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2011 Rain Forest Rescue Report
Guatemala was lashed with high winds and an unbelievable deluge when Tropical Storm Agatha struck this rugged Central American country in the spring of 2010.
Despite the challenges of weather and due in large part to donations from generous Arbor Day Foundation members, conservation efforts in this Central American country were undeterred. In fact, local partner Vivamos Mejor was able to announce planting the millionth tree in its valiant effort to stabilize the slopes around beautiful Lake Atitlan.
A major Rain Forest Rescue emphasis during the past year has been to provide support to the people of Guatemala and their conservation efforts on the steep, volcanic slopes surrounding the precious waters of Lake Atitlan. Working in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and local organizations, the Arbor Day Foundation has helped establish and expand native tree nurseries, support conservation education efforts and fund scientific studies that contribute to understanding the hydrology that affects the country's water supplies.
When local partner Vivamos Mejor planted the millionth tree, the event illustrated what has been possible in the five years since that reforestation effort was initiated. The project has been a model in involving community members in forest management and sustainable agriculture. It has helped stabilize hillsides with fast-growing native trees like pine (Pinus oocarpa), cypress (Cupressus lusitanica), alder (Alnus jorulensis) and two species of oak. Students and others have received hands-on training in nursery production, tree planting and sustainable forestry. To date, 20 municipalities and nearly 1,800 men and women have participated.
Guatemalans lost 156 people in the aftermath of Agatha and 500 schools and 300 bridges were destroyed or damaged. Nearly half a million residents faced property damage. Much of this was from mudslides that resulted from centuries of ill-advised logging and inappropriate agriculture. Rain Forest Rescue is protecting remnants of native forests and reforesting barren slopes or former cropland. In a report following the big storm of 2010, The Nature Conservancy reported, "Areas that were reforested or where existing forest areas are being actively conserved seemed to be in relatively good condition in relation to other areas in the Lake Atitlan area." Trees also mitigated damages by reducing mud and rock slides that did occur.
Rain Forest Rescue is making a difference, but the need for further action is great. With support from Arbor Day Foundation members, progress will continue to be made in the effort to restore the vegetated mountain slopes of Guatemala and other tropical countries.
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U.S. Beach Teams Earn Shanghai Berths
|Tri Bourne goes for the kill against Stafford Slick.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (March 26, 2014) – The USA Volleyball beach teams of Lane Carico and Brittany Hochevar and also Tri Bourne and John Hyden earned slots to the FIVB Grand Slam in the FIVB Shanghai Jinshan Grand Slam on April 29-May 4 in China.
The two teams each won a four-team playoff for the slots on a windy Wednesday at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica.
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In the men's final, Hyden (Pensacola, Fla.) and Bourne (Aiea, Hawaii), seeded fourth, defeated No. 2 Will Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Stafford Slick (Andover, Minn.), 21-19, 21-13. In the women's final, No. 2 seeded Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) and Lane Carico (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) beat No. 1 Jennifer Fopma (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Whitney Pavlik (Laguna Beach, Calif.), 21-16, 21-17.
The same two teams also won USAV's NORCECA qualification tournament on March 20 in Santa Monica.
Entry into FIVB Grand Slam events is based on points accumulated by both members of a beach volleyball team. The top three U.S. teams in terms of points are entered automatically. The FIVB country quota playoff and NORCECA qualifiers are a way for next-tier teams to work their way onto the FIVB World Tour.
"I think our goal is to compete in these playoffs and qualifiers and win them so we can get on the FIVB tour and by the end of the year, be one of those top teams that doesn't have to qualify anymore,"Hyden said. "We have a long way to go."
"We at least have an idea of how the season is going to start," Hochevar said of her team with Carico. "We'll take it one tournament at a time from there."
In their first-round matches on Wednesday, Hydena and Bourne defeated top-seeded Todd Rogers and Theo Brunner, 21-17, 21-17. Hochevar and Carico beat No. 3 Christal Engle and Heather Hughes, 21-16, 21-14.
All the teams competing had to contend with high winds throughout the day.
"The wind was our third teammate today," Hochevar said. "I think we did a good job of staying patient and staying in the present because momentum can shift so quickly and so violently in wind like this."
"(The wind) was very difficult," Hyden said. "The teams that have better ball control and don't make as many errors are going to come out and win."
Men's Bracket
No. 4 John Hyden and Tri Bourne def. No. 1 Todd Rogers and Theo Brunner, 21-17, 21-17
No. 2 Will Montgomery and Stafford Slick def. No. 3 John Mayer and Brad Keenan, 23-21, 21-12
Men's Final
Hyden and Bourne def. Montgomery and Slick, 21-19, 21-13
Women's Bracket
No. 1 Jennifer Fopma and Whitney Pavlik def. No. 4 Sarah Day and Allison Daley, 18-21, 21-16, 15-9
No. 2 Brittany Hochevar and Lane Carico vs. No. 3 Heather Hughes and Christal Engle, 21-16, 21-14
Women's Final
Hochevar and Carico def. Fopma and Pavlik, 21-16, 21-17

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Advice on how to make a good presentation
Invite others to participate in your presentation
Why it's good to invite others to complement your presentation? Here are a few reasons for it:
- It's a great way to wake the audience up a fresh face will always generate more attention
- It's way easier to make a presentation with someone else than alone
- It's much more fun to present alongside someone
However if you want to look professional, you need to make sure you do the rehearsal with that person, in order to make sure the two of you complement each other the best way possible. Remember presentation takes some serious acting/presenting skills. You need to exercise a lot before you will be able to fully bring it on on the stage.


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Julia Brownley on Technology
Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:
Congressional Summary: TIGER Grants for Job Creation Act: Congress finds the following:
Opponent's argument against bill:(The Reason Foundation, July 6, 2012):
The US Constitution authorizes Congress "to regulate Commerce...among the several States." However, the five non-motorized transportation projects, the six transit projects and the six multimodal projects TIGER Grants have funded serve no national need. Some of the port, passenger rai
Congressional Summary: Revises the definition of "widow" concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse following the author's death. Declares that an individual is the widow of an author if they were legally married at the time of the author's death, even if they could not marry in their home state. (Currently, only the author's surviving spouse under the law of the author's domicile at the time of death is considered a widow.)
Supporters reasons for voting YEA: (by Human Rights Campaign, hrc.org): This bill would fix wording in the Copyright Act that currently prevents some same-sex couples from receiving inheritance rights. Because of restrictions in current law, some agencies--including the Copyright Office and the Social Security Administration--do not recognize same-sex couples living in states without same-sex marriage equality.
Background: (Wikipedia.com on "U.S. v. Windsor"): Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, a same-sex couple residing in New York, were lawfully married in Canada, in 2007. Spyer died in 2009, leaving her entire estate to Windsor. Windsor sought to claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses. She was barred from doing so because the IRS said the exemption only applies to heterosexual couples under the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and compelled her to pay $363,053 in estate taxes. The Supreme Court rules 5-4 to overturn DOMA as unconstitutional. [This bill applies that Supreme Court ruling to copyright law].
Opponents reasons for voting NAY: (PopVox blog postings on H.R.238 & S.23):
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The Go Pink Ladies Tennis Mixer took place on October 9th, 2009, at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton, FL. Over 80 women parWWSticipated in this event. It was a round robin format with mulligan tokens that could be purchased to improve one's game. A mulligan entitled players to redo a shot or have a Tennis Pro play for them. It was a beautiful S. FL day on the courts with a luncheon and raffles to follow. This event raised money and awareness for the Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation and FORCE.


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Photo courtesy of: The PHD Movie
Jan 9, 2012
From staff reports
The PHD Movie, a humorous film about the trials and tribulations of earning a graduate degree, will be screened at 7 and 9 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12, at Ohio University's Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.
The film is based on the popular online comic strip PHD Comics, created by former Caltech graduate student Jorge Cham to combat the anxiety of academia. His tales have been adapted into a live-action film that follows the lives of four graduate students as they juggle research, teaching and a personal life.
