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campaigns - on the global stage
The NUT, in partnership with other organisations, supports a wide range of international campaigns which aim to:
support teachers and their unions, advance high quality education for all, work towards poverty reduction and sustainable development, and promote human rights
Below are some recent campaigns that the NUT has been, and continues to be involved in.
Stop the forced labour behind the high street
21 million people worldwide are in forced labour. The Modern Slavery Bill passing through parliament could help end this however it needs to tackle not just those committing the crimes, but also those profiting and creating the conditions for modern slavery. Email David Cameron today and ask him to make the bill stronger so the goods on our high street aren't made from forced labour and exploitation.
Stand Up for School Petition
World leaders promised to get every child into school by 2015. Now join the world's youth, teachers, parents and global citizens and appeal to the governments to keep their promise. Sign the #UpForSchool Petition now!
Stop the next corporate takeover
A new wave of corporate trade deals threaten to increase global inequality, undermine democracy and hand public service provision to multinational companies. One such deal is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Corporations would be able to sue governments and take away their sovereignty to make decisions for the benefit of their own people. Click here for more information and to sign up to say NO to TTIP.
The boycott of Israeli goods
The boycott of Israeli goods is a key form of peaceful international pressure on Israel. Israel continues to build illegal settlements and the wall, controls Gaza, grows produce and sets up industrial zones on stolen Palestinian land. For more info and to pledge to not knowingly buy Israeli goods click here.
Stop Israel's Apartheid Wall
It has been 10 years since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled the construction of Israel's Apartheid Wall in the occupied Palestinian West Bank illegal under international law. Yet construction of the Wall continues to this day. As Israel escalates its military aggression and collective punishment against the Palestinian population, sign the petition to put pressure on the British government to hold Israel to account.
Help save Al Arakib from destruction and forced eviction!
Help save the Palestinian village of Al Arakib from destruction and forced eviction! Phone the Foreign Office on 020 7008 1500, ask them to make urgent representations to the Israeli Government. Tweet the FCO
comment on facebook posts. Sign the petition.
More info: email@example.com
End G4S support for Israel's occupation
In a letter published on the morning of the G4S shareholders meeting, renowned artists, academics and writers called on G4S to end all support for Israel's illegal military occupation of Palestine. Add your name to the letter today and call on G4S to end its contract with Israel's prison authorities.
Iran: Ailing Trade Unionist Starts Hunger Strike
Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi, a prisoner of conscience serving a six-year jail sentence, has gone on hunger strike in protest at his transfer from Evin Prison in Tehran to Raja'i Shahr Prison in Karaj. He is in urgent need of medical treatment. Click here to call on the Iranian authorities to release Reza Shahabi immediately and unconditionally.
EDM 49 – Treatment of Palestinian Children
An Early Day Motion 49 has been tabled to raise concerns about the levels of violence faced by Palestinian children from both Israeli military forces and illegal Israeli settlers. Click here to contact your MP and ask them to sign EDM 49.
Child Soldiers International
The UK is one of fewer than 20 countries in the world which has an enlistment age of just 16 years. No other major military power enlists from such a young age. A 16-year-old can't watch violent war films or play "Call of Duty" on X-box, but they can join the Army under a legally binding contract and train for war. Please email your MP or send them a letter, urging them to ask the Minister for Armed Forces Personnel to raise the minimum enlistment age, by going to this web site now!
Petition: Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls
More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were recently abducted from their boarding school and are reported to be eventually sold as brides for $12 each. Call on all world leaders and enabled parties to rescue them. Sign the "Bring Back Our Girls" petition to show your support for the safe return of the missing girls and protection of education for all Nigerian children.
MEP Candidate Action
On Thursday 22 May, people across Europe will be asked to vote for candidates to represent them at the European Parliament. This is a key time to demonstrate our opposition to trade deals which are giving more and more power to big business at the expense of people and the environment. Email your MEP candidates now and ask them to show their commitment to trade justice by signing Trade Justice Movement's Take Back the Power pledge.
Survey: "Education For All"
As part of efforts to advocate for quality public education for all in the post-2015 discussions, Education International (EI) has just launched an online survey to allow teachers and education personnel to assess teaching and learning conditions worldwide. For more information click here or take the survey now.
Act for Palestinian Children Support the campaign by Action for Palestinian Children to ensure the rights of Palestinian children are upheld in accordance with international human rights treaties and international law. For more information and to sign the pledge, click here. You could also help by writing to your MP. For a model letter you can use click here. More information can be found on the A4PC factsheet.
