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Well here post prompted Koraa, a blizzard class designer, to respond with some of his thoughts on the current moonkin design. While none of the following is all that shocking, I must say that it is very intersting to hear blizzard's perspective on our spec. Here is a Link.
Edit: There is a good discussion about these topics on the WoW forums with lot of good moonkin that I respect. You can find it here.
"Bloat: Bloat is another word for "I can't have everything I want!". We want every class to feel their tree is "bloated" to a degree. We want classes to have to make choices and sacrifices over good talents, because that is ultimately what makes talents interesting. If it weren't that way, we would just make it a linear progression without any choices. That said, if you feel the flow of the talents makes you spend points in something that doesn't necessarily benefit you what that build is for (i.e. spending too many "PvE" talents for a PvP build), then that can be addressed. "
My thoughts: First off Moonkin are forced to invest points in several talents that I believe are not that useful for a PvE Raiding Moonkin. Personally I would rather not put 6 points in Nature's Focus, Naturalist, Natures Grasp, or Control of Nature. Unfortunately there aren't any better talents in the first two tiers of the Balance and Resto Trees.
Now looking at Bloat. You know, in some ways I agree with him. Players should have some choices in their spec on how to play them. I think the resto tree is an example of where "bloat" isn't a bad thing. I have seen Trees spec several different ways. Some go a full 0/0/61 and pick up all of the AoE and Healing Touch talents. Others deside to ignore the Healing Touch talents and deside to pick up some talents in the Balance tree. Both specs make very affective healers. Its just that one spec provides more DPS and the other provides more healing options.
Where Bloat goes bad is when you have so many talents that are fundamental to your primary job that you can't take any of the more situational talents. For example, I have created a sample Moonkin build using the WotLK talents. Here is the Link.
A moonkin's primary job is currently single target DPS. So, I think most of us would agree that our first priority when choosing a spec would be to maximize our single target DPS. With that in mind I created my sample build. You will notice that I skip 4 of the 6 talents in the top 3 Balance tiers, and one of those talents I did pick isn't maxed out.
Now, I know many raiding Moonkin out there will disagree with some of my "Core" choices. Many players consider Eclipse to be a useless talent. They may be right, but I think they will change their mind once they realize how much the Starfire vs Wrath competition has been shifted in Wrath's favor. If things stay as they are Moonkin will be casting a lot more Wrath in WotLK even without Eclipse. The other main disagreement will be around Mana regen talents. Some will say will say that we can sacrifice Dreamstate, Intensity or Omen of Clarity. In my opinion our mana regen is still way up in the air and we may need all we can get, but I will talk more on that later.
However, even if we ignore Eclipse and reduce our mana regen, that still leaves us with only 5 or 6 extra points, and look at all the talents we've passed up:
Force of Nature - A good source of threat free DPS, but not useful in all fights and requites some finess to use them correctly.
Starfall - A nice AoE spell but it has a very long cooldown and requites the caster to stand among those he is DPS. AoE is a fairly situational need in Raides and is more than adiquately covered by Locks and Mages with out using a ton of talent points.
Earth and Moon - More on this later but Koraa says that this talent is going to be buffed. Depending on what it is we may want to put a full 5 points in it.
Typhoon - I consider this more of a PvP talent but it is an AoE and I'm sure it will have its uses in raids.
Gale Winds - Buffs the damage of Hurricane and Typhoon. PvPers may pick it up for the extra range on Cyclone but from a raid perspective it is very situational
Brambles - I have said a lot of bad things about this talent in the past, but they may have finally buffed it enough in the WotLK to make it a requited 3 point investment. Lisana says in the forum post I linked above that Thorns will now scale with our spell power. If true then the added damage of another point may noticably increase a tanks threat.
To sum it up, Bloat is ok when your choosing between talents that are outside of your "Core" roll. However, as it is now, it seems like all of our talents are taken up by our core role of single target DPS, and we don't have much opportunity to take some of those cool but situational talents like Starfall and Force of Nature.
Put another way, Bloat is ok when choosing between vanilla or chocolate ice cream. Its not ok, when choosing between medication or food. I don't mean to over dramatize it but I think the balance tree currently leans towards the later.
"Dreamstate: If we deem Moonkins to have mana issues we can change this talent to work with Spirit/improve it, but from what I've seen it's the total opposite right now. If anything we might of gone too far in Moonkin efficiency . "
My thoughts: I agree that Moonkin Mana Efficency has improved quite a bit. The past two patches have done wonders and the Mana on Crit is a dream come true, not to mention Omen of Clarity now including Spells. However I am very worried that they might think they have gone to far. My worry stems from the new Potion Sickness.
Currently, Moonkin get a lot of their mana regen from Mana Pots if they don't have a Shadow Priest. Now that a player can ue only one potion per encounter where is our mana regen going to come from? I can't get to worried, because there are still alot of questions to be answered. For instance we don't know how raid encounters are going to be changed for the lack of potions. However I am concerned that blizzard my take a couple of our new goodies away.
"Earth and Moon: I realize that the talent doesn't really justify more than a few points of investment. We'll do some changes here."
My Thoughts: I think Koraa's comment is dead on. As of right now I would put only 3 points in this talent. It may take a little while to build a stack, but it would be fairly easy to maintain. I am interested to see how they will improve it, but don't really know how I would put two more points in this talent. This could increase the Bloat problem mentioned above.
"Eclipse: Eclipse is intended to be a good DPS upgrade when you utilize it, if it isn't resulting in that then we will change the damage bonus effects it gives you. Your specific results with Eclipse testing would help. It is intended to be a long cooldown, though. Otherwise you'd get fatigue from swapping between Wrath and Starfire too much. "
My Thoughts: Their are problems with this talent, but I think most people dismiss it to quickly. I agree that it is useless in leveling. By the time you get the buff the mob will be dead. Its use in 5 mans and pvp will be limited also since those fights are very quick. The Mobs will probably die before the buff expires most of teh time.
The other big problem with Eclipse right now is that it is so unreliable. If the Random Number Generator (RNG) desides to screw you one night your going to have issues. Right now there are 3 things left up to the RNG. You have to crit to get the buff. Then only 60% of yoru crits will activate the buff if it isn't on cooldown. Finally if you're using the Starfire buff then your not quarenteed any extra damage because it boosts your crit by 10%.
However, I still maintain that from a raid perspective this talent has a lot of potential. I think most moonkin are still caught up in the Wrath is for PvP and Starfire is for PvE mindset. I don't think they have done the math yet and don't realize how much Wrath has improved in WotLK. If things stay as they currently are, I predecit that Wrath will be a prominant spell in the moonkin raiding rotation.
There are two changes I might make in the talent. First, I would definately increase the proc chance from 60% to 100%. It wouldn't increase the damage to much, but would decrease a lot of the luck involved in the talent. The second thing I may change is the Starfire buff. Ten percent doesn't sound like much, and again you can get really unlucky with this buff. It would be interesting if they chould make it like the Darkmoon Wrath card that increased your chance to crit after each spell cast.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Toon/Guild Update:
I have left Wandering Alliance sort of. I have transfered Graylo to the Hyjal server to raid with the guild Lastt Standd (extra t and d are intended). It has been a really hard decision, but one that I felt like I had to make. I won't go into detail now, but Wandering Alliance just didn't feel like the right place for me anymore.
I don't know anyone at the new guild. I choose this guild because their progression is very similar to mine, they wanted a moonkin to be a regular raider, the server has very good progression with a US top 50 guild, and their raid times fit my schdule very well. I'll be honest, I am very worried about the move. I have no idea what to expect.The good news is that the Guild Leader is an Elemental Shaman, and he has got to want my aura, but that is of small comfort right now. I guess the worst that could happen is that I don't like it or get kicked and get stuck on the server with no friends for a month.
Anyway, whats done is done. I have left Graypal and Grayfel on Eitrigg and have asked to keep them in Wandering Alliance. I may transfer them over if everything goes well, but I think that is at least a month or two in the future. For right now they are a way for me to continue playing with my friends.
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Xynster Imperator Sunday 30/05/2010, 17:01
just made this preset and im curious whut ya all think about it some changes maybe?
Ravenmaniac Guru Monday 31/05/2010, 00:20
Muze is unneeded in that deck. As an opponent with this deck. I'd look for you to overpill in round 1 with this deck, play conservative in rounds 2 and 3 and then go for the KO in round 4. You don't have anyone in the deck to make you a threat in round 3 so the deck is a little predictable.
Xynster Imperator Monday 31/05/2010, 15:59
So should i change Muze to Neomi ?
Population 0 Guru URBAN MADNESS Monday 31/05/2010, 19:25
But raven, what if the fraks player expected you to expect him to overpill.. Which is mostly the case you get the poison in for cheap.
Also I'd say Gurdj for baldovino and muze to baby Q but that's just me.
MeetZackBlack Hero Monday 31/05/2010, 22:21
Hm...I wouldn't use Muze either, actually. She's an ace card, but she doesn't fit there.


