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It's hardly the end of the subscription model.
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i really detest the non P2P model. The quality of the game and the the quality of the players one encounters is signifigantly different. Quite simply P2P games have a more mature and better skilled playerbase by a very large margin. Older veteran MMO players understand that the traditional sub model is the place to be to play with the type of people they have been playing with the last 15 years. Unfortunately each new game promising grenner pastures takes a chunk of players from our sub games. We get some back after people realize the new game of the months was not as good as the hype but they do damage to guilds and the playerbase of sub games.While I think the sub model is the only alternative for veteran players it is having a tough time with people lacking patience and jumping back and forth between their sub game and the new flavor of the month game.
An analysis of the female gamer, from my POV
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Originally posted by alexanys1982
I don't want to get into generalizing but I prefer female raiders as their attitudes, teamwork and selfless play is much superior.
I would ask what kind of guild are you in? I am guessing it would be more casual, less hardcore and less structured? I would guess the more casual a guild gets the greater tha chance the female player is new to the genre and the more help she will need. But on the high end of MMO play I think the female player is superior to male players just on attitude alone.
Guild Wars 2 feels very grindy
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I think there is generation gap between people that grew up with the internet and those that did not and had to develop some patience. The internet generation is used to getting everything they want instanteously and cannot fathom waiting a day or a week.
I cannot consider any of the new games to even remotely a grind. While i agree the new games are over simplified and lack difficulty and complexity they are simply not a grind. New MMOs take 2 days played to rach Max level. In AOC people were 80 a day after release. In Rift it took 2 days. ToR 2 days and I am sure people will be maxed in GW2 in 2 days. There is no such thing as a level grind anymore.
I fondly remeber EQ1's 50-60 days played to max level. Grinding an entire day and barely seeing ones xp bar even move. The same with DAOC. There were actual penalities for dying and poor play. Peoples reputation mattered and most people actually possesed patience, team 1st attitudes an attention span, manners and etiquette. Today's internet generation is all about me, me , me and getting what they want now. Its almost like they are afraid to have downtime where they might actually have to think. No offense to the OP or anyone else. But it is very sad.
Love the Site But Not All of the Articles
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Originally posted by Razeekster
One has to remember this website has no interest in journalism,accuracy, providing information or helping the MMO genre. All they care about here is making money. Their interest is in page hits only. Nothing more. Which means they write articles with provactive sexy titles, blindly hype games to create interest and keep people coming back, let fanboys run wild over the forums, censor critical posts, and hire writers with limited MMO expereince who play MMOs only in the most casual of definitions.
The end result is mainstream MMO websites, especially this one, do a lot of damage to consumers and the genre. As they hype bad games and allow companies to lie, mislead and get away with selling unfinished games. They help sell bad games and turn a blind eye to a games faults because their only interest is in making money and being anything close to a legitimate newsite will make them less money and possibly damage the relationships they have with developers. When people talk about the decline in MMOs and ask why and how this has occured, They need to look no further than mmorpg.com which has been a major contributor behind the simplyifying and "McDonaldization" of the genre.
It is a shame that websites like this sellout for the dollar as there really is a need for a legitmate, honest and accurate MMO website. One that caters to actual players rather than one that is just used as a vehicle for developers to hype and advertise their games.
This genre is dead
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Originally posted by Foomerang
I am not sure I would go so far as dead but I think your point is valid. The Genre has shifted to the mainstream market and the target audience now are box sales for non-MMO players. The end result is we have games targeted towards high eye candy flashy type of play that non MMO gamers want. FPS combat, PVP base, no grind and simplistic mechanics. But these players are not the type wth the patience to play a MMO very long which is likely why they did not stick with MMOs in the past. Esssentially we have box sales games and people jumping from game. Websites like this help to make it worse by hyping up new games regardless of the quality and letting the fanboys run rampant with their wild claims. The fanboys atack anyone that disagrees with their dream game calling them names and running them off the forums. Bad games are released and a few months later the fanboys have moved on to hying their next game of the week. The only ones that benefit here are the developers in box sales and websites like this with massive page hits.