As part of Ohio University's Science Café series funded by the 1804 Fund, the Ohio University Graduate College and Sigma Xi will host two free screenings of the film.
Running time for the feature is one hour and seven minutes. Though the film is not rated, audiences are advised to expect "PG" rating-style situations and humor.
The university is sponsoring the movie screenings as part of an effort to enhance professional development opportunities for graduate students, said Joe Shields, vice president for research and creative activity and dean of the Graduate College.
"The PHD Movie uses humor to raise awareness about the realities of graduate student life," he said. "We hope to open up dialogue about the excitement and challenges of pursuing an advanced degree."
The film was produced in partnership with Caltech and currently is screening at hundreds of institutions around the globe. Seating will be first come, first serve.
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Back in April of 2005, when City of Dust posts were almost exclusively about the Central Savannah River Area, I wrote something regarding the neighborhood James Brown grew up in, a place once known as "The Terry," a contraction of "Negro Territory." I described this area, adjacent to downtown on the west and roughly bounded on the north by Walton Way and Laney Walker Boulevard to the south, as containing Augusta's poorest and most dangerous streets. I also wrote about how, based on what I'd been told, I had decided not to go exploring those streets, which also meant I did not go looking for the childhood home of James Brown.
Shortly after publishing that post, someone by the name of Tawanda left a comment chastising me for believing what I'd been told. She said that the neighborhood was safe and, while people might be curious to know why I was walking around with a camera, no harm would come to me. Re-reading the original post, ACCESS DENIED, I have to say I'm embarrassed by what I wrote and Tawanda was absolutely right; I'd missed an opportunity to see more of Augusta and, what's more, visit a neighborhood of great historical interest. I was foolish to be intimidated by what I'd heard. Happily, after a weekend visit to Augusta last week, I can now report that the area around James Brown's childhood home is not a warzone. Further, to see the lot, and perhaps the actual house, where JB grew up was a real treat. So, without further ado, City of Dust returns to Augusta, Georgia:
James Brown, Jr. was born in a one-room shack in Barnwell, South Carolina in either 1928 or 1933, although May 3, 1933 seems to be the most accepted date. His parents separated when he was four (some sources say two) and he didn't see his mother again for over two decades. When he was around six, he and his father moved to Augusta and James went to live with his Aunt Honey, who ran a brothel. There, James was reportedly beaten by johns, as well as his father. To pay his way, young James shined shoes and was also sent out to procure customers for his aunt. It is actually unclear from the information I found whether James' father ever lived in the brothel or if he resided elsewhere. In any case, James would have been staying at the address 944 Twiggs St. by the early-to-mid 1930's.
If you do a Google image search for "James Brown's childhood home" the first photo of a structure you get is one from City of Dust that I can definitely tell you is not the place. However, in 2002, the UK's Guardian newspaper published a long feature on James Brown by Philip Gourevitch entitled THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. In it, Mr. Gourevitch is taken on a tour of James Brown's old stomping grounds by JB himself. They drive around in James' limo while the Godfather of Soul points out spots of interest, including his boyhood home (that's the lot, at least, in the photo above). I could summarize some of the article, but I think it'll be more interesting to just plagiarize a few paragraphs:
Here was 944 Twiggs Street, the former brothel where he (i.e., James Brown) lived with his Aunt Honey, the madam - now abandoned and bristling with weeds. Here, by these train tracks, he buck-danced for soldiers passing through town at the start of the second world war; they'd throw him coins, which he took home to Aunt Honey: "Men made 30 cents an hour, 20 cents a hour, 15 cents a hour. I brought her back five dollars to pay the rent for a month." Here was the narrow canal where he once took refuge from the law: "Police were running me, and I saw 'em coming, and I made a few turns, jumped in the water, and breathed through a cane. I saw it in a movie." He mimicked the police, "Where'd he go? Where he at? Where he at? I know I saw him. I swear I saw that boy, Gawd damn." Then he recalled telling himself: "'Now listen up, it's either jail, either reform school, or you stay in the water.' So I stayed in the water." And here was an oil company that he used to rob when he was nine: "That was wrong but was survival."
This is the best available information I've ever come across regarding the exact location of the brothel where James Brown grew up. Clearly, the place was not most recently a residence but a business of some kind (see above photo). Was the original home—perhaps a shotgun shack—converted for business use or was it torn down and replaced? Who knows? I do know that the building I photographed pre-dates the article, so, as James didn't say otherwise, I might assume, with some reservation, that this is where JB grew up. (UPDATE: Twiggs St. was renumbered at some point, and Aunt Honey's brothel would've actually been next door, in a lot to the southwest that was a grassy patch with some trees last time I visited.) The remnants of the railroad tracks can still be seen nearby and, indeed, the canal runs right beside the house. It's fascinating to think that James hid from the police in that same canal all those years ago. Below is a photo of the Southern Milling Company complex, which recently caught fire. This is the view that young James would have seen from the front of his house, although not quite so singed.
Here's some more from the article:
As we turned off Twiggs Street on to a narrow and particularly abject strip, called Hopkins Street, Mr. Brown's mood turned sombre. The facade of a brick house on the corner was spray-painted with the words "Fuck the world," and farther along the real estate grew more dismal: Tottering clapboard bungalows, half of them burned out, and the rest, he said, "probably crack houses now. You come from that, you use crack." In this setting, the limo looked like a spaceship, but none of the street's ragtag residents expressed any surprise. They waved from sidewalks and porches, and although they couldn't see through the rain-streaked one-way glass, they called out: "Hello, Mr. Brown" and "God bless, Mr. Brown."
The vehicle could belong to nobody else: Every Thanksgiving, he comes through passing out turkeys, and at Christmas he brings toys. Now, he said, "They want me to help build this place back - What can I do? Get on my knees and pray, and ask, 'Mr. President, come - Mr. Bush, come in here and clean it out and put decent homes in here'?"
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris. One of the young men stepped forward in the rain, and Mr. Brown lowered his window and held out a $50 bill. The man bowed and withdrew. "Wait a minute," Mr. Brown called after him. "Y'all split that. Give that lady some, too." When he rolled his window up, he told me: "I'm not doin' this because you here. I wasn't gonna do it today. I didn't want you to see me handin' no money out there. I wasn't gonna do it. That's the honest-to-God truth." He sounded embarrassed. "You look at this, it kinda take your breath," he said.
At the end of the block, we reached JAMES BROWN BOULEVARD, and he said, "Out here on these same streets, you may see my daughter, and she has no business out here. She don't have to be there. I give her a home, she got a new Mercedes, and her Mercedes just sitting there. I can't give it to her, 'cause I can't - 'cause she shrug off everything I do."
Now, the picture painted by the article also makes the neighborhood sound dire. And I certainly saw a number of abandoned homes and businesses, some burnt down. But I never saw a single person that appeared menacing. Granted, the rain was pouring down the afternoon I was there, too, but mostly I saw a place where people were doing their best to get by, some in the face of admittedly long odds. There has also been considerable development along James Brown Blvd since James Brown or I last saw Augusta. The effects of this development on the larger neighborhood remain to be seen, but that a face-lift is occurring is undeniable.
I think next time we'll visit the mountainside Wild West gold-mining town of Jerome, Arizona and have a look at its famous, if hidden, "sliding" jail. Jerome is also the home of Maynard Keenan, the singer of Tool. Huh.


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Lab Report: Medical Imaging with the Čerenkov Effect
Dartmouth's Optics In Medicine Laboratory released an optical imaging plug-in that interfaces with the GEANT4/GAMOS Monte Carlo architecture and enables the software package to simulate radiation-induced light transport in biological media. The plug-in allows researchers to model biomedical applications of the Čerenkov effect, the emission of light by a charged particle passing through a medium at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium.