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PowerColor HD 7870 Myst Edition Introduction:
It's been about a year since AMD and its partners delivered the HD 7XXX series based on AMD's Southern Islands Graphics Core Next architecture. We saw Tahiti, Pitcairn, and Cape Verde-based GPUs filling out AMD's product stack to attack each price/performance point. Aggressive pricing cuts throughout the year added value to each of the offerings when compared to their NVIDIA-based competition. What we have here today is a card that comes with a unique twist to it from PowerColor: the PCS+ HD 7870 Myst Edition. A card that is equipped with PowerColor's PCS+ (Professional Cooling System) cooling system that runs up to 15% cooler and quieter, PowerColor's Gold Power Kit digital VRM that improves stability while increasing overclocking margins, and is Windows 8 UEFI ready for improved boot times.
Where you get a bit of unique beyond what you see in the cooling and construction of PowerColor's PCS+ HD 7870 Myst Edition is the use of the Tahiti LE core, a cut down version of AMD's flagship 28nm, 4.3 billion transistor GPU core. It's equipped with 1536 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 96 texture units and a 256-bit memory bus to handle the 2GB of onboard memory. Clock speeds come in at 925MHz (975MHz Boost) on the Tahiti LE core and 1500MHz on the 2GB of GDDR5 memory. On paper this should provide a performance upswing over the "Pitcairn" based HD 7800 series. PowerColor is one of a handful of companies delivering cards with this core. Priced at $259 or right between the $209 price point on the Pitcairn-based HD 7870 and the $289 HD 7950, the PowerColor PCS+ HD 7870 Myst Edition is poised to fill a gap and compete head on with the GTX 660Ti, both on price and performance.
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The front panel of the package is visually interesting in that it catches the eye with a lot of bold coloring and an interesting design. On the front panel the highlights show this card is equipped with PowerColor's PCS+ cooling solution, is Windows 8 UEFI ready, has 2GB of GDDR5 memory, features a boost state, and is the Myst Edition offering. The back panel goes into detail on the heat pipe Direct Contact PCS+ Cooling solution and how it is constructed, and PowerColor's GoldPower kit digital VRM that features a digital PWM controller, lower RDSon DrMos, and ferrite core chokes. Down the left side are the basic specifications of the HD 7870.
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Morneau hits walk-off homer, Rox turn triple play to beat Padres
Justin Morneau wondered out loud just how many teams have turned a triple play and hit a walkoff homer in the same game.
A better question yet may be this: How many times has the same player been involved in both?
Morneau hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning and helped the Colorado Rockies turn the third triple play in team history as they beat the San Diego Padres 8-6 on Sunday.
Oh, and for the record, since Morneau asked: This marked the fourth time since 1988, according to research by STATS, that a team had a triple play and a walkoff homer. Morneau also joined Prince Fielder (2009, with Milwaukee) as the only players to have been involved in both plays in the same game during that time frame.
Definitely a pretty good afternoon for Morneau, who's making himself right at home batting behind Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez.
After Gonzalez singled earlier in the inning, Morneau lined a two-out, 3-2 fastball from Dale Thayer (2-2) to straightaway center. Morneau thought for sure he got enough of it, too, but then Cameron Maybin drifted back and back, like he might have a play on it.
He didn't.
"Scared me a little bit," Morneau said. "As good of athlete as he is, if he can't catch it, it's definitely gone."
Morneau sprinted around the bases to the applause from the crowd and flipped his helmet off after passing third. He was mobbed at home by his teammates.
"Great to see him get the big hit," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
Thayer insisted he made a quality pitch and that he didn't think it was leaving the park.
"But it doesn't surprise me it went out. He hit it hard," Thayer said.
Nick Masset (1-0) pitched a perfect 10th for his first major league win since 2011. LaTroy Hawkins blew his first save of the season in the ninth as he surrendered a tying two-run homer to Everth Cabrera.
Corey Dickerson had a two-run homer and Tulowitzki added a solo shot in the fifth to keep up his hot hitting at Coors Field, where he's batting .571 in 18 games.
Seth Smith and Rene Rivera hit solo homers for the Padres, who return home following a 3-3 road excursion.
"This was a game that was in the balance the whole way," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Both teams kept pecking away at each other the whole game, which is typical of this ballpark."
Juan Nicasio didn't have his best stuff, but was bailed out all afternoon by his defense, no more so than in the third. With runners on first and second, third baseman Nolan Arenado fielded a grounder by Carlos Quentin and stepped on the bag. He threw to second baseman D.J. LeMahieu, who relayed the ball on to first for the triple play.
Quentin was originally ruled safe at first, but the second base umpire called Smith for baserunner interference as he slid into second.
"That was different than anything I've ever seen," Morneau said.
The momentum from that play ignited the offense as the Rockies scored four runs in the bottom of the frame. Charlie Blackmon had a two-run single and Dickerson added a two-run homer.
Usually a reliever, Donn Roach made his first major league start as he filled in for Andrew Cashner, who went on the 15-day disabled list because of soreness in his pitching elbow.
Roach was on a pitch count and out of the game early, giving up four runs in three innings. He couldn't find his rhythm in the first as he walked leadoff batter Blackmon and then Dickerson.
It didn't matter, though, as both were thrown out trying to steal second — with a little assistance from replay.
Blackmon was originally called safe on his steal attempt, but Black requested an appeal and the umpires overturned the call.
After Dickerson walked, he tried to steal and, like Blackmon, was called safe when the tag was high. Black jogged out of the dugout to appeal, with the umpires again reversing the call.
According to the team, it's the first time a manager has successfully overturned two calls in the same inning.
NOTES: The last time San Diego hit into a triple play was April 15, 2012, at Los Angeles against the Dodgers. … Black batted Roach eighth in the order and third baseman Alexi Amarista ninth, just to give the team more double-switch flexibility. … The triple play in the third was Colorado's first since Tulowitzki turned an unassisted one on April 29, 2007, against Atlanta. … OF Michael Cuddyer (strained left hamstring) said he will be activated Tuesday. The reigning NL batting champion was eligible to come off the DL on May 3.


