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Reviewed by: Brett Willis
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Eileen Essel, Harvey Fierstein, Swoosie Kurtz, Maya Rudolph | Directed by: Danny DeVito | Produced by: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Stuart Cornfeld, Richard N. Gladstein, Nancy Juvonen, Meryl Poster | Written by: Larry Doyle, John Hamburg | Distributor: Miramax
I knew almost nothing about this film before seeing it. I wanted to be surprised, and I certainly was. It's a laugh-out-loud comedy that turns very dark. I don't really recommend it to anyone.
Alex and Nancy (Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore), a happy two-income New York couple, are thinking about having a baby. They decide to move to a more spacious home, a Duplex. Due to rent control laws, the existing upstairs tenant cannot be relocated against her will. When showing the house, the realtor (Harvey Fierstein) leads Alex and Nancy to believe that the aged tenant, Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel) has one foot in the grave. But such is not the case.
Mrs. Connelly keeps Alex and Nancy awake at night by falling asleep herself with the TV blaring. She monopolizes their time with "simple" requests for help. She spies on them having sex, perhaps accidentally. She and a bunch of other old ladies from her church have band practice in her apartment. Is she just innocent and clueless, or manipulative?
Before long, Alex and Nancy are sleep-deprived and their jobs are in jeopardy. They have to do something. They try some low-level stunts, which don't work. They try bribing Mrs. Connelly to move back to Ireland; but while discussing this possibility with them, she chokes on a piece of candy, and Alex and Nancy both fall under suspicion of sexual assault for performing CPR on her. It would seem there's only one thing left to do: bump her off.
The hilarious and generally clean comedy "What About Bob?" was tainted by a sequence at the end involving one character trying to murder another, just because the other character annoyed him. In "Duplex" we have the same thing; but it pops up much earlier in the film, occurs repeatedly and becomes the main focus. This black comedy theme makes the film's overall offensiveness greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes we see a murder carried out, but it's "only" a fantasy sequence of what someone WANTED to do. That Alex and Nancy's amateurish attempts at murder not only fail, but end up bouncing back on themselves (see Psalm 7:15-16), doesn't change the fact that this is no laughing matter.
There's also quite a bit of sexual humor, humor based on hypocrisy and con-artistry, and sight gags such as one person throwing up in another person's face. Since there are also many legitimately funny moments in the film, the viewer is often bait-and-switched into laughing at something that should be repulsive rather than funny.
There's a subtle difference between this kind of dark-comedy and "Three Stooges," "Home Alone," or cartoonish violence. Alex and Nancy are the central characters, the "good guys." The emphasis is not on the severity of the violence, but on what they're explicitly trying to accomplish with it. They sit in a restaurant, laughingly confessing to each other the ways that each of them have dreamed of killing Mrs. Connelly. At the outset of the film, they were just ordinary folks like you and me. Now they can say "I'm an evil person," and giggle about it.
The violence is tongue-in-cheek, not realistic. Most of the time the language is clean, but every now and then there's a string of profanity like a machine-gun burst. There are one or two occurrences of f*, a flash of "the finger," some occurrences of a* and s*, sexual slang and oaths.
While Mrs. Connelly is generally a sweet and proper old lady, she has a few outrageous or double-meaning lines. Alex and Nancy have one implied sex scene (no explicit nudity or activity visible); there are also scenes where they smooch in bed in anticipation of having sex, but eventually give up because the noise from upstairs breaks the mood. Several jokes revolve around Alex's male organs: their nickname, a doctor examining them after an accident, etc.
A minor character (James Remar) is a hit man, but has a "respectable" cover job as a pornographer and hands out sample porno DVDs to Alex and Nancy along with his business card. Mrs. Connelly unexpectedly returns to her apartment while Alex is sabotaging her TV; Alex hides in her bathroom, and is trapped behind the shower curtain while Mrs. Connelly takes a bubble bath. Although it went over my head at the time, I've read other reviews since, and on looking back I agree that Mrs. Connelly was probably masturbating in the tub.
There are some redeeming qualities in Alex and Nancy's behavior at the end; deep down, they instinctively know that murder is wrong, and they don't want to go through with it after all. Also a couple of twists, which I didn't see coming and which make for the "happiest" ending that could be salvaged from the plot. But by then, the imitative behavior damage has been done.
Watching this film won't incite a well-adjusted person to commit murder, of course; but the real-life killings on the evening news may seem a little less tragic. I'm 53 years old and have seen a lifetime of movie violence, but this particular type of film still disturbs me.
Violence: Moderate | Profanity: Heavy | Sex/Nudity: Heavy
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Film production
The creative talent and technical knowledge you've developed during your film production degree will equip you with many skills beneficial for working in other sectors
Job options
Jobs directly related to your degree include:
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Jobs where your degree would be useful include:
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Remember that many employers accept applications from graduates with any degree subject, so don't restrict your thinking to the jobs listed here.
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Like all creative arts industries, starting your career in film production can be challenging as there's strong competition for roles. Work experience is essential for building your CV and portfolio, as well as increasing your networking opportunities.
An entry level job in film is as a runner, supporting production staff on film sets. This is a good way to learn about the production process and gain valuable contacts in the industry. Make use of the projects you can take on at university to build your portfolio.
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Opportunities may be advertised on dedicated websites, company websites, in trade magazines or with recruitment agencies. The professional contacts you make through work experience and study can also be a source of opportunities.
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As well as developing your creative talent and technological knowledge, a degree in film production provides you with many skills that can be transferred to different professions. These include:
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- reflecting on, and evaluating, yours and others' work
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There are a range of postgraduate degrees in film production throughout the UK and internationally. Postgraduate study can be a way to specialise within a certain area, such as editing, light engineering, sound engineering, distribution and production.
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What do film production students do?
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Race and ethnicity among Hispanics
As a follow-up to the last post, I calculated how warmly Hispanics of three different races (white, black, other) felt towards generic whites, blacks, and Hispanics (sample sizes = at least 200).
Overall, Hispanics are the best liked group (not surprising); blacks are the least liked. This is the same pattern we saw in the last post with all races.
White Hispanics like Hispanics better than they like whites. They like their Latinness more than their whiteness. People usually like their whatever-elseness more than being white if they have a choice. You distance yourself from whiteness if you can. Whites also like their own race the least (the difference is very big). I suspect that while they describe their race as white, many answer the closeness-to-whites question thinking of whites as "Anglos."
Black Hispanics like blacks better than Hispanics. They like their blackness more than their Latinness. Black trumps Latino in the race/ethnic hierarchy.
Other-race Hispanics like whites more than blacks, but the means for both are low. They like Hispanics much more than either blacks or whites. The 2.5 point gap between the mean closeness towards blacks and that towards Hispanics is huge.
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The Olympic Sculpture Park
Get out now. Not just outside, but beyond the rap of the programmed electronic age so gently closing around so many people at the end of our century. Go outside, move deliberately, then relax, slow down, and look around. Do not jog. Do not run…Walk. Stroll. Saunter…Explore.