The Rana Plaza Arrangement
Ten months have now passed since Rana Plaza collapsed and 1,138 people lost their lives and over 2,000 more were injured. The majority of the victims were female garment workers. The Rana Plaza Arrangement is an unprecedented coordinated approach which will ensure all those who have suffered due to the collapse will receive payments to cover loss of income and medical costs. Further information can be found via Labour Behind the Label or Clean Clothes Campaign. You can also demand justice for victims of the Bangladesh building collapse here.
The Robin Hood Tax
Eleven countries in Europe pledged to introduce Robin Hood Taxes - netting a combined £30 billion. Those taxes are now under threat from our government. George Osborne is resorting to a desperate legal challenge to try and block these countries from introducing their own taxes. Sign the petition to stop this uncalled for legal challenge. Visit the Touchstone blog link containing the latest Robin Hood Tax video emphasising the benefits of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).
Help end under 18 recruitment into Armed Forces
The NUT supports the Pax Christi petition to call on the UK Government to stop its policy of allowing 15 year olds to apply and 16 and 17 year olds to be recruited into the Armed Forces. Recent reports highlight the fact that younger recruits are significantly more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to drink at levels harmful to health, and to behave violently on their return from war. Click here for more information and to sign the petition.
Abolish the UK's tax havens
Some of the world's most significant tax havens will be attending the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council in London this week. Support War on Want's call for the abolition of the UK's network of tax havens, ensuring all the Overseas Territories end their financial secrecy, introduce effective public registers of beneficial ownership and introduce effective taxes on profits and wealth. Sign the petition here.
Unite for Quality Education
Unite for Quality Education is a campaign of Education International (EI), the voice of teachers and other education employees across the globe. For more information and to join the 30 million members EI represents to demand that quality education for all remains at the top of the agenda for a sustainable, peaceful and prosperous future click here.
Urgent Appeal: Philippines Typhoon
In the devastating wake of Typhoon Haiyan it's feared up to 10,000 people may have died. Hundreds of thousands have lost their homes. Action for Children have mobilised teams and supplies to quickly respond to the needs of vulnerable children and families in the Philippines. Please donate today to the Typhoon Haiyan Appeal and help Action for Children reach as many children as possible.
Stand with the children of Syria
Over 1 million children are now refugees of Syria. They have lost their home, many, their families, and the opportunity to grow and prosper. Organisations and governments in neighbouring countries are working to provide them with essential shelter, food, and the chance to continue their education. Sign the petition to call on the international community to support the plan to provide immediate education and school meals for Syrian children, which will be delivered at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2013.
Save public education in Greece
The Greek Government and the Troika along with the Minister of Education are condemning 2,500 teachers in Greece to 8-months suspension with 75% of their basic salary, prior to their dismissal. They are also preparing the transference of 5,000 secondary education teachers to primary education and 2,000 to administration. 10,000 non-permanent contract teachers are already dismissed and will not be hired again in September. Sign the petition to save public education in Greece.
Send ALL my Friends to School
In 2000 over 140 million children were out of school and the Great Global Education Race got off to a good start. Millions of children in Africa, Asia and Latin America went to school for the first time. But the number of children out of school is still over 60 million, with only 2 years to the finishing line another 1.7 million teachers are needed to deliver education for all.
The NUT is a major supporter of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a coalition of charities and teacher unions which organises the Send My Friend to School campaign each year.
This year's campaign theme will focus on disability and education. More than a third of the 57 million children missing out on school globally have a disability. To find out more about how to get your school involved in this year's campaign visit http://www.sendmyfriend.org/2013/09/send-my-friend-2014/ - every participating school receives a free pack with DVD, full-colour posters and Teacher's guide.
Maisie and Rebecca's trip to Uganda
The winners of the Steve Sinnott award for young campaigners, Maisie and Rebecca from Guildford county school in Surrey, travelled to Uganda in February 2014 where they experienced what children with disabilities might come up against when trying to get an education.
Click here to read their full trip diary and watch their film.
My World Global Survey
MY World is a global survey led by the United Nations. It aims to capture people's voices, priorities and views so that global leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the new development agenda for the world. Vote for education as a priority on the MY World survey here.
