text: PARKING METERConceptualized in 1932 by Oklahoma Cityan Carl C. Magee, the parking meter was a modern solution to a modern vexation, parking congestion. Carl C. Magee arrived in Oklahoma City from New Mexico in 1927. In his former life he had worked as a reporter for an Albuquerque newspaper, had exposed the Teapot Dome scandal, and had testified against Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Magee was later arrested for manslaughter in an altercation with a New Mexico judge but was acquitted. Surviving these episodes, he came to Oklahoma City to start a newspaper, the Oklahoma News. Traffic congestion problems in 1920s and 1930s Oklahoma City typified those of most major American cities of the day. In Oklahoma in 1913 there had been an estimated 3,000 cars; by 1930 there were 500,000, most of which were registered in Oklahoma County and the capital city. The problem was that people who worked downtown occupied all of the parking spots every day, forcing retail customers to park far away from stores. The city had placed time limits on parking, with enforcement performed by traffic police who chalked tires, marked time, and gave tickets on hourly rounds. The parking situation came under scrutiny by the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce in 1932. Appointed chair of the Traffic Committee, Magee assumed the task of solving the problem. Magee decided that the situation required the invention of a small, windable, inexpensively made, mechanical device to "time" the use of each parking space. In 1932 he designed and built a crude model and on December 21, 1932, filed for a patent. In order to refine the concept and build a real working prototype, he joined forces with the Oklahoma State University Engineering Department. Together, they sponsored a design competition with prize money of $160 for the winning design and $240 for the submission of a working model. The contest ran from February 17 to May 6, 1933. While several students built models, unfortunately none of the submissions was acceptable. Professor H. G. Thuesen joined the project soon afterward and enlisted the help of Gerald A. Hale, former engineering student and 1927 OSU graduate. For the new model, dubbed the "Black Maria," they created the interior parts; a local plumber made the exterior shell. By late 1933 McGee, Thuesen, and Hale began looking for a manufacturer. The MacNick Company of Tulsa, makers of timing devices used to explode nitroglycerin in oil wells, contracted to manufacture the unit. On July 16, 1935, 175 meters were installed and tested on fourteen blocks in Oklahoma City, and when the system proved successful, the city placed meters all over downtown. Magee then raised money from 125 businessmen and incorporated the Dual Parking Meter Company, with offices in the Commerce and Exchange Building, Oklahoma City. The units were first trademarked as the "Dual" and later as the "Park-O-Meter," under patents held by Magee. After World War II a new organization, Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter Company, manufactured the product in Oklahoma City, and Dual was sold to an Ohio company. The impact of the parking meter was threefold. First, it straightened out Oklahoma City's parking problem. Second, it brought revenue into the city coffers through meter money (a nickel an hour) and parking fines (a twenty-dollar fine for each violation). Third, it stimulated a huge growth in the assessed valuation of downtown commercial property. Carl C. Magee had started a trend, and parking meters sprang up in cities across the nation. SEE ALSO: MANUFACTURING, OKLAHOMA CITY, SEISMOGRAPH, SUBMERGIBLE PUMP. BIBLIOGRAPHY: LeRoy H. Fisher and Robert E. Smith, "Oklahoma and the Parking Meter," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 48 (Autumn 1970). H. G. Thuesen, "Reminiscences of the Development of the Parking Meter," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 45 (Summer 1967). Dianna Everett © Oklahoma Historical Society |


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Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone!!
I had so much fun gathering colorful, festive photos and crafty Mexican-inspired DIY projects for today's post, and I can't wait to share them with you all!
First, an inspiration board filled with tons of color, Ashley Meaders (fave) fringe, super cute details from one my new favorite weddings, shot by Sarah Yates, and images from a Couture Events la fiesta inspiration shoot.
My friends and I have a thing for obsession with "skinny" margaritas. Hundreds less calories than the typical, sugar-blast margs made with store-bought mixers, and ooooooh so delicious. It is actually how the margarita started out / supposed to be — very minimal, made with fresh ingredients.
Here is a recipe for the "Classic Margarita," compliments of Darcy O'Neil from the Art of Drink.
The 42-21 Margarita
2 oz Tequila (Blanco)
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz Lime Juice
½ tsp Fructose
Instructions: In a cocktail shaker combine all ingredients with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a salt rimmed stemware glass. No garnish necessary.
Side note: We prefer substituting Agave Nectar for fructose. So yummy!
My boyfriend is set on having a mariachi band at his / { our : )} wedding. I don't hate it.
Ok… put on your old clothes on and roll up your sleeves… craft time starts now:
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DIY las flores de papel will brighten up any fiesta! 100 Layer Cake has the easy peasy steps.
And I leave you with Tori + Austin's Sayulita destination wedding. It has officially joined the club (along with this wedding) of my all time favorite weddings. Unlike most people, I am usually not the biggest fan of Mexico/ Hawaii beach weddings, white sand, yadah yadah. But THIS is not the typical destination beach wedding. Everything from the hidden ceremony location, to the hand-sewn napkins and personal portrait place cards, to the vibrant splashes of color and the vintage Mexico vibe. You MUST see the rest of the photos and read the bride's heartfelt account of the event.
I hope you all have some festal plans consisting of tacos, margaritas, sombreros, pinatas, or any combination of those,, and that this helped you get in the mood for this joyous holiday. OLE!
Photos courtesy of: Joielala Photography, Sarah Yates Photography, Our Labor of Love, Studio 222 Photography, + free-extras.com.

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Setting aside the question of whether such petite girls are the ideal spokespersons for a campaign to sell milk as a height-booster, what caught our eye was Ashley's T-shirt, which carries the Andy Warhol-designed image of a banana from the cover of the classic 1967 album ''The Velvet Underground and Nico.'' It's an album that, to this day, remains a signifier of hip, edgy, avant-garde taste -- qualities not previously associated with the squeaky clean Olsens. Is Ashley a fan of the album? Does she like such tracks as ''Venus in Furs'' (about sadomasochism) or the opiate ode ''Heroin''? Does Mary-Kate also like that early work of singer-songwriter Lou Reed, or does she perhaps prefer his later, mature, ''Songs for Drella''-''Magic and Loss'' period? Or was the shirt the choice of a photo-shoot stylist, one who thought that bananas and milk go well together? Or is the presence of the Warhol drawing a sneaky allusion to his dictum about fame lasting 15 minutes?
Dairy coalition publicist Jon Rennels tells EW.com that Ashley chose the shirt for the shoot because she thought it was ''cute,'' but that she and Mary-Kate are indeed Velvet Underground fans. As for the selection of the pint-size moguls as endorsers, Rennels says: ''Teens look up to the Olsen twins -- no matter how tall they are -- so they're perfect role models to encourage teens to drink their milk.'' Of course, it strikes us that the Olsens' famed marketing savvy could now help sell the girls' maturing audience on art rock as well as on milk. Either way, the Olsens would be doing a service by turning teen girls away from sugary pop.