Heeding the words of John Stilgoe in Outside Lies Magic, a few of us went to the Seattle Art Museum's relatively new Olympic Sculpture Park yesterday morning to make observations regarding wayfinding in urban spaces, in order to help us develop a question for research in Amsterdam.
I found the park to be an incredible use of what was just recently an industrial wasteland. The layout of the park gently guides one along a Z-shaped walkway, providing many opportunities for one to saunter off into auxiliary paths and alcoves without letting visitors forget that they are in a museum. Impressively, the park integrates itself into its surroundings, crossing over Elliot Avenue and the BNSF railway, and landing at the shoreline of Elliot Bay.
The morning's slow pace allowed us to "read the city" and make many observations, especially about the rapid proliferation of condo buildings throughout downtown Seattle, and the effects that such construction has upon the city's storied history, both physically and socially.
On a somewhat unrelated note, at some point in this discussion, the topic came up that cellphone conversations almost always begin with the caller stating their current location. If you think about it, it's true – the context of a phone call generally holds a good deal of importance, regardless of the call's purpose, and a mobile phone does not (visibly) transmit the implicit location information carried by landlines. How long will it take before caller ID includes that contextual information, such as location and maybe even a Twitter status?


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All over the Internet, I keep seeing the same question… "I can't spend a lot of money on a scope so what should I buy?" I often get asked this question as well. But before we get started, let me make a couple of disclaimers.
1) I don't care if you buy a rifle scope from me or not. My purpose here isn't to sell you a scope, it's to help you see what's available and make the smart decision for what you need and can afford. I will even recommend scopes that I do not sell.
2) Nothing that I that I say here should be taken as an indication that I think these scopes are as good as scopes costing $3000 or $4000. But at the same time, I do not buy into the idea that you must spend at least $2000 to get a good long range scope. That's simply not true.
3) I'm not saying that the lower cost scopes on the list are as good as the higher priced scopes. A $500 scope is not as good as a $1500 scope. This is simply a list of scopes costing under $1500 that will give you the ability of hitting targets at 1000 yards or beyond.
Additionally, times are rapidly changing and I feel like a lot of people are still stuck in an old paradigm. I want to help you break out of the old way of thinking and see the new technology incorporated into rifle scopes that eliminates many of the worries you might have about buying a lower priced scope. Additionally, so much of the advice online is obsolete because people are stuck in their old ways of thinking and it's time to step into the future!
Grid Scale Reticles – A Game Changer
Grid Scale, or 'Christmas Tree', Reticles have been around for awhile, but they are now becoming main stream and replacing standard MOA or MIL scale reticles. These reticles were pioneered by Horus, but like most innovations, they're still catching on. A lot of people take one look at them and say "that's too busy. give me what I'm used to". That's probably what they said about smart phones as well! Don't sell yourself short by turning up your nose at new technology because "it looks busy". Your smart phone looks a whole lot more busy than your old flip phone but I don't see too many flipping their phones open and dialing numbers anymore.
With a grid scale reticle, you do not need to dial for distance or wind… unless you're shooting extreme long range and then you might need to dial a little bit of distance. You simply hold for distance and wind without touching the dials. So why is this important?
According to Precision Rifle Blog, "A scope that doesn't track, or have repeatable adjustments seems to be viewed as the biggest flaw a scope could have." In fact, mechanical reliability is the number one concern for most shooters when purchasing a precision rifle scope. In forum after forum, you always see the same question posed when anyone brings up a specific scope, "how does it track? Is it repeatable?" Shooters are more concerned about mechanical performance than optical clarity.
A grid scale reticle basically eliminates that worry because you don't have to spin the dial up and down for every shot. For example, for my 6.5 Creedmoor I need to make a 9.02 MIL adjustment to hit at 1000 yards. Now I could rotate my elevation turret 90 clicks up and make the shot… and then 90 clicks back down to return to zero (hypothetically – as long as the scope tracks perfectly) OR I could just hold 9 MILS on my grid scale and pull the trigger without ever touching the turret.
Obviously rotating the turret is a mechanical process. Components wearing against other components wear out over time – and quite possibly may never have been exactly calibrated in the first place. In tests of mechanical reliability, almost all rifle scopes (regardless of price) are not perfectly calibrated – meaning one click is not actually 1 MIL or 1/4 MOA. Using a grid scale, which is laser etched into the glass, mostly eliminates the need to dial and therefore no need to worry about the mechanical reliability as much as we did in the past.
For extreme long range, or lower performing cartridges at 1000 yards, you still may need to dial, but not as much as you normally would and therefore the calibration of the clicks will be less important because you are adjusting less. Additionally, the turret will last much longer and is not as likely to wear out over time as lower cost scopes did in the past.
People look at grid scale reticle scopes and then ask, "but how does it track?" Embrace the future and make use of the technology that's making long range shooting much easier – and less costly – than it used to be.
Main Point #1 – Buy a Scope with a Grid Scale Reticle and then Use the Reticle!
So, if you're spending less than $1500 on a scope, but one with a grid scale reticle and quit worrying about mechanical performance and mechanically adjusting the reticle. There's a reason most professional precision competitors are using grid scale reticles. They are fast and reliable. So let's get into the scopes themselves.
If you're spending less than $1500 on a long range scope, there are only a few brands to really consider; Bushnell, Vortex, Athlon, and SWFA. Don't get upset if I didn't list your brand. There are a lot of great scopes out there, but like I said, times are changing and between 2016 and 2017 we've seen the biggest – and best offerings – of budget priced precision rifle scopes. Everything has changed in the last 12-18 months when it comes to precision scopes under $1500. Like I said before, buy whatever you want, but I just can't see any reason to buy anything other than one of the brands I just mentioned.
Bushnell Elite Tactical
The Bushnell Elite Tactical series scopes have proven themselves as serious contenders in the long range optics market. Models range from $1400 up to $2100 and come with all the features long range shooters demand such as Front Focal Plane, Zero Stop, Locking Turrets, Grid Scale Reticle and more. Professional PRS shooter, Melissa Gilliland, has been running a Bushnell Tactical Elite scope for a few years now. In a recent post, Gilliland stated, "I have been a huge fan of Bushnell's Elite XRS scope for many years and am overjoyed to be running the new XRS2 this season." New for 2017 are the DMR IIi and HDMR II scopes.
Bushnell Elite Tactical HDMR II
- Price: $1549.99
- First Focal Plane
- Zero Stop
- Locking Turrets
- Grid Scale MIL reticle
- 34mm Tube
I consider Vortex the company that got the common man into long range shooting. I believe Vortex has their finger on the pulse of what people want and they continue to deliver year after year. In 2017 they've announced their Viper PST Gen 2 5-25×50 Long Range scope and I think this is going to be an excellent choice. Only trouble will be getting your hands on one.