The more traditional model games lose players every time one of these new gimmick games is released and then get some of those players back a few months later. The sad thing is these gimmick games not only take the non MMO players away but they hurt the traditional games as many people there will buy into the hype until they play a month or two. It does a lot of damage to guilds and the health of these games.
Maybe the best thing is for more games to fail like ToR and maybe we will see more games directed at MMO veterans who want to actually put time into a game rather than being given all a games rewards simply for knowing how to log in. I doubt we will see the vocal FPS/PvP crowd that has emerged the last few years go away but if the money and the hype goes away maybe they will go away to. Maybe the best thing is lower budgets and for MMOs to go back to being a niche genre. With Tor's collapse and the possibiltiy of something similar with TESO it might become much harder for games to get that type of investment.
Regardless I liked your post and feel for you and for what has happened to this genre.
Tor down to 200k to 300k players Left
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as of 7/22 on Tor Staus we can see the results of the merger.
Tor gained players everyday on ToR status for the past 5 weeks. The merger has left ToR with 16 very healthy servers (12 NA and 4 Euro). The daily gains for weeks has left them with servers that should remain healthy for quite awhile. The last two days they have been shown to have lost players and likely that will continue and grow larger larger each day. But given the size of the population of the 16 servers now Tor should be able to sustain a month or two of decline before any of these 16 servers become in jeopardy of dying.
Overall the gain was suprising and it allows BW a larger winow of time to improve the game before the entire population leaves. With 16 pretty full servers they likely have 150k-250k total players left. Which looks a lot better than where they were before the merger.
For a comparison EQ2, after they did their merger down to 16 servers, peaked at 250 subs but for the most part not getting above 200k.
While my orginal post was critisized and I agree with some of the criticism as to projecting actual numbers but from what we have seen with the mergers it seems to have validated my orginal post as to the amount of players, state of the game andthe health of the servers left. If anything my OP overestimated the number of players still playing. More likely ToR was down around 100-150k players before the merger.
Mainly what one can see from a site like Tor Status are trends and the health of servers along with momentum in gains and losses. We can project players based on X number on each server. Although that number is debateable as it would be anywhere from 5k to 20k per server depending on the game, the server size, the health of the server and how much the average player logs in. What generally happens with a server whether its Tor Staus Rift status or whichever is very soon after a server declines to 1.4 or 1.5 there is a mass exodus. In Rifts case it seems to swifter as players can transfer to any server whenever they wan for free so you often see multiple guilds move one after the other over a few days. While not as volatile as Rift it still holds true in ToR when a server declines below 1.3 the drop to 1.0 and dead status usually happens within 2-3 weeks.
In regards to the post above about the return on a game sold. The traditional rule of thumb on a video game is the developer gets 25% back of the retail sales price. That number has gone up in recent years with digital sales where the % is a lot higher. About a year or so ago MMOs moved past the 50% threshold where over 50% of pre-orders now come form digital online sales. Which greatly increaes the return to a developer. But all in all i would be shocked if BW/EA got more than a 40% return from total sales. Which would be about $57 million from total box sales.
You top 3 best and worst mmorpg communities (TODAY)
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Eq1, Daoc, Vanguard
AoC: Hands down the most juvenile onbnoxious self centered kiddie community of any MMO. But the game was designed and targetted towards kiddie with an emphasis on juvenile themse with blood, gore, profanity and nudity with a simplified follwo the arrow target audience and shallow thoughtless gameplay.
2 and 3 Fill in any modern MMO with a PvP focus.
Just realised why games are dumbing down...
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I don't think its entirely the type of game that people were brought up on but more the age of the player. Those who have grown up in the internet generation (under 35) simply do not have the patience or maturity to play MMOs. They need to be constantly entertained, pampered and hand held. They do not have the ability to think on their own, handle situations where there is actual time for thought and in many cases they simply do not have the social skills to interact with adults.
