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Vintage Asian bonsai tree is just under 4" tall and has glass flowers and leaves with a small white blown glass crane. Wood base. VERY nice condition. On the bottom it is stamped Made in Japan.
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Very old and rare Lusterware lamp. Asian Woman & sitting child. This is a heavy piece. Sitting child is holding a bowl. This lamp still works. No damages at all. Does not come with a shade. Marked, Made in Japan. Measures Approx 7-1/8" tall x 3-1/2" wide. Base, 3-3/8". (Measures 9" tall to the top of the socket). Will use a clip on shade that clips over the bulb.
This is an unusual pair of figurines. They are an Asian boy and girl. All white attire with gold trim. Hand painted with all decoration under glaze except for the gold. They are a little on the chubby side which makes them adorable. No makers name or stickers. Perfect condition. Measures 8" tall. Sold as a pair.
Wonderful little antique toothpick holder or maybe for matches. Measures 1 3/4" tall and has a top diameter of 1 3/4" also. made of brass with blue green red white closinee enamel decoration of flowers and leaves. CHINA stamped into the brass but covered with enamel on the bottom, and is legible. Inside is enameled also. No chips. Nice
Great red lacquer cup and saucer with gold inside cup and gold flowers for decoration. Perfect condition with no cracks nicks or scratches. Stamped Made in Occupied Japan. Saucer is 4 3/4" diameter.
All Items : Pottery and Stoneware : Vases : Pre 1990 item #1303114 (stock #safn-5394)
Really nicely decorated japaanese Asian vase is hand painted glazed ceramic. Disc shape and measures 6" tall and 6" wide by 2 1/8" thick. would fit nicely in a window. No makers mark but there is Japanese character lettering on the front (which I can't read). Perfect condition.
Neat old vintage Japanese elder woman sitting with a fish, Measures 5" tall. No chips or cracks, Original Wales Japan sticker on the bottom. These are just like the Hakata Urasaki figurines and would fit in well with your collection of these doll figurines.
Beautiful Japanese Eggshell Porcelain demitasse size tea cup and saucer. It is handpainted with Geisha women in the garden and on the terrace A child plays with a butterfly. It is accented in a rust color edging. It is in excellent used condition. There are no chips, cracks, crazing or repairs. The cup measures 2 1/8" wide by 2 1/4" high and the saucer is 4 1/4" diameter. Bottom mark is a red JAPAN stamp.
All Items : China : English : Staffordshire : Pre 1940 item #1301027 (stock #safn-5379)
Lovely demitasse cup and saucer set in the Chinese Willow pattern by Crown Staffordshire. Pattern number 5356. The cup stands about 2 1/2" tall and the saucer measures about 5 1/8" in diameter. White bone china with pagodas, birds, hills and trees. Green and blue border with brown trim. Excellent condition - no chips, cracks or repairs. Shiny and fresh - it looks unused. Will make a wonderful addition to your cabinet cup and saucer collection. Colors are vivid and crisp...
Pretty little demitasse cup and saucer has three tiny little curled feet on the cup. Nice squared off shape on the cup and the saucer. White porcelain with pink and burgundy trim.Pretty gold detailing and little raised dots (moriage). Saucer has a diameter of 4 3/8" diameter. Pretty medallion of a Japanese scene of lake and mountains. Bottom stamp reads Hand Painted Craftsman China Made in Japan 401. Perfect condition.
Pretty full size cup and saucer set. Unique pink and black with gold trim. Blue eyed dragon wraps around most of the cup. Fancy cup has three little curled feet. Both pieces are in perfect condition. This is probably made in Japan but there is no mark or sticker.
Another Wonderful old Nippon dragon ware vase is beautiful. All dark peach (orange) lustreware with blue lustre collar and black edge trims, Moriage dragon with blue eyes. Measures 6 1/4" tall. No chips cracks or repairs. Lovely addition to your collection. Lustre is nice with no rubs and moriage has no missing porcelain. Marked on the bottom , Hand painted NIPPON Made in Japan. Lustre color is so much prettier than photo shows.
Wonderful old Nippon dragon ware vase is wonderful. All peach lustreware with black edge trim, Moriage dragon with blue eyes. Measures 6 1/4" tall. No chips cracks or repairs. Lovely addition to your collection. Lustre is nice with no rubs and moriage has no missing porcelain. Nicely marked on the bottom. Lustre color is deeper than photo shows.
Collectible resin figurine by Seymour Mann. Two lovely asian ladies stand and sit by the water. Hand painted with nice detailing. Original sticker on the bottom. Not sure if this is Chinese or Japanese. Perfect pristine condition. Measures 8.25" tall and 7.25" long
Collectible resin figurine by Seymour Mann. Hand painted with nice detailing. Original sticker on the bottom. Not sure if he is Chinese or Japanese. Perfect condition. Measures 8.25" tall
Stunning 9" tall porcelain Japanese woman kneeling with 2 fans. Very delicate features and fine detailing. Not a single nick or damage anywhere on the figure. Lavish gold accents and highlights enhance this beautiful Asian lady. No markings or stickers on the bottom at all. Probably made in Japan. She is about 30 years old. The flash was so bright that it does not show her amazing color and deta.
Stunning 16" tall porcelain Japanese woman with cherry blossoms. Very delicate features and fine detailing. Not a single nick or damage anywhere on the figure. Each and every petal is even perfect. Gold accents and highlights enhance this beautiful Asian lady. No markings or stickers on the bottom at all. Probably made in Japan. She is about 30 years old. Due to the flash , the photo does not show her stunning color and detail
Vintage tea pot in the Japanese Geisha girl pattern. Two geisha on one side and three on the other. Portrays hanging flowers, fence, and buildings/houses. Relief pattern under glaze on lid and upper portion of tea pot. Red rust color trims. Marked with the red MADE IN JAPAN stamp. No cracks or chips on teapot. Roughness under lid but is just crudely molded. Measures 5 1/2" tall and is 8" long from tip of spout to handle. Pretty shape not seen often in this pattern.