Vortex Viper PST Gen 2 5-25×50
- Price: $1399.99 (retail)
- First Focal Plane
- Zero Stop
- Grid Scale MOA or MIL reticles
- 30mm Tube
Athon BTR Series
The most exciting new company on the market is Athlon Optics. All of the companies I'm mentioning in this article are innovators, but I believe Athlon is the most innovative and tuned in company in the tactical optics marketplace. They seemed to have taken a step back, figured out what people want and can afford, and then produced it. And they stand behind their products with a lifetime guarantee every bit as good as Vortex does with theirs. I feel like Vortex opened the door for the average guy to get into long range shooting and now Athlon has simply blown the door right off the hinges! They're top of the line scope will run you $1800 bucks, but they offer plenty of easy to afford models as well. Take a look…
Athlon Ares BTR 4.5-27×50
- Price: $849.99
- First Focal Plane
- Zero Stop
- Locking Turrets
- Grid Scale MOA or MIL Reticles
- 30mm Tube
Athlon Helos BTR 6-24×50
- Price: $569.99
- First Focal Plane
- Locking Turrets
- Grid Scale MOA or MIL Reticles
- 30mm Tube
Athlon Argos BTR 6-24×50
- Price: $369.99
- First Focal Plane
- Grid Scale MOA or MIL Reticles
- 30mm Tube
For years now SWFA has been offering their low cost Super Sniper (SS) scopes and getting great reviews from budget priced shooters. They offer a number of scopes in this price range such as 10×42, 16×42 and 3-15×42 model. I've seen a lot of online comments telling new shooters just to buy the SWFA 10×42 cause it's a great scope, only costs $300 bucks, and '10x is enough to get you started'.
That's basically true, but I don't like the idea of buying a fixed power scope because then all you can do with it is shoot long range. 10x is great if all you're doing is ringing steel at long range… but when you want to take that same rifle after some coyotes, you might see that fixed 10x isn't that great of an option. SWFA does not offer the grid scale reticle like I've been talking about, but they do offer their Mil Scale reticle that still works pretty good. These scopes have a lot of great reviews so I include them here for that reason. If you can only spend $300 bucks, then I'd recommend the Athlon Argos BTR 6-24x. If you choose to go with SWFA, then I recommend the 3-15. It's just going to give you so much more use than a fixed 10x scope.
- Price: $699.95
- First Focal Plane
- MOA or MIL Scale Reticle
- 30mm Tube
So why did I pick these scopes and not others. I'll name a few notable scopes that I excluded.
- Nightforce SHV – Great scope, but 2nd Focal Plane reticle which I don't think is practical for long range shooters… especially when there are so many great scopes on the market in this price range that feature a First Focal Plane reticle. The 4-14×50 SHV is available in FFP, but then why settle for 14x? I believe you can get as good of a scope, with higher magnification, for the same price as the 4-14x SHV F1.
- Burris XTR II 5-25×50 – Another great scope, but I'll take the Vortex Gen 2 with it's grid scale reticle. The Burris XTR has MOA or MIL scale reticle, but not the grid. The XTR 2 4-20×50 is available with the Horus H591 reticle and that's a great option, but don't know that I'd go with the 4-20x when I can get the Vortex Gen 2 in 5-25x for about the same price.
- SWFA Higher End Scopes: SWFA makes great scopes. No doubt about that. Theyr 5-20×50 HD model runs $1299.95, but doesn't have the grid so I'd still take the Vortex Gen 2 or spend a bit more and get the Bushnell.
- Nikon – Nikon makes great hunting scopes, but they do not make anything that I consider a long range precision scope. With the offerings now available, that would be in Nikon price range, I just don't see any reason to purchase a Nikon for long range precision shooting.
- EOTech – EOTech has jumped on the long range bandwagon, but I don't see any reason to buy one when you have Bushnell and Athlon choices in the same price range.
- Leupold – No scopes in this price range that I'd recommend for long range.
- Trijicon – Same line of thinking as EOTech. Trijicon makes great products, and they have some scopes in this price range, but I'll take Athlon over the similarly priced Trijicon options.
- Sig Sauer – I love Sig scopes, but in this price range I wouldn't purchase a Sig. Same reasoning as Trijicon.
- Millett – Had a Millett years ago and the turret wore out on me. I would purchase Athlon over Millett.
- Sightron – Like many of the other brands I've mentioned here, Sightron makes awesome scopes in this price range. Of anything I didn't list here, I think Sightron was the closest choice that didn't make the list. They are super clear and very reliable. They are an excellent choice but do not have the grid scale reticle.
- Other Vortex offerings – Vortex offers a lot of other scopes in this price range, but I think there are better options. In my experience, Athlon is better glass, dollar for dollar, than Vortex. I'd take the Athlon Ares BTR over any of the lower priced Vortex Viper PST or Viper HS LR scopes.
- Primary Arms – There are some great scopes from Primary Arms. There high end scopes sell for $1500 and I would pick the Bushnell over Primary Arms. They also make a 4-14x FFP scope with their ACSS reticle which is caliber specific (mainly 5.56 and 7.62) so not something I'd recommend. It's more of a ballistic reticle rather a standard MOA or MIL scale reticle. Additionally, their 4-14x scopes sell for less than $300 bucks, so I'd chose the Athlon Argos if I was considering anything in that price range.
So I guess that about does it. I've narrowed down the list considerably and hopefully given you something to think about. You may not agree with my choices, but like I said in the beginning, all I want to do is make you think and help you choose the right scope for your needs. If you look at my list, and think I'm off base, then I accomplished my goal and at least made you think.
In closing, I just want to go back to what I opened with. Open your mind to the new technology that's going into rifle scopes and don't get caught in the past. If you're scope didn't make the list, don't be offended and get all pissy about it. There are a lot of great scopes out there. The Burris XTR II Series and Sightron SIII FFP Scopes are great choices and you'd never go wrong with them. I'm simply saying that in that price range, I would most likely choose something else.
Things are changing rapidly and the old idea of not being about to get a good long range scope for less than $2000 is simply not true any more.


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If any company would have a vested interest in seeing driverless technology come to fruition, it would be Delphi, one of the largest makers of radars and vehicle sensors in the world. But according to The Information, their CTO, Glen De Vos refutes the view that autonomous vehicles will be on highways before they will be on city streets. In his words, the technology to handle high-speed highway autonomous traffic "does not exist" and current technology "can't 'see' far-away objects such as people or debris."
This argument matches up well with the position of some of the folks at ATA. According to sources involved with the Association, the ATA makes a strong argument that when vehicles traveling down the highway at 60 mph have an issue, there is little time to react. This counters the argument that folks use when discussing how planes fly themselves with autopilot. The thing that most people forget about is that there is a still a pilot on board, primarily to be available in case something goes wrong. Autonomous trucking is far more complicated than auto piloting an airplane. Once a plane is wheels up, its complications and challenges are small compared to the issues that happen on the ground. As long as the plane maintains adequate separation from other aircraft and avoids weather issues and obstructions, the environment in which a plane operates is almost a vacuum. A truck on a highway is not as blessed. Unlike an airplane, a truck doesn't have minutes to deal with an emergency. Even if a plane loses an engine, it has a glide path that allows it to lose altitude at a consistent pace, enabling it to find a proper landing spot.