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WORCESTER — A federal appeals court has ruled that the city can continue to enforce its panhandling ordinance while a lawsuit is being pursued by its opponents.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit last week affirmed the district court's decision to deny a preliminary injunction on the case, with the exception of one provision of the ordinance that bans panhandling at night. The court ruled in November that the city can't restrict nighttime panhandling.
In early 2013, the City Council voted in favor of panhandling restrictions that would prevent people from asking for money while walking between vehicles at intersections. The restrictions put a stop to "tag days" in which nonprofit organizations and sports teams also collected money from drivers.
A violation can result in a fine of up to $50 or community service.
"The city's not against panhandlers because they're poor," City Solicitor David M. Moore said. "We're trying to prevent dangerous situations or injuries."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Goodwin Procter LLP are representing Robert Thayer and Sharon Brownson, who identify as homeless Worcester residents, as well as Worcester School Committee member Tracy Novick.
They have argued the ordinance is unconstitutional and impedes the First Amendment.
However, the ruling, which was written by former U.S. Supreme Court associate justice David H. Souter, argued that is not the case.
"Girl Scout cookie sellers and Salvation Army bell-ringers are as much subject to the Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance as the homeless panhandler," Mr. Souter wrote. "While it will unquestionably limit political campaigning, it draws no line by party or position or cause, and it covers solicitation for money as well as for votes."
ACLU lawyer Sarah Wunsch described the appeals court ruling as "flawed" and said her organization will wait on another court decision before moving forward.
"The decision and case is likely to be affected by the Massachusetts buffer zone law," which will be decided in U.S. Supreme Court over the next week or so, she said. While that ruling is affecting a handful of abortion clinics around the state, she said, "Worcester has created a buffer zone around hundreds of places."
Ms. Wunsch added that one option for the ACLU will be asking for a review by the full First Circuit Court of Appeals rather than sticking with the conclusion made by three of the judges.


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DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A Scottish sailor who has been searching for the Loch Ness monster for the past 26 years said he has captured a photograph of the legendary creature.
George Edwards, captain of the Nessie Hunter, said he has been taking the boat onto Loch Ness nearly every day for the past two and a half decades -- often with like-minded tourists -- and he has now captured a photo that he believes to be the back of a Loch Ness monster, ABC News reported Wednesday.
"I saw something out of the corner of my eye, and immediately grabbed my camera," Edwards recalled of when he took the picture last November. "I happened to get a good picture of one of them."
Edwards said he does not believe the monster resembles the three-humped creature often depicted in the media.
"In my opinion, it probably looks kind of like a manatee, but not a mammal," Edwards said. "When people see three humps, they're probably just seeing three separate monsters."
The sailor said he doesn't believe legends of there being only one of the creatures.
"It was first seen in 565 A.D.," Edwards said. "Nothing can live that long. It's more likely that there are a number of monsters, offspring of the original."


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WASHINGTON � One-year-old Ka'Lani is so fascinated by a round plastic toy that she doesn't see her mother, Ke'sha Scrivner, walk into the Martha's Table day care, chanting her name while softly clapping out a beat that Ka'Lani keeps with a few bounces on her bottom.
Once on welfare, Scrivner worked her way off by studying early childhood education and landing a full-time job for the District of Columbia's education superintendent. She sees education as the path to a better life for her and her five children, pushing them to finish high school and continue with college or a trade school.
Whether her children can beat the statistics that show lagging graduation rates for black children is important not just to her family. The success of Ka'Lani and other minority children who will form a new majority is crucial to future U.S. economic competitiveness.
A wave of immigration, the aging of non-Hispanic white women beyond child-bearing years and a new baby boom are diminishing the proportion of children who are white. Already, half of U.S. children younger than 1 are Hispanic, black, Asian, Native American or of mixed races.
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In 2010, 39.4 percent of black children, 34 percent of Hispanic children and 38 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native children lived in poverty, defined as an annual income of $22,113 that year for a family of four. That compares with about 18 percent of white, non-Hispanic children, according to Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey.
Asian children overall fare better, with 13.5 percent living in poverty, the survey said.
The over-representation of minority children among the poor is not new. What is new is that minority children will, in the not-too-distant future, form the core of the nation's workforce, and their taxes will be depended on to keep solvent entitlement programs for the elderly.
Based on where things stand for nonwhite children today, it's not hard to make some educated guesses about what the future holds for the youngest of America's children who already are a majority of their age group, said Sam Fulwood III, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
The recent recession worsened conditions for many children, but minorities were hard hit and are having more difficulty recovering.
The Pew Charitable Trusts found that, from 1999 to 2009, 23 percent of black families and 27 percent of Hispanic families experienced long-term unemployment, compared with 11 percent of white families. Pew Research Center, a subsidiary, found that the median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households.
That means more minority families end up in poor neighborhoods with underperforming school systems, leading to lower graduation rates and lower lifetime earnings, said Leonard Greenhalgh, a professor of management at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
''You are looking at the future workforce of the United States � what we need to be competitive against rival economies such as India and China, and we are not educating the largest, fastest growing percentage of the U.S. workforce, so as a nation we lose competitive advantage,'' Greenhalgh said.
It all starts with preschool, where overall enrollment has been increasing but Hispanic children are less likely to be included. Of Hispanic children ages 3 to 5 in the U.S., 13.4 percent were enrolled in full-day public or private nursery school in 2011, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
That compares with 25.8 percent of black children enrolled in full-day preschool and 18.1 percent of white children. But already, Hispanics are one-quarter of students enrolled in public schools.
The situation prompted San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to push for voter approval to raise the sales tax and expand preschool opportunities in his city, which is 63.2 percent Hispanic.
''I see a gap in educational achievement for San Antonio children versus children in Texas and the nation, and a large percentage of those are minority children and of course, we wanted to change that trajectory,'' Castro said in an interview.
President Barack Obama has proposed raising cigarette taxes to help pay for preschools. He has proposed a program to entice states to expand preschool programs to reach families with incomes up to twice the poverty line, and to require full-day kindergarten. But the partisan political showdown over government spending and raising taxes has led to across-the-board federal spending cuts and stalls in other legislation that may delay those proposals.
Sheila Smith, early childhood director at Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, points to years of research that show kindergarteners perform better if they received high-quality early care, and if teachers used specific strategies aimed at developing behavior and language and math skills.
''If you have minority children from low-income families in very enriched preschool settings ... we see they make very big gains,'' Smith said. ''But how many classrooms are very enriched to the point that we see kids making these very big gains? Not nearly enough.''


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if missing capitals drive you crazy, this may not be the book for you. however, i hope you will try it because the colour of milk brims with a young girl's voice. despite the fact that she lives on an english farm and does back-breaking labor from dawn to dusk under her brutal father's command, mary still possesses a sense of wonder at the world.
the time period covers the years of our lord, 1831 and -32. throughout this compelling novel, mary repeats over and over "this is my book and I am writing it in my own hand". you'll have to finish it to understand why these words resonate.
mary shares the harsh farm work with her mother and three sisters. violet sneaks off at night for sensual adventures in the hay loft. (mary discovers this when she goes out to press her head against the cow she loves dearly and almost the only creature who gives her any comfort). whenever she is not working, beatrice holds a bible in her hand, but when she recites what is inside it, mary notices that she's holding it upside down. hope suffers from the same bad temper as their father and dreams of living in her own house with a rich husband.
mary loves to talk and to question the ways of the world. the only person in the family who is kind to her is her grandfather who is crippled and cannot walk. mary washes him each day, make him tea, feeds him his meager rations of bread, cheese, and sour apple chutney. plus she shares with him news about the farm while he tells her what he knows about life. like grandfather, mary has trouble walking. she was born with a bum leg and must drag it behind her, making each task more difficult.
one spring day, grandfather tells mary that if she wishes upon the sunrise from high on the hill on easter sunday, she will get whatever she wants that year. in the dark, mary sets off and is soon joined by beatrice, and her other two sisters. they race past mary. at the top when she joins them, they ask each other about their dreams, but no one asks mary what hers are. in fact, she says to herself after they have left her her alone that she doesn't know enough about the world to have any. she alone is late for milking, and this earns her another harsh beating by her father.
soon mary's life changes forever. the fact that she is slow in the fields finally helps her when the curate's wife--weak from a bad heart--needs help. The curate asks the girls' father if one of his daughters will move into the rectory to help edna, their cook. he will give room and board and a small wage. father chooses mary, the daughter with hair "the colour of milk" and, of course, keeps her wages.
mary is refreshingly honest, curious, always asking questions. she tells the curate and his wife that she hates being there but because she must stay, she will. edna worries that mary is too eager and competent a worker. each night in the attic room they share, edna pulls out three shrouds and carefully folds them. she tells mary they are for the husband and child she will never have and one for herself when she needs it. soon, mary has her own special object, given to her by the curate, to examine and hold close.
this is a fine book, one that young adults will enjoy also. it's a quick read that will transport you back nearly two centuries into a fierce and intelligent girl's heart. the character of mary with her haunting voice reminds me of charlotte bronte's jane eyre. it is forever imprinted upon my heart.