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Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Southeast Expansion Project (Docket No. CP07-032-000)
Issued: August 3, 2007
The FERC staff has prepared a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Gulf South Pipeline Company L.P.'s (Gulf South) proposed Southeast Expansion Project (Project).
The proposed Project would include the construction and operation of approximately 111 miles of 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline, the construction of three new compressor stations, and the construction of ancillary pipeline facilities including meter and regulation facilities, main line valves, and pigging facilities. These proposed facilities would be constructed and operated in Eastern Louisiana, Central Mississippi and Western Alabama, specifically: Richland Parish, Louisiana; Simpson, Smith, Jasper, and Clarke Counties, Mississippi; and Choctaw County, Alabama.
The purpose of this proposed Project is to provide producers in eastern Texas and northern Louisiana an eastern market outlet for production from CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Company (CenterPoint) in the Perryville, Louisiana, area.
This Final EIS was prepared to satisfy the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and was prepared in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The FERC staff concludes that if the proposed Project is found to be in the public interest and is constructed and operated in accordance with Gulf South's proposed minimization and mitigation measures as well as its recommended mitigation measures, the proposed facilities would have limited adverse environmental impacts. The FERC staff reached this conclusion based in part on:
- The proposed pipeline route would be collocated with or parallel to existing rights-of-way for approximately 73 miles, or about 66 percent of the proposed Project;
- Gulf South would implement its Plan and Procedures which would minimize and mitigate impacts to natural resources during construction and operation of the Project;
- Gulf South would implement an environmental inspection and monitoring program that would ensure compliance with all proposed and recommended mitigation measures;
- Consultation with the FWS as required by Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act would be completed, and appropriate mitigation measures would be in place before construction would be allowed to commence;
- Consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officers and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as required by Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, would be complete before construction would be allowed to commence; and
- Gulf South would develop site-specific wetland crossing plans for significant areas containing mature cypress and tupelo trees, in consultation with federal and state resources agencies, and would compensate for all unavoidable wetland impacts through the purchase of wetland mitigation bank credits in the area of the proposed Project.
The FERC Commissioners will take into consideration staff's recommendations and the final EIS when they make decisions on the Project.

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Huntsville, Texas Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy.
If McCarthy is put to death in Huntsville as planned, she would become the 500th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. The 52-year-old also would be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010.
McCarthy's attorney, Maurie Levin, said she has exhausted all efforts to block the execution, after denials by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
"If there was something to appeal, I would," said Levin.
Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The state's standing stems from its size as the nation's second most populous state as well as its tradition of tough justice for killers.
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With increased debate in recent years over wrongful convictions, some states have halted the practice entirely. However, 32 states have the death penalty on the books. Still, it's clear the debate over capital punishment has touched Texas, with lawmakers providing more sentencing options for juries and courts narrowing the cases for which death can be sought.
McCarthy faces execution for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth's finger to remove her wedding ring.
Police also had linked two other slayings to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who became addicted to crack cocaine.
In her appeals, McCarthy contended prosecutors improperly excluded black jurors and that her lawyers failed to challenge the moves at trial or in early appeals. McCarthy is black, and Booth was white. All but one of the 12 jurors at McCarthy's trial were white.
In January, McCarthy had been moved to a small holding cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber when a Dallas judge moved her execution to April. That timing then was reset for June when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said he wanted to await the outcome of capital punishment-related bills before lawmakers in Austin.


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Despite the rising cost of private schools, demand continues to grow across the world. For many, private schooling buys luxury, exclusivity and privacy. In many developing countries, private education is a must-have for parents who want their children to succeed.
Across the world, the cost of private education has risen faster than incomes. In the U.S., private high schools cost over $40,000, compared to a median income of around $50,000. In the U.K., boarding school fees jumped 65 percent from 1992 to 2008, while household incomes increased only 30 percent over the same period, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
We've put together a list of the countries with the most expensive private schools based on the cost of sending a child to one of the top three or four private schools in that country.
We used annual tuition fees for high school students for both day and boarding schools. Since boarding is often the more expensive option, we ranked the countries by boarding fees, except in the cases of China and Brazil.
The fees we considered include boarding, food and basic curriculum costs, but exclude charges such as registration fees, deposits, extra-curricular activities and field trips. We also excluded schools that specialized in children with special needs.
Click ahead to find out which countries have the world's most expensive private schools.
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Carlos Cardenas, Director of Solutions Engineering at Joyent, shares what he considers to be the four keys of cloud security.
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Bryan Cantrill speaks at FISL about corporations and open source software.
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We're switching over to a new versioning scheme for SmartOS based images.
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A basic how-to video on getting a Node.js Joyent SmartMachine running with MongoLab, a MongoDB-as-a-Service provider.
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Post-GDC, here are some of the waysthat Node.js intersects with the gaming community.
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A post by Jonathan Perkin on converting SVR4 packages into more useful formats for SmartOS.
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Jonathan Perkin shares a method for making SmartOS look more like GNU/Linux.
March 1, 2013DTracing Hardware Cache Counters by Mr. Max Bruning
Carlos Cardenas has been working on porting a program from Linux that is CPU bound. He found some hotspots using DTrace. He asked someone what else he could do to maximize performance and was asked in turn if the program was cache friendly. Carlos went on to ask if I could provide some insight into the cpc provider in DTrace. I'll do that, concentrating on examining cache utilization.
February 8, 2013Building Nodestack on a Smart Machine by Mr. Max Bruning
For the past few weeks, I have been studying performance of an application that uses MongoDB, Node.js, and jmeter. The application was written by a third party, and they set up the application so that each component runs in its own Smart Machine.
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February 5, 2013The USE Method: Thinking Methodically About Performance by rachelbalik
When your friends and family come to you with the flood of technology questions you've come accept as an occupational hazard, you know how to ask the critical, mission-saving questions such as, "is it plugged in" and "have you tried turning it on?"