Free Colombian Political Prisoners
Omar Alfonso Combita was arrested on 2nd October 2011 and is detained in La Modelo Prison, Bogota, accused of "rebellion". He is an active member of FECODE, the Colombian teachers' trade union and the director of the Santana Ramos Education Centre. Please take a moment to add your name to the petition to help free Omar.
Medical Aid for Palestinians
As the casualties in Gaza continue to rise, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been responding to the crisis caused by Israeli air, tank and naval strikes, working with local hospitals, doctors and nurses to ensure that they have the supplies they need. An emergency appeal has been launched as urgent calls for additional medical supplies have been received. MAP needs to raise £100,000 immediately to make sure all hospitals have the necessary medicines and medical supplies to treat casualties. For more information and to make a donation go to https://www.justgiving.com/Gaza-in-crisis
Help Malala
Malala Yousafzai is a 14 year old school girl known for her education and women's rights activism. On 9 Oct she was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen. You can help Malala by signing the AVAAZ petition and demand that the government announces funding for all Pakistani girls who attend school.
European Financial Transaction Tax
Available resources for the Financial Transaction Tax campaign can be found at:
- all supporters resources (FAQs, lobby packs supportive quotes documents) are in the blog
- all posters and leaflets
Please write to your MP to keep the pressure on party leaders.
VSO Valuing Teachers Campaign and Volunteer Opportunities
The NUT supports VSO's campaign which researches what teachers feel about their profession: what motivates them and what helps them perform well. The aim is to inform policy-making and implementation at national and international levels. VSO is currently looking for experienced educationalists to help with this work for 1-2 years in countries across Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.
The Steve Sinnott Foundation
The Steve Sinnott foundation, established in the name of former NUT General Secretary, is dedicated towards the pursuit of Steve's passion and support for the UN Millennium Development Goal 2; the achievement, by 2015 of universal primary education for all children around the world.
Global Campaign for Education
The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society. http://www.campaignforeducation.org/

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The regular season has come to an end and the Bemidji VFW baseball team is now focusing on the double-elimination district tournament. The Vets begin their postseason 10 a.m. today against either fourth-rated Fergus Falls or fifth-ranked Detroit Lakes. Those teams met Thursday and the winner will earn the right to face Bemidji which is the top-seeded team in the field. Thursday's other preliminary matchup saw No. 3 Moorhead tangling with No. 6 East Grand Forks.
Tarron Baker exuded only confidence when he took the mound Monday in the championship game of the Minnesota Cal Ripken State Tournament at the Little League fields. His mother, Tara, admitted to a different emotional response. "I'm a nervous wreck," Tara said as she monitored the action from outside the fence near the Bemidji dugout. "There's nothing I can do but stay focused and keep track of the book." Tara handles Bemidji's scorebook and had a ring-side seat for this summer's action.
The Bemidji VFW capped an unbeaten campaign against district opponents Saturday by hammering Moorhead 15-2 and 10-1 in Moorhead. Saturday's sweep gave the Vets a 20-0 record against district foes and the top seed in the double-elimination district tournament which begins Thursday in East Grand Forks. Bemidji will receive a first-round bye and not play until 10 a.m. Friday. The Vets will draw the winner of Thursday's game between the fourth and fifth seeds. Thursday's other opener matches the No. 3 seed against the No.
Robin Anderson can remember his first impressions of the John Glas Fieldhouse. "When we were here the weight room was in Oak Hall and we had chicken wire instead of glass around the boards," Anderson, who graduated in 1983, said. "Now the program is moving into the new building where they have suites and televisions. "Somewhere, somehow the guys I played with went wrong. Maybe it's just that we were ahead of our time." Anderson is among the alumni who are eager to watch the Beavers play in the new Bemidji Regional Events Center.
Shortly before noon Friday Arly Nagle stood at the putting green at the Bemidji Town & Country Club and scanned the action. Under the tent volunteers were registering golfers for the 13th annual tournament named after his brother, Galen. Near the clubhouse hockey alumni were slapping each other on the back and swapping stories of on-ice triumphs. Behind the first tee local media representatives were snapping shots of a scholarship donation ceremony preserving the memory and legacy of George Pelawa. A group of 20-somethings was gazing at the prize table which featured BSU shirts and an asso
A very successful regular season for the Bemidji VFW baseball team will come to a close today when the Vets head to Moorhead for a doubleheader beginning at noon. Moorhead is battling Perham for the second seed in next week's district playoffs while Bemidji has already secured the top spot. The Vets enter today's action 18-0 against district foes and 20-4 overall, all of the losses coming against Legion programs. A sweep today would give Bemidji an unbeaten record against district foes. "It's always a challenge when you play Moorhead," Vets coach Brad Johnson said.
