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Thursday, July 19, 2007
DoTs, Resilience, and Cleanse
I think the reason DoTs need to be reined in a bit is that their normal counters are much less effective these days. Traditionally, the downside to DoTs is that they can be Cleansed or Dispelled. But Cleanse is no longer as powerful as it once was, due to three new factors in TBC.
First, Unstable Affliction punishes you for Cleansing. It does a significant amount of damage, and the Silence effect is a killer. It is a superb guard for the other DoTs.
Second, there are several new talents which increase the chance of resisting the Cleanse.
Finally, many classes are able to apply 2 magic debuffs per global cooldown(GCD). While Cleanse only removes 1 magic debuff per GCD. Shadow priests in particular are insanely annoying for this, as all their spells add an extra Shadow Weaving debuff. This means the Cleanser is always falling behind. Affliction Warlocks use Shadow Embrace to accomplish the same thing.
As well, Cleanse is an entirely defensive action, and that means that the attacker has tempo, or is controlling the fight while the defender is Cleansing. While you Cleanse you can't use special attacks or heal. In general, because of tempo, defense needs to be more powerful than offense to be a viable tactic.
These three factors have conspired to significantly reduce the power of Cleanse. Thus DoTs need to be reigned in using another method, which is Resilience in this case.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Especially on the cleanse issue...there doesn't seem to be any sort of logic behind which debuff cleanse is removing. I originally thought it was a left-to-right thing based on the debuff bar in the target frame, but I've gotten UA-silenced when it was somewhere in the middle.ReplyDelete
(Speaking of, *is* there any logic to cleanse order for debuffs?)
Another reason for this change, let's not forget, was mentioned either in the patch notes themselves or an accompanying forum post by a CM - they scale very well with gear upgrades, but outside of your character's resistances their damaging effects cannot be lessened in any way by upgraded gear. This was presumably a way to allow pvp gear to give you some edge against DoT-heavy classes.
Mind you, without a lot of resilience, it's still not all that noticeable (I myself will be taking 1.2% less damage from them at my current rating.)
From my experience, when I see a warlock/shad priest on the opposing arena team, I might cleanse the first couple debuffs, but it quickly becomes an upward (and falling downhill) kind of battle. Shadow Resistance Aura is of great help however.
I think this is more of an issue for Paladins since their defensive nature will ensure they survive longer than most and this is when the effectiveness of DoT starts to out class direct damage. In a short sharp fight a DoT is an ineffective offensive measure, however the longer the DoT is applied the more effective it becomes.ReplyDelete
I'd like to see a PvP based Libram that allows cleanse to remove two magic, poison and disease effects rather than Blizzard play with the spell like they have with Freedom, Sacrifice and Protection correcting PvP imbalances but breaking there PvE usefulness
- Anonymous7:08 PM, July 21, 2007
Unfortunately, not everyone has Unstable Affliction and talents that reduce the chance for DOTs to be cleansed.ReplyDelete
And paladins (or priests) shouldn't really be complaining about cleanse - other classes can't do anything about magic type DOTs.
But warlocks > paladins anyday so it's reasonable to be frustrated and think they are strong, from your (read: paladins) perspective. Trying to beat a rogue with a warlock is not much fun either.
Anyway, in my opinion, the change to resilience affecting DOTs isn't just a warlock nerf, it's basically introduced because Blizzard wants to nerf Warlock + Shadowpriest combo in 2v2 arenas.
- Anonymous3:40 AM, July 23, 2007
A 10% reduction in DoT effectiveness is not much, and to accomplish that you would need a lot of resilliance gear. The only situation it would make a real difference is when you're caught by 2-3 heavy dotters and that extra 10% can help you pull off a heal.ReplyDelete
I highly doubt that the change was made to improve paladin performance against warlocks/shadow priests. They pile on the debuffs so fast that ultimately I am healing instead of cleansing all the time. I think it is to allow classes with no heals to fare better against said combo.ReplyDelete
The only debuff that really needs cleansing imo is Wound Poison, but trying to cleanse that is an exercise in futility.
- Anonymous12:52 AM, September 16, 2007
I'm currently on a UA Lock, Spriest, Spriest team and we started and it 1 week we're 1783. Now obviously this combo is a huge success against any type of team because we have the ability to freely burn down a dps without worries from the healer being able to go through it. The key to the team isn't obviously the power of the DoTs but the stacking of it so that it all ticks at once and fast and its all essentially protected DoTs... Remember that Mind-Flay doesn't classify as a DoT so that will not lose its burning power... SW:Px2 UAx1 VTx2 VEx2 Corruption, etc. will still have its tick strong and undispellable. Plus the quick mindblasts SW:Deaths that are thrown up my team won't lose much of its power... 3 v 3 revolves around who can defeat the first player first and the fastest usually. The only drastic difference is that destruction locks are gonna be seen alot more.ReplyDelete


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Evidently the Cold War ended in the final decade of the 20th century with the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries, but the U.S. plan of domination enshrined in the Project for the New American Century, drawn up by a group of neoconservative and Zionist strategists, remains in the minds of Washington politicians.
However, Democrat and Republican priorities on the imperial agenda remain. These are: control of the Near East given its energy resources and strategic position, the elimination of governments who stand up to or interfere with its interests, and to exclude the emergence of new rival powers.
While it is a fact that things have not been going well for the U.S. government in Afghanistan and Iraq, this has not resulted in a change of plans, but merely adjustments to the new conditions. Imperialism has many years of experience in methods of regime change, as we in Latin America know very well.
In Libya, included for years on the list of seven countries whose governments had to be changed, the United States was initially successful, having taken advantage of some inconsistencies on the part of Muammar Gaddafi, and certain lack of popularity for the leader. Then came an intensive media campaign, Arab League cover and backing, which facilitated a UN Security Council resolution, and subsequently, a large part of the country's infrastructure was bombed by NATO aircraft, thousands of Libyans were killed, and a government subordinated to its interests was installed in Tripoli. Libya's large oil reserves are now more accessible to U.S. and European corporations, although the chaos created in the country has created an uncertain future.
While this was taking place in Libya, the CIA and its allies in the NATO special services were working on the next country listed, Syria. It has been acknowledged that hundreds of Syrians were trained and armed in Turkey and other countries ill disposed toward the Damascus government, especially those of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and in areas of the Lebanon under the control the March 14 alliance (directed by the Hariri clan, pro‑Saudi and linked to the French government). These Syrians are predominantly Sunnis and members of the illegal and extremist Muslim Brotherhood, but include mercenaries from other Arab countries, and commandos trained for special operations. These have received a large supply of modern armaments, sophisticated communications equipment and information via NATO satellite networks.
The predominantly Alawite Damascus government, a strong ally of Iran and a supporter of the Lebanese patriotic forces headed by Hezbollah, which controls power in Beirut, had genuine problems – as do all countries in the region and a large part of the world, including the most developed countries. These include repression, lack of democracy, and corruption, and this has provoked malaise within the population, leading to demonstrations initially encouraged by those in other countries of the region, and which were repressed particularly where they originated, in the southern city of Daraa, right on the border with Jordan.
The media war machine was immediately activated against Syria, as was the case with Libya. In Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin America countries we have become experts on how this operates, having suffered it for many years, and we also know how to combat it, despite disadvantageous material conditions given the enormous propaganda resources possessed by the enemy. Even with the abovementioned defects, the Syrian government was practising a non-sectarian policy in the religious context and one of relative social justice, anti‑imperialist and anti‑Zionist. It has been an ally of progressive causes in the South and an obstacle to U.S. and Israeli plans in the region. Allegations intended to discredit it, to the effect that its policy of peace serves Israeli interests, have no serious foundation.
