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Bachelor of Social Work degree
The UFV Bachelor of Social Work program prepares social workers for professional practice, reflecting principles of social justice, equality, and respect for diversity. The BSW program has full accreditation with the Canadian Association for Social Work Education (2012-2020). Students graduating with a BSW degree meet UFV institutional learning outcomes and the requirements of the British Columbia College of Social Workers for registration (RSW).
Social work education is a critical process that respects diverse sources and forms of knowledge while encouraging dissent. UFV Social Work faculty are committed to scholarship, including debate on social work and social welfare, with particular attention to how social problems come to be defined and addressed. Program content addresses the structural barriers that prevent people from reaching their full potential. With a commitment to lifelong learning and a critical analysis of oppression, graduates will have the knowledge, skills, and professional social work values necessary to work collaboratively with individuals, families, groups, and communities in diverse and cross-cultural environments. The program contributes to the knowledge base of social work through partnerships with professional and local communities.
All individuals, families, groups, and communities are entitled to be treated with respect, justice, and without discrimination. Faculty seek to provide equitable educational opportunities and participation of those groups experiencing systemic oppression. Valuing our community base, we seek to promote social change.
Graduates will be prepared to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities in a variety of settings, funded by both government and non-government sources, including, but not limited to: child welfare, programs and services for women, immigration and cross-cultural services, family and community services, health care,
mental health, corrections, addictions, services for the elderly, unemployment and income security programs, Aboriginal settings, and services and programs for people with disabilities and special needs.
Entrance requirements
1. Applicants must have 48 general university-level qualifying Arts and Science credits by May 1st of the year of application (see Notes 1 and 3).
2. Students must have an overall GPA of 2.67 for courses applicable to the BSW.
3. These 48 credits must consist of the following (see Note 1):
4. The 48 university-level qualifying Arts and Science credits must include the following (see note 1):
Students who have completed a UFV Community Support Worker certificate or UFV Social Services diploma program
may be eligible to receive a six credit block for the completed certificate and a 12 credit block for the completed diploma. Students who have completed practica within these programs may receive extra points on their application. These 12 credits otherwise can come from any university-level UFV course or UFV assigned transfer credit (100-level or higher).
Note 1: As of September 2015, applicants will be required to have 60 credits by May 1st of the year of application. The 60 credits must include 54 credits of university-level credits (at least 42 credits of qualifying Arts and Science electives).
Note 2: Credit is provided for only one of SOWK 225 or PSYC 250 and one of SOWK 283 or SOC 331.
Note 3: A current list of qualifying Arts and Science courses is available at ufv.ca/swhs.
5. Applicants must have 400 hours of recent (see Note 4), supervised work in human services, either paid or
voluntary, which may include hours in practica.
Note 4: The experience must be within three years of application. It is recommended that students be engaged in volunteer or paid supervised work in human services at the time of application.
6. Readiness for and interest in social work/personal suitability.
7. All applicants must be aware of, willing, and able to uphold the Social Work Code of
Note 5: Please see the Field Placement/Practica regulations and details section below.
Students who do not meet these requirements might consider the Social
Services Studies
program path.
When to apply
Applications are accepted for entrance to the Fall semester only, with an application deadline of January 31. All completed applications submitted by this date will be reviewed. Applications received after this date will be considered only if space permits. See specific intake application
process for more information.
How to apply
1. To be
considered for Fall semester entrance (September), completed applications must
be received by January 31 of the year of application.
2. Upon admission to the BSW program, students will be provided with registration information. A deposit is required upon registration (see the Fees and Other Costs section). This money will be applied toward your tuition fees. Final payment of all course fees is due at the end of the second week of classes.
3. In cases where interim transcripts are submitted, an admission decision may be made conditionally upon completion of academic requirements. Proof of completion of entrance requirements is due at the end of the first week in May for Fall admissions.
Additional documents required for a complete
• UFV Application: submit the application fee, along with the UFV application for admission form, to the Office of the Registrar (OReg). The application form can be printed and submitted or online applications will be accepted at ufv.ca/admissions/admissions/apply.
• Official, sealed transcripts (or interim
transcripts) from all previous post-secondary institutions showing grade/course
achievement as per entrance requirements.
• SWHS Additional Application Information Form detailing your past experience and education (available at ufv.ca/admissions/forms).
• A personal statement (typed, double-spaced, between 800 to 1,000 words in
length) that addresses the following questions:
i. Why do you want to become a social worker?
ii. What kinds of life/work experiences have you had that
contributed to this decision?
iii. What experiences have you had that prepare you for
social work in a culturally diverse environment?
iv. What do you see as the most pressing social problem or
issue facing Canadian society? Why?
• Two recent satisfactory letters of reference from social workers or related
work, practicum, or volunteer supervisors should be submitted with your
application package. These must be on reference forms available from the School
of Social Work & Human Services or they can be original, signed letters on
letterhead, addressing the criteria on the reference forms.
Basis for admission decision
Applications will be reviewed using a point rating system. Complete applications will be evaluated
according to the following categories:
1. Academic experience, including GPA and number of credits (scored out of
40). The higher the applicant GPA on required academic prerequisites, the more points awarded. GPA will be calculated using the UFV grading scale;
2. Work and/or volunteer experience in the human services field (scored out
of 25);
3. Letters of reference (scored out of 10); and
4. Applicant statement (scored out of 25).
Academic regulations
In completing the BSW program, students are required to have:
• a minimum of 60 credits of Social Work (SOWK) courses and a minimum of 60 credits of qualifying Arts and Science courses. (A minimum of 30 upper-level Social Work credits must be completed at UFV.)
• maintain a minimum BSW program GPA of 2.67 for practicum placements and 2.67 for graduation. Students with a GPA of less than 2.67
will be required to withdraw.
• obtain a C or 2.0 or better in each SWHS course. Credits that are over 10 years old may be stale-dated; students should check with the Program Advisor regarding transferability.
Acceptance into the program does not guarantee field placement. A criminal record check completed through the Ministry of Justice is required prior to field placement.
Part-time students may be required to complete additional requirements if it takes them more than five years to finish the third and fourth year courses. In planning their programs, part-time students should make particular note of course prerequisites, corequisites, and sequencing. Consulting with the
Program Advisor before registering into specific courses is recommended. Enrolment to field education courses is particularly dependent on the student successfully completing the appropriate course corequisites and prerequisites.
Students in other degree programs may be granted permission to register in a maximum of two Social Work courses without being in the BSW program. Students must meet the prerequisites for these courses.
Field placement/Practicum regulations and details
All students are required to complete two field placements in the BSW program. Complete policies and procedures are outlined in the BSW Field Education Manual,
available on the SWHS website.
To be eligible to apply for the field placement, the following criteria and requirements apply:
• completion of prerequisites
• BSW program GPA of 2.67
• acceptance into the program does not guarantee the student a field placement. A criminal record check completed through the Ministry of Justice is required prior to field placement.
The Field Education Coordinator will work collaboratively with each student to identify field
placement sites which respond to individual learning interests of students and meet the program
Field placement sites are located in the Fraser Valley and across the Lower Mainland. The School strives to place students in their home communities if possible. Students are responsible for
transportation to field placement sites. Most field placements will require students to have a valid
driver's license and access to an insured vehicle. Students are responsible for maintaining
professionalism in the field placement.
Field placements in the BSW program are set up as block placements during the winter term from January to April. Part-time students do have the option of completing their field placement in the fall term from September to December. Students are expected make themselves to be available to be in the field placement. Third-year field placements require students
to be available for three days (21 hours) per week. Fourth-year field placements require students to be available
for four days (28 hours) per week. Students are required to attend a mandatory bi-weekly
seminar for both third- and fourth-year field placements.