If WoW went free to play it would destroy guild wars 2.
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Nothing will kill the hype that is GW2 except time. WoW going F2P will not kill that hype. People want GW2 because its new and a fantasy that they hope will solve all their MMO problems and dislikes. Gw2 is a game made and designed for ultra casual players not people that actually play MMOs. Give it 2-3 months and those that bought into the massive hype will become bored and move on. The people that are hyping GW2 simply do not have the patience or matuiry to play any MMO. They will always be anticipating a dream game on the horizon and likely will never realize that the prolem is not MMOs but their own self.
Funcom CEO resigned one day before TSW launch
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How stupid.... don't consider students?
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Gw2 is likely a lot younger but the average age in Most MMOs is in the early 30's. Not to mention GW2's target audience is a lot more casaul than most AAA MMOs appealing to those players that do not want to grind, are PvP players and do no want to invest a lot of effort or time into a MMO. In regards to College Students it is the start of the semester and if they want to spend a few weeks at release playing non stop it should not matter much as they will have planty of time to catch up. I cannot recall anyone ever studying the first weeks of a semester. Once you get out of schoola nd get a job you will realize how much more freetime you had as a student. In regards to the devs I doubt they care if it inconviences anyone as they have already sold an amazing total of pre-order boxes. I doubt they care if anyone plays as long as they pay to buy the game.
Why are people going back to Rift?
General Discussion « Rift
Originally posted by teakbois
In many ways I agree with you that Rift is not like Vanguard . Horizontally it is not like vanguard with Vgs 4 zones for each level area broad content with crafting, diplomcy and adventuring. But its raiding is a sequel to Vanguard with the VG dev that designed and ran the testing for APW and its raiding is what VG should have been if the game had actually been supported. HK shares a lot of similarities with APW. VG IMO could have been the ultimate game if only Sigil was allowed to finish the game. Such a shame. But Vgs failure and its development problems had an influence on Hartsman and Rifts development. Also keep in mind almost all the guilds chosen for Rift's Alpha (Silky Venom, Trinity, Enigma, Brotherhood of the Spider, BoW and more) were from VanguardI. It was these guilds that first tested all the dungeons and GSB and had a large influence on Rifts development.
I agree Rifts influence influence and design is more EQ2 with Hartsman. EQ2 even though it did very poorly at release recovered thanks to hartsman pumping tons of content into the game and its focus on raiding. While Rift had a very good release hartsman has kept the same philosphy of pumping tons of content into the game and growing it leaps and bounds with a primary focus on raiding. In regards to EQ1 its raiding now they get an expansion get one raid then wait a year get another expansion I would not call that supported raiding and given its age I would not think its viable alternative for most raiders so they are essentially only 3 supported raid games left Rift, EQ2, and WoW.
Is Raiding Dead?
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There are only 3 supported progression raiding MMOs presently EQ2, Rift and WoW. One might add TOR to the list but I do not see any serious raiding guilds playing it. One could also add EQ1 to this list but it doe snot havemuch of a playerbase left.
There are only two real raiding games in development that I know of EQNext and ESO and one has tow onder about both of their commitments to raiding. Will ESO have seriosu progression raiding? Will SOE seriosuly develop EQNext?
With EQ2 and WoW turning 8 this later this year Rift looks like the only serious raiding game for the future. Rift under Hartsman's guidance is essentialy the sequel to EQ2 and its first and foremost a raiding game. Its raiding is very good and somewhat difficult but one has to wonder what direction it will go. Raiding is the core and focus of Rift endgame but I will not be surprised if they end up going the wow easy mode route with the next expansion. I guess the problem is if they make raids to hard like HK people complain but if they make them to easy like the beginning of ID hardcore guilds become upset. In todays MMO world where players have no patience and will leave a game anytime they become bored it is hard to make raiding to difficult. Which is my guess why we bhave seen the hurdles or ability to gear up for rift raiding become so easy and also why we thgey are changing PvP gear to be useable in raids by adding hit'/focus.