Year-round training for high school athletes has become the rule rather than the exception and the athletes at Bemidji High School have been eager to join that movement. "We live in a day and age that doesn't allow the kids to have a summer," said Bryan Stoffel who is coordinating the Lumberjack Summer Strength and Conditioning Program. "If athletes want to keep up with the competition they have to participate in this type of program." Judging by the number of students who joined the program, the Bemidji athletes are not taking a back seat to their competition. "Last year we had 170 kids i
The Bemidji VFW all but wrapped up the top seed in the district playoffs Wednesday when it dismantled East Grand Forks 17-1 and 10-1 at East Grand Forks. The Vets were scheduled to meet Fergus Falls in a doubleheader today, but Fergus was forced to forfeit the game after it could not field enough players for the game. That moved the Vets to a 20-4 overall record and a 18-0 mark against district foes.
The season came to an abrupt end for the Bemidji Legion baseball team Tuesday as it dropped both sub-district starts in Brainerd. After losing a heart-breaker to Nisswa 2-1 in the afternoon the Legion fell 10-9 to Brainerd in Tuesday's late elimination game. Brainerd, which entered the four-team tournament as the top seed, had lost to No. 4 Little Falls 6-3 in Tuesday's other first-round contest. Nisswa, ranked second, scored single runs in the eighth and ninth innings to nip No.
As the puck dropped and squirted into the corner to start the 1986 state high school hockey tournament's first-round game between Bemidji and Hibbing, George Pelawa and the Bluejacket defenseman raced to gain control. The Hibbing player was the first to reach the puck and Pelawa, instead of trying to stick-handle it away, lowered his shoulder and delivered the blow. To no one's surprise the defenseman flew into the air and crashed to the ice.


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Etawah: As many as 15 people were today feared drowned as the boat in which they were crossing the Yamuna river capsized in Chakarnagar area, an official said.
The boat was carrying 22 people when it capsized, Circle Officer of Charnagar Rajbir Singh said, adding seven of them swam to safety.
They were returning home after taking part in a religious function, he said.
Senior Police Officials rushed to the spot and supervised efforts to trace the missing persons.
With release of water in the Yamuna in view of the ongoing Maha Kumbh in Allahabad, the level of the river has gone up. This has also damaged the Pantoon bridge on the river forcing people to use boat for crossing it.


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131 students
Riceville Elementary School serves 131 students in grades KG-5.
The student:teacher ratio of 11:1 is lower than the IA average of 14:1.
Minority enrollment is 1% of the student body (majority American Indian and Asian), which is less than the state average of 19%.
Riceville Elementary School operates within the Riceville Community School District.
The student population of 131 students has stayed relatively flat over five years.
The teacher population of 12 teachers has stayed relatively flat over five years.
Grades Offered | Grades KG-5 |
Total Students | 131 students |
Gender % | 55% Male / 45%Female |
Total Classroom Teachers | 12 teachers |
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The student:teacher ratio of 11:1 has stayed the same over five years.
The school's diversity score of 0.02 is less than the state average of 0.21. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five years.
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The district's student population of 287 students has decreased by 11% over five years.
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Number of Students Managed | 287 | 666 |
District Total Revenue | $5 MM | $7 MM |
District Spending | $4 MM | $7 MM |
District Revenue / Student | $14,278 | $11,087 |
District Spending / Student | $12,596 | $10,614 |
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Two superheroes collided in Disneyland this week.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" star Andrew Garfield met up with viral star Miles "Batkid" Scott in Disneyland this week after their bit was cut from the Oscars.
TMZ reports that the duo hit the theme park in Anaheim and Garfield conducted a mini-Oscars ceremony in the boy's hotel room.
A rep for the Academy told "Us Weekly" that the bit was scrapped at the last minute "due to the logistics of production."
"Andrew Garfield understood that his segment had to be omitted, and he drove to Disneyland on Monday to spend time with 5-year-old Miles Scott (Batkid) and his family.
The information sheds light on earlier accusations that Garfield himself had asked for the segment to the cut after disagreements over the official script, which his reps deny (via TMZ).
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Real secret of Bletchley were the girls who worked there, writes Hannah Stephenson.
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I think every MMO ever has offered full group progression.
Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
I too miss the day of forced grouping. I WANT to play in groups, but when the path is as easy to go alone most people can't be bothered to group up. Newer MMOs should at least offer greater rewards or benefits for group content. Let people who want to solo kill 1,000 scoprions and get to mac lvl in 24 hours. I want it to be difficult and take months and feel like an accomplishment when I get there. Give me and updated HD version of EQ or FFXI anyday. |
The key for a game is to incorporate both solo and group play but make them BOTH pertinent to the progression of the character and the world as a whole.
Played: UO, DAoC, Shadowbane, DDO, LOTRO, Aion, Rift, TERA |
Originally posted by tats27 They do. Grouping gives more xp, faster xp, more coin and better loot. No you don't need to group for everything, but you didn't in old games either. In new games grouping is largely for dungeons, end game and raids. However it does, even during leveling, give significantly better rewards. Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
Originally posted by VengeSunsoar In modern MMO's it's actually a bad thing to get faster xp, unless you really are in some rush to end game. MMO's now are more about the story, which can easily be missed if you gather more xp than normal, meaning you either skip parts of the story or go through them but gain absolutely nothing from them. Let's face it, modern MMO's are just really poorly designed. The devs want to make a single player game but have been forced into making an MMO, so they add grouping and multiplayer sections as an afterthought rather than as a main point of the game. |
Originally posted by UsualSuspect The vast majority of players *DO* want to rush to endgame, so how is it a bad thing to give the players what they want? They're not badly designed except for people who don't want to play them. Designers are making games to appeal to the vast majority of people who play them. You seem to think they ought to force everyone to group, a completely niche element, slow down, a completely niche element, and that will only succeed in driving most MMOs into bankruptcy because most people won't pay for a game like that. Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more |
Originally posted by UsualSuspect You know, I actually don't really disagree with. I do think many are rushing to end game, for whatever reason (totally diffeent topic) and many MMO's are about the story which IMO makes rushing even sillier. I do agree that there are many parts of MMO's that are poorly designed, we likely disagree with what parts those are. I'm not sure if they want to make a single player game or not. I do think that they are trying to find a way to have grouping be significant and usefull while still having soloing as an option, unfortunatley it is a trial and error approach (not many other ways it could be). Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
I now believe solo play has sucked the soul out of the MMO genre. I've gone from game to game and they're all the same thing, all single player online games with multiplayer as an afterthought, all quest hub to quest hub, run back and fore, bash monsters with the power of a superhero. Take away the challenge and you're left with something that's incredibly dry and shallow. I went from The Secret World, which is good but is still a solo quest grind, with only end of area dungeons for multiplayer content. Jumped out of there to try the Guild Wars 2 free weekend, found again the single player quest grind, went from there to try out the trial of Rift, which has to be the worst MMO I've ever played. Seriously, they give you flashy QUEST COMPLETE messages and sparkles and booms and whistles, just for walking down the road to the next quest giver? Seriously?! That's marked as an accomplishment these days? And then I tried Neverwinter, which is more of the same, an unstoppable superhero facing down dungeons full of badguys, with barely a sniff of multiplayer to be found anywhere. What a sad sorry state the MMO genre has turned into. How you soloers can actually enjoy this crap is beyond comprehension. Doesn't anyone like a challenge anymore? Or do they just like to do simple tasks and be patted on the back and awarded shinies for being a good boy? Pathetic. |
Solo play has has nothing to do with challenge. There are challenges in all games. Find something to easy, go to a harder area. edit - I will say that the increasing lack of challenging areas/tasks has made many games a tad dull. Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
Originally posted by VengeSunsoar You can't really do that in these games though, as the majority of XP comes from quests. You can't just run off to a harder area and get new quests, these things make you either have to be a certain level, which can only be gained through quest XP, or complete the previous set of quests first. On top of that, they set your eqiupment as rewards for each quest along the path, so if you rush off you're going to end up gimping yourself due to lack of decent armour/weapons. Hence, the name themepark. You're basically on a rollercoaster, heading straight down the path laid out for you. It's a horrible design and I hope it dies soon, it's taken the MMO genre backwards half a dozen steps instead of forward. |
Single player gameplay in a mmo makes no sense whatsoever. Why create a massively multiplayer game for people who dislike multiplayer gameplay? there is no logic behind that thought. Making a multiplayer game that focuses on single player gameplay makes no sense at all from a gameplay standpoint. What soloers need is not a mmo that is designed for them, they need to either play the games that are already single player or ask for a new genre that fits only them. |