All field placements and field instructors are approved through the Field Education Coordinator. For complete
details, please refer to the BSW Field Education Manual.
Students who have extensive social work experience supervised by a Social Worker prior to admission may be eligible to challenge the third-year field placement. Please refer to the BSW Field Education Manual for application criteria and
approved process.
Note: Admission to the program does not guarantee a field placement. The field placement requires a separate application process and all criteria must be
met including a criminal record check through the Ministry of Justice.
It is the student's responsibility to ensure all program requirements are met. This should be done in consultation with the Program Advisor.
Graduation requirements:
Students must apply for graduation by completing a request to graduate form available at the Office of the Registrar. This must be done no later than April 1, with program requirements completed by April 30.
Program outline
(Subject to change as per CASWE Accreditation Standards.)
Third year
Semester V (Fall)
Semester VI (Winter)
Fourth year
Semester VII (Fall)
Semester VIII (Winter)
BSW students are required to complete a total of six SOWK electives (see below) and two upper-level electives. University-level Arts electives which contribute to the breadth of the student's knowledge should be chosen in consultation with the Program Advisor.
SOWK Group A electives
Students must complete a minimum of two SOWK Group A electives:
SOWK Group B electives
Students must complete four SOWK Group B electives unless they choose to complete all three Group A electives, in which case they are required to complete three Group B electives:
Child Welfare specialization
For program information on the Bachelor of Social Work — Child Welfare specialization,
please see this section.
Certificate in Extended Studies in Social Work:
Child Welfare specialization
Students who have completed the Bachelor of Social Work degree may be eligible to complete the requirements for the Child Welfare specialization.
Please see
section for more details.
Course listings
For complete details on courses see the
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Hopefully Norma or someone else who has done more work with cold fermenting SD will chime in.
Craig,I have worked with cold fermenting SD dough balls and the taste of the pizzas are good, but not as good as when the dough balls are controlled temperature fermented.If Larry wants the link to where Peter helped me with cold fermenting a SD, I can give it to him to look at.Norma
Does 12% starter sound reasonable to you for the fermentation routine he described: "1 hour bulk, two hours in balls then overnight in my cooler. The next day 4 hours to dough temperature of 65 degrees?"CL
going to take pictures. now at replenish stage and tonight at close
i used my starter this week ,not so good. my starter doubled in under 8 hours so i took 20 percent of my flour amount and did a small batch of dough. it took 24 hours for the dough to bulk rise double. i balled it and let it sit 8 hour then made pizza. as i stated it was inedible.the dough was hard to stretch without creating very thin spots that turned into small holes. the pie was doughy and not much rise.what did i do wrong?
craig i used a recipe from john darsky. 14 oz starter, 30 oz h2o, 47 oz flour, 1.25 oz salt.looks like the percentage of starter is way high. if i feed the starter and it doubles do i then remove what i need and proceed??
craig i added flour till it was workable. it was a small batch and did not seem wet.this was a recipe published with his article


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Ripple This: Onsite at Money2020
LAS VEGAS — Here's your problem: You have a pocketful of virtual currency Bitcoin, or maybe it's British pounds, and you need to pay a taxi driver who accepts only Euros or maybe it's yen.
Ready to give up? Don't.
Meet Ripple, the first distributed payments protocol that is currency agnostic, transfers instantly, it's essentially free, and there can be no chargebacks, according to Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple Labs Inc. in San Francisco.
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The occasion was the first Ripple developers conference, held in Las Vegas as a footnote to the Money2020 payments confab this week.
Where Money2020 drew around 4,000, the Ripple meeting attracted maybe 100, but they filled the room that had been allotted and they came with questions about how to make this innovative approach to currency work.
Ripple is to money as SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is to email, said Larsen., and what SMTP does is let email servers communicate with pretty much all other email servers over the Internet.
The Ripple tagline explains the mission: Send money to anyone, anywhere, in any currency.
Ripple is like Bitcoin, sort of. Part of the Ripple ecosystem is a virtual currency – called XRP – that, like Bitcoin, is mathematically defined and operates independently of nation states. A key difference: the Ripple platform is built to allow exchanges from one currency into another, with minimal friction and costs. That includes nation state currencies such as dollars.
"We see remittances as a place where Ripple can make a big difference," said Evan Schwartz, the company's software engineer. "Right now it is extraordinarily expensive (to send a remittance from, say, the U.S. to Mexico or India). With Ripple this would be much lower cost. It's an exciting possibility," said Schwartz.
He added that for just about any merchant Ripple offers an advantage: "You can get paid in any currency, but receive it in your preferred currency," said Schwartz.
The Ripple secret sauce is a platform that effects continuing exchanges among currency holders called "market makers."
Put Canadian dollars into the system and it looks for a market maker seeking them – and an exchange is made. Exchanges keep occurring until, ultimately, those Canadian dollars morph into the desired destination currency – say, U.S. dollars or Indian rupees or whatever.
The Internet, said Larsen, created an easy way to exchange information across borders – and what Ripple is intended to do is create an exchange that allows value to be easily exchanged cross border.
The Ripple exchange, he said, is peer to peer and it runs on trust and a process called consensus that facilitates the currency-to-currency movement.
Know, too, that Ripple has backing from numerous venture capital funds including Google Ventures.
Buzz in at least some circles is that Ripple is the new darling of the techno currency set and is winning support from onetime Bitcoin fans who have been deterred by recent bad publicity.


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What makes some ocean animals more prone to extinction than others? A new study of marine fossils provides a clue.
An analysis of roughly 500 million years of fossil data for marine invertebrates reveals that ocean animals with small geographic ranges have been consistently hard hit -- even when populations are large, the authors report.
The oceans represent more than 70% of Earth's surface. But because monitoring data are harder to collect at sea than on land, we know surprisingly little about the conservation status of most marine animals. By using the fossil record to study how ocean extinctions occurred in the past, we may be better able to predict species' vulnerability in the future.
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Lawyers for Chavis Carter's mother, Teresa Rudd, filed the federal lawsuit on Friday — almost a year to the day after Carter's death.
Jonesboro police have faced criticism about the circumstances surrounding the July 28, 2012 death of Carter. Officers said they searched him twice without finding a gun, but later noticed him slumped over and bleeding in the back of the patrol car.
An autopsy concluded that Carter, 21, shot himself in the head while he was under the influence of meth, but his family last year demanded more answers about his death.
Rudd, whose filed her lawsuit on her behalf and that of her son's estate, is seeking unspecified damages, including money for medical expenses and the loss of his life.
Neither Police Chief Michael Yates nor one of Rudd's attorneys, Darrell O'Neal, responded to phone messages left Sunday.
The two officers named in the lawsuit — Keith Baggett and Ronald Marsh — didn't respond to a message left at the police department either. Online court records didn't list attorneys for any of the defendants.
Police said last year that an internal investigation found no wrongdoing on Baggett's part, but Marsh was reprimanded for not properly searching Carter following a traffic stop. Authorities said two searches of Carter turned up a small amount of marijuana, but no gun.
Both officers were placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting, although Yates said last August that they had since returned to work.
Carter's death ignited questions about race because Carter was black and the two officers involved in the traffic stop are white.
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In December 2010, I wrote an article comparing Walmart to Target, concluding the article by giving a slight edge to Walmart because they were truly the low-cost provider out of the two huge retailers. It should be noted, however, that both companies are great companies and worthy investment vehicles to be considered. Investors are often quite passionate about their choice when choosing between the two.
Today I want to consider two more great companies, Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe's Companies Inc. (NYSE:LOW). It is sometimes difficult to choose between two remarkable companies like these. Perhaps this is why no less than eight guru investors have chosen to hold positions in both.
