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PHOENIX -- AAA Arizona is once again offering its popular "Tipsy Tow" service on a holiday that's known as summer's last hurrah -- Labor Day.
The service will be available starting at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Sept. 5, and run through 6 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 6.
"As Arizonans enjoy end-of-summer festivities this weekend, we want to discourage them from getting behind the wheel if they have been drinking," said AAA Arizona Public Affairs Director Linda Gorman in a news release. "Tipsy Tow provides a simple solution for getting motorists home safely while making the roads safer for everyone."
All it takes is a call to 1-800-AAA-HELP (1-800-222-4357) and the words, "I need a Tipsy Tow." You can get a free ride home -- up to 10 miles -- for you and your car, and you don't even have to be an AAA member.
Launched in 2009, this is the only free program of its kind in Arizona.
While the tow truck operators will take the driver, one passenger, and the driver's vehicle to the driver's home, they will not provide transportation to another drinking establishment, event or any other location. The one exception to the destination rule is a hotel where the driver is already staying or is planning to stay.
Trips longer than 10 miles will be charged at the towing company's standard rate.
According to a recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Survey, 17 million Americans admitted to drinking and driving at least once in the past year. Experts say it doesn't take much alcohol to cause impaired driving. For some people, it's as little as one or two drinks.
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Here is a card that was inspired by StampinMama. I love how she swipes her ink pad across her card stock to give it texture!
The set I used was Summer By The Sea.
Card Stock Colors: Mellow Moss, Bashful Blue, Creamy Caramel, Confetti White
Ink Colors: Bashful Blue, Mellow Moss, Creamy Caramel, Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Blush Blossom, Chocolate Chip
I started with a mellow moss card and then I swiped the edges with my mellow moss ink pad. Actually all layers were swiped with the same color ink. Even the creamy caramel layer. I love how it brings a softness to the paper but also texture at the same time. The tutorial I did for this shows a very dark saturated ink. Obviously by looking at this blue layer, it doesn't have to look like that. When swiping ink on your cardstock, you will need to let the ink dry
before trying to layer your pieces together. I tried to assemble it
too soon and it wouldn't stick! It will take a little practice, but you'll love the end result!
I watercolored the image with my aqua painter and ink refills from the lids of my stamp pads. The ribbon I used is the Light blue gingham.
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I now see the major wrong that I committed and I'm writing this post so other "idiots" training for marathons won't make the same mistake as me.
The Background
Back in July after a particularly intense hot yoga class I had some side/hip pain on the left side of my body. It felt kind of like a pulled muscle. I'd had pulled muscles before so I chose to ignore it, assuming it would just go away.
Well it didn't. And it continued to bother me throughout the last several months. It wasn't the kind of pain that stopped me from doing anything. It was more like a dull, background pain. And, occasionally, if I twisted wrong or rolled over in my sleep on it wrong I would get an extremely sharp pain.
The intensity varied over the last 5 months, but it was always there.
The Problem
As you guys know, I was diagnosed with a torn tendon in my right foot after the marathon and had to take five weeks off from running. When I saw a physiotherapist in October she recommended I wear running shoes ALL the time to help the tendon heal.
When I started wearing running shoes all the time the pain in my left hip/side seemed to escalate. There was one point when I was napping and the pain was so intense when I moved wrong it woke me up out of my deep sleep. The nagging/background pain seemed to be stronger than ever.
I posted about it on Twitter because I had no idea what might be wrong and Aron (my running idol) suggested I might be out of alignment and that I should go see a chiropractor.
After chatting with one of my girlfriends about it, she told me that her roommate (who is also a runner) sees a really good chiropractor that she recommends. I got the name, and made the appointment.
The Lightbulb
I went to see the chiropractor on Monday morning and after telling her all about my problem, the fact that I was training for a marathon and my torn tendon, she shone some new light on the entire thing. It was like a lightbulb went off in my head and it all suddenly made sense.
She said when I was pushing my body so far in the yoga pose my back probably had a spasm and she showed me these trigger points that are actually in my mid-back but that affect the hip/side area. Since I was running such high mileage it never really had a chance to heal. So that area of the back – both the muscle (dull aching pain) and the joint (sharp pain when I twist weird) stayed seized up all through marathon training.
This in turn made me unconsciously put more weight on my right side (hello torn tendon in my right foot) in my every day life. It all made so much sense and fit together so well it was ridiculous.
The Treatment
She did A.R.T. (Active Release Therapy) on my lower back/hip/side and cracked my ankles (which were apparently locked up). A.R.T. was so freaking painful, I was sweating and it took everything in me to keep from crying out. But it seemed to have helped. My lower back was super, super sore on Monday night but my hip/side does seem to be feeling better.
She recommended if I decide to train for another marathon I should get A.R.T. regularly and a deep tissue massage every six weeks.
I've been lying low with yoga and running the last couple of days (i.e. not doing anything) and I'm going to see the chiropractor again this morning. The chiropractor is also a runner and after seeing the doctor, a physiotherapist and her, she has helped me the most so far. Hopefully she keeps helping me!
Moral of the Story
If you're feeling ANY kind of pain that is not normal side effects of working out go get it checked out. When my "pulled muscle" still wasn't healed after three days, after three weeks, after THREE MONTHS I should have gotten my butt to the doctor. But I didn't. That alone likely resulted in my torn tendon and taking five weeks off of running.
Check out this very informative post by Caitlin if you're wondering whether the pain you're feeling is normal training pain or not!
And now?