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[LONDON], 5 February 1940
After agreeing with McDougall [1] and Loveday [2] to see Halifax [3], I remembered that he was away in Paris attending the meeting of the Supreme War Council, and I accordingly saw Butler.
I told him quite frankly of the conversation which Loveday had had with Assheton [4] and Leggett [5], and it was quite apparent that he had heard something of it. I put it flat to Butler that I was left with the impression that the International Labour Office was intriguing against the implementation of the resolutions of the Bruce report [6], and as this was contrary to what I understood was the attitude of the British Government I wanted to discuss the position frankly with him. I also pointed out that if the International Labour Office was successful in preventing the reconstruction of the League on the economic and social side, it would simply have the result that nothing could be done during the war, owing to the fact that even if the International Labour Office achieved its objective, this could only have results in a practical sense after the war was over, as they could not take up the work that had previously been done by the League if, and until, their Charter was very greatly enlarged.
Butler assured me in categorical terms that it was the policy of the British Government to facilitate the reconstruction of the League in respect to its economic and social activities and undertook to put a stop to any intrigues of a contrary direction.
He gave me the assurance that he would give definite instructions to Assheton as to what attitude he was to take up and on this basis we left the matter.
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Welcome to our feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of The Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin!
Now that we've got several weeks of 4.2 data under our belt, I'd like to take a look at DPS across the classes to see how feral shakes out comparatively. Obviously, this is a topic that is always heavily controversial, so I'm doing my best to document my opinions using hard data rather than anecdotal observations.
My primary tool for this is going to be the charts from Seri's wonderful site, raidbots.com, which aggregates public data from World of Logs reports. I know several guilds don't report to WoL, but it's still a wonderful data source for information.
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World of Warcraft no longer legally for sale in Australia {WoW}
Feb 4th 2009 1:42PM Wow, this has really been blown out of proportion. People are taking this way too seriously. Everyone SLOW THE FUCK DOWN.
I'm Australian and I can tell you now that it's very unlikely they'll enforce such a law on MMOs.
Most people don't realize this but every day pornography is illegal in Australia, I'm not even joking. It's just the police do NOT enforce it. It's a legal loop hole that warrants the police to search adult shops at any time without a court order.
We have a huge adult industry here, yet these ridiculous laws aren't enforced the the extremist extent.
This is how I believe this will work for these classification laws for games. It WILL be illegal to sell WoW and such, but they WON'T enforce it. This is to keep games like Man Hunt, Postal and other shit out of stores.
Plus I believe you're getting a bit ahead of yourself here. I read that due to the nature of MMOs there are a number of legal loop holes that do infact make the sale of MMOs an exception to the classification laws. I believe it had something to do with the purchase gives you access to content that's hosted off of Australian servers. Meaning hoorah for so called "freedom of speech" (I'm no lawyer, but this is my understanding of the situation).
Yes, the oceanic servers aren't REALLY in Australia people.
Rumor: Early Factor 5 Kid Icarus model flies out {Joystiq}
Feb 2nd 2009 7:59AM Turok the fairy hunter?
Hands-on: Quake Live {Big Download}
Jan 21st 2009 4:15AM I'm in the beta.. It rocks :)!!
The Conduit: Then vs. now {Joystiq}
Jan 19th 2009 11:50PM Wow, it looks like I'll finally be playing my Wii since I got bored of brawl. I was dying to see a good FPS on the Wii ever since I saw how the control scheme worked.
Dragonball: Evolution coming to PSP in April {Joystiq}
Jan 19th 2009 11:45PM Thank god nobody has a PSP.
The Queue: Archdruids? Nahh. Okay, maybe. {WoW}
Jan 16th 2009 7:02PM I hope by 4.0 they update the character models of all the original races. Because there's no way in hell I'm playing a male night elf. They look goofy as all hell.
Life for instance, check out this dudes portfolio where he remade the male troll from scratch.. Looks much better.
Roll a Death Knight (almost) anywhere in 3.0.8 {WoW}
Jan 13th 2009 11:36PM What's the point of disallowing people creating Death Knights on the opposite faction on different servers, when they can most likely make them on a PVE server and transfer them over to a PVP realm. Seems like a silly restriction to me now that they've lifted the PVE to PVP rule.
This Wednesday: Castle Crashers DLC hitting XBLA {Joystiq}
Jan 13th 2009 5:08PM Oh no it took a development studio of 5 people 4 months to patch a game that had a 3 year production. Now they're asking for $2 of my money for a wealth of new content.
I won't stand for this. Instead I'll sit down and eat my $2 cheese burger.
Which brings me to another thing, cheese burgers are too exspensive these days.
BioWare to discuss Mass Effect 2 level design at GDC '09 {Joystiq}
Jan 8th 2009 6:57PM Can't wait.
Mass Effect is my fav 360 RPG to date. Can't wait to see how they top the first one.
I heard a rumor from a friend ages ago that your previous game save data from the first game could be brought across to the next title. Can anyone confirm hearing this? I don't know where my friend would've got this information.
Can anyone call BS on this?
Percula reveals future of BLIND {WoW}
Dec 29th 2008 11:15PM Wow that was really amazing. I could totally do something like that as well in Maya, if I only knew how the hell to rip the game models for animation.
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I am about to start renovations on our future bedroom, and I am at a loss on what to do with the closet. The closet is 72" wide and 23" deep. Overall, the size is fine, but the door is at one end, making access to the other end very difficult.
The original configuration had a closet rod running along the entire width of the closet, but this means that you can't easily access the clothes hanging at the end opposite from the door end. If anyone has any suggestions for a more useable layout, I would be grateful! (I asked this question on the remodeling forum as well. Before someone suggested I ask here, another poster also suggested I expand the door opening. Unfortunately, that's not an option.) |
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- Posted by cupofkindness (My Page) on Tue, Mar 6, 12 at 8:54
Why can't you expand the door opening? |
Can you get a good feel for what you have hanging in there now? I'm thinking you could put a double rod on one of the 23" walls, the one that is most difficult to get to. Put out of season and special occasion clothing there. Then look at what remains of the 72" wall. How much of that space will be usable, with one end blocked by the rods/shelving on the end wall? Would it be possible to use a rolling clothing rack in that space? You could pull it out to use it and then slide it back in. I checked and there are some adjustable ones that go from 40" to 70". Although I'm not sure how heavy a 70" fully loaded clothing rack would be--I'm not sure I'd want to be pulling that out a couple of times a day. Can you move the door, if expanding it isn't possible? Shift it to another wall? Even if you lose some space in the closet doing this, you will gain usability. |
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My vote: turn the extreme end of that closet into "deep storage." Put big bins in there of stuff you don't use that often. Like Christmas ornaments, summer beach stuff. It's probably best to choose the kind of stuff that you'd definitely go to a lot of trouble to dig out in the few times you DO need it (but that you don't want to even think about in the meantime). Or, use it to store the heirlooms you'd normally put in the attic and forget about for a long time. Then use the OTHER storage places, where that sort of stuff would normally go, to hold stuff that gets used more often. |
Thinking a bit outside the box, what about short rods that stick out from the wall, instead of running parallel to it? In very old houses, closets were narrow and the clothes hung on hangers that were hung on hooks, so the clothing was parallel to the wall. The hooks were perpendicular. There are short rods, called valet rods. They stick out from the wall of the closet. You could put a double row of them along one wall--some of them are only 6 or 10 inches long. That would give you about a foot of space between the end of the rod and the wall. Then get the skinniest hangers you can find, so you can fit as many pieces of clothing as possible on each valet rod. The one I've linked to below swivels, which might make it easier to get to the back of the closet. Just make sure not to put the rods at eye-height, so you don't poke yourself in the eye. Then run a shelf down that long wall, over the rods, for more storage. |
Here is a link that might be useful: valet rod
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Sat, Mar 10, 12 at 1:49
That's what those things are called! Every now and then I've wanted one of them. I wonder how much weight they'd hold. |
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Sat, Mar 10, 12 at 11:23
I did see one once that wasn't hinged and was really heavy duty. |
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The foundation is about $353,000 in the red.