I'm for multiboxing play where a player plays more than one account! |
Originally posted by CorvusCorax Because there is a difference between people who want to play around a lot of people, as most MMO players do, and those who want to play *WITH* a lot of people, as the majority of MMO players do not. I'd be all for playing *WITH* people if there were a better class of players to play with, but there aren't, so I don't. What others do is none of your damn business. Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more |
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It's funny because if you follow the history of our genre to it's very roots? From MMORPG back to RPG back to Table-Top? You would end up looking crazy as bat-sh*t playing table-top Dungeons and Dragons alone. You'd be talking to yourself pretending to be the Dungeon Master AND the Character at the same time... But now? It's okay to look crazy. :) |
Originally posted by MMOPapa Well I guess it's a good thing that video games have virtually nothing in common with pnp games. Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
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Originally posted by VengeSunsoar Actually they have quite a few similarities if you take the time to think about it... for example; the chance at rolling a ten or higher on a twenty-sided die is still nothing more than percentages; which is the foundation of multiple systems implemented into MMORPGs such as Chance To Hit, Crit, Block, Evade, Proc, etc. etc. The basis of Character Creation remains almost identical. Traps and what not still utilize tools or skills to disable them. The amount of spaces you could move versus movement speed. I mean... the list goes on and on. After all, it is undeniably our origin. |
Yes it is undeniably our origin however they have diverged significantly. This article talks about it a bit: http://gdlab.net/?p=1 This as well: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=743 Just as some examples. The record player is also an ancestor to an mp3 - both are storage devices for music. But they are not the same. Today you would still look crazy playing a pnp game by yourself. In video games you don't. Why? Because they are undeniably different. And while I never played a pvp game myself (not significantly anyway, it just wasn't fun for me), my brother did a lot. I did prep characters though. Funnily enough to both of us, building characters was the most fun. Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play. |
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Originally posted by VengeSunsoar You don't know what you're missing! PVP is fun! Lol, I know what you meant, I'm just being a dork. :3 |
Originally posted by MMOPapa Hate to say it, but TSR produced a line of D&D modules intended for solo play. In case you didn't know... Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more |
Originally posted by MMOPapa Yeah, not so much and I have played PvP games before and I detest them with a passion. Your mileage may vary, of course. Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more |


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Arizona Diamondbacks
The Pulse: Most believe D-backs were right for hitting McCutchen
Much has been made of the retaliation shown by the Arizona Diamondbacks last week, when Randall Delgado hit Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen in the back, seemingly to avenge his teammate, Paul Goldschmidt, who was hit by an up-and-in fastball thrown by Ernesto Frieri the night before.
While much of the media, both in and out of the market, has flung criticism at Delgado, manager Kirk Gibson and the D-backs, fans have plotted their opinions across the spectrum.
To get a better feel for where fans stood on the incident, we used our Sanderson Ford Poll Question of the Day to ask:
Were the Diamondbacks right to throw at the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen?
We provided four answers:
• Yes, hit our guy and we hit yours
• Sure, had to avenge Goldy's injury
• No, it wasn't the right time
• No, because you never throw at someone
To most, the issue was black and white. The oft-referenced "unwritten rules" must be upheld, the majority thought, and a simple precept should be enacted: Hit our best and we'll hit yours.
Indeed, of the 1125 votes tallied in the poll, a sizable 721 voted in that way, while just 84 voted on the opposite end of the spectrum. That is, 71 percent of all voters believe you either always retaliate or never retaliate, with 64 percent of which believing retaliation is the way to go.
Another 15 percent thought that retaliation was called for, just at a different time. And the other 13 percent believed that retaliation was necessary, not because Goldschmidt was hit, but because he was hurt.
In total, the poll shows that 93 percent of fans believe retaliation has a place in the game; 78 percent believe the D-backs were right to retaliate when they did on Saturday.
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used to shut someone up when they are talking to you, when to be honest you just dont give a shit
"oh, did a tell you that laura's dog died?"
"she's really upset!"
"you could show more sympathy"
"sweet, anyway... more importantly, suck me off"
"she's really upset!"
"you could show more sympathy"
"sweet, anyway... more importantly, suck me off"
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Selasa, 29 Maret 2005
greeting usually used by Firms from North and/or west LondonIslington or Chelsea
Sweet geez 'ows it goin?