The clock on in-cab truck emergencies are measured in milliseconds and humans still have the fastest processor in the known universe.
It does appear, however that Delphi is bullish on autonomous vehicles that operate at low speed and in congested areas at low speed. In this model, the trucks would be autonomous while containers are being loaded onto chassis, without holding up the drivers. They would be rotated into cycle while they are being loaded. Imagine a car-wash without the rails driving the vehicle into motion. This technology is already market-ready and is most commonly seen in Tesla's low speed autonomous car ushering in a parking lot. Implementation of such technology will not be without controversy. The unions still have a significant hold on the ports. Any implementation of such a technology will require the support of unions that control them.
The Information suggests that Delphi's CTO believes that Tesla's attempt to create an autonomous truck will ultimately fail.
The article does not mention or discuss platooning, which is expected to be implemented broadly in the market over the next few years. While each truck travels in a tightly controlled caravan, a driver is on-board each truck.


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BUENOS AIRES, May 31 (Reuters) - Latin American e-commerce firm MercadoLibre plans to launch an investment fund in Argentina in coming months so clients can invest in high-yielding, short-term securities, company executives said on Thursday.
In a country where nearly half the population does not have a bank account, MercadoLibre wants to give consumers a chance to boost savings with local investment vehicles, chief executive Marcos Galperin told journalists.
The company is partnering with local lender Banco Industrial (BIND) and may launch similar programs in Brazil and Mexico, said Osvaldo Gimenez, a company vice president.
Earlier this month, Argentina's central bank hiked interest rates to 40 percent, the highest in the world, to stop a run on the peso currency and control double-digit inflation. Its one-month Lebac securities have the same rate.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc.'s market value briefly crept above $100 billion for the first time, a threshold that will trigger a huge payout for Elon Musk if he can sustain the feat for months.The electric-car maker's shares climbed as much as 1.4% in after-hours trading Tuesday after closing the regular session up 7.2%. At the post-market high of $555.10, Tesla's market capitalization was roughly $100.1 billion, just short of Volkswagen AG's $100.6 billion.Musk, Tesla's billionaire chief executive officer, is eligible to receive the first tranche of an all-or-nothing pay award if the company's market value stays above $100 billion for a sustained period. On paper, the first chunk of the award would net him about $346 million.Tesla shares have more than doubled since the company reported a surprise third-quarter profit and told investors it was ahead of schedule opening its factory in China and bringing out its next product, the Model Y crossover. Musk, 48, has built a commanding lead selling electric vehicles over established automakers.Wall Street's most bullish analyst on Tesla was behind Tuesday's rally. New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu predicted the company will sell 2 million to 3 million cars per year after 2025 at industry-leading margins. He raised his price target by $270 to $800, the highest among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.\--With assistance from Tom Randall, Dana Hull and Anders Melin.To contact the reporter on this story: Craig Trudell in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at email@example.com, Young-Sam ChoFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- Australia has some big decisions to make about its future. For insight into the stories that matter, sign up for our new weekly newsletter.Tesla Inc.'s latest big lithium-ion battery is set to start in South Australia, one of the nation's biggest users of renewable generation, where it will support a steady flow of power from a wind farm.Infigen Energy's Lake Bonney storage system, equipped with a 25 megawatt Tesla battery, is in the final stages of testing and close to full commercial operations, the state's energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan said in a statement following a visit to the site, which includes an existing 278.5 megawatt wind farm. Infigen said in November the battery started operating at full capacity Nov. 29.The project "will allow South Australia to incorporate more renewable energy into the system and move towards net-100% renewable energy in the 2030's," van Holst Pellekaan said. Solar and wind power already meet more than half of the state's electricity demand, compared to around 20% nationally.The Lake Bonney system follows the 100 megawatt Hornsdale facility installed by Tesla in 2017, also in South Australia. Hornsdale has been profitable for French owner Neoen SA, which bills it as the world's biggest lithium-ion battery and said in November it plans to boost its capacity 50%. A third Tesla battery in Australia, backing up the Gannawarra solar farm in Victoria state, started commercial operations in March.Read More: A Creaking Grid Jams Up Australia's Switch to Green EnergyPower from the Lake Bonney unit will also be used to supply Tesla's fast-charging Supercharger car stations, which are being rolled out across Australia.To contact the reporter on this story: James Thornhill in Sydney at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Ramsey Al-Rikabi at firstname.lastname@example.com, Aaron ClarkFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
The milestone comes less than a month after Tesla's stock crossed $420, the infamous price at which Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk had tweeted he would take the electric car maker private. Musk tweeted he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private in August 2018, when its shares were trading in the mid-$330s, only to later give up under investor pressure and regulatory concerns. Tesla shares were last up 1.4% at $555 after the bell, building on a 7.2% gain during trading when brokerage New Street Research raised its price target to $800.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. has reached a settlement with the state of Michigan over its federal lawsuit challenging a state ban on direct-to-consumer sales, according to people familiar with the matter.In a partial victory for Tesla, the accord clears the way for the electric-car maker to open service centers in the state through a subsidiary, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified ahead of a filing in U.S. District Court that's expected as soon as Wednesday. Customers will still have to title their cars in another state and transfer them to Michigan.The Michigan attorney general's office had no immediate comment. Tesla representatives didn't respond to requests for comment.Tesla, which sells its electric cars directly to consumers in roughly two dozen states, filed suit against Michigan in 2016 seeking to overturn its ban on auto manufacturers selling directly to consumers. The suit claimed a bill signed into law by then-Governor Rick Snyder in 2014 was an "anti-Tesla" amendment designed to favor the state's automakers and franchise dealers.Instead of operating a network of franchised dealerships with hundreds of vehicles on the lot, Tesla's strategy has been to open small stores in shopping malls and other visible locations with lots of foot traffic. General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and other carmakers operate under franchise laws that have been on the books for decades and were originally put in place to prevent manufacturers from opening stores that would compete with dealers.Key to SalesTesla has operated a gallery -- where it showcases vehicles but cannot sell them -- at a high-end mall in the Detroit suburb of Troy, Michigan, since 2017. Tesla owners in the state had to travel to Cleveland or Columbus, Ohio, to have their vehicles worked on until the company recently opened a service center in Toledo, near the state border.Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in July that service centers are key to growing sales."You've got to have service, you have to have the supercharging and charging all sorted out, good consumer financing, and then the price must makes sense," Musk said on an earnings call. "Any place where those four things are true, our sales are great. So we're rolling out service centers like crazy."In March, Tesla reversed a controversial plan to close most of its stores, but said that shoppers who visit its retail locations will be shown how to order a car on their phone in minutes. Its stores have played a critical role in educating consumers about making the switch to electric and in arranging test drives.Similar BattlesIn the 2016 lawsuit, Tesla said it was being stymied by automakers and dealers in Michigan. It's been waging similar battles in Texas and Connecticut for a license to sell directly to consumers, arguing that it doesn't violate dealers' rights because the company doesn't have any dealers.In 2016, Diarmuid O'Connell, then Tesla's vice president of business development, accused GM of pushing legislation that would keep its direct-sales model banned in Indiana.Tesla now has two stores and one service center in the state, according to its website.(Updates with details of settlement terms in second paragraph)To contact the reporters on this story: Gabrielle Coppola in New York at email@example.com;Dana Hull in San Francisco at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at firstname.lastname@example.com, Kevin MillerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