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Pulitzer Prize winner alumnus guest lectures in photojournalism class
Pulitzer Prize winner and Valenti alumnus Adrees Latif shared a slideshow presentation
and words of advice with Prof. Richard Carson's photojournalism classes recently.
Adrees Latif, '99 talks about the risks and rewards in news photography
Adrees Latif is a true inspiration to his fellow Cougars. He is the first UH graduate to win a Pulitzer Prize, winning the prestigious journalism award for breaking news photography in 2008.
Last month, he returned to the Valenti School of Communication to talk about his craft and the photo that won him the Pulitzer with the students in Professor Richard Carson's photojournalism classes.
Latif was covering the 2007 Saffron Revolution in Burma when he took the photo that sped up the trajectory of his career. Burmese soldiers opened fire on a crowd of protesters during the uprising of a group of Buddhist monks.
"Bullets and fruit from the crowd were whizzing by my head from every direction," Latif recounted. "I was trying to compose myself through my lens while following a large group of people running for their lives."
"I shot this picture without realizing that the man had been shot," he said, referring to Kenji Nagai, the Japanese journalist and principal element in the photograph, who was fatally wounded during the soldier's attempt to disperse the crowd.
Nagai's outstretched hand and last attempt to document the chaos as he lies injured on the pavement, preserves a truly dramatic and raw moment in time.
After Latif's talk, Radha Khetpal, a print journalism major, said, "The presentation was really good – I learned a lot. It gave me an idea of what this industry is all about. You don't really think about risking your life in this line of work."
While an undergraduate at UH, Latif also had not contemplated the physical risks of being a photojournalist. But he knew quite well, the academic risks.
Latif worked as an intern and staff photographer for the Houston Post the majority of his undergraduate years from 1991 – 1999. Without talking to his professors about scheduling conflicts, he often put news assignments ahead of classwork, he told the photojournalism students.
"Don't do what I did," he said. "Work with your professors to reschedule or make up tests. They understand this business and will work with you."
Shortly after graduating with his bachelor's in journalism in 1999, Latif joined Reuters, an international news agency headquartered in London, as a freelancer.
Since then he has taken on a variety of significant roles in the field of photojournalism, living by the philosophy, "I will do anything I have to do, as long as I can take pictures."
From his positions as Senior Photographer in Bangkok, Thailand to Regional Photo Editor in Pakistan, Latif has seen the majority of the eastern world through his camera.
He was honored with the International Centre of Photography's (ICP) Infinity photojournalism award for the images he captured during the devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010.
Latif now resides in New York City and is the Editor in Chief for Reuters International.
by Ethan LeCuyer, Valenti School of Communication student


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As always, these are offered in the spirit of fun and not serious analysis. If you want the latter, there are plenty of smart folks in the saber-sphere that do W-L projections based on their projection systems. Even with fancy tools, the margin of error inherent in this exercise is enormous.
So I don't do anything special. I put together a very rudimentary spreadsheet and than I just make my best guess as to how the teams will finish and put it out on the internet for the world to see.
One thing to always keep in mind about predictions: picking a team first doesn't mean that I think they'll win. It just means that I think they have the highest probability of winning. If you don't understand what I mean, don't waste your time by reading on.
I'll keep the rambling introduction short this year and get to the point.
1. New York
2. Tampa Bay (wildcard)
3. Boston
4. Baltimore
5. Toronto
On paper, it's extremely hard to pick against the Yankees. They have the most potent projected offense and strong pitching to boot. That being said, any notion that the Yankees are some sort of unbeatable juggernaut is silly, as such notions usually are. It's an old team, there are multiple players that have noteworthy lingering injury concerns, and one wonders how sure even their brass is about the structure of their pitching staff. They are an easy choice as favorite for me, but not a super-team.
The Rays would probably be my pick to win any other division save the NL East and perhaps the NL Central, but we all know they're in a tough spot in the East. It would be foolish to write them off. The Red Sox have retooled around pitching and defense, but it seems as if the mainstream take is underestimating the offensive prowess of a healthy Beltre and Cameron. Picking them third is just a means to deviate a little bit from the conventional wisdom; they could easily end up with the best record in MLB. The Orioles are improving, and I expect big things from Matt Wieters, but it's not their year to get back in the hunt and even if it were, they'd be buried in this division. The Blue Jays may be a challenger...for the Royals, that is.
1. Minnesota
2. Chicago
3. Detroit
4. Cleveland
5. Kansas City
My track record at predicting AL Central results is horrible. Some of it has to do with the fact that I'm a Cleveland fan, and am probably a little biased towards them in my picks (although when I've picked the Indians I've hardly been the only one doing so, I've admittedly tended to pick them whenever it is reasonable to do so).
Joe Nathan's elbow injury is obviously a blow to the Twins, and it does cut into the gap between them and the rest of the division, but I still think they stand out as the clear on-paper favorite. Chicago figures to have excellent pitching, but their offense is among the worst in the AL. The additions of JJ Putz and Juan Pierre and the subtraction of Jim Thome just serve to increase my (somewhat irrational) antipathy towards the team. The Tigers didn't seem to have much of a plan; apparently they really like Max Scherzer, because otherwise the Granderson trade is very puzzling given that they acted like contenders by signing Damon and Valverde (Just to make it clear, I don't have a problem with the trade for the Tigers, except that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for winning in 2010). I've written about the Tribe in detail; suffice it to say, the pitching is a major weakness but they should score some runs and aren't as bad as many seem to think. The Royals...I don't even know where to begin.
1. Los Angeles
2. Texas
3. Seattle
4. Oakland
On paper, this should be the best pennant race of the year. It's easy to see any of the first three winning it, and Oakland can't be dismissed out of hand. I had a hard time deciding which team to pick, as the Angels and Mariners are just about even in my crude spreadsheet. On one hand, it's boring to pick LA; on the other hand, Seattle has gotten so much love from certain segments of the saber-sphere that it almost feels like groupthink to pick them.
