive, unless you're going for world firsts etc, it's you + 20 people vs static content.
Only PVP is competitive, and the reality is a better geared, better skilled player will bury someone who is given new levels.
A 90 level treadmill to end-game is a barrier to new players, the constant requirement of games to increase their level cap eventually makes their game totally unpalatable for new gamers, if 95% of people are at level 90 and you create a new character, starting out for the first time and are presented with a ghost town you are unlikely to make it 10 levels before you quit. MMOs are social games and picking up a guild/clan/corp etc is vital for most players to continue playing, if they don't encounter anyone this opportunity will not happen and the player will go back to playing more immersive single player games, or return to an mmo where they have friends.
I remember a similar storm on the FFXI forums when the team announced they were reducing the amount of xp required to get from 60 --> 75 people frothing at the mouth saying they deserved this and that because people would now be shooting to max level and they wouldn't know what they were doing. It was utter rubbish.
Your reward for already being a level 90 (In EQ2s case) is you're already a level 90, you're already experiencing this new content, and you've already starting up the gear treadmill, and you have a head-start on any newer level 90. Does the fact that person x was just given their 90 change that no, what is he's useless in a dungeon, he'll learn, or he'll quit.
Ultimately this sort of thing has no effect on the existing players, other than introducing new players, which can only be a good thing, because no player in their right mind is going to look at the 90 levels of near absolute silence, because the entire community butting it's head against the level cap, and go, you know what, that's the game I want to play.
The Daily Grind: Do you care if players get free max-level characters? {Massively}
Apr 25th 2011 5:00AM Yes and no, I think you should travel through the content, because there is content there, and the first time levelling is usually a fun experience. I think once you've done it once it becomes a real chore, and serves no real benefit, so done 1-->X already, heres some free high level alts if you want them.
I have to totally disagree with the comments that have been made that it forces you to learn your class, it really doesn't, in games like EQ, FFXI where grouping was required for levelling you genuinely learnt you class, when you scaled up to 18/20/25/50 people you were performing nearly the same job within the group, just on a larger scale. For mmos like WoW, Aion, Rift and other general themepark mmos where you solo your levels you generally take a dps spec with a dash of support (if possible), if not a complete dps spec, totally different to the role you will playing, even dps works differently in groups, there are abilities that are of limited use when fighting a mob that goes down in 10 seconds, vs a group of elites that take a minute, or a boss that takes 20 minutes.
As I think has been said on massively before, mmos these days are two totally different games, levelling and raiding, the levelling bit can make you familiar with your character, but learning to raid and learning to level are two very different skills.
CNN looks at RIFT's server technology {Massively}
Apr 10th 2011 2:33PM @Ratham This does happen, individual zones have crashed in games because they've had too many people in one spot, normally people are spread out and they zones can be cut up pretty cleverly to allow people to allow the world to support huge numbers of players, when they couldn't even touch 1/10 of that number in a single place.
Ol' Grumpy's guide to player reeducation {WoW}
Jan 3rd 2011 6:24PM Main reason is because they have learnt the content and expect everyone else has too, sadly this is not the case when the content is less than a few months old, as people are still experiencing for the first, second, third time, and people see the "good old days" of wrath, but fail to remember that we didn't know those encounters 18 months ago, and I had groups wipe on me even though they were much more brute force encounters than cata's regularly when new content appeared, a few months in, everyone had gear, new the strats and it became less of an issue, a lot of people haven't lost the elitest arsehole mindset that the end of wrath generated when none of the hcs were even a challenge.