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When I hit chapter 7, detailing which hardware partner GO was going to work with, it really hit me just how little this industry has changed over the years. In 1989, GO was given the opportunity to team up with either HP and IBM, and when detailing the latter, Kaplan wrote:
Replace "IBM" with the current biggest technology company, and this piece of wisdom would still apply word-for-word. Uncanny.
Kaplan's book is definitely required reading material. It's well-written, filled with anecdotes about the biggest names in the industry, and, on top of that, it's just plain funny.
Did you know, for instance, that Apple didn't come up with the idea for the Newton at all? After Kaplan had his epiphany of a small, portable pen computer, one of the people he contacted as a potential partner was Steve Sakoman, an Apple employee. Sakoman was interested in the idea, but instead of moving to GO and joining Kaplan, he took Kaplan's idea... And started the Newton project at Apple instead.
"I met with Sculley, and he asked me what it would take to stay and do the project [i.e., Kaplan's pen computer] at Apple," Sakoman told Kaplan and his partner, Mitchell Kapor, "I gave him a straight answer - complete freedom, protected resources, a separate staff and site. He agreed to my terms. I have to give him a final answer this week."
We all know the answer. Sakoman took Kaplan's idea, and in the same timeframe GO developed its pen computer and operating system, Apple developed the very similar Newton. Interestingly enough, you rarely hear this part of the Newton's history - but as we all know, history is written by the winners. This "stealing" - as Apple calls it - is simply a core aspect of Apple's DNA. However, thanks to its incredibly loyal and unwavering fanbase, the very fabric of space-time is generally altered until it looks like Apple came up with everything all by itself.
While Kaplan's book may be from 1995, and while it may detail the late '80s and early '90s, it's a very revealing book and every bit as relevant to the technology industry today.


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Pissed Jeans + Hookworms + Sauna Youth to play Dingwalls in July.
Oooo! Tickets on sale tomorrow morning:
Cool? Cool.
I thought we were casting London aside?
Any other dates say a bit further west?
Only one more UK date this year?
Come on Bristol (it's not Bristol is it?)
- Scout this'd this
- styrofoamboots this'd this
I think passion pit are a bit silly
Like all that twee stuff. Silly.
not as silly as a band called Pissed Jeans though
think about it
Pissed Jeans
Pissed Jeans
I like Pissed Jeans
But the two supports are excellent. I will be attending this event.joeymahone this'd this
- DaddyorChips and Spicer this'd this
- joeymahone and lemonbrickcombo this'd this
I'd pay £14 just to see Hookworms
One of the most exciting live bands around at the moment.djodell this'd this
well yeah, they're great
but their gigs generally cost £5
plotting a Eurostar trip back for this
Even if they announce dates in France, the support bill would make it worth it...
Want to stay in London for a week or so?
We're putting on a gig at the Windmill on the 13th...
over half the tickets gone already
for thisun
Bugger, I can't buy them until at least this weekend.
Any chance you'll upgrade the venue like with Modest Mouse?
hope theres some left tomorrow
when I get paid!
Seriously why would you call your band Sauna Youth
Is it a deliberate move to make people double-take at the name??
looks like it
if there's any more going on sale / another date added / moved to a bigger venue, can someone pm me please?
I'm listening to Hookworms
They're shit. Which belm decided to book a really dull and meandering psychedelic rock band to support a furious punk/noise rock act?
Cheers.silverfoxqpr this'd this
hookworms clearly don't meander.
i put it to you that you don't know what meandering is.
- TheGrudge this'd this
ha what?
how do i not know this/why would it be earlier? weird wurld
I just got an e-mail about it from wegottickets.
Electric Ballroom shows have an earlier curfew, usually because they have a club night on afterwards.
I'll be annoyed if this means that the first band start at something stupid like 7.00pm.
I went to the Trail of Dead / Rival Schools / Asobi Seksu show there a few years ago
it was also on a friday night. doors were 6pm, Asobi were on at 6:15pm, played to about twenty people.
Yup, I was there for that too.
I got caught in the office late on a Friday once and ended up missing half of Dillinger Escape Plan when they played their a few years ago as well.
On a Friday @ the Electric Ballroom, they have a club night at 10:30pm-3aqm
They have an earlier curfew on Fridays at the Electric Ballroom, so that's why it's a 6:30pm doors opening, first band @ 7pm, Pissed Jeans on around 9pm, curfew 10:15pm
Is this still sold out even with the bigger venue?
Anyone got a ticket link? Or are the links that are currently sold out going to become un-sold out?
I presume there'll be more available soon. I got my ticket for this from
Songkick. I haven't received an email telling me that my ticket is still valid etc. I did from them when the Modest Mouse Koko gig was moved to The Roundhouse. Even when you go on Songkick tickets the venue is still The Dingwalls. Maybe they'll be more tomorrow (or rather later today looking at the time). I'm glad it's at The Electric Ballroom now. I hate Dingwalls. Such a crap venue with moody and rubbish bar staff.
Just got mine
Thank goodness for upgrades.
I love an early gig
but hate the ballroom. Dilemma.
when did you last go?
been a few times recently and really liked it
Atari Teenage Riot
which was (fuck) 3 years ago. Have they changed it, then?
not sure i ever went when it was bad
but been to WHY?, Deathgrips and Desapercediidiiedos there in the last year, and each time has been great. nice big room, decent sound and visibility, slightly shit bar, but solid venue.
oh wait, yeah i went before - the layout's been changed. it's well good.
If you get to the venue early enough to stand front left, in front of the sound desk, it's great. The sound has improved a lot recently too.
Yeah I've been really impressed by the place since they redid it
It's deceptively big, and the new layout is way better
Thanks for replies
I'm now sorted with a ticket.
Is it just a Friday with an early curfew? The early finish makes travelling back to the the other side of the M25 much easier. I'm sorely tempted to see Titus Andronicus and Fucked Up play on a Thursday at the end of May, but if it's a 11pm+ finish it makes it far less possible.
Yeah. Friday is often an early kick out. Doors are often at 6pm and
all the bands finish at 10pm. For all other weekdays it's an 11pm finish.
Hooray for early curfews!
Getting the bus up on the Friday and back after the gig, £18.
Due to going to ATP iceland
I now have a spare pair of tix for this if anyone is looking to buy
yo, I could be interested
how much for the pair?
I've just rechecked the email and of came to £28.60- will that be satisfactory?
So this is in a couple of days.
Stage times were announced a couple of weeks ago, for anyone that missed them:
6.30pm - Doors
7.15pm-7.45pm - Sauna Youth
8.00pm-8.40pm - Hookworms
9.00pm-10.00pm - Pissed Jeans
10.00pm - Curfew
We should probably do a few DiS #somebeers beforehand
There's a few of us going.silverfoxqpr this'd this
I want to see Sauna Youth, so it'll have to be early though.aboynamedgoo this'd this
We should probably do a few DiS #somebeers beforehand
There's a few of us going.
10 pm finish?
I can dig that.
If anyone has a spare ticket for this
I'm getting the bus down from Newport on Friday for this
then the last bus out of London at 11.30 back home, all made possible by the goth club night taking place after the gig. Thank you goths of London.
Any spares?
Would be appreciated, didn't realised I'd be in London at this time.
If anyone is looking for 2 tickets
I have 2 to sell. Face value, etickets.
Vamos and I will be at the Spread Eagle from 5.30 onwards if
anyone fancies joining us.
Were far better than I thought they would be.
I'm currently at The Bucks Head pub next to The Electric Ballroom.
My mates have gone to the gig but I've chosen to watch the tennis. I hope I've made the right decision.
- Mike_Diver, Spicer, lemonbrickcombo, and alcxxk this'd this
So wait, you watched the tennis, which happens every year
Instead of going to see a band who basically never tour the EU, even though you had a ticket? Honestly buddy, fuck you. I wish I could have gone to see Pissed Jeans
It was a great match. The game ended around 9:30pm and so
I caught about two and a half songs of Pissed Jeans. A good mix of sport and music during a lovely sunny day.
- orangejuice this'd this
they were awesome
i feel terrible today, worth it
The sound towards the back was appalling
Genuinely couldn't tell what songs were being played. Broke a pet hate and sort of pushed forward to the sound desk where it was ok, then when the surge towards the mosh pit started I got swept along and the sound down there was BRILLIANT. Felt like it was over before it began!
what was the last song they did?
a minor threat cover? the sound kinda sucked and i couldn't make it out, and i was drunk and it's annoyed me not knowing ever since
great gig though
I was hammered
Thought Half Idiot was last. Or maybe second to last.
think they did a punk cover after that, lasted like a minute
may have been territorial pissings, it had a big drum roll at the start
Health Plan
off of the latest album, wasn't it?ethricdouble this'd this
ahhh fuck yeah that's right
shows that i don't know the new album that well and the sound sucked.
though it does sound like black flag - nervous breakdown
and something else i cant put my finger on
- ethricdouble this'd this
They're a great fun band but as mentioned above the sound really
was SO bad the gig was ruined for me. You shouldn't have to be in the first 10 rows or whatever to be able to enjoy it. I did try moving about a bit but it never really got any better.
just for the record
they were superb in leeds on Thursday.
pretty great, as stated previously the sound was a little off
but I suspect that was due in part to me standing off to one side to avoid the absolute carnage that was happening in front of the stage.
Sauna Youth were pretty good too, and Hookworms were nothing short of brilliant.
- JGJug this'd this
thought hookworms were outstanding
but was disappointed by pissed jeans.
no opinion on the tennis.
the moshpit was hilarious
full of weedy young indie boys and girls ... I've never seen so many failed attempts at crowd surfing