Installing a pro‑Western government in Damascus would propitiate a change of government in Lebanon and possibly another war there to eliminate the power of Hezbollah, an ally of Iran together with Syria, and viewed as enemies by the Sunni Gulf monarchies, who submit to Western policy in return for protection from an alleged Iranian threat, even though no war has been initiated by that country for centuries.
If the plan concerning Syria is consummated, the Western powers would move against Tehran and, along the way, crush the resistance of Palestine, obliging it to accept crumbs of territory and the minimum rights which Israeli Zionists would be disposed to concede to the people. The U.S. "Grand Middle East" would be completed with its extension to Central Asia, and the siege of Russia and China would be laid.
However, Syria is not Libya. Although its leaders have made undeniable errors and have acted slowly in response to the conspiracy and plans of its powerful enemies, thus losing a lot of time and ground, it would seem to have sufficient internal support and resources to stand up to its enemies and defeat them, albeit at a heavy price in terms of death and destruction.
Apparently, a clear perception of this reality prompted Russian and Chinese representatives to use their veto in the February 4 Security Council vote on a resolution which – regardless of its text, as was the case with Libya – would open the gates to foreign intervention in order to destroy the country and impose a regime change. The highest authorities in both countries have clearly declared a red line and they are not prepared to allow a military intervention in Syria.
The firm stand of Moscow and Beijing and the cooperation they are giving the Syrian government, appears to be starting to change the situation on the ground. The Lebanese army has been mobilized to the border in an attempt to prevent the entry of mercenaries and military supplies into the neighbouring area of Homs, center of the anti‑government uprising and whose capital city was intended to become the Benghazi of Syria. Syrian government forces have recently moved onto the offensive there.
The Baghdad government, now closer to Iran's influence than to that of the United States, is also trying to prevent Sunni Islamic extremists – possibly linked to Al Qaeda and receiving funds from Saudi Arabia and Qatar – from continuing to infiltrate into Syrian territory. Recent terrorist attacks on the Shiite population in various parts of Iraq would seem to be a message of protest from Saudi Arabia and the United States given the change in position in favour of Syria adopted by the Iraqi government.
Turkey and Jordan, two other countries to have adopted belligerent positions against the Damascus government, are beginning to make more moderate statements. There are even signs of concern in Western capitals at the possibility of extremist Islamic forces linked to Al Qaeda coming to power in Syria in the case of the current executive being defeated.
The situation is highly fluid and extremely complex, but if Syria succeeds in resisting this imperialist, and Zionist counterrevolutionary aggression, and if Russia and China remain firm, there could be a defeat of strategic magnitude. Iran would emerge strengthened and new alliances could be established to oppose imperialist plans of domination. The countries of the BRICS group, the newly independent countries of Latin America, especially the strong core members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), are in agreement with the principals of a foreign policy opposed to aggression, and would favour the negotiated solution to conflicts. They also defend justice, sovereignty and non‑intervention, all of which could initiate the beginnings of a newmultipolar balance in the world.
The grave economic crisis affecting the major capitalist powers and the debilitation this implies, in conjunction with the indignados movement, could significantly contribute to this potential panorama.
(Ernesto Abascal was the Cuban ambassador to Iraq.)
*note: Granma is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba. You can visit their International English website here. The original article is here.


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Sam Smith, 2005 – One major differences between journalism today and when your editor started out 47 years ago is that there wasn't as much bragging, pomposity, hypocritical self-analysis and professional narcissism back then. Reporters, in fact, were among those most skeptical of their trade and the public readily endorsed their judgment. HL Mencken put it this way: "The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer."
Even the far less contentious Richard Harwood remarked, "We were perceived as a lower form of life, amoral, half-literate hacks in cheap suits. Thus I was assigned to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Nashville in the late 1940s and, with other reporters, was given lunch at a card table set up in a hallway to protect the dining room from contamination."
Moving from this dubious trade, a majority of whose practitioners hadn't gone to college, to a profession graced by graduate schools and thence to a status part actor and part apparatchik of a rising corporate uber-culture, journalists became ever more prominent and self-referential even as they were losing touch with both their purported constituency and their purported purpose. They became the first group in human history to dramatically improve their socio-economic status simply by writing about themselves, self-casting themselves among the very elite from whom they had once been expected to protect their audience.
Ironically, the result was a status not only without substance but without honor. While this may appear a contradiction it is quite typical of early 21 Century power in which one finds such figures as Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, and George Bush notable for an authority almost inversely proportional to reputation, admiration or affection. So many individuals and institutions of power these days have become only that, impressive for the dominance they have achieved rather than for the virtues, skills and honor they have exhibited. Which is why we don't see many Pope Johns, Orson Welles, Eleanor Roosevelts, Beatles, Katherine Hepburns or Martin Luther Kings anymore. The only surviving requirement for being on top is being on top. And reminding others constantly that you are there. Everything else, from actual achievement to criminal conviction, becomes largely irrelevant.
Thus, despite the media's rise in prominence, a Harris survey over nearly 30 years has found that as far as prestige goes, the press remains stuck, still ranked near the bottom just ahead of accountants, stock brokers and real estate dealers. This, of course, was probably also true fifty years ago; the difference is that no one then pretended otherwise.
But since no one else can get the airtime or column inches to point this out, the media can happily go about its business in deep denial and without challenge save for its own braggadocio parading as criticism in which minor flaws such as a single story going awry are subjected to portentous analysis while major media errors – like years of downplaying global warming or buying into false justifications for invading Iraq – escape scot free.
Take just one responsibility of the press, investigative reporting. Most investigative reporting these days is done by non-profit organizations, led by groups like the Center for Public Integrity, which probably has more investigative journalists usefully engaged than any media corporation in the country. Environmental organizations and governmental watchdogs have broken story after story that a real reporter would have been proud to have uncovered. And Ralph Nader has been one of the best investigative reporters this country has ever known. Further, non-profits, rather than the media, have been at the forefront of defending freedom of the press and government accountability, ranging from the daily work of the ACLU to freedom of information suits and the legal protection of government whistleblowers.
This outsourcing of journalistic responsibility both saves the media money and provides it with distance in case something goes wrong with a story. But non-profits don't win Pulitzers so the myth of journalism as public savior goes on even though the profession is ever more in the hands of some of the least public-minded people in American history.
There are, however, a few recent signs that even the media is feeling a bit less secure upon the pedestal it has constructed for itself. The crowds no longer seem to be paying homage. . . or even attention. In fact a recent survey found that only 22% of Americans say they get most of their news from a newspaper, barely twice as many as say they use the Internet as their primary source. Radio is at a mere 15% while 50% rely upon the true church of our new Middle Ages – guardian of the faith, inquisitor of free market apostasy, perpetuator of sanctified superstition, lord of all men, judge of all things, which is to say, television.
If you look closely at this division of news curricula, one finds that just under a third of the public relies on media that by habit, methodology, and tradition are most likely to concern themselves with the rational and the factual. This does not mean that such matters are absent from TV, only that you won't use up anywhere near your Tivo memory recording every Front Line, 60 Minutes and available equivalent.
Yet far from welcoming their colleagues in cyberspace, the print media has gone out of its way to disparage and ridicule digitized news, with particular disdain for bloggers who dare to occupy space the archaic press believes belongs to them. There is of late much talk about the social and professional status of bloggers who are presumed not to be as properly credentialed as, say, Jason Blair, Robert Novak, Geraldo Rivero, Bill O'Reilly, the broadcast staff of defense contractor General Electric, or the 400 journalists who moonlighted for the CIA in times past.
But Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, and Frederick Douglass did not have press passes either, nor did anyone give them credentials before they commenced their unlicensed practice of the First Amendment. And where does one go these for such a license anyway? Usually to the government or to a committee comprised of employees of large media corporations whose interest is not in dispensing news but in owning its profits and who hire numerous lobbyists to manipulate the same White House and Congress their ace reporters are covering.
There are, of course, good bloggers and there are bad ones. There are gay prostitutes pretending to be objective cyber-journalists and there are internet journalists uncovering answers to questions conventional reporters don't even bother to ask. A simple test of the average quality of these efforts would be to invite nothing but bloggers to the next presidential news conference. Can anyone doubt that it would be more interesting and useful than a room full of David Gregorys asking questions so predictable that the president already has the answers on paper?
Something of the same effect could be achieved by ridding the White House news confabs of media prima donnas and replacing them with that quiet body of lesser known reporters who cover truly tough beats such as Congress – a task at least 535 times more complex than trailing a bubble wrapped president. Science reporters, investigative journalists who don't usually have time for show business, hacks who know federal agencies inside and out, not to mention well-informed advocacy scribes from right and left, would serve the country far better than the present club of servile stenographers.
The archaic media's discomfort with the Internet began early. I collected some examples for my book, Why Bother?:
– Cokie and Steve Roberts wrote a column, headed 'Internet Could Become A Threat To Representative Government,' warning against the direct democracy of the Internet and saying it could threaten the "very existence" of Congress.
– A commentator on Court TV argued that acceptance of government regulation of the Net was the equivalent of growing up.
– Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes called for the removal of undesirable information from the Net. Asked on what grounds, Stahl replied, "That it's wrong, that it's inaccurate, it's irresponsible, that it is spreading fear and suspicion of the government; 10,000 reasons."
– A writer in the Washington Post warned that without gatekeepers of information — e.g. the Washington Post — "our media could become even more infested with half-truths and falsehoods."
– On Crossfire, Geraldine Ferraro breathlessly warned that "we've got to get this Internet under control."
– A front page story in the New York Times was headlined 'Term Papers Are Hot Items On The Internet.' Other horrors in the Times' series included a story that the Net had caused Dartmouth students to forget sex, socializing and drinking; another on how to spot your computer addiction; and, finally, how the same technology that encourages celibacy at Dartmouth encourages flagrant and prolific sex everywhere else.
I went on to note that "those not in media elite have found something quite different on the Net. They are creating a cyberarchy of transformation — as different from the hierarchy of traditional information and politics as the vast wilderness of America was from the taut geography of 19th century Europe. The old dukes and baronets, clinging to their decadent landscape of conventional thought, rail against the primitiveness, the raucousness, the freedom of the new media, but theirs is effete whining in a happy hubbub of people discovering the ubiquitous potential of a new frontier. The ways of the Net have become inseparable from the ways of new politics — they are the smoke-filled room, the Tammany Hall, and the political picnic of a new age.
"With the heady discovery of how many of us there really are has come a sense of incipient rebellion based not on ideology but on dreams and values — a shared faith that truth, freedom, the individual, community, and decency still matter."
I have been a radio reporter; have edited newspapers and newsletters; have written for local, national and foreign readers; have had articles in more than two dozen publications; and then ten years ago I took to the Internet. Nothing has made me feel closer to the guardian angels of journalism and more a honest part of the free press than this latter adventure, while nothing has made me feel more distant from those who haughtily claim custody of journalism's holy grail even as they dishonor its most hallowed traditions. Anyway, in the end, there is only one journalism credential that really counts: telling good stories well – and truthfully.


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ST. ALBERT — The residential school system was a systemic sin that cannot be understood as separate from a broader colonial reality, says Gerry Kelly, a consultant on the residential school settlement.
Stressing that Canada's residential school system was entrenched in Canada's social policy, Kelly said, "We have to realize that we are dealing with a structural harm."
Kelly, consultant to the Corporation of Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential Schools' Settlement, was one of several speakers at the fourth annual Directions in Aboriginal Ministry Conference at Star of the North Retreat Centre.
Some 40 aboriginal people and others involved in aboriginal ministry attended the July 10-15 event sponsored by the Western Catholic Bishops.
Canada's residential school policy has its roots in the War of 1812, in which the American forces invaded the then British lands called Upper Canada.
The vital military alliances Canada had with aboriginal peoples before the war changed drastically after Canada's victory in that war. "It's in that period of time that we began to hear in Canada the term 'Indian Problem.'"
In 1842, the Bagot Commission was created to explore the Indian problem in Upper Canada. This commission, operating under the assumption that aboriginal peoples were disappearing and "Indian communities could not adapt to the new world," concluded that the state should "help (aboriginal) people to migrate from one nation to the other," Kelly said.
Those assumptions became the basis for policy in Upper Canada, he said. Fifteen years later, the Act for the Gradual Civilization of Indian Peoples in Upper Canada was approved.
The term "civilization" didn't mean teaching aboriginal people to eat with a fork and spoon. "It meant making Canadian citizens (of them), but also carried the other understanding of a higher and a lower civilization," Kelly pointed out.
"There is no way to bring somebody from one national place to another in that system without somehow imposing an aggression on the key element of that culture, which is the family."
When the Bagot Commission reported, the government expressed interest in a Methodist residential project in Mississauga.
"They saw at that time that that kind of process would be the lifeboat by which individuals, children in this case, would move from one cultural experience that in their minds was ending to the next cultural experience that was continuing," Kelly noted.
However, any system that does not accept that the family is the place where children learn who they are and what they can trust "will create untold harm."
According to Kelly, many who worked in the residential school system tried to maintain the links between the family and the child as well as they could.
"But I think we need to start at the Bagot Commission because it brings us close to what is almost of the DNA of the residential school experience."
Residential schools have been closed for many years and yet their legacy continues. "For example, there are today 22,000 to 28,000 aboriginal children who are in state care. It's expected that in eight years aboriginal people will represent 25 per cent of the prison population," lamented Kelly.
"We have to see the residential school system linked (to the events of) the 1960s. When the schools were closing down, aboriginal children were taken in great numbers out their homes by social services and children's aid societies. We also have to see it linked to the incarceration (of aboriginal people)."
Kelly said if we don't link these things, we won't see the fundamental issue, which is that the residential school system was part of a broader colonial reality.
"So if we are going to talk about reconciliation, we need to talk about reconciliation in the whole picture rather than in its isolated moments. We need to recognize we are dealing with a structural harm."


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Add Text Fields
Next we will add text fields to the application window. Two of the fields are for user input: one accepts the number of dollars to convert to a foreign currency; the other accepts the exchange rate. The third text field is a read-only field that displays the dollar amount converted to the foreign currency.
In InterfaceBuilder's Palettes window, select the "Cocoa Text" view, and find the NSTextView object:
Drag an NSTextView object and drop it into the "Currency Converter" window:
If you drag a view near the edges of a window, InterfaceBuilder? displays blue guide lines that show the standard placement. Drag the text view to the right and upward until the guide lines appear, and then let go. The text view is then positioned in the standard way.
Now add two more text fields. You can drag them from the palette as you did the first one, or you can duplicate the first one. To duplicate, select the first text view and then choose "Duplicate" from the "Edit" menu. Alternatively, you can Option-drag the text field to duplicate it.
Label the Text Fields
Now add labels to the text fields, to identify their purposes for the user. For each text field, drag a Label object from the palette and drop it next to the field. (Alternatively, you can drop one Label and then duplicate it, just as you can duplicate the text fields.)