"We're moving forward," Leo O'Brien, a member of the foundation's executive committee, told the board during its Tuesday meeting.
O'Brien spoke extensively about the Billings Catholic Schools' move from operating a simple endowment in the early 2000s to establishing and running during the past half of the decade a foundation independent of the schools. It was a smart move, O'Brien said. And it has allowed the schools to have more financial transparency with its donors and the public.
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Chairwoman Rita Turley called salary jump a "red flag" and instructed Eubank to investigate it further.
At the schools themselves, Eubank also reported that tuition was down about $48,000 this month due to a rise of outstanding payments and an increase in discounted tuition.
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MCNY's Media Management Blog Voices from the Global Village: Oscar® nominated Sam Pollard to speak at MCNY 3rd Annual Short Film Festival April 12, joins filmmakers Danielle Lurie, Parris Moore, and Ritika Hiranandani to speak April 13; sponsors line up to support the Festival.April 2, 2012Award winning and Oscar® nominated filmmaker Samuel Pollard, is confirmed to join Danielle Lurie, Parris Moore, and Ritika Hiranandani as speakers at the Metropolitan College of New York's 3rd Annual Short Film Festival on April 12 and 13 from 6-9pm in the school's Conference Center at 431 Canal Street, New York, NY. This year's festival, with a theme of New Faces in Film, continues to grow and gain the support of established entertainment industry leaders and corporate and community sponsors. MCNY is proud to welcome Essence, Tourism Malaysia, Subway, Little Kingdom, Cinematiq, Lords Bakery, Soi66 and Yamerra as they join returning sponsors Kraft and the Crosby Collective to support the efforts of our Media Management MBA students in organizing this year's festival. About the Panelists: Sam Pollard is an accomplished film and video editor and a documentary producer/director whose work spans almost 30 years. He began his career in 1989 with Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads and received an Emmy® for an episode he produced. Between 1990 and 2000, Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee's films: Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, Bamboozled and received an Oscar® nomination for 4 Little Girls. He recently won his sixth Emmy® for best editing on the HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. His most recent film, Slavery By Another Name, premiered on PBS in February of this year. Slavery By Another Name — Director: Samuel Pollard Parris Moore, who holds an MBA in Media Management from MCNY, produced the film Black Ninja, and is a Producer of the film Kinyarwanda, which debuted at Sundance in 2011 and was released in theaters by the AFFRM in December 2012. The film won the World Cinema Audience Award in the Dramatic Category in Sundance and was nominated for 3 NAACP awards. Kinyarwanda is based on true accounts from survivors who took refuge at the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the madrassa of Nyanza during the Rwandan genocide. It recounts how the Imams opened the doors of the mosques to give refuge to the Tutsi and those Hutu who refused to participate in the killing. Kinyarwanda — Producer: Parris Moore Danielle Lurie has been named as one of Filmmaker Magazine's '25 New Faces of Independent Film,' and a fellow of IFP's 2011 Emerging Visions symposium. Her debut short film, In the Morning, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and has won nine film festivals to date, including 'Best Narrative Short' at the Oscar® qualifying Nashville Film Festival. On the narrative side, Danielle has written screenplay adaptations of Jamaica Kincaid's novel, Lucy, to star Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) as well as an excerpt of Nicholas Kristof's best selling book, Half the Sky, directed by Marisa Tomei and Lisa Leone, for a PBS series. Danielle is also adapting another Nicholas Kristof NY Times article into a full-length screenplay that she will direct titled Usha, set in the slums of India. She is also attached to direct the film adaptation of Marina Budhos's book Ask Me No Questions, produced by Jane Startz. In the Morning — Writer/Director: Danielle Lurie Ritika Hiranandani is an independent filmmaker and distributor serving US and Bollywood markets. She is President and CEO of Atlantic-Crossing LLC, a technical services company that offers software-consulting services to corporate clients including Western Union, Godrej, National Stock Exchange of India, Tata, and Videocon. Through her most recent company, Atlantic Crossing Productions, she partners with leading international television and film production and distribution companies and broadcasters who have been involved in producing motion pictures, soap operas, reality television, game shows, tele-films, title animations and related software for companies ranging from NBC to Turner Broadcasting as well as numerous production, advertising, public relations and media companies in both the US and India. Her recently distributed films include Lava-Kusa: Warrior Twins, and Bruce-The Challenge'. Lava Kusa: Warrior Twins The festival, which is organized and planned by students in the Media Management MBA program, provides opportunities for experiential learning where students can engage in practical applications of theoretical topics learned in class. "We are honored to host these accomplished film professionals to speak with our students and guests at the Festival and provide a forum for them to share their insights and wisdom on becoming future business leaders and navigating this rapidly changing time of convergence, globalization and digitization in the film industry," says Kristie Velasco, Adjunct Professor & Coordinator, Media Management MBA Programs for MCNY. The event is free and open to the public. Information is also available on our school Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mcnyedu. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in 3rd Annual MCNY Short Film Festival, Graduate Achievements, Media Management Graduates, Media Management Students, New Faces in Film, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices from the Global Village: Attorney, Publisher and Entrepreneur L. Londell McMillan to speak to students at MCNY tonightMarch 6, 2012The MCNY Media Management MBA Program is proud to welcome internationally recognized attorney, publisher and advocate, L. Londell McMillan to speak with MBA students at the college tonight, March 6 at 6pm. The evening of conversations with our students will be facilitated by Prof. Kristie Velasco, Coordinator of the Media Management MBA Program, and Prof. Bernard Jackson, III. Mr. McMillan, who specializes in the law of business and commercial transactions, litigation, communications, entertainment, intellectual property, and government affairs, is recognized as one of the most influential leaders of his generation. In addition to being a partner and co-head of the Media and Entertainment Global Industry Group at the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, he is also an entrepreneur and Executive Publisher of the re-focused Source Magazine (www.thesource.com) and the recently launched Jones Magazine (www.jonesmag.com) (a high-end fashion, beauty and travel shopping guide for women). Over the years, Mr. McMillan's elite client list has included legendary artists, professional sports clients, authors, legislators, executives and businesses in the communications, media, entertainment, and real estate industries. He is also currently one of the co-owners and investors in the New Jersey Nets NBA basketball team and Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards development project. In 2008, Mr. McMillan was named as one of The National Law Journal's 50 most Influential Minority Lawyers in America along with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Vernon Jordan and Harvard Prof. Charles Ogeltree, among others; and in 2007 he was recognized as one of New York's Super Lawyers, a distinguished honor for top lawyers in New York State. He was a recipient of the prestigious MBBA Haywood W. Burns, Lawyer of the Year Award in 2001 and featured on the cover of the Black Enterprise Magazine's December 2003 issue. Mr. McMillan has also been honored alongside Kenneth Chenault, Stanley O'Neal and Richard Parsons among Crain's 100 Most Powerful Minority Leaders. It was just announced that Mr. McMillan will receive the Reginald F. Lewis Award, which honors African American entrepreneurs who succeeded internationally in business before the age of 50 on June 26 in East Hampton, NY. Mr. McMillan was born in the Tompkins housing projects of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; he is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical high school, the School for Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and New York University School of Law. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Londell McMillan, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices From the Global Village: MCNY 3rd Annual Short Film Festival — April 12-14, 2012!February 5, 2012