I'm thoroughly unimpressed by the Angels off-season maneuvers and like just about everyone else, I love what Seattle did. However, the Mariners are still short on offense, and carrying Ken Griffey and Mike Sweeney does not help. Their spring training moves have not impressed as much as their winter deals, to say the least. The Rangers have high hopes, but I'd be surprised if they matched the 87 games they won last year; less could be enough, though, and while I would have pegged them third when spring training started, I've moved them up a notch. I'm probably a little behind the curve in admitting this, but Oakland does seem to be floundering about without a long-term plan. Whether they're in a holding pattern until their stadium situation is resolved, changing their minds on the strength of the rest of the division, or just plain confused is a different question. There's some talent here, but the offense also leaves a lot to be desired.
1. Atlanta
2. Philadelphia (wildcard)
3. Florida
4. New York
5. Washington
Just after the turn of the century, I was always picking against the Braves--it had gotten so boring to pick them that anytime I thought they had a halfway-serious challenger, I'd pick the challenger. However, in the last three seasons I've gotten in the habit of picking Atlanta when I probably should know better.
This season, my crude analysis indicates that the Phillies are the best team in the NL. But picking them would mean picking a World Series rematch, which is beyond boring. If my goal here was to be as painstaking as possible and strive for the highest possible chance of being right, I'd do it. But this whole exercise is for kicks and nothing else, so I'm going with Atlanta.
I hope it doesn't sound as if I think Atlanta really doesn't have a chance--of course they do, and they'd be my wildcard pick regardless. Their offense is still shaky (in Jason Heyward I trust, apparently), the back end of the bullpen is a ticking time bomb of age and injury, and trading one of the NL's top starters of 2009 may make business sense but it certainly doesn't improve their 2010 hopes. Meanwhile, the Phillies have gotten too much of a halo in my opinion from the mainstream based on their playoff successes over the past two seasons. They have been remarkably consistent since 2003 (86 wins, 86, 88, 85, 89, 92, 93), but 93 wins doesn't make you a super-team and I see no real reason to expect improvement. It wouldn't be shocking to see them on the outside looking in during October.
The Marlins are interesting in their own right; they could very well slip in as the wildcard or challenge for the division with the right set of circumstances. What's kind of funny about a team that's consistently had good young talent is they've never had that one magical year in which everything comes together and they win 95+ games--their highwater mark is still 92 in 1997. The Rays, Twins, A's, and Indians have all managed to put together at least one season of that type in the same time period. The Mets' offense should bounce back to some extent, but the starting pitching is awfully thin to expect a strong contender. The Nationals' 2010 should vaguely resemble the Orioles' 2009--hoping for mediocrity while the primary drama is the debut of a much-hyped prospect.
1. St. Louis
2. Milwaukee
3. Chicago
4. Cincinnati
5. Houston
6. Pittsburgh
The Cardinals look like a clear favorite amongst a pretty motley group. Of course the proper candles must be lit for the health of Pujols and the twin aces. The Brewers look like a thoroughly average team, which makes them the safest pick for second here, but I think the Cubs might have a better chance of winning it. On the other hand, when your rotation includes Carlos Silva and your outfield is filled with two albatross contracts and a third that may end up as one, it's hard to be too excited. Reds fans seem to think it's their year; contention is certainly possible, particularly if St. Louis comes back to the pack, but this team is still a year or two away from being obvious contenders. The Astros are spinning their wheels as they have since they won the pennant, which may have been the worst thing that ever happened to them. They have the potential to be the worst team in the NL, but there's enough reliable-if-healthy veteran talent to make me conservatively pick them ahead of the Pirates.
1. Colorado
2. Los Angeles
3. Arizona
4. San Francisco
5. San Diego
This is another division where any of the top three winning would not surprise me in the least. The Rockies get the nod just to shake things up a little bit; I actually have Los Angeles ahead on paper. Colorado probably can't expect on repeat performances from Tulo and de la Rosa among others, and I'd like to take this opportunity to again advance my Free Chris Iannetta! campaign. The Dodgers are being written off all too quickly by a lot of mainstream writers; no, they didn't improve themselves in the off-season, but I don't see why their starting pitching is invoking hand-wringing. The Diamondbacks starting pitching looks shaky, but they have a solid offense and bullpen and with any luck should stay in the race. The Giants are seemingly an injury to one of the big two away from disaster; the incompetence in assembling an offense shouldn't be surprising any more, but it makes me shake my head. The Padres should challenge the Pirates, Astros, and Nationals for league cellar position--I'm looking forward to the potential of a Cory Luebke sighting later in the year.
New York over Atlanta
It's boring to pick the Yankees, and of course I think the odds against any particular team winning the pennant are fairly formidable.
AL Rookie of the Year: 1B Chris Carter, OAK
I realize he's been optioned; these picks are anything but scientific and are more or less the first name that pops into my head.
AL Cy Young: Jon Lester, BOS
AL MVP: 3B Evan Longoria, TB
NL Rookie of the Year: OF Jason Heyward, ATL
It's way too easy to pick Heyward, but he'll have the hype machine on his side from the start if nothing else.
NY Cy Young: Yovani Gallardo, MIL
I hate making the obvious Cy Young picks, so I usually look like a moron.
NL MVP: 2B Chase Utley, PHI
The World Series seems to have finally convinced a lot of media-types how good Utley really is. Unfortunately, it may have come too late to earn him any hardware.