Now I'm hoping to be well on the road to recovery. I'm going to ease back into running super slowly and take it really easy on my body and pay attention to any signs it's giving me. I'm really hoping that my injury days are behind me and I think if I train smart, they will be!
Have you ever been injured? How did you deal with it?
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I had trouble with my knee this spring. I had to take a good 6 weeks off from running (I think?) Which was tough. But luckily I was able to get back to running and it didn't bother me at all during marathon training or the marathon. Now, though, it's sort of been bugging me again. It's like my body knew that I had to get through this marathon and now it's saying – ok, take better care of me now, please. So I am focusing on cross training, stretching, and I really need to pull out my PT exercises and work on those!
I think one of the reasons I don't really do sports is because I'm so good at injuring myself in weird ways. Being physically active would just be an open invitation to a whole mess of new issues (or so I tell myself). I've had a bruised kneecap from playing with my dog (tripped over the ball I was kicking around), sprained an ankle from slipping on the second to last step, nearly broke a toe (and foot) by dropping a heavy mug on it. That was over a month ago and the toe is still bruised and a tiny bit sore.
My old roommate swore by her chiropractor and every time I had issues with my back or something (that's another thing, I'm almost prone to backaches) she would try to convince me to make an appointment with her's. I never did, I'm paranoid about them, but now I'm wondering if perhaps she was on to something.
Amber, that's awesome. Sounds like you're on the right track. I know I'm always relieved when I finally realize what happened and how I can work to fix it. Moving in a positive direction always feels good. The manfriend has been boasting chiropractors like none other bc he goes to one, but I have yet to go.
I've never had an injury like that, so I'm not sure how I would deal with it. That's great that you are getting your body looked after and giving it a chance to heal 🙂
Great post. I injured my IT Band in Sept shortly after Hood to Coast. A year of training, an intense endurance race, and then going back to running too soon afterward were a recipe for disaster. I listened to my body though and KNEW the pain I felt was bad pain. Meaning stop running. I really recommend a sports medicine doc. Mine was fantastic. So much better than the other specialists I saw. He gave me some hip strengthening exercises that have really helped!
I absolutely love my chiropractor! I find that they can offer more long-term results, rather than doctors who may just prescribe pain killers to temporarily subdue pain. Which one did you go see?
I've dislocated my shoulder a few times and I started doing light physio but lost track (and interest). Sometimes it's "loose" so whenever I go to my chiro she readjusts it for me.
I've been seeing Laura McCall at the Aberdeen clinic – she is fantastic!
Ahh, they're awesome there!! Kyle goes to Laura too!
Wow – that's interesting! Our bodies really are complex, hey?
I have had a couple of similar things happen to me. A few years ago I had the WORST knee pain, but only in one knee. Once I stopped wearing my worn-out Puma shoes, it went back to normal in a few days! (But I had to go to a physiotherapist before I had a "lightbulb" moment about it!)
I also sit all day and run 3X week, so I get lower back pain sometimes. But the lower back pain is actually because my HAMSTRINGS are so tight that my back has to work harder or something. Anyway, yoga and strength training have really helped with my back issues.
I just wanted to say I'm so sorry about that accident too. Oh, that's awful. Life is really so fragile. "A vapour that appears for a little time, then vanishes." (James 1:4) I'm from a small town and when something bad like that happens, it affects everybody. Anyway, yeah. I don't know what else to say. *hug*
Thank you! I didn't want a bunch of sympathy since it really wasn't about me so that's why I closed the comments but I really, really appreciate your thoughts. The community is still very shaken up by it.
Wow! It sounds like you had a lot of what I had … well, in turns of the tight ankles (so painful getting them cracked!) I also dealt with alignment issues and hip issues through my training, but I'm on the road to recovery now – thankfully. Good luck with yours.
I've had MINOR injuries, but mainly things that were caused by wearing the wrong shoes. It is so important to listen to your body though. Glad you're on the road to recovery though! 🙂
YAY glad you are finding something that works! its pretty crazy how everything is connected, i think that is the benefit to chiropractors, is they look at the whole body for why injuries are occuring. ART is definitely painful, but feels so good after. hope you continue to heal!
I'm really glad you were able to get help and figure out just what the real problem is. I think I'm much more careful about pain/injuries than most because I'm just a big baby and want everything to be working normally. 🙂
In July, I twisted/sprained/broke (still have no idea what I did to it, but something happened since it still hurts) my ankle and after it swelled up to twice it's size and bruised, I knew I had to take some time off, so I waited until walking on my foot felt normal (iced every night) until I started running again. (About 2 weeks.) Having an injury, though, makes you much more thankful for being able to exercise!
Hooray another ART/chiropracte convert! 🙂 Funny how our body is all tied together sometimes. Not something standard-medicine often considers (just treating a symptom). Plus it's nice to fix things without having to resort to pills/shots/etc. Slight believer in non-traditional medicine here, lol. Glad you have found some relief!!
I think this is one of the reasons that people have the opinion that running long distances is "bad" for you. In some ways, it can be- if you are so focused on the race that you don't listen to your body. However, it's a really hard line to walk because if you listen to every small ache and pain- you could never RUN a marathon! Hopefully all your rest right now will help all the injuries and help you get back to it slowly and injury free 🙂
This is what blows my mind about the human body. Like okay so something in your BACK cause something (in the end) to be wrong with your FOOT. REALLY BODY? When you think of your foot hurting, you're never like "oh it must be because my back is out of alignment"
My knee pain has been relatively consistent throughout the past year. It hurts right now as I type this.. I should probably ice it.. Anyways, I always thought it was interesting that the tightness in my inner & outer quads and my calfs all have a direct relation to my knee pain. Icing my knee is a nice fix for the knee pain but what really helps is foam rolling /stretching the quads. It's just so weird.. how everything is connected! Now I'm wondering if there is something else causing my knee pain.. like my shoulder or elbow or something..
