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"You can sense the pirate theme across the landscape, even though there's no water," said Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford. "It's all dried up. It feels more like Tatooine than an ocean. These bandits have really embraced the pirate lifestyle, and there's the legend of a treasure. That kicks off this whole adventure that the players can go on."
The new campaign tasks players with battling new enemies like sand worms, hovering across the terrain in the new sand skiff vehicle and collecting a new currency called seraph crystals. Pitchford said the new campaign was designed with all players in mind - from those who haven't finished the game to the elite who are replaying it again to discover more swag.
The add-on campaign is the first of four that Gearbox Software plans to release over the coming months. Each campaign will cost $9.99 each or $29.99 for a season pass that includes all four levels. Pitchford said other "Borderlands 2" downloadable content, such as the recently released Mechromancer class character Gaige, would be separately available.
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"It is not even one month after launch and sales for `Borderlands 2' have been very strong, and we expect this to translate to a higher install base for the first add-on campaign," said 2K Games marketing director Matt Gorman, who noted the first game's add-on attachment rate was 11 percent higher than the industry average, according to research firm EEDAR.


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by Mark Cipolloni
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July 31, 2004
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Every time we look it seems like a new open wheel racing series is
popping up somewhere. In addition to there being a lot of open wheel series,
racing confuses the customer even more with road racing, oval racing, rally, drag
racing, sports cars, saloon cars, sprint races, endurance races. It's enough to make one's head spin. If we in
the industry are confused, imagine what the customers must think.
The study of mass communications will force you to, sooner or later, stumble
across Al Ries and Jack Trout's polemic 1994 book, "The 22 Immutable Laws of
Marketing", a piece of very ambitious writing that seeks to define the formula for
success in today's globalized economy. It's a must read for anyone who is
interested in business, and a probable dozer for all of those who are not.
Yet given the myriad of tribulations of open-wheel racing's economics today,
seeking help from a couple of marketing gurus seems like a reasonable thought.
On their #7 never-changing law, Ries and Trout warn about the dangers of brand
The authors make their point well by pointing out how Budweiser's overall market
share actually diminished after the company launched variations such as Bud Light;
same thing for GM, that used to sell a lot more cars when it offered fewer models.
The idea is that, when the market is swollen with options that relate to the same
"parent" concept, the latter is weakened rather than strengthened.
Ries and Trout would likely be flipping out on their backs if they ever glanced at
what the market for worldwide open-wheel racing series looks like today.
How about this quick race fan trivia? Name the last race winner of each the
following series:
International F3000
European F3000
Nissan World Series
Toyota Atlantic Championship
Infiniti Pro Series
Formula Nippon
Australian F4000
Not a lot of success? Wait until next year, and you might want to add the GP2
championship, A1 Grand Prix and the rumored Renault-backed Nissan World Series
spin-off. If you look further down the ladder in open wheel you find an even
greater proliferation of open wheel racing series. Star Mazda, Formula Ford (many
flavors), Renault 2000,
Formula BMW, Formula Palmer Audi, F3 (many flavors), Zytek, etc. In go-karting there are
even more categories and divisions.
Now have a look at these numbers:
Starters in most recent event
International F3000
European F3000
Nissan World Series
Toyota Atlantic Championship
Infiniti Pro Series
Formula Nippon
Australian F4000
Rewind your tape back to 1995, the year before the open-wheel split in North
America, and a time when only two of the above series existed (International F3000
and Toyota Atlantic). The closing of the F3000 championship in Magny-Cours saw 26
cars on the grid, the exact same number that lined up at Laguna Seca for the last
round of that year's Atlantic series. That's 52 cars overall - you'd have to count
every starter in almost a whole season's worth of Infiniti Pro racing to get to
this number nowadays.
Of course, this discussion could be expanded to the 26 cars that raced in the 1995
F1 and Indy Car seasons, or the fact that Indy was so competitive that year that
Marlboro Team Penske failed to qualify.
The main point is, the profusion of open-wheel racing series today has done more
to alienate fans than to bring newer audiences to the sport. The fact that there
are more races has only stretched a relatively stagnant audience, and, quite
simply, hurt open-wheel racing as a whole.
Not only is there a dilution of talent and quantity of cars because of so many
series, there is a dilution of the fan base and the sponsor base. And it's not
unique to the lower ranks. Look what happened to Indy Car racing when Tony George
started the IRL. By dividing the sport in half he created two weaker series and
this brand extension has literally killed the sport.
But does the quality of the product decrease with so many "brand extensions"? In
the case of Budweiser, probably not. When open-wheel racing is concerned, though,
the answer given by the number of fans in the stands and in front of their TV sets
is a resounding yes. Slim fields aren't but an expression of lack of sponsor
interest, which for its turn is a reflection of low fan interest. There's a poetic
license to this article's argument; that is, consider open-wheel racing as a
single entity, instead of the multiple, sometimes conflicting interests that
actually govern it.
And fans have lost interest partially because, when there are so many series
around, each one of them seems less important in comparison. For, as Ries and
Trout's #5 law claims, "Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products", and
most fans' overall perception of the importance of open-wheel racing has dwindled,
no matter how good the on-track product still is.
Then again, the gurus' #2 commandment states that "If you can't be first in a
category, change the nature of the category or set up a new category you can be
first in" - pretty much what every honcho in open-wheel has seemingly being trying
to do for the past few years.
Apparently, not even marketing experts can grasp the logics of open wheel racing
these days.
What's the solution? Eventually simple economics will put some of
the series out of business, but then new ones will pop up.
Maybe someone, someday, will put together a summit and call the
leaders of all the open wheel series together to address this serious issue. One
topic on the agenda should be - What series can, and should be combined?
Just getting them talking about it might lead to some much needed mergers.
And it can't happen soon enough.
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The state's high court issued an order declining to delay the release of the sealed documents, which are related to a lawsuit contesting the will of a woman who left $60 million to the Legion. The Legion had argued that the records should remain under court seal because their contents could taint a future jury.
The documents could be available as early as Friday.
The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Providence Journal and the National Catholic Reporter had asked a Superior Court judge to unseal the documents, saying there was no justification to withhold documents that could shed light on the Legion's operations. Last month, the judge ordered the documents to be unsealed, but he gave the Legion until Friday to ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
Depending on how the documents are stored, some could be available Friday, according to Joseph Cavanagh, the attorney for the media organizations.
"Our issue is to find out exactly what records are there and in what format," he said.
In a statement, the Legion said it was "disappointed" that the documents are being unsealed. Legion spokesman Jim Fair said the Legion wouldn't fight to keep them under seal any further.
"There are yards of documents," Fair said. "It's done. They're public. This ends the debate."
