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Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder in which you have repeated attacks of intense fear that something bad will happen.
Alternative Names
Panic attacks
The cause is unknown. Genes may play a role. Other family members may have the disorder. But panic disorder often occurs when there is no family history.
Panic disorder is twice as common in women as it is in men. Symptoms often begin before age 25, but may occur in the mid-30s. Children can also have panic disorder, but it is often not diagnosed until they are older.
A panic attack begins suddenly, and most often peaks within 10to 20 minutes. Some symptoms continue for an hour or more. A panic attack may be mistaken for a heart attack.
A person with panic disorder often lives in fear of another attack, and may be afraid to be alone or far from medical help.
People with panic disorder have at least four of the following symptoms during an attack:
Chest painor discomfort Dizzinessor faintness
- Fear of dying
- Fear of losing control or impending doom
- Feeling of choking
- Feelings of detachment
- Feelings of unreality
Nauseaor upset stomach Numbnessor tingling in the hands, feet, or face Palpitations, fast heart rate, or pounding heart
- Sensation of
shortness of breathor smothering Sweating, chills, or hot flashes
- Trembling or shaking
Panic attacks may change behavior and function at home, school, or work. People with the disorder often worry about the effects of their panic attacks.
People with panic disorder may abuse alcohol or other drugs. They may feel sad or depressed.
Panic attacks cannot be predicted. At least in the early stages of the disorder, there is no trigger that starts the attack. Recalling a past attack may trigger panic attacks.
Exams and Tests
Many people with panic disorder first seek treatment in the emergency room. This is because the panic attack often feels like a heart attack.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and a mental health assessment.
Blood tests will be done. Other medical disorders must be ruled out before panic disorder can be diagnosed. Disorders related to substance usewill be considered because symptoms canresemble panic attacks.
The goal of treatment is to help you function well during everyday life. Using both medicines and talk therapy works best.
Types of medicines used to treat panic disorder:
- Antidepressant medicines called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are mostoften prescribed for panic disorder.
- Sedatives are medicines that relax you. These may be used for a short time. There is a risk of becoming dependent on these medicines.
- Antiseizuremedicines aresometimes usedin severe cases.
Your symptoms should slowly get better over a few weeks. Do not stop taking your medicine or change the amount you are taking(dosage) without talking with your health care provider.
Talk therapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT)helps you understand your behaviors and how to change them. During therapy you will learn how to:
- Understand and control distorted views of life stressors, such as other peoples behavior or life events.
- Recognize and replace thoughts that cause panic and decrease the sense of helplessness.
- Manage stress and relax when symptoms occur.
- Imagine the things that cause the anxiety, starting with the least fearful. Practice in real-life situationsto help you overcome your fears.
The following may also help reduce the number or severity of panic attacks:
- Not drinking alcohol
- Eating at regular times
- Getting plenty of exercise
- Getting enough sleep
- Reducing or avoiding caffeine, certain cold medicines, and stimulants
Outlook (Prognosis)
Panic disorders may be long-lasting andhard to treat. Some people with this disorder may not be cured. But most persons get better when treated correctly.
People with panic disorder are more likely to:
- Abuse alcohol or illegal drugs
- Be unemployed or less productive at work
- Have difficult personal relationships, including marriage problems
- Become isolated by limiting where they go or who they are around
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if panic attacks are interfering with your work, relationships, or self-esteem.
Call 911 or see your doctor right away if you develop suicidal thoughts.
If you get panic attacks, avoid the following:
- Alcohol
- Stimulants such as caffeine and cocaine
These substances may trigger or worsen the symptoms.
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed. Arlington, Va: American Psychiatric Publishing. 2013.
Hofmann SG, Smits JA. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for adult anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials. J Clin Psychiatry. 2008;69:621-632.
Pollack MH, Kinrys G, Delong H, Vasconcelos e SD, Simon NM. The pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, et al., eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 41.
Taylor CT, Pollack MH, LeBeau RT, Simon NM. Anxiety disorders: Panic, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, et al., eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 32.
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I keep hearing that DelRey is horrible, but I read their Negima and it seemed alright. Then again I don't know the original. So someone needs to fill me in on the "evilness" of DelRey.
It's DelRay who licensed it and from what I've heard about them, they are horrible with their translations. In an evil way, I'm actually looking forward to seeing the first volume on the shelves at the bookstore so I can browse through it and see how much different the "professionals" are from my traslations.
Let's hope they don't have crappy page long translator essays... or as roots calls them... "notes"...
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Forecasters predict a foot of snow for midweek
Snow dance, anyone?
Having endured the two driest back-to-back, mid-winter months in recorded history, Mammoth and the Eastern Sierra may get a break beginning Tuesday night, March 5, and Wednesday, March 6, according to the National Weather Service.
How much snow will fall is up in the air, so a good, old-fashioned snow dance still would be appropriate.
Even without the dance, though, forecasters predicted on Thursday, Feb. 28, that there ought to be enough precipitation to break the vexing dry pattern that left Mammoth Mountain Ski Area with just 36 inches of snow in January and February.
That total is the lowest since the ski area began keeping records in the 1969-70 ski season, beating the previous low of 39.5 inches in the drought season of 1984-85.
Even last season, by consensus a disaster snow year across the board because of low snow totals in the holiday seasons, Mammoth Mountain gathered 90.5 inches of snow during January and February, en route to a respectable season total of 263 inches.
This season, because of prodigious snow in November (60.7 inches) and December (147.1 inches), Mammoth Mountain is still skiing well, but nobody wants to think the season is over.
Even a possible weekend lagniappe of an inch or two would ease the anxiety level, which is what the National Weather Service suggested in its weekend forecast.
The more significant action is for Wednesday, March 6, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service in Reno.
"The bulk of the precipitation should reach the Sierra between Tuesday night and midday Wednesday," the weather service stated in its forecast.
"Snow levels should start at 6,000 to 7,000 feet. This system isn't too impressive, as the flow is not amplified enough to pick up a subtropical tap, which may limit storm totals. The storm will bring just over a foot along the crest."
So far, forecasters are holding off in predicting what may happen in March, which traditionally has been a wildly unpredictable snow month in Mammoth.
As recently as 2011, Mammoth was blanketed by 177.5 inches of snow in March en route to a record snow season of 668.5 inches, and in 2006, March yielded 164.1 inches of snow.
On the other hand, in 1971, Mammoth Mountain recorded just one inch of snow in March, one-tenth of an inch in 1997, and just 13 inches in 2007.
Mammothites and visitors ought to bring at least two types of footwear to the ski hill. Snowboard and ski boots, yes.