Anddd that's my rant for the day : ) Great post!
Go see the chiropractor if you can! They might be able to do A.R.T on your quads (which is SO intense but great for your muscles) and it might really help!
I have never had a long lasting injury, a week at most.
i've been seeing a chiro since july when i started having all kinds of problems. its the first time i'd ever tried art and i did cry during my first session. but i was so amazed at how much it relieved the pain. now i see my chiro every 6 weeks for maintenance. i only wished i knew about it sooner. i'm glad you learned about it!
I dislocated my collarbone in gymnastics and I was off for 2 months. And then after that I was only allowed to do specific things in the gym. I dealt with it not very well, but the pain was enough to ensure that I would never get injured like that again.
I had physio for about 12 months after the injury and even now I still get pain when it is really cold or I am stressed.
Wow – I'm glad this was really finally diagnosed for you! I don't know what it is, but I'm more willing to go to the doctor when I feel sick than when I'm hurt physically. It took me awhile to go about my knee and I'm sure I did more damage to it because I was still running/exercising without really getting to the root of the problem.
You posted this at a perfect time, Amber! I am in an injury dilemma right now! And very similary to your description of hip pain! I went through sports therapy a few weeks ago, did tons of icing, took tons of NSAIDs, and it was better!
Ran 17 miles. Good. Ran 20 miles. Wonderful! Ran a 6 miler on Sunday, and my hip pain is BACK!!!!!!! :'(
My marathon is in less 4 weeks, so I'm FREAKING OUT. The pain isn't debilitating – but it just doesn't feel "right".
Have you tried getting a deep tissue massage? I bet there is some muscle tightness going on in your hip that foam rolling and stretching can't fix. A deep tissue massage or some A.R.T. (muscle stripping) on your hip might really help!! I would do it at least 1.5 – 2 weeks out from the marathon though!
I'm glad it's better for you! I hurt my hips a few years ago moving a couch… I had to do ART. IT HURT. But it helped.
And then you know my knee saga from earlier this year, but that's thankfully all gone. And the stress fracture I was *supposed* to have had? Yeah, not a stress fracture. Just me not stretching enough. It's maybe a precursor to a fracture but they said if I take it easier than I usually do I should be totally ok. I'm not thrilled that I can't be all intense with my exercise but I need this body for life!
so glad you got things figured out! i need to see who specializes in ART in my area and get on the ball!
yuck. while i'm glad you figured out how you did it, im sorry that it has been bothering you for so long!
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I really like the song that is played at the very beginning and NEED to find out what it is called. At one time on the lifetime website it said it was called Proud to Love You by Leigh Nash, she is the lead singer from Sixpence None the Richer. But I have tried for years to find it and can't. But what I found looks like it could be called Proud to Lose You.
Here is what I think the lyrics are. This is the first line of the long.
i love you with a fearless heart, so why am I afraid, I know that I can't change your course, but there is no other way, you're walking through an open door, I can only watch you leave, this heart will always be your home, _____ sail away from me, i'm proud to lose you, it's hard to let you go, i'm proud to lose you, you're beautiful alone.
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Corporal Steven Gaughan was shot and killed at approximately 11:00 am when he and two officers stopped a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Route 197 and South Laurel Drive in Laurel, Maryland.
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I'm late to the party with this review, despite having seen this film in the theater. The idea of entering someone's dreams… the spinning totem… even the quirks of the orchestral score are all part of the zeitgeist now. But is it actually a good movie?
Oh, yes. Absolutely. It's incredible.
We'll start with the cast. There's not a dud in the bunch. Now, I'm not a huge fan of Marion Cotillard or Dileep Rao… but both do fine here. And everyone else is stellar. This is the film that made me realize that Tom Hardy is a star. This is the first film that gives Leonardo DiCaprio the gravitas of an adult. Ditto Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Ditto Ellen Page. Ditto Lukas Haas. Ken Watanabe's race is (thankfully) irrelevant to his role and performance. Cillian Murphy is not creepy. Pete Postlethwaite is awesome. Tom Berenger is… still acting! And Michael Caine is… well, he's Michael Caine.
The film looks gorgeous. There's plenty of wonderful, realistic cinematography, meshed with some mind-bending special effects tied to the dreamscapes the characters build with their minds. But, thankfully, they don't go so far with the dream imagery that it turns into some kind of greenscreen impressionistic nightmare. It remains nicely grounded the way most dreams really are. (Well, at least mine are.)
The story is the part that is, in some ways, imperfect. I love the idea of "inception", its difficulty, its importance, and its dangers. (I also love the fact that the marketing before the film did not spoil this idea, leaving the title nicely mysterious.) And I particularly like how they handle the Fischer story. He's the target for this "dream team", and he gets pulled into the adventure inside his own dreams… but to him, it's just that: a dream. He doesn't come away with any memory of what happened (or the danger he faced). And he does get a chance to (sort of) reconcile with his father. That moment could have been a throwaway. It was the technical point of the movie, of course, but soon enough everything shifts to Cobb and his reconciliation with his dead wife. That they allowed Murphy and Postlethwaite to have, possibly, the most emotionally effecting scene in the film is remarkable.