Coin lock = loose accounts
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Originally posted by thatkenguy
I have seen people post your problem on the official forums. They have the problem was quickly solved by calling Trion Customer Support. It would probably not take you much more time to get your acct transferred to a new email than it took to make this post.
Why are people going back to Rift?
General Discussion « Rift
Originally posted by Berikai
If you look at Rift Status you will see 8 servers have died and dropped to 1.0 which explains why all the guilds have transfered off these servers, Sadly before the decline these servers were all healthy. Hopefully the slow increase the last month will pick up steam.
Why are people going back to Rift?
General Discussion « Rift
Originally posted by Theocritus
90% of MMOs? There are only 4 MMOS with supported progression raiding Rift, EQ2, andWoW. Maybe ToR would be a 4th on this lsit but no serious raid guilds raid there and I doubt they have the content or they type of playerbase to be considered a real raiding game. Raid games are few and far between. Some games may have zerg raid mobs and some ellements of raiding but not what one would generally call raiding which is progression raiding.
In regards to Rift being a gear grind. It is a shallow gear grind. It offers quite a bit of endgame activities for most playstyles butat its heart its a raiding game. That was how it was deisigned and how it has evolved post release. Raiders simply are more dependable long term subscribers than the normal ADHD player that leaves any game the 1st second they become bored. The EQ/EQ2/Vanguard crowd was the first to come to Rift and made up of most of the games ALpha Testers and Alpha guilds as well as followers thanks to Hartsman. Rift is essentially the sequel to EQ2/Vanguard.
Who is your Blacklisted company?
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Funcom - Recall what Funcom did with AoC. Just before release they told the beta testers that the beta build was 3-4 builds behind their internal testing and that they had full content for the level 30+ zones that would be in at release including DX10. None of this was true the game was completely unfinished outside the starter 1-20 zone, They played bait and switch with the general public and let open beta testers only play level 1-13 which was well done. They designed a game for children marketing the game to children with an emphasis on sex, obscentiy, blood, gore and a simplistic gimmicky combat system. They paid people to post non stop on these forums posting postive reviews of AoC. The game was built on lies and targeted to the worst of the MMO community. Designed to last players a few weeks. It was a box sale game only with lies designed to cover up the true state of the game and maximize box sales.
SOE - Its lies about EQ's expansions. Intentionaly putting in bugs that would stop guild progress to let them finish therest of the expansion that they claimed was done when they sold the expansion.
SWG lying to its players about the inclusion of the JEdi quest when it was not in game. NGE Completely changing the game in the expansion wihtout telling anyone of the changes until they purchased the expansion. Vanguard when SOE entereted into an agreement with Sigil sigil completely changed the design of the game between beta 1 and beta 2 resulting in Sigil having to spend over a year ofbeta time redoing the entire game resulting in an unfinished game wgich eventually was sold to SOE. WHen the game was purchased by SOE they fired almost all the devs and stopped evelopment of the game relasing almost no new content except finishing content that had already been staretd by Sigil. One cannot invest hundreds of days played into an SOE game as SOE simply cannot be trusted.
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I do agree with Pokket's point about Wallmart customers. They are sub human. Going to a wallmart is like going to the zoo when you look at the people there. I have always felt sorry for the poor Wallmart employees that have to put up with these customers.
That being said I thought her 1st biography of an addicted gamer article went over better than this one. I think as game players or MMO players many of us can see ourselves in that article and relate to it. This article IMO contained to many meaningless details which prevented at least me from being drawn in and feeling part of the story. If she is going to continue wrting articles like this it is going to be tough to keep it fresh and humerous. She might be better off including more in game details.
Why are people going back to Rift?