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On an unrelated note, let's not confuse this particular issue with shipping, because that's not the point at all. I view the purpose of this scene as a form of character development for Yozora, and someone in the club had to tell her off. It didn't have to be Sena, it could have been Rika or anyone else. It had nothing to do with shipping so let's evaluate the scene without our shipping glasses on.
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I had a thought:
How do you think will Yozora react if Kodaka took Sena's place in scolding her for the childhood friend fixation? Never mind the very low possibility of it actually happening, just think of Yozora's reaction.
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I'm not sure which part she's more upset about:
Sena giving her opinion or
Sena giving her opinion in front of Kodaka.
Leaning towards the latter.
Mind you, because she wasn't sure if Kodaka remembered, it took her almost a semester to reveal her identity and that's with events pushing her along. So any questions that has the potential to raise doubts in Kodaka, is ruination.
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Trolls. God damn frigging trolls. The episode titles are merely just a shoutout to other novels, and doesn't necessarily have to do anything with the episode content. I mean the second half deals with a movie that's has a cast of childhood friends, but no fighting at all. And in the 'real world', we got lots of fighting but still only Yozora to be the childhood friend. So I guess in a way they fulfilled the episode title, but they have done it separately. :sigh:
And here I was so hyped up to have another childhood friend revealed (or heck I would have settled with 'added') to the cast. So much disappointment AND anger within. >:-(
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Okay, maybe that's a bit much, but unless Kodaka corrected himself on his faux pas, it would have a bad effect on Yozora, likely coming close to the top of the list of her most significant traumas.
Good episode. I think it's kind of endearing just how unashamedly biased Yozora is towards those she cares about.
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That being said, no reason to forget Neko-moe Yozora!
(btw, for some reasons, certain close up scenes in this episode reminds me of Nobuna's character designs... I think it's the eyes...)
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We know that Yozora sees Sena as a threat to her and Kodaka's (currently non-existent) relationship, and gives her hell for it. While Sena only now starts to understand that Yozora really wants Kodaka, before that, Yozora was just in the same way a rival to her as she was to Yozora. But, unlike Yozora, Sena is not afraid of commitment, so as long as Yozora stays passive towards Kodaka, she'll push herself away from everyone else more than anything. And at the same time, a lot of people are working behind the scenes to get Sena and Kodaka together, meaning Yozora could lose him forever if she doesn't act, at which point she'll end up all alone.
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I can say too , why are they showing a Japanese movie in a French theater?
"C'est si bon"
Anyway , Kodaka's chara development isn't making any progress at all this is great....
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If Rika is thinking what I always think when she heard Yozora and Sena talk about "practicing for when we get friends", it would be "Aren't you all friends already?"
After all, Rika is sharp under that ero persona, and Kodaka should know what she's thinking, since he's had a normal school life with friends before.
It didn't bother me so much in the first season, but they sure seemed to get A LOT closer since then. I am getting exasperated with all that "practicing for friends" talk when to any outsider's eyes, they're basically as close as friends could get...
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Is Rika the one who said "I seen this story before"....If yes, does this means Yozora is plagiarize from random media? I mean, It is Rika, there is no way this girl can do wrong here.
Also, this episode isn't that fun compares to previous episode. The characters name got me confused in this episode. LOL
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sena , that a@@ on that shot, whew another no pan girl??( though quite creepy with that peropero scene oh why oh why....)
yozora she actually looked cool in that black jersey suit...but on a "date" well I guess it's not a "date"
c'est si bon! is C'EST SI BON! funny but weird choice of movie to watch on second thought , I guess the title is in french & they didin't know better >.<
aw f@@@ ! Rika got me there!!! it took me some seconds to see thru that what the heck cosplaying as Kobato ,, genius I say !! I even wondered what Kobato was doing there when her own class has their own movie to film & wondered the next second where Rika was (like is she readying the camera as per the opening ) ahaha >.< man she really is getting cooler & cooler ,
Btw what was she gonna say , that Kodaka already knew too? that they're already friends? well we never got confirmation but I guess that's it.
Kodaka as the imouto....I wished they stayed there :P ahaha
ah ah what a reversal there with Sena being the "reason" , and yozora doing the running away at the end of the confrontation. But who was really hurt here, just as Sena said never did she wish that yozora never existed in fact, that's a really painful thing to say. I even felt she became more gullible in the hopes that something would be there between them. Yozora was the one crying but Sena was the one shafted here. And no,being Osananajimi is no excuse here and never will be. Kodaka is not a thing that belongs to Yozora nor with anyone else, what yozora was trying to do with the script, just felt wrong to me in a lot of ways even before Sena confronted her about it. Then again Yozora has been doing that since the very beginning, in various ways. i guess that's one reason why she kinda rubs me the wrong way. Hope she gets past this though. Having a friend is not owning them. She should really stop lugging her past baggages along all the time, as Sena & Kodaka said. Although Kodaka was being kinda circuitous and seemed quite spineless/indecisive as always. Anyway at least the ending was hopeful & filming starts next episode ^^
this seems to be the story of the last arc this season.
I liked this episode, good mix of comedy with nice char dev & plot progression. oh well Rika always makes it good
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I'm glad somebody finally put Yozora in her place. And I'm even happier that somebody was Sena. What she told her was absolutely right, she shouldn't keep dwelling on the past. The present is what matters. I never thought I'd ever see Yozora running away crying Sena-style... I kinda felt bad for her. Actually, not really. I find it hard to sympathize with her given her attitude. Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call and she will start to change.
Until now I thought Yozora had romantic feelings for Kodaka, but this episode made it clear all she truly wants is for their relationship to go back to how it was 10 years ago. This works perfectly. This way, they can reach the best ending where Sena becomes Kodaka's wife, Yozora his BFF and Rika his mistress. Everybody will be happy!
As for the funny parts of the episode, the French movie took the cake. Rika's Kobato cosplay wasn't bad either, she totally had me fooled for a second. I'm loving Rika this season. Everything she does is gold.
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someone i know is selling a diamondback roadbike, vintage from the 80s i think looking at the gear.
Has some nice parts and some not so nice parts but the person selling it has no idea how much it is worth so i suggested to go for 50-100 range as a lot of work needs to be done.
Ill let the pictures do the talking
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the hubs were so dirty i couldnt even rub it with my finger but i think it said suzuke
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Looks like a low end Hiten POS from here. Ebay at 99c start, might fetch $37.33 if they are lucky. Stem mounted shifters , pressed ends and bolt on RD, make it a KMart special from back in the day. The stickers look like some kid's addition in the past. I've seen heaps of this type of bike on hard rubbish ,and been offered plenty for free, but just say "nah thanks".