But, unfortunately, nothing of this complexity (it seems) can be put together without some problems. Here are my biggest gripes:
- Why did they need explosives in the snowy fortress (the third dream level down)? They weren't planning on going any deeper, so there should have been no need for a kick there.
- If entering a dream state while sedated means that dying in the dream sends you to Limbo… why does dying in Limbo (while still sedated) not send you to Limbo-Squared? Why would Ariadne and Fischer falling off that building not have screwed them that much further?
- If lack of a sense of gravity (free fall) in a level translates to a lack of gravity in the next level down… why don't they all go flying off the mountain in the snowy fortress sequence?
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I woke up, stumbled out of the bedroom, and just before I get to the bathroom there's this small round face looking up at me. "Ack! Er, what–"
"Is that the chamber-pot?" he said in a very small, slightly British voice as he pointed at the toilet. I nodded, and he scrambled in to use it. I scrambled back to my bedroom and hurriedly dressed. I remember I kind of heard some noise, just before I woke up completely, and maybe that's what woke me up, but ….
Then I headed down the hall again and started doing a head count. Four in the spare room, including the little one who just exited the bathroom. Five in the living room, sitting quietly on the couch and chairs. Three in the kitchen, looking around. All between the ages of five and twelve, in dungarees and coats, most with little hats. Shaggy-headed, one or two with slightly smudged faces. All of them looking at me as I go by. "Good morning, Master," they all said.
"Um, don't you all have somewhere to be?" I ask. They all shake their heads. And it finally hits me: My house has been infested with orphans.
I look at the clock. It's 7:30. And now they're all looking at me, hungrily. "Er, ah…"
"Is there any porridge, Sir?" one of them says hopefully.
"Porridge, right! Um…" and then I remember I'd just bought a box of instant oatmeal, so I rip open all of the packets, dump the contents into the biggest bowl I have, and boil water. I remember to add more water to the oatmeal than I usually do, because most people like it that way. They're looking at it like it's a steak because it's still so thick. So then there's dozen little guys crowded in my kitchen using every bowl I have (and every spoon).
I have to say, they're awfully well behaved. And quiet. They even all take their bowls to the sink and stack them neatly.
Then after breakfast, some of the older ones go get their coats. "What's your name?" I ask one of them. " 'Arry," he says. "Where are you going?" I ask. "Out rag-picking," Harry says. "Oh." Then I think. "Um, rags aren't much of a going concern nowadays, but there's metal." And their eyes light up, and as they run out the door I yell "But don't take any metal that's still attached to houses!"
Great. The neighborhood association is going to love me.
Meanwhile that leaves me the five littlest ones, and one of them has figured out how to turn the TV on, so they're looking at it in wonder — and it's the news, which I figure isn't good for them, so I grab the remote and change the channel. And it's Spongebob Squarepants, which I figure isn't good for them, either. Finally, I find the History Channel, which is showing history for once — something about the Industrial Revolution. I figured they would find that familiar. I'm obviously grasping here. All I know about orphans is that you yell at them, but these kids are so well-behaved there is nothing to yell at them about. So I have to figure out what to do with orphans before History Channel starts showing Swamp Rednecks Pawning Gators or whatever it is. Probably will have to take them to the store with me so I can pick up a lot more porridge, er, ….
And it hits me. Here it's Lewis Carroll's birthday, and I'm overrun by Dickens' orphans. Something ain't right.


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About Prayer … My younger life was spent mostly alone, walking and talking with the love of my life Jesus Christ. Out of these times of learning and companionship I came to a knowledge of how to pray for others and it is found in the Lords Prayer, the central piece where it says …Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven … so, in my logic, I had to look to heaven about how to pray for others and bring that will and knowledge and word of authority down to earth and release it upon people
or those that the Father wanted me to share His love with. In my travels and visits to churches the trend seems to be to think about the person when praying, others have done this to me. The problem with this is that we look at others with our own logs firmly in place we can project our sins or shortcomings upon them and give them our agenda or desires rather than Gods and this only brings confusion to them. Satan has for years played the game of being peoples intuition, whispering false accusations and judgments, opinions and slander into the ears of those who have not tested the spirit they are listening too.
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Beloved, do not believe every spirit [speaking through a self-proclaimed prophet]; instead test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets and teachers have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know and recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ has [actually] come in the flesh [as a man] is from God [God is its source];3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus [acknowledging that He has come in the flesh, but would deny any of the Son's true nature] is not of God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world. 4 Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind]. 5 They [who teach twisted doctrine] are of the world and belong to it; therefore they speak from the [viewpoint of the] world [with its immoral freedom and baseless theories—demanding compliance with their opinions and ridiculing the values of the upright], and the [gullible one of the] world listens closely and pays attention to them. 6 We [who teach God's word] are from God [energized by the Holy Spirit], and whoever knows God [through personal experience] listens to us [and has a deeper understanding of Him]. Whoever is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know [without any doubt] the spirit of truth [motivated by God] and the spirit of error [motivated by Satan].
