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| Chinese Gold Farmers Preview |
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The documentary investigates gaming workshops in
China that hire people to play online games like
World of Warcraft and lineage. The gaming workers
play at least 12 hours a day to produce in-game
currency, equipments and whole characters, which
are sold to American players.
Tags : Chinese Gold Farmers Online Games |
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Affichage : 1109970
Durée : 381 s |
| Farmers Market Marin County California |
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The San Rafael Farmers Market is the largest local
farmers market in Marin County with up to 150
growers, food purveyors and artisans. This market
is held on Thursday's and Sunday's from 8AM to 1PM
at the San Rafael Civic Center, famous world wide
for its Frank Lloyd Wright architectural design.
One of the mentionable features of this particular
market is that all of the vendors are Certified
California Producers and deliver their fresh
produce and goods from a maximum 200 mile radius.
Most vendors however grow and/or produce within a
15-30 mile radius, all of which promotes high
nutrient based foods, sustainable farming and a
healthy local economy.
Tags : Farmers market marin california food travel |
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Affichage : 5079
Durée : 286 s |
| Associate Professor Evil Kills All Gold Farmers |
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http://www.wegame.com : Make your own machinima at
WeGame.com.
Associate Professor Evil has no use for the key to
the city of Orgrimmar, and so he and Barnaby must
come up with a new plan to harness great power!
This movie placed second in the Action / Adventure
category during the Blizzcon 2007 Machinima
Contest.
Here are the lyrics to the credits song:
http://oxhornbrand.blogspot.com/2007/08/movie-asso
ciate-professor-evil-kills.html
Here is the movie script:
http://oxhornbrand.blogspot.com/2007/08/script-ass
ociate-professor-evil-kills.html
Here is my account of Blizzcon 2007:
http://oxhornbrand.blogspot.com/2007/08/oxhorns-bl
izzcon-2007-adventure.html
Note: I have received a bit of confusion
concerning my mention of Mark Jacobs in the movie.
Some think that when the gold farmer said that
Jacobs sucks that I think Jacobs sucks, which is
not the case at all. I like Mark Jacobs. I had a
gold farmer say that; and Associate Professor Evil
slapped him for doing so. I played Dark Age of
Camelot for nearly two years and loved every
moment of it, so I have great respect for Mark
Jacobs and his stance on gold farming. Which is
why I had the shout-out in the movie. It is only
natural that gold farmers would hate him though,
which is why my character said what he did. But he
got his just rewards!
Check out my store at:
http://www.cafepress.com/oxhorn
Check out my website at:
http://www.oxhornbrandmovies.com
Tags : oxhorn roneatek brand movies brandon dennis world of warcraft blizzard machinima comedy animation |
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Affichage : 229944
Durée : 533 s |
| Ron Paul & Hemp for American Farmers |
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[Economist articles in description - Ron Paul
mentioned in one]
A video consisting of an US Government history
lesson about hemp which leads into an argument for
hemp and then Ron Paul's Hemp legislation. Hemp
has the potential to be a huge boon for American
farmers and the US economy all while helping the
environment and improving US security by lowering
our reliance on foreign oil...and Ron Paul is the
only candidate in favor of legislation to allow
American Farmers to grow it.
Music
Artist - The Whitest Boy Alive
Song - Golden Cage
(Economist - 6/23/07)
Nowadays farmers are banned from growing hemp
without a permit from the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), which usually refuses to
grant one. So many hemp products in
America—food, lotions, clothing, paper and so
forth—are imported from China or Canada, where
farmers have been allowed to grow hemp
commercially since 1998.
Hemp grows so easily that few pesticides or even
fertilisers are needed. "Feral" hemp is said to
grow by the roadside in Iowa and Nebraska. Barbara
Filippone, owner of a hemp fabric company called
Enviro Textiles, says demand has rocketed—sales
are growing by 35% a year. Nutiva, a
California-based hemp company that sells hemp
bars, shakes and oils, saw sales rise from under
$1m three years ago to $4.5m last year. "Hemp is
the next soy," predicts John Roulac, Nutiva's
founder.
American farmers would love to grow hemp. North
Dakota, which in 1999 became the first state to
allow industrial hemp farming, has taken the lead.
This week two farmers from the state filed a
lawsuit to force the DEA to issue permits to grow
hemp; the farmers had applied for permits back in
February, thus far to no avail. Ron Paul, a Texas
congressman and presidential candidate, could win
over farmers in Iowa because of his pro-hemp
lobbying. In February he introduced a bill in
Congress that would allow Americans to grow it.
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(Economist - 7/14/07)
Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House of
Representatives, set up a special committee to
come up with a solution to the nation's energy
woes by July 4th, so that America's new political
masters could declare "energy independence" on the
same day their forebears renounced the colonial
yoke.
But July 4th has come and gone, Ms Pelosi as yet
has no energy bill and America is still just as
firmly yoked to expensive, dirty, imported energy
as ever. The price of oil is near the nominal
record reached last year, and petrol costs well
over $3 a gallon. Not only have the Democrats
shelved any plan for limiting greenhouse
emissions; they have also embraced two of Mr
Bush's more pernicious ideas: using greenery as an
excuse to dole out subsidies to ungreen lobbies;
and claiming a bogus link between climate change
and energy independence.
Sadly, however, the Senate's energy bill weds
sensible steps on fuel economy and energy
efficiency with all manner of less helpful,
populist measures, including new
anti-price-gouging rules aimed at big oil
companies and hand-outs for farmers in the form of
new incentives for expensive (and ungreen)
corn-based ethanol.
The Democrats hold at least two suspect truths to
be self-evident. Most obviously, they think that
politicians should micro-manage energy policy,
encouraging some technologies and neglecting
others. That ignores most of the lessons of
economics, but it is decidedly well grounded
compared with the Democrats' other verity: that
slowing global warming and reducing dependence on
imported fuels go hand-in-hand. What sense does it
make to give preference to American ethanol over
the cheaper and more climate-friendly Brazilian
sort? (Indeed, if you embrace the goal of "energy
security", bigger imports of Brazilian ethanol
might help, by reducing America's demand for oil
from more hostile lands.)
The Democrats' leaders might calculate that it is
worth dressing up an energy bill with patriotic
talk and weighing it down with subsidies in order
to buy political support for more contentious
measures.
Tags : Ron Paul Hemp Ethanol Iowa Arizona California GOP Straw Poll |
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Affichage : 15798
Durée : 178 s |
| Chinese Gold Farmers Preview Three |
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This is the story of Lao Liu, one of my favorite
interviewees. Here he talks about the pleasure and
pain of being a gold farmer, also his interaction
with regular gamers. I'm experimenting
distributive filmmaking. If you would like to
participate in this documentary, please just use
an camcorder and record an interview with yourself
or your friends, then contribute the tapes to me.
Please check out www.chinesegoldfarmers.com
Tags : gold farming virtual economy MMORPGS online games real money trade China youth |
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Affichage : 103303
Durée : 396 s |
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