First manager fired: Ron Washington, TEX
Worst pennant race: NL Central
Best pennant race: AL West
Worst teams in each league: KC, PIT
Most likely to go .500 in each league: SEA, MIL
Team in each league most likely to disappoint mainstream consensus: DET, SF
Team in each league most likely to surprise mainstream consensus: OAK, ARI
Most obnoxious stories of the year: This is no longer fun to predict, as it's always and forever steroids. This year Mark McGwire as Cards hitting coach seems to be the leading cause for hand-wringing by the insufferable steroid crusaders. Others: Joba and Phil as relievers or starters, Jeter's contract, the Twins' closer situation, the various Twitter-fueled controversies that are bound to pop up (Ozzie and Oney could just be the beginning)
How stupid am I likely to look if one reviews these predictions after the season and ignores the disclaimers: Very
Saturday, April 03, 2010
2010 Predictions
As always, these are offered in the spirit of fun and not serious analysis. If you want the latter, there are plenty of smart folks in the saber-sphere that do W-L projections based on their projection systems. Even with fancy tools, the margin of error inherent in this exercise is enormous.
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5 Things That Happen To Your Body When You Stop Having Sex
If you're going through a dry spell, here are five things that might start happening to your body!
men are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction
Use it or lose it? Kind of!
According to Medical Daily, erections are key when it comes to preserving male sexual function. A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Medicine found men who reported having sexual intercourse once a week were half as likely to develop erectile dysfunction (ED) as men who had sex less frequently.
your immune system becomes more vulnerable
It turns out getting busy contributes positively to your body's immune function. Reports say our immune system gets weaker when we're not getting any.
So if you want to avoid the cold and flu - have more sex.
your stress levels will probably increase
According to PopSugar, you can get more anxious because there's a decrease in "feel-good" hormones being released. Studies have shown that when you're going through a sex rut, you absolutely have a harder time dealing with stress-inducing situations.
So, Netflix and chill? We KNOW where that leads...
YOU may have worse menstrual cramps
As if cramps aren't bad enough? It turns out sex may help alleviate cramps during shark week.
According to Readers Digest "The uterus is a muscle and many women will actually have a uterine contraction when they orgasm, which will cause the blood to expel more quickly, which will in turn decrease menstrual cramps...there may be an increase in endorphins, which also will help with menstrual cramps.
The good news? this one doesn't technically require a partner to remedy.
you lower your risk of UTIs and STDs
OMG, there's a silver lining!
The risk of sexually transmitted infections going down is a total given, but you may be surprised to hear the rates of urinary tract infections may decrease too.
Fact: most UTIs occur within 24 hours of having sex. Added bonus - you can stop drinking that awful tasting cranberry juice.
what's the weirdest symptom you've had? Tell us in the comments section below!


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Marked "T. Crafts and Co. Whately 3," this large storage vessel with cover was made of clay brought to Massachusetts by boat from New Jersey. Earthenware objects could be made from local clay and glazed with lead, but for stoneware, which was fired at a higher temperature and glazed with salt, the clay had to come from New York or New Jersey. The stonewares were non-porous and durable, and the salt glaze was more suitable for foodstuffs, especially acid foods, than the lead-glazed earthenware.
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There are many times when our fair protagonist, Bike Girl, must go under cover. In these instances, she attempts to travel unseen and undifferentiated from the masses. Bike Girl is actually the first female to be awarded the title Master Of Disguise by the ISA (International Spy Association.)
When exercising her prowess at the art of disappearance, it is a given that people do not notice her. However, in her daily life, Bike Girl is somewhat more noticeable. As readers well-know, she enjoys riding all over town in a dress. Any red-blooded male driver would notice a femme-fatale riding about town on a bicycle in a dress. But on one fateful day in June, one particular male driver proved otherwise.
To add to her visibility on this fateful day, Bike Girl was carrying a full pannier on each side of her rear rack. One pannier contained her extremely large, bright green purse. The other pannier contained a Spider Plant so large, it could not be contained by the pannier. This plant, larger than the most comical Halloween afro wig, spilled out of the top of the pannier and its tendrils blew behind Bike Girl in the wind. It was a sight to see, if you saw it.
As she towed her cargo down a road with a Class I bike lane, a vehicle overtook her on the left. As it did so it began to merge into the bike lane. Un-phased, Bike Girl expertly applied the brakes so as to avoid disaster. As the driver pulled into a parallel parking spot, Bike Girl pulled over, approximately 1 car length ahead of him.
(Bike Girl has learned that drivers are somewhat protective of their vehicles, so she made sure to pull over far enough away so as to get the driver's attention without appearing threatening. )
The driver, now suddenly seeing Bike Girl, jumped out of his car with a look of horror on his face. "What happened!?" he exclaimed. Bike Girl calmly told him, in a very sweet voice, that he had come within an inch of hitting her as he merged.
She explained, "We cyclists are very vulnerable on the road, so please watch out for us in the future and make sure to give us a little space."
The driver, like a schoolchild being gently scolded, replied that he was very, very sorry, and that in the future, he would watch more closely for cyclists. Bike Girl was satisfied with this response. She thanked him and rode on.
Later that evening, as our fair protagonist recounted the odd experience to her Significant Other, she wondered aloud what it would take to be more visible on the road. If a woman riding a bicycle in a bike lane wearing a bright pink dress and carting a giant plant cannot be seen, who can? Bike Girl often rides in spandex, but refuses to don one of the day-glo colored jackets or vests worn by some roadies. After the dress/plant getup, she's not sure even the day-glo would have helped.
What then is the solution? Bike Girl thinks vehicular cycling should be taught in PE class in middle schools. That way, a new generation of drivers will be aware of the proper ways to pass cyclists. Bike Girl would also like a series of posters on how to safely pass cyclists at the DMV. But if a driver cannot see a cyclist, even when the cyclist is making every effort to be visible, how can he execute a safe pass?
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Bike Girl Is Invisible
3 comments:
- Skip said...
I think teaching all children vehicular cycling in middle school is a great idea. That's when I was lucky enough to be at a school where cycle racing was a sport. The skills I learned at that age have served me well ever since, and made me tolerant (and observant) of multi-mode users on our roads. I wish everyone had the same opportunity to learn tolerance that I did.
- June 17, 2010 at 10:14 PM
A year (at least) of vehicular cycling should be a requirement before anyone can even get a learner permit to drive.
Also (from BSNYC) cars should be no larger than 1.5L, be manual transmission, and air-cooled. They're way too over-powered.