They believe every word whispered in their ears, they consider themselves to wise and godly to ever be fooled by satan. We need to cover ourselves with the blood of the Lamb and ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, set our selves aside and share with the Father, I am just the same as the one I am praying for, a sinner saved by grace only, may Your Holy Spirit flow through me in what ever manner is of the greatest help and benefit to this person whom You love to the most excellent outcome You have for them in the will of heaven. The will of heaven will always be for another to become closer to God to hear clearly what He wants, we have the right and indeed the responsibility to clear the atmosphere around people in order for them to do so and then we ask that the fruit that will be manifested in us in heaven will come to earth over them, love, joy, peace etc along with wisdom and understanding (Isaiah 11:2-5) For we are no greater than anyone else, nor are we less than anyone else, just called to a different task and works in faith. Our Prayer should be – "May the Father gift you with the knowledge and wisdom that come from Him in this manner, and through true prayer be restored to who you where created to be in body, soul, spirit, may your free will choices line up with Gods will for you that your destiny in Christ Jesus will bring glory to the Father in the name of Jesus Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit. Amen" blessings and hope this is useful for godly Prayer


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If Michael Heizer's colossal rock were to come undone from its LACMA support fixtures, Russian ruffian Sofia assures us that her brawn would save the day. (Photo by Allen Ying)
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Kratos is like a car wreck you just can't look away from.
You weren't supposed to relate to the Young Ones?
And here I thought Vivian and I shared so much in common...
And I guess the explanation for Kratos' being a dick is that he feels resentment towards the Gods for not ridding him of his nightmares. He's still angry at himself, but he projects that anger on his surroundings, always looking for a reason to kill.
Then of course, not only is this a bit weak, but they try to rub it away by constantly trying to make the gods seem like bigger douchebags. And then it comes to debate: Are the Gods the bigger douchebags because they act out of selfishness to gain whatever they want, oppressing humans and titans alike (even other gods in some cases) if they disobey, or is Kratos the bigger douchebag for trying to find reasons to kill as many people as possible?
My opinion is that the Gods are bigger douchebags. You don't blame a mad dog for killing your family, you blame the guy who let the dog loose (A reference I'm sure many will understand)
I still don't like it how they try to force it down our throats that the gods are the biggest douchebags though.
No comments reply? Sadface.
Never played the God Of War series, that's the problem with console exclusives. So most PlayStation fans have probably never played the Gears Of War series.
Yeah... this is why the people Kratos and Batman want to Rip out intestains/beat the crap out of all are much more interesting then the people we are suppose to root for. Zues is a power hungry king that wants to avoid the mistakes of his father to mantain his power. The Joker is a insane clown who insanity is only matched by his randomness in his actions. This might be why they decided to
I own a 360 and I think I'd prefer having God of War over Gears of War.
I really do like Extra Punctuation. It helps flesh out Yahtzee's points of view, for one, and adds some suspense for the next day's ZP.
I'm with furburt here: the Gods are big ol' d-bags. kratos just wants revenge on them and will stop at nothing - including killing women, innocents, etc - to get there. Granted, this is selfish, but the gods royally screwed him over, and most people would be miffed if they did to them what they did to Kratos.
from all the trailers Ive seen of god of war 3 Ive started rooting for the gods, I played the hell out of the first god of war but never got around to the 2nd since my ps2 looks like shit on my hd set. Kratos really seems like just insanity incarnate by this point, altho I am looking forward to seeing him eat baby jesus in god of war 4... or maybe it will turn out that one of the woman he has sex with in the mini game is mary and hes really jesus's father. The next game could be a buddy picture type game, with jesus being all pussy trying to keep kratos from killing the world because it stubbed his toe.
I must say that I am deeply offended.
I generally agree with this article, but feel that the Gods get off rather easily in the whole ordeal. They're the ones who recruited Kratos to kill Ares (why they couldn't do it themselves, who knows..) and then basically said, "Yeah, we said we'd wipe away those nightmares, but actually we can't. Thanks anyways!" Then he becomes the God of War, and they realize "Oh shit, the God of War may be a little too ambitious (what a shock!) and now we have to strip him then kill him!" He has every right to be pissed and want revenge, and I'm not sure if Spartans are trained in anything OTHER than killing everyone in their way.
Still, Kratos did start to become a parody of himself in GoW2 and it was cemented in GoW3. He seemed a little too-eager to kill and seemed to lose sight of why he started on this crazy journey (from GoW) in the first place. It was nice to see how the trilogy ended, but I was in no hurry to play through the game again once I was done and promptly mailed my copy back to Gamefly.
Man, i love the Young Ones.
Its a bloody good thing they screwed him over because he was being stupid. If you see at the start of God of War 2 because Kratos was a former Spartan he was helping them win every single battle they were in thus making them an unstoppable force which would take over the world given time and leave only Spartans, Zeus didnt want this to happen and so killed Kratos to stop him being a dick to everyone but his own country. So in retrospective Kratos is a selfish dick and deserved to be drained off all his power in my opinion.
This does not however stop me from enjoying his adventure to destroy all of Mount Olympus like the manical son of a bitch he is.
Very good points about Kratos. I'd never tried to compare him to Batman before, fearing some sort of universal nerd-driven quantum collapse. But it's a valid comparison, and well-put.
I agree there's not much left to develop on Kratos now except for how much blood he can splatter onto the screen.
Off-Topic: Damn Hub you've gotten shafted on the deal there i say you kill him.
Oh Christ. That's what I get for hastily reading a few posts and trying to remember which of the forum Gods that I try to emulate posted something. Sorry >.<
But surely this is the fate of every (anti-)hero character that doesn't die once they have achieved the aim of their initial motivation for going down their path (& by die I mean in a finite way not going to the underworld only to kick more ass on the way out again)? It's the message of pretty much every revenge story I can think of that once redemption/revenge etc is complete, the world keeps spinning and leaves the protagonist unable to do anything but carry on, since there is no other path open to them. The blind desire for vengeance, or fighting crime by criminal acts etc, leading us to become the monster we hunted. Resolution only comes with death, because until then there will always be another day, always another opponent, always another excuse to use as a reason for continuing, even if continuing is the excuse. So while it's unfortunate to see Kratos etc become parodies of themselves as their saga is forced to continue, that's the fate of every character for whom the world does not end with the conclusion of the first story arc.