The Legion, founded in Mexico City in 1941, calls itself a religious congregation of pontifical right and says its mission involves "extending the Kingdom of Christ in society," according to its website. The Vatican took over the Legion in 2010 after determining that its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, had sexually molested seminarians and fathered three children by two women.
The Legion, which has facilities in Rhode Island, has faced other complaints, including one from a Connecticut man who claims to be Maciel's son. Another Connecticut man has alleged the Legion used predatory means to persuade his ailing father to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the Legion says it doesn't pressure anyone to make a contribution.
The will of Gabrielle Mee, who died in 2008, is the focus of the current case. Mee's niece Mary Lou Dauray had sought to challenge the will, saying Mee had been defrauded by the Legion into leaving it her fortune. The judge last year threw out the challenge because he determined the niece lacked standing, and her attorney plans to appeal.
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Six ideas next-generation leaders have for transforming government.
The next generation of government leaders is coming. With the retirement tsunami finally beginning, more and more government agencies are seeing their generation X and Y employees move into leadership roles.
So what are these young leaders passionate about? What inspires them, and where are they interested in making changes?
Luckily for you, I have some answers.
GovLoop recently held a speaker contest for its Next Generation of Government Training Summit that's being held July 25-26 in Washington, D.C. It was fascinating to sort through the 100-plus entries and 15 finalists spanning more than 50 different federal, state and local government entities.
While analyzing the submissions, I observed six major trends:
1. Why Government Matters — Numerous entries focused their proposed talks on why government work matters. These talks often focused on how government is perceived and how we need to show the public the good work government does. Proposals such as "How to Love Your Government Career" and "The S.O.U.L. in Public Service" provided insight regarding how to tap into government's mission.
2. Perseverance — Another common theme was the difficulty of change and innovation in government. Multiple submissions proposed sessions on how to navigate bureaucracy, influence without authority and create successful change initiatives. These sessions consisted of everything from changing the analytical culture of a statistics agency to creating a change campaign in a CIO shop. As IT leaders, we all know that the technology is the easy part; the difficulty is in the change management.
3. Power of New Approaches — Many submissions shared a case study of how new technology had radically changed an agency, whether it was social media, big data, mobile technologies or a new analytic approach. Others discussed taking new approaches to making changes, including a proposal on the power of improvisation in government work and the value of design thinking to transform delivery.
4. Mission Focused — The breadth of government is extensive, and it was amazing to see the diversity of submissions that were entirely mission focused. There were countless new ideas and approaches to solve very specific mission problems from sessions discussing all-hazards emergency preparedness at zoos to a proposal on biomimicry to a new model for agency learning.
5. Overcoming Adversity — I was impressed with the number of leaders who already had overcome adversity in their careers. One proposed session, called Overcoming Obstacles, featured a young government employee who prevailed after years of injuries from an incident in which his federal vehicle was hit by a stolen pickup truck that was being chased by a police task force. Other proposals consisted of a public official who became the first openly gay elected representative in his state to a former convict who now helps lead reintegration efforts of former inmates from state and local prisons.
6. New Ways of Working — Young leaders also were excited about new ways of working. Sessions had topics like "Work Smarter, Not Harder" and proposed rethinking how government agencies do internal collaboration and how to take a human-centered design approach to learning. Others included how a fellowship program is creating a cohort of sustainability experts across an agency, and how an employee launched an internal mentoring program across departments to facilitate collaboration.
I'm enthused to see what the next generation of leaders brings to government. As we deal with shrinking budgets, increasing citizen demands and an aging workforce, we need fresh ideas and energy to solve these challenges. The good news is: Your next leader is probably already in your agency. You just need to tap into that creativity and focus it on mission results.


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It's a long way to the ground from the back of a horse when you're just a little kid but a group of special needs children are learning to be excited about riding.
Lamar County's Conservatory for the Arts has begun a program of therapeutic riding for special education students from Lamar and several surrounding counties.
Matthew Blevins of Milner listens to instruction from Gretchen Ahrens at the therapeutic riding class of Lamar's Conservatory for the Arts. Ahrens is director of the Camp Calvin Equestrian Center, chosen by conservatory director Trish Henry for professionalism and attention to safety. Matthew is waiting for the helpers to lead "Buck" out of the mounting area so he can get started.
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10/6/2011 Update – A true visionary and leader in his field, we honor Steve Jobs (1955-2011) for his contributions and celebrate the tremendous impact he has had on the world. A reminder that we have a long way to go in the field of pancreatic cancer treatment. He will be deeply missed.
Most of you have probably heard the news that Steve Jobs has stepped down as Apple's CEO. As he puts it, "I've always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come." Jobs' resignation comes not as a surprise to most. He was diagnosed with a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2003 after doctors found his islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a pancreatic cancer type that affects only about 2,000 of the 43,000 (~5%) people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year.
After receiving his pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer diagnosis, Jobs underwent surgery known as a pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure) in 2004 to remove his cancer. The Whipple procedure involves removing a portion (the head) of the pancreas along with several surrounding organs, with the intent of rendering the patient cancer free. While it is a complex operation with substantial risk of complications and even death, for some patients with cancers of the pancreas like Jobs, it may provide the only hope for a cure.
The outcomes of the Whipple procedure are largely dependent on the unique circumstances of the patient, the tumor, and the expertise of the surgical team performing the procedure. What is known, however, is that survival rates from the Whipple procedure are higher at hospitals that specialize in this type of surgery. A recent study of the Whipple procedure reported in The New England Journal of Medicine found that operative mortality rates to be four times higher at low-volume hospitals (16%) than at high-volume hospitals (3.8%). Emory Healthcare is home to one of few of the Southeast's high volume Whipple procedure programs, having performed 119 Whipple procedures in 2010 alone.
We know the risks and we know what it takes to reduce them. Emory has created a clinical pathway for Whipple procedure patients, making sure every step is taken to support quality outcomes and increase the hope for survival from cancer of the pancreas. A minimally invasive approach may be an option for selected patients who are in need of this operation.
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You can hear more about Steve Jobs, his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment options in this CNN video interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. David Kooby of Emory.
Learn more about how Emory is improving outcomes for patients needing the Whipple procedure and more about the program, or check out the video below:
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Rethink Robotics is giving researchers an ability to get up close and personal with its Baxter industrial robot, with a new research version they can use to build custom software and applications for the robot.The Baxter Research Robot — a two-armed humanoid robot much like its commercial counterpart and with the same $22,000 price tag — includes a software development kit designed for ROS, the Robot Operating System standard on which Baxter runs.