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BRLVR.v2 wrote:Looks like a low end Hiten POS from here. Ebay at 99c start, might fetch $37.33 if they are lucky.
lol i love the accuracy you predict this!
I thought the shimano golden arrow brakes were a nice vintage item to take apart.. other than that, junk as you say..
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What BRLVR said, the stickers would have just been thrown on there at some stage. I reckon you might get something for those brakes if you give them a scrub and pop them up. And if those brake levers say Shimano i'll give you $20 plus post for them, they're just what i want for my current project.
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Postby Ferrovelo » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:38 am
The good thing about that auction site is you can just put on there and see what happens. If he's got his heart set on a number, start at that, no sale nothing lost. If he's happy just to get rid of it, stat at 99c and see what happens.
Nothing lost either way.
In terms of what it's worth, who knows. Not too crazy to think you might get $50, more if your lucky, less if your not.
Those brakes might fetch $30-40 on their own if you listed them separately.
Nothing lost either way.
In terms of what it's worth, who knows. Not too crazy to think you might get $50, more if your lucky, less if your not.
Those brakes might fetch $30-40 on their own if you listed them separately.
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Israel stepped up its air assault on the Gaza Strip, following the killings of Israeli and Palestinian teens. Unlike air strikes in the past, Israel has tempered its initial show of force for several reasons, but the situation appears to be steadily intensifying.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Robert Siegel. Both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas intensified their attacks today. For days, militants in the Gaza Strip have been firing missiles at Israel. They haven't killed anyone, but their numbers and range are increasing, triggering air raid sirens in many areas. And Israel has launched scores of airstrikes on Gaza. Palestinian medical officials say more than 15 people have been killed as a result. Israel has mobilized tens of thousands of reservists for a possible ground assault on the Gaza Strip. That would be a huge, dangerous and controversial undertaking. NPR's Ari Shapiro joins us from Jerusalem to discuss the latest. And Ari, what can you tell us about the attack so far?
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Well, here in Jerusalem around 10 p.m. local time, air raid sirens went off. I was here in my hotel. We were led to a secure storage room. Around the same time, Hamas said it had aimed a rocket at Haifa - that's a city in the north of Israel. And earlier in the evening, Israel's military said it intercepted a rocket aimed at Tel Aviv. For context, areas close to Gaza often get rockets, and air raid sirens there are kind of a fact of life. But that is not the case in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. So, all of this shows a clear escalation by Hamas militants. The Israeli military, as you mentioned, said there is no indication of casualties from this latest assault. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement. He said Israel has, quote, "significantly expanded our operations against Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza." He added, "Israel is not eager for war, but the security of our citizens is our primary consideration."
SIEGEL: All of this comes after a couple of days of bombardment. Give us some broader sense of the scale of the conflict right now.
SHAPIRO: While even before this expansion that Prime Minister Netanyahu just announced, Israel's military had said it had fired on 150 targets in Gaza, in response to 160 rockets being fired from Gaza towards Israel. The military, as you mentioned is mobilizing reserve forces, thousands of troops saying that a ground invasion is possible but not imminent. If that happens, it would be a significant escalation. The Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon said this battle will not end within a few days.
SIEGEL: Ari, this comes after the deaths of a Palestinian teenager and three Israeli teens. How has the violence intensified since then?
SHAPIRO: It's been a slow buildup for the last few weeks. As you mentioned, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed. A Palestinian teenager was then burned alive; apparently as an act of revenge. Ever since, there have been steadily building protests and skirmishes, first rocks and rubber bullets, and now rockets and missiles. This is the worst violence since the war in 2012 that lasted roughly a week. And when I spoke to Israelis near Gaza today, even those who support the defense have told me they have no illusions that this will create long-term peace; rather they said maybe it'll just buy a another cease-fire for a couple of years.
SIEGEL: How is this affecting living in southern Israel, and for that matter, in Gaza?
SHAPIRO: It's all that anybody talks about. One Israeli newspaper this morning printed a map showing how far various cities are from Gaza, and how many seconds you have to get to shelter if an air raid siren sounds. So, the city of Ashdod is 20 miles away and a siren means you have 45 seconds to find shelter. If you're in Ashkelon, you're 14 miles from the Gaza border, a siren means you have 30 seconds to take cover. A mother and her adult daughter who were having lunch at a cafe in Ashdod today told me, when we sit down at the restaurant, we ask the waitress where the nearest shelter is, and that way we know which way to run when the siren goes. And in Gaza, NPR's producer Ahmed Abu Hamda took photos of airstrikes in his neighborhood; huge plumes of smoke and flames. He says he's trying to make his young kids ignore the blasts, but they are pretty shaken up by them.
SIEGEL: Okay, Ari, thank you so much.
SHAPIRO: You're welcome.
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I paid my visit to Times Square Pizza shortly after a trip to New York City, where I'd sampled some seriously amazing pizza.
I paid my visit to Times Square Pizza shortly after a trip to New York City, where I'd sampled some seriously amazing pizza.
We ate a pie at the legendary Lombardi's in SoHo, which many regard as the first pizzeria in the country, and at the Oprah Winfrey-touted Mariella Pizza in Midtown. I can't lie, the pizza I ate on this trip was the best I'd ever had. The crusts were crisp and chewy and had the telltale blisters of a super-hot oven. The cheese was perfect and the sauce was balanced in flavor and amount. It was heaven.
Frankly, I felt a little bad about having to review Times Square Pizza after this trip. How would they stack up to these legends?
Happily, Times Square Pizza measured up and offered a near-New York experience here in my back yard. According to the owner, Walter Lemishev, a Brooklyn native and New York pizza veteran, they make their own pizza dough, sauces and toppings for their sandwiches and pastas in-house. They shred their own cheese, something Lemishev said adds to the freshness of their pies. I agree.
We started with a calzone, which turned out to be one of my least favorite items on the menu. It wasn't bad, just unremarkable. The cheese filling – a blend of ricotta and mozzarella – was plentiful and tasted fresh, but the crust was a little on the tough side, like it had been kneaded a minute too long, and I found the marinara dipping sauce watery and a bit acidic. The acid I didn't mind so much, it was the thinness that killed it. Had it been thicker, the acid would have offered a nice counterpoint to the fattiness of the cheese.
The pizza made up for everything the calzone lacked. We ordered their signature pie, the Times Square's Bianco Pizza, and found that it wasn't too garlicky, as is often the case with white pizza. The crust was thin and crisp, but not cut-the-roof-of-your-mouth crisp, while still having a nice chew to it. One of my biggest issues with pizza is when the crust can't support the cheese – it speaks of too much cheese or too little crust, a problem either way. This pie was perfectly balanced.