The company will be able to deliver vehicles within Michigan, but will have to issue titles for the vehicles in another state, which the customers can then transfer to Michigan, the person said. Tesla sued Michigan officials in 2016 after the state refused to allow the company to sell cars directly to consumers instead of through franchised dealerships.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc.'s most bullish Wall Street analyst predicts the electric-car maker's dizzying rally will accelerate this year and that the stock will trade in the $640-to-$960 range in early 2021.New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu anticipates the company will sell 2 million to 3 million cars per year after 2025 at industry-leading margins, justifying a market capitalization of $230 billion to $350 billion, or about $1,100 to $1,700 per share."The stock will remain volatile, as the spread between bull and bear cases remains wide," said Ferragu, who boosted his price target to a Street high. "And God only knows what the next controversy will be."Tesla is set to report quarterly earnings next week. Shares of the company rose as much as 6.9% to touch $545.90 in New York on Tuesday, and have increased more than 100% over the past three months. A surprise third-quarter profit and strong deliveries for the fourth quarter helped fuel the rally, along with the opening of its China plant.Ferragu, who raised his price target to a $800 from previous $530, expects the company to beat estimates for free cash flow when it releases fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 29.He also predicts 2020 delivery guidance will exceed projections, and sees a potential drop in gross margins in the first half of the year as Shanghai-assembled Model 3s -- which have higher fixed costs per car -- increase in the overall mix.Earlier on Tuesday, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi struck a cautious note, saying the Shanghai Gigafactory production could pressure margins in fourth and first quarter.(Updates share move in fourth paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Esha Dey in New York at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Brad Olesen at firstname.lastname@example.com, Will DaleyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc.'s stock is soaring, and traditional auto manufacturers are staging glitzy presentations of new plug-in models. You'd think the electric-vehicle age was finally dawning.But so far, Tesla is the only car company looking likely to benefit in the coming years. Look at every other corner of the U.S. auto industry -- the world's most valuable automaker, dealers, consumer surveys and market forecasts -- and a more ominous picture emerges.A top American executive for Toyota Motor Corp., whose market value is still more than double Tesla's even after Elon Musk's epic run, recently warned of electric-car catastrophe. Auto retailers caution growth will be slow, citing still-high battery costs and range constraints. And far more U.S. shoppers are willing to kick the tires on a hybrid than cars that only plug in.The cause for concern remains as EVs start to appear in showrooms in greater numbers. The models on the market will swell almost sevenfold to 121 models in the next half decade, from 18 now, according to LMC Automotive. But the researcher sees all those vehicles claiming just 5.5% of U.S. sales in 2025."We're going to see electrified Armageddon," Bob Carter, Toyota's executive vice president of North American sales, told reporters in December. "Supply is going to get ahead of true customer demand."There is irony, of course, in Carter predicting an EV reckoning just as Tesla was wrapping up a record year. The dim view he holds is not unique among legacy automakers, which have spent more than a century building and selling cars that burn fossil fuel. But that cautious mindset is rooted in pragmatism -- profits remain elusive in the high-cost, high-price EV business.That's why Toyota and other automakers have been reluctant to dive head-first into EVs until they're closer to reaching price parity with internal combustion engine vehicles, which BloombergNEF predicts will happen around 2024.Tesla is being rewarded for not waiting: Its shares surged another 6% on Tuesday to $540.94, a new intraday record. The stock has doubled since Tesla reported a surprise third-quarter profit in October, bringing the company closer to a $100 billion market value.EV sales are expected to grow to be roughly the size of the shrinking mid-size car segment by mid-decade, to about 934,000 units, LMC says. But whereas the meager family sedan market will be split between just 13 models, the researcher expects there to be more than nine times as many EVs fighting for air.Thanks to its hot-selling Model 3 sedan, Tesla accounted for nearly eight-in-10 EV sales in America last year. By 2025, LMC sees Tesla offering seven models that will account for a quarter of segment sales. That would leave the 114 competing offerings from other automakers averaging annual sales of 6,145 per model, or about 118 units a week."It's tough to make a business out of that volume per EV," said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting at LMC. "Electric vehicles are the future. What's in question is when that future will arrive and when it pays off? It's a long road and there definitely could be some carnage along the way."Automakers, fearing they'll be left behind if they don't accelerate their shift from the internal combustion engine, are going to great lengths to build buzz for new electric models.Ford Motor Co. staged a star-studded unveiling of its Mustang Mach-E in an airplane hangar a short stroll from SpaceX, Musk's rocket company. Porsche debuted its Taycan using Niagara Falls, a Chinese wind farm and a German solar site as backdrops.But with the notable exception of the Model 3, consumers have not been charged up by the highly touted electric offerings already on the market.Sales of the Chevrolet Bolt sagged almost 9% last year and the Nissan Leaf slumped 16%, with neither cresting 17,000 units. Last month, Mercedes-Benz put off the U.S. debut of its first EV by a year after Jaguar and Audi struggled to sell their first electric offerings.So far, only Tesla and its billionaire chief executive officer have come up with an alluring amalgam of status and sex appeal."Tesla has created the market by having a mystique," said Art St. Cyr, the head of American auto operations for Honda Motor Co., pointing to Musk's Model 3. "If Honda, Toyota, GM or Ford made that vehicle, we probably wouldn't sell them in those numbers."Honda, Ford and Toyota, which all have a history of selling hybrids, see them prevailing for the time being because mainstream buyers continue to suffer "range anxiety" -- the fear of being stranded by running out of juice in an EV."People are not generally willing to pay more to be inconvenienced," St. Cyr said.General Motors Co. is jumping more aggressively into EVs, with plans to field 20 models worldwide by 2023 and sell 1 million by 2026. It's joining forces with South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. to build a $2.3 billion battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio, where the car manufacturer stopped building gasoline-fueled Chevrolet Cruze compacts last year."Customers aren't interested in hybrids," Mary Barra, GM's CEO, said during an industry conference in November.But a study released by Deloitte this month found 27% of U.S. consumers are actively considering a hybrid, while just 8% are looking at pure electrics. Some 59% of Americans still want gasoline-powered cars, the