I've never played through much of any God of War game enough to derive any of the story out of it (a consequence of which results in my mind always linking the name Kratos to Tales of Symphonia before remembering "oh yeah he's the God of War guy).
Anywho Yahtzee's analysis seems pretty accurate but games have proved us time and again that you don't really need a great story and characters to make a game interesting. It certainly helps and in some games you really do need to have good characters and story for it to work. I've only played a little of the first two and the combat was fun enough that I'm happy with Kratos being Batman with an effection for overkill.
HA! Thats hilarious.
Back on topic: I agree. I can't really look at Kratos seriously anymore. All while playing the games, the same thought of "why is he doing this if he already kind of got his revenge" kept poping into my mind. I know he had nightmares, but is that really a reason to murder everything that ever lived, and in some cases re-murder dead things?
Well remember that they tricked him into killing a freaking god in the first game by making him think they would take away his guilt. Being gods they must have fully known that it was because of that Kratos wanted to kill Ares and nothing else.
And I don't know about you, but that would have made me pretty dang passive aggressive myself.
Didn't you hear? You and Furburt are officially all one entity due to a little scientific mishap.
OT: Very good as usual, I seem to prefer the Extra Punctuation to the Zero Punctuation probably because Yahtzee gets more realm to explain his opinion shown in the Zero Punctuation episode further. Admittedly, I haven't actually played any of the God of War games, but I liked the article nonetheless.
Don't worry, we all make mistakes.
You better watch your back tonight...
Interesting the way you compared him to Batman. And of course you are right.
I have to slash-disagree. If you know that there's a dude somewhere in the bar with a pistol and a bad temper, don't you go out of your way to be nice to everyone in the bar that night? Or do you anger everyone to find out who has the pistol? I submit the former is more reasonable. Zeus knew what he was getting into when he shook up that hornets' nest.
Not played GoW (don't own a PS3, and never truely entered my radar), but I'd just like to point out that the gods always were total douches. Dionysus was probably the best, but that was because he was pretty much drunk all the time. If you ever look at Hera and Zeus, then you'll notice that Zeus goes around and sleeps with anything that moves (though not always a requirement) and Hera punishes them for Zeus' actions. Heracles went through all kinds of rubish because of just this.
There's a line in the Iliad which has Zeus saying that the mortals blame the gods for all the wrongs that happen to them, which just goes to show that, in Greek times, they didn't seem to get on too well. Sure, some were more protective than others (Athene was halfway-decent, and Aphrodite was rubbish at fighting but got blamed for all the troubles romance and love caused), but most of the time they just seemed to never get on with mortals, and vise-versa.
Besides, according to myth, without the titan Prometheus, we would never have gotten fire, and Zeus punished him for giving us it. /Greek lesson-slash-opinion.
OT: Interesting article. Always nice to see opinions on characters (something I feel a game really needs to explore to be truely great).
I wonder how his space game is coming along?
Oh, and this may be better fodder for a new thread, but I feel it has a basic connection to the subject matter at hand.
Isn't God of War, as a trilogy, supposed to explain the connection between the end of Greek mythology, and the beginning of Western religion? When Kratos kills literally everyone, and then releases hope to the people, isn't he slaying the Greek idea of polytheism and allowing people to form their own religious system, outside of the reach of the now-dead asshole Gods?
I've always gotten that gist since the first game, when viewing the tapestries in the Temple of Pandora.
You know how some people drink to forget their problems?
Killing is Kratos' alcohol.
There is a theory about that.
Namely that Kratos becomes ruler of the earth.
Then Jesus kicks his ass.
World saved.
I watched the GoW 3 video walkthrough series on youtube, just so I can see how the story will develop, or rather, if it will take any direction other than the knee-jerk start, and I was thoroughly disappointed. I wasn't familiar with the first or second game in this series prior to the third coming out and the escapist thus mentioning its predecessors, so here's the deal. Those sitcoms Yahtzee mentions have been successful because they're a mockery of existing shows. Because the audience doesn't take the characters seriously. Thus the only way I could enjoy a story like GoW 3's is to just eat popcorn and watch all the blood and guts getting spilled left and right mindlessly and the beautifully rendered scenery. I'm not saying that's beneath me, or that I've never done it, what I'm saying is, not taking Kratos seriously just doesn't work, hence why GoW3 doesn't work for me.
You're reading way too much into it. You were just supposed to ogle at the scenery and the gore.
Mr. Croshaw, I have to disagree with you. The Kratos of the first and the Kratos of the second game are two quite different characters. Same person, yes, but different characters. The Gods of the Greek mythologies were static in character themselves, displaying nothing at all by way of personal growth. They were what they were and it couldn't be changed. Only the human characters ever showed any variability, due of course to their mortality. You tend to evolve and adapt a lot better when you aren't immortal, or worse, tied to and forced to embody a concept. And yet, there were plenty of characters who started human in the myths and later became gods themselves. These characters lost that evolving potential as soon as they attained godhood. See Heracles and Ganymede.