I will say that the crust is a little different than many diners may be used to. Traditionally, pizza has either flour or cornmeal on the bottom to keep it from sticking in the oven. At Times Square Pizza, they cook their pies in oil on a specially designed rack, giving their crust a slightly different, heartier texture. If you're not sure how you'll like the crust, don't sweat buying a whole pie; they sell pizza by the slice.
The menu offers things other than pizza. A half-dozen pasta dishes, a trio of subs, four salads and a handful of appetizers and specialties – like stromboli and garlic knots – are available as well.
We skipped the classic spaghetti and meatballs and headed instead for the more adventurous baked ziti. The "baked" moniker is a bit misleading – this was more like ziti tossed in a delicious creamy red sauce and then broiled with some cheese over it than actually baked, but, man, it was good. Often, true baked ziti can dry out and get hard. This dish is delicate but with all the cheesy, gooey goodness you want.
My wife and brother-in-law are very opinionated when it comes to subs, or grinders, as they call them, so we had to try all three .
For starters, the bread was fantastic, but what's in the bread is what counts. The sausage and peppers was the big winner, with meatball in second and chicken Parmesan third. The sausage (and the meatball, for that matter) was sliced very thinly, making it easy to eat. All of these subs requirenapkins, but they weren't so sloppy you'd feel bad eating one on a date. I'm not a huge meatball fan – sometimes the consistency goes horribly awry – but these were quite good.
One thing really bothered me about Times Square Pizza. Their sign says "Times Square Pizza," and the owners and servers insist this is their name. Yet their menu, signature menu item and every Internet listing I could find for them says "Time Square Pizza," no "s." Maybe it's just the writer in me, but I wish they'd be consistent.
In any event, Times Square Pizza delivers within a three-mile radius, so they serve all of the surrounding apartment complexes, which should delight the pizza-gobbling college crowd. It also delighted me as I live just inside their radius. The delivery was fast – just over 30 minutes from the time I ordered to the time I was eating – and the food was still hot.
The bottom line is this: The food tasted like it came from an authentic New York pizzeria. It's clear to me, they know their way around a pie at Times Square Pizza.
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Really good pc rpg that is free?
Hey I'm looking for a game that is somewhat like Ragnarok or Final Fantasy XI that you dont have to pay a monthly fee to play online. It would be nice if it was pc. Any suggestions?
|2004-05-30, 23:03
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there's a game out called Fairy Land... Although the game sounds really cheezy. Its RPG, and lots of people play it. Thats the only one i know thats for free. Run a search on this site...there was a thread on this topic.
oh yeah.. search for mmorpg games..
|2004-05-31, 03:20
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Cardboard Box
Age: 33
diablo (damn old game that hardly anybody plays anymore after the sequal came out, but free multiplayer and you can probably find the game for dirt cheap)
diablo II (just buy the game for 30 bucks and multiplayer is free)
shadowflare (4 parts to the game, the first part is free, the other 3 parts are 5 bucks each and multiplayer is free)
but other than that, most rpg games are very evil and charge monthly fees for online gameplay
|2004-05-31, 06:00
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Location: Netherlands, Maastricht
Age: 32
Over here in The Netherlands, Diablo II is 10,- and Lord of Destruction is another 10,-
I know this because I recently bought them again (because I lost them both )
An upcoming free MMORPG is Guild Wars, though you'll have to wait until it comes out.
You can also try Runescape, which is free, or you can pay for a larger world, more items etc.
|2004-06-01, 04:19
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Location: UK
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I play a game called mu online , its similar to diablo but its free to download and play.
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|2004-06-01, 13:16
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Runescape and priston tale are the two mmorpgs I know that are free(excluding the hundreds of MUDs I came upon on mpogd.com). But you shouldn't get too hopeful that finding a free mmorpg that you like since free mmorpg is a rarity nowadays, if you don't mind interaction via plain text then go to mpogd.com and look up for free MUDs.
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Planeshift is a free MMO in the works. It is currently in a very early stage. All you can do at the moment is run around, talk to people, and collect gems. The next version, which will include monsters, and combat, should be released in a few months. It is definitly one to keep an eye on.
Personally, I'm waiting for Guild Wars.
|2004-06-04, 23:28
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you know sorry to bother you guys about this but I am sick and tired of this horse@#$. (cover your ears....eyes little kids).
From this forum some people have been telling me to try and use the search next time...you think I am totally oblivious of what goes on in this forum? Seriously you try looking up the words rpg games on the search and see what comes up. NADA. So arigatou gozaimas for those of you who gave me recommendations and those others...urusai!!
Edit: Oops...nevermind all the ranting i did there....i guess im a bit oldschool in this forum cuz there was no game section b4....i just noticed now...gomen (note i noticed right after i posted this....)
|2004-06-05, 03:14
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yah you wont find many MMORPG's to be free since the cost for servers and staff members to keep adding new quests features etc,, unless its in beta stages (ragnarok used to be free in beta but crazy lag due to massive people on 2 servers) their are private betas for some of the MMORPGS that are going retail if you sign up you might win (matrix online, and World of warcraft but i think the signups on both are over im prettysure about wow not about matrix) but good multiplayer rpg is and forever will be untill its next sequal
DIABLO 2 LOD (d2 expansion)
|2004-06-05, 19:43
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Location: Somewhere along the eastern seaboard
Age: 28
You could always try MUD games...just plain ol' text games. There aren't many graphics (except fo Ascii art) but the gameplay is good for some of them and they're free too. BUt i doubt anyone plays MUD games anymore...
|2004-06-06, 01:38
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Just wait for Guild Wars to come out. You pay the price for a full game and you will be able to play mmorpg without having to pay a montly fee. But if you're that desperate, then you can always find a private server for ragnarok online. It will be free, but its not the same as the official server. Right now the best game you can get for the pc is Far Cry. You can also play Call of Duty if you havent played it yet.
|2004-06-24, 16:51
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There are hardly any free MMORPGs Out there.
Try Gunbound however,(yes, Gunbound is considered an MMORPG)u can download it for free at www.Gunbound.net
If u r into a complete MMORPG experience, try Runescape. I for one hate runescape because of its aweful graphics and reppetetive gameplay, but i guess that might work.....
Its hard to find good RPG's nowadays, everyone is trying tyo do the same thing...
I recommend gunbound though, they really think outtside the box.
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Come July, it�ll be 30 years since her son, Carl Siler Jr., died.
But for Annie Siler Humrickhouse, the pain remains as sharp as the day it happened, so, please, bear with her as she struggles through the telling.