highest of any country Deloitte surveyed globally.Government mandates have made China the world's top market for EVs, and European regulators also are stimulating demand with incentives to help reach more stringent goals for reduced emissions.But in the U.S., where President Donald Trump has sought to ease car-pollution rules and fuel is cheap, consumers are in no hurry to ditch the gas pump. The Deloitte study found consumers in the U.S. are most concerned about a lack of charging stations."The automotive ecosystem still has some work to do in terms of making EVs as easy and convenient as internal-combustion engines," said Craig Giffi, Deloitte's vice chairman.The onslaught of new EVs coming could actually help solve the problem. Until now, most EVs other than Tesla's have been boring "compliance cars" aimed at meeting tougher regulations, said Greg Brannon, director of automotive engineering at AAA, which just conducted a survey that found 96% of EV owners would buy another because the experience was better than expected."Most people are looking for a crossover utility vehicle these days," Brannon said. "Now, we're seeing some of those coming, and that's what it's going to take. It has to be something people want to drive and can get excited about."The pickup segment, home to the three best-selling models in the U.S., is about to get jolt, too. Musk caused a sensation with the unveiling of the Cybertruck in November. Ford has an electric truck under development recently filmed towing 1 million pounds of loaded rail cars. And Amazon.com Inc.-backed Rivian Automotive Inc. plans to roll out its R1T starting late this year.But for all the hype about the chips automakers are pushing forward on the table, it's unclear when or if their gamble will pay off."Somebody's got to buy these things," said Toyota's Carter. "There is a market. The question is: How big and when will it mature?"(Updates with Tesla shares in eighth paragraph.)\--With assistance from David Welch, Gabrielle Coppola, Chester Dawson and Melinda Grenier.To contact the reporter on this story: Keith Naughton in Southfield, Michigan at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at firstname.lastname@example.com, ;Dimitra Kessenides at email@example.com, Keith NaughtonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. fired back against a petition filed with U.S. regulators, saying in a blog post Monday that it's "completely false and was brought by a Tesla short seller."The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is evaluating allegations that Tesla Inc. vehicles contain a defect that can cause sudden unintended acceleration, according to a notice posted on the agency's website last week. The review was prompted by a petition asking the agency to open a defect investigation of some 500,000 Tesla vehicles over the alleged flaw. The petition cited 127 consumer complaints to the agency and claims of 110 crashes.The Palo Alto, California-based maker of electric vehicles said it investigates every incident where a driver "alleges to us that their vehicle accelerated contrary to their input." In every case where Tesla had the vehicle's data, it confirmed the car operated as designed, the carmaker said."The car accelerates if, and only if, the driver told it to do so, and it slows or stops when the driver applies the brake," Tesla said in the post.NHTSA, after a technical review, can either deny the petition or grant it and open a formal probe of the alleged issue. Any member of the public can petition NHTSA for a defect investigation, and many have been rejected by the agency.In October, NHTSA said it would evaluate a separate petition alleging that Tesla updated battery management software in response to a potential defect that could lead to fires.\--With assistance from Ryan Beene.To contact the reporter on this story: Dana Hull in San Francisco at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at firstname.lastname@example.com, Pierre Paulden, Jonathan RoederFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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The petition urged the agency to recall all Tesla vehicles, the Model S, Model X and Model 3, produced beginning in 2013. It cited media reports of crashes attributed to unintended acceleration and complaints filed with NHTSA.
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U.S. electric car pioneer Tesla has agreed to buy a property on the outskirts of Berlin, bringing it a step closer to opening its first European factory, local authorities said on Sunday. The U.S. carmaker last November announced plans to build a giant factory in Gruenheide, in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, giving it the coveted "Made in Germany" label just as local rivals prepare to launch competing models. Tesla's board of directors approved a purchase agreement with the state of Brandenburg on Saturday to acquire a 300-hectare property, Brandenburg government spokesman Florian Engels said in a statement.
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Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on October 14, 2009
Brief Tanky Ramblings
Normal ToC decided to like me and cough up my tanking trinket. Woo! …now to run it some more for the DPS trinket. Pffft. And then some more to get said trinket for ME, because Josh wants said trinket as well on his DK.
Thankfully I had enough defense to drop my Seal of the Pantheon for it, and keep the dodge trinket. I'm also now FINALLY over 30k health in 5 man buffs. Yay! Hopefully she'll get some more goodies in the Naxx25 run tomorrow (that I'm leading? What? NO! *hands to Josh*). Then I can set her back into her primary alt slot and…
…work on my hunter? Alas, no. Jamethera is stuck as the bastard red headed stepchild of my alts. No, friends, I want to work on my shadow priesting some more.
PTR Changes
Stolen from Duct Tape and a Prayer because I can't access the official crap:
- Glyph of Mind Flay now Increases the damage done by your Mind Flay spell by 10% when your target is afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
- Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain changed to – The periodic damage ticks of your Shadow Word: Pain spell restore 1% of your base mana.
- Glyph of Shadow now increases your spell power by 30% of your spirit for 10 sec. (Up from 10%) (Here's the current version.)
- Improved Devouring Plague: This spell now deals 10/20/30% of its total periodic effect instantly, up from 5/10/15%.
- Shadowform: This talent also now causes Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Pain, and Vampiric Touch to benefit from haste. Both the period length and the duration of these spells will be reduced by haste. In addition, the mana cost has been reduced from 32% to 13% of base mana.
- Vampiric Embrace: This ability is now provides a 30-minute buff that cannot be dispelled, instead of a target debuff.
Lookit! Lookit! Buffs! Tasty things! Oh my god! I'm so excited!
…granted I still do less DPS than most of our other shadow priests (HOW? MUST FIX) but YAY! Now we get to cross our fingers and hope these changes don't get nerfed back into the ground by release time.
Also, I find it terribly ironic that spirit is well-nigh useless to me as a disc priest but…it appears that I want some as shadow. What? Damn you. blizzard, for complicating my two sets of gear!
Oasic, how do you beat me as shadow deeps? I MUST KNOW.
…oh they also made it possible for you to bubble nonraid/party members. Sweet! Thanks Blizz! Now I can run circles around Dalaran randomly bubbling people! YAY!*
*I may or may not be genuinely excited by this development.
Class/Race Combinations I Want to See
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on August 18, 2009
-Draenei druids
…they already have shaman, why not? It seems to be a natural extension, and they do live next to the night elves after all.
-Night elf shamans
Similar reasoning to draenei druids.
-Priest EVERYTHING
Would the Light turn away anyone willing to embrace it? Seems to me the answer would be 'no'. And yes, I truly do want a moocow priest, even if those first few levels are so very very painful. The same logic could be extended to paladins. To flesh out a silly thing I spouted off in comments on my previous post:
And the Earthmother said lo, the sun is my eye, and as I shine the Light down upon you, so shall you embrace and worship it. Just remember, my children, that all who walk upon my back are one. You shall respect them, and have compassion for them, however different from yourself they may be. Be as tenacious as stone and let nothing sway you from your path.
-Human hunter
…well, why the hell not? Humans are, if nothing else, adaptable. There have already been human rangers.