Ol' Grumpy's guide to player reeducation {WoW}
Jan 3rd 2011 6:21PM Good article, with the initial skill reshuffle, I went from an amazing healer, to an awful one, as I had a whole new toolbox and spells I relied on weren't doing what I expecting, and I had to relearn, I don't feel confident yet, still working on getting to 85, but I'll learn to make my class tick again, but really the 4.0.1 patch was a massive game changer, this combined that my healer being ICC geared at the end of wrath, and could face roll through hcs, earlier hcs (HOS etc) I was capable of ignoring the hits mobs laid on me if I dumped a lot of heals and it wasn't an issue if a tank lost aggro, as sometimes you still bumped into new tanks looking to get to raid gear. We're all used to out-gearing the content, and most of us no longer do, it's back to building up to raid gear, building up to later raid gear, and we will look back at all the hcs in a years time and see face-roll material, but I remember getting smacked around in wotlk hcs when I first hit 80, and cata's hcs seem a little bit more complex from everything I've seen.
The Mog Log: Eleventh-hour changing of the guard {Massively}
Dec 12th 2010 12:18PM @Zorak he has an axe to grind, and maybe something to compensate for.


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Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood, Arizona Carole L. Reeves, 72 of Cottonwood, passed away on March 18, 2012. She was born on October 23, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri. Carole spent her youth working as an accountant. She took her talent to managing the family's own grocery store "The 7th Street Grocery" for many years in Missoula, MT. She also worked for Frys in Cottonwood. Carole was an auxiliary member of 5 years for the American Legion. She enjoyed playing bingo at the Elks Club and the VFW. She was a lifetime member of the National 600 Bowling Club for Womens International Bowling Congress members and was with the Women's Bowling Alliance for many years. Carole was preceded in death by daughter Carole Jue Reeves and step-son Ricky Lee Reeves. She is survived by her husband of 44 years, Elvin L. Reeves; step-son Ronald Reeves of Sedona; granddaughter Quiesta Bagaoisan of Torrance, ID and great-grandson Jaden Dillen of Torrance, ID. There are no public services planned at this time. An online guestbook is available to sign at www.westcottfuneralhome.com |
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Hey have some thing I planted for the plant sale ( 120 Stockwell dr avon MA today an tomorrow 10 to 5.)
And I lost the tags.. or they got taged wrong. Any ideas? |
Here is a link that might be useful: ID needed
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- Posted by diggingthedirt CapeCod Z7? (My Page) on Sat, May 1, 10 at 7:44
The one labeled slightly fuzzy no scent looks just like foxglove. |
- Posted by diggingthedirt CapeCod Z7? (My Page) on Sat, May 1, 10 at 7:52
The one labeled "Weed or plant?" is not familiar to me, but the way all those pots have the same thing growing in them makes me say "plant not weed" and maybe someone else can give you an ID. Insect damage is another indicator that this is a plant you want, since weeds in general seem more immune to bugs. The third one looks quite a lot like a leafy green that comes back for me every year out of a lettuce mix I planted way back when. I have never seen seedlings of "Joe's coat or love lies bleeding" though, so I can't rule those out. You might post one photo of each on the name that plant forum - they're very helpful there. But I wouldn't bother with the first group since I'm really sure those are foxglove as I said earlier. |
I agree with DtD on the foxglove. The ones in the Proven Winner pots look like a Campanula. The second unknown looks like some type of nightshade (genus Solanum) a weed. Does it have an odd odor? If so, it's Solanum. "Weed should be more upright" looks like a weed to me, pigweed (genus Amaranthus.) (Can you tell there are lots of opportunities in my garden to ID weeds; it's what I get for using horse manure . . . but it's free, so I weed and mulch.) A great book I just got is called 'Weeds of the Northeast" by Uva, Neal, & Ditomaso. Has keys, good photos, and seems to be pretty complete. You can google for images to check also. Keep that tomato hornworm!!!!! It has been parasitized by a tiny nonstinging wasp. The white things are the wasp eggs. The hornworm won't eat any more of the tomato, the little wasps will hatch out and will parasitize other horn worms. (They eat the hornworms from the inside out . . . gross, but helpful in controlling the hornworms.) Just so it's clear - the wasps won't bother you (I don't even know what they look like & they are definitely in my garden) so don't worry that they are called wasps. |
OK check do not kill the VERY Ugly bug that is a wasp hotel.... I am LOL'ing at the simple truth " weeds are more bug resistant" smacks head... that is amazingly true and SIMPLE |