The MCNY Media Management MBA Program will host its 3rd Annual Short Film Festival on April 12, 13 and 14. The theme of this year's festival is "New Faces in Film" and plans for the three days include panel discussions and networking opportunities with entertainment and media industry leaders, prizes, raffles and film screenings as well as awards for the Best Festival Short Film and the Best MCNY Student Festival Entry. Begun as a live case study class project in one of the Media Management classes in 2009, the festival is quickly becoming an established event for the entire MCNY community as it continues to grow in size and provide hands on learning opportunities for our Media Management MBA students. The first of its kind in the nation, the MCNY Media Management MBA program remains the only one year accelerated specialized MBA program in Media Management, fusing the study of general MBA core competencies in economics, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting with intensive exploration of media specific fields essential for effective media management. Located in the shadow of the Tribeca Film Festival, MCNY's Media Management MBA program provides students with the tools necessary to successfully navigate the unique nuanced business, operations and management characteristics of the media and entertainment industries by providing students with a comprehensive analytical overview of the media industries including entertainment law, new media, broadcast, film, music and publishing industries, media marketing, advertising & public relations, arts administration & cultural heritage management, and media theory. The Festival will begin accepting short film entries shortly. For additional information follow our Twitter accounts or contact Prof. Kristie Velasco, Program Coordinator. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in 3rd Annual MCNY Short Film Festival, New Faces in Film, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices From the Global Village: Media Management MBA Program Coordinator/Adjunct Professor Kristie Velasco has been awarded a research grant by MEIEA®!January 18, 2012As part of their 2011-2012 cycle of Research Grants, the MEIEA® Grant Award Committee has approved awards for the 2011-12 academic year. Among the recipiants were Storm Gloor (University of Colorado, Denver), Monica Herzig (Indiania University), and Kristie Velasco (Metropolitan College of New York). (http://www.meiea.org/) The Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA®) is an international organization that was formed in 1979 to bring together educators with leaders of the music and entertainment industries. The primary goal of MEIEA® is to facilitate an exchange of information between educators and practitioners in order to prepare students for careers in the music and entertainment industries. In April, 2011, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) announced that it would be restructuring the categories for the Grammy Awards distributed each year for music recordings in the industry. Pronounced as part of an evolution process begun in 2009, the number of the categories that are awarded in 2012 will be decreased to 78 from 109. Working with MCNY MPA/MBA, Media Management grad Nathasha Cresap, the MEIEA® grant will defray the costs to conduct research and develop a conceptual paper providing a legal, statistical and socio-economic/political impact analysis of the restructuring of Grammy award categories by NARAS. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in MCNY Faculty Achievements, MCNY Media Management MBA Faculty, Media Management Graduates, Media Management Students, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off SAVE THE DATE: MCNY 3rd Annual Short Film Festival — April 12-14, 2012!January 11, 2012MARK APRIL 12-14, 2012 on your calendar as the MCNY 3rd Annual Short Film Festival organized and sponsored by the Media Management MBA Program. The MCNY Media Management MBA Program will host its 3rd Annual Short Film Festival on April 12, 13 and 14. The theme of this year's festival is "New Faces in Film" and plans for the three days include panel discussions and networking opportunities with entertainment and media industry leaders, prizes, raffles and film screenings as well as awards for the Best Festival Short Film and the Best MCNY Student Festival Entry. Begun as a live case study class project in one of the Media Management classes in 2009, the festival is quickly becoming an established event for the entire MCNY community as it continues to grow in size and provide hands on learning opportunities for our Media Management MBA students. The first of its kind in the nation, the MCNY Media Management MBA program remains the only one year accelerated specialized MBA program in Media Management, fusing the study of general MBA core competencies in economics, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting with intensive exploration of media specific fields essential for effective media management. Located in the shadow of the Tribeca Film Festival, MCNY's Media Management MBA program provides students with the tools necessary to successfully navigate the unique nuanced business, operations and management characteristics of the media and entertainment industries by providing students with a comprehensive analytical overview of the media industries including entertainment law, new media, broadcast, film, music and publishing industries, media marketing, advertising & public relations, arts administration & cultural heritage management, and media theory. The Festival will begin accepting short film entries shortly. For additional information follow our Twitter accounts or contact Prof. Kristie Velasco, Program Coordinator. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in 2nd Annual MCNY Media Mangement Film Festival, 3rd Annual MCNY Short Film Festival, Media Management Students, New Faces in Film, Uncategorized. Comments Off Voices from the Global Village: The Students Speak — Chris Figueroa "Video Chatting in Commerce"January 4, 2012The future of digital media: the evolution of video content on the web. The day is coming when video chatting over the Internet to do business will be as common as walking into a store and starting up a conversation with an employee. By sitting in front of a computer, with a couple clicks on a mouse or keypad, you will be able to instantly engage a company employee who will appear on your screen and ask "Hi, how I can I help today?" It'll be face-to-face "human" interaction, except that it will be done by hundreds of thousands of ones and zeros blasting through cyber space to replicate your image on the other end of the webcam. While it may not compare to the tactile experience of walking into a store, holding a product in your hands and trying it out, or purchasing it on the spot and then being able to take it home with you, a customer will still have the ability to "enter" a store and talk to staff about products and costs. This is where the future of digital media is headed and fast! The fact is many businesses are already selling exclusively through the Internet without their customers having to physically walk into a store to purchase products. E-commerce is booming with companies like Amazon revolutionizing how the economics of supply and demand. However, it's obvious that video- to-video chat functions are a growing trend. Recently Facebook added a video-to-video chat feature to their text chat function. Now you can go on Facebook and video chat with your friends, family and social networking buddies just as if you were using Skype, iChat or any other kind of video-to-video program. This is good for Facebook because it gives you another reason why you can just stay on their site to video chat instead of going elsewhere. Google has taken it a step further by allowing Google + users to video chat with up to ten friends at a time, all while watching YouTube videos simultaneously. It's called a "Google Hangout" and I will admit it's fun but it's only the beginning. If Google were smart they would add the ability for users in a "Google Hangout" to view Internet webpages together and seamlessly without having to send websites links back and forth to each other to review. It won't be long before this feature can become tool to help lead the way for companies to do business and make money in the future. However, three issues must be considered for there to be widespread adoption of video to video chat functions in retail commerce: First, mobile broadband with which we are most commonly familiar, 3g, 4g etc., cannot keep up with the rapid growth and usage of mobile devices, mobile technologies and other digital media consumption – especially not if we are regularly engaged in video-to video chat encounters. This is one of the reasons why Apple's new Facetime will only be available through a Wi-Fi connection until 4g, 5g, or 6g can catch up. The second reason is that, with no economies of scale, video-to-video chat functions are still fairly expensive to provide on a mass basis to individuals. For example, to run a large scale video-to-video chat function on a website requires expensive software, like the Adobe Flash Interactive Media Server, which can cost around $4,600 dollars and up and that doesn't even include the thousands of dollar in frequent updates that are required to keep the system running bug free. The major players in the industry can afford this cost easily but don't forget the high cost of bandwidth and server space based on the amount of users and traffic for a specific site. These costs can reach in the tens of thousands without video-to-video chat functions; just image the cost when you factor in this feature. The third reason is people are still hesitant with the idea of doing business in a video-to-video format. Being on a webcam, one on one with a stranger, to buy something or inquire about a product is something that most people might still find a little awkward. When you walk into a store you're still in public so there are usually other people around and you feel more comfortable interacting with an employee that is a stranger to you. But when you're on a web cam, it's a little bit more personal, it's more one on one, more