-Draenei warlocks
These weren't my idea-certainly at first, it seems strange. But look at night elf demon hunters. They used the magic and skills of there enemy against them, much as the death knights use their own powers against Arthas. Perhaps a small sect of draenei decide to embrace demonic powers in order to better fight the dark. If even Naaru go through a dark phase…
Halp I've Been Nerfed? – Last Night's Ulduar
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on April 30, 2009
Ron warned me that he'd run a thing or two since the patch in which we'd been sneakily nerfed, and that he'd definitely had more mana issues. I walked into Ulduar blind, and…didn't feel phased. Did I have issues? Yes. Were they terrible? Not so much. I'd use my shadow fiend at 75% mana, pop a mana pot later if I had to, and then if things got drastic later in the fight, I usually had either my shadow fiend back or found a chance to use Hymn of Hope. Perhaps it is my dusty memories of 15 minute boss fights that enables me to smothly adjust, and plan accordingly. I know I love having all these tricks up my sleeve.
Group 2's composition was shuffled more than slightly, due more to availability than anything else. It was very good to be raiding with Josh again. As he explained fights on vent, I abused /rw to clarify points, add things he didn't think of/forgot, or playfully mocked people.
Healing assignments always feel vaguely silly on 10 mans, but we've settled into the same pattern for both raids: holy paladin on the tank, raid healer (druid or holy priest, mostly) on the…well, raid, and the disc priest playing a back-up role in which we bubble every damn thing and use penance to save the day.
One of the largest problems I had with healing in Ulduar was…range. I think that for XT, the raid healer and I will have to be more conscious of splitting the room in half, so to speak. We lost more than one DPS to their being our of range at the wrong moment. I'm not sure how to explain my death on our successful attempt, except to say that bombs should not blow up next to me when I'm low on health. :( Range was also an issue with Ignis for the people taking care of the adds. Having to move makes me all the more glad for PW:S, renew, and penance.
Rorfax and I also found it helpful, for fights like XT with periods of raid-wide AoE damage (Tantrum), to assign ourselves to groups to heal up so that we weren't overlapping each other while the other five people died. Of course then I'd go to toss my PoH and half my group would be out of range, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
I also tossed bunny ears on Kyr a couple of times just because I could. This was not at all helpful, except perhaps to (my) morale. :)
Ignis. Oh, Ignis. We downed Lootmobile, Razor, and XT, only to run into the wall that was Ignis. While this was good progress for group two, here's what I think of Ignis and his vibrating crotch pot:
I mean seriously, Blizzard. Vibrating crotch pot. I was also dismayed to find out that achievements conveniently cover MY ENTIRE GRID SET UP. Must…turn…that shit…off. It did do something for the old joke of calling Hot Pocket's Molten Magma Pockets, though.
Also, I do not like having two firey tornados chasing me away from my tank. It makes it very hard to heal said tank. >:| We'll not mention the unpleasant memories of the Great Tornado Gang Bang of Zul'Aman that were dredged up, either. Grrr, trash wipes.
We ended up 2 bosses "behind" group 1, but my frustration is much lessened. I figure at some point that perhaps they'll hit a wall that won't bother us so much, and beat them to the punch on something. :)
And of course, this is what we'll tell Ignis on Monday:
ETA random!
You know I completely forgot what I had the Zoja is a nub tag on here for until just now: I wanted to share fellow guildie sillyness. Last week in Ulduar, Zoja switch to arms for trash and and then went to tank a boss…and everyone wanted to know why Mortal Strike was up on him. Hmmmm. I wonder. :D At least I had my mace out this time.
Amber's Noblegarden Tips
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Amber Tries To Be Helpful on April 27, 2009
Screw the starter zones. Go to Terokkar.
Yes. Terokkar. Where everyone else was camping a spawn or two, I ran laps around the zone and picked up eggs. Sometimes I'd go a bit without finding any, other times, I'd hit up four or five in a row. As a bonus, I'd occasionally spot a horde in their mid 60s or so and would run around them in circles letting them wonder if I was going to gank them or not.
I didn't, and was rewarded for my upstanding morality with the pet on my 70-somthing-ith egg, which was all I really wanted from the damn event. I also got the Spring Flowers, and have every attention of using them to drive Steve nuts, much as we did the Hollow's End pumpkins.
I never saw anyone camping spawns, and most of the time I was one of only 3-4 Alliance in the zone. I did spot active competition once, but they were on a flying mount. Do not scout for eggs on your epic flyers, especially not in Terokkar. You'll miss a lot of eggs that way-several of the spawns are nestled inside clusters of trees. The main problem I had was repeatedly mistaking the glowing seed thingys for eggs at a distance.
That is a VERY rough outline encasing the area in which I found eggs.
Post Patch Day Maddness
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on April 15, 2009
First off, for my fellow squishies who are thinking for going shadow for the first time (shut up: I know I am not the only one who leveled a healing spec, damn it), Binary colors posted a lovely, simple "How Not To Suck" guide.
Does that mean I went shadow for my dual spec? No. Lyr has purchased dual specs but as of yet chosen nothing. I want to go shadow. Ron, however, went Holy…and I know he doesn't really want to go Holy (though he's not as enamoured of the idea of Shadow as I am), so I feel strongly compelled to join him in suffering. For the good of the guild, of course. In other words, I'm waffling, as always.
I lost spellpower on Lyr. This makes me a sad panda. :(
Ambrosyne is sitting there entirely unspecced until I work out what, exactly, would be A Good Holy Spec. She won't have dual-specs for awhile-I r broke. There is a slight temptation to go prot.
The problem with mass-respecs is that I have a lot of alts. Like…a lot. I have no idea what I want to do with some of them. Since instance servers were down I spent much of my night flopping from one toon to the next. I respecced Vainglory, my DK on Azgalor, Unholy…same as she was before. Ambrosine-DK went from Frost pre-patch to Unholy, at least for now. The chances of me leveling her are relatively slim.
That leaves me with: 55 mage (previously fire), 48 druid (previously kitteh), 70 hunter (BM forevah), and 75 warrior (previously prot). Might take the mage frost for future leveling, have no idea what to do with the druid, need a good BM spec for the hunter (fuck you, Survival), and might dual spec the warrior prot/fury. Gaaaah, decisions.
We are not hitting Ulduar tonight. I advised against canceling our scheduled raid to better give us a shot and adjusting to class changes in a familiar enviornment. Besides, some of us still need gear. A more comprehensive report of how disc priests fare post-patch, and how two bubble-happy disc priests can co-exist in a raid shall fall upon your eyes tomorrow.
At least most of my mods were fine-Chatter was initially broken but was updated an hour or so later. X-perl is functioning but…not entirely, as I can't right click on any portraits to do anything.
"Amber, how did you leave the group?"
"…I logged."
Didn't get to test Grid but by all reports it continues to work. Steve is bitching and moaning about how this was a terrible patch, but for those of us with longer memories, we know that this actually wasn't too terrible. Steve's a nub.


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An amazing journey to discover the northwest of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, combines beautiful landscapes with the possibility to enjoy the culture and customs of its inhabitants.
Enjoying little moments with Hornaditas community and the Quebrada de Sapagua in northwest of Argentina, we will feel the land inside us.
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Day 01: SALTA
Welcome at Salta Airport and transfer to our accommodation. The rest of the day will be free for us to discover this special city. Lodging at Hosteria.