Ken Fisher
Joel Greenblatt
Mario Gabelli
Ruane Cunniff
Tom Gayner
Robert Olstein
Dodge & Cox
Jean-Marie Eveillard
Further, currently a total of 17 guru investors have taken a position in Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and 13 have taken a position in Lowe's (NYSE:LOW). They are popular stocks with elite investors. As I began my research after choosing these two stocks, I was fearful that we may get down to nothing more than a distinction or likeness between the aprons of Home Depot or the vests of Lowe's. Personally, I'm more of a vest guy.
The economic downturn has been a key factor in some of the lackluster results for these two companies and any further news of increasing unemployment or any deterioration in the housing recover (if you believe in one) will takes its toll on the companies and discourage consumers from maintaining or improving their homes. It has been estimated that just fewer than 25% of homeowners owe more than their homes are worth. This makes home improvement purchases nearly impossible and the potential for any type of equity loan out of the question. This remains a huge risk to both companies.
I have a friend and fellow investor that keeps insisting that the economy has bottomed out and that the near future of these two companies is nothing but upward. In fact, he insists that things will turn around 360 degrees. I always chuckle and remind him the 360 degrees (for any of you that are degree challenged) leads you right back to where you were… the bottom.
When the article about Walmart and Target was written, I displayed a simple chart indicating the size of various companies by market capitalization in order to get a perspective on the incredible size of Walmart in comparison to Target and other leading companies. Oddly enough, I included the two companies we are scrutinizing today. At the time of the article, the market capitalization for both companies was:
Home Depot: $ 57.50 billion
Lowes: $ 35.21 billion
The numbers currently indicate the following change in capitalization:
Home Depot: $ 77.63 billion (approx. 35% increase)
Lowes: $30.35 (approx. 14% decrease)
So, perhaps Home Depot has fared better, but as value investors we understand that it is no prediction of how the future may look.
As in the original article, I decided to take a stroll through both stores to see if there was something that stood out and separated it from its competitor. Once again, with Peter Lynch as my inspiration for checking things out personally and discussing both companies with friends and customers alike, I made the following observations:
People had their favorite between the two, but were unable to state any reason for their favoritism other than "just because". No, I wasn't interviewing teenagers.
Fully one half maintained that Home Depots prices were lower, while the other 50% concluded that it was Lowe's that maintained an edge. Online, I checked various items, discovering that it appeared to completely depend on the item chosen. One store was lower in one area, the next item; the other store had the advantage.
Lowe's stores appearance edges out that of Home Depot to the many I spoke to. I would concur with that assessment.
Employees were generally helpful in both stores and knowledgeable, however; Home Depot's employees apparently thought my wife and her sister were very pretty because they kept following them around, while Lowe's employees eyed me suspiciously when I told them I wasn't buying anything and that I just wanted to check out their store.
Going back to the original article and checking the debt, we can see that the debt structure of both is similar. I had mentioned an approach that I like in looking at debt in the book "The New Buffett-ology," though there are many such metrics to explore to get a full picture. Five times net current earnings in excess of long term debt separates those companies with a competitive advantage. Stated another way, long-term debt burdens should be fewer than five times current net earnings.
This is a tough call; however, I give the edge to Lowe's.
A place in which they did differ was in the area of margins, in which I would give the edge to Home Depot, especially in the current economic climate when it comes to squeezing out profits as much as possible. The higher margins will potentially allow Home Depot to pressure the returns of Lowe's, though the advantage is slight.
We also discussed three major metrics that investors use to find economic moats that separate them from their competitor. These were return on equity, return on assets and return on invested income.
Return on Assets is important for discount retailers because if you cannot raise prices easily, asset turnover will allow you to increase your profitability. ROA measures how efficiently you can turn assets into profits. Typically, you want to see a ROA minimum of 7% and consistently. Advantage… Home Depot.
Return on Equity measures how well companies are generating good returns on the shareholders' money. Once again, consistency is important and any number over 15% is considered exceptional and an indication of an economic moat. The higher the better. Advantage… Home Depot.
Return on Total Capital is considered extremely important to the Buffett line of thinking according to "The New Buffett-ology." Because price competitive companies can be financed with debt several times their equity, a high ROE may still be indicated. Therefore, Buffett likes to go further by seeing an ROTC of at least 12%, along with the high (15%+) ROE. In this article, we will use the ROC from GuruFocus based upon Joel Greenblatt's methodology. Advantage… Home Depot
These are two terrific companies with lots of potential; however, I believe both of them to be currently overvalued. With that said, one should always keep a list of top stocks handy that indicate a lot of strength so that if the market decides to value them less than what the intrinsic value may be, one can be ready to jump on the opportunity. Truthfully, while I give the edge to Home Depot, they are both on my list.
Disclosure: No positions.
- Joel Greenblatt Undervalued Stocks
- Joel Greenblatt Top Growth Companies
- Joel Greenblatt High Yield stocks, and
- Stocks that Joel Greenblatt keeps buying
- Jean-Marie Eveillard Undervalued Stocks
- Jean-Marie Eveillard Top Growth Companies
- Jean-Marie Eveillard High Yield stocks, and
- Stocks that Jean-Marie Eveillard keeps buying


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Christian movie to be filmed at Presidio La Bahia
July 11, 2011 at 2:11 a.m.
A film crew will shoot scenes for a Christian movie at Presidio La Bahia in Goliad on Tuesday.
Morning Star Productions and Thorn Crown Project are Bryan-College Station producers of the dramatic film "Indescribable," which tells the story of a religious hymn.
Joseph and Stacie Graber, husband and wife, wrote the screenplay. Stacie is directing and Joseph is producing the 100- to 110-minute movie based on a story spanning eight centuries.
"The Presidio, a 290-year-old Spanish colonial citadel with its eight-foot high stone walls, parapets, defensive canons and quaint Our Lady of Loreto Chapel, is an ideal setting for a story that involves Crusaders," said Rebekah Cook, second assistant director.
Cook also portrays "Claudia," the oldest daughter of Frederick Lehman, the character struggling to write the final verse of the hymn.
"The story is told from the perspective of his 10-year-old son, Blynn," she said.
The 25-day shoot involves 44 speaking parts, a crew of 49 and up to 60 extras throughout the production, said Caleb Allen, production coordinator.
On Monday, the crew filmed at Mike Newman's Castle in Bellville.
The family-friendly film, the second in the Grabers' story-behind-the-hymns series, is expected to go direct to DVD, as opposed to major cinema distribution. The movie, expected to enjoy a premiere and limited screenings, will likely be marketed through Christian Bookstores, churches and websites.
"Although, the story spans the period 1096 to 1917 and World War I, children will find it exciting because they are the main characters," Cook said. "The story, filled with historical flashbacks for dynamic effect, highlights God's work in people's lives."
Presidio La Bahia, owned by the Catholic Diocese of Victoria, features parapets, cannons, a double-bell tower, a religious statue estimated at 300 years old, more than 150 artifacts on display in its museum and a unique Texas version fresco of the Annunciation.
The director of the film explained its plot.
"This feature film tells the story of one boy struggling to love God against a backdrop of 1096 renegade Crusader violence, 1917 excitement of The Great War, and personal family tragedy," she said. "'Indescribable,' is an exciting story that explains practical steps a young person of any era can take to love God."


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Hairston, Heyward embrace Robinson Day
Wearing 42 means a lot to Padres vet, Braves rookie
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
Hours before the Padres faced the Braves at PETCO Park, Hairston said he couldn't wait to pull it on, and not just because he gets a little nostalgic at the sight of throwback uniforms.
"It carries a lot of weight for me and my family today," Hairston said.