- June 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Even the Dutch have Biker's Ed. See more here: http://wwbpa.org/2010/05/bicycle-education-dutch-style/
- June 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM
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Granada Television produced this fascinating TV time capsule "It's So Far Out It's Straight Down" as a special part of their Scene at 6:30 series. The program focused on the young counterculture / hippie scene in London and features Miles, the Indica Gallery and the editorial board of The International Times underground newspaper. Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti are seen at the International Poetry Incarnation and we are taken to The UFO Club where Syd Barrett and the Pink Floyd are playing a live version of "Interstellar Overdrive" (Also heard on the soundtrack is an early version of their "Matilda Mother," then called "Percy The Ratcatcher" and "It Can't Happen Here" by The Mothers of Invention).
Paul McCartney is a talking head interviewee in the studio, intelligently discussing the nascent underground scene. Macca was an active part of the London underground, financially supporting the Indica Gallery and bookstore—he even built the bookshelves himself—and IT. McCartney, the Beatle who soaked up cutting-edge culture and avant garde influences long before the rest of them did, is seen in four segments during the show, and as a wealthy, intelligent and well-respected person representing the counterculture to people who might fear it, as you'll see, he knocks the ball straight out of the park:
If you don't know anything about it [the counterculture], you can sort of trust that it's probably gonna be alright and it's probably not that bad because it's human beings doing it, and you know vaguely what human beings do. And they're probably going to think of it nearly the same way you would in that situation.
The straights should welcome the underground because it stands for freedom… It's not strange it's just new, it's not weird, it's just what's going on around.
"It's So Far Out It's Straight Down" was broadcast in March of 1967, so it's pre-Summer of Love. The time seems so pregnant with promise. This is the exact moment, historically speaking, when pop culture went from B&W and shades of gray to vivid color. If you put yourself in the mind of a kid from, say the north of England watching something like this on television during that era, it's easy to see how this film would have brought tens of thousands of young people into London seeking to find these forward-thinking cultural movers and shakers to become part of "the happening" themselves.
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Perhaps my title exaggerates; perhaps it doesn't. All I know is that whether you worry at every possible sign of illness and go to the doctors, or worry about illness and avoid the medical profession until a crisis occurs, these are not issues to be sneered at.
'Hypochondriacs' are much maligned. In books, on tv and in the media anyone who seems to seat themselves in the doctor's waiting room at every opportunity is a figure of fun or of derision. Admittedly, there are some who seem to enjoy a good old natter about their ailments and for whom a neighbour or friend's misfortune is the subject of much hushed talk and gossip. But this is not about those people. This is about people – and I count myself one of them – for whom health anxiety is a horribly debilitating, restrictive and obsessive condition.
Often considered to be on the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) spectrum, many of those affected by health anxiety have 'an obsessional preoccupation with the idea or the thought that they are currently (or will be) experiencing a physical illness.' (Anxiety UK). The most common health anxieties tend to centre on conditions such as cancer,but the anxiety or phobia may fixate on any type of illness.
You have a headache – it is a brain tumour
You lose your keys – it is Alzheimer's Disease
If you are the type of person who laughs at such thoughts, then I congratulate you on your balanced attitude to your health but I do not admire your sense of humour.
For me, health anxiety manifests itself as acute anxiety of some symptom or other alongside a phobia about going to the doctors. I don't go unless I am genuinely fearing for my mental, rather than physical, health. It has to get to the point where any unfavourable diagnosis is preferable to the anxiety symptoms I am experiencing.
For others, the anxiety so convinces them that they have a physical illness, that they will go to as many doctors as they can until they get a diagnosis and undergo invasive testing in the attempt. They ask for second, third and more opinions; but the irony is that even a full raft of reassuring results will not satisfy them and in serious cases the medical community as a whole is considered inept, so confirmed is the person of their own physical symptoms.
Whilst there is little doubt that these tests are a drain on health care providers, it simply isn't fair to dismiss the behaviour as 'attention seeking'. The fear is genuine.
The worst part of the obsession with one's health is the irresistible need to check all the time. Is that a lump? Why won't that sore heal? This cough has gone on a long time….. The anxiety itself leads to physical symptoms – palpitations, chest pain, dizziness – which reinforce the sufferer's conviction that their illness is a physical one. It is genuinely debilitating and there is often a genuine fear of going to the doctor's; not just because the worst fears may be confirmed, but because there is a real fear of not being taken seriously.
But health anxiety must be taken seriously. Causes are uncertain but include:
- a stressful, life-changing event such as a bereavement, or witness something traumatic
- another mental health condition, such as depression or alcohol dependence
- a physical illness, such as a thyroid disorder
- taking illegal substances such as amphetamines, LSD and ecstasy
- withdrawing from long-term use of some medicines, such as tranquillisers
For me, health anxiety has existed since my childhood but it has become much more difficult to deal with since my diagnosis with breast cancer in 2006. I wrote in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days of my feeling that all my long-term anxiety about disaster affecting myself or my family had seemed to come true with the finding of the lump. Even though I came through the treatment successfully with a good prognosis I let the fear of recurrence dominate my thinking. My family has had to learn how to deal with my behaviour, common to many who are affected with this type of anxiety – a constant need for reassurance, help in checking or a 'it will be alright won't it?' type diagnosis. It must be frustrating to say the least.
Mercifully, the symptoms of health anxiety are now better recognised and talking treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) might be offered and medication (such as anti-depressants and mild tranquillisers) may be prescribed. It is important to approach one's GP with the anxiety itself though; not many doctors have the time to look at the wider picture when a patient presents with a number of physical symptoms and the nature of the disorder itself is likely to result in a patient denying such an explanation of their concerns. Those of us with health anxiety do not make life easy for ourselves.
Anxiety UK offers a 'self-diagnosis' of health anxiety and if you answer 'yes' to most, recommends you approach your GP:
During the past 6 months:
- Have you experienced a preoccupation with having a serious illness due to bodily symptoms that has been ongoing for at least six months?