General Discussion « Rift
Often new games that do not live up to expectations makes a solid game like Rift look a look better. When ToR came out Rift expereinced a huge increase in subs from January to March. When people leave a game in droves it often means good news for other games. Tera never had that much hype, big population and its gameplay is not as similar as ToR/Rift so it has not had helped Rift anywhere near as much. In Fact Rift started expereincing a large decline in players once Tera came out but keep in mind D3 came out shortly after and GW2 beta weekends started then soon as well, The last month Rift has been slowly gaining back some of those players. I am guessing D3 players but maybe some from Tera but it is still lost a lot of players since March. During this time Rift dropped down from 16 to NA servers to 8 with two bearely hanging on. While the Euro servers have dropped down to 4. Rifts 12 totwl servers left compares favorably to ToR's 16 total servers left and will likely continue to be healthy much longer than ToR.
Is the use of "Fanboy" a form of bigotry? I think...
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Keep in mind that fanoys constantly troll these forums attacking people only because they post views that differ from theirs about the game they pathalogically defend. They call the people who disagree with them "haters" and "trolls" when most of the time it is the fanboy who is trolling as they normally offer no argument or justification to support their opinion other than "because I said so."
While there is certainly bad behavior on both sides of the isle fanboys are a much bigger menance as they offer much less substance to the argument and these fanboys do so much damage to the genre as a whole as they help support and hype bad games. They ridicule and laugh at any questions or criticicsms and help developers release unpolished poor products because they know they will be aided by thousands of fanboys who will hype their game to extreme levels.


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Jakub Voracek had a hat trick and Wayne Simmonds added two goals as the Flyers held Pittsburgh at bay in a 6-5 win. Voracek scored the game-winner with 91 seconds left in regulation for Philadelphia. Evgeni Malkin and James Neal each scored power-play goals in the loss while defenseman Paul Martin had three assists. SPIN: Yep, the Flyers are back. They hung seven on the Islanders on Monday and now dropped a sixer on the Penguins on Wednesday. It's been a long time coming for owners of Claude Giroux. Scott Hartnell is getting closer to getting back on the ice and this Philly team might be able to get on a run here to get above .500 and back into the playoff conversation. The downside of all this is that the goaltending of Ilya Bryzgalov leaves something to be desired after allowing five goals. Voracek has gone white-hot this week and should be added to ride the hot streak and the same goes for Simmonds. I don't know how long it's going to last but this should be fun while it does. S...
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Undescended (missing) testicle(s)
Some people have a testicle on only one side. On the other side, the testicle is completely missing or it may be felt as a lump in the groin. In either case, it is called 'undescended testicle'.
How undescended testicle occurs
Your testicles started to develop when you were a tiny fetus (a few weeks after you were conceived). They began high inside your abdomen, near the kidneys at the back. About 6 months before you were born, they started to journey forwards and downwards towards the groin. Meanwhile, your scrotum was developing ready to receive them. About a month or two before birth, the testicles normally complete the journey by descending into the scrotum.
In 2–4% of boys, one testicle doesn't make the journey from the back of the abdomen to the scrotum before birth. Instead, it becomes stuck inside the abdomen or at the groin. This is why it is called 'undescended testicle'. No one knows why it happens. It is more common in premature babies.
Most babies with undescended testicle do not need any treatment – in 2 out of 3 cases the testicle will come down naturally before the baby is 3 months old. If not, the baby will usually need an operation to bring the testicle down. This should be done between 6 and 12 months of age (Seminars in Pediatric Surgery 2010;19:215-24).
What to do if you have only one testicle
If you are a teenager or an adult with an undescended testicle you should definitely see your doctor. Your doctor should refer you to a hospital specialist (urologist). There is no need to feel at all embarrassed, because all doctors know this is a problem that needs attention. There are at least several issues that you will need to discuss with the urologist.
Testicular cancer. An undescended testicle is slightly more likely to develop cancer than a normal testicle. The risk is roughly 1 in 2000. (The risk of testicular cancer in all men is about 1 in 100,000.) In fact, cancer of the testicle is almost always curable, partly because men easily notice a lump on their testicle and therefore it is caught at an early stage. But if the cancer develops in a testicle that is hidden up in the abdomen, it will be difficult to detect. A testicle that has become stuck in the abdomen is unlikely to be producing sperm, so the urologist may suggest that you have an operation to remove it, to prevent it becoming cancerous in the future. This is a complicated decision, which you will have to discuss in detail with the urologist. It may depend partly on your age; cancer of the testicle is most common in young men, so after the age of about 32 years the risk of the operation may outweigh the likelihood of getting cancer and it might be better to do nothing, but your urologist will advise you.