Hairston was talking more about the number on the back of the jersey -- No. 42 -- than he was about the style of the jersey itself.
On Thursday, Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day as players, coaches and umpires wore the No. 42.
Introduced in 2004, Jackie Robinson Day was created to honor the continuing impact of Robinson and his legacy as the first African-American player to break the Major League color barrier.
Robinson is certainly an important figure for the Hairstons, who are African-Americans.
Their grandfather, Sam Hairston, played in the Negro Leagues, eventually becoming the first African-American to play for the White Sox in 1951, but only after Robinson paved the way four years earlier.
"It's a great day. It goes to show how Major League Baseball views Jackie Robinson and the meaning of this day," Hairston Jr. said. "If Jackie had failed, who knows what would have happened. Even Martin Luther King said Jackie Robinson spurred the civil rights movement."
Robinson played his first Major League game at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
In 1997, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Robinson's debut, his uniform number 42 was retired throughout the Major Leagues.
Robinson's memory lives on today in initiatives such as the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which was founded by his widow, Rachel Robinson, in 1973 to provide education and leadership development opportunities for minority students with strong capabilities but limited financial resources.
Atlanta rookie outfielder Jason Heyward, who is 20, has already gained a great sense of appreciation for what Robinson went through to get to the Major Leagues.
"Growing up, it's something I learned about when I was like 5 or 6 years old. Then when I became a teenager, I recognized that it was a big part of the civil rights movement," Heyward said.
"It's better by far because a lot of people sacrificed for us to be here today. I'm not saying that [racism] isn't all the way removed, but it's definitely come a long way. You have to be appreciative of that. It wasn't always easy for him."
That's something Hairston pondered Thursday.
"I remember someone a couple of years ago told me that we're the last descendants of the Negro Leagues," he said. "We're very proud of what my grandfather did. Without Jackie Robinson, none of it could have been possible. I'm so proud to wear No. 42 today."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Mark Bowman, a reporter for MLB.com, contributed to this story. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Five down, one to go with arbitration
OK, MoreSplashHits gets a "close enough" on the arbitration case for Javier Lopez.
The left-handed reliever and the Giants agreed to terms for a one-year contract for $2.375 million on Thursday, leaving the Giants with just one unresolved arbitration case.
MoreSplashHits projected a compromise of $2.4 million after Lopez submitted a salary request of $2.875 million and the Giants countered with $2 million.
Lopez earned $775,000 last season pitching for the Pirates and the Giants.
According to the Associated Press, Lopez can earn an additional $50,000 each for pitching 55 or 60 innings in the deal he received Thursday. He went 2-0 with a 1.42 ERA in 27 outings for the Giants, who acquired him at the trading deadline from Pittsburgh.
Thursday's agreement leaves Andres Torres as the only unresolved arbitration case. Torres is seeking $2.6 million, while the Giants countered with $1.8 million. Halfway is $2.2 million. Hank Schulman of the Chronicle reports the two sides are close to a deal.
Lopez's deal leaves the Giants' 2011 payroll at $112.145 million.


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In its earnings call Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed his intention to make Facebook "the best and most ubiquitous mobile platform," giving people the opportunity to share on the go, and called the transition to mobile "the most misunderstood aspect of Facebook today."
"I want to dispel this myth that Facebook can't make money on mobile," he continued. The migration of audiences from desktop Web browsers to mobile devices, particularly smartphones, is challenging for ad-supported websites and applications because the smaller screens leave little room for banner or sidebar ads. However, over the past three months, Facebook got 14% of its advertising revenue from mobile. Facebook first reported mobile ad progress in its first earnings report as a public company, in July, based on inserting ads (or "sponsored stories") into the newsfeed. Then, it said it was getting about $1 million a day in revenue from newsfeed ads. Now, Facebook says that's reached $4 million per day, with $3 million of that coming specifically from ads in the mobile stream.
Facebook stock rose 13% in after-hours trading Tuesday, after closing at $19.50 in New York. Shares are down 49% from their initial public offering in May.
[ Are you willing to pay to have your Facebook posts read by more people? Facebook's Promoted Posts For Individuals: A Bad Idea. ]
"We only started mobile monetization in March," Zuckerberg said. "We've become the largest mobile advertising platform in less than eight months." Facebook has also started creating ad products that specifically make sense in a mobile context, such as ads enticing you to install a particular app on your phone. Combined with a new faster, native iOS app and a forthcoming native app for Android, Facebook is strengthening its position in the mobile environment.
Facebook also pointed to the introduction of new products such as the Facebook Ad Exchange (FBX), which allows resellers to market Facebook ad inventory, and the re-launch of Facebook Offers.
Advertising revenue increased 36% year over year to $1.09 billion. Revenue payments and other businesses increased 13% to $176 million. Fees collected from Zynga, Facebook's social games partner, were down 20%, although fees from other partners increased to compensate, according to Facebook.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Facebook Offers has particular potential to appeal to local merchants, who essentially use it to offer coupons, and about 30% of offers are being claimed by mobile users.
The company reported income from operations of $377 million, compared with $414 million for the third quarter of 2011. Because of taxes driven by stock-based compensation, Facebook reported a net loss of $59 million, compared with net earnings of $227 million for the third quarter last year. With the effect of stock compensation excluded, the result would instead be considered a $311 million gain, or $0.12 per share, compared to $273 million and $0.12 per share for the same quarter in the prior year.
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BlackBerry takes on Western Union with BBM Money transfers... in Indonesia
14 Comments
1. faisolbauuz (Posts: 121; Member since: 05 Jan 2013)
Well thats because in indonesia BB still have a huge market share in smartphone though the android smartphone is catching up now
2. iamthegreatcornholio (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Feb 2013)
UPDATE your FACT.
Android already BIGGER than BB in Indonesia right now.
As in Q1 2012 the Android shipment IS BIGGER THAN BB in Indonesia
As in Q3 2012 Samsung Android shipment IS BIGGER THAN BB in Indonesia.
70% of NEW phone sold in Q4 2012 in Indonesia were Android.
13. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
50% BB from Black Market :)
14. maka.itu.gua.BENCI.BB (Posts: 3; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
There's also android phone from blackmarket.
and android greater demand will create greater demand android blackmarket too. so it's cancel out your 50% advantage.
3. iamthegreatcornholio (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Feb 2013)
Michael H,
Please update your fact a little bit.
1. Indonesia was one of the BB strong market, but in the 2012, BB were not leading the market in Indonesia anymore. You could search the web with google/yahoo/bong/etc to find this fact.
2. BB also already lost the momentum in Indonesia, most of the rich guy who can afford another expensive phone already moved away to the other platform after using a BB/android or BB/iphone combo for a while. (Fact: In Indonesia, it's very common to have 2 or 3 phone and considered cool/awesome. Around 60% of office-worker/business-man/business-woman have more than 1 phone).
4. sumenep (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Feb 2013)
"BlackBerry Losing Market to Android
Francezka Nangoy & Dion Bisara | September 13, 2012
Android became the most popular operating system in Indonesia's smartphone market, commanding a 52 percent share, according to International Data Corporation, an IT and telecommunication research group, in a report released on Thursday. It didn't give comparable figures for the first quarter.
RIM has been losing out to rivals such as Samsung — which recently unveiled its Galaxy III handsets — and HTC, both because of their touchscreens and because RIM has delayed the release of new models. Still, BlackBerry remained the top smartphone brand, IDC said.
Meanwhile, the market shares of BlackBerry and Nokia's Symbian, two pioneers and former leaders of the smartphone market, both fell below 5 percent, the research group said. Globally, IDC reported that Android had a 68.1 percent market share of all smartphones shipped during the quarter, while BlackBerry and Symbian had 4.8 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively.