Just as InterfaceBuilder displayed guide lines to help you position the text field near the edge of the window, it also displays guide lines to help you position the labels near the text fields. Just drag each text field until the blue guide lines appear, and release the label.
Now change the text of the labels. Click a label to select it. Then show the Inspector by choosing the "Show Inspector" item from the "Tools" menu. Select the "Attributes" item from the pull-down menu at the top of the Inspector window, and type the correct text into the Title field. For example, here is how to enter the text for the top label:
Here's how the labels should look after you have entered the text for all three:
When you first enter the text for a label, the label may not be wide enough to show it all. In that case, you'll see only part of the text in the label. You can resize the label to make the full text visible. Click the label to select it. Notice the small blue dots that surround it. Grab a dot on the left side and drag it to the left to make the label wider, until you can see the entire text.
Change the Text Field Attributes
The first two text fields accept user input; the last displays the result of the conversion. We want the first to text fields to be editable, so users can enter the values to use in the conversion. We don't want the last field to be editable, but we do want users to be able to copy text from it.
We can control all this behavior using text-field attributes, configurable in the Inspector.
- Select the first text field
- Choose "Show Inspector" from the "Tools" menu
- Make sure "Attributes" is selected in the pull-down menu at the top of the Inspector window
- Ensure that the "Editable" and "Enabled" boxes are checked in the "Attributes" display of the Inspector window
- Repeat this process for the second text field
- Finally, repeat it again for the last text field, but this time make sure the "Editable" box is not checked
Next, we will add a button that the user can click to convert currencies.
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GALESBURG, Ill. — President Obama on Wednesday said the fragile economic recovery is being undermined by worsening partisan politics in Washington and urged the country to stand behind him as Republicans try to roll back his vision of government.
Echoing the populist themes that helped him win reelection last year, Obama angrily denounced House Republicans for opposing legislation that he says would benefit the economy and said political obstruction is hampering a steady climb out of the worst recession in generations.
The hour-long speech broke little policy ground but introduced a less-restrained Obama ahead of a major economic debate this fall over the federal budget and the best way to ensure sustained growth.
"The stakes for our middle class could not be higher," Obama told an audience of several hundred at Knox College, a small liberal arts school here that he visited in 2005 as a new U.S. senator.
"The countries that are passive in the face of a global economy will lose the competition for good jobs and high living standards," he continued. "That's why America has to make the investments necessary to promote long-term growth and shared prosperity."
The event here Wednesday was the first in a series of speeches that Obama plans to deliver over the next two months on the economic challenges facing the country, advisers said. The president is seeking to shape the debate over budget priorities — his own and the Republican opposition's — before a divided Congress takes up spending bills this fall.
White House advisers see the budget debate as Obama's last chance to end the deep, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration before Democrats try to recapture full control of Congress next year — a long shot by most estimates. The government will shut down on Sept. 30 without passage of a new measure to fund operations, while Congress will need to raise the federal limit on borrowing by early November or risk default on the national debt.
Obama and the Republicans remain far apart on what they want to happen in the fall. The debate promises to once again pit Obama's vision of government investment in the economy, funded by higher taxes on the wealthy, against the Republican view that sharp reductions in federal spending and the elimination of programs like the health-care overhaul will boost jobs and growth.
The president attempted to begin framing that debate Wednesday, echoing the central message of his reelection campaign against Republican Mitt Romney, a former governor and wealthy businessman whom Obama had portrayed as out of touch with the middle class. Obama is now casting House Republicans in a similar role — an approach that may do more to anger than persuade them.
"I will not allow gridlock, inaction or willful indifference to get in our way," he said at Knox College, to rousing applause. "Whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I'll use it."
Republicans immediately mocked Obama's remarks as a tired partisan attack from a president whose previous speeches have achieved little.
"All right, so exactly what will change? What's the point? What's it going to accomplish?" Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said on the House floor Wednesday. "You've probably got the answer: nothing. It's a hollow shell. It's an Easter egg with no candy in it."
Obama has faced major difficulties at the start of his second term, with his approval rating slipping below 50 percent this month, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Revelations of surveillance programs at the National Security Agency, allegations of political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and broad unrest in the Middle East have largely overshadowed economic issues.
The president argued Wednesday that the government must play a role in promoting manufacturing, making college affordable, training future workers and ensuring a strong safety net to protect the middle class from calamity as the economy shifts.
His economic agenda has been challenged this year, leaving the type of goals he laid out Wednesday more aspirational than achievable. Payroll taxes increased for all working Americans at the start of the year, and he misjudged whether Republicans would allow the sequestration cuts.
And while the unemployment rate has come down from 9.8 percent to 7.6 percent over his term, there remain worrisome signs about the health of the job market, including data showing that the percentage of the U.S. population that is working has declined since his tenure began.
Obama's message Wednesday was designed to better connect his economic prescriptions with the day-to-day concerns of the middle class, which he argues is threatened by the world's changing economic landscape and by Republican policies. He labeled those policies "social Darwinism" in his commencement address at Knox College eight years ago, a message he echoed in spirit Wednesday.
"In many ways, the trends that I spoke of here in 2005 — of a winner-take-all economy where a few do better and better while everybody else just treads water — have been made worse by the recession," he said. "This growing inequality isn't just morally wrong; it's bad economics."
Obama said that when middle-class families have less to spend, businesses have fewer customers, and when the rich have most of the wealth, it can lead to dangerous financial bubbles.
"That's why reversing these trends must be Washington's highest priority. It's certainly my highest priority," he said. "Unfortunately, over the past couple of years in particular, Washington hasn't just ignored the problem; too often, it's made things worse."
Economists say the top 1 percent of American earners have continued to benefit most from the uneven recovery, mostly because the stock market has soared past its pre-recession levels. Median income, meanwhile, has been flat at around $50,000.
Obama raised taxes on the rich at the beginning of the year, which will have a modest effect on reducing after-tax inequality.
"It's not enough to cite positive macro trends without considering whether they're reaching the broad swath of households whose economic prospects have been disconnected from growth for many years," Jared Bernstein, a senior economic adviser in the Obama administration during its first term, wrote this week. "We may shift into higher gears, but if we're zipping along through gated neighborhoods in a Ferrari with no passengers from the bottom 99 percent, we'll still be in trouble."
In Illinois, Obama placed much of the blame for the widening gap in wealth and the halting recovery squarely on what he described as "a sizable group of Republican lawmakers."
"Over the last six months, this gridlock has gotten worse," he said. "With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs to stop. Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) dismissed Obama's remarks and his economic philosophy, saying the president "can't seem to let go of ivory tower economic theories, even after 41 / 2 years of an economy treading water."
Republicans, McConnell said, "understand the necessity of empowering private enterprise if we're ever going to drive a sustained recovery for middle-class families."
Later on Wednesday, Obama appeared at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, highlighting the school's mix of academics and job-training programs. He will hit the road again Thursday for an economy-focused appearance at the port in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Author's Note: This is a regurgitated post of mine from last year. Please note that I have added the word "course" in front of the term kosher salt. If you are using fine salt, reduce the amount by half.
This recipe was developed for indirect grilling using charcoal on either a Weber 18.5″ dia. or 22.5″ dia. kettle, but you can do it on a gas grill as well, if you must.
1) Best results are obtained if prepared one day before serving, allowed to cool for one hour, then wrapped tightly in aluminum foil, refrigerated overnight, and removed one to one and 1/2 hours before carving. Warm birds are difficult to carve neatly.
2) Do not stuff the bird, as it impairs smoke penetration from inside the cavity, and could also lead to the growth of harmful bacteria. Cook stuffing or cornbread dressing separately in the oven.
3) I usually stop adding smoking chips after about 90 minutes, as some people really do not like too much smoke.