"The plug-in developed by our lab allows scientists to simulate and study new radiation-induced optical measurements of cancerous tumors. We hope that these results will help in the development of novel cancer detection and treatment methods," says Thayer Ph.D. student Adam Glaser, who worked on the plug-in with physics Ph.D. student Rongxiao Zhang, Thayer research scientist Chad Kanick, and Thayer Professor Brian Pogue, director of the lab.
The plug-in and user's guide are available for free download on the Optics in Medicine Laboratory's website. The site also links to the lab group's article, "A GAMOS plug-in for GEANT4 based Monte Carlo simulation of radiation-induced light transport in biological media," published in Vol. 4, Issue 5 of Biomedical Optics Express.
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Join W.E.L.D.E.R. and save the world!
Fight back in the war against words! Weld words in the W.E.L.D.E.R. word machine – addiction guaranteed! Create clever combos and multiply your score using gold and gem tiles. Increase your vocabulary using iOS 5's in-built dictionary and discover definitions of words you never even knew existed! Earn powerful special abilities like Group, Reverse, and Jump Swaps, and complete particularly tricky words with blank wooden pieces. Also supports iOS 5's iCloud for playing games across multiple devices.


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Our CRL Electronic Egress Control Handles are a more economical method to control access into and safe exit from areas that call for security, and still maintain the beauty and view of an "all glass" door. When the handle is pushed an electronic switch releases the magnetic lock at the top or bottom of the door. For your convenience, we have designed the handles so they are ready to install on 36 to 48 inch (914 to 1219 millimeter) wide doors ranging in height from 90 to 102 inches (2286 to 2591 millimeters) tall without any modification. Installations can be made on single and double doors. Please consult your local building codes as they relate to electromagnetic locking hardware and applicability.
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Mommy. Mama. Mom. Whatever you call her, today is her day. A special 24 hours set aside once a year to pay tribute to mothers.
Whatever you call her, today is her day. A special 24 hours set aside once a year to pay tribute to mothers.
Gifts both big and small.
They will put a smile on her face and touch her heart. But nothing will touch a mother�s heart like a simple �I love you� from her child.
How does one describe a mother?
Her love is the deepest. Her caring is selfless. She protects you like no other.
She�s your doctor. Your teacher. Your pastor. Your body guard. Your best friend.
The people who care for you, help you, guide you � they�re all rolled into one in your mother.
She�s perceptive � she knows what you are thinking, even when you�re putting on your best disguise.
She can praise you to high heaven � and whip you into shape when you need it.
She can disregard your mischief � and forgive your sins.
She celebrates your successes.
When your heart breaks, so does hers.
She�ll do without the things she needs so that you may have things you simply want.
She fed you, changed your diaper, wiped your tears, bandaged your scrapes and cuts, patted your head, gave you a kiss and sent you on your way to become an adult.
Today, it is your turn to let her know how special she is.
Give her a present.
Take her to lunch or dinner.
If you�re far away, give her a call.
And be sure to say, �I love you.� Those three little words are the most precious gift you can give.


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Last week I attended my first TPAC ever – in Lyon, France. Coming from the open-source world and such events like Fosdem or the ever brilliant Akademy I was not sure what to expect. Should I pack a suite? On arrival all my fears were blown away by an incredibly well organized event with a lot of nice people. I felt very welcome as a newbie, there was even a breakfast for the first-timers with some short presentations to get an overview of the W3C's work in general and the existing working groups. So before getting into any details: I would love this to become a regular thing (not sure it will though, seeing that next year the TPAC will be in China).
My main reason for going to the TPAC was identity on the Web, or short WebID. OpenLink Software is a strong supporter of the WebID identification and authentication system. Thus, it was important to be present for the meeting of the WebID community group.
The meeting with roughly 15 people spawned some interesting discussions. The most heatedly debated topic was that of splitting the WebID protocol into two parts: 1. identification and 2. authentication. The reason for this is not at all technical but more political. The WebID protocol which uses public keys embedded in RDF profiles and X.509 certificates which contain a personal profile URL has always had trouble being accepted by several working groups and people. So in order to lower the barrier for acceptance and to level the playing field the idea was to split the part which is indisputable (at least in the semantic web world) from the part that people really have a problem with (TLS).
This lead to a very simple definition of a WebID which I will repeat in my own words since it is not written in stone yet (or rather "written in spec"):
A WebID is a dereferencable URI which denotes an agent (person, organization, or software). It resolves to an RDF profile document uniquely identifying the agent.
Here "uniquely identify" simply means that the profile contains some relation of the WebID to another identifier. This identifier can be an email address (foaf:mbox), it can be a Twitter account, an OpenID, or, to restore the connection to the WebID protocol, a public key.
The nice thing about this separation of identity and authentication is that the WebID is now compatible with any of the authentication systems out there. It can be used with WebID-Auth (this is how I call the X.509 certificate + public key in agent profile system formally known as WebID), but also with OpenID or even with OAuth. Imagine a service provider like Google returning a WebID as part of the OAuth authentication result. In case of an OpenID the OpenID itself could be the WebID or another WebID would be returned after successful authentication. Then the client could dereference it to get additional information.
This is especially interesting when it comes to WebACLs. Now we could imagine defining WebACLs on WebIDs from any source. Using mutual owl:sameAs relations these WebIDs could be made to denote the same person which the authorizing service could then use to build a list of identifiers that map the one used in the ACL rule.
In any case this is a definition that should pose no problems to such working groups as the Linked Data Protocol. Even the OpenID or OAuth community should wee the benefits of identifying people via URIs. In the end the Web is a Web of URIs…


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Workplace bullying is on the rise. About a third of American workers have been impacted by bullying in the workplace, either as a target or as witness to abusive behavior against a co-worker. Unfortunately, it's even more prevalent in the field of education. In a recent survey of medium-sized school districts, 25 percent of employees reported that they had been bullied. The bullying of teachers has become a serious problem.
A teacher from Augusta, Maine, was so traumatized by her principal and superintendent that she didn't want her name or school mentioned, but wanted to share her story because she believes the pervasive problem of workplace bullying has gone on unchecked for too long.
"I am sufficiently frightened enough by my former employers to fear that maybe they could still hurt me," she says. "I need to get a new job but won't be able to do so if I am unable to receive even one recommendation from an administrator. I know it and so do they."
After the Augusta educator resisted being transferred to a new school and new grade level, she began to be scrutinized by her administrators. First, they began examining her test scores, her communications with parents, and her relationships with colleagues. Then, with no explanation and no warning, the principal began interrupting her class to pull out students one-by-one to talk to them. When the educator asked the students why they were being pulled out, they told her they were instructed not to tell.
She was accused of not using technology in her class, even though each student had a laptop. She was criticized for relying on a literacy mentor, even though some of her students were struggling with reading. She was put on a behavior modification plan and was told to submit her lesson plans a week in advance for review by administrators. Her peers warned her that she was being targeted, and she began to believe it. Finally, she left her job after her health began to deteriorate.
It's not just administrators bullying teachers, says Carv Wilson, a geography teacher at Legacy Junior High in Layton, Utah. He's been an educator for 18 years, and has seen teachers bullying each other to get their way, as well as aggressive parents who fly off the handle and threaten and intimidate their child's educators. But he says the worst case of ongoing workplace bullying he witnessed was by a principal.
"I was heavily involved in school leadership both as a Davis Education Association Rep and on the school representative counsel, and I heard about or witnessed first-hand the abuse of other teachers, staff, and students by this principal," he says. "She specifically targeted individual teachers and the only thing that seemed to offer any protection was membership in our local association."
Wilson says more than 60 percent of the educators were NEA members, and the other 30 percent "suffered dramatically at her hands." The number of transfers out of the school was higher than 50 percent each year of the eight years that she was principal of the school.
"She seemed to revel in people being driven out of education or to another school," he says. "The memories of that time still haunt me from time to time, but it solidified my belief that having representation both in school and in the local community through the association is critical. It's the only defense against unfair and even punitive measures that are sometimes solely prompted by personality conflicts."