Developers can use the software to develop custom applications that leverage the robot's built-in sensors, such as cameras, force, sonar, and rangefinder."Our goal with launching the Baxter Research Robot is to offer an affordable system for researchers to develop apps to perform a myriad of tasks," Mitch Rosenberg, Rethink's vice president of marketing and product management, told Design News in an email:
Of course, many researchers will be manufacturing engineering teams at large manufacturers. We're ultimately hoping our introduction of an open hardware platform will result in big ideas in terms of software applications and end effectors, much like software did for computers and apps for smartphones. The possibilities are limitless.
The hardware for the research version of Baxter is exactly the same on both versions of the robot; the only difference is in the software that is installed, Rosenberg told us. While the manufacturing version of Baxter is pre-programmed for training in industrial work, the research version comes with the SDK, giving developers a blank canvas to program the robot. Developers can communicate with Baxter's development workstation via an Ethernet connection and a network address, Rosenberg said.
Though he wouldn't venture to guess what kind of applications might come from offering a programmable Baxter to the research community, Rosenberg said there are a number of aspects of the robot's functionality that can be developed using the SDK. "Researchers are able to focus on fundamental goals such as object manipulation, human-robot interactions, collaborative robotics, robot adaptation to changes in its environment, and arm trajectory planning."
Researchers at MIT and Tufts, among others, are already working with the Baxter Research Robot.
Rethink Robotics unveiled Baxter last year and positioned the robot as a major step forward for industrial robot design. Key to Baxter's design is its more humanoid appearance and ability to work safely alongside humans on the factory floor by sensing its environment through built-in software and sensors. The robot also is easy to train, so it can take on an assortment of tasks. Traditionally, industrial robots have looked more machine-like, often have to be caged off to protect human workers from any possible malfunction, and are programmed to perform one specific function.


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The Illinois Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a World Gym franchisee group, claiming that the company charged members for dues after its facilities closed.
The office of Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed the complaint on May 30 in Cook County (IL) Circuit Court. The suit specifically names World Gym-Willowbrook Inc. and its owners, James Mecha and Diane Vassolo, along with American Service Finance Corp., Highlands Ranch, CO, which does business as ASF International.
Madigan says that World Gym franchisees and ASF charged members at least $100,000 for dues and fees for several months after the Chicago-area World Gyms closed. Of the World Gyms in question, the Elgin, IL, facility closed in May 2011, the Norridge, IL, facility closed in June 2011 and the Plainfield, IL, facility closed in July 2011, according to the complaint. Members of those closed gyms were directed to other World Gyms located as far as 22 miles away in Montgomery and Des Plaines, IL, and were still billed for memberships, the attorney general's office claims.
According to the attorney general's office, when members refused to pay, World Gym-Willowbrook sent the accounts to First Credit Services Inc., a third-party debt collector.
The World Gym franchisees and their lawyer did not respond to calls by Club Industry for comments. However, included in the attorney general's complaint is a letter dated Dec. 15, 2011, from Mecha's attorney, Leigh Roadman, to Assistant Attorney General Vijay Raghavan. In the letter, Roadman addresses a conversation he had with Raghavan about a subpoena issued to Mecha by the Consumer Fraud Bureau on Nov. 14, 2011. Roadman writes that if Mecha were to appear in response to the subpoena, he would assert his Fifth Amendment privileges in response to questions put to him.
ASF International's policy is to stop all member billing as soon as it finds out that a club has closed, says Tamara Valdez, the executive vice president of marketing for ASF International. If another facility is honoring the memberships, the company directs the members there and continues processing. If no facility is offered, all activity is stopped.
Some issues with this World Gym group began to surface last fall, Valdez says. ASF International then had a conference call in January with the attorney general's office, which Valdez says was not receiving a response from the World Gym franchisees.
ASF International has been cooperating with the attorney general's office, providing information about its billing practices, how it handled the club closures, member cancellations and refund requests, she says.
"After communication on all sides, we were left with the understanding that the gyms and the attorney general's office would negotiate the complaints and find a solution," Valdez wrote in an email to Club Industry. "Now, the issue has returned."
Ten consumers filed complaints with the Attorney General Office from the more than 2,000 members affected by the gym closings, according to the filing.
Many members were happy with the new facilities, have been attending and continue to pay for their memberships, ASF says.


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Famed Kansas Dwight D. Eisenhower perhaps said it best when he proclaimed: "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army or in an office."
So when you begin to question a leader's integrity and ability to make wise decisions, what do you have to build from? Nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Take, for instance, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. He's been heavily bombarded with requests for him to submit his resignation as the leader of one of Canada's largest cities.
Why, you ask? Ford has admitted to smoking crack cocaine a year ago while being in a drunken stupor. Those aren't the words we are using, but the words Ford, himself, used.
Seems to be an easy case. A leader with strong integrity and a forward-pointing moral compass would admit to the transgressions, offer his or her resignation and begin putting their crumbling life in order.
Not so for Ford. Instead, he's continuing to stand his ground -- and taking much-deserved heat for that stance.
"I understand the embarrassment that I have caused. I am humiliated by it," Ford said while being questioned Wednesday by Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong.
"I'm most definitely keeping this job. I am not leaving here. I'm going to sit here and going to attend every meeting."
Interesting, to say the least. Ford has admitted to smoking the illegal drug, but testifies he doesn't have an addiction problem.
That might be true, but what about the lack of integrity? The smartest thing for Ford to do is to resign amid the controversy and let the city go back to savoring the love of hockey and waving their maple leaves until they are crazy.
Instead, those in Toronto are looking at the top of city politics and wondering if Ford's hearing them clearly -- or hearing voices during a drunken stupor.
Additional details recently released link Ford to a "crack house," where he was photographed with gang members, and information about staffers purchasing alcohol regularly for him.
It also includes Ford saying he was "out of control" drunk during St. Patrick's Day 2012.
In what should be an open-and-shut case allowing Toronto to move forward, Ford won't relinquish his title. He's even vowed to try for re-election. He believes he's a "positive role model for kids who are down and out."
We're not saying that isn't true -- sometime in the future. But Ford needs to get his personal life in order before making Toronto even more of a laughingstock when it comes to politics.
Ford might be able to turn his life around. But right now, he's falling through a large crack -- no pun intended.
If he wants to show integrity as a leader and be a role model, Ford should resign his position and get his life in order. Then, he can decide if a life in politics is where he belongs -- or if he is better suited for the "crack house."
We only hope he choses the former.
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This is a post I wrote almost three months ago. But I wasn't very happy with it, and ended up letting it sit around as a draft. Every few weeks I would come back to it hoping to edit it into something I was happy with, and every week I gave up and moved on to other projects. Since there's been little hard information about the final changes we'll be seeing in 5.2, I forced myself to sit down and turn this blog post into something useful.