Fertility. If you have only one testicle you may be worrying about fertility. Although the undescended testicle probably isn't doing much, you need not be too worried because your other normal testicle is likely to be producing many millions of sperms.
Torsion. An undescended testicle is not firmly anchored, and can become twisted on the tissues that surround it. This is called 'torsion'. Episodes of torsion are very painful. So if you have abdominal pain as well as an undescended testicle stuck in the abdomen, your doctor will need to consider the possibility of torsion.
Testicular implants. If having an empty scrotum on one side bothers you, you can ask the urologist about having an artificial implant to give the appearance and feel of a normal testicle. These are either silicone, or a silicone bag filled with saline (similar to a breast implant).
Written by: Dr Margaret Stearn
Edited by: Dr Margaret Stearn
Last updated: Tuesday, April 2nd 2013
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Posted by Optional on 20/12/2014 at 02:06
I am 62 years old man and have always had testicals that stay close up against my body and do not hang. I also suffer with bloody ejaculation at times. I was told that there is a flap near my prostrate that malfunctions and should just live with it? Help
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The central figure on this pendant represents the oba, or king, of Benin flanked by important court officials. The scene symbolizes support for the oba, who in turn sustains the nation. The pendant was worn by the oba on a belt around his waist at state events.
- Culture: Edo
- Medium: Copper alloy
- Place Made: Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
- Dates: mid-16th-early 17th century
- Dimensions: 8 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/4 in (20.3 x 15.9 x 5.7 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of Africa
- Museum Location: This item is on view in African Storage Annex, East Gallery, 1st Floor
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- Accession Number: 1998.38
- Credit Line: Gift of Beatrice Riese
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- Caption: Edo. Waist Pendant with Oba and Two Attendants, mid-16th-early 17th century. Copper alloy, 8 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/4 in (20.3 x 15.9 x 5.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Beatrice Riese, 1998.38. Creative Commons-BY
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In a study of 5,717 people with heart failure, the hospitalization rate for the 273 who had their medications reviewed by doctors and pharmacists was 45 percent lower than the hospitalization rate for the others, whose medicines did not undergo a collaborative review.
People in the study averaged about 82 years old. Those who had their medicines reviewed were slightly sicker and, on average, had more health problems in addition to heart failure than the others -- eight vs. seven.
During a year-long follow-up, 5.5 percent of the people in the medication-review group were hospitalized, compared with 12 percent of those in the no-review group.
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The 37-year-old Forsberg, who is considering a comeback with the Avalanche, ruled out any chance of his being back when Colorado hosts the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2013 - Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ is revered throughout the world. However, her amazing life has not been featured on the big screen -- until now.
Ignatius Press will release MARY OF NAZARETH, a major motion picture on the life of Our Blessed Mother, for sponsored theatrical screenings across the country beginning in October. The North American premiere will take place in San Francisco on October 11 featuring the stunning actress who portrayed Mary in the film, Alissa Jung, and well-known Marian expert Father Donald Calloway, MIC.
"Ignatius Press is very excited to bring to the silver screen this incredible new epic feature film on Our Lady, MARY OF NAZARETH," said Ignatius Press Director of Sales and Marketing Anthony Ryan, "Produced by the same European studios who have made such other high-quality films with profound spiritual depth like Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine, Pope John Paul II, Bakhita: From Slave to Saint and Padre Pio: Miracle Man, this powerful film on the life of Mary will provide deep inspiration for all who see it on the big screen. Ignatius is very happy to follow in the wake of the theatrical sponsored screening success of Restless Heart to work with faith-filled movie fans everywhere to bring this amazing film on Mary to theaters in their neighborhoods, providing a unique opportunity for inspiring entertainment, strong evangelization and significant fundraising."