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16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave,to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, | 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, |
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. | 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. |
18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. | 18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666. |
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In the great modern exodus of Russian Jews from the Soviet Union during the 1980s, many of those who came to New York worked for a while as taxi drivers, as other immigrants have done before and since. On a day during this exodus I started a conversation with my Russian taxi driver by saying, "I'm Jewish, are you?" He replied, with aRead More
"Inside of me is a black woman," declared songwriter Denise Rich, who hosted the April 2 Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's annual spring benefit at her lavish Fifth Avenue penthouse. "It's why I write the songs I do," Rich told the 150 guests. "The world needs more than ever… to…Read More
While working on his forthcoming anthology "Women in Yiddish Poetry," Barnett Zumoff noticed that many of these poems written about Jewish women or by Jewish women revolved around the theme of "mother." As a result, he has compiled a selection of such poems in a separate volume, titled "About Mother: Yiddish Poets Speak." OneRead More
At a special and most unusual press conference at the Pentagon, General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, threw a temper tantrum. "General Myers rapped on the lectern with a clenched fist," The New York Times reported, "and angrily mocked criticism from retired generals and others analyzing the war onRead More
Ah, Passover. Moses demanded, "Let my people go." We're tempted to add, "out to eat." We find it terribly ironic that we celebrate our freedom from bondage by observing dietary restrictions that are the food equivalent of an electronic ankle monitor. As far as food goes, on Passover, we're all under house arrest.But it doesn't haveRead More
In contemporary America, Passover is the occasion for many things, from a sudden appetite for gefilte fish to a momentary burst of attention to ritual. It has also been the occasion for extraordinary moments of creativity when it comes to advertising and marketing.Given the exigencies of the holiday — with its built-in requirements for specialRead More
As the Seder draws near, Jews of all stripes become oenophiles, setting out to stores to choose the perfect wine for their Passover meals. As with the meals themselves, which by now include vegetarian and gourmet selections as well as the traditional brisket, kosher wine options have increased exponentially in recent years, leaving brains swimmingRead More
When Moses and the children of Israel hastily left Egypt, they had to worry about that weird bread that didn't rise and how to cross the Red Sea pursued by Pharaoh's soldiers. The last-minute departure allowed for no time to plan ahead. Fortunately, God led the way and sent manna.When my husband, Eli, and I decided to celebrate Passover withRead More
I never gave serious thought to changing my last name (it's about as Jewish as you can get) until I realized how pervasive antisemitism has become. I am in my 50s and beyond the age where it might matter, but my daughters are in their early teens and will soon be applying to college and then entering the work force. I amRead More
Moses and Aaron, bent with wandering, walk from the Tent of Meeting. Aaron: This one is trouble.Moses: You're a worrier. You thought the commandment on adultery would be trouble.Aaron: No. That one people could simply ignore. This one is trouble. Trust me.M: Don't be silly. Men and women don't want relations at that timeRead More


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KCDC Halloween Massacre!
Stir up some fire and brimstone with Altamont contributor Sammy Baca and a whole slew of other metalers at the KCDC Halloween Massacre featuring the Gimme Metal art show and party with 60 artists, three bands, skating, free drinks, a real dragon slaying and a whole mess o' other mayhem.
It all goes down on Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at KCDC 90 N. 11th Street, Brooklyn, New York, phone (718) 387-9006. Sorry, 21 and up only with ID.


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Fangraphs is great. There probably isn't a single post that ends up on Getting Blanked without a cursory Fangraphs consultation. They provide an amazing (and free!) service in the form of reams of baseball data. With this information, writers and fans alike go forth to form better and more well-rounded decisions about the players they watch every day.
Fangraphs recently added pitch f/x leaderboards to their considerable offerings. With it, you learn Ervin Santana throws the most sliders among starting pitchers over the last three years and David Price has the most arm-side movement on his two-seam fastball.