Mists has dramatically changed the way many of us approach our play time in World of Warcraft. Between dailies, reputation grinds, charms, multiple LFRs, challenge modes, item upgrades, and everything else, the game at level 90 feels vastly different from the way it did upon reaching level 85 in Cataclysm. In many ways, that's a good thing. More content means you'll rarely log on and realize you have nothing to do.
However, I want to look at something you won't often see discussed on a theorycrafting blog: alternate characters, or "alts." Mists has the distinction of being the most alt-unfriendly expansion to date, which is unfortunate for those of us that like to level and raid on multiple characters. And while Blizzard has done a number of things to help mitigate the problem, the central issue really hasn't been addressed well enough. And that issue is the rate of accrual of valor points.
First, let's make it clear that I'm coming at this from the perspective of a player that prioritizes their main. Each week, I'm going to do everything I feel that I need to in order to keep Theck "topped off" for raiding. That primarily means that I'm capping valor on Theck every week. Since I'm exalted with all of the relevant Mists factions, we can ignore them, but keep in mind that when I first wrote this article I was still doing Operation: Shieldwall dailies, and before that I was doing faction dailies to reach exalted reputation. If I didn't already have a bankroll of over 1400 Lesser Charms of Good Fortune, I might still be doing dailies to keep up with those.
Furthermore, I'm the sort of player that really enjoys playing alts. Not just the process of leveling them through the content (in fact, that part has become increasingly tedious as quest progression has become more linear in Cataclysm and Mists), but gearing them and raiding on them. In Cataclysm it was common for me to be participating in a weekly alt raid in addition to our normal weekly raids, and the occasional "ghetto alt" raid on other off-nights. I really enjoy learning and mastering new classes, especially when it comes to raiding.
Both of those those factors color the way I experience and feel about the game. And I'll be the first to admit that what would make the game better for me isn't necessarily what makes the game better for everyone else. Nonetheless, I think it's worth exploring the ramifications of the new valor point system on a player of my persuasion.
The "Valor Plateau"
In previous expansions, there was a distinct cycle to a player's involvement throughout an expansion. When a new raid tier or patch arrived, it generally added new stuff to do, and most importantly new reasons to care about valor points. Generally, those reasons were valor point gear rewards, and for a long stretch of time that included tier items. A patch might also introduce new reputations to grind, or new dailies to do (or both), or other new "stuff" like quest lines, pets, or what have you.
And the response of a raider was predictable: you'd log in and do a bunch of that stuff on your main character for a few weeks. Valor accrual was the most important part of those activities – if you considered yourself a serious raider, you were making sure to cap your valor point income each week during that period to make sure you got your hands on that new gear as soon as possible. If you weren't already clearing enough raid bosses to cap each week, you were out there running heroics to make up the difference.
However, a month or two into the tier, the situation became totally different. By that point, you had all of the valor gear you wanted, and it wasn't as critical to reach the cap. If you got there just from raiding, great; if not, all you missed out on was a little extra gold from selling bind-on-equip valor gear on the auction house.
I'm not sure that anyone's coined a term to describe this effect. Certainly, the game designers working on the game must have a technical term to describe this ebb-and-flow effect. But I don't know what it is, and for lack of a better term, I've taken to calling it the "valor plateau." The reasoning is pretty simple: there's a certain valor threshold you need to reach to obtain all of the items you want, and after that point the importance of valor swiftly drops off. If you plotted "valor spent on character power" against time, you'd see a line that increases steadily in the first month of a patch and then suddenly flattened off – hence a "plateau."
This phenomenon is mirrored in the game in other ways. Guilds push very hard to clear raid tiers early on, and strong guilds eventually get all of the bosses to a "farm" state, often reducing their raiding hours in response. Players grind reputation with a faction to get to exalted, and then put them aside until the next rep grind presents itself. There's a distinct flurry of activity followed by a period of rest and respite.
But the new item upgrade system eliminates that cycle and replaces it with a constant player power treadmill. There's no longer a point at which valor becomes irrelevant until the next tier, because you can continue upgrading your gear to prepare for the next raid tier. The system turns a temporary period of grinding into an eternal one.
And I don't know if that's a good thing, especially for players like me. There's a lot of value in that period of rest and respite, and perhaps that's been overlooked by the developers. Those periods let you recharge your batteries, take a break, and do something different. For someone like me, that could mean leveling or gearing an alt. Or it might just be extra time you can use to do other things – spending time with family, knocking out another game that you've been meaning to get to, doing some theorycrafting that you've been putting off, or any number of other things. No matter what, it's a break from the focused power grind that occurs following a patch – a reward of downtime for your early efforts. And its an important part of preventing raider burnout.
Players will put up with a temporary grind because they know it's temporary, especially when it coincides with things like new content which would be encouraging them to play more anyway. But once it becomes an obligation, something they need to do every week in perpetuity, it stops being as tolerable. It becomes something all of us have dreaded since we were kids: chores. Want to keep your character at peak performance? Gotta keep doing your chores, kiddo.
Now, it's not exactly hard to cap valor. You get 640 points from a full clear of tier 14. The remaining 360 points can be made up with 4 LFRs, or 4 daily heroics and a daily scenario, 72 dailies, or any permutation of the above that adds up to 360. But that's still on the order of 4 hours worth of effort in addition to whatever it takes you to clear T14. For my guild, that's about 8 hours (less, really, since a large chunk of that would be heroic progression). So the expected time on Theck per week just based on valor alone is about 12 hours.
As you can imagine, that sort of cuts into the time for alts. Four hours isn't a huge time commitment, but it's still 4 fewer hours I can be spending leveling, gearing, or raiding on an alt. Four hours is an entire evening of alt raid, for example. And that's for me, a player who easily spends 20 hours a week or more on this game. It only gets worse if you're in a guild that raids more nights per week and/or clears fewer bosses.
But no matter what, it means that I play the game a little differently. In prior expansions, I may have logged in on Theck for 10 minutes a day to handle auctions, and then gone off and done something else on an alt. Now, I plan on spending an hour or more on Theck to knock out some valor points early in the week, which often precludes me from getting around to much else on an alt.
And woe unto you if you like to raid on two characters and want to cap valor on both. For the first few months I was trying to cap valor on my warlock as well, to prepare her for alt raids together. The Valor of the Ancients buff certainly helps with that, but even 50% increased valor gain isn't enough to make it an easy process. I was actually doing something rather tricky lately to try and optimize my time expenditure.