Yeah i'm sweet
Yeah i'm sweet
dari Greekie
Jum'at, 22 Oktober 2004
Synonym for: Rad, Phat, Killer, Holler, Devious, Slammin, Hotness, Grand Royal, Tubular, Bodacious, Werd, Super, Grovey, Lovely, Far-Out, Gravey, Gangsta, Fo Grizzle, Dangels, Bangin, Busticated, Ratitatat, Lalapalooza, Jugula, Frankfort. Not Peace
"i banged the dog. sweet"
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Rabu, 09 April 2003
sumthing mad awesu & cool. lotsa dudes use it to say its koolness
"Dude that was SOOOOOO S W E E T"
" S W E E T" -Crushes offspring from Finding Nemo
" S W E E T" -Crushes offspring from Finding Nemo
dari Petita
Minggu, 14 Desember 2003
weed rolled up ina blunt
where can i get a "sweet" around herre
dari Justin Jackson
Sabtu, 27 September 2003
to be drunk, or the act of getting drunk.
i am going to get so sweet tonight!
oh, man, i am so sweeeeet already!
oh, man, i am so sweeeeet already!
dari lesley.t
Selasa, 27 November 2007
Leader of Grove Street Famlies. Argues and insults and is angry alot. And...that's about it. Is the leader no matter how much respect CJ earns.
Calm down, Sweet you fucker.
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Senin, 03 Januari 2005


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Appleby, R. Scott 1956-Overview
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Fundamentalisms observed
by Martin E Marty
21 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and held by 1,423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Fundamentalism Project vol. 1
Catholics in the American century recasting narratives of U.S. history
7 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Strong religion : the rise of fundamentalisms around the world
by Gabriel A Almond
15 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and held by 1,354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Examines a variety of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions, analyzing the social structures, cultural contexts and political ramifications of fundamentalism around the world
Religion, ethnicity, and self-identity nations in turmoil
6 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action."
Fundamentalisms and the state : remaking polities, economies, and militance
by Martin E Marty
14 editions published between 1993 and 1996 in English and held by 908 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This third volume of the Fundamentalism Project provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years. The distinguished contributors to this volume - economists, political scientists, religious historians, social anthropologists, and sociologists - focus on the impact these movements have had on national economies, political parties, constitutional issues, and international relations on five continents and within the religious traditions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Do fundamentalisms tend toward political activism, and how successful have they been in remaking political structures? To answer this question and others, the contributors discuss the anti-abortion movement in the U.S., the Islamic war of resistance in Afghanistan, and Shiite jurisprudence in Iran. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby conclude the volume with a synthetic statement of fundamentalist impact on polities, economies, and state security. The Fundamentalism Project is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that involves an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come
Accounting for fundamentalisms : the dynamic character of movements
by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
13 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and held by 905 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This fourth volume of the Fundamentalism Project provides a comprehensive analysis of the ideologies and behaviors of "fundamentalist" movements, both in their internal dynamics and in their attitudes toward the outside world. Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the distinguished contributors to this volume describe the organization of these movements, their leadership and recruiting techniques, and the ways in which their ideological programs and organizational structures shift over time in response to changing political and social environments. Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements that are in today's headlines, including the Islamic Group, members of which were charged with plotting to blow up the World Trade Center; the World Hindu Party, members of which sparked riots in India by destroying an Islamic shrine; and the revitalized Christian Right in the United States. Why do certain fundamentalist movements act aggressively toward outsiders, while others are integrationist or accommodationist, and still others passive or separatist? Drawing upon world-renowned experts in four major areas of the world with an introduction by the editors and a framing conclusion, this book is the first concerted effort to understand the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world. The Fundamentalism Project is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences involving an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come
Fundamentalisms comprehended
by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
13 editions published between 1995 and 2004 in English and held by 868 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "This volume marks the culmination of the Fundamentalism Project, the landmark series that brings together scholars from around the world to explore the nature and impact of fundamentalist movements in the twentieth century. The four previous volumes provide the most comprehensive information available on the social, political, cultural, and religious contexts of fundamentalism in the major religious traditions." "In this fifth volume, the distinguished contributors return to and test the project's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. Some contributors challenge the idea that fundamentalism is a distinctively modern phenomenon, while others question whether the term "fundamentalist" can accurately be applied to movements outside Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Several of the essays also employ new approaches, drawn from literary criticism and from psychology, in their assessments of the problems of comparing fundamentalisms."--Jacket
Fundamentalisms and society : reclaiming the sciences, the family, and education