The surge in demand for Android-based phones has led to large-scale marketing efforts by local mobile-phone retailers including Erajaya Swasembada, which recently opened a new store in Jakarta that sells Android products exclusively.
Yulita, the businesswoman in international trade, says she uses her Android as her main phone but is also holding onto her BlackBerry, at least for now, to make use of its messenger service, and won't buy any new models. When asked on how long she would cling on to her BlackBerry, she said: "Until my friends stop using it." "
5. sumenep (Posts: 3; Member since: 27 Feb 2013)
From REDIFF
February 4th, 2013.
"Research in Motion Ltd must chart a tough course in its two key emerging markets of India and Indonesia: quickly launch cheaper handsets to woo lower-end subscribers while restoring its tattered brand among the countries' status-conscious.
The company, which is rebranding itself BlackBerry after its best-known smartphone, has won millions of followers in these two Asian countries, mostly by selling cheaper handsets and offering service packages as low as $2 a month.
So it's unlikely that the Z10 model introduced last week, which operators in India expect to sell for around $750, will appeal to the users it must reach if it is to build market share.
"It's clear that not only are India and Indonesia among the largest markets but in terms of future smartphone growth, they're amongst the ones with the most potential," said Melissa Chau, senior research manager at technology research group IDC in Singapore.
"But the two devices that have been launched are not well aligned to the needs of these two markets." "
6. Rexperia (Posts: 136; Member since: 28 Sep 2012)
We call it "4l4yers" for BB users in Indonesia...
7. AndroIndonesia (Posts: 12; Member since: 28 Sep 2012)
And, we call the 4l4yers is "kamseupay"
9. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
"Alay-alay gaptek" to be exact...
8. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
most of indonesians use bb not because of the phone itself, it is their friends who are persuading them to use it because of bbm, that said, samsung is starting to make some traction here, most people have 2 phones one is bb one is either iPhone or S3 or Note ii
likewise, people are starting to realize that bb is outdated compared to android or iPhone
just my 2 cents though..
10. MalarangengTukangNgutil (Posts: 3; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
The strength of the BB is the weakness of the BB.
When people starting to flock to BB, it looks great. But when people starting to move away it have the power of collapsing domino effect.
I've seen the destruction of BB community in a couple of Indonesia Big company. It start with the director, IT guy using the Android/iphone. Then the ALL-MUST-BBM start to change to whats app. After a while, the other employee start to move away from BB to Whatsapp. After 2-3 months, BBM is no longer mandatory. And that's the tipping point.
BBM is also a two sided sword. When the boss/leader/higher-power ask/force other to use BBM, theres a love-hate situation with BBM. and when these people finally get the BBM out of the system, the hatred toward BBM becoming hostile. This ex-BB user will insult BB to no-end and make the society around him aware that BB is not as good as Android/iphone. This is the poison pill that make BB CAN'T recover with BB10 in USA/UK/everywhere.
11. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
i have that involuntary urge to yell at those people with high-end bb bold 9900 who are making fun of those who don't have bb
12. maka.itu.gua.BENCI.BB (Posts: 3; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Then, you'll understand why THE RAGE behind BB10. Why some people want BB to fail!!!
I also HATE when someone use BB. I feel unfriendly/irritated when someone (especially in indonesia where they seems doesn't have the same boundary value as me) FORCE/SUGGEST me to use BB/BBM.
BTW Nikolas, please update your data/information. According to news in Indonesia, Android sales number already beat BB since early 2012. Google for more information.


text: I watch two fantastic movies today. I love movies that do not have cussing, or blood and guts. :x These were two of the most up lifting, love story that I have seen in a long time. :D It is The Perfcet Stranger and Another Perfect Stranger. If you are tried of the trash on tv please get these movies you will love them. :D :D


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SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman posted $9,000 bond and was released from jail on Tuesday following his Monday arrest, in which he was accused of pointing a gun at his girlfriend.
[PICS: Zimmerman arrested | 1st appearance | VIDEO: Zimmerman released | Court proceeding | AUDIO: Girlfriend calls 911 | Zimmerman calls 911 ]
Zimmerman, 30, was released from the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Seminole County on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
Hours earlier, he appeared in front of Judge Fred Schott for his aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief charges following the domestic violence incident with his girlfriend.
Schott said he thought deputies had probable cause to arrest Zimmerman. He also ordered that Zimmerman must stay away from his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe and her home on Topfield Court. He is also not allowed to have weapons and ammunition and cannot leave Central Florida.
Zimmerman will be put on GPS electronic monitoring as he awaits his next court date on Jan. 7, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. Judge Jessica Reckseidler, who had to recuse herself from presiding over Zimmerman's murder trial because of a conflict of interest, has been appointed the case, as there is no conflict of interest presently.17055596
Schott said he isn't considering prior incidents with Zimmerman and sees this domestic violence incident as a separate case.
The state said at the first appearance that Zimmerman's girlfriend is "in fear of her safety," and requested no contact with Zimmerman. Prosecutors said Zimmerman has mentioned suicide in the past and that his girlfriend reported they had a domestic violence choking incident a week ago that she didn't report.
The state had requested $50,000 bond for Zimmerman, to which Schott replied, "I'm not going to even go near that."
Zimmerman is being represented by public defender Jeff Dowdy, after Schott found Zimmerman indigent. According to the affidavit of indigency, Zimmerman is $2.5 million in debt, has no income and had $150 in cash on hand when he was arrested.
Dowdy says Zimmerman has living arrangements and doesn't oppose electronic monitoring. Assistant Public Defender Daniel Megaro requested that Zimmerman's bond be $4,900.
Dowdy, who represented 2004 XBox murder ringleader Troy Victorino in Deltona, said Zimmerman was in good spirits on Tuesday morning. At a news conference after the first appearance, Dowdy said that he is "confident" Zimmerman will be acquitted of the domestic violence charges.
Neither Scheibe, nor Zimmerman's family members were at the hearing.
Zimmerman, the 30-year-old Neighborhood Watch leader who was acquitted this summer in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, was booked into the Seminole County Jail at around 1 p.m. Monday.
If convicted, Zimmerman could face five or more years in prison.
Scheibe, told deputies he pointed a shotgun at her, smashed a glass table and pushed her out of the house they shared on Monday. While on the phone with dispatchers, deputies said Zimmerman pushed Scheibe out the front door and then barricaded it with furniture.
Zimmerman told dispatchers it was Scheibe who ransacked the house, not him, and denies pointing a gun at her. Zimmerman said they were fighting because he agreed to move out of the house.
Monday night, Seminole County detectives carried evidence out of Schiebe's home, including a long black bag that was the size of a rifle.
In his 911 call, Zimmerman told dispatchers he didn't want to fight with Schiebe because she is pregnant. Scheibe later told deputies, however, she is not pregnant.
Local 6 legal analyst Luis Calderon said in order for the case to move forward, investigators have to choose which side they're on.
"When you have one person saying this is the way it happened, and the other person is saying this is the way it happened, and neither side has anything to back up their story or has any evidence of it," Calderon said.
He said if no one saw what happened at the home or heard anything to corroborate either story, it'll be hard to prove and charges could be dropped. Prosecutors also need evidence of the charges.
Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, announced in September that she was filing for divorce from her husband. George Zimmerman was finally served with divorce papers in jail on Monday, according to Shellie's attorney Kelly Sims.
George Zimmerman has made headlines several times since his acquittal, including a domestic violence incident with his estranged wife, visiting a gun manufacturing facility in Brevard County and rescuing a family from an overturned SUV.
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Lynn Minmay, Feb 21, 2012.