Denise Mirandola is a union representative for the Pennsylvania State Education Association who holds trainings for members called "Bullying in the Workplace."
In 2013, NEA approved a resolution to "Defend the Rights and Dignity of Educators," which calls for the association to inform its members on ways to challenge administrator abuse of teachers and education support professsionals.
"I presented it at an Education Support Professionals meeting and was surprised to see so many heads nodding," she says. "I believe that the phenomenon has been overlooked far too long and should be brought to the surface quickly."
Like Wilson from Utah, she says association representation is vital if you're being targeted by a workplace bully. The first thing you should do, in fact, is contact your union representative. Then, document, document, document – save emails, letters, memos, notes from conversations, or anything that shows the mistreatment. She also recommends confronting the bully with a supportive ally, like a union rep – and to describe the offensive behavior you're experiencing, and the change in behavior you'd like to see.
According to Dr. Matt Spencer of the Workplace Bullying in Schools Project, "the bully steals the dignity, self-esteem, confidence, joy, happiness, and quality of life of the targeted victim". And when the target is an educator, it is a great "injustice" because the bully deprives students of a caring adult who is crucial to their education.
Currently there is no law in any state against workplace bullying, unless it involves harassment based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age or disability. Please support the Healthy Workplace Bill in your state. Go to www.healthyworkplacebill.org for more information.


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strumminsix wrote:Hold on, so in your mind-map the bass holds the E note at each step of the walk-down while the rest chromatically walk it down?!mttourpro wrote:What are you saying with the slashes that the E is in the bass for all of those?
Yes, I stay on E with my bass hand. Not sure if our bass player walks down or stays on the E as well----I guess I should ask him.
as for TS's post---not following the Am6 over E as those notes would basically be A C E F# (which could be called a D 9)
I think the bigger "point" is to play the descending melodic notes, which I'm doind both top and bottom doing it my way.
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Welcome to the KCRW Corner on DrownedinSound. KCRW is one of the most influential public radio stations in the United States, broadcasting at 89.9FM from Santa Monica, California. We've got our ears trained to catch the best new music and you can hear us online all the time at www.KCRW.com. We also have 11 years' worth of live performances archived for your listening pleasure.
This month, Liza Richardson, host of The Drop, (direct link) shares her favorite music.
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There are two things Liza Richardson loves more than anything else in the world – music and surfing. Luckily, those two collided in the best possible way when she became the music supervisor for Surf's Up – the Sony animated mockumentary featuring penguin surfers that will be out in the States in early June and in the UK on August 10. The name of her Saturday night dance music show is a surf reference, to when you take off on a steep wave and make 'The Drop' down. Liza sees a lot of similarities between DJing and surfing.
"I love matching beats and going with long tracks that evolve and grow and recede just like waves," said Liza.
The soon-to-be blockbuster film is just one of many projects Liza has been involved in that will be seen by the masses and proves her talent for finding great music goes well beyond the dance genre. Those iPod commercials that broke Australian sibling rockers Jet? That was Liza's doing. She was also the music supervisor for Lords of Dogtown (another skate/surf extravaganza based here by the beach, close to where KCRW is located) and has just wrapped the first season of the critically-acclaimed television show Friday Night Lights. Liza was also on the turntables as the very first DJ ever to spin tunes for Hollywood heavyweights and celebrities during breaks at this year's Academy Awards ceremony.
No one has had more incarnations on KCRW than Liza, who has been at the station for 16 years. From The Mad Doll Show to Man in the Moon, Rancho Loco to Total Eclipse, Que Sera Sera to The Drop, Liza has proven her vast knowledge of music. Liza spends hours researching music for her show, as well as television/film projects, and still thrives on that magical moment when she hears something really special. Here are a few of her current favorites:
Plunky and The Oneness of JuJu
"Their track 'Every Way but Loose' is on a compilation called Science Lab from Now Again records, which is based in LA. It's the funkiest, funniest house track.
Trans Am
"Their new album Sex Change is underplayed and underappreciated – the first three tracks are brilliant and wonderful. It is out on Thrill Jockey."
"Usually I like commercial hip hop better than underground hip hop, so this is a surprise. The first song he samples is one of my favorite Herb Alpert songs – it's a really creative use of a sample. OMNI is a West Coast artist."
The Martinez Brothers
"On the other coast you have this band. They're making the deepest, dopest, New York house. I found it online and tracked down the single, 'My Rendition', at Amoeba Records, where I get most of my vinyl."
George Demure
"He's a UK artist and he has a song called 'Atari Swan Song' that is just hilarious. It's an ode to his drum machine that he is about to get rid of."
"The new full length is so cool and has so many amazing creative collaborations. 'Throw It On Me' with The Hives is a little hardcore for my show, which is mostly dance music, but I couldn't resist playing it."
"The UK puts out the best dance music and it was hard not to include more of it on this list, so keep it coming!" said Liza.
KCRW is broadcast on 89.9FM across most of Southern California from our studios in Santa Monica, California. You'll be pleased to know that you can hear news of the Californian clime, as well as a host of hot musical treats, online at www.KCRW.com.


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Limited-Edition Los Angeles Lakers Bobblehead Figures Return for 2005 Season
LOS ANGELES -- March 9 -- Spurred by popular demand, Carl's Jr. is introducing a 2004-05 series of Los Angeles Lakers bobblehead figures featuring Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Chris Mihm, Caron Butler, and Luke Walton wearing their "Road Purple" uniforms. Starting March 16, Lamar Odom will be the first Lakers bobblehead available at participating Carl's Jr. restaurants in Los Angeles and Orange County.
This year's bobbleheads will sell for $4.99 with the purchase of a combo meal and each player will be available for one week only. A new bobblehead figure representing a different player will debut every Wednesday and the first week's featured bobblehead -- Lamar Odom -- will come with a free collector's stand. Chris Mihm follows Odom off the bench on March 23, followed by Caron Butler (March 30), Luke Walton (April 6) and Kobe Bryant (April 13). The seven-inch bobbleheads will be available until April 20th (coinciding with the end of the regular season) or as long as supplies last.
"Last year, Lakers fans flocked to their local Carl's Jr. each week to enjoy our Six Dollar Burger(TM) line and collect the entire set of bobbleheads," said Renae Scott, vice president of regional marketing and media for Carl's Jr. "That promotion was so popular that we decided to offer bobbleheads to our customers again this year -- featuring some of the newest players to the team, along with a few familiar faces."
"These collectible bobblehead dolls were a slam dunk with Lakers fans last year," said Blain Skinner, director of corporate sponsorships for the Los Angeles Lakers. "We are excited about teaming up with Carl's Jr. again this year and giving fans the opportunity to take home 'a piece of the team'."
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Where will your Model S reside?
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(I'm proud to be one of the first UN-Official Tesla families; my wife will have a Model X in 2013).
I have to ask: does anyone else have have 3 or more Tesla's in their immediate family?
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p5520 Chicago
By the way, I have had the license plate TESLA 1 since 2007. It is currently on my prius till the Model S arrives. I will be at the new Oakbrook showroom for the Grand Opening Preview Thursday. Any one else?
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P3594 Chicago, I will be at the Oakbrook Grand Opening when the doors open. Do not have a license plate picked out.
Covina, California
Sorry, P2627
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P#3871 - Kansas City
Oops! P3283 actually - rounding error!
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@GoTeslaChicago - When and how (email/snail mail) did you get your Thursday preview invitation? I haven't received anything yet, so I was just planning on going on Saturday or Sunday.
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When I called the chgo office after making my reservation on line, they told me about the event and said I just missed the email announcing it. Call them about it. You should come. It is from 6:30 to 9:00 pm this Thursday 11/10/11. A model s beta will be there.
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Take GTC's advice. I had a similar situation with the Bellevue opening. Tesla rep cleared it up, got my name on the list with no fuss.
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Price and cash dependent.
South Bend, Indiana
I will be working Thursday to try to pay for my Model S and thus not make it to Oakbrook until Saturday.