�If I�m not rational, you have to understand,� Humrickhouse said, her voice breaking almost from the start.
�I still grieve. He was my precious child.�
Of the story of her son and the circumstances that led to his death, Humrickhouse said, �It needs to be told. It needs to be revisited. His life did matter. Maybe this will save the life of another.�
Siler � his mother still refers to him as �Carl Junior� � was 25 when he died. He was a graduate of Williams High School and Appalachian State, where he double-majored in math and computer science.
At Williams, he�d been superb in the 440-yard run, qualifying for the state finals in Raleigh. He�d also been on the cross country team and was a fine pole vaulter. At Appalachian, Siler ran cross country. His love of sports was strong.
Coming out of high school, Siler had been offered a partial scholarship to attend Wake Forest University to run cross country, but turned it down to go to Appalachian, where tuition was less expensive.
Carl Junior, Humrickhouse said, was more than an outstanding athlete � he was also a young man blessed with a brilliant mind.
�He always wanted to be an electrical engineer,� she said.
Siler also had a love of ham radio � a member of the Alamance Amateur Radio Club. Humrickhouse remembers that one year, during a 24-hour competition where ham radio operators see how many contacts they can make with others around the world, Siler led all of Alamance County. His accomplishment made it into the Times-News.
It was indicative, said Bob Price, a former president of the Alamance Amateur Radio Club, of Siler�s commitment to the hobby.
�He was quite interested in that,� Price said. �He was quite a participant.�
After graduating from Appalachian, Siler enrolled in the School of Electrical Engineering at N.C. State, where he tutored underclassmen. Humrickhouse said after her son�s death, she heard from people who said they would never have made it through college had it not been for the help of her son.
Humrickhouse said that when over the years she�s read of technological advances in places like Silicon Valley, Calif., she can�t help but wonder if her son would have been involved and made his mark on a national level.
�He would have been a contributor,� Humrickhouse said. �The world � it lost so much.�
SILER WASreturning to Burlington from Greensboro in the early hours of July 31, 1983. He was engaged to Jean Woodard, who lived in Boone.
The night he died, Siler was with Nancy Yearout. The two had been friends for years and had spent the previous evening together.
Denise Siler Murdock was Carl Junior�s sister, just a little more than 10 months older than her brother. Their birthdays were so close that for six weeks each year, they were the same age.
Murdock said she and the rest of her family thought highly of Yearout.
�Our thinking was this: Carl spent his last night out with his friend, Nancy � who he truly cared for,� Murdock wrote via Facebook.
There was no alcohol involved in the accident that claimed her son�s life. Humrickhouse said her son didn�t drink and, according to a story in the Times-News that followed the accident, there was no mention in a N.C. Highway Patrol report of alcohol being involved.
About 1:30 a.m. Siler was a passenger in a 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit driven by Yearout, who was 24. They were traveling north on Interstate 85 and had just crossed from Guilford County into Alamance County. The site is today close to the location of an interstate rest area, which was at the time under construction.
According to the Highway Patrol, Siler was killed when a horse that had escaped a nearby pasture wandered onto the interstate. It was actually the second horse out of the pasture, Humrickhouse said, the first having already crossed the highway.
The horse that killed her son, Humrickhouse said, was first hit by another vehicle. The force of the collision threw the horse into the Volkswagen, where Siler was a front-seat passenger. The crash all but ripped the top from the car.
Yearout, Humrickhouse said, was a small woman who sat low and survived the crash. But her son, Humrickhouse said, was 6 feet 5 and sat high enough to where he sustained severe head injuries.
�It was bad,� Trooper Gerald Wilburn of the N.C. Highway Patrol said in a story printed in the Times-News the day following the accident.
Humrickhouse and the father of her three children, Carl Siler Sr., had been divorced several years. She had remarried only 15 days before her son died. Humrickhouse and her husband were at the beach that night.
Her youngest son, Kenneth, seven years younger than Carl Junior, called to tell his mother that Carl was at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro.
�He said, �Mom, you�d better come fast,�� Humrickhouse said.
She fainted dead away. Carl Junior was kept on life support only four hours. There was little doctors could do.
�The doctor was crying,� Humrickhouse said of the decision to take her son off life support. �Carl (Sr.) was crying.�
Of the individuals who owned the farm from which the horse escaped, Humrickhouse said, �I don�t hate the people. I hate what they did.�
She said the Highway Patrol told her and her ex-husband that the accident in which their son died marked the second time in a year horses had gotten loose from that particular farm. No serious injuries resulted from the previous escape.
�It�s incomprehensible,� Humrickhouse said of horses escaping twice in such a short period of time. �They were negligent. People don�t want to take responsibility for their negligence.�
LAWS PERTAININGto such accidents were vague in 1983 and little has apparently been done to change them. Thirty years ago, immediately following Siler�s death, there was debate among law enforcement officials as to whether the matter should be pursued by the Highway Patrol or Alamance County Animal Control.
Randy Jones, a spokesman for the Alamance County Sheriff�s Office, said even today, anyone seeking justice in such a case would almost surely have to go through civil court for retribution.
�It�d have to be civil unless someone was trying to build a manslaughter case,� Jones said.
He noted deputies respond to calls throughout the year concerning livestock that have escaped from pens and pastures. Jones said such calls increase in the spring with the arrival of warm weather. Just a few weeks ago a deputy had to grab a stray horse around its neck in order to corral it.
Alamance County District Attorney Pat Nadolski said the toughest criminal violation the owner of such a horse might face is a charge of allowing livestock to run free. The offense is a misdemeanor.
THE DEATHof their son changed many things for Humrickhouse and others in her family. Humrickhouse was a popular educator, teaching at Turrentine Middle School for 15 years prior to the accident.
She took two years off to mourn her son.
�There�s not words,� Humrickhouse said. �I cried for two years.�
She said she keeps a handful of pictures of her son in the office of her home in Raleigh.
�I look at them and pretend it�s 30 years ago,� Humrickhouse said. �I pretend the accident never happened.�
She�s the grandmother now to six � Denise and Kenneth having three children each. But Humrickhouse said she�ll always wonder about the children her oldest son may have raised.
�I still wait for him to come in the door,� she said. �I see my other grandchildren and find myself wondering, �Where�s Carl�s?��
Humrickhouse said she stayed in touch with Woodard, her son�s fianc�e, for a period following his death. Woodard is a nurse now, Humrickhouse said, and eventually married a police officer.
But Humrickhouse said she had to finally stop calling.