Kratos then. Kratos was a dude and Ares, god of being a royal fuckhead, tricks him into killing his family. Why? 'Cause he's a dick. Kratos, now suicidal, wracked with guilt, sad, and vengeful, like any human would be, kills him and takes his place. Thus ends the life of Kratos, the human male. Thus begins the existence of Kratos, the God of War. If Kratos were still human, this wouldn't have done anything for the guy. His family would still be dead. You get revenge by killing blokes, but not closure. But, being a god, and now tied to the essence of war, the flimsy human concepts of loss and mourning have been entirely overwritten with the unbending and irrational godly concepts of posturing and fucking around so he doesn't try to end himself out of boredom. Now, when Zeus gets all bent and tells Kratos to fuck off, Kratos the human would no doubt have just fallen back and accepted it since he would have been hollowed out and unfulfilled, but as a god, his only rational response is indignant outrage and an entirely shortsighted explosion of "fuck you dad, I'm going Titan on your Olympian ass!" Makes perfect sense in context.
As to why he stopped caring about all the mortal people? Dude. Since when do gods give a flying golden chariot pulling shit about mortals? You say incongruous character development, I say most sensible possible character development.
And, shit, I've never even played the bloody games. All I know about them is what you've said about them.
Haven't played any of the God of War series, so can't really comment on Kratos, but one of the things that keeps Batman interesting is that sometimes, under some writers, you get hints that he realizes he's a dick, that he's as crazy as the Joker in his own way, and that's part of what keeps driving him -- because so long as he's the Batman, he's got some self-justification. Once he gives that up, well.. he's just a dick with money. I mean, you don't see it often. Usually the self-righteous, puritanical armor is so thick you could bust Superman's fist on it. But every one in a while....
"I'm the god-damned Batman!"
That was really good info Liked the young one referance.
raaa my family's dead now you dieee
hey i think we can all relate to that =} it's straight from the core human instinct
Cannot say I am not with Yahtzee on this one. Kratos has truly become single minded but that is not a bad thing. And true, not every game character has to be related to an every day average joe but there are sometimes when I WANT to be a dick. Kain from the Legacy Of Kain series completely buttfucked his universe from the first game and he wasn't someone you relate to.
If you ask me, the Gods brought this to themselves. They convinced Kratos to kill Ares and then they go 'Thank you but the nightmares won't go away'. They told him 'go get this and that and this
and then it blew in their face, if you know what I am talking about. So, the Gods are idiots twice.
Gears of War isn't quite unique, ME or Halo would be a better example to make your point :P. If you want a grey and brown macho chest high wall shooter, there's plenty of games to get your fix like Army of Two or Killzone.
I think the reason Kratos kills everything that is alive (or undead at least) is that he is able to do so, without any kind of punishment.
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|Summary: The market value of Telstra has almost doubled over the past four years, but the telco's strong share price growth has not been the result of significant earnings growth. Rather, the rally partly reflected a recognition of the intrinsic value of Telstra and the high investor demand for its dividend yield. The company's current share price reflects intrinsic value plus the value of future NBN cash flows.
|Key take-out: While the NBN is becoming a huge cost burden on the community and the federal debt load, it remains a substantial benefit for Telstra shareholders.
|Key beneficiaries: General investors. Category: Shares.
|Recommendation: Neutral.
It is interesting to reflect that today Telstra (ASX: TLS) has a market value on the Australian Securities Exchange of about $63 billion, while in 2009 it was valued at about $33 billion.
Over the four-year period, the market capitalisation of TLS has lifted by approximately 90% ($30 billion), and the company has paid about $14 billion in fully franked dividends.
The total shareholder return over this period has been about 130%, without adding in the benefit of franking credits, and therefore the compound annual rate of return has been over 20% per annum.
With such a high return, one would expect to see a significant lift in profits over the period. However, that is not the case. Indeed, TLS reported an after-tax profit of about $4 billion in 2008-09 (pre adjustments) and will do so again in 2013-14 when adjustments are made for discontinued or sold businesses. Reported earnings dipped in 2011 and 2012 as TLS undertook various financial adjustments to its reported results. In most years, reported earnings were below those paid in dividends.
This leads to a significant point for readers to understand. In 2009, TLS was very cheap and was a bargain when it was yielding 10% fully franked and trading on a price earnings ratio (P/E) of eight times. Further, it was still good value as it traded up and over $4 per share for the next three years.
Today, it is not particularly cheap in trading on a projected P/E ratio of 15 times and a yield of 5.7% fully franked.
On reflection, 2009-10 was clearly a unique opportunity for Telstra investors. The whole equity market was recovering from the global financial crisis and Telstra's major shareholder, the government-owned Future Fund, actively squashed the price by indicating its intention to sell 1 billion shares over the ensuring 18 months.
Therefore, over the last four years, the TLS price has lifted without growth in earnings and so the P/E ratio has expanded. In my view the rally from $2.60 to the mid-$4 range was the proper reflection of intrinsic value. The subsequent lift in price to above $5 reflects the demand for high-quality yield investments caused by the historically low interest rate environment. However, it also appears justified given the value of the NBN (National Broadband Network) cash flows to Telstra's operational outlook.
The Telstra result
I do not propose to cover in detail the latest TLS result as readers can read a significant amount about it from the very informative presentation given by the company. In my view, the broad thrust of the result is that TLS grew revenue (plus 4%) faster than expenses (plus 2%), and this produced a stronger profit line (plus 7%).
TLS continued to generate solid revenue growth from mobile customers (plus 6.4%) that offset the continued decline in fixed line revenue (minus 7.3%). The TLS market reach in its 4G mobile network has now breached 85%, and this has created a significant advantage for it over its competitors. Data based revenue also lifted nicely by 6%.
As for the NBN rollout and the TLS compensation, the public and investors are left to wonder. The NBN remains a remarkably secretive national infrastructure development, with no agreed path to completion. It surely ranks as one of the most inept attempts at infrastructure development in the world today, and its poor execution adds to the productivity challenge that confronts the whole Australian economy.