Rocklin, CA -- Sig 592
Rocklin, CA -- Sig 592
There is a website that collects this information and presents it in a Google map:
Currently, Roadster owners and Model S reservation holders are mixed together, but at least the data is available. @LottDenn, maybe you want to contact Tom, maintainer of the website. Contact information is in this thread:
("private", i.e., reservation holders and owners only)
Thanks GoTeslaChicago and brianman. I will call today to see if I can get on the list for Thursday's preview.
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Cheney, WA
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That's why I want rapid charging from Washington through California.
Also everywhere else, but the above first.
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P#2222 - San Jose, CA
Canadian P157, Ile Bizard, Quebec.
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EU P299 I think. I didn't get a number in e-mail when I reserved, and it disappeared from the My Tesla page long time ago.
My Tesla will reside in Oslo, Norway.
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Billy Ray & Tish Cyrus :Tell Miley Cyrus To Stop Exposing Herself
Billy Ray and Tish, you are Miley's parents and it's your responsibility to save her from hurting herself and her brand by flashing her private parts!
Miley Cyrus is calling out for attention and even for love, psychologists are telling us at Hollywoodlife.com. Twice in the past week she has gone out in public in super sexy clothing and paparazzi cameras have caught her first, flashing her private parts and then, on a second occasion, revealing a huge stretch of side boob.
On April 6, your daughter Miley, went out to a pilates class in LA in a micro minidress without underwear and proceeded to get into a car – a delicate proceeding in a short skirt, at any time – and a photographer captured a photo of her bare under area.
Then on April 7, Miley went shopping with you Tish, in a loose-fitting tank top with large, loose arm holes and no bra. Not surprisingly, photographers took photos which revealed a full view of her side boob.
Now Billy Ray and Tish – this is NOT normal behavior for any 19-year-old girl especially a famous 19 year old, who knows that the eyes of the public are on her when she is in… public.
I'm a mom of two daughters myself and I know that they would be mortified if the world saw their breasts or private parts exposed.
But Miley made a conscious decision to go out in outfits that allowed her to flash the world.
Now if you don't believe that Miley is desperately calling out for attention, listen to the experts that Hollywoodlife.com consulted. "She needs attention. This kind of behavior indicates that there is definitely something wrong," says relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle, Today.com's 30 Second Therapist.
Psychologist Jeff Gardere compares Miley's no-undies outing to being like "someone getting drunk in public" and he calls it "self destructive behavior." "Miley is a young woman dealing with a lot of personal issues," the chief contributor to HealthGuru.com added.
Psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman thinks Miley could be upset because she doesn't think she is getting enough attention from Liam, "who has been busy promoting Hunger Games."
Maybe that's true. Maybe Miley is feeling insecure because her boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth could be becoming a bigger movie star than she is with the success of Hunger Games, and that is upsetting the balance in their relationship.
Maybe she's insecure because her upcoming film, LOL, will not have the same blockbuster success and she is uncertain about which step to take next in her career.
Maybe she's also feeling insecure about her family, Tish and Billy Ray. You separated last year and it was a very upsetting time for Miley. How are you getting along now?
In any case – you are her parents, and as such as are still responsible for her well-being, even if she is 19. She is still a very young person who needs your love, support and guidance and not just on her personal life but for her career too.
When Miley flashes her crotch and her breasts, she is hurting her brand. She still has young fans and their parents are not going to be amused. They may not be so amused to the degree that they will not let them go to her movies or buy her albums.
Tish and Billy Ray – it's time to sit down with your daughter and find out what is bothering her. Why is she flashing?
It's also time to get her some professional help – this is not healthy behavior.
Yes Miley is a rich star. But she's still a little girl who needs her parents especially when she appears to be heading off the rails. And don't say, that she won't listen and you can't make her do anything she doesn't want to do. If she loves you and has a strong relationship with you, and I believe she does, then she will welcome your attention and advice even if she is of legal age.
Step up and do your job now and help your daughter!
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A: Then don't. Health care reform permits -- but doesn't require -- parents to keep their adult children on the parent's health plan up to age 26, unless the children have coverage through their own employer.
That said, you may want to provide coverage if you can afford it. No one is immune from bad luck, and rates for medical care when a person has no insurance can be very high indeed.
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I said it a long time ago, way back in the darkest days of the blog.
I said back then that I have certain expectations of other people during a run in the game. Any run, any content, any level.
The base expectation I have is, the people involved all attempt to play their class the best they know how, out of respect for everyone on the run.
All of the people involved.
A lot of time has passed since I used to talk about raid progression and Karazhan and even dallying within Gruul's Lair.
Sometimes I've played in groups while chatting, and once notably while on a live podcast. But in my defense, when you're normally raid leading and main tanking, sitting back and just doing ranged DPS does leave you with some extra capacity for chatting. Especially if the raid is a pug that's not using ventrilo. I'm not saying you've got to be a single minded machine, I'm just saying that you need to be doing your best to play your class. If you can do that and chat too, hey, rock on.
My base expectation, that people who commit to group activities act with competence in playing their class, has not wavered.
I have other preferences, things that a player can do to move them, in my mind, from "meets expectations" to all sorts of categories far above.
To reach the pinnacle of excellence as a group player takes more than just being a really nice person. It also takes playing your class effectively, being prepared with mats/reagents/poisons/food, showing consideration for the others by actively trying to get TO the instance or raid as fast as possible, not going afk for extended periods without explanation, and not having a million disconnects in mid fight.
There are always exceptions. For example, sometimes disconnects happen without warning. It's life, things happen. Nobody I know has ever held it agasint someone. On the other hand, if you know you're getting disconnected every 5 to 10 minutes at random, and it's been happening all day, it would be rude to ask a group to join you on a run without warning them about it first.
Sometimes you don't have the food you need for a run. On a tough fight, with lots of wipes while learning content, you can run through food at a frightening rate. Likewise elixirs and flasks, and reagents for buffs. In my opinion, that kind of thing happens a lot, especially with dual spec. If you're running tank for a few weeks, it's easy to forget you ran out of healie food a while back until someone asks you to heal.
In my opinion, if you're trying to start the group yourself, you should make sure you're prepared. If someone asks you out of the blue to come help, well, if you didn't have things on hand, it's perfectly understandable. Circumstances change, there are no absolutes.
I'm pretty irritable about the "knowing where the hell to go" thing. Especially for Azeroth raids and instances. The game has been out for a very long time. If you seek out a Molten Core run, you ought to know where to go by now. If you are asked to come join, again, it's more understandable. But if you want to start the runs, why haven't you bothered to go check it out before now?
But the base requirement, the absolute foundation all else springs from, is trying your best to play your class well.
That includes having a spec that makes some form of sense… I don't care what the reasoning is, I just ask that there be one, just to reassure me that you thought about what you wanted to do. I'm fine with a Beastmaster Hunter with a Pet Tanking spec in an instance run. Optimized for solo farming of BRD with your pet Turtle? Sounds fine with me, I bet that's fun!
That also includes having gear choices made for comprehensible reasons. That same Hunter in all cloth spellpower gear? Girlfriend, who HAVE you been listening to? Trade chat? Yes, I'm sure your Mend Pet spell is very effective, but allow me to educate you as to the following mantra, "It's all Hunter loot." Umm, it ain't.
I'm just using Hunters as a 'for example', I haven't personally seen a spellpower cloth wearing Hunter that wasn't just having fun messing with people.
But you get the idea. My Retribution Paladin, for example, loves Strength, Critical Strike, and Stamina. While soloing, I haven't been turning aside Armor Penetration or Agility (for Crit Chance and Dodge), Hit Rating or Expertise either.
If I were to be prioritizing Intellect and Spellpower as Retribution, I'd expect someone to slap me. Hard.
When I get invited to groups, or if I put myself in a position where I may get invited to a group, I make it my business to know where I'm supposed to be going. Invited to a Molten Core run? Great, I know right where that is, and I know what I have to do to get attuned.