Day 02: SAN ANTONIO DE LOS COBRES / SALINAS GRANDES
We will depart early to Campo Quijano, through the Quebrada del Toro and finally, we will arrive to the pre- Hispanic city of Santa Rosa de Tastil and his legendary ruins. Our trip will continue to San Antonio de los Cobres, a typical town located at 4000 meters high. Later we will appreciate the "Salinas Grandes"; then descending over the "Cuesta de Lipan", we will do a stop at the town of Pumamarca and its famous "Cerro de los Siete Colores". Later we will arrive to our lodge at the painteresque town of Tilcara. Lodging at Hosteria.
Day 03: TREK TO THE GARGANTA DEL DIABLO (DEVIL´S THROAT) / TILCARA
We will have the morning free to discover the town and its unique things such us: la Plaza Grande, la Plaza Chica, the town church and the Pucará de Tilcara. In the afternoon, we will do a small trek to the Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Throat), walking along the old Kollas Paths and watching the amazing view. After 3 or 4 hours we finally will go back to Tilcara. Lodging at Hosteria.
Day 04: TILCARA / IRUYA / HUMAHUACA
Early in the morning we will take a local bus and will go to a small town located right in between the mountains, Iruya. From there we will have a special view to the end of the valley. After enjoying the town we will spend the night at Humahuaca. Lodging at Hosteria (INCLUDED BOX LUNCH)
Day 05: UQUIA / QUEBRADA DE LAS SEÑORITAS
After breakfast, we will leave Humahuaca by bus and after10 km we will arrive to the small town of Uquía. Once there we will visit the church of "San Francisco de Paula" with its altar laminated in gold by the Jesuits in 1691 (year in which it was built) and adorned with the pictures of the "arcabucero angels" brought from Cuzco. Then we will do a small trek to the la "Quebrada de las Señorita"s o "Yacoraite". The place is known for its paleontological deposits where we will meet fossils of the last great mammals that inhabited the Earth, like milodontes and gigantic perezosos. Back in Uquía we will visit a place where vicuñas are raised and an old hydraulic mill. At the end of the day we go back to Humahuaca. Lodging at Hosteria (INCLUDED BOX LUNCH)
Day 06: COLOURFUL TOWNS AND QUEBRADAS
We will leave Humahuaca and we will cross "Peña Blanca", East border of the Quebrada of Humahuaca. Here, we will begin our adventure of "colorful towns and quebradas". After a few kilometers, we will meet the first towns. The overwhelming plains of the Cocataca Valley will remind us one of the main Inca agricultural sites. During the morning, we will walk this valley and will take our lunch once in town. During the afternoon, we will go hiking for 2 and a half hour to watch the ancient paintings on rocks in Cerro Negro. From here, we will enjoy spectacular views over the valley. After getting back in our vehicle we will cross by different towns such as Valiaso and Pucará to climb the Serranìa of Santa Bàrbara (Santa Barbara Hills) reaching 4200 m above sea level. We will end up the day at the viewpoint in Cerro Horconal, with beautiful views over the Abra (huge prairie) de Zenta. We will take a typical northwest tea time and get back to our hotel by 17 hs. Lodging at Hosterìa (INCLUDED BOX LUNCH)
Day 07: QUEBRADA DE SAPAGUA / HORNADITAS COMMUNITY
We will depart to Humahuaca to the Quebrada de Sapagua in our minibus, where we will take a walk around the area. There, we will continue to the small community of the Hornaditas, where we will be able to share the life experience of the natural inhabitant of the area, which open the doors of their homes. Finally, we will go back to Humahuaca town. Lodging at Hosteria (INCLUDED BOX LUNCH)
Day 8: HUMAHUACA/LA QUIACA/VILLAZÓN/UYUNI
Today we will go to La Quiaca in regular bus, after crossing the border we arrive at Villazón town, we go to train station to take our train to Uyuni. Arrival in the night and lodging at Hosteria (INCUDED BREAKFAST)
Day 9: SALAR DE UYUNI
After breakfast we departure in vehicle 4x4 to Colchani (22Km. north of Uyuni) a little town where the people work with explotation and refining of salt. We can visit the handricraft shops, salt hotels and Incahuasi Island enjoying the enormous cacatus and a splendid panoramic view from the viepoint.
We enjoy our boxlunch in the Island and then begin a hiking to continue the Chivuca town where we lodging in a basic shelter.
Day 10: SALAR DE UYUNI/ANTIPLANIC LAGOONS OF BOLIVIA
Breakfast and deparutre to visit the altiplanics lagoons of Bolivia; Cañapa: Hedionda and Ramadita, continuing our trip through the Siloli desert to view the stone tree. We will visit the Colorada Lagoon where we can enjoy the pink flamingos and Andean fauna of great importance as the vicuña and suri or Andean ñandú. We loding here in a basic shelter. (INCLUDED BREAFAST, BOXLUNCH AND DINNER)
Day 11: ALTIPLANIC LAGOONS/SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA
Breakfast and early departure to appreciate the Geysers (volcanic fumaroles) we shall enjoy the sun in the morning and visit the thermal baths. We continuing our trip to view strange rock formations due to erosion and we will arrive at Verde Lagoon, wich is very different in his area. We enjoy with the view of Lincancabur Volcano and the Cajones border.
We will continue our trip on regular bus to San Pedro de Atacama where we lodging in our Hosteria. Free time to rest in the town. (INCLUDED BREAFAST)
Day 12: SALAR DE ATACAMA AND ALTIPLANIC LAGOONS OF CHILE
Today we begin with our first excursion in Chile!, We visit the Atacama Salar, Toconao and Altiplanic lagoons. Going to Chaxa Lagoon where we enjoy the birds and flamingos, continue our trip until Miscanti and Meñiques highland lagoons located at 4000 msnm, when we return to San Pedro we can visit their churches and the village of Toconao. Lodging in San Pedro de Atacama. (INCLUDED BREAFAST)
Day 13: GEYSERS OF TATIO/MOON VALLEY
Early in the morning, we got ready for our second day in Chile, today we will visit the Geysers del Tatio and Machuca village, we will going to walk among the geysers, being able to appreciate their activity, breakfast and watching the show. Then we enjoy in the pool with high temperaturs.
Our trip continue through the Bofedal of Putana, where we can appreciate different migratory birds, finally arriving at Machuca.
We return to San Pedro at noon. At sunset we can visit the Valley of the Moon, located near of San Pedro, in the area of the Cordillera of salt with an extraordinary attraction fot its similarity with the lunar surface. From a great dune we can appreciate the surroundings of this area. (INCLUDED BREAFAST)
Day 14: SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA/SALTA
Early, we say goodbye from San Pedro de Atacama and by regular bus cross the Andes Mountains entering Argentina on an unforgettable journey that takes us through the passage of Jama (4200 masl) to the magnificent city of Salta.Lodgng in hosteria. (INCLUDED BREAFAST)
Day 15: SALTA AIRPORT
After breakfast we will be transferred to the airport to take flight to go until our next destination.
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