face to face and the comfort zone of being in public is just not there. Regardless, as video-to-video chat functions become more and more common and more generally accepted as a norm in society then you will start to see more websites providing video-to-video services to conduct business. Once the major websites and businesses start doing it then you'll start to see everyone else follow their lead. Regardless of trepidations about the how, what and where, the important thing to keep in mind is this kind of video-to-video chat feature on the web is only the beginning. Because of this, I have decided to start my own e-commerce business, which will launch shortly. The business will be fully online and Internet based, and one of the key features that set us apart from our competition is… Yep you guessed it, a video-to-video chat feature that will allow business to run smoother, instantly and more relevant to the Internet age that we live in. It make sense to me and that is exactly why I'm betting on the fact that you will see a lot more companies using video-to-video chat to add a nice feature and function to their websites and business models. Chris Manhattan Figueroa Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Constructive Action, Media Management Students, Uncategorized, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices from the Global Village: The Students Speak — Debie Lachman, "Social Media: The Value of Conversation"December 12, 2011As we end the year and enter the holidays, our students are taking finals, finishing papers and completing their other various course requirements in all of our programs. For our MBA students, this means that they are also engaged in assessing and evaluating the success of their Constructive Actions, which is one of the unique features of an education at Metropolitan College of New York. The Constructive Action is one of the tools MCNY uses to integrate the essential educational components of theory and practice into a cohesive and comprehensive whole in order to bridge the gap between the academic and business worlds and resolve the pedagogical dichotomy of emphasizing theory as advocated by most academic institutions versus the emphasis on the practical, applied approach advocated by the business community. We achieve this by utilizing Purpose-Centered Education as a teaching model, where we fuse the acquisition of highly specialized industry specific knowledge with the study of professional managerial skills by combining classroom instruction in the Dimensions classes with applied knowledge and practice gained through Purpose Seminars and the Constructive Action. Thus, in the MCNY Media Management MBA program, we provide students with an exemplary business education while also equipping them with the tools necessary to successfully navigate the unique nuanced business, operations and management characteristics of the media and entertainment industries. Their studies include a comprehensive analytical overview of all aspects of the media industries, including entertainment law and contracts, the film, broadcast, music and publishing industries, art and theater administration as well as new media and marketing. They are therefore prepared to enter the rapidly changing media industries with the knowledge and skill to develop models for successful exploitation and utilization of social and mobile media in the delivery of traditional entertainment industries; manage and develop new successful business models in changing music and publishing industries in light of digitization and convergence; and, be at the forefront of administration of successful business models for developing "new" media industries, entrepreneurial media ventures or improved service methods within media businesses. Over the next few weeks, we want to take the opportunity to use this blog to feature those voices from the global village of our Media Management MBA students, discussing issues they have been studying and engaged in developing as part of their Constructive Actions. As always, we welcome your comments and thoughts. Kristie Velasco, Coordinator, MBA Media Management Program Social Media: The Value Of ConversationWelcome! Allow me to first introduce myself. My name is Debie Lachman, and I am a media marketing enthusiast. I am also currently an MBA Media Management student at Metropolitan College of New York. I have a strong background in art, advertising and communications design producing various projects from desktop publishing to branding, photography, advertising campaigns, print media, typography, and market research. See my website www.debielachman.com for sample works. Being a native to the "social" media world which is in the midst of a miraculous technological transition, I have seen and experienced the best of both worlds. It seems like just yesterday I was submitting my assignments on floppy disks, where today, I am doing everything digitally. Coming from a communications design background producing print advertising campaigns, the times of trimming and mounting ads has become obsolete and unnecessary manual labor. All the hard work of perfecting edges and applying glue to ensure the images held in place takes away from allowing the limited viewers to focus on the actual campaign. This is no longer the case; social media has emerged, allowing mass communication with many rooms full of media experts anywhere, at any time. Artists can display an array of works all over the Internet and generate conversations online about their works. This new media can help any individual or organization find a voice online, and that's exactly what it has become! If you are reading this blog, you probably have already figured out the growing importance of getting your information from the Internet, and would be surprised how many people still do not understand the value of social media networks. However, as the video below shows, there are many who still do not understand that social media networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have become immensely popular over the years and have grown to become the norm as the platform for engaging others of thought, ideas, and overall personality, whether as an individual or organization. The potential of Facebook has far exceeded the expectations of businesses and marketing professionals. What first started as a site to for college students to socialize or to connect family and friends that you might not see on a regular basis has become a platform for daily conversation and a tool to encourage brand awareness. The very same stage used to highlight one's personality created a domino effect of influence worldwide, closing the barriers of local and long distance. Many in search of lost friends and family members have also adapted to this new media, creating even larger communities online, all living as neighbors in a virtual world. Not being a part of this virtual community as an organization is almost equivalent to being non-existent. Twitter is another sensation to hit the online world. According to BBC News and technology reporter, Maggie Shiels, Twitter has now accrued 200 million users and its popularity continues to grow. And yet, what is Twitter many still ask? That's simple, Twitter is a real-time information network that connects one to the latest information about what they may find interesting. The most unique aspect of this particular social network is that each Tweet is 140 characters in length, encouraging users to become creative within that space. While this all sounds great for individuals, another question many are facing is how Twitter can help them improve or grow their businesses. Twitter connects businesses to customers in real-time by sharing information quickly with those who are interested in their product and services. By gathering real-time market intelligence and feedback, businesses can improve their product and services, build relationships with their consumers to produce overall customer satisfaction. Now, if Facebook and Twitter is not your thing, LinkedIn is yet another option, and perhaps the most important one in a professional world. LinkedIn is a professional social networking site that helps one establish a professional profile, stay in touch with colleagues and friends, find experts and ideas, and explore opportunities. How is this different from any other social media site you ask? Well, LinkedIn actually allows you to control the first impression people get when searching for you online; this is because LinkedIn profiles rise to the top of search results. It is critical for today's small business managers and owners to understand that in today's competitive economy, efficiency helps in the decision making process of consumers if they are to leverage the benefits of social media networks for the businesses. If positive information about your product is readily available, it can only work in your favor. Businesses who do not engage in conversations with their consumers on a personal level lose vital information on consumer satisfaction. These new media networks have replaced traditional public relations methods, by giving any one individual or business the control to promote and market their brands using pure conversation online. For many companies and individuals, not having a presence online can be perceived as being practically non-existent, and so, therefore, establishing an online presence and understanding the basics of online and social media marketing is a critical start up requirement if you hope to compete as a business today. Just imagine a world where online users are eager to share ideas, comments, and suggestions about what you are providing them and how to improve so they can continue to support your product or services…This is all possible with social media! Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Constructive Action, Media Management Students, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices from the Global Village: MCNY Media Management MBA and Adjunct Professor Paula Landry publishes new book!September 24, 2011Congratulations PAULA LANDRY! We are so proud of MCNY Media Management MBA Paula Landry for publishing her book Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film: A Panic Free Guide which is being released on October 3 by Focal Press. (It is available in hard copy and electronic formats directly from the publisher as well as from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other retail outlets.) Paula is a film and music producer who creates commercials, multimedia concerts, films both short- and long-form, and branded videos for the Internet. Her movies have premiered at Sundance and gone on to win awards worldwide. Also a very valued member of the MCNY adjunct faculty in the Media Management MBA program, Prof Landry's film industry classes are always student favorites and provide our Media MBA students an insider's view of the workings, business and economics of the film industry. This is Prof. Landry's second book, having co-authored, This Business of Film: A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Film Industry with Stephen Greenwald in 2009. According to the Publisher, Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film: A Panic Free Guide is "the Holy Grail for filmmakers." Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course. Other resources look at budgeting and scheduling in isolation; this book is unique in covering the two closely intertwined activities in a single volume. Readers get both topics for the price of one book; competitors cover each topic separately. All the fundamentals of line producing are covered in a quick-reference format and the tips apply no matter what kind of scheduling or budgeting software you're using. • Useful tricks of the trade show you how to squeeze the most of a limited budget and tight schedule See http://www.focalpress.com/books/film_and_video/scheduling_and_budgeting_your_film.aspx In addition to her teaching duties, Ms. Landry is currently president of Idea Blizzard Productions, a media-consulting company, and also heads a commercial-music enterprise, FireStorm Productions. She has produced media projects for American Health and Fitness, Fit TV, the Odyssey Channel, Pearson Television, and several Fortune 500 companies. Landry has also consulted on media projects for Carnegie Hall, Christie's auction house, Details magazine, Entertainment Weekly, G&H Media, Loosely Translated Productions, Mullen & Company, Tribe Pictures, and numerous political campaigns. I personally applaud Prof. Landry's ongoing achievement; she is an inspiring and dedicated role model for students in general and for all women in the film and media industries. P'alante! Kristie Velasco, Coordinator, MCNY Media Management MBA Program Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Graduate Achievements, MCNY Faculty Achievements, MCNY Media Management MBA Faculty, Media Management Graduates, Uncategorized, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices From the Global Village…Award-Winning Sundance Film "Kinyarwanda" Will Receive a Theatrical Release Through AFFRM!July 9, 2011Congratulations Parris Moore! Our recent graduates are joining the ranks of other successful MCNY MBA Media Management Program who are contributing an often absent perspective to the voices coming from the global village. Parris Moore is the Associate Producer of the film "Kinyarwanda" and a graduate of the MCNY MBA Media Management Program. Award-Winning Sundance Film "Contents" Will Receive a Theatrical Release Through AFFRM by Dana Harris (July 5, 2011) AFFRM—aka the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement—will give U.S. theatrical distribution to "Kinyarwanda," the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for World Cinema Drama. The film will be released in November. See the full linked story about this amazing achievement one of our MCNY Media Management Graduates, Parris Moore, and his colleagues http://www.indiewire.com/article/award-winning_sundance_title_kinyarwanda_will_receive_a_theatrical_release_ See the film trailer here Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Graduate Achievements, Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off Voices From the Global Village: Congratulations 2011 Graduates!June 24, 2011June 11, 2011 was a great day for the MCNY family as we watched so many of our students take that well earned walk across the stage during the MCNY 34th Commencement Exercises to accept their degrees and officially join the ranks of tomorrows business, human service, public policy and education leaders in a variety of industries. I too applaud all of the MCNY graduates for their achievements and join the chorus of those acknowledging and thanking the families of the graduates for their sacrifice and support in helping their loved one achieve this invaluable accomplishment. I do have of course, an understandable particular pride for the 2011 graduates of MCNY's Media Management MBA Program. Each one of you could have pursued your graduate business education at any one of a number of schools offering an MBA. However, it is obvious that those who have completed this program came to MCNY because we offer what the others don't. Our philosophy is that, in addition to the acquisition of excellent managerial, business administration and leadership skills, at MCNY we believe that an appreciation and commitment to social justice is integral to successfully operating a business or succeeding in a corporate environment. Throughout the formation of your CAs and interwoven throughout the traditional MBA competencies was a strong foundation of ethics and a constant review and discussion of how successful business people can create and provide business products or services that will have a positive impact on the communities within which they live and work in order to empower the larger society of which they are a member. So I am proud of each of the Media Management MBA students who managed to balance all of their competing obligations and successfully complete their studies. Your experiences, friendships formed and skills and knowledge acquired in your classes at MCNY will remain with you long past your graduation, and will be that well you can draw from as you face business challenges and opportunities in your future. Actually, I understand that I have played a particularly visible role in the acquisition of some of those lessons; you are welcome Michael. (Smile) In all seriousness, I welcome you all into this industry as colleagues who share an understanding that social responsibility is critical for business people in the media industry and who understand the integral role (good or bad) that media has in the formation of our self identities, cultural values, interpersonal relationships, economic and financial health, political direction, etc. From Cherise, to George, Lindsay, Alicia, Krystal, Saneeta, Latasha, Yoshi, Agata, Nazly and Cynthia, to Max, Jasmin, Vani, Jason, Nygil, Alex, Tichanda, and Michael and most recently, Mauttika, Patricia, Vegia, Marius, Angela, Jeanne, and Anastasia, and especially Adelaide and Lithera, two women who never gave up and fought to the last day to finish their degrees and secure their futures in the business world…as you each complete this program, know that I have high expectations for all of you. I have no doubt that each of you can make a positive impact on the world and on the media while being successful business people. Know that we at MCNY remain available and welcome you to the MCNY Alumni family. Rest assured that I will reach out and call on you (as I do for those who have graduated before you) to help strengthen the program, as we continue our progress through our ACBSP Accreditation Candidacy and, more importantly to assist, advise and help guide those students coming behind you. Remember that this really does only work if we remain committed to the belief/moral imperative that 'each one, teach one.' Good luck. Never stop believing that one person can change the world. Dios bendice. Kristie Velasco Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! Posted by MCNY Media Management Blog in Voices from the Global Village. Comments Off |
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Arcane Brilliance: Why I hate DPS meters {WoW}
Jan 25th 2010 9:39AM @ccbutch: Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! I play a healer and a lock. I hit Northrend with my lock first, and I was seriously worried about my dps. It was just under a grand, and after gearing up through random dungeon runs it's maybe 1.2K now at level 76. Now I'm playing my healer more (the random dungeon finder killed my desire to dps when wintergrasp is up). I have learned very quickly what I need to do to get my dps up with my lock in randoms. The seed of corruption spam you mention is the winner, and nothing . . . I mean NOTHING makes me more miserable as a healer than a lock who does this. I ran with one the other day, 2 randoms in a row, and she was nice, and I'm geared enough that keeping her alive was easy enough, but I threw as much healing at her as I did at the tank, and I'm disc, so I have a lot of twitchy, things going wrong healing. A more paced healer like a tree druid really doesn't have much for a 1 2 3 knockout combination on a clothie. They can't throw power word shield, pain suppression, prayer of mending then move to the stuff that has a cast time. So please DPSers, please consider what you're doing and how it effects the whole run?