Rather than capping Valor on Theck first, I would cap valor on my warlock first by running five LFRs and a number of heroics, scenarios, and daily quests. I make a mad dash to cap valor on the warlock between Tuesday and Friday. Then, when I raided on Friday and Saturday nights with Theck, I got to take advantage of the 50% valor bonus and turn that 640 valor points into 960 valor points, which is easily enough to cap on top of the few dailies I end up doing in the course of a week. But that only worked because our raid nights are so late in the week – if your raid nights are earlier or more scattered, you're pretty much out of luck (though you might be able to reverse the process if all of your raid nights are early in the week).
You might think that I feel similarly about the reputation grinds in Mists, but in fact, I don't. While the initial grind was pretty rough, it was mostly because of the sheer number of Golden Lotus and Klaxxi dailies. The Shado-Pan and August Celestial dailies were fine, and I think that if the Golden Lotus and Klaxxi dailies had been done similarly there wouldn't have been much complaint at all. Four quests a day per faction isn't unreasonable, even if you're doing all four of those factions. But most importantly, all of those reputation grinds were temporary. Now that I'm done with them, I get to sit back and relax – the plateau effect is still there.
And once you're doing the grinds on an alt, they're incredibly tolerable – you can now be friendly with Shado-Pan and revered with Klaxxi just by questing an alt to 90. I decided to do the Cloud Serpent grind on my warlock, and was surprised to find that I could go from Neutral to halfway through Revered in the very first day of questing. It was surprisingly painless, and felt really good – I'd spent so much time doing those same quests on Theck, so it only felt right that I should be able to fast-forward through it on my alt. All in all, apart from the Golden Lotus fiasco, I think they've got reputation in a pretty good place for alts.
Putting The "Or" Back In "Valor"
It's clear from the discussion above that the extra time invested in your main comes at the cost of time to spend on alts. If I have time to run 3 or 4 LFRs a week, and I need the valor, I'm going to be running them on Theck rather than an alt. And there's a limit to how many times you can stand running LFR a week too – I'm going to be far less likely to hop into LFR again on an alt even if I do have the time. The same could be said of heroics, to some degree. There's a level of attrition with many of the types of content you can participate in for valor points – they're fun the first few times, but get tiring once you've done them too many times a week. The same might even be true of raiding, believe it or not!
But then, what, you may ask, is the solution? How do you provide enough content to satisfy the players who want lots of content for their mains and give raiders the restful period of the valor plateau at the same time? I don't think there's a simple answer to that question, but I do think there's one thing that would help immensely: buff valor gains across the board. Instead of 40 points for a raid boss, double it to 80. Instead of 80 for the daily heroic, it could be 120-150. 80 instead of 40 for a daily scenario, and 10 instead of 5 for a daily quest. Make valor capping easier and you give players the versatility to do the content they want without reducing the amount of content available.
I don't think that valor capping needs to be hard. Valor is a reward for doing stuff in-game, but it doesn't need to take 12 hours a week just to cap it. Nor does it need to be the vehicle that gets players out into the world. Players who want to do the quest lines and dailies will do them anyway for the reputation and story rewards. Nothing shows that more clearly than the Operation: Shieldwall and Dominance Offensive quest lines in 5.1. For the first time in… well… ever in WoW, I was looking forward to heading off to do dailies, because I knew that in addition to a few monotonous dailies I'd get another chunk of story.
In fact, I'd argue that the entire system could have been streamlined a bit, and each set of dailies could have been built around part of the story. Instead of 5 meaningless dailies and one neat piece of story, I'd rather see the 5 dailies integrated into the story. They did this somewhat with the first step of the Alliance quest line – we have a mine, and we need to clear it out so that the Alliance can harvest ore. But I'd love to have seen it done with the other parts too. On a day where you get a new story chunk, you automatically get the dailies associated with that story. On other days, you might get quests you've already seen ("Hey, you were so helpful when we needed that cave cleared out the first time, would you mind going down there and cracking some more skulls so we can do some more digging?").
But in any event, I'm getting sidetracked here. The main point is that valor can flow a little more freely without having a huge effect on participation. It's certainly good that daily quests and other world activities give valor points, but that doesn't mean valor income needs to be stingy to encourage people to do them. It still boggles my mind that you cannot cap via a full clear of the current tier's content, especially with 16 bosses. Because even if I could cap valor just through raiding I would still be doing some dailies on Theck, either for achievements, reputation, or things like Ironpaw tokens and lesser charms. And perhaps more importantly, faster valor income from dailies would be a huge benefit to players who don't raid regularly. I can't imagine how painful it must be to cap valor primarily through dailies and scenarios.
I think you could make a good argument for lesser charms being more widely available too, for similar reasons. Right now, these charms funnel you into doing dailies because it's the only source (at least until 5.2 rewards them through pet battles, but as someone who hasn't even bothered to try pet battles yet, that's not really helpful to me). Again, it seems counter to the goal of encouraging players to participate in the content they enjoy, though that design intent seems to have fallen by the wayside in a number of other ways in Mists as well. But what would break if you could get some of your lesser charms through raiding, heroics, or scenarios? In fact, it might even be a good way to add an incentive for 25-man raiding: give each boss a chance to drop 5-10 lesser charms, and make the drop rate or amount higher in the 25-man format. The benefit of spending more time on organization and logistics is that you need to spend less time grinding out your 90 lesser charms per week. (Note: remember, this was written before we knew about Thunderforged items).
Staving off Altageddon
In short: Mists has gone a long way to give us more content than ever, and while it's great to have that much content, it has in almost all cases meant that players end up spending more time than in previous expansions to achieve the same goals. It's increased the amount of time you're expected to spend preparing for raids, and subsequently reduced the flexibility in playing alts.
We know that the item upgrades system will be taking a break for 5.2. But I sort of hope it doesn't come back. Or rather, not in its current form. The constant valor-and-dailies treadmill hangs the constant threat of burnout over your raid team, and the item upgrade system is the taskmaster at the controls. I think it's a decent system if valor is easy to acquire, such that it only takes a reasonable time investment. When it takes 12+ hours a week to cap on a single character, it's just more trouble than it's worth.
Note that I'm not even going to invoke the deadly "required" argument here, because that's completely missing the point. Nothing in this game is strictly required, and the definition of "required" ends up being different for different players. You could spend days arguing over semantics without getting anywhere, and you'd have completely wasted your time doing so. Because none of it changes the facts, and it's irrefutable that it takes more time to prepare for raiding in Mists than it has in any previous expansion save vanilla WoW.