The Pitch f/x information also includes a timestamp for each thrown pitch. From that information, Fangraphs tracks Pace – the average time between pitches. Just how long is the time between the human rain delay's pitches? Who works the fastest and deserves our love and affection? Who works slowest, earning scorn and probably more? Let's investigate below the jump.
The Miami Marlins made significant moves during the Winter Meetings by signing Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle. Reyes is a Spanish-speaking star, sure to be a hit in cosmopolitan Miami. Mark Buehrle is sure to make fans among people looking to get the hell out of the South Florida heat in two hours or less.
Name | Pace (seconds) |
Mark Buehrle | 16.2 |
Joe Blanton | 17.6 |
Ryan Rowland-Smith | 17.8 |
Clayton Richard | 17.9 |
Tim Wakefield | 18.0 |
Brett Anderson | 18.1 |
Doug Fister | 18.2 |
John Danks | 18.2 |
Jonathon Niese | 18.3 |
Brad Bergesen | 18.6 |
Heroes. One and all. Although this list hardly represents the best that Major League Baseball has to offer, each of these brave men can toe the rubber for my club anytime. Except Wakefield. What do you expect? It isn't as though he needs to look for a sign. Grab ball, grip strangely, huck. Done.
Let's move on to the other end of the scale. The qualification for this list is 150 innings over the past three seasons to ensure You Know Who makes the list.
Offender | Pace (seconds) |
Jonathan Papelbon | 31.7 |
Rafael Betancourt | 30.8 |
Jonathan Broxton | 30.0 |
Jose Valverde | 28.7 |
Rafael Perez | 27.2 |
Francisco Rodriguez | 26.9 |
Jason Frasor | 26.5 |
Daniel Bard | 26.1 |
Mike Adams | 26.0 |
Dan Wheeler | 26.0 |
For reference, the average pace among the 300-odd qualified pitchers is 21.6 seconds with 2.1 as the standard deviation.
Just to further confirm a long-held bias, the next ten names on the list includes 3 more Red Sox (Dice K, Beckett, Buchholz.) They are also the first starters to feature on this damning list, a copy of which I'm forwarding to Interpol and The Hague for crimes against the human attention span. The top ten slowest starters is a veritable who's who of the American League East: Lester, Sabathia, and Burnett join Matt Garza and Brad Penny in this damned group.
Know these names. Memorize them. Write the local umpires union and tie to a rock for tossing through Bud Selig's window. We must drag these traitorous dogs into the town square for a public flogging. We will exact our revenge on the hours of a life lost between Papelbon's splitters in the dirt. WE WILL HAVE OUR REVENGE. We are sunburnt and cranky and we aren't going to take it any more. Sound the klaxon of action, it is a pregnant pause revolution!
In case you wondered, pace doesn't really have any sort relationship with quality of pitcher. It (weakly) correlates positively with SIERA (where lower is better) and strikeout rate. Just hurry up with it, will ya!


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Summer is just around the corner! To ensure your kids have a fun – and safe – time in the water this season, check out this Q&A with CHOC Children's Community Education Coordinator, Michelle Lubahn.
Q: What is the most important thing you can tell parents about water safety?
A: Make sure you keep an eye on your kids even if there is a lifeguard on duty. Children need constant supervision in and around water. Designate an official "water watcher" to make sure someone is keeping an eye out at all times.
Q: What are some effective pool protection measures?
A: It's important to have multiple layers of protection. Kids are fast and can get into things in a matter of seconds. You may want to consider investing in fencing, gates, alarms, and covers for pools and spas.
Keep in mind other sources of danger too, such as bathtubs, toilets, buckets, ice chests, even dog dishes! A child can drown in as little as two inches of water; it happens quickly and silently, too. Latch the toilet seat, and never leave your child alone in the bathtub. Be sure to empty buckets and ice chests as soon as you're finished with them.
Q: What about water safety tips while at the beach?