ccbutch said: "Fan of knives spam is not a rotation. Seed of corruption spam is not a rotation. Volley spam is not a rotation. Trying to justify these things as only being done "by people who actually pay attention, and strive to perfect their rotations, and dps" is crap.
More often then not (from my experience) the people who mindlessly spam their heavy hitting aoe on trash are the ones pulling threat from the tank, rarely help a group with any utility, and end up being a nightmare for the healer. Yet they top the random aoe button mashing dps on trash and they will let everyone know it."
Are invisible mobs ushering in the Cataclysm world event? {WoW}
Dec 28th 2009 2:04PM I actually had this random shaking happen to me a few weeks ago while grinding up meat for my daily cooking quests in Northrend. It hasn't happened since so I didn't think anything about it. I bet this is a Cataclysm buildup. That is awesome.
15 Minutes of Fame: Retirement home {WoW}
Dec 22nd 2009 4:56PM I personally like this approach. I am in a guild made up of a core set of officers from my office, and then a bunch of people we know in real life. So while I haven't met everyone, I know our tank went to college with the reports guy downstairs, and our highest level pally is our old IT guys wife, and then there are the people I've invited in. We randomly help each other, and we have one scheduled dungeon run night where we progress through 5 man content as quickly as we can because it's fun to push that envelope and primarily level by 3-4 manning 5 man content. Aside from that we just good around and chat in gchat a lot. We don't have to worry about ninjas because if anyone cleaned us out they would never hear the end of it IRL. It just works out.


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Anyone who makes music and wants to record their material in a truly professional way, doesn't just need a sound technician. They also need a producer.
As long as it's just a matter of simple try-outs, knowing how to use a computer and professional software has made everyone able to make a sufficiently listenable product at home with just a little equipment.
If, on the other hand, we are talking about quality – at least from the technical point of view – you have to approach a recording studio and put yourself in the hands of a skilled sound technician. But not all sound technicians are able to also give a "productive" edge to the material.
Being a producer means having an overall vision of the project and working to achieve that special "sound" that can communicate better. It means knowing how to make the musicians' head and heart speak, because only in that way the listener will be able to get the message.
My work consists in giving support to musicians during the final arrangement of the tracks and working with the studio sound technician during recording sessions, mixing and post-production to make the artistic offering consistent and interesting. In my life I've listened to lots of demos full of ideas that were good but expressed badly. It's my job to make sure this does not happen.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, the Publix in Clarksville is NEW and it's opening just for you! Well, it's been open for a little while now, but it still opened for you!
JACK will be out at the NEW Publix at 1771 Madison Street in Clarksville, TN on VALENTINE'S DAY, February 14 from 11a-1p. The JACKpot machine will be there and we will also be giving away Regal movie passes! Think about it, free movie passes for your Valentine's Day date! So come see Moose & the gang so we aren't lonely on Valentine's Day!
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Felicia Day unleashes geeky pop single {WoW}
Aug 17th 2009 4:16PM No, never turning over geek badge! Mine Mine *Hisss*
Dwarf levels solely by exploring, gains World Explorer at level 17 {WoW}
Jul 26th 2009 4:09PM /salute
Makes me proud to be a Dwarf Warrior
What If We Lost: An argument for losing a major lore-based battle {WoW}
Jul 13th 2009 12:39AM Archi is well and truely dead, sorry to say, though the others there is a possibility that we have only killed their eye/ destroyed their physical manifestation w/e
Knitted mitts for the Alliance {WoW}
May 20th 2009 4:17PM Yeah, you lose a lot of dexterity when using full gloves, fingerless ones allow you to keep being able to feel pressure etc through your fingertips, good for others have said, typing, but also for hunting (seriously, try fire a rifle with gloves, then without gloves, you do notice a large difference in how receptive your finger is)
Workaround for WoW.com addon's /note issues. {WoW}
May 20th 2009 7:07AM yay, cheers for this WI, i was wondering how this issue would be fixed
Phat Loot Phriday: Stormedge {WoW}
May 15th 2009 8:42PM Diddums? cry me a river? Go get the sword from Ulduar then, oh Noble Knight of the QQ.
Stealth detection items nerfed {WoW}
May 15th 2009 12:39AM Sooo, like, what do we get in return for taking away our stealth detection?
Underwater breathing?
The old Goblin Rocket Helmet effect?
How about an off the GCD headbut attack? (telekenetic headbutt for the casters?)
Combat Drugs? Increasing all damage dealth by x for y
Eye lazers!?!
Breakfast Topic: Vanity Items {WoW}
Mar 29th 2009 3:10PM Vanity Items Right, where do I start
My Gorehowl
Blessed of undead slaying plate set
Fire Festival Set
The two brewfest mugs
Dark Iron Ale Mug
Drakefire amulet
Tanking rings set from ZG
Draconian Deflector
Grand Marshals Claymore
Deepdive Helmet
Goblin Rocket Helmet
X52 Rocket Helmet
Torch of retribution (to go with my fire festival set)
Full Tier 4 (which is the pimpinest warrior set from BC imo)
Oh, and my Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood
And yes, I have no bank space or bag space ^-^
Arena Season 6 details revealed {WoW}
Mar 26th 2009 12:04AM To be honest, I dont like arena, but should they be removed? No, For those that enjoy the small group encounter pvp and excell at it, props to them, and to blizz for catering for them. If you dont like arena you could ,/shock, not do them. You dont 'need' to have to have anything to do with arena if you dont want to.