The alt I'm on might not BE attuned, but I know how to get down to BRD area and find out if I am, and know whether or not I'll need to run into BRD and take the long way.
If I'm invited to The Nexus by a pug, and I'm in Grizzly Hills, I'll get to a flight master and get started going that way, unless the group needs me to stop and pick up food or reagents somewhere. Sure, others may get there first, but then again, they may not. I shouldn't expect a summons automatically, should I?
If I'm in a guild run, I'll ask if I can get a summons if others are already closer, but that just makes sense. They're already there, and they know me.
I try to bring food for myself. I appreciate and admire those that bring Fish Feasts to instances and raids (Hi Elystia!) but I still haven't gotten my Fishing to that point yet. I figure, as long as I bring the food I'll need, at least I'm not depending on the Fish Feasts of friends or strangers.
You get the idea. I expect good players, players I want to hang out with, to care enough to be prepared. To know what they're doing. To pull their own weight at the minimum, and maybe have a little left over to pull the weight of someone else… but not have to.
People that get distracted by shinies and wander off in the middle of a run or even the middle of a fight, or are too busy chatting to actually, like, play, or get lost on the way to a raid or instance and need to be led by the hand to the portal, aren't prepared, out of reagents, no food, not repaired, and disconnecting all the time…
As I said at the beginning, my base expectation, that has not changed since day one, is simply that people play their class the best they know how.
What HAS changed, is my understanding of what that means.
Years ago, I expected people to want to do the best they could, but I knew in my heart that it was difficult to sometimes know what that was for a class. Heck, there's a reason I started a Feral Druid blog. Years ago, they were poorly understood, especially as tanks.
These days, with the data on the official WoW Forums stickies, websites and discussion forums such as Elitist Jerks, and addons to help with gear choices such as RatingsBuster, it's become easy for me to get accostumed to the idea that everybody knows how to play.
Maybe someone needs experience to put that knowledge into action. Maybe someone is undergeared for what they are trying to do. Maybe someone is even horsing around and not paying attention, goofing around, having a good time and not really caring.
But as the years have passed, somehow, somewhere, I got the idea that everyone learned how2play their class.
This blindness to reality led to what we had here last night. A baseball bat right between the eyes.
A grand awakening.
Oh, holy shit.
Last night, I had a little time before bed, so I put my level 75 Retribution Paladin in LFG channel for some regular instances. I was tired, but the role of an axe-swinging, sammich-eating monkey, I felt that was something I could handle.
I was whispered within moments to see if I wanted to join a group to do regular Nexus, followed by Old Kingdom. I made sure to whisper back that I was Ret specced, was that okay?
"Sure", I was told, "I'm Prot Specced, I'm the tank". It was a level 72 Paladin.
Okay. I figure this should be a good test of where I'm at. I think I do good DPS, but since all I do is solo, how to judge? I hover at 1200 dps at level 75 as Ret in Grizzly Hills, but folks are hitting 2200 dps+ as new level 80s, so I might just suck.
And it'll also give me an idea of how much I can go all out, or should throttle back, when playing with a lower level tank. Paladins are supposed to have very good threat generation, so this should be stimulating.
The group that formed was a 72 Protection Paladin, a 71 Hunter, a 79 Resto Druid and me, a level 75 Ret Pally. There was supposed to be a 79 Shadow Priest, but that player bailed out after the group formed.
We entered Nexus, and four-manned the place until thankfully a very skilled level 75 Shadow Priest was able to join us.
This run… this run shook up my preconceived ideas. My expectations have changed. Drastically. Dial up the wayback machine, because it's 2006 all over again!
I tend to watch what people do around me. Yes, I do. I'm always looking to see how people play their characters in various situations in the hopes that I'll learn something new and nifty.
Okay, a few things I noticed while doing this run, a run that had no wipes, and therefore must constitute a successful run.
Basically, the Hunter, Pally and Druid combined to form a blistering trifecta of pain.
First, I've never before seen a Resto Druid heal an entire instance without using Rejuvenation or Lifebloom. Healing Touch spam all the way. On the tank, and only the tank. Who never rose above 35% health on any fight.
Or a Paladin Tank that doesn't have a taunt button, doesn't understand what a kill target is, or how to apply AoE threat. A Paladin that can't apply AoE threat! How f'ing hard is it to drop Consecration? Holy Shit!
And finally, a Hunter that sends the pet to attack the next group rather than the current group, including bosses, over. And over. And over. And over. The entire bloody be damned instance. Including early boss pulls before we've even finished the trash.
- "Dude, is your pet on Aggressive?"
- "Does Passive work the same as Aggressive now?"
- "No, put your pet on Defensive."
- "It is."
- "Then why is your pet attacking the next group?"
- "Is your pet on Defensive?"
- "Yes!"
I swear, that Hunter should have been in a guild called "Surprise Pull". Except that after the 15th time, it's no longer a surprise that the next group came running. Or that the boss was pulled as part of a trash pull.
So, you get a Druid that only heals the tank, and doesn't do that well because instead of HoTs, he's using Healing Touch exclusively. And the Paladin tank is so squishy that his health hovers around 35% most of the time, never much above that. So the Druid has to keep spamming to keep the tank alive with direct heals, and nobody else gets anything.
I keep running over that like a loose tooth. A Resto Druid that doesn't use HoTs, and that dies several times and lets others die several times, without ever a Rejuvenation to be seen. Or a Lifebloom, for that matter. A level 79 Restoration specced Druid unable to heal regular Nexus. /shudder.
Anyway, so then you've got Mr Surprise Pull the Hunter, that not only pulls groups all the time, and sends the pet into other rooms, but actually is so desperate to out DPS everyone at 71 that he's going all out on one target, pulls it, and then runs around trying to Ice Trap it before he dies ('cause he's getting no heals, of course).
What makes me think that he was depserate to out DPS me?
Why, that would be the Damage Meter spam put out all throughout the instance.
After a while, I wanted to say, "Look, I'm at 1200, you're at 950. It hasn't changed yet, and it's not looking like it ever will. You're level 71 with 950 dps. Deal with it."
And you've got the tank. Omigod, the tank.
I have been tanking a long, long time, and I've never seen anything like this guy.
He wasn't marking anything. "Okay", I think, "He must figure this is too kiddy skool to bother marking."
But hey, I keep pulling aggro and then keeping the aggro somehow. He keeps changing his main target every second or two. I can't tell what he's targeting as a first kill that I can be safe on DPSing.
So I ask him, after a surprise boss pull, to please use a Skull to mark whoever he wants us to target for our first kill because I keep pulling aggro off him, over and over, and end up eating a mob.
"Sure", he replies. "np."
On the next pull, which the Hunter did not start early for a change, the tank put a Skull on one mob out of 3.
The tank pulled, I ran in, and I whacked the Skull. Once.
I got aggro.
Now, by this point I was actually expecting this. That is why I whacked it once, and only once, and then shut off auto-attack. And I stood there, with the tank sitting on top of all three mobs, and watched, doing nothing, as my health dropped, and I did not attack, and the Skull kept hitting me, and never, ever changed aggro to focus on the tank.
After a while of watching my health drop, I got ready. When I went below 10% I was poised to begin healing myself. Now I knew the deal with the Druid; main tank Healing Touch heal spam only.
Only after the other two mobs were killed did the tank finally take the Skull off of me.
No Consecration, no taunting, and when he marked after that, he himself ignored the mark in favor of attacking other things. Apparently, he thought a Skull meant that was my target, and mine alone. He clearly knew how to do a mark, he put it up without any hesitation.
I began a program of procrastination. I'd target the tank, wait to see who he was attacking, hit only after he did, and watch him like a hawk to see when he switched targets so I could switch too.
When in a target rich environment, like the frequent times when the Hunter would pull the next group, and a few extra, I'd just Consecrate and Blade Flurry and basically go all out with everything that I had that did AoE to try to keep things off the healer and Priest, relying on Lay On Hands, Art of War/Flash of Light and bubble to keep me alive until I could eat food.