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Lafayette Police have re-opened both lanes in the 2000 block of West Congress Street after the driver of a white F150 pickup truck lost control and hit a bridge, flipping over into a coulee.
The area of the accident was right past the Cajundome. Corporal Paul Mouton says the driver and the passenger were removed from the truck with minor/moderate injuries and were brought to the hospital.
Mouton says both lanes of the road were closed so that recovery personnel could remove the truck from the coulee.
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Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Battles, Part I: Anthony Spencer vs. Victor Butler
Jonathan Bales
In last year's "Training Camp Battles" Series, I analyzed the Cowboys' most intriguing positional battles heading into the season. I'm continuing the series this year with a matchup that might not even be much of a competition. It has kind of been assumed in the past that Anthony Spencer's starting job is secure, and that Victor Butler, Brandon Williams and company are all competing to garner snaps behind Spencer and DeMarcus Ware. Perhaps it is because Spencer is a former first-round selection, or maybe the Cowboys think his run-stopping ability is far superior to his backups, but it needs to end. And it needs to end in 2011.
With new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan in Big D, I think there is finally a legitimate shot of Butler unseating Spencer from the starting strong-side outside linebacker position. With Ryan's version of the 3-4 defense calling for multiple pass-rushing linebackers on the field together, Butler at least figures to see far more than the 157 snaps he saw in 2010. But even 300 snaps is not nearly enough for a player who, in my opinion, should be starting opposite Ware from Week 1. Here is why. . .
In my 2010 Outside Linebacker Grades, I provided Butler with a 89.9% and Spencer with an 84.6% (for the record, Ware received a 94.0%). My grades are obviously based on efficiency as opposed to total production, but the gap between Butler and Spencer, in terms of pure efficiency, was rather vast. You can see to the right that Butler's sacks-per-rush were over twice that of Spencer. With only 157 snaps, though, I think sacks are a poor indicator of Butler's play. The same can be said for hits, which are perhaps even more fluky than sacks.
In my view, quarterback pressures are the best determiner of a pass rusher's worth. Of course you want a player who can bring the quarterback down once he reaches him, but past sacks have been shown to be a worse predictor of future sacks than past pressures, i.e. despite being less valuable in games, pressures are "more valuable" than sacks in statistical analysis. Butler's pressure rate of .118 is incredible–even better than that of Ware.
But what about Butler's run-stopping ability? He's a pass-rush specialist, some argue, and his numbers are inflated due to an increased percentage of snaps against the pass. Errrntttt. (Like a buzzer. Like at the end of games, ya know? Like I'm saying the hypothetical Butler "hater" is wrong in his assessment of Butler's efficiency. Whatever.)
On the contrary, Butler actually played the highest percentage of snaps against the run of any outside linebacker in 2010. 39.5% compared to Spencer's 38.6%. Good numbers for us, because it makes the statistics of the two players very comparable. You can see Butler's production against the run is arguably superior to that of Spencer. He recorded a tackle on 7.6% of his snaps in 2010, compared to 5.6% for the former Purdue Boilermaker. And oh yeah, Butler also didn't miss a single tackle. Spencer missed six.
Some might argue that we should expect Butler's stats to be superior to Spencer's because Butler's lack of sizable snaps means he is always at near-100%. Efficiency numbers might be a poor barometer of value because we should expect the players who receive the most snaps to get a little tired and see at least a small decline in play.
That is certainly the best argument in favor of Spencer retaining his starting job, but it is also in some ways irrelevant to Butler. He has played incredibly while in the game, and that's all he can do. At the very least, it is the job of the coaches to make sure the players who are performing at the highest level receive the most playing time. Butler's 157 snaps in 2010 is a joke. DCT readers knew before the 2010 season began that Butler was a rising player (dare I say potential star?) who deserved more snaps. Actually, just prior to the season I wrote:
Victor Butler will play close to 250 snaps and will record at least five sacks.
The kid has shown he is ready for more playing time. There's no way Coach Phillips wants DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer playing 1,100+ snaps again this season, so either Butler or Brandon Williams will have to step up.
Butler was phenomenal in the preseason, particularly against the run (and we know he can get to the passer).
So why didn't Butler get the snaps in 2010? Unlike Wade Phillips, I think Rob Ryan has the guts to sit a veteran in favor of a more productive player. At the very least, he should increase Butler's snaps until the production and efficiency of both players (combined) is maximized. At that point, the Nash equilibrium of outside linebacker production will be reached.
Think of it like this: as Butler's snaps increase, his production will, at some point, decline (due to fatigue, increased attention from the offense and so on). Once his efficiency declines to the point of Spencer's, the Nash equilibrium will be reached. Although neither player's individual production will be maximized, the overall efficiency of the outside linebacker position will be at its peak.
When you have an All-World player like DeMarcus Ware, the Nash equilibrium is shifted to Ware playing as many snaps as possible, i.e. a tired Ware is better than anyone else. Spencer isn't Ware. When he is tired, he needs to come out of the game. Ryan should shift the snap count of Spencer and Butler until the 'Boys reach their Nash equilibrium of outside linebacker production. I have a strong feeling that equilibrium would result in Butler receiving the majority of snaps.
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by ceregana
Berlin, Germany
It is again the easiest possible jersey dress made only from square pieces… Lazy me…
But the truth is it is done in 2 hours and comfy to wear. Summer is a good thing.
I got inspired by Spiderlily's skirt creation. Looking at hers I still like it more than mine. Mine looks somehow droopy and too much gather at the waist – maybe I will try to change it if I figure out what I did wrong. I mean if I cut it circular I wouldn't get the folded bubble edge, or?
I have a bit mixed feelings about this dress right now – It looks a bit younger and girlier than I am used to. In the same time it is the model I imagined.
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Jun 26, 2008, 04.11 AMby lybu
Jun 24, 2008, 01.08 AMby olyaboieru
Very cute and unusual model! I love the color! You look great and "faxy" ;)
Jun 23, 2008, 05.16 AMby carottesauvage
I think it is a bit girly but praises for the rolled shoulder!
Jun 22, 2008, 02.58 PMby polychromatin
I like it! Fits you perfectly! I don't think it looks too girly, but maybe some black tights will help? (oh yeah, I know it's summer right now ;))
Jun 22, 2008, 02.49 PMby nenasew
I think this is a sexy dress. Its skin tight but at the same time I think when I look at it I appreciate that its a beautiful dress.
Jun 22, 2008, 01.42 PMby manda-1
its really pretty, it would be cool if the sleves had buttons or eye hooks & you could change them!
Jun 22, 2008, 10.40 AMby emmastaf
I agree, it's not too girly. Something about the material and the tightness and especially the asymmetrical sleeves gives it a punk look.
Jun 22, 2008, 10.36 AMby camilaustral
wow you look so good! i really like it, i would be scared to wear it because is too tight, but you look super good ;) and it doesn't look too girly
Jun 22, 2008, 09.18 AMby dianacirne
I really love it!! The sleeves are great, the fact they are asymmetric, give a all new feeling to the dress! I think is a great dress and looks very comfy to wear!!
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Everything is just a bit off for the Lakers so far.
Jimmy couldn't make it through a weekend and got Mike D'Antoni; Jeanie was willing to wait 13 years to land Phil.
Kobe said the Lakers are old and slow, while proclaiming the Clippers "fun to watch," and "spectacular."
Vinny Del Negro said the Clippers are the best team in Los Angeles because their record says so, and Kobe won't argue.
"I think they're expected to blow us out," he said.
Kobe usually knows what he's talking about.
The wife is so excited about the Clippers she goes to see "Parental Guidance" because it stars Billy Crystal who is a Clippers fan. She pronounces it a winner.