�There comes a time the contacts cease,� she said. �You don�t need the memories.�
Chuck Crenshaw ran track with Siler at Williams, but admitted, �He was a lot more dedicated than me.�
Crenshaw said when they were in high school, it wasn�t unusual for Siler to find him at lunch, a stop watch in his hand. Instead of eating, Siler would go to the track behind the school and complete an 880-yard run � two full laps around the field.
He wanted Crenshaw along to time him.
�He was obsessed with breaking two minutes,� Crenshaw said. �And he did.�
Crenshaw said that for a period, Siler held school records in both the 440- and 880-yard runs. Crenshaw and Siler were two of the four members of the school�s mile-relay team.
�He was quite an athlete,� Crenshaw said. �And he was a good guy, too.�
Crenshaw said he still thinks of Siler often, especially when he�s traveling the interstate from Burlington to Greensboro or back � at the site of the accident.
�When one of your buddies dies, it sticks with you,� he said.
Henry Klaiber coached Siler on the cross country team at Williams and taught him advanced math. Siler was one of his best runners and a favorite student.
�Whatever he was involved with, he took very seriously and tried very hard to excel,� Klaiber said.
He said he remembers the cross country team at Williams winning its conference championship during both Siler�s junior and senior years. Siler was one of the primary reasons, Klaiber said.
�He was always one of the top finishers,� Klaiber said. �I still remember the day he died. It was a shock. It was a terrible waste of life.�
Humrickhouse eventually returned to teaching after getting an offer from Betty Bowman, who was principal at Broadview Middle School. Humrickhouse went back to teaching sixth-graders, a job she loved.
�Betty called and said, �I have a job for you,�� Humrickhouse said. �I needed to go back to work. I told my family, �If I don�t get my life together, I�ll be in a mental institution.��
Humrickhouse said that as difficult as the accident was for her, it was equally devastating for her ex-husband � a well-known Burlington barber with a shop at Medical Village on Vaughn Road.
�It was hard on Carl,� Humrickhouse said.
She said her ex-husband drove the interstate often following the accident � pulling to the shoulder to study the fence around the pasture from which the horse that caused the accident escaped.
�Carl could see where the fence was in disrepair,� she said. �It was inexcusable.�
Carl Sr. died last August and was buried beside his son at Alamance Memorial Park. Humrickhouse said that prior to the death of her ex-husband, she hadn�t visited the cemetery in at least 20 years � the pain of looking at her son�s grave too much to bear.
She said attending the funeral of her ex-husband and seeing his grave marker beside her son�s was in a sense comforting.
�I felt a little better,� Humrickhouse said. �Carl can take care of Carl Junior now.�


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Lipscomb bats caught fire Friday evening in the consolation bracket as the No. 2-seeded Lady Bisons defeated No. 4 seed Campbell 7-2 in the Atlantic Sun Championship at Cyrill Stadium.
Lipscomb plays Jacksonville Saturday at 11 a.m. central in the championship game with an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament on the line. Because Lipscomb is coming out of the consolation bracket, the Lady Bisons will have to defeat Jacksonville twice to earn the conference crown. Game two would come thirty minutes following the conclusion of game one.
Breanna Thurman led off the first for Lipscomb with a walk. Mackenzie Tucker advanced her to second with an infield single. Caroline Mason advanced them into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt and then Mollie Mitchell walked to load the bases. After an out, Kristen Sturdivant drove in two runs with a single to left field.
After allowing just one base runner in the first three innings, Lipscomb pitcher Ali Watson escaped a bases-loaded situation in the fourth inning. Campbell produced two singles and then an error by third baseman Rena Cothron loaded the bases with two outs. Watson induced a ground ball out to second base to end the inning.
The Lady Bisons expanded their lead to 5-0 in the bottom of the fourth. Cothron squeezed home Shelby Cunningham on a sacrifice bunt with two outs. Then Bridgette Begle doubled two runs in with a line drive off the third baseman's glove.
Watson wasn't as lucky in the fifth inning. Sarah Ling had a leadoff double for Campbell. An error then put runners on the corners. Then Campbell pulled a delayed double steal scoring a run when the Lady Bisons opted to throw down to second. Two batters later, Campbell scored their second run of the inning on a groundout.
Lipscomb made up the two runs in the bottom half of the inning. With one out, Mitchell and then Courtney Billington had back-to-back doubles scoring Mitchell. Two consecutive walks loaded the bases with one out. Cothron hit a shallow fly to right field which was dropped allowing Billington to score and put Lipscomb up 7-2.
Watson pitched a seven-hit complete game allowing two runs, one earned, to improve to 8-4 on the season.
All games during the Atlantic Sun Softball Championship are shown for free on ASun.TV.


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|the wandering dragon (ladykaiyu) wrote,
@ 2009-11-24 20:02:00
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The stupid is strong with this lawsuit. Very, very strong.
Waaah! Blizzard's making me run to and from places in WoW instead of immediately giving me a shiny mount so I can move faster at level one! I'm gonna sue them!
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Winona Ryder, Depeche Mode Factor in WOW Lawsuit
November 24, 2009
World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzard is the latest target of a lawsuit by serial suer (or professional plaintiff) Erik Estavillo.
Filed this morning in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, the civil complaint charges Activision Blizzard with "deceitful" business practices, as it "continues to maintain a harmful virtual environment to many of its customers by forcing them to follow the game's sneaky and deceitful practices."
Among Estavillo's claims is that WOW is designed for a gamer "to walk or run at a calculated slow pace, resulting in the player taking longer to get where he or she needs to go in the game." This slow pace, says the plaintiff, leads to a longer time needed to finish game play or quests, in turn leading to more subscription revenue for Activision Blizzard.
Estavillo also complains that faster transportation is not available until a player levels up accordingly, or purchases an expansion pack.
The plaintiff then likens his health problems (OCD, Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder, major depression and Crohn's Disease) to the afflictions that ailed the late EverQuest gamer Shawn Woolley, who took his own life on Thanksgiving morning in 2001. Estavillo stated that he "doesn't want to end up like Shawn did as he [Estavillo] relies on videogames heavily for the little ongoing happiness he can achieve in this life."
Estavillo subpoenaed Depeche Mode founder Martin Lee Gore and actress Winona Ryder to provide testimony on his behalf regarding the subject of alienation.
Gore was subpoenaed because "he himself has been known to be sad, lonely, and alienated as can be seen in the songs he writes," and Ryder because of her and Estavillo's common interest in the J.D. Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye. Ryder would be able to, "explain the significance of alienation in Catcher in the Rye and will also testify to how alienation in the book can tie to alienation in real live/video games such as World of Warcraft."