A: Watch for and adhere by rip current and weather condition signs posted at the beach. Swimming in the ocean should only be allowed when a lifeguard is on duty. Also, never swim alone – even good swimmers need buddies!
For more tips, check out this video: http://www.choc.org/video/index.cfm?vid=50.
For more information, or to learn about water safety classes, please contact the CHOC Community Education Department at 714-509-8887.


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David Stewart, PGA Tour professional at Florida's Kissimmee Golf Club and rules expert, helps break down the ever-complicated golf rulebook in "Inside the Rulebook" for FanHouse. Add Camilo Villegas to the list of golfer's victimized by golf's legion of ... Source: FanHouse
In this FanHouse Q&A, four-time heavyweight champion Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield , who turned 48 on Oct 19, talks about the fact that he will participate in the 56th fight of a career that began on Nov. 15, 1984 when he meets 38-year-old Sherman ... Source: FanHouse
Blue said that by the time officers arrived, Matthews had holstered the gun. The older gentleman "was very upset ... he had gun pointed right at him," Blue said. Brandishing a firearm in public is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and ... Source: MLive.com
Beautifully. Cary Grant plays a fine gentleman, irresistably nice with a playful side. At the beginning of the movie, we spot him right away amongst the crowd, observing children with approval as they delight at department store Christmas displays. Source: Examiner
We'll be posting a full Golden Globes review later in the day, but until then let's run down the best and most horrific fashions we saw on the runway last night. It's my personal opinion that only those who really take risks are doing it right ... Source: Philadelphia Citypaper
Word is slowly catching on about last year's Welders seven-inch on BDR Records. Record collectors love mysteries, and certainly the Welders - a band of St. Louis teen girls who recorded a batch of inspired pop-punk gems in the late 1970s, and then sat ... Source: Riverfront Times (blog)
If all the food in the world were shared out evenly, there would be enough to go around. That has been true for centuries now: if food was scarce, the problem was that it wasn't in the right place, but there was no global shortage. However, that will not ... Source: Common Dreams
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He was always a perfect gentleman. Not a boaster. All his qualities were those we like to think of as Canadian qualities." Berton, who died in 2004 after a lifetime of penning popular Canadian histories, never answered the essential chicken-and-egg question. Source: Brandon Sun


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Anonymous Patron writes "Business First of Columbus: The Online Computer Library Center said it has published the first complete translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index into Vietnamese.
The system, which has been translated into more than 30 languages, is an organizational tool for library collections that provides sorting and browsing tools for easier access to resources, Dublin-based OCLC said. It is used in more than 135 countries."
Anonymous Patron writes "This is Money says equity firms are planning to pick up a Penguin, or another book publisher, as the slow but steady stream of revenues and royalties looks increasingly attractive to dealhungry venture capitalists.
News Corp's HarperCollins and CBS's Simon & Schuster are also attracting interest."
Anonymous Patron writes "eSchool News online : With its acquisition of the library automation business of its largest competitor, Sagebrush Corp., Follett Software Co. has become the definitive leader in school library automation software. Though Follett pledges to support Sagebrush's 24,000 school library customers, analysts say the deal, which reportedly gives Follett about a 70-percent market share, ultimately will bring several changes."
Following up on our announcement last week of new library services offered by Amazon.com, here's a discussion in The Book Standard on what the new program means to libraries. The article speculates on whether librarians will turn to Amazon.com for services that they currently get from companies like Baker & Taylor and Follett.
Author Kimberly Maul invites you to add your two bits via e-mail.
In New Orleans I got to attend a great symposium by OCLC entitled "Preserving Library Core Values and Envisioning the Future." It featured Derek Woodgate, Founder and President of The Futures Lab; Wendy L. Schultz, Ph.D., Director of Infinite Futures: Foresight Research, Training and Facilitation; and Stacey Aldrich, Assistant Director of the Omaha (Nebraska) Public Library System. Pretty interesting stuff. It's now available online for your viewing on OCLC's site.