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI screened the movie in the Apostolic Palace in 2012, and was touched by the portrayal of Mary so movingly revealed on film. He commented that "it is not easy to characterize the figure of any mother, because the riches of the maternal life are difficult to describe, but this is even more challenging when it comes to the Mary of Nazareth, who is the mother of Jesus, the Son of God made man."
Unlike many faith-based films that open in limited release around the country and often don't make it to cities and towns with significant interest, MARY OF NAZARETH is available for showing anywhere in North America. Individuals, parishes, church groups or other organizations can arrange to bring this epic film to their towns immediately. There are currently close to 250 screenings in various stages of planning. Interested groups and individuals work with local theaters and other venues to rent a screen, and Ignatius provides a copy of the film with a complete promotional kit for an affordable fee.
An exclusive trailer of the film is available online now at www.MaryFilm.com. For more information or interviews, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or email@example.com).
To bring MARY OF NAZARETH to a theater in your area beginning Oct. 1, please inquire via email through Carmel Communications at screenings@carmelcommunications.
Ignatius Press will host the MARY OF NAZARETH premiere at 7 p.m. PT Friday, Oct. 11 at the AMC Metreon 16, 135 4th St #3000, San Francisco, CA 94103. Alissa Jung, the German actress who stars as Mary in the film, and Fr. Donald Calloway, author of UNDER THE MANTLE: Marian Thoughts From a 21st Century, who has endorsed the film, will attend the premiere, and be available for a Q-and-A following a screening of the movie.
About the Film
MARY OF NAZARETH vividly captures the essence of Mary's profound faith and trust in God amidst the great mysteries that she lived with as the Mother of the Messiah, her compassionate humanity and concern for others, and the deep love that she and Jesus shared for one another. This movie underscores her special role in God's plan for our redemption, her unique relationship with Christ, and the tremendous suffering that she endured in union with his passion and death, as well as her serene joy at his Resurrection.
Filmed in Europe, this major new epic film on the life of Mary is the first full-length feature movie on the story of this incredible woman to be shown in theaters. It was shot in English in high definition.
MARY OF NAZARETH is directed by acclaimed European film director Giacomo Campiotti (BAKHITA, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, ST. GIUSEPPE MOSCATI) and written by Francesco Arlanch (RESTLESS HEART, PIUS XII, POPE JOHN PAUL II). The original music score was written by Guy Farley.
About Ignatius Press
Ignatius Press is among the largest U.S. publishers and distributors of Catholic books, magazines, videos, DVDs, and music. It is the primary English-language publisher of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's books.
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Book News: Powell's Predicts the Newbery Winner, a More-than-Reliable Wife, and MorePosted by Chris Bolton, January 18, 2010 1:10 pm No Comments Filed under: Book to Film.
- When You Listen to Us: The Powell's City of Books Kid's Team hates to brag about its own awesomeness. Fortunately, I'm not nearly as modest. Check out the Kid's Team's comment on our page for Rebecca Stead's YA novel When You Reach Me:
When You Reach Me is lots of different things, but mostly it's the best book we've read all year. And it will be the best book you've read all year. It's part mystery, part sci-fi, part realistic fiction with intertwined stories expertly told. The writing is graceful, and the story is the kind that you won't want to put down until it's done. The revelations at the end are satisfying, but in that bittersweet way since it means that the book is over. Get it before it becomes Newbery Winner 2010 (we predict)!
And guess what? Rebecca Stead won the 2010 Newbery Medal for When You Reach Me! Did they call it, or did they call it?!
Frankly, we're bursting with love for this book. Jill S. (one of the Kid's Team prognosticators) picked When You Reach Me as her #1 on our Staff Top Fives of 2009 page, calling it "one of those great books where it's truly best if you know as little as possible before you start reading."
What's more, we have a Kids' Q&A with Rebecca Stead from last summer.