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China Only - Hire a Virtual Assistant
Budget $10-30 CAD
1.) create 1x QQ ID account
2.) create 1x WeChat account using QQ ID
3.) test with us to make sure both are working on our local phone
send us the report after (login and account details)
23 freelancers are bidding on average $24 for this job
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I am a University student from Beijing,China! Relevant Skills and Experience QQ & Wechat are both my tools,I am especially familiar with them Proposed Milestones $25 CAD - mission is guaranteed to be completed
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Car Review
2014 Honda Odyssey: New Car Review
Slightly refreshed for the new model year, the 2014 Honda Odyssey has come a long way from the 5-door hatchback that first hit the market in 1995. Instead of the sliding doors of a regular minivan, that first Odyssey had front-hinged doors that opened like the doors on a sedan. It wasn't until the 1999 introduction of the second-generation model that the Odyssey got the traditional minivan sliding doors.
Honda launched the current, fourth-generation Odyssey in 2010 with updated body lines and a new overall design. What was once a banal body with a flat window line was transformed into a more bulbous and modern-looking family hauler. Although some have applauded Honda for taking a design risk with the new Odyssey, others have derided the current model's looks.
What's New for 2014?
The Odyssey receives several updates for the new model year. In addition to freshened styling, Honda has added several newly available features. They include forward collision warning, lane departure warning and, on the top-level Touring Elite model, an available vacuum cleaner dubbed "HondaVAC."
What We Like
Massive, highly usable interior; seating for up to eight; quick acceleration; exceptional driving comfort
What We Don't
Lower than expected fuel economy; polarizing body design
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Odyssey is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 that makes 248 horsepower and 250 lb-ft of torque. All Odyssey models use a 6-speed automatic transmission, which returns 19 mpg city and 28 mpg in highway driving.
Standard Features & Options
The ever-expanding Odyssey lineup now includes five trim levels: LX, EX, EX-L, Touring and Touring Elite.
The base-level Odyssey LX ($29,500) includes such basics as cruise control, power accessories (windows, locks and mirrors), air conditioning, Bluetooth and a USB player for music. A rearview camera is also standard.
Shoppers who step up to the Odyssey EX ($33,000) get several more luxury and convenience features. They include dual power sliding doors, automatic headlights, 17-inch alloy wheels, tri-zone automatic climate control and second-row sunshades.
Above the EX is the EX-L ($36,000), which adds a power sunroof, a power lift gate, leather upholstery, heated front seats and a chilled storage box. Honda also offers the EX-L with options such as a rear-seat DVD player and a navigation system.
Next up is the Odyssey Touring ($42,500). That trim adds 18-in alloy wheels, driver memory for seats and mirrors, fog lights and front and rear parking sensors. It also includes standard navigation and rear-seat entertainment.
Topping the Odyssey range is the Odyssey Touring Elite ($45,000). It's a highly upscale minivan, offering automatic xenon headlights, a widescreen rear video monitor and a blind spot warning system. It also offers the HondaVAC vacuum as optional equipment.
The 2014 Honda Odyssey features dual-stage, multiple-threshold front, side curtain and dual-chamber front and side airbags with Honda's passenger-side occupant position detection system. A vehicle stability assist system, active front-seat head restraints and pedestrian injury mitigation are all standard. So is Honda's Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure. It helps the Odyssey better absorb collision energy, especially in a front-end crash. That structure is now in its second generation in the Odyssey.
The Honda Odyssey received a 5-star overall crash-test rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It earned a 5-star frontal crash-test rating, a 5-star side crash-test rating and a 4-star rollover rating.
Behind the Wheel
Many people promise themselves they'll never own a minivan. But for millions of Americans, family life requires it. Should they climb behind the wheel of the Odyssey, they'll be pleasantly surprised by its excellent driving characteristics. Most impressive is the power output from the 3.5-liter V6.
When a driver puts his foot to the floor in the Odyssey, it doesn't rocket forward in a jerk of power. Instead, it builds like a force of nature beneath the driver, sending the vehicle smoothly forward across the landscape. Power delivery is linear, intense and quite satisfying.
During hard off-the-line acceleration, the Odyssey does suffer from some front-wheel slippage. But that is to be expected from a 248-hp 3.5-liter V6 engine wedged into the front end of a big family vehicle.
Unfortunately, the fuel mileage we observed wasn't as good as advertised. We suspect it will take a soft-footed, Zen-like driver to get close to the Environmental Protection Agency's fuel economy estimates.
The Odyssey's interior and features are much like those of nearly every other minivan on the market. The most notable difference between the Odyssey and its competitors is its interior build quality. The seats, dash, storage compartments and trim are all surprisingly well constructed. Every surface in the Odyssey looks and feels sturdy.
Other Cars to Consider
Toyota Sienna -- Starting at $26,435, the base Sienna L is one of the cheapest minivans on the market. But it doesn't beat the Odyssey by much. For 2013, the base 4-cylinder engine is discontinued, replaced by a standard V6. The Sienna can be equipped with all-wheel drive for those who need extra traction for winter weather or slippery roads.
Chrysler Town & Country -- Starting at $29,995, the Town & Country is an old favorite among minivan buyers -- with an emphasis on old. The Town & Country hasn't been updated since 2007.
Nissan Quest -- Starting at $25,990, the Quest comes standard with a 260-hp 3.5-liter V6 mated to a continuously variable transmission. We think the Quest is far and away the best competitor for the Odyssey, with comparable power, efficiency, utility and technology.
AutoTrader's Advice
We think even the base 2014 Honda Odyssey is fantastic at $28,575. Budget allowing, however, we'd definitely upgrade to the Odyssey Touring for $41,180. The Touring includes satellite navigation, rear entertainment and handsome 18-in alloy wheels. Still, you won't be faulted for choosing any model in the Odyssey lineup.