You will need:
1) One 10-12 pound (preferably fresh) turkey. Larger birds do not cook all that well, so if you need more meat, cook a second bird or, as I often do, a fresh turkey breast – which will usually fit on a 22.5″ Weber along with a 10 to 12 pound turkey so they can be cooked at the same time. Just remember a breast will be done well before a whole bird.
2) One marinade injector.
3) One cup of white wine (any cheap chardonnay will work here).
4) One slightly rounded tablespoon of course kosher salt plus more for seasoning the surface and cavity of the bird.
5) 6 to 8 cloves of garlic split in half.
6) One stalk of celery cut into 2″ pieces.
7) 1/2 of a medium onion cut into 1/2″ wedges.
8) One fresh lemon, quartered.
9) course kosher salt and fresh-ground pepper for seasoning the cavity and the exterior of the bird.
10) A fair amount of your favorite smoking chips. For me, that means hickory, but apple, cherry, pecan, etc., work very well, too.
11) Plenty of your favorite holiday adult beverage.
12) A little patience.
22.5″ Weber One Touch Gold – This is my flagship Weber
1) Remove turkey from refrigerator, rinse well, and pat dry with paper towels.
2) Combine one tablespoon of course kosher salt with one cup of white wine. Stir until salt is dissolved.
3) Inject turkey all over with the white wine/salt mixture.
4) Put a little salt and pepper in the bird's cavity, add the garlic cloves, celery, onion and lemon.
5) Coat the outside of the turkey liberally with cooking oil (I use 100% pure olive oil instead of extra-virgin), and season with salt and pepper to taste, tie the legs together with butcher's twine, and allow to stand for 30 minutes.
6) If you are going to soak your smoking chips in water or wine, now is a good time to immerse them.
7) Prepare your grill for indirect cooking as per manufacturer's instructions, and don't forget the drip pan on the charcoal grate, unless scraping a lot of congealed fat out of the bottom of your grill is a favorite pastime for you. If you are using a gas grill, you can place the bird directly into the pan on the cooking grate.
8) Once the grill is ready (a cooking temperature of 350 degrees is optimal), add the smoking chips and the bird, pour any remaining wine/salt mixture into the drip pan, close the lid and don't open it for at least one hour.
9) Add charcoal every hour (12 briquettes for a 18.5″ dia. grill, or 16 for a 22.5″ dia. grill to maintain approximately 350 degrees), as well as additional smoking chips as desired.
10) Once the turkey has reached an internal temperature of 165 degrees as measured in the thigh (away from the bone), remove turkey from the grill, cover tightly with foil and let stand for at least twenty minutes before carving, or one hour if you are going to refrigerate it for the next day.
11) Chow down.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!


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Bernstein Research's Mark Newman late yesterday reiterated an Outperform rating on shares of Samsung Electronics (005930KS), writing that the company is in his view in "a new era of profit maximization."
Three areas of the business, the smartphones, semiconductors and display products it makes, are set to each see profit per share rise by 30% per annum, compounded annually, from last year through 2015, writes Newman.
However, Newman thinks the more significant factor is that Apple's (AAPL) antagonism -- things such as its patent suits against Samsung -- has caused a change of strategy at Samsung, writing "possibly in response to Apple's hostile tactics, Samsung has become noticeably more conservative in capex and more assertive in price negotiations on the component side.
"Profits and returns are now more important than share gains."
Newman walks through the elements of the standoff between Samsung and Apple, as he sees them:
Apple requires more capacity for its custom processors that are exclusively made by Samsung. However, without long-term commitment beyond end of 2013, Samsung is refusing to spend literally billions of dollars. The risk for Samsung is idle capacity; the risk for Apple is not enough processors for iPhones/iPads in 2H 2013 (see Samsung: Litigation with Apple Drives War on Multiple Fronts). Similarly, Samsung has reduced NAND capacity and refuses to sell to Apple at below market rates, which is forcing a rebound in NAND prices greater than in records we have going back to 2006. Samsung has no intention to increase capacity until prices and returns reach an acceptable level. We have therefore adjusted our semiconductor capex numbers down for 2013 to KRW 12.2T (KRW 5.6T Memory, KRW 6.7T System LSI) versus KRW 17.6T before (KRW 8.3T Memory, KRW 9.4T System LSI). If Apple gives a solid commitment for processors beyond 2013 or if NAND rebounds faster than current projections we may see upside to these numbers (particularly logic for Apple).
Newman goes through the various areas of the business, noting that mobile profit is surging, chips are the main engine of profit growth, and that active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display are a defensible segment of the display market:
This year, profits from mobile are growing 141%. This growth will fall as profits are growing from a much higher level […] Recent success in tablets is also starting to help Samsung's profits in mobile. We estimate Samsung sold 5M tablets in Q3'12, with 18% market share a clear number 2 in the market, growing to 6M in Q4 […] Although PC cannibalization has driven DRAM lower than predicted, the 2013 DRAM recovery plus rebounding NAND and growing System LSI will drive 41% compounded growth in profits from 2012 to 2015 […] AMOLED operating margins continue to increase to almost 30% as Samsung continues to differentiate with high-end solutions and cut costs through improved yields. AMOLED yields are now mature and similar to LCD yields we believe.
Newman notes Samsung's current forward multiple of 7.7 times is below the stock's average P/E of 10.3 times in the last decade.
Samsung shares today fell ₩24,000, or 1.8%, to ₩1,331,000 in Seoul trading.
Samsung: Street Underestimating Handset, Display Prospects, Says Barclays, November 14th, 2012.


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Everyone's always complaining about how hard it is to exercise and stay fit, especially during the holidays.
Compared to other ways that you can spend time, exercise is indeed often a chore. This is especially true when you're talking about things that aren't exactly exciting. Like walking. Absent the need to get somewhere or get in shape, it can be hard to imagine choosing to walk.
Walking is very good for you. Imagine if you could do it all day, while you were working. If we office drones have demonstrated anything during the past few decades, it's that we can spend hours and hours multitasking at our desks. Given the opportunity, who wouldn't like to work and work out at the same time?
Enter the treadmill desk.
I spent December working and walking on one made by a company called LifeSpan. It's pretty basic: a treadmill and a height-adjustable desk that shows you how long you've walked, how far you've walked, how fast you've walked, how many steps you've taken, and how many calories you've burned.
The treadmill desk arrived with "white glove" setup service. I imagined something really fancy, perhaps even a butler. All it meant was two dudes stopped by the office to set it up for me. That was nice, because I don't think I would have wanted to do it on my own. It's actually two pieces of equipment, the treadmill and a height-adjustable desk. It cost $2,000 for the rig I tested. The delivery guys said they've installed a lot of these. I asked how many. They weren't sure, but they said very many. I asked if either of them would like to work at one. They smiled, but didn't answer.
Side note: This thing is enormous. Even the box is massive. The contraption takes up most of a row meant for two desks here at WIRED.
Once it was up and running, I got on and adjusted the height of the desk. I'm about average height (5 feet, 9 inches) and I enjoyed the sensation of towering over the office. When truly tall people get on it, like Gadget Lab editor Mike Calore, they look like a tower. A big, bearded tower.
When you start the desk up, it moves slowly. Really slowly. Like, just 0.4 mph. This is the speed at which you might walk through a pitch black room when you're really drunk and must make your way to the bathroom. Max speed is 4 mph, which means you can run on it if you really want to, but you can't run that fast.
On the first day especially I found writing really hard to do. Reading was for the most part fine, but trying to focus on longer pieces was difficult.