Estavillo is seeking punitive damages of $1.0 million and a court order that WOW implement changes that address the issues of his complaint.
Other lawsuits filed by Estavillo include one against Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), following a banning from the PlayStation Network, and a recent suit that targeted Microsoft and Nintendo—the former over an Xbox 360 red ring of death and the latter over a firmware update that disabled his Homebrew Channel.


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gorilla monsoon wrote:The only reason for a guy to wear a g string is because he likes to wear womens underwear
You gotta get out more. You can get G-bangers/thongs for blokes. I've seen them in the more upmarket menswear shops.
Just because something exists and is available in the market place doesn't mean its a good idea, or that an item will actually be useful. We've all seen the promotions for the 'Snuggy' and I don't know that it'd be useful as a kennel liner for your pet dog, let alone something a human would wear.


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Add a known amount of water, and measure exactly how much water you are able to drain out of the system. The amount you can't drain is effectively your dead space. Mine is ~ 1/2 gallon, slightly less. Take that into consideration for your water measurements.
Why would you have dead space in the brew kettle? Wouldn't you just pick up the kettle and pour everything out? Of course there would be the grub issue. I will try the recommendation for both my tun and kettle and see what is left. Thanks guys.
Not everyone picks up the kettle and dumps it out.I would venture to guess that most people don't actually. I have a spigot on my kettle that drains through a hop stopper screen.


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"We asked to the players to tell us where we fell short and let them identify some of the areas," said Bennett. "Hopefully, they will take it to heart. We are a very young team.
"Against Central Arkansas we executed our offense with patience in the last seven or eight minutes and got great shots. This time we didn't. We have to differentiate what makes us successful and what doesn't make us successful."
Guard Jenna Bartsokas hit some key 3-point shots for the Lady Bisons, but they couldn't remain in control of Austin Peay, one of the top teams in the Ohio Valley Conference, at Allen Arena Tuesday night.
"It was a great opportunity and we missed it," said Bennett.
Bartsokas led the Lady Bisons with 16 points, hitting four-of-six attempts from 3-point range.
Also in double figures for the Lady Bisons were forward Valerie Bronson with 11 and guard Chelsea Burroughs with 10.
The Lady Bisons shot 31.7 percent from the field (20-63) and 6-of-25 from 3-point range (24 percent). At the free throw line they were 6-of-17 for 35.3 percent.
"We didn't make the plays we needed to in order to give ourselves a chance," said Bennett. "Free throws were one area, obviously. We left a lot of points on the floor there.
"We have a lot of good 3-point shooters. We didn't shoot the ball from the 3-point line like we are capable of doing. Take Jenna out of it and it was pretty dismal."
The Lady Bisons came out strong against Austin Peay, leading by as many as nine points on four occasions in the first half. With 3:10 left to play before intermission Austin Peay tied the game at 20-20. With 2:29 remaining it was 23-23. Bartsokas connected on a 3-pointer with 1:50 left to give the Lady Bisons a 26-25 advantage, but they went into the dressing room trailing 27-26.
In the second half the Lady Bisons were able to get back into the lead, but their last advantage was 36-34 with 12:17 left in the game.
"I thought we were playing hard with a high tempo, but we were getting fair shots too many times instead of being a little more patient and getting a great shot," said Bennett.
"They switched to a zone defense in the first half. We got open shots, but we weren't hitting them. We didn't give the post a chance to touch the ball. We really didn't attack the zone. We shot quick shots and that gave them a chance to get back into it."
Austin Peay guard Ashley Herring led all scorers with 23 points, with nine points from the free throw line. Austin Peay only managed to shoot 36.2 percent from the field, hitting 21-of-58 shots.
"I thought our defense was pretty good," said Bennett. "We fouled a pretty good bit late trying to stop the clock. I think we would have kept them in the low 50s if we hadn't done that. If we had done a little bit better job on second shots we could have held them in the 40s."
Center Brittany Duerk led the Lady Bisons in rebounds with nine. Austin Peay held a 50-40 edge on the boards.
"Austin Peay was really physical around the basket," said Bennett. "We didn't do as good a job as we wanted to blocking out and getting on loose balls."
The Lady Bisons are back in action as they head to Kentucky for the Morehead State Classic Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Writtten by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations


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On the subject of the PS4 and how it helps to build upon the AI and graphics seen with Killzone 3 on PS3, ter Heide talked about how the new system "allows us to create richer experiences" and "the PlayStation 4 allows us to add more things and take them a step further." - PSLS
The graphics look great, but what I'm most excited to see is how expansive the levels are. That was the thing that really impressed me about this game when I saw the E3 footage (the original footage from the February reveal wasn't impressive, IMO)
lol, it's just game devs supporting their owners to protect their job. M$ devs say Xbone offers "cloud gaming and takes it a step further", these guys say "PS4's RAM and Sony takes it a step further".
he could be 100% right but when your a first party developer thus owned by the company any thing positive you say is marketing, and has to be taken with a grain of salt. with that said killzone has been a solid franchise


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In the wilds of Montana, five traumatically wounded veterans search for a balm from war.
One young man has lost an eye. Several have lost one or both legs. Another has lost his voice. And all have lost something more precious.
In the wilds of Montana, five traumatically wounded veterans search for a balm from war.
One young man has lost an eye. Several have lost one or both legs. Another has lost his voice. And all have lost something more precious.
"In a very large measure, [combat] taints your soul," says U.S. Marine Col. Eric Hastings, a Vietnam veteran who found his salve in fly-fishing and now runs week-long trips for his counterparts from the War on Terror. "You're asked to do very violent things to other people."
That theme — that war is never really over for those who fight or the people who love them — is the central thread through the poignant documentary, "Not Yet Begun to Fight," produced and co-directed by Florida native Sabrina Lee. The hour-long film takes viewers from rehabilitation at a San Diego military rehabilitation facility to the lucid, powerful rivers of the West, where the five men learn to do two things contrary to their nature: release what they have caught unharmed and talk about what happened to them.
"You think, 'Well, here is a group of men, roughly the same age, going through a similar experience in the same place — they must be alike,' " Lee said. "But it's more complicated than that. We set out to put a face to the war, but we ended up putting a few faces to it."
There is comical, outrageous Marine Cpl. Erik Goodge, who still looks like a teenager, who was four feet from a roadside blast that claimed one eye and left a deep scar on his face. "All I want to do is go back to Afghanistan," he says. "As weird as that sounds, things just sometimes make more sense in combat."
Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Hupp, a bomb technician, comes across as serious and quiet. "I still struggle with people as a whole," he says. "For a long time now, I've lived without caring or feeling."