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China Crisis Albums
- Acoustically Yours (1996)
- Warped By Success (1994)
- Diary - A Collection (1992)
- Diary Of A Hollow Horse (1989)
- What Price Paradise? (1986)
- Flaunt The Imperfection (1985)
China Crisis Lyrics
China Crisis's Photo
China Crisis Biography
A bit fiery for most in the new romantic camp during the early '80s, China Crisis was inspired by similar sources but injected their pop songs with occasional political commentary and bluesy, reggae rhythms. Mostly a duo of vocalist/keyboard player Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon, the group formed in 1979 near Liverpool. The first China Crisis single, "African and White," didn't appear until 1982, but it was quickly picked up by Virgin and made the British charts. Realizing they needed a proper band, Daly and Lundon recruited bassist Gazza Johnson and drummer Kevin Wilkinson, and recorded their debut album Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms. Another single, "Christian," hit number 12, followed by two singles from second album, Working with Fire and Steel Possible Pop Songs, Vol. 2.br /br /China Crisis spent 1984-85 making their biggest chart run, beginning with their first Top Ten hit, "Wishful Thinking." Third album Flaunt the Imperfection was produced by the sympathetic Walter Becker (from Steely Dan), and resulted in the hit singles "Black Man Ray" and "King in a Catholic Style." A critical mistep followed in 1986, What Price Paradise?, though China Crisis worked with Becker once more on 1989's Diary of a Hollow Horse, which earned critical raves though not much commercial movement. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide


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As people and companies continue to take notice of the greater Bluffton area, the time was ripe to put together a more formal means for economic development in our backyard.
Enter the Bluffton Public Development Corporation. The new entity created by the town of Bluffton will be able to conduct business like a business and work deals to lure economic development to the community.
We applaud creation of the corporation made up of private citizens, and Town Manager Anthony Barrett's leadership in the effort.
Under its bylaws, the corporation can buy or sell property, among other development rights; make contracts; borrow money; lend money; invest and reinvest its funds to add to its own assets.
The corporation would have access to town money but could never enter agreements without Town Council approval, and it's liable for its own debt.
We are encouraged with the creation of this board. Take a look at the board members and you will see plenty of expertise:
• Doug Tardio; chief operating officer of CareCore National
• Roland King; human resources consultant
• Steve Miller, tax partner at Cherry Bekaert, LLP
• Greg Johnson, branch sales manager at Region's Bank
• Sarah Reed, financial adviser at Edward Jones
• Roberts Vaux; attorney at Vaux & Marscher
• Mac Dunaway; attorney at Vaux & Marscher
One of the roles the corporation will play is working with the town to help get future developments off the ground and up and running. To do this, the coporation could choose to front money for what is called "soft costs," which are usually indirect construction expenses.
Already the town of Bluffton and specifically, Buckwalter Place, have seen the benefit of the town's new economic development arm.
At its first official meeting last month, the corporation learned of the town's purchase of about seven acress across from CareCore National headquarters at the business park at Buckwalter Place.
We, like others, think the public development corporation could use this purchase as a launching pad to expand its vision of a technology park at Buckwalter Place.
Transferring the seven acres to the development corporation would take Town Council approval. The land sale is expected to close March 8 and we urge the town to approve a transfer of ownership soon after.
CareCore needs a few neighbors along the same scale and fit for our community. Since CareCore moved its headquarters to the area in 2007, we have seen positive signs of opportunity and growth for this part of town. And we encourage it. There is developable land and Buckwalter and Bluffton parkways are signs of solid infrastructure. Add to this the opening of the Don Ryan Center for Innovation last May and you have a cluster of knowledge-based companies incubating in our backyard.
We agree with Bluffton Director of Growth Management Marc Orlando's assessment of the land acquisition by the town and the potential it has on the development corporation when he said: "The gist of (the purchase) is that we're greatly expanding our footprint at our technology park so that we have a major stake, and our development corporation will be a big part of that."
For us, creation of the development board was needed and just done right. We hope the board is able to cut through Beaufort County red tape and fast track economic development projects. Their leaders have been patiently waiting for an opportunity in Bluffton. It would be this kind of effort that allows us to proudly state: Bluffton Means Business.


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Stuart apology - is it enough?
Losing World Cup coach Ricky Stuart has said sorry to the referee for verbally abusing him following Australia's defeat to New Zealand in last week's final.
But is it enough?
Forum Discussion: Stuart Apologises
Stuart verbally attacked referee Ashley Klein and official Stuart Cummings in the foyer of their Brisbane hotel the morning after the Kangaroo's shock 34-20 loss to the Kiwis.
The Cronulla Sharks coach was reportedly angry over a number of decisions including video referee Steve Ganson's decision to award New Zealand a penalty try.
In expressing his "deep regret" for the incident, Stuart said his actions were "inappropriate and offensive".
Stuart still remains the subject of a Rugby League International Federation investigation.