And that extra time spent isn't, in general, a good thing in my mind. It reduces the flexibility I have in how I choose to play the game, and gives me less time to do other things in-game that I do find fun. And I think in terms of aggregate statistics, it will end up leading to higher burnout rates for raiders. We may not see it yet, and I attribute part of that to the sheer quality of this raiding tier – it is an excellent tier of raiding all around, and my hat is off to the encounter design team for giving us the best tier of raiding since Ulduar. But I'm not sure that great encounters are enough to counter-balance the lack of a rest/relax period between tiers of content.


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2014 FGS National Conference Call for Presentations
February 6, 2013– Austin, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announces a Call for Presentations for the FGS 2014 Conference, "Gone to Texas," to be held August 27-30, 2014, in San Antonio, Texas. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Texas State Genealogical Society and the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society as local hosts. The deadline for submission of lecture proposals is Saturday, 1 June 2013.
The conference begins with an all-day Focus on Societies program for genealogical society officers, board members, volunteers and other interested parties followed by a three-day genealogical conference in which a variety of topics will be presented.
The program committee seeks proposals for engaging, collaborative and dynamic presentations, workshops and sponsored talks. The categories of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Society Management
- Basic and introductory genealogical instruction
- Methodology and problem solving techniques
- Ethnic research (African American, Czech, German, Hispanic, Native American)
- Technology, software and social media
- Genetics, DNA and family medical history
- Transportation, migration and immigration
- "Gone to Texas" topics
- Southern and western regional topics
Speakers based more than 50 miles from the conference location are strongly encouraged to submit multiple proposals (more than four), as those speakers will be invited to present a minimum of three lectures at the conference. There is no limit to the number of proposals a speaker may submit.
Submission Requirements
Presentations will be one-hour long, which includes a ten-minute question/answer period. Send proposals in Microsoft Word, RTF or similar format. File names should include your last name, first initial, and proposal topic. (Example: SmithR – TechStrategies). Please submit one file per proposed topic. Each proposal document should include:
- Speaker(s) name.
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- Prior speaking experience. Speakers who have not spoken at a national conference are encouraged to submit a video, audiotape, or CD recording of a recent presentation.
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- Speaker(s) abbreviated brochure biography (350 characters, including spaces).
- Lecture title and description for brochure (230 characters combined, including spaces).
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Invitations to speak will be extended between 2 September and 20 September 2013. All submitters will receive notification of their selection or non-selection by 27 September 2013. The deadline for acceptance and submission of signed speaker contracts is 1 November 2013. Syllabus format guidelines will be sent to all speakers upon receipt of their signed contract as every presentation will require materials to be included in the conference syllabus.
For additional guidelines regarding the selection process for FGS 2014, please refer to the supplemental document at http://www.fgs.org/cpage.php?pt=114.
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Zimmerman's lawyers withdraw from shooting case
Updated 9:19 PM ET
(AP) SANFORD, Fla. - Two attorneys for the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin said Tuesday that they have withdrawn as his counsel because they haven't heard from him in days and he is taking actions related to the case without consulting them.
Attorney Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig said at a news conference they haven't heard from George Zimmerman since Sunday. They said that against their advice, Zimmerman contacted the special prosecutor who will decide if he should face charges. A spokeswoman for Angela Corey's office didn't immediately respond to an email and two phone calls.
Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense after following the teenager in a Sanford, a gated community outside Orlando on Feb. 26. He said after he followed Martin for a time, he was returning to his truck when the teen attacked him. He shot the unarmed teen to death during the altercation.
Sonner said they legal team had talked to Zimmerman almost every day the last couple months.
"As of the last couple days he has not returned phone calls, text messages or emails," Sonner said. "He's gone on his own. I'm not sure what he's doing or who he's talking to. I cannot go forward speaking to the public about George Zimmerman and this case as representing him because I've lost contact with him."
Attorney Hal Uhrig said that his legal team is still concerned about Zimmerman, who he said is "not doing well emotionally" and may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
CBS News senior legal analyst Andrew Cohen said that the withdrawal should not impact the investigation. "It will not determine the outcome of the case. But the publicity surrounding today's [announcement] can only help Zimmerman, despite the withdrawal, because it gives these guys a chance to humanize Zimmerman and try to portray him as a sympathetic figure."
The split came as special prosecutor Angela Corey neared a decision on whether to charge Zimmerman with a crime in the Feb. 26 shooting.
That decision could come later this week, as Corey released a brief statement late Tuesday saying she would make an announcement about the case within 72 hours. She did not specify what new development in the case would be released.
The lack of an arrest has led to protests across the nation and spurred a debate about race and the laws of self-defense. Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
Craig Sonner, the first attorney Zimmerman contacted, said he agreed to take the case on a pro bono basis until Zimmerman is perhaps charged.
Sonner said he has never talked to Zimmerman face-to-face and that the 28-year-old man has gone into hiding but that he believes he's still in the U.S. Both attorneys said they'd be willing to represent him again if he asks.
Ben Crump, an attorney for Martin's family, said they're concerned that Zimmerman could be a flight risk if he is charged with a crime since his now-former attorneys don't know how to contact him.
"At this point, we're just concerned that nobody knows where he is at. Nobody knows how to get to him," Crump said.
Zimmerman set up a website therealgeorgezimmerman.com to collect money from his supporters, but the attorneys didn't know about it until they started getting questions from the media, Sonner said.
"I am the real George Zimmerman," the website said. "As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life."
That portrait of his life since the shooting was confirmed by his attorneys.
Sonner said that he stands behind his statements that Zimmerman did act in self-defense, however, "I just can't proceed to represent a client who doesn't stay in contact with me."


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Rael: Messenger of the Elohim
At the age of 27, on the morning of December 13, 1973, while he was still leading his successful racing-car magazine, RAEL had a dramatic encounter with a human being from another planet, at a volcano park in the center of France, known as "Puy de Lassolas". This extra-terrestrial gave him a new detailed explanation of our origins and information on how to organize our future, as recorded in the book: Intelligent Design. After six consecutive meetings in the same location, Rael accepted the mission given to him, to inform humanity of this revolutionary message and to prepare the population to welcome their Creators, the Elohim, without any mysticism or fear, but as conscious and grateful human beings. After a few months considering this huge task, Rael almost developed a stomach ulcer before finally deciding to give up his much loved career as a sports-car journalist and devote himself fully to the task assigned to him by Yahweh - the extra-terrestrial whom he met. Within the year following the encounter, he managed to print the book reporting about the event and appeared on two of the main TV and Radio shows in France, announcing a public conference. This first public conference held in Paris on September 19, 1974 attracted more than 2000 people. Shortly after, he founded the association MADECH - a group of people interested in helping him in his huge task- that would later become the Raelian Movement. By the end of the year 1974, the association counted 170 members. They are now more than 85,000 members in 107 countries.