I pretty much left the Hunter to fend for himself. Watching him run around getting chased half the instance becamse one of my new favorite things.
At some point the tank started moving and hopping while tanking. He began hopping all over the place, moving and hustling around, twisting and turning. I frequently found myself targeting his current target in the middle of a fight, whacking it once, and then having aggro on that mob for the duration of the rest of the fight. I'd make sure to drag it to the tank, to hold it on the tank, and to not be hitting it as I patiently waited for him to pull it back off me. No dice.
I have to thank them, that run taught me that Pallies really are like cockroaches, damn near unkillable as long as you're not silenced or stunned.
Note: I now have a newfound respect and immense sympathy for every melee DPS that has ever had to attack targets when the tank won't stay still for so long as a second. Holy shit people, if you're tanking with some melee DPS, stand still unless you're standing in a poison puddle, acid puddle, gas cloud, or other stationary damage dealing crap! How do you expect the melee to position behind a target, if the tank is dancing the Chubby Checker?
I watched in amazement once as the tank ran in. He dropped Consecrate on the way to the mobs, and then continued running, taking the mobs a good 15 yards past the Consecrate circle. That was the only time I saw him drop Consecrate, and I have to say, I wonder if he stopped using it because he thought it didn't help. I was gratified to know that he at least had Consecrate somewhere on his button bar.
The capper, the absolute "Are you shitting me", was when we took the dragon boss at the end.
The tank ran into the dragon chamber, closely followed by the healer. I started to follow, and then thought, "Maybe I should wait… and watch the Hunter. I'm thinking he'll find a way to screw this up."
Sure enough, the Hunter runs straight into the dragon chamber… and manages to pull one of the dragonkin patrols along the way. Without apparently noticing, and certainly without slowing down.
I run in after, and of course the tank and healer are engaged with the dragonkin inside the dragon chamber, and have no idea, as usual, what anyone else in the group is doing. The Hunter feigns. The dragonkin goes for the healer.
I watch. "I'm not getting in the middle this time," I say to myself. "It's the last two trash mobs, let's see them figure this out."
The Healer begins to go down, as expected, because the tank won't pull threat or taunt, or even notice. He's off in some brave new world of discovery.
It's only then that I realize that while I was back watching the Hunter run into the room trailing a dragonkin behind him, one of the folks already in the chamber, probably the tank, had activated all the orbs, because we've got both the dragonkin AND the dragon boss active at the same time.
I drop my aloofness since if the healer goes down we're gonna wipe on the boss (and did I mention I really didn't want to pay a repair bill for this crap?) and taunt off of him.
Why yes, Paladins have a ranged taunt. Shocker!
I focus on killing the dragonkin and healing myself, while hopping, and thank the lord for the Shadow Priest, who did awesome focused damage throughout the run… I think on my targets and not on the tanks'.
The dragonkin both go down, and I begin attacking the dragon boss. Yes, I know his name, but I like saying dragon boss. Each time I do, I'm thinking the Erfworld "dwagon".
Anyway, what I mean is, I try to attack the dwagon boss. I mean dragon.
See, the tank, that glorious Paladin tank, is not hopping in one place and tanking the dragon.
He's not even swiveling from side to side doing the electric slide.
No, the Paladin tank is running around at full speed, back to the dragon, sometimes spinning around to face it and keeps going that way, to and fro, hither and yon, with no rhyme nor reason. Sometimes he runs through the dragon to come out the other side and keeps going. Just complete chaos.
I have never, ever seen a tank run around like complete bugnuts crazy on the last boss in Nexus before. That was something to see, boy howdy.
I'd also never known that that dragon boss tail swipe was a knockback.
Now, maybe this style of tanking is something that other guilds do. I don't know. I checked the WoW Armory for my character statistics, and across my characters I've only done Nexus on Heroic about 50 times. So I might have missed something, and this guy knew the neat special way to do the run.
Somehow, though, since after jumping down from the ice tunnel after the rock giant boss he took a right heading back into the mobs instead of a left toward the dragon, I don't think so.
This, as I said, was a successful run. We never, quite, fully wiped.
But wait, it gets better!
Once the dragon was dead, the funniest thing ever happened!
The tank said, "Great run folks. Now on to Old Kingdom!"
Umm… no. OMIGOD no freaking way!
I can feel my expectations recalibrating themselves… lowering… returning to 2006 levels.
Settling, settling… there!
Okay, now I am prepared for next time. No more pesky unrealistic expectations to get in the way!


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Amusing all the excuses they come up with on why there quitting all of a sudden...Originally Posted by trolledornot
Then why didnt people cry for mod's too delete FTH's kill topic?Originally Posted by Ryuko
No the , awesome hate against Ensidia is something I'll never understand, what is with the hate? cause they achie stuff before you do? achieve stuff when other find it impossible ?
"Post about your first kills".
Nowhere does it say "Dont post about world second or 33rd"
Would it not be worth of the newspapers if Usain bolt won silver medal, or bronze then?
Fuck off and have a nice day.
Edit: Read the "Sub forum" rule, but it doesnt even allow us too post about ICC kills since it only says ToC so delete all threads :
No it's "your EU first". Meaning, if it's not EU first, it shouldn't go here.Originally Posted by Contri
Btw, I don't really care about all the Ensidia hate or not, but I still do believe that this forum should only be used for EU Firsts, not anything else.
I disapprove of FtH thread on this sub-forum too, but I wouldn't post "Get out of here" or anything such. I was just correcting you that it should only be used for EU First.
Well, we're still waiting for another EU first kill of LK... by allies :P
Gratz to Ensidia, at least they are still on the podium with the bronze medal :
Congrats to Ensidia, but imo they will disband.
/salute to the worlds greatest WoW guild which dominated from vanilla until wotlk, or at the least its players did.
They don't need excuses. Ensidia raped any other guild the past years. It is unterstandable they are leaving after losing the #1 race in ICC. For players like them it's not only about the fun, it's about being the best.Amusing all the excuses they come up with on why there quitting all of a sudden...
"Once again a big gratz to Paragon they really have outclassed everyone in this instance."
Truer words have never been spoken (typed).
Its always fun to see arrogant assholes get brought down a peg or six.
Ensidia was good,but I guess had no luck at start with first ban than had lag for few weeks,etc.
^thisOriginally Posted by Contri
gratz to ensidia, the guild with most world firsts by a big shoot.
Originally Posted by Ensidia
/threadOriginally Posted by Abb
Grats to Ensidia on the kill! A Lich King 25 man HC kill is worth to mention still
I find it very interesting that they can't repeat a kill.
Thats because you arent thinking.Originally Posted by Starcaller Xeros
After the kill the motivation drops and 2 core raiders stoped playing wow.
Or maybe i should write what you want to hear?
LIES!Originally Posted by Sneek
World third is really behind? o.oOriginally Posted by Hendrixstorm
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Ensidia rule!!
and the point of this necro was?
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
So relatively speaking, with a single place being taken as a unit of ''Distance fallen'', they are 1st (no change) + 2 places further behind. So they're 200% further behind, which is a lot. relatively speaking.
If you actually bothered to read this post in this lolishly necro'd thread, wtf are you doing? I bet you were going to actually going to form a flame about how the maths above isn't even remotely valid, or relevant. x) Fucking terd-burglar.
yo i do gotta say though, world 3rd is still pretty damn good. i would like to know who got the mount though.
paragon did get world first (woot woot to da hordies) but as i said, world 3rd aint bad
I'd tell you to get at me, but you smell like shit, so keep your distance, please.
BAD NECRO, BAD. Someone ban this troll.
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The Tweet and Lowdown:
Something's got to give for Quakes 2.0 in year three. Avoiding another slow start, dreaded injury bug is key for West cellar-dwellers.