by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9 editions published between 1992 and 1997 in English and held by 867 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This book, the second volume of the Fundamentalism Project, provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years and shows the impact these movements have had on human relations, education, women's rights, and scientific research. The essays consider developments within the religious traditions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism in over a dozen nations. What do individual fundamentalist movements regard as the foundations for and limits of knowledge? What do they understand the proper role of science to be? And how do their world views determine the application of technology? The distinguished contributors to this volume - anthropologists, historians of religion, historians of science, and sociologists - address these and other questions through a discussion of topics such as educational structures of Hindu revivalism, women in fundamentalist Iran and Pakistan, and the creationist cosmos of Protestant fundamentalism. In a concluding essay, William H. McNeill situates contemporary fundamentalisms within a world historical context. The Fundamentalism Project is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that involves an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come
The ambivalence of the sacred : religion, violence, and reconciliation
by R. Scott Appleby
10 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Terrorists and peacemakers may grow up in the same community and adhere to the same religious tradition. The killing carried out by one and the reconciliation fostered by the other indicate the range of dramatic and contradictory responses to human suffering by religious actors. This book explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common, what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice, and how a deeper understanding of religious extremism can and must be integrated more effectively into our thinking about tribal, regional, and international conflict
The glory and the power : the fundamentalist challenge to the modern world
by Martin E Marty
4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 804 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Spokesmen for the despised : fundamentalist leaders of the Middle East
by R. Scott Appleby
8 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in English and held by 697 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Being right : conservative Catholics in America
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Religious fundamentalisms and global conflict
by R. Scott Appleby
4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Church and age unite! : the modernist impulse in American Catholicism
by R. Scott Appleby
7 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "This comprehensive study offers the first book-length examination of the influence of modernism of the intellectual life of the American Catholic community at the beginning of the twentieth century. R. Scott Appleby chronicles the story from 1895, when American Catholic priest John Zahm attempted to reconcile post-Darwinian theories of evolution with Catholic theism, to 1910, when former priest and radical Modernist William L. Sullivan published his Letters to His Holiness Pope Pius X, repudiating Roman authority." "Appleby focuses on the ways in which certain priests, scientists, and scholars approached the vital topics of the day--human evolution, the salience of democratic principles and institutions for the vitality of Catholicism, the role of the will and intellect in the assent of faith--by appropriating the insights of the European Catholic Modernists. The Americans probed beyond the limits of the dominant Roman neo-scholasticism and retrieved models, images, and concepts from the apostolic and early medieval eras of church history. As the first experiment with a pluralism of methods and sources in American Catholic theology and philosophy, Appleby argues, this was also an attempt to construct a viable Catholic apologetics that would speak to the experiences of American citizens. Because this enterprise resembled that of the condemned Europeans, the Americans also fell under a cloud of suspicion and original research was suspended for a generation."--Jacket
The Fundamentalism project
by M.E Marty
4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Creative fidelity : American Catholic intellectual traditions
4 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Peacebuilding : Catholic theology, ethics, and praxis
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Herausforderung Fundamentalismus : radikale Christen, Moslems und Juden im Kampf gegen die Moderne
by Martin E Marty
4 editions published in 1996 in German and held by 81 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fighting back
2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Presents some aspects of Christian fundamentalism in the United States. Topics include the anti-abortion activity of Randall Terry, born-again Christian Charles Colson, and Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina
The story of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
by R. Scott Appleby
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1941-46 Coe
Hey hows it going? I guess you guys dont have a for sale/buy trade section via your boards, I just posted a wanted add for a 41-46 chev or gmc COE.. I cant find anything in my region!!
I live in BC canada, and the closest I can find is www.theironalley.com even then theres only one there but its rotten. If anyone knows of one for sale in the washington/seattle even oregon or BC for that matter it would be greatly appreciated. If I cant find one then im gonna have to modify a halfton with glass fenders. I'd love to find an actual coe though. Thanks for your time. Please post if you know of any links to any forsale, or if you know of where there is one, or are a couple for sale. Thanks a lot.
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There's never anything in the buy n sell. And I've already placed a wanted ad and have gone through all of the ads that were listed for this sites classifieds. I even posted a picture on the wanted add so that it will hopefully trigger something lol.
There's only so many resources lol. I can find lots of 41/46 halftons none coe's though. Just crying out to the people on this board if they knew of any around. Thanks for responding.
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