Today I can merely point to a net present value claim by TLS of about $11 billion as compensation and for its role in the NBN rollout. While this figure does not appear in the TLS balance sheet as an asset, TLS seems assured that it will be paid this from its public statements. TLS and the federal government will sit down in coming months to discuss the new proposal for a multi-technology rollout. This may well include a payment to Telstra from the NBN to take over the copper wire network. As this copper was previously to be junked, then this could become another windfall for TLS.
In any case, the NBN payments are important for TLS as its net debt remains stubbornly high at $13 billion – even after $2.9 billion of recent asset sales. Clearly the increased TLS dividend of 1 cent per annum (i.e. $125 million) is based on the assumption that the NBN cash will flow, because the operating result in itself hardly justifies it.
Valuation of Telstra
The good news for TLS owners is that, from an intrinsic valuation perspective, the company is now growing earnings net of adjustments. Indeed, despite the increase in dividend to 29 cents per share, the earnings of circa 32 cents per share in 2014 will clearly cover it.
Once again, I will derive the intrinsic value of the business from the reported earnings, franked dividends and stated equity. Then I will have to make an adjustment for the NBN proceeds to determine value.
Source: StocksInValue
The above table (Figure 1) shows my point that earnings have barely lifted in the last five years. The half-year reported result suggests that TLS is on track for a $4 billion profit. Also we can see that equity in the TLS balance sheet has barely moved over five years. Therefore, as TLS begins to lift earnings into the future, it will do so on a fairly static equity base. This leads to the next chart (Figure 2) where you can see that I expect profitability (measured by profit divided by average equity) to begin to rise in future years.
Source: StocksInValue
This forecast of improving profitability seems to be gathering pace across market analysts. Clearly the receipt of NBN proceeds, in whatever form, will drive TLS profits higher and also its profitability. Therefore I have adopted normalised return on equity (NROE) of 45%.
As for my required return of 13%, some may suggest that this is too high. If I reduced this then the TLS valuation wold rise.
In any case, I noted earlier that the NBN proceeds have a net present value to TLS of about $11 billion.
This amounts to about $1 per TLS share, and so my forward valuation of TLS is about $4.21 intrinsic plus the NBN proceeds. That equates to the current market price of about $5.20.
Finally, there are two interesting points re Telstra and the NBN.
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596. [MAP]. CASTERA, Ignacio. "Plano topográfico de la imperial corte de México, capital de Nueva España, donde está demarcada la zanja quadrada, que para su resguardo se ha abierto nuevamente, con las cinco garitas, que deben quedar, suprimidas ocho las la trece que tenía por el Mstro. de Ciudad Dn José [sic] Castera Año de 1793." [Mexico, 1793]. Manuscript plan on laid paper, showing all of Mexico City and some outlying areas, lettered key indicates guardhouses and new passages into the city, which are shown by letters on the map, some named streets, physical features, and divisions in different colors (sepia ink and watercolor: blue, yellow, green, and red); map size, border to border: 44 x 46 cm; statement and key at left: 44 x 18 cm; overall sheet size: 47 x 66.5 cm. Signed José Mariano Falcón at lower left, with August 28, 1812, statement in another hand indicating the purpose of the 1793 map. Except for minor marginal tears (not affecting map proper, and no losses), very fine, colors excellent. A beautiful, historic map documenting changes in Mexico City's defenses.
This 1793 map does not seem to be mentioned in standard map sources (Toussaint, Apenes, Lombardo de Ruiz, 500 Planos de la Ciudad de México, Carrera Stampa, etc); however, El Territorio Mexicano illustrates other examples of similar maps. Although enigmatic, this appears to be the 1793 map with nothing more added to it than the 1812 certification statement. As depicted here, Castera's idea was to surround the central city with ditches that formed a perfect square and to close most of garitas. Falcón later worked with the military in 1815 to bring the plans shown here to complete fruition. Falcón clearly used this map as a starting point, and Castera's original plan to leave only five garitas open was followed. Castera meant to improve security and deter the introduction of contraband into the city, a mission that was only partially successful.
Architect Castera created several important maps for urban planning of Mexico City in the 1790s and was instrumental in the construction of several significant works, including for example, the fountain in the Plaza de Santo Domingo and the Templo de Loreto. He was a favorite of Viceroy Revillagigedo. See Guadalupe de la Torre, "El resguardo de la ciudad de México en en siglo XVIII," Historias (October, 1991), pp. 69-77. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (revised edition), Vol. I, p. 243.
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Kevin Durant stood before his adoring home crowd, proudly holding his MVP trophy above his head during a pregame ceremony.
He spent the next few hours showing how he earned it.
Durant had 32 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Clippers 112-101 on Wednesday night to tie their Western Conference semifinal series at one game apiece.
"We wanted to come back and respond," Durant said. "So, I think that's what fueled the team tonight. We just went out there and played extremely well and left it all out there, and came out with a good `W.'"
During his emotional MVP acceptance speech on Tuesday, Durant called teammate Russell Westbrook an MVP-caliber player. Westbrook backed up Durant's words with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his third triple-double in his past five playoff games.
"I think Russ played harder than all of us combined," Clippers guard Chris Paul said. "He was all over the place."
Thunder coach Scott Brooks took Durant out of the game with 1:21 remaining, costing him a shot at the triple-double. According to information provided to the Thunder by the Elias Sports Bureau, no pair of teammates has had triple