- Have you felt distressed due to this preoccupation?
- Have you found that this preoccupation impacts negatively on all areas of life including, family life, social life and work?
- Have you felt that you have needed to carry out constant self examination and self diagnosis?
- Have you experienced disbelief over a diagnosis from a doctor or felt that you are unconvinced by your doctor's reassurances that you are fine?
- Do you constantly need reassurance from doctors, family and friends that you are fine, even if you don't really believe what you are being told?
With my cancer diagnosis I know I am not alone in being fearful. In a way it is natural and necessary to ensure that doctors are given the best possible opportunity to keep one healthy. However, I know many of my symptoms, if they do relate to something physical, are necessarily exacerbated by my mental response to them. To let the obsession with cancer recurrence take over one's days is to allow the disease to rob you of years of your life in more than a physical way.
So if you recognise yourself in any of this, do seek help for your thinking as well as for all those aches and pains. I am having counselling now that, although painful, is bringing some recognition that whilst acknowledging I have gone through trauma that in some way explains my responses, I do not have to repeat old patterns of thinking.
I really can't keep living in the past if I want to enjoy my future.


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Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, says he's planning on suing Warner Brothers for the death of his late wife.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Monjack said he is planning to file a wrongful-death action against the studio for allegedly firing the actress from "Happy Feet 2" two weeks before her death.
Monjack claims she suffered a heart attack as a result of stress related to being let go from the project.
"They killed her," he told The Daily Beast. "She was devastated."
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has not released an official cause of death for the 32-year-old actress, who died on December 20 in her LA home.
Monjack also went on to claim that his late wife was not taking illegal drugs.
"In all the time I've known her, she has never, and I repeat never, done drugs," Monjack told The Daily Beast. "Not a line of cocaine, not a hit from a joint, nothing. She was anti-drugs. There are no drugs involved."
Monjack claims the only prescription drug that his wife took was Klonepam, an anti-anxiety medication prescribed to control the seizures she occasionally suffered from.
"The drug rumors made her lose roles, I'm sure," Monjack said. "All she wanted to do was to make movies. She was waiting for the role that would revive her career, waiting for the call from Penny Marshall or Gary Fleder, people she had worked with before, that they might remember how talented an actress she was and call with a new magical role."
Access Hollywood has reached out to Warner Brothers for comment and is awaiting a response.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – An additional $21.4 million deposit into state government's constitutional Rainy Day Fund was announced Wednesday by Secretary of Finance Preston L. Doerflinger.
The extra money comes from a reconciliation of late deposits by state agencies into the General Revenue Fund for Fiscal Year 2012.
The additional deposit by the Office of State Finance will lift the FY-2012 surplus to$328.3 million, the final total going into the Rainy Day Fund. That raises the RDF total to $577.5 million. The OSF initially set the deposit at $306.8 million.
"This is good news and pushes us very close to the record $596.6 million in the Rainy Day Fund before it was drained to make ends meet during the recession," Doerflinger said.
"As an optimist by nature, I am hopeful Oklahoma can continue the tremendous economic strides we have made the past two years," he added. "But history persuades me to expect that our rapid growth in revenue will level off at some point.
"And with so much political and economic uncertainty on the national and international scene, it is prudent that our state has the biggest nest egg possible to deal with unforeseen circumstances."
General Revenue collections finished FY-2012 at $5,564,531,786.51, which is $426.7 million or 8.3 percent above FY-2011 collections and $328.3 million or 6.3 percent above the estimate.
Doerflinger said he firmly believes the leadership and pro-growth policies of Governor Mary Fallin helped accelerate Oklahoma's economic rebound the past two years.
"We had only $2.02 in the Rainy Day Fund when she took office in January 2011. Now we have stabilized our financial structure," the finance secretary said.
Gov. Fallin said, "When I came into office, the Rainy Day savings account had less than $3 in it. Oklahoma was essentially broke. Thanks to a renewed interest on sound fiscal stewardship, that number has swelled to over $577 million; restoring the strong safety net for the state should we experience an economic emergency.
"Fiscal discipline and economic growth, propelled in part by the job creating policies we've pursued with the Legislature, have brought the Rainy Day Fund back to an appropriate level. It's important we continue to build on those policies to protect and grow that fund in the future."


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The complete listing of 2009 Tekne Awards categories and recipients includes:
The Advanced Manufacturing Award is presented to companies that have excelled in the production of advanced materials and chemicals, machinery and equipment, electronics and components, measuring instruments, photonics, optics and lasers, computer and peripheral equipment.
Advanced Manufacturing recipient is Minnesota Thermal Science LLC. The Plymouth, Minn.-based company has developed the Credo Cube, designed to be the most scalable thermal container on the market. It offers pharmaceutical and biologics industries an alternative to inefficient and expensive shipping methods. The 100 percent reusable cube ensures safe transport of temperature-sensitive medical and bio-tech products while maintaining thermal protection for up to seven days, the longest-duration thermal protection in the industry.
The Cleantech Award recognizes businesses that manufacture environmentally sound products or solutions that reduce costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste or pollution.
Cleantech Award recipient is Minneapolis-based Vast Enterprises LLC. It is using new technology to transform recycled materials into an innovative composite material used for green building. Its patented technology creates environmentally friendly material that is 100 percent recyclable, and over the last year has kept 1.2 million pounds of rubber out of landfills.
The Green Award honors businesses that practice environmental awareness/responsibility and incorporate sustainability principles into their overall business model.
Green Award recipient is Ecolab Inc. The company develops products to help companies lower their use of water and energy while reducing the amount of chemical waste released into the environment. Ecolab practices sustainable, eco-friendly behavior, as well. In 2008, it significantly reduced energy and water usage in its plants worldwide. In 2009, it partnered with the EPA Climate Leaders program, setting a goal to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent per dollar of sales from 2006 to 2012.