Yes, the rebalancing of classes due to arena is annoying, but the other way round, the balancing of classes due to being OP in pve is annoying to pvpers too.
Two sides to every coin, so QQ moar, your tears are delicious
WoW Rookie: Choose the right class part 2 {WoW}
Feb 4th 2009 9:39PM Dks cant use daggers or shields either =P or staves in addition to the wands you mentioned


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Diary found in house with chemicals
Jorge Branco 12:27 PM Bomb squad combs through Toowoomba house where chemicals found.
Latest state news
LNP MPs race across state as Labor chances improve
Tony Moore and Amy Remeikis 1:00 AM In 2012 Queensland voters sent the Labor into the political wilderness, but just three years later Annastacia Palaszczuk could be on the cusp of leading the party back into power.
Poll Call: Wednesday, January 28
Dan Nancarrow and Robert Burgin 10:10 PM Welcome to Poll Call, our daily live blog that we'll be bringing you in the lead-up to the January 31 state election. Send tips, questions or feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com
Jarrod Bleijie lying low in regional Queensland
Amy Remeikis 10:01 PM Queensland's Attorney General has been as seldom spotted as Wally during the LNP's re-election campaign.
George Christensen posts cartoon of Palaszczuk naked on wrecking ball
Amy Remeikis 9:49 PM Premier distances himself from crude cartoon featuring Labor leader.
Fitzgerald says Newman government 'a new low'
Robert Burgin 9:38 PM Anti-corruption figurehead Tony Fitzgerald has told ABC's 7.30 that the Campbell Newman Government "set a new low standard" for the integrity and fairness of Queensland's governance.
Novy Chardon investigation increasingly strange
Kim Stephens 1:00 AM From almost the moment Novy Chardon vanished from her Gold Coast home two years ago, the investigation into her disappearance has proven far from an ordinary one.
How to vote on Saturday - it's your choice
Simon Holt 1:00 AM Saturday's election boils down to a referendum on asset sales, and nobody should be bullied, hoodwinked, coerced, guilt-driven or harassed into voting one way or another.
Guards unable to protect commuters on new trains: union
Kristian Silva 1:00 AM The union representing Queensland Rail onboard guards fear passengers will not be properly protected on new trains because guard cabins will be shifted to the rear carriage.
Are Queenslanders in danger of 'wasting' their votes?
Bronwyn Stevens, University of the Sunshine Coast 7:18 PM Don't just vote 1. Vote in order of preference for all those candidates you want to support.
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman on track to lose seat: poll
Amy Remeikis 7:10 PM Premier Campbell Newman is on track to lose his Ashgrove seat, with Labor candidate Kate Jones ahead eight points in a new opinion poll.
Faith appearing to waver at LNP lunch
Amy Remeikis 6:09 PM Selling the message to the party faithful and donors, Campbell Newman wanted to make one thing "very, very clear".
Mum accused of killing two newborns tried to hide pregnancy: court
6:03 PM A mother who allegedly murdered two newborn infants at her Brisbane home tried to conceal her pregnancies from others, a court has heard.
Queensland MPs boast big property portfolio
Kim Stephens 5:17 PM Report authors warn MPs' strong interest in real estate could be influencing housing and taxation policy.
Man charged over bomb ingredients discovery denied bail
4:54 PM A 27-year-old man accused of preparing bomb making materials at his mother's Toowoomba home has been denied bail.
Labor will not reinstate sacked public servants
Tony Moore 4:43 PM The 24,000 public servants who lost their jobs after LNP won the 2012 election would not be automatically re-employed if Labor won the looming election.
Police to search dam for Novy Chardon remains
Kim Stephens and Kristian Silva 4:14 PM Police say Gold Coast Hinterland property was linked to person of interest in suspected murder.
Body confirmed as 19-year-old missing swimmer
Jorge Branco 2:22 PM Family members are understood to be devastated after police confirmed a body that washed up on South Stradbroke Island was that of a 19-year-old man missing on the Gold Coast since early Monday morning.
Where to find cheap fuel
Jorge Branco 2:02 PM At least six Brisbane servos offer petrol below $1 a litre.
Greens Senator Larissa Waters criticises 'growing sexism'
Kristian Silva 1:59 PM Greens Federal senator Larissa Waters has hit out at what she describes as "growing sexism in the Queensland election campaign", accusing both major parties of ignoring women's issues.
What unemployment figures really say about Queensland
David Peetz, Griffith University 1:41 PM Queensland unemployment recently plummeted – or did it?
Man charged over chemical find at Toowoomba
Jorge Branco 1:05 PM Police allegedly find chemicals that could be used to make bombs.
Toowoomba's Weis Restaurant to close after 46 years of operation
Gen Kennedy 12:06 PM One of Queensland's long-established restaurants, Weis, will close after 46 years of operation, blaming the Toowoomba Regional Council's decision to reject its application for a marquee.
PM blames media for knight-mare distraction
Amy Remeikis 11:53 AM "Questioners" disrupted campaign with knighthood saga: Abbott.
Gold Coast restaurant fined for underpaying apprentice
4:20 PM The owner of an upmarket French restaurant on the Gold Coast has been slapped with more than $15,000 in fines after underpaying a teenage apprentice chef.
Out-of-towners no worry for Qld Greens
9:26 AM Greens stand by their choice of candidates for the Queensland election.
Bank staff turn down would-be robber
Jorge Branco 8:48 AM Suspect, 26, arrested within 40 minutes of allegedly hold-up bid.


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Activision has given the game away as regards Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Revolution expansion, outed over Christmas. A trailer for the pack appears to have been published to the official Call of Duty mobile website. It's gone now, but MP1st was able to snap a few pictures.
According to leaked retailer materials, the pack contains four maps - Hydro, Grind, Mirage and Downhill - plus the Zombies map Die Rise (quite possibly "The Rise" in German, pointing to a European jaunt for the next helping of Zombies Mode). There's also a new SMG, the Peacekeeper. Fear not, shambling undead goons! Soon, you'll be at peace. You'll all be at peace.
Black Ops 2 Revolution is said to release 29th January on Xbox Live. Stoked?
Update: Friend of the People @TheSpartanCentr has spotted a now-pulled Amazon listing for Revolution, which includes details of the new maps and weapon. Here you go:
Hydro - This large map allows you to use the dam and water to your advantage to block paths and stop enemies.
Downhill - A medium-sized map based in the French Alps complete with snow, chair lifts, and a strategically placed lodge.
Grind - Set within the locale of the Venice, California boardwalk, this small skate park map is sure to deliver fast and frenetic Call of Duty action.
Mirage - This Gobi Desert multiplayer map utilizes sand dunes to provide different levels of elevation and a sanctuary in the center as a natural chokepoint.
Zombies - Die Rise - The Zombie apocalypse has invaded China, turning down town into a dilapidated and dangerous MC Escher painting.
Peacekeeper SMG - This impressive sub-machine gun fills the open weapon slot in your load-out with power and accuracy.


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