It'll be at least a year after the show wraps BD release in Japan.
Upon investigation of the materials about the SMITE ship, I found something. The SMITE ship is the detachable bridge structure of Dommel's flagship. This indicates to me that he'll lose his flagship in combat with Yamato (along with a large part of his fleet), possibly because of the action at Balan. He gets home, is given another chance. Has what is left of his flagship fitted with the SMITE device and heads out with the remains of his fleet to engage Yamato one more time.
The 10 minute preview for episode 11 will be out December 28th or so depending on how the distribution outside Japan (Bandai Channel is region locked if I recall).
Maybe the Comet Empire trashed his flagship in revenge for screwing up their ominous doom vibe by kicking their asses
That's Harlocks bird sitting on Lysis' shoulder. Maybe he'll show up and this time he'll be Kodai's brother
Well at least one of the characters in 2199 does resemble one that was scraped after the original idea so its possible.
The ten minute preview for Episode 11 is up today.
A nice Galimas-Cometine action before we get to potental backstory about first contact between Earth and Gamilas.
Also I never thought I'd heard the disco verion of the Comet Empire theme played again in a TV show.
I find it ironic its playing while their basically getting slaughtered.
I thought the person or group who's theme song is playing in battles usually mops the floor with the other guy not the other way around.
I am not expecting to hear the other "best" theme song in this series, but they might surprise me. "Dessler Attacks"
Though is battle in Episode 11 does make the relationship between Gamilas and Gatlantis very interesting.
Thanks for the link. That was amazing! I really hope the show does well enough to support a second series.
You know despite the whole planet bombing thing, I find myself quite admiring the Gamilas.
Ever since the middle of the second season I've at least had respect for the Gamilas, particularly Dessler. By New Voyages and Final Yamato, you can actually cheer for them.
This new version has made them much more personable than they were in the original series. Back then they were just a little better than the average 70's era cartoon villians. Only once we got a reason for their attacking Earth did our perception of Gamilas change. But not enough to really feel sorry for them. Only Dessler's troubles with Gatlantis later in the second series made us care about them at all.
By the time we had a table top game to run these ships around, I was generally playing Gamilas...if only because they were the underdog in the game system that required special handling to defeat the larger and much better equipped Earth and Cometine fleets. That or swarm them with vast numbers of little destroyers.
Yamto 2199 changes that a bit. These ships are not small anymore. I intend to try to run a version of the battle we saw in this preview at the next gaming convention. Just to see it the newly redesigned ships are balanced enough against what will be the slightly redesigned Comet Empire ships.
The only thing that really worries me of late is the general lack of discussion on this show. Maybe it is because of the slow releases, or that it isn't on TV, but in general it is hard to find anyplace that has decent amounts of conversation on this show...in English at least. Not many bloggers are reviewing it (that I can find) and few message boards have much in the way of discussion (or perhaps analysis) on this show. Maybe when it comes to TV in probably 2014 (in Japan) there will be discussion from the masses that get their anime from Chunchyroll or subgroups (even though the show is already subbed into English on the Blu-Discs...but those are expensive).
Oops. I was going to post a link to Animesuki.com, but it looks like you already post there.
Well heres hoping theres more buzz about the show in Japan. They're the audience who really matters.
I think it's pretty much a combination of the weird release schedule, the fact that it's not on a legal streaming site, the fact that most anime viewers these days in the US have little to no knowledge of Starblazers or Yamato, and the fact that the show feels really unremarkable. It's good, there's no doubt about it, but there's no real sense that the writers and directors are going above and beyond because it's a remake.
I guess we'll agree to disagree; because (IMO); I do feel they are in fact going above and beyond as it were; and that's one reson this remake is so good. Over the years they've done many piss-poor remakes of 1970ies and 1980ies era anime 9look at the various re-takes on MS Gundam over the last decade, that tried to re-tell the original plot with a 'fresh' angle - and how bad most of those turned out.
I think they've done a stellar job of keeping the story major plot elements, and characters intact; while at the same time modernizing the original story and seamlessly adding some new elements (and characters) as well.
That's not easy to do.
As for why there isn't a lot of talk or interest here in the West per se. let's face it:
1) if you're under 40; chances are (even if you are an anime fan casual or otherwise); you don't, or barely know of Space Battleship Yamato - and even back in the heyday (mid to late 1980ies to 1990ies when there were a lot of weekend clubs and conventions showing actual anime direct from Japan) - Yamato was an 'older' series.
2) With the internet, and the fact there are still one or two companies bringing anime over - a lot of fans don't want to deal with series until it's released here in some form; so until Yamato 2199 gets a legitimate release (unlikely honestly with the film rights still held - which is probably why neither the 2009 'Yamato Rebirth' nor the 2010 live action film saw a dubbed or even subbed release); or subbed copies get spread via torrents, you won't see anyone but die-hards (like myself and others) who are willing to pay for the region-free subbed Blu-Rays really talking about it.
If I thought there was a chance of seeing this relatively soon from a western distributor on Blu-Ray - either subbed or dubbed - I would be shelling out $106 (with shipping) per disc; and if I didn't think they were also doing an amazing job (so far) in re-telling and updating the original Yamato storyline; I wouldn't be spending the cash either. YMMV.
I don't think there is any film rights dispute anymore. Voyager Entertainment was reportedly reabsorbed into its parent Japanese company a few months ago. There is still no word what that means for Star Blazers, but it is likely it is held by the Japanese that own Yamato. (You can still get Voyager Entertainment's old Star Blazers products, but who knows how long that will last).
The Japanese will be releasing BD versions of the old movies starting next year. No English subtitles. They have already released a BD box set for the first series of Yamato (no English subtitles).
Yamato 2199 is coming out about one chapter every three months on BD, but with English subtitles.
Filmation (I think that was their name) has the rights to Yamato Resurrection presently and will be releasing it in North America at some point (dubbed or subbed is unknown to me at this point).
The Live Action film is reportedly undubbed due to a contract with the star of the film not wanting his roll dubbed over (the film was basically made as a vehicle for him). It is unclear about the subbing route at present. I think there is an English sub already for the Australian market.
It is not clear if a company has the rights to make a "Star Blazers" movie anymore. There have always been tales of a Star Blazers live action script to be sold to Disney, but that's about as far as any of that has gone. I know people were talking about it. I know there was a script or several maybe. What I don't know is if anyone actually has the rights to even consider making such a film.
And though I do want to see the Yamato III version of Space Battleship Arizona in action, I don't particularly like the idea of using the sunken (broken and partly scrapped) USS Arizona as the American version's hero ship. Unless they renamed it "Argo" almost immediately. Though some people think it would be funny to see the Memorial used as the new bridge.
It's Funimation, but yeah, no one knows if they're gonna dub it or release a sub only set (although IIRC most Funi DVDs/BDs have dubs).
I heard the rights got sorted out or someone was trying to direct it, but I can't find a link to confirm.
As long as they don't pull a Tokyopop (Remember Initial D?) I don't see a problem with that. Those of us who want a subtitled version already have the original as an option anyway.
I really don't know what that means. I assume it has to do with Stu Levy's bad translation of the opening credits.
There is an official German release of the movie, complete with German dub, so I'd recheck that contract report again.
Some of my news is old and outdated it would seem.
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Being in Costa Rica's jungle, Blue River Hotel places great emphasis on sustaining the environment and supporting people living in the small communities in and around the hotel. We also run a rescue center for animals that provides sanctuary to the bird species that have been injured in the Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste region. We consider it our obligation to ensure that both local people and international visitors enjoy the natural beauty and qualities of the surroundings. The resort offers immense opportunities to educate guests and locals about the environment.