The Innovation in Teaching Award recognizes innovative classroom use of technology in K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education, expanding opportunities for students to be successful in technology-related careers.
Innovation in Teaching Award recipient is Laurie Toll of Weaver Lake Elementary School in Maple Grove, Minn. Five years ago, Toll helped launch a K-6 Science, Math and Technology magnet program. Today, students are able to collaborate with experts and other classrooms around the world through the use of video conferencing. Toll also works with students to help publish their work as podcasts, video and blogs.
The Innovative Collaboration of the Year Award honors a business/community/higher-ed/K-12 collaboration or partnership that has demonstrated leadership, dedication and excellence in delivering an innovation to the Minnesota technology economy and/or community in general.
Innovative Collaboration of the Year Award recipient is Fabcon Inc and VAST Enterprises LLC. Minneapolis-based VAST Enterprises LLC and Savage, Minn.-based Fabcon Inc. partnered to launch the first precast wall panel with a composite masonry exterior. The new composite brick introduced by VAST and used in Fabcon's wall panels is made of 95 percent recycled tires and plastic. Over the next five years, these two companies will work together to consume 350 million pounds of recycled material.
This award is presented to companies that have shown great success on software and hardware (Web-based software, Web 2.0, etc.), networking, communications and wireless equipment and products.
Small and growing company recipient is SearchAmerica. Based in Maple Grove, SearchAmerica created Charity Advisor and Medicaid Advisor to enable users to identify all uninsured patients who qualify for hospital charity programs or other government initiatives, and enroll them immediately. These solutions also prevent fraud or identity theft. Since 2001, Charity Advisor and Medicaid Advisor have helped more than five million low-income patients become enrolled in financial assistance programs.
Established company recipient is CareerOneStop.org. Under the guidance of program director Mike Ellsworth, the state of Minnesota has redeveloped CareerOneStop.org, integrating a new Web content management system, a search engine, and a new information architecture and taxonomy. The U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site offers a greater breadth of data than any other public or private site and serves more than 24 million unique visitors each year.
The Medical Technology Awards acknowledge companies excelling in production of devices, diagnostics and equipment relating to the medical field.
Small and growing company recipient is Plymouth-based Nonin Medical Inc. The company is committed to extending healthcare solutions into the home, giving individuals more freedom and reducing medical costs. The company's Onyx II, Model 9560 fingertip pulse oximeter enables clinicians to remotely monitor patients' pulses and oxygen saturation levels. It also allows patients to monitor their own health through online patient health records and home telemedicine systems.
Established company recipient is Eden Prairie-based Starkey Laboratories Inc. The country's largest hearing aid company offers a revolutionary new product, the S Series hearing aid. It offers two innovative new features, T2 and Sweep Technology. T2 allows patients to control their hearing aids using any cell or touch-tone phone. Sweep Technology allows patients to adjust their hearing aids with a touch of the finger.
The Technology Executive of the Year Award honors individual members of executive teams who are responsible for the advancement of technology and technology strategy within a company or organization.
Small and growing company recipient is Phil Isaacson, chief technology officer and owner of Plymouth-based Nonin Medical Inc. Nonin began in Isaacson's basement where the four founders started testing and prototyping their first pulse oximeter. Twenty-four years later, Isaacson's vision continues to drive the company as Nonin works to design for the future and the ever changing healthcare industry.
Established company recipient is Joel Ronning, chief executive officer of Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Digital River Inc. Founded in 1994, Digital River Inc. is the world's leading e commerce solutions provider and has eight global data centers and clients such as Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc. and Kodak. Ronning has worked diligently for the last 15 years to grow a successful Minnesota business, which employs approximately 1,300 professionals, half of whom live in Minnesota.
The Technology Services Award honors companies that succeed in innovative development and/or delivery of technology services, including consulting services, service providers and software as a service.
Small and growing company recipient is Eden Prairie-based Access Genetics LLC. Its Web-based software, laboratory materials and networked professional services have come together in its molecular information system, Access TeleGene. A telepathology Web portal, TeleGene provides expert, real-time interpretations of complex test results delivered by a network of physicians, medical technologists and genetic counselors. It also improves materials management through a Web store and real-time inventory tracking.
Established company recipient is XATA Corporation of Eden Prairie. Its product, XATANET, allows customers to analyze their fleet operations in order to improve procedures and cut costs while adhering to U.S. Department of Transportation regulations. In addition to the technology offered, XATA Corporation provides a variety of professional services, such as product training and custom application development.
The Technology User Award recipient has shown innovative application of products or services resulting in dramatic business improvement or market advantage.
Technology User Award recipient is Honeywell. The Golden Valley, Minn.-based company created a new wireless technology suite designed specifically for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) that eliminates the need to run wires for many applications. RedLINK gives homeowners greater control over comfort and energy use from anywhere in their home. The product has also cut installation time, enabling contractors to handle more jobs.


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I was working on the Red Crane Temple area of Karasang Wilds with Anduin in tow* when I ran into yet another gearcheck wall: the two mini-bosses in the separate wings of the temple. What was more annoying this time was that I was properly equipped with as much green and blue quest gear as would be expected as someone attempting this. If it weren't for the ads that show up when the sha bosses are halfway down I don't think there'd be as much a problem, but those ads force me to use up all of my CDs, and then I'm just a sitting duck in leather gear** trying to build up combo points.
I'd been chatting with Vidyala from Manalicious in-game, and hearing of my latest wipe offered to help. (I'd forgotten about CRZ capability in Pandaria; it's there, lurking beneath the surface.) I gratefully accepted her offer, and when her Mage Millya winged in, I crept around and assaulted the first mini-boss. Two zaps from Vid and the mini-boss was a smoldering heap.
"Holy crap!" I said.
Vid laughed. "You're still L88," she pointed out.
"Yeah, but..." then I noticed her health bar. "You're more than twice my health!"
"Did I ever tell you about the time I tanked Elegon?"
"Yeah, but... Wow