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Shari Chambers appears to have won a final battle in her crusade to erect a commemorative plaque for 24 Monroe County "colored" soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
Shari Chambers appears to have won a final battle in her crusade to erect a commemorative plaque for 24 Monroe County "colored" soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
For decades, she fought for recognition of the troops — many of them her ancestors. Now funding is in place, wording of an inscription has been finalized after agonizing debate and revisions, and Stroudsburg Borough Council has approved its placement at Helen Amhurst Third Street Park.
The plaque will go up this fall.
It won't be placed across the street in front of the historic Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, as she originally hoped and expected. But the 24-inch by 36-inch cast aluminum sign will list the names of all 24 Union soldiers — in addition to the originally planned description of their service.
"There has been divine intervention throughout this process," Chambers said after finalizing the plaque's placement with borough Public Works Director Brian Bond. "It's a finale in one chapter for men of all colors to be recognized for laying down their lives. They didn't have to go. They were free."
The Monroe County "colored" troops who fought in segregated units included full-blooded American Indians as well as free men of African descent, she said.
Many fought with the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry that was the subject of the movie "Glory." Many took part in the siege of Confederate forts in South Carolina and the Battle of Olustee, Fla. Some returned north and fought the closing battles of the war in Virginia.
Among them:
Moses Washington was wounded twice — first at Olustee in February 1864, then in August 1864 near Deep Bottom, Va. — but survived after months of hospitalization after the second encounter. Farmer George Johnson was captured at Olustee and likely watched as Confederates systematically killed other captured black prisoners, as is detailed in papers on file at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. His own comrades thought Johnson, too, had been killed, but he was among a number of other black soldiers who suffered privations of the infamous Andersonville prison camp. Amos Huff, 18, when he entered the army, was killed in action at Olustee.
Returning veterans helped establish the Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Chambers grew up attending that church, whose original pastor — Samuel Huff — was her direct full-blooded Lenni Lenape ancestor, she said. The church closed in the early 1970s as the aging membership died. The small brick building was abandoned and deteriorated.
Chambers founded a group to champion its restoration but was forced out after she strongly objected to plans to turn the church into a local history museum. The original covenant calls for it to remain a church forever, Chambers said.
The Little Bethel Historical Association, successor to Chambers' group, has replaced the roof and performed other maintenance.
Chambers' efforts to place the plaque near the borough sidewalk in front of the church ran into opposition from Historical Association board members about the wording.
They argued that references to "The Lord Jesus Christ" or "Almighty God" might run afoul of the constitutional separation of church and state and governmental regulations. They also questioned whether Chambers had sufficiently documented the presence of local native Americans in the Civil War and the church's founding.
Chambers points to the childhood stories of her Aunt Lena McCoy, the help of the Monroe County Historical Association in researching the veterans and correspondence with museums and government archivists in establishing native American roots.
Rebecca Borbidge, a legislative aide to state Rep. Mario Scavello, R-176, helped fax proposed inscriptions to various agencies. The Monroe County commissioners provided a $2,000 grant from the county's hotel tax fund for the plaque.
"Each department, state and federal, have assisted in the verbiage content I submitted to the Monroe County commissioners regarding its funding, and the Stroudsburg Borough Council for its placement approval," Chambers said.
Chambers was recently joined at Amhurst Park — named after her grandmother — by her mother, Joan Chambers, and 85-year-old Joseph Ray Johnson. She was pleased with the plaque's placement.
"People see the plaque, they see the verbiage and the history and they see the church over there," Chambers said, gesturing to her right.
Johnson is a minister in the non-denominational Transport for Christ International, which ministers to truckers. Johnson, who traces his Lenni Lenape Indian ancestry to Smithfield Township, is the great, great grandson of a Ray who married Little Bethel Church founder Samuel Huff.
"Five of those people who are going to be on that plaque are related to me," Johnson said.
When a price quote to manufacture and install the plaque came in at $2,575 — more than the $2,000 original estimate — majority commissioners said they couldn't provide additional money.
"Any additional costs must come from you or other sources," Greg Christine, the commissioners' chief clerk, wrote to Chambers in April. "If the cost of the marker exceeds the $2,000 allocation, you must provide proof that the additional funds have been secured."
J&C Granite & Bronze Company, of Simpson, was contacted by Chambers and it agreed to do the entire job for $2,000, donating its labor costs. J&C also agreed to add the names of all 24 veterans, in addition to the description of their service.


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Forum Tips & Tricks
Brad's quick guide to the new Stardock.net forums
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: Virtual Communities
Welcome to Brad's tips on how to use the new forums. The new Stardock forums are custom developed based on the needs and uses of our customers. Over the years, we have experimented with many different layouts with varying degrees of success.
The 2006 Stardock forums have many advantages over previous generations:
- Bandwidth - they use about 1/4th the bandwidth of previous forums we've used which means they load a lost faster.
- They use a lot more AJAX/Javascript based techniques to cut down the number of page views people have to go through.
- They allow for more categories to be displayed.
- They conform more to the style of the more common forum styles out there which reduces the learning curve for new users.
- They display who last commented on a particular post.
- They have much easier navigation between various sub-forums.
- They have more customization options for the user.
Stardock forums have one primary advantage over other forum systems. It's an advantage that is invisible to most users -- it is the world's only distributed network forum system (that we know of anyway). Visit other companies or communities and they have one giant forum in one place. Visit a site using the Stardock.net forums and the forums displayed are specific to that site. If two sites overlap, so do the posts. A post on PC Computing on WinCustomize.com will show up on JoeUser.com but not TotalGaming.net. A post about strategy games might show up on TotalGaming.net and GalCiv2.com and Joeuser.com but not on WinCustomize.com. This overlap means that users from different communities can interact together without even being on the same site. It gives more options for users and customers and allows Stardock to interact with the varied communities much more easily.
Another key difference in Stardock forums is that new posts float to the top of the parent forum which in turn floats to the top of its parent.
In a forum system you might have:
Turn Based
Disk Utilities
Desktop Enhancements
..and so on.
In a typical forum system, if you wanted to find out the newest post on a real-time strategy game you would have to dig all the way down to the real-time sub-category. On a Stardock forum, the forums are set up almost like a search result -- The parent forum contains all the posts of its children arranged by the newest first. If the newest post is in the Real-Time area it will be the first post in the Software forum. In this way, digging down allows users to get more specific if they choose but casual readers can stay more general.
One can imagine a forum like this:
Graphics Adapters
In a Stardock.net forum, a user who clicks on the nVidia forum would see the newest posts from all the sub-forums. So if there's some hot new utility that lets users over-clock their 7800, the user who just clikced on the nVidia forum would see it without having to dig all the way down to the Overclocking utilities area. As a result, it saves a lot of clicks.
So why are other forum systems set up the way they are? There are lots of reasons, but one likely reason is that when forum software was first being developed, getting more page views was considered the goal. Stardock's sites are designed to try to reduce the number of clicks and page views since it generates revenue from selling software and subscriptions. So our forums are designed to let users get to as much info as possible.
Tips & Tricks
Tip #1: Quick-Jump
One of the first new tips I'd like to show you is how easy it is to jump to other sub-forums. If you click on one of the arrow separators between categories (i.e. Home -> General -> etc.) you will get a pop up menu that lets you jump to another sub-category.
Tip #2: View All Recent Posts
Near the bottom of the forums is a small link that we will probably make more prominent over time and that is the "view all recent posts". By pressing that button, all the recent posts on the forum will be listed and users can go through and see all the actions anywhere.
Tip #3: Smart Pins
Pinned topics are very important to new users but just get in the way for expert users. The new Stardock.net forums let users minimize the topics and it will remember that you did so for future viewing.
Tip #4: My posts
At the top of the forum, "My posts" are there. Click that link and you will get a list of the posts you have made. Are also working on it so that it will eventually display all the posts you've recently interacted in. That way, if a post you've been participating in scrolls off, no problem, you can quickly follow it.
Tip #5 Your Watch List
If you want to keep an eye on a post for the long-term, even if you're not participating in it, you can add it to your watch list. To add a post to your watch list, click on the tools button.
Tip #6: Referrals
Is someone pointing to a post you or someone else made? Stardock.net forum posts automatically link back and let you see who is talking about it (and sends traffic back to the people who link to you). Your account gets points every time someone goes to something you created from another site via a referral.
These are just some of the tricks that we have already.
The 2006 Stardock.net forums are still in their infancy and we are always looking for suggestions and ideas for them. But we hope you find the new forum system fast, reliable, and effective. Have fun!


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Historic Trolley Tour
Board the Lady Liberty trolley and explore Augusta's Historic Downtown. You will see historic homes, hear about the bones in the basement of the Medical College of Georgia, see where a U.S. president lived as a boy, get a glimpse of the Augusta Canal and hear the legend of the famous Haunted Pillar. And that's not all!
Price includes admission to the Augusta Museum of History, where you can explore Augusta's journey through time. You will see fascinating exhibits, such as Celebrating a Grand Tradition, the Sport of Golf, an exhibit dedicated to the Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown, and much more, including climbing on board a real train.
24-hour advance reservations are required.