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I have fallen back in love with WoW this week. Part of it is that I stumbled into a nice little group of folks in my guild with whom I can run instances and get into trouble, and of course the arrival of Patch 4.3 helped a lot. It has not escaped my attention that the patch that returns Azeroth to a state more resembling the oh-so-casual Wrath of the Lich King expansion is the one that has everyone talking and playing. Is returning to Wrath's difficulty level the answer to Blizzard's subscription problems?
To be fair, the three new heroics are not pushovers. They are short, have interesting mechanics, and are easy to die in if you're not paying attention. Healing some of these fights is a little intense right now, but the risk seems even with the reward. It reminds me a lot of the three "lore" heroics that came into the game with Icecrown Citadel. They are a happy medium between the early ICC heroics, which were so boring I would come up with gimmicks to amuse myself like only running backwards or wearing costume clothes, and early Cataclysm heroics which were very tough and in many cases very long.
That's not to say that there shouldn't be long, arduous heroics available (I really feel for non-raiders who want challenging content), but it's nice to have some that are short, fun, and will kill you if you slack off too much.
My guild doesn't raid until Saturday, so I haven't had a chance to see Dragon Soul on normal mode yet but judging by the results of others it seems to be going back to ToC levels of difficulty. Average raiding guilds are killing 4+ bosses on their first night in the place. The Looking for Raid finder is even easier: I walked in on Wednesday night and one-shot the first three bosses and wiping once on the last one.
I think the difficulty (or lack thereof!) in the LFR is fine. That is what it's for, and I think it'll be a great way to level alts. Additionally, average raiding guilds will benefit greatly from having their members check out a fight in LFR before doing it on a guild run as well. However, I think once again Blizz has fallen into the WotLK problem of alienating their middle of the road guilds. It seems like most will have cleared normal Dragon Soul in a month. An average raid guild can kill roughly half of hard modes in any given instance, which means that yet again most guilds will have maybe 4 bosses to reasonably work on for the next six months. I'm glad recruiting in that situation is no longer my problem.
I've been doing a lot of reflecting on my time as a raiding guild leader in WoW, and in retrospect I think the biggest mistake I personally made was falling into the trap of heroic raids. The Cats were never about being top 10 or better than our fellow players, but were mainly concerned with just seeing the content. Instead of agreeing with the Blizzard that heroic raids were progression, I think focusing on achievements would have fit better with our "be prepared, but not too serious" ethos. Run normals, do heroics if we want, but make achievements our "progression".
Given the option between normal modes that are pushovers and hardmodes that are overtuned recycled content, I feel like an achievement-oriented raiding guild would be the best way for a mid-level group to navigate between the two.


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after re-loading ZA 9.3 (9.1 would lock up my win7-64 system ), I've been having a problem with the Spam filter.
I have Outlook rules set up to move mail into different folders when it's received, so I have the Spam filter set up to "Support scanning of multiple Inboxes".
Now, it seems that every day or two, when I look on my screen, I've got the Spam scanner screen showing with the progress bar stopped at anywhere from 10-50% finished.
Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
When I dumped 9.1, I ran with Norton 360 for a few months until 9.3 was released. I removed Norton, but am wondering if he might have left something 'laying around' in my system?


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we cannot hit a god d*mn shot
Can someone run down to Penn Stations Lost & Found Office and fill out a property Inquiry Form. Item Lost: Knicks GAME
I dont understand how a pro cant hit that layup
Shump Shump..............I been waiting for one of those
You can tell Shump is offended by the thought of losing to these guys. Will anyone else step up?
What a momentum killer...what the **** Lin..TAKE THE BALL...


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Blu-ray Review: Solaris
A brown leaf floats on brilliantly clear water that flows over rich green seaweed. That's just one of the many lyrical images that fill the opening sequence of Solaris. A horse trots along in the background. A cup of tea overflows in a momentary thunderstorm — the rain stopping as quickly as it started, leaving the sound of dripping water and then a serene silence.
All of this pastoral beauty is eventually shattered by a 5-minute sequence of driving along motorways and through endless tunnels, accompanied by a cacophonous combination of traffic noise and oppressive electronica. It's the sound of a hellish manmade futuristic metropolis. The contrast helps prepare us for the harsh scenes to come — aboard an almost abandoned space station orbiting the ocean planet Solaris.
In his 1972 adaptation of Polish writer Stanis?aw Lem's seminal sci-fi novel, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky examines love, life, death, and what it is to be human. A nearly emotionless cosmonaut/psychologist, Kris Kelvin, has been sent to investigate the fate of the remaining scientists on the space station. What he finds is that one has committed suicide and the other two are . . . not all there. Dr. Snaut and Dr. Sartorius are suffering from mental dislocation because they've had to face the manifested memories of people — conjured by the ocean, which is believed to have its own consciousness. In turn, Kelvin is confronted by his wife, who had committed suicide because of him.
At times, Solaris can seem like a ghost story, as phantoms drift about, haunting their hosts. Other times, it's almost as if Kelvin, Dr. Snaut, and Dr. Sartorius, with their plans to radiate the brain of the planet, are a triptych of mad scientists who've stepped straight out of Frankenstein. But the planet also seems to be offering these people an opportunity, in their shared waking dreams, to consciously work through unresolved emotions and relationships from the past and rediscover their humanity. As Dr. Snaut puts it: "We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror."


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The Ultimate 12 Sports at Christmas Quiz!
PUBLISHED: 12:03 22 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:26 24 December 2012
How much do you know about sport, and in particular 2012 sport?
We have put together a 12 Sports for Christmas quiz for you to enjoy with friends and family.
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The best of luck - 40 out of 40 anybody?
1. List the final TOP SIX drivers at the end of the 2012 Formula One season.
2.Which Grand Prix STARTS the season and which one ends it?
3.Which driver won the 2012 British Grand Prix?
4. Name the four 2012 Wimbledon championships semi-finalists.
5. Name the two ladies finalists.
6. Name the 1,2,3 in terms of World rankings on January 1st 2012.
7. Who won the 2012 County Championship?
8. Which two teams contested the CB 40 final and who won?
9. Which country won the 2012 World Twenty20?
10. Which two teams contested the English Twenty20 Final?
11. Name the winning horse, rider, trainer and the odds in the 2012 Grand National.
12. Who was the host favourite who won the 2012 Derby, who rode the horse, who trained it and what was the starting price?
13. Name the winner of the 2012 Flat Jockeys Championship, how much did he win, who was 2nd and who third?
14. List the top rankled men's countries in both Men's and women's' world hockey after the Olympic Games.
15. Who are the current reigning English hockey champions/
16 Name the GB women's hockey captain who suffered a broken jaw in the tournament.
17. Which boxer retired after a disastrous comeback fight in November and who did he fight?
18. Which former cricketer boxed in November, who did he box and what was the result?
19. Who did Amir Khan lose to in a 12-round fight in Las Vegas?
20. Which British boxer became the FIRST female boxer to win an Olympic Gold?
21 Which Irish side has won three of the last four Heineken Cup finals and who did they beat and by what score to win the 2012 final?
22. Who won the 2012 Six nations Championship?
23 Who has won the Six nations the most times since the first tournament tin 2000, and how many times has each country won it?