Amazon.com has launched Library Processing, enabling its multitudinous library customers to receive Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records and have books and other media they order from Amazon.com pre-fitted with Mylar jackets, barcodes, and other essential preparation services. For the latest list of library services, visit Amazon.com.
Anonymous Patron writes "Reuters.co.uk: Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc said on Thursday it was confident of meeting its expectations for full-year results, helped by sales of books by existing authors and new signings. The company did not say what its expectations were. Bloomsbury's list for 2006 includes authors from its existing portfolio, like Joanna Trollope, Susanna Clarke and Ben Schott, as well as new authors, including William Boyd, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and William Dalrymple, the firm said in a statement ahead of an annual shareholder meeting."
Business First of Columbus Reports RLG's roughly 150 members late last week approved the proposal to merge with Dublin-based OCLC, a nonprofit group that provides computer-based cataloging and research services to libraries. OCLC's board approved the combination last month.
The combination of the two organizations will open up cost-effective ways to bring research collections online, James Neal, RLG's chairman, said in a release. Neal is also vice president for information services at Columbia University, one of the schools that helped form RLG.
OCLC will maintain its name but will open a new unit named RLG-Programs Development.
Castle Harlan, the New York-based private equity investment firm, announced today that a fund it manages has agreed to buy privately held Baker & Taylor, a leading domestic and international distributor of books and entertainment products to libraries and retailers, in a transaction valued at $455 million.
Baker & Taylor, founded in 1828, is the world's leading distributor of books, video, and music products to public and academic libraries. It is also a global leader in the distribution of books and entertainment products to many of the country's leading retailers. More here and here.
The accounting problems at ProQuest Co. raise questions about whether the company will continue to exist - at least under that name - even as it begins moving into a new $34 million headquarters building on Eisenhower Parkway next Monday.
ProQuest, the Ann Arbor, MI, based company which employs 650 people locally, is a provider of electronic archived information and learning materials. The company has been in the midst of an internal investigation into accounting problems that led the public company to overstate its revenues by more than $80 million in just under five years. More At The Ann Arbor News.


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Geelong is a charming city right at the gateway to the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road. It's just one hour from Melbourne and is Victoria's oldest city. However, Geelong also has plenty of modern appeal - like stunning waterfront shops, restaurants, and public art showings.
You can get a history lesson in wool harvesting, manufacturing, and more at Geelong's National Wool Museum. There's four galleries, a gift and souvenir shop, and even a licensed restaurant!
Geelong is the perfect place to take a long walk. Walking trails and tours are all over the area to ensure you don't miss any key attractions. It's the best way to see the city!
You'll also find Victoria's first water-themed park in Geelong, Adventure Park. It features 22 rides and attractions to entertain adults and children of all ages. When you're done, finish the off with a barbecue and a game of mini golf.
If art is your thing, Geelong showcases public art along its beautiful waterfront that you won't want to miss. Be sure to check out the Geelong Art Gallery. The permanent collection includes 19th and 20th century Australian and European art and 18th and 19th century English porcelain.
You can't see it all on foot, but Geelong's wine region stretches from the surf coast to the volcanic plains. There are over 50 wineries to choose from including the well awarded McGlashan Estate.
If you're back in town and hungry, stop at a cafe or restaurant along the waterfront at the Eastern Beach Pavilion.
Pakington Street is another great option for delicious Italian, Thai, Chinese or Indian cuisine. Stop by Pakington Street's most popular bars - The Barking Dog or the Cremorne Hotel. If you want more great wine, you'll find it here, too!
If you want to stay close to the water, there are good deals on Western Beach, Eastern Beach, or Melbourne Road. Moorabool Street and Malop Street are also good options near the water.
If you want to stay in the centre of the city, look for accommodation on Barrabool Road, Shannon Avenue, or High Street.
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Good morning from Calgary, Alberta! #explorealberta Photo by @photojbartlett, who is on a mission to find the runner in this photo so he can share it with him. Do you recognize him? By Travel A
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