On October 7th, 1975, he had a second encounter and was given additional information recorded on his second book, also part of Intelligent Design. Since that time, Rael has been touring the World, giving conferences and seminars on every continent, gathering those who share the desire to welcome our Creators.
He also authored several other books like Sensual Meditation which is a central part of his teachings, "Geniocracy" advocating for a more intelligent management of the planet and "Yes To Human Cloning" explaining the possibility of becoming eternal and the beautiful future one can expect thanks to Science.
Over the years, Rael has inspired several public actions from the promotion of the use of condoms in schools to the promotion of masturbation; from worldwide campaigns in support of minorities with the slogan "to tolerate differences is not enough, one should love differences" to the disturbing request to have all Religious books censured where they don't respect Human Rights; from the support of Human Cloning through the founding of Clonaid, to the promotion of GMO as the only chance for all human beings on Earth to have food; from the creation of Clitoraid, an association to help women who have been circumcised to have their clitoris repaired so that they can experience pleasure again to the call for the gathering of all African traditional chiefs to create the United States of Africa.
Rael has been a guest on most of the major TV programs worldwide like 60 minutes, CNN, FOX, and BBC news programs, as well as programs like Breakfast with Frost and Entertainment Tonight, to name a few. He has been invited to explain his vision of science to the American Congress and has been the guests of many leaders of this world, with the President Denis Sassou N'Guesso of Congo being the first to welcome him officially in 2000. Many artists acknowledged him as well like the French author Michel Houellebecq and Hugh Hefner.
In every culture on Earth, a messenger is expected, whether it is the Maitreya of the Buddhists, the Messiah of the Jews, the Paraclet of the Christians, or any other name that has been given by the many tribes around the world. This expected messenger, like all the previous ones, isn't supposed to please everyone, but to state what our Creators are expecting from us. This is what RAEL has been doing for more than 40 years now, traveling relentlessly while making the vow not to own anything, but to give everything towards welcoming our Creators in the Embassy they requested be built before 2035.


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Working for Newcross is entirely flexible, work full or part time hours, flexibility with your rota to fit around your life, all with the security of a permanent job with guaranteed hours and a local line manager. We have a range of shifts available from long days and nights, to evenings and weekends, in a variety of care environments.
As a Registered Nurse, you can access our exclusive Platinum Ticket Invitation, which means you'll receive a free uniform when you join our team, a free DBS check upfront and a £500 welcome bonus after your first 250 hours of work with Newcross*.
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It is important that the ideal applicant is compassionate and caring, providing expert support that allows our service users to live the life they wish to lead with dignity.
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As a Mental Health Nurse (RMN), you will be working closely with patients who can be anxious or confused so a calm approach is vital to establish rapport. Another important aspect of this role is providing support for family and friends of the individual in your care who play a key part in their life.
Our service users come from a range of environments, including specialist mental health nursing homes and private hospitals, however in some instances there are also opportunities for RMNs to work with people with substance addiction, depression and challenging behaviour experience to work with clients in a more long-term capacity.
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This is a great chance for you to improve your skill set with a range of free training programmes available, all provided by Newcross earned through credits as you work. This could include Basic Life Support, BSL or Makaton, Medication Administration, Dementia Care and many more.
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If you want to develop in your career this could be the opportunity for you.
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In the eyes of the law, Karl Hanzel was a water thief. Colorado homeowners who captured and stored water that fell onto their own roofs were considered to be stealing because that water technically belonged to the owners of streams and aquifers beneath the homeowners' properties. If caught, they faced fines up to $500 a day.
Luckily for Hanzel and other homeowners, a change in Colorado law legalizes this kind of water collection. But homeowners in other states who just want to use less tap water still face legal barriers.
In the Southwest, one of the fastest growing regions in the country, water is a precious commodity – one that people are willing to fight over. Water laws, which were created in the 1800s, give those who were first in line for water rights precedence over the rest of the population.
"I struggle to understand the argument for these laws. It doesn't really make sense to me," says Hanzel. "The water that I'm detaining here, I'm not exporting it to Mars … We have a leach field; we water the garden; that water is still returned to the earth … We're just holding some of it for awhile."
Tim Pope, owner of Northwest Water Source and president of the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association, is still in violation of the law. As a Washington state resident, it isn't likely he'll be legally allowed to collect rainwater any time soon. Recent efforts to get minor exceptions to the ban on rainwater harvesting in Washington and Utah failed.
Pope believes it's time that water laws were updated.
"It needs to be based on need — it needs to be based on proper use of water. We don't need to be using drinking water to wash cars and water lawns and gardens and flush toilets," he says.
Also on MNN:
• 2009 legislation: Hits and misses from the Colorado legislature


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My Stavers connection
The first Stavers in my pedigree is 2x great grandmother Margaret Stavers born in 1839 in Seghill in Northumberland. Her father is my 3x great grandfather Peter Stavers born about 1810 or 1811 in North Seaton or Woodhorn in Northumberland. Peter seems to have been a bit of a "bad lad" as I have found two criminal convictions, but I will tell you more about that in another post later. I have a theory that Peter's father may have been another Peter Stavers born about 1874 in Woodhorn, but if this is the case then 3xg granda Peter would appear to be the illegitimate child of a liaison prior to 4xg granda Peter's marriage. If this theory can be proved then my 5xg grandfather would be John Stavers. Further research needed to confirm or disprove these theories.


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Here it is, the exclusive first glimpse of one of the books from the new Apollo Blinds collection ahead of the official launch next week.
We can't show you any more than this at the moment as we're keeping the collections under wraps ahead of the mother of all launches on Wednesday.
Our network of Apollo Blinds guys and gals are travelling from all corners of the UK and Ireland to be the first to see the new collections. The excitement at Apollo HQ is at fever pitch and we're all working flat out ahead of what we hope will be a fantastic launch.
We're effervescent because we've created something special with our new Verticals and Rollers collections. They're that good they'll take your breath away. They're right on the money when it comes to being at the cutting edge of window blind and interior design trends.
The picture above will have to suffice for now but we will be posting plenty more this time next week so you can see for yourself the stunning new collections from Apollo Blinds.


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What happened on io9 this week? A conversation with Resident Evil's Paul W.S. Anderson and retrofuturism from the New York Times circa 1909. Also, here's a video of a guy having a bad trip at a screening of 2001. Enjoy.
The most epic and eclectic costumes from Dragon*Con 2010!
Doctor Who, Star Wars, and steampunk ruled the cosplay world at this year's Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia. But the long weekend had a large mix of costumers of every age. Check out some of the best costumes we came across.