I walked about 3,500 steps the first day (OK, it was a half-day) that I had the desk set up. It felt like a lot, even though I normally do 8,000 to 12,000 steps per day. I was really tired. Also, every time I got off, I noticed I felt a little woozy. It was like having sea legs.
The next morning, I dressed for WIRED's Christmas party. I immediately realized I'd made a terrible mistake. Wingtips and a treadmill desk don't mix. Trust me on this. I went back to the house and grabbed some clothes to wear while working. On the way back, San Francisco's light rail service, Muni, broke down because Muni is perpetually awful. I had to get off one stop before I usually do and began hoofing it a few blocks to the office. Then I remembered the desk. Shit. I took the bus instead and wondered Is it possible this thing will make me walk less?
That second day I took just over 7,000 steps on the desk.
Everyone in the office was curious about the thing and people kept dropping by my desk. My productivity, already dwindling because of all the walking, effectively fell to zero. Two co-workers made the same joke within an hour: They wanted speed buttons on the other side of the treadmill so they can turn my speed up for me. Even now, a month in, people want to try it. Some of them want to walk with me.
On the third day, I walked into the office, saw my treadmill desk, and immediately and involuntarily cursed. I'd attended two Christmas parties the night before and gotten totally wrecked. After one hour and just 3,282 steps, I had to stop — and I typically work at a standing desk. But I couldn't bear it any longer. My knees and back were killing me. I was lightheaded. I felt a little vertigo. It sucked. LifeSpan told me I needed to work on the desk for about two weeks before I could really get a sense of it. If the next seven days go anything like the last three, I thought, I wonder if I'll make it.
By the next week, however, I'd reached an acceptance phase. I no longer felt like I was plodding toward my inevitable death. In fact, I'd started having fun with it.
I perfected the ironic glide off, for example.
I did the queen wave.
I tried rolling on it with a desk chair, which was completely amazing. And yet, it didn't seem dangerous or stupid enough. So I tried skateboarding.
But enough goofing around. By my third week, I was getting more than 5,000 steps every day and more than 8,000 on many days. This was in addition to the steps I normally take, so I had effectively doubled my daily step count. I found that I could wear normal clothes without having to worry about getting them sweaty (although I would typically shed my sweater). I also noticed that everyone wanted to try the desk. People still laughed at me, but then they asked if they could try it.
In the end, I lost three pounds during the month of December — during a time when I gorged on holiday food and candy and, aside from two lonely bike rides, made a point of not exercising in any way, shape or form whenever I wasn't on my treadmill desk. I genuinely felt better at the end of most days too. It was a great experience in weight loss and health. But for working?
Eh… Not so much.
My big takeaway with the treadmill desk is that if I need to do anything requiring concentrated attention and focus, I must stop walking. I can reply to emails and make calls and do lots of quick hit tasks, but when I really need to dive in, walking is a distraction.
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Concluding Dec. 2 Sorry (Off-Broadway at The Public Theater). Richard Nelson's Election Day-set drama Sorry, the latest work in the playwright's collection of political plays about an American family, features Jay O. Sanders, Maryann Plunkett, Jon DeVries, Laila Robins and J. Smith-Cameron. Nelson directs. According to the Public, "A year after Sweet and Sad, the Apple family again share a meal in Rhinebeck, as they sort through personal and political feelings of loss and confusion on the morning of the day the country will choose the next president. Like the first two plays, Sweet and Sad and That Hopey Changey Thing, Sorry opened on the day that it is set, November 6, 2012 — Election Day." Visit PublicTheater.org.
The Exonerated (Off-Broadway at Culture Project). The Culture Project's 10th anniversary production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated features a rotating cast directed by Bob Balaban. It is described as a "ground breaking dramatization of the real-life stories of six individuals who were sentenced to death and later freed amidst overwhelming evidence of their innocence. [The Exonerated is] a powerful play culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and court records of individuals on death row. As timely as ever, The Exonerated is once again poised to increase visibility and to create a sense of urgency as part of a rising movement to restore justice to a system that has shown itself time and again to be deeply flawed." Visit CultureProject.org.
Checkers (Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre). Checkers, Douglas McGrath's new play about Richard Nixon at a momentous period in his political career, features Tony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia as Nixon and Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as his wife, Pat. According to Off-Broadway's Vineyard, "It's 1952. A young Richard Nixon is campaigning as his party's candidate for Vice-President — his wife, Pat, proudly at his side — when an accusation of financial impropriety almost ends his promising career. In a momentous speech, he takes charge of his fate, and changes the character of American politics forever. Checkers is a revelatory look at Nixon's drive, history, and most surprisingly, his marriage to Pat — all of which are explored with insight, blistering wit and unexpected tenderness." Visit VineyardTheatre.org.


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Change is the watchword.
For decades, perhaps since it was incorporated in 1939, Schweizer Aircraft has been about change. It started out building gliders. Then it worked on some of the earliest versions of unmanned aircraft, then reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft, agricultural aircraft, light commercial helicopters, a new generation of recon and surveillance aircraft and a new generation of unmanned vehicles.
Look again at all the commas in that last sentence. They represent the work in between those big programs, subcontracted parts for other aerospace manufacturers—doors for Bell, tail planes for Gulfstreams, fuselage sections for this one, wing sections for that, even the odd centrifuge.
"What has characterized this company over the last 25 years is we've been incredibly entrepreneurial in the way we've approached our business," said Paul Schweizer, president of Schweizer and one of the trio of second-generation Schweizers that help run the company today. "We were always looking for opportunities where we thought we had a competitive advantage or something to offer. That's led us into a bunch of different fields.
"We've made incredible products that haven't happened by luck," he said. "They've happened because of a lot of hard work. We were willing to take a risk. We went out on our own dollar, spent money and tried to make something happen."
His cousin, Les, concurs.
"I think one of the things that's important is that this company, over its history of 60-some years, has seen so much change, that most of the employees here are used to change," he said. "Our people are really the strength of this company. Our people are what makes this place go."
The Schweizers and their people will need their strength and willingness to accept change, for there is a whole lot to come.
They've all dealt with a lot of change in the last two years as a result of the company's 2004 acquisition by Sikorsky Aircraft. That brought the deep pockets of Sikorsky parent United Technologies Corp. and the technological hunger of Sikorsky to the innovative development and manufacturing complex in Horseheads, near Elmira, N.Y. It also brought the corporate policies and practices of UTC to what for 65 years had been a family-owned business. That's not a bad thing.
"The biggest difference that I see now is a lot of things have to be in writing," said Bijan Moazami of Bijan Air, a Schweizer sales and service center in Ann Arbor, Mich. "A lot of things have to be more formalized versus the past. Of course, this is not a criticism, because really to be very informal is not the best anyway.
"Previously, I could pick up the phone and say, 'Okay, I need a 300 for such and such a date.' I didn't have to put it in writing, I didn't have to fax it and so forth. So it has changed from being a family-run company into a bit more formal company. And there is nothing wrong with that."
But the corporate bureaucracy required adjustments that are still under way. (The executives in Horseheads joke about General Manager Randy Simpson, who came from Sikorsky with the buyout, taking out a hatchet and chopping off Sikorsky's bureaucratic tentacles, and the inability to get them all.)
"To become part of Sikorsky required some changes in the way we do business," Paul said. "Maybe Sikorsky had to come to some acceptance, too. They clearly didn't want to destroy the uniqueness of Schweizer. So we've been going through a period of transformation, which is exciting and also difficult. There clearly have been some challenges there. I think we are coming through that."
There is more change ahead.