Blake Smith, a Marine captain and helicopter pilot, may be the most complicated — wry, blunt, driven but lost. During a night-time, mid-air collision while escorting Army Rangers to a raid, he was thrown from his chopper while those inside crashed and burned. What wasn't amputated from his body was pieced back together with hardware. But his greatest burden is that others blame him for the accident.
"It's shameful," he says.
The mix of great wild beauty and ugly reality is no accident. Lee — who grew up in Miami and Ocala — is a former dancer whose background lends her a sense of aesthetics and timing. Her mission with co-director Shasta Grenier, she said, was only partly to make a non-political film about the casualties of war.
"The film ultimately is about people," she said. "It's about the loss of identity, struggle and the resilience of the human spirit."
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'Not Yet Begun to Fight'
•What: documentary in the 21st Florida Film Festival, followed by Q&A with director Sabrina Lee
•When and where: 3 p.m. Sunday at Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Regal Cinemas, Winter Park Village, 510 N. Orlando Ave., Winter Park
•Tickets: $10 at the Enzian box office or via FloridaFilmFestival.com


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PY03 Older Youth Entered Employment Rate State Rankings
|This map shows the Entered Employment Rate rankings for the WIA Older Youth program in PY 03. The rate ranges from a high of 95.8% in the District of Columbia to a low of 49.5% in Kansas. The map highlights the ten highest and lowest states for this ranking. The ten highest states in order are the District of Columbia, Idaho, New Hampshire, Montana, Maryland, Wyoming, New Jersey, Maine, North Dakota and Hawaii. The ten lowest states from top to bottom are Rhode Island, Nevada, Florida, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, Connecticut and Kansas.
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<–A Loose Cannon & Catholic Church Kingston Riots —>
I regret I never met my Aunt Vivie but, unfortunately, she died just a couple of years before I made contact with Mum's (Olga) family in Jamaica. I think I would have liked her even though there was one aspect of her character I would have struggled with. It does sound as if Vivie was a bit of a loose canon – a one off. She was tough and certainly not afraid to speak her mind, particularly to her older brother, Sydney, if she thought he was being too free with his belt when he chastised their younger siblings. In the 1930s Jamaican society was a mirror image of Great Britain replicating its prejudices and social morals. Women like my Aunt Vivie, who flew in the face of convention, were few and far between in an era that expected women to be seen and not heard.
Vivie was married, yet quite openly having an affair with another man, Freddie Howell; she helped run an illegal gambling house with Freddie and, according to Mum, had the threat of being excommunicated from the Catholic Church hanging over her head because of her relationship with him. If what people thought bothered her she didn't show it.
What I wouldn't have liked about my Aunt Vivie though was her racial prejudiced in spite of being coloured herself. This is something I struggle to understand. The colour of one's skin was important to Vivie and, she had made it very clear to her mother, Becky, that she was angry with her for marrying a black man. She recognised that the white Jamaicans had social prestige, status and political power. And that they saw as inferior those whose colour ranged from almost white to pure black even though they may have been educated people with good jobs such as lawyers, doctors, business men or women, teachers, clergy, and skilled tradesmen.
Colour mattered and that mindset was demonstrated to me personally decades later. When I was in Jamaica in 1996, one of my cousins offered me a job running a franchise operation in Montego Bay that she was considering investing in. I asked her why she wanted me and didn't do the job herself. Her reply was "because your skin is the right colour". I was gobsmacked!
Olga's Diary (Continued from 'A Loose Canon and the Catholic Church')
Carlton heard about what happened that Sunday in Church and there was a terrible row between Vivie and Carlton. She told Carlton she was leaving him. He begged her not to go and when she said it was all over between them and she didn't love him any more, he started to cry and pleaded with her to give him another chance. Vivie told him that she was taking their children and going to live with Freddie. She said he suddenly stopped crying then and there was silence, except for the sound of a clock ticking somewhere in the house.
Carlton didn't say anything for ages but just kept looking at her. Then he shrugged his shoulders a little, as if to say, "ok, you win" and, without a word, left the house. Vivie said she thought he was going to find Freddie to punch him on the nose but she wasn't worried about Freddie because he could take care of himself.
Carlton and Vivie had a whirlwind romance. Within weeks of meeting they went off to Montego Bay and got married without telling any of the family, except for Cissie and Dyke who were their witnesses at the wedding. Sydney said if Vivie hadn't been so desperate to marry a white man she'd have saved both families a lot of heart ache and realised that charm, good looks and receiving a small allowance from his parents was not enough to support a family.
Sometime during the afternoon on the day following the big row, Carlton's body was found by some people out walking in a valley in the Blue Mountains. It appears his car went over a precipice just past the army post at Newcastle and his body flung from the car. He'd been dead for hours and to this day no one ever really knew if it was suicide or an accident.
I was grateful that I was asked to look after the children in the family so Chickie, Boysie and Cissie could go to the funeral. Carlton's coffin was left open for mourners to pay their last respects and I didn't want my last sight of Carlton to be lying dead in a coffin. I wanted to remember him how I always saw him – full of life and laughing.
If I had been married to Carlton I wouldn't have minded Carlton being a poor white man because he had other qualities. Tall, fair-haired, very good looking, funny, nice to talk to, always joking. Women were very attracted to him and I think it's easy to see why Vivie fell in love with him. They met when he was playing tennis at the Myrtle Bank Hotel and Vivie said the first thing she noticed about him was that his legs were better than hers. He was always invited to the best clubs, parties and social events in Kingston and he may not have had much money of his own but people liked him, because he was nice, and he was friends with all sorts of people. What made him different from other white Jamaicans was that he wasn't prejudice towards coloured or black people in the slightest.
The day of Carlton's funeral was unusually hot for that time of the year and there was a cloudless sky and not a breath of wind in the air. A black choir sang hymns at his funeral and Dolly told me later that this was Carlton's "second family".
As a baby Carlton had a black nurse whose name was Ambrosine Williams and he spent much of his childhood with her and her thirteen children rather than his own white family. When his coffin was being lowered into the ground Ambrosine Williams bent down and picked up a handful of earth and threw it at Vivie. She told Vivie that she was going to set a duppy on her for causing Carlton's death and that she would be cursed until the day she died.
That night the wind began to pick up and get stronger and continued until well into the evening. Then, according to a report in the paper "the lightening started building up in strength until it lit up the whole sky, dancing in fantastic forms in the night sky, whilst the thunder that followed the lightening seemed to shake the earth as if to say the end of the world is near and then finally in the early hours of the next morning the rain came down."
<–A Loose Cannon & Catholic Church Kingston Riots —>
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