24. Which club has been runners-up in the Super League in each of the last 3 seasons?
25. Who won the Challenge Cup final in 2-012, who did they beat and what was the score?
26. What is the name of the current England Rugby League team coach?
27. Since 2000 name the TWO countries to win the World Table tennis title in both the Men's and the Women's' game.
28. Name the Engloish Table Tennis Associations 1,2,3 for men as at December 1st 2012.
29. Name the English Table Tennis Associations 1, 2, 3 for women at Dec 1st 2012.
30. List the five key positions in a basketball team.
31 In November 2012 which Premier league football team was promoting basketball through its community programme?
32. Which two teams contested the Men's basketball final at the Olympics and who won?
33. Name the ten events in the DECATHLON?
34. Who holds the current world record for the 400m and what time did he set?
35. Who holds the world record for the highest HIGH JUMP, what's his nationality and how high did he jump?
36. Which woman has jumped the highest HIGH JUMP, her nationality and how high was the jump?
37 Who contested the 2012 Premier League darts play-off final?
38. Name the legendary Darts commentator who passed away in Nov?
39. Who won the 2012 PDC World darts title and who did he beat in the final?
40. Name the ONLY three players to retain the PDC World darts title having won it for the very first time the year before.
and the answers to the 12 sports at Christmas quiz...........................
Motor racing: 1. The top six in the 2012 Formula One season: 1, Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing-Renault, 2 Fernando Alonso - Ferrari; 3, Kimi Räikkönen - Lotus-Renault; 4, Lewis Hamilton - McLaren-Mercedes; 5, Jenson Button - McLaren-Mercedes; 6, Mark Webber - Red Bull Racing-Renault. 2. Australia is the FIRST and Brazil the LAST 3, Mark Webber won the 2102 British Grand Prix. Tennis 4, The four Wimbledon semi-finalists were; Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. 5, The ladies' finalists were Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) and Serena Williams (USA) 6, The 1,2,3 in World Tennis (Men's) on January 1st 2012 was 1, Novak Djokovic, 2 Rafael Nadal and 3, Roger Federer; Cricket; 7, Warwickshire won the County Championship; 8.Hampshire Royals beat Warwickshire Bears in the final of the CB40; 9, West Indies won the World T20; 10, Hampshire Royals beat Yorkshire Carnegie in the T20 Finals. Horse racing; 11, Neptune Collonges trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Daryl Jacob won the 2012 Grand National at odds of 33/1; 12, Hot favourite Camelot won the 2012 Derby, trained by AO O'Brien and ridden by JP O'Brien at odds of 8/13F, 13, The winner of the 2012 Flat Jockeys Championship was Richard Hughes with 172 winners and £2 million of prize money. 2nd was Silvestre De Sousa (131 wins) and third was William Buick (123 wins); Hockey, 14, Following the Olympic Games the World Rankings for Hockey in the men's game went: 1 Germany, 2 Australia, 3 Netherlands, 4 England 5 Spain, 6 New Zealand. In the ladies game it went 1, Netherlands, 2 Argentina, 3 New Zealand, 4 England, 5 Germany, 6 Australia; 15, The current reigning English Men's hockey champions Reading Hockey Club who beat league winners East Grinstead Hockey Club in the 2012 Championship Play-off final. 16, Kate Walsh was the GB hockey team captain who suffered a broken jaw in the Olympic games. Boxing; 17, Ricky Hatton retired from boxing following his November loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko; 18, Former England cricket captain Freddie Flintoff fought Richard Dawson in Manchester; 19, Danny Garcia won a technical knockout in the 4th round of a 12 round fight in Las Vegas against Amir Khan; 20, Great Britain's Nicola Adams became the first female boxer to win an Olympic gold medal, outclassing Chinese great Ren Cancan in the London 2012 final. Rugby Union 21, Leinster have won three of the last four Heineken Cup finals and beat Ulster 42-14 to win the 2012 final. 22, Wales were the 2012 Six Nations winners; 23, France have won the Six nations the most times with FIVE wins since the first Six Nations was contested in 2000. England have won 4, Wales 3 and Ireland 1. Rugby League; 24, Leeds have been runners-up in each of the last three seasons; 25, Warrington won the Challenge Cup final in 2-012 beating Leeds 35-18 at Wembley; 26, Steve McNamara is the current England Rugby League team coach. Table Tennis; 27, Since 2000 only Sweden (2000) and China (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012) have won the World table Tennis title. In the women's game China have been just as dominant wining all but one of the titles, the only other team to win the World Title were Singapore who won it in 2010. 28, As of December 1st 2012 the top three English table tennis players were ranked 1, Paul Drinkhall; 2 Liam Pitchford and 3 Andrew Baggaley; 29, As of December 1st 2012 the top three English women's table tennis players were 1, Joanna Parker; 2 Kelly Sibley and 3 Hannah Hicks; Basketball; 30, The five main positions in basketball are 1, Point guard: 2 Shooting guard: 3 Small forward: 4 Power forward: 5 Centre; 31, In November Wigan Athletic got involved with basketball, in their local area through the Wigan Athletic Community Trust; 32, The USA beat Spain to win the 2012 Olympic Gold; Athletics; 33, The Men's decathlon is contested over two days – on day one it's; 100 metres, Long jump, Shot put, High jump and then 400 metres. On day two it's 110 metres hurdles, Discus throw, Pole vault, Javelin throw and finally 1500 metres; 34, American Michael Johnson holds the current World record for the 400m with a time of 43.18 seconds; 35, The world record for the highest ever high jump has stood since 1993 when Cubas Javier Sotomayor achieved 2.45m; 36, The highest ever high jump by a woman athlete has stood since 1987! Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova jumped 2.09. Darts, 37 Phil Taylor beat Simon Whitlock 12-7 in the Premier league play-off final; 38, Sid Waddell was the legendary commentator who passed away in 2012; 39, Adrian Lewis won the 2012 PDC World darts Championship, beating Andy Hamilton 7-3 in the final.; 40. Adrian Lewis, Eric Bristow and Raymond Van Barneveld are the ONLY players to retain the PDC World darts title having won it for the very first time the year before.


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I can't imagine anyone else better than Will Ferrell to guest star on the office – and as Michael Scott's boss at that! Carrel and Ferrell have made a great team in the past in movies like Anchorman, one of my personal favorites and absolutely hilarious. With Carrell leaving the show, fans are going to need some emotional relief and stop focusing on the fact that Michael Scott will be no more.
Its going to be sad not having the hilarious antics of Michael Scott on the show, but fans will make due. Who knows, maybe Ferrell will like working on the show enough to be a permanent replacement. I feel that there's so much that could be done with his character that a replacement could almost be a refreshing facelift for the show. Ferrell's temporary stay on the show will be enough to boost the ratings for a little while, as he could guest star on a show for one episode and have loyal fans raving. There are countless numbers of stupid things Ferrell will probably do on the show. Maybe he will copy himself, fire someone unexpectedly, or get stuck somewhere. Judging from his past films it will most likely be all of the above.
As The Office is already a hit, Ferrell and Carell will make a dynamic duo and hopefully distract fans from Carell's departure. No one likes working in an office; will they like an office minus a hilarious boss? Ferrell will take care of it.


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I think it's a great idea, esp. from a new player perspective.
Solves the potential issue of "Why the hell did my launchers just get bigger?"
Solves the potential issue of "Why the hell did my launchers just get bigger?"
Will this solve the problem when you just simply want to free up a little tonnage by not using Artemis and not have to buy a new standard guidance?
Doesn't sound like it. It appears that a mech will still be completely Artemis or non-Artemis, but now switching between the two will be cheaper with the caveat that you'll actually need to own two different kinds of launchers. I imagine it will work a lot like double/single heatsinks in that when you add or remove Artemis all your launchers and ammo will be unequipped and you'll need to put on the other version.
Basically after you own sets of both kinds of launchers it will be cheaper to switch configurations than it is now but in the meantime if you only own one LRM20 and swap it between 2 mechs, one with Arty and one without, you're going to need to buy a new launcher.
Having 2 different launchers with different prices also has the potential to up salvage rewards. Probably won't be significant but every little piece helps.


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