Schweizer has a prominent role in development of Sikorsky's X-2 Technology Demonstrator, a coaxial helicopter intended to fly at 250 kt and higher that is now expected to make its first ground run in October. Les Schweizer, who is a key player in the X-2 effort, said he believes that, once it is flying, the demonstrator could produce grist for engineers and researchers for 5-10 years.
Sikorsky also is building the Hawk Works @ Schweizer, where crews from Schweizer will undertake major completions work for variants of the H-60 and S-70 helicopters destined for customers other than the U.S military.
With the initial pieces of its plan for Schweizer in place, Sikorsky is now undertaking an internal study of how to make the best use of Schweizer and its capabilities. In addition to the Hawk Works, Sikorsky has named Schweizer its center of excellence for rapid prototyping (a main reason it bought Schweizer) and for unmanned air vehicles and reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. An obvious question is, what about light commercial helicopters?
"I want to be clear," said Sikorsky President Jeff Pino. "There are three things Schweizer's going to do regardless—UAV and reconnaissance center of excellence, rapid prototyping and military derivatives. What we're reviewing is how much the current work, how much of the commercial, how much of the sort of subcontract work that they have, do we want
to keep there and why. That's the heavy review right now.
"Remember, I said UAV/reconnaissance center of excellence," Pino added, "so anything they do for the Fire Scout that's related to the commercial products, that will probably stay there. But the rest of it is all up for study and we're well into that study right now."
Pino said there is no rush to complete that review. It will take 3-4 months to get the Hawk Works building constructed for derivatives. (Sikorsky expects to send the airplanes there for completions by year's end. "So we've got some time to sort this out."
He added that his vision is "to expand our product line. I don't want to get rid of any of them.
"But I want to clearly make it make absolute sense in terms of where we build them, how we build them," he said. "Frankly, we're looking at some product improvements on those helicopters. So there will be Schweizer and Sikorsky light helicopters for a long time. We've just got to make sure we know how and what we're building and where."
The Hawk Works @ Schweizer will be a 100,000-sq-ft facility focused on rapid prototyping as well as completions of UH-60 military derivative aircraft. It is being built adjacent to Schweizer's plant at Elmira-Corning Regional Airport.
The center will serve as the primary completion center for all Black Hawk and Naval Hawk derivative aircraft, mostly for foreign military customers. Black Hawk derivative helicopters requiring customized configurations for a range of specialized missions will be manufactured at Sikorsky's Connecticut facilities and then transported to the center for completion.
The center also will add capacity for additional future military work and for other special-mission aircraft currently manufactured at Schweizer, such as the Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle and fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft.
It will be located about a quarter-mile from Schweizer's current facility. The facility is expected to add 100 jobs at Schweizer.
"The creation of Sikorsky Hawk Works @ Schweizer Aircraft is an important step in our long-range corporate strategy to increase capacity in order to meet growing demand for military products," Pino said. "It allows Sikorsky's Connecticut facilities to focus on production of standard-configuration aircraft while taking full advantage of Schweizer's rapid prototyping capabilities."
The import of the new center became clear at the Farnborough Air Show, where Pino announced the launch of two new programs—the pared down and less expensive International Black Hawk and the Battlehawk armed attack and command-and-control version of the H-60. Both are targeted at international markets.
Schweizer and Sikorsky's was a marriage of necessity. As Bill Schweizer, one of the founders of the company that bears his name and its current chairman, explained, when he and his brothers Paul A. and Ernie ran the company, they developed the business to the point where they could borrow money without having to sign personally for the loans.
"In the last 5-10 years, the banks have been squishy about government operations and so forth and they want the management to sign if you're not a public-owned company," he said. "The result is that the younger generation felt this was too big a risk to be taking, to put everything on the line. So we looked for a partner and we picked out Sikorsky as the partner and then, lo and behold, they liked us and we were able to work out a merger." (He consistently refers to the transaction as a merger.) "They're the leading transport military helicopter builders and we expect to be the leading small helicopter builder," Bill added, saying that having Sikorsky behind it is helping Schweizer's sales. The numbers bear that out.
"In terms of helicopter deliveries, we delivered 58 units last year," said Paul, who is Bill's son. "That's up from 39 units in 2003 and 48 units in 2004, so it's a 20-plus percent gain between 2004 and 2005.
This year, the company expects to deliver 78 helicopters. It booked 37 orders at this year's Heli-Expo alone.
"Our big problem within the company is we are just not able to produce helicopters, we haven't been able to produce helicopters at the rate we need to satisfy customers," Paul said. "We're building one aircraft every four days now. We're ramping up production such that we soon will be building one aircraft every three days. Next year, we expect to be at a rate of one aircraft every two days."
For its part, Sikorsky was looking for help, as Randy Simpson explained.
"I was at Sikorsky from 2001 on, working for Paul Martin," the Sikorsky senior vice president who came out of Lockheed's famous classified program hothouse, the Skunk Works.
"We always had this dream of setting up a Hawk Works at Sikorsky, but we could never figure out how to do it there. It wasn't easy. And then when this opportunity with Schweizer came along, we were just salivating at it because it was a perfect opportunity to create that."
Schweizer brought "a great vertical integration capability" to Sikorsky's mix, Simpson said. "They can make any kind of part you can dream of, and do it very quickly and very efficiently. So right after the acquisition was consummated back in September of '04, we started scheming on what would be the next project."
That project became the X-2 Technology Demonstrator, which both Simpson and Paul Schweizer are convinced could not have launched by Sikorsky alone.
"If Schweizer wasn't in the Sikorsky fold," Simpson said, "we really wouldn't have done it." Sikorsky, he noted, "was too costly and too slow."
(Sikorsky is not the only one looking for Schweizer's help in pursuing advanced technology prototyping and development. Its parent, UTC, is also calling on Schweizer for help on what Simpson called "some really way-out-there projects."
There were no signs of the X-2 aircraft when I visited Schweizer's factory.
"The bits and pieces have all been hid," Les Schweizer said when I met him. "I can tell you perfectly frank. It's because you were coming." He said it with a hearty laugh. But I did not get the sense he was joking.
It was the second time I had met Les. The first was shortly after the acquisition, as I was being escorted on a tour of Sikorsky's plant in Stratford, Conn. He was with his wife, and we chatted for a bit. I asked what he was doing there and he replied that, same as me, he was getting a tour to familiarize himself with the new owners. As a reporter, I'm ashamed to admit it didn't occur to me that there might be more to it. There was.
"It was just after acquisition," Les said during my visit to Horseheads, "but we were laying the groundwork for how the X-2 was going to evolve." Just how exciting a project that was became clear a few months after our first encounter, when Sikorsky revealed the X-2 initiative to the annual American Helicopter Society International gathering.
During our second meeting, Les talked a bit about X-2.
"This aircraft we are building is a technology demonstrator. We don't have any customer for this aircraft," he said. "We're not trying to sell this vehicle as a finished product. This is designed to be a demonstrator and a research platform.
"If this is successful, it will fly for 5-10 years and end up in a museum someplace," he went on. "When you look at the amount of research that you could get out of this, this things will be an invaluable vehicle."
Of the many intriguing aspects of X-2, one is its fly-by-wire system.
"We're starting basically with a white sheet of paper and creating our fly-by-wire system," he said. There is certainly some technology that was learned in Sikorsky's Cypher unmanned aerial vehicle program and others. "But basically we're developing a fly-by-wire system to fly this aircraft. It will have no mechanical control capabilities at all. This fly-by-wire system is being developed only to fly this aircraft safely."
While there are no plans to make the system into a production fly-by-wire system, "certainly if it's got potential for that, we'll pursue it."
X-2 is far from the only exciting program at Schweizer.
Paul Schweizer is pumped about both the RU-38B reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft and the MQ-8B Fire Scout Schweizer is producing with Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Navy and Army.