How Canada will become a superpower making the Northern Rim the envy of the world
Although climate change could still have devastating effects for much of the world, some regions stand to benefit immensely. Canada, Scandinavia, and even Greenland could all become economic powerhouses, making "The New North" a very attractive destination.
25 unexpected lessons we can learn from Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected was a long-running DC scifi/horror series that specialized in stories about stuff nobody anticipated would happen. Its covers were also unexpectedly unexpected, and we can learn a lot about expectations just by looking at them. Unexpected.
Watch the ultimate triumph of Starro in Batman: Brave and the Bold season two!
Starro, the giant starfish from outer space, seems unstoppable in this exclusive clip from season two of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. He's got his starfish-controllers on tons of heroes' faces, and Batman is stymied. Another clip below.
Get enchanted with the sexiest witch pin-ups of all time!
Is there anything more glamorous and sexier than a woman with magical powers? Our new favorite blog is Sexy Witch, which posts images of enchantresses from the past 100 years. Check out some of our favorite witchy pin-ups below.
What if RoboCop, the Hobbit and James Bond were all one movie?
MGM's financial troubles are keeping at least three long-awaited follow-ups in development hell: Darren Aranofsky's RoboCop, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and Sam Mendes' James Bond movie. There's only one solution: combine them into one blockbuster movie. Here's how!
Check out Captain America and his sweet, sweet Nazi-slaying motorcycle
A new crop of gloriously patriotic pictures have emerged from Captain America: The First Avenger set showing Steve Rogers, his enemies, and a lot of sexy time period whips.
One notable difference between "The Last Exorcism" and "The Exorcist"
Classic 1970s movie The Exorcist and new horror hit The Last Exorcism both feature reluctant exorcists dealing with crazy teenage girls. But there's one key difference between the movies that reveals how America has changed since 1972.
100 years ago, the New York Times predicted cars would be abolished today
Back in 1909, a fanciful New York Times journalist decided to spice things up by pretending to describe a futuristic 2009 "centennial celebration." His portrait of future NYC is surprisingly eco-conscious and pedestrian-friendly.
"Resident Evil" director Paul W.S. Anderson tells us what female action heroes can do that men can't
Now we know what happens to people who grow up watching the Die Hard series alongside the films of Jean-Luc Goddard. Resident Evil: Afterlife (filmed in 3D!) comes out today.
Finally, here's that video of a fellow having a rough time at a showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles yesterday. Kids, do not mix your Kubrick and your hallucinogens. It will not end well for anybody.
[Video spotted on Nerdcore]


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The White Sox never wanted to be in this spot. Manger Ozzie Guillen has said since September began that if the White Sox were out of the playoff race, the team's Minor League prospects would take the big league field to gain experience for next season while playing in a low-pressure environment. Now, it appears he will make good on his word. With September reaching its conclusion and six games remaining in the regular season, Guillen finds his team eliminated from playoff contention. And no matter how well or poorly the South Siders play to close the year, they will end the season right there. …
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Stockton, CA
Toshiyuki Ishihara
December 4, 1923 - March 10, 2013
Toshiyuki Ishihara passed away March 10, 2013 in Stockton,
California at 89 years of age. He was born in Isleton, California.
"Tosh", as he was known to family members and friends, was a bachelor who lived most of his life in Stockton. He lived most of his early formative years in Stockton, and he graduated from Stockton High School in the summer of 1942 while interned at Stockton Assembly Center during WWII. He was interned with his family at the Rohwer, Arkansas War Relocation Center and later transferred to the Tule Lake, California Center.
During his internment years he was a kitchen worker in the mess halls of the camps. As the war ended, he returned to Stockton and worked on the farms until he was employed as a retail clerk for Tabuchi's clothing store. He was drafted into the US Army as the Korean War broke out. He was trained to serve in the artillery and served 12 months in Korea with an artillery unit. Upon his discharge from military service, he resumed working for Tabuchi's, then was
later employed by George's Red Wing Shoe Store, where he worked until his recent passing.
Tosh was a private person that kept to himself mostly, but he was active in our community doing volunteer work at Stockton Buddhist Church working with the yard crew. He was also a member of the Stockton JACL, participating in some of its activities. He was a member of the Church Senior
Organization, Tomono Kai, and enjoyed participating in its activities.
In his last few years he was a resident of an assisted living facility, Bayside Landing in Stockton, and enjoyed living in a simple, uncluttered setting for seniors. Family members wish to thank the personnel at Bayside Landing for the quality service Tosh received while he was a resident there.
In his active years he enjoyed bowling in the Nisei League, but as he lost interest in bowling he enjoyed his trips to the casinos.
As he lost his ability to drive a car, he relied on family members to transport him to wherever he needed to go.
He was a hard worker that always gave a full measure of himself to whatever he was assigned to do.
Family members want to especially thank George Matsumoto,
Debbie Hatanaka, and Robert
Endow, owners of George's Red Wing Shoe Store for employing Tosh for over 40 years and the Stockton Buddhist Church for allowing Tosh to work as a volunteer for many years. These activities allowed Tosh to experience his self worth as a contributing member of the community and the society that supported him.
He is survived by his brothers, Mike and Setsuko Ishihara of
Yokohama, Japan, Mas and Kimiko Ishihara of Stockton, niece Eunice Ishihara of San Jose,
nephew Leonard and Connie Ishihara of Stockton, and their
children, Lilia, Leah, and Maki.
There will be a private memorial service for Tosh at 11:00 am, March 30, 2013 at Stockton
Buddhist Church. Please sign
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The Coat Merry-Go-Round
One of the beautiful features of religious communal life in Israel is the service provided by the used clothes centers popularly known as gemachim (GEMilAt CHassadim). These centers receive used clothes from local contributors and foreign charitable organizations and distribute them to needy families, or offer them for sale at token prices and then apply the income to other charitable projects.
In their haste to clear their homes of long-unused clothes families sometimes mistakenly place in the packages they bring to centers an item which is currently in use. A woman recently called the Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem branch of the "Beged Yad Leyad" network of used clothes centers to report that she had mistakenly included her young daughters coat in the package she had brought there. She could not afford to buy a new coat and when informed by the centers director that it was virtually impossible to locate her daughters coat in the mountains of clothes to be sorted, the distraught lady put in a request to buy a used girls coat if one turned up in the sorting process. It wasnt long before such a coat became available and reached its happy customer. Then came another call from this lady to the director, laughingly informing her that the coat she received was exactly the one she had mistakenly given away!
Jews visiting Israel are invited to bring along with them used clothes the customs charged makes shipping them impractical and contact Mrs. Sheindel Weinbach at 02-537-2303 for details on delivery.


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