Setting the Scene:
San Jose knows it's got to get off on the right foot this year, because a third straight sluggish start isn't an attractive prospect for a franchise still trying to find its way in the third year of reincarnation. The odds alone say there's no way the star-crossed Earthquakes will suffer the pervasive injury problems they endured last season: Knocks at nearly every position forced Frank Yallop to use 25 different starting lineups over the course of the year.
In the end, the Quakes' slow start doomed them to the Western Conference cellar for nearly the entire season, and a porous defense that allowed a league-worst 50 goals didn't help matters. Things looked up slightly with some key midseason acquisitions and, coming into 2010, most of the team is finally at close to full health. Yallop & Co. are hoping those bright spots -- as well as a handful of added wild cards -- will help the team improve on an embarrassing total of seven wins. Something must go right this season, as the battle for the long-promised stadium in Silicon Valley will loom large in the background.
Key Changes:
- Players In: Eduardo (FC Basel-Switzerland), Javier Robles (Vélez Sarsfield), Joey Gjertsen (Montreal Impact), Ike Opara (Wake Forest), Justin Morrow (Notre Dame), Steven Beitashour (San Diego State)
- Players Out: Darren Huckerby (retired), Shea Salinas (Philadelphia Union), Aaron Pitchkolan (released), Mike Zaher (released), Simon Elliott (M, released), António Ribeiro (released)
- Coaching/Staffing: Mark Watson hired as assistant coach
Star Attraction: Arturo Alvarez
There's no middle ground on the Quakes' left-footed lightning rod: His hard-charging style makes fans get up and cheer, but his tendency to disappear makes others crazy. Either way, there's probably no player on San Jose's roster with more raw talent than the mercurial 24-year-old winger/forward. Any time the Alvarez gets the ball at his feet with one attacker to beat, you've got the makings of a potential highlight reel. The Houston native was San Jose's second-most potent weapon last season (behind Ryan Johnson) with five goals, two assists and 22 shots on goal. If the former U.S. youth-teamer can stay consistent the entire season, he'll make the Earthquakes attack that much more dangerous.
Unsung Hero: André Luiz
How many MLS clubs can boast a holding midfielder who both played in the UEFA Cup alongside Ronaldinho (at PSG) and won a Copa Libertadores (with São Paulo)? The Quakes have both in this well-traveled Brazilian, who has also made stops in Mexico. And after signing him last July, San Jose found its biggest presence in that position since another Brazilian, Francisco Lima, patrolled the center of the pitch in 2008. If André Luiz is recovered fully from a preseason knee surgery, the Quakes have an anchor to protect their back four and prevent many of the soft goals that doomed them last season.
Ready for Primetime: Ramón Sánchez
Another midseason pickup last summer, the experienced Sánchez gave San Jose's midfield a veteran presence with smarts, skills and strength. He also built a nice rapport with André Luiz in an all-Latin central midfield, and even contributed to the attack with two goals. This season, more of the burden will fall on the El Salvador national team captain, who has become a quiet leader for the growing number of Latin faces in the Quakes locker room. Sánchez also has become somewhat of a mentor to Alvarez, who is now his teammate on the Salvadoran national team to boot.
Storylines to Watch:
If there's one thing the Earthquakes have lacked in their rebirth, it's been consistency in numbers. Johnson, Ramiro Corrales, Jason Hernandez and Joe Cannon are the only holdovers from the debut of Quakes 2.0 in 2008. Around them, a revolving cast of characters has been in and out of Buck Shaw Stadium. And that won't change in 2010. The club believes this current squad is good enough to compete, but once again, these probably aren't the same faces you'll see all season: The Quakes sit atop the allocation list, and also have the financial wiggle room to add some bodies.
But adding a DP? Probably not in the cards yet, especially with a stadium deal in limbo. The club feels its newest addition, Brazilian striker Eduardo, has that star quality, and that the 30-year-old European-league veteran will push fellow forwards Johnson and Cornell Glen to perform. Meanwhile, expectations are high for another sleeper addition, Argentine midfielder Javier Robles, who can man the flanks as well as the middle of the park, and has defensive smarts on top of it. Same goes for USL veteran Joey Gjertsen, who joins from the defending champion Montreal Impact. And speaking of bite, No. 3 pick Ike Opara could be a big lift for the Quakes back line. The former Wake Forest star was one of the most coveted prospects at the SuperDraft, and may try to balance school with work before his graduation.
What He Said:
"For the momentum of this franchise, we need a positive season immediately. We made the necessary changes, but we can't afford another slow start. Every single game needs to count this year -- we need to go into the final game with a playoff spot on the line."
-- Goalkeeper Joe Cannon
If everything goes right:
It's hard to tell what to expect from these Quakes. For all their failures last season, they looked their best with Sánchez and André Luiz holding down the central midfield and with collaboration among their attackers. If they stay healthy, the back line holds and Bobby Convey plays with all his heart, they could surprise some people. But that's an awful lot to ask for all parties involved. Best-case scenario is probably a fifth-place finish in the West -- which may well be good enough for a playoff spot


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Yes is More
Yes is More is one of my favourite books. In the form of a comic, it describes a series of architectural projects by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). My son Adam accompanied me to ICFP last year, in Copenhagen, just so we could visit some of BIG's projects in person. We had a ball!
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"If the Islanders can throw 15 years at Rick DiPietro and the Flyers are willing to give Mike Richards a dozen, why not a 15-year deal for Ovechkin? Is there a player in the league, apart from Crosby, as likely to make such a deal pay?...Is it worth it? Put it this way: If Lecavalier is the reincarnation of Jean Béliveau, then Ovechkin is the Rocket. No one in the league plays the game with such fire, such joyous abandon. Ovechkin is the real thing, the bona fide, superstar sniper the Canadiens have not had in nearly a quarter-century, since Guy Lafleur hung 'em up. All it will take is, oh, $120 million over 15 years and a slew of first-round picks."
January 11th...
"Is Ovechkin worth $124 million over 13 years? Is anyone?...even with his deeds of derring-do, the sad sack Capitals are tied for 27th in a 30-team league, and quite probably doomed to miss the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season...as of Thursday, Ovechkin may have just consigned himself to being the most commanding one-man show since Henry Fonda as Darrow."
The latter, from an article written in the Vancouver Sun, was lambasted by Ted Leonsis. The irritation appears well placed.
There are two arguments made in that latter article that seem especially ill-fitting. The first concerns the quote, "Is Ovechkin worth $124 million over 13 years? Is anyone?"
Well, yes. By definition, that's true, by whatever definition of "market" one wants to use. Leonsis and the rest of the club deemed that number was what it would take to secure Alex's services for the next 13 years -- he accepted it. End of discussion; he's "worth it" to someone (and, I suspect, to a lot of fans long before this contract expires).
Second, there is the inevitable lament that Washington is the shack at the end of the dirt road of hockey -- hopeless and clueless about winning a championship. Ovechkin has, so the argument goes, chained himself to a loser for the next decade or more.
Well, gee, I haven't seen any championships in Pittsburgh since Sidney Crosby came into the league, either, and they remain a flawed team to boot, despite their current winning ways. Because of the manner in which the league has pursued an "all-the-eggs-in-one-basket" strategy by making Crosby the be-all and end-all of hockey, that Crosby-centric theme works only if Crosby wins...will we be seeing these same laments in a few years, that he toiled in a city that couldn't win, should the Penguins fail to win a Cup and the end of his contract is in sight?
And more to the point, when that contract does come up, as Leonsis put it in the context of Ovechkin (but replacing Alex with Sidney), "does anyone really believe that in five years - as a free agent - that a player such as [Sidney] wouldn't receive an offer for $10 million per year as an unrestricted free agent? What does this writer think the salary cap number will be in five years? In 10 years?"
If that scenario unfolds, Canada might be beckoning, especially if Pittsburgh hasn't won anything.
The Montreal Gazette article opined that $120 million and "a slew of first round picks" would be a good deal for the Canadiens. Ted spent about that much, gets to keep the picks (no small consideration, given the strategy of team-building the Caps are trying to employ), and that's a bad deal.
Guess only when the city involved is Washington.