"The RU-38B, I think, it's going to change the way intelligence is gathered in this country and probably around the world," Paul said. "We're able to collect information that absolutely cannot be collected with any other vehicle or any other way and we're able to do it at a cost that's a fraction of the cost of traditional U.S. military systems."
The impact of the aircraft didn't dawn on the Schweizers until they were approached by another company.
"The first people who talked to us about this was one of the largest aerospace companies in the United States, which was trying to buy the product, and maybe more than the product," Paul said. "They were the ones. , I think, we knew we had something special, but I think they really highlighted that."
A descendant of the gliders that the Schweizers first produced and the quiet surveillance airplanes it developed for the U.S. Army during Vietnam, the twin-engine RU-38B is designed to loiter at a high altitude above an intelligence target and be completely unheard and largely undetectable on the ground.
"In fact, it's happening today, everyplace where the U.S. government operates around the world, they use our surveillance airplane to support their actions," Paul said. "It's something we're very proud of."
The Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle based on Schweizer's 333 turbine helicopter was nearly a dead program three or four years ago.
The U.S. Navy's requirements had changed and the original design now lacked the power to meet them. After Navy officials explained that in meetings with Schweizer and Northrop Grumman, Schweizer proposed a redesign.
"The program was going to be closed down," Paul recalled. "We met with the Navy, and this was pretty much Schweizer vs. Northrop Grumman, and we understood what their position was. They basically said the aircraft did not have enough performance to meet their requirements.
"So we then developed a new rotor system for the aircraft. We went to a fourth rotor blade and we changed the design of the blade," he said. "By doing that, we took the gross weight from 2,650 to 3,200 lb. That 550-lb delta was almost all useful load, with a very small cost impact on the vehicle.
"That's what put the program back into existence, the B version. So that's the aircraft that we're producing now. Because of that performance upgrade, we were able to win the U.S. Army's Future Combat System Class 4 tactical unmanned aerial vehicle requirement.
"So today we have the Army and the Navy as customers," he said. "If you look at their requirements, it's well over 400 vehicles and that's a big-deal program from Schweizer."
The rotor and transmission improvements to the Fire Scout already are being rolled back into the 333 turbines Schweizer is delivering.
Fire Scout got another boost in August when the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman nearly $136 million to develop and build nine of the unmanned aerial vehicles.
The work is a $135.8-million modification to the contract for systems development and demonstration (SDD) phase of the project, which runs through 2008.
These and Schweizer's many other projects highlight the company's key advantage, Paul said.
"This company is different, really, from the rest of the industry in that we're not just a helicopter company," he said. "We're heavily invested in very sophisticated surveillance aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as helicopters.
That blessing is a challenge, too, he said."We have a lot of pressures on us because the business is growing so fast. There are so many things happening. We are really committed to all of our core businesses. We fight a real battle around here to make sure not one of them becomes dominant over the other."
That may get more difficult. Paul projects the RU-3B by the decade's end will account for the largest share of Schweizer's revenues. Click here for more Schweizer news from Rotor & Wing.


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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Loot Council Gone Bad
Please Note: In my brief time on Hyjal I had no contact with anyone in Casual or involved in this drama as far as I know. My comments are purely based on posts on the forums. Please to not take anything said here as an attack on the guild or its members both past and present.
Summary: The posted thread is already closed due to length and a vast majority of the posts are useless. So here is a quick summary.
Casual is the #1 ranked guild on Hyjal and has been clearing SWP for a couple of months. Dispite this expertise they have had bad luck when it comes to Epic drops. The Warglaive Off-Hand finally drops. The loot counsil has a decision to make. Give the Epic sword to a long time member Aquasheeps (who claims to be an original member), or to a new recruit who already has the Warglaive Main-Hand so that he can complete his set. They did the later. As a result Aquasheeps then took at least 200,000 gold from he guild bank and /gquit.
My Observations:
As an outsider with little information this is almost impossible to determine right and wrong, but I do find a couple of interesting points here.
1. Aquasheeps is being treated like a hero on the forums. Who new that someone could take 200,000 from a guild bank and a large chunk of the wow community would support him? I don't think this isreally support for Aquasheeps but is more of an anti-hardcore backlash. You don't be come the top guild on a server and one of the top guilds in the world without making some enemies. There are a lot of "Casual got what it deserves" posts which I think are mostly sour grapes.
2. There seems to be some in Casual who thinkAquasheeps was wronged even after he took the gold. One member did post on the forums saying that the counsils decision as cause some people to question if Casual is the best place for them and that he has been approched to quit with them.
3. I am a long time supporter Loot Counsil systems, but this level of drama would never occur with DKP as long as loot was distributed with in the rules. This level of drama is only possible with human interaction.
My Commentary:
Using the limited info available, it seems to me that both sides are wrong. The loot counsel bricked the choice in my opinion. Yes, having a set of warglaives on one person will improve raid DPS especially in SWP, but does that matter anymore. Casual has been clearing SWP for weeks, the little bit of extra DPS isn't going to change the guild ranking or make the fights all that much easier. Assuming that Aquasheeps was a long time valued member as he says, then he should have been rewarded for his dedication with the epic.
That said, Aquasheep way overreacted. If he really did help found the guild then, he was probably part of the discussion to use loot council. Some times people make mistakes. It sucks. I was in ZA the other day and the Hood of Hexing dropped. A mage rolled need on it even though she had T5 and won. I haven't even seen her wear it since then. Yes it does piss me off, but mistakes happen.
Ultimately the game should be played for the fun of it. So that we can see new fights that test our abilities. So that we can hang out with friends. Getting shiny purples and oranges are great, but nobody uses the level 60 legendaries anymore, other than to pull them out and say "hey, look what I got."
If a loot distribution issue causes you to go raid the Gbank and quit then there were probably other issues also. If the people you play with are friends then your not going to do it.
Anyway, good luck to everyone involved. This just proves one thing I had kind of suspected anyway, Hyjal Drama > Eitrigg and Garona Drama combined.
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I think that a lot of people agree with your opinion.
As Casual had already beaten the game and the added DPS would most likely not benefit the raid in any tangible way, it was silly to give the Warglaive to a relative newcomer when a longtime member should be rewarded for his performance and dedication to the raid. If they didn't have the bosses on farm I might reconsider my decision, but it's clear that they don't need that boosted DPS -- and giving the offhand to the longterm member might have been an equally large increase of DPS depending on what he currently has equipped.
However, that really doesn't give Aquasheeps the right to clear out the guild bank. It's just socially wrong and a poor image to set for oneself. Down the road when Aquasheeps attempts to join another raid and progress then, will he be remembered as the guy who wrongly missed out on the opportunity for a Warglaive or the guy who was an asshat and can't be trusted because he might ninja his new bank the next time he gets upset?
To further the fact that he's wrong, Blizzard recently announced a change in their guild bank stealing policies: they will enforce cases where the bank has been robbed without the consent of the leadership of the guild. Personally, I dislike the idea since it removes personal accountability and responsibility from players, but the guild could theoretically turn to a GM and have the entire thing rectified if he agreed with their interpretation of the events.
Also, regarding Anonymous posters, I think that Blogger allows you to remove that feature. It'll fix the problem if people can't post anonymously. I've been across many blogs without it.
- September 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Graylo said...
Thanks for the comments.
I did turn off anonymous comments breafly, but it unfortunately also turns off the name/url option. I don't want to require anyone to sign into anything to comment on my blog, but if a do continue to get a bunch anonymous comments I my bite the bullet and turn it off.
- September 30, 2008 at 1:39 PM


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