Congratulations are also due to Jerry Pinkney, who won the 2010 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse, and Libba Bray, who took home the Michael L. Printz Award for Going Bovine. These and LOTS of other winners were announced at the American Library Association's midwinter conference in Boston this weekend (read 'em all right here).
(Big Whoops to Random House for tweeting the winners in advance. Little too fast on those tweets, fellas!)
Maybe next year we should have a contest to see if our Kid's Team can keep its lucky streak going.
- Second Honeymoon: Another Powell's favorite, Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife, is burning up the bestseller lists and looks like another Water for Elephants-type smash. We can't think of a more deserving book.
Click here to read the Powells.com interview with Goolrick.
And don't miss Goolrick's reading at Powell's City of Books on February 5th!
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- Neil Gaiman gets the New Yorker treatment. Finally.
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- No matter how macabre your work might be, a headline like "Death becomes Niffenegger" must unsettle any author, even Audrey Niffenegger.
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When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead
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The new CBS Poll shows 47% for Bush, 45% for Kerry out of likely voters. 78% of voters say this election is more important than past elections. 92% say they are paying very close attention to this election.
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ABC's Jeffrey Kofman notes that today Al Gore urged people to vote early in a robo call. He says there is a lingering sense that the thousands of votes cast in 2000 were not counted. So far this year, the key computer system failed and voting was delayed by two hours in some locations. Democrats don't trust Republican Secretary of State Glenda Hood, so part of the Democratic strategy in Florida will include training hundreds of lawyers. Democrats have already filed numerous lawsuits.
In a very negative package, NBC's Kerry Sanders covered first-day voting problems in Florida. Sanders described that "huge turnout" "caught election officials off-guard," saying "it was not a good start today. The polls opened early. But they stopped almost immediately." In Jacksonville, Sanders continued, "officials opened only one polling place." It "wasn't supposed to be like this." After Sanders closed saying election officials say the problems have been fixed, Brokaw quipped, "we'll wait and see."
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I don't get it.
1. Perry doesn't wrestle the Iowa style...he wrestles his own unique style. ALways has...and it's worked pretty well for him.
2. He went undefeated this weekend didn't he?
3. He took Tann down. That is supposed to be where Tann is far superior, but Perry beat him at that game...he then got on top and rode Tann as if he were a racehorse.
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Fall River is almost 1500cfs below it's normal flows for this time of year. This is putting pressure on water storage on the Henrys Fork and will cause higher than normal flows for the Harriman Ranch opener.
The Salmon Fly hatch has come and gone on the lower sections, but with water levels so low, it's made it difficult to float to take advantage of the hatch. It's purely speculation, but the big bugs may be higher on the river towards Cave Falls. You need to have a Yellowstone Park fishing license to fish there so be prepared.
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The guides are going mostly lower river below the ashton dam so i am thinking that is the hot place use a golden stone dry and drop off some caddis larva nymphs as well as some bead head pheasent tails and princes and hares ears. Some pmd action has been reported yesterday so try using that as well happy fishing to all.
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I am getting on my soap box today, the ice fishing is killing henrys lake fishing there are almost no more hogs in the lake so all bill is catching is like 3.5 lb fish or smaller we have to stop ice fishing the lake it is not good for the fisherman. But in spite of that use black patterns of bills the bh electric black is good also i talked to someone who caught them on the naked lady green and red bill also says canadian blood and canadian red are good.
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Warm River to Ashton fished well considering the traffic with anglers keying in on this section as it remains consistantly good. Smaller fish are activley feeding on the surface. Seems the big fish are not as active as they were a week or two ago, but that should change soon as they get hungry after the Salmon Fly gorge fest.
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The Salmon hatch is going strong now when the sun is out so use a size 4,6 foam body salmon and drop off either a stonefly nymph or some small beadheads from it. The water levels are staying about right upper and lower we are seeing some goldens also so it might pay to put on a golden stone as well and use a small beadhead as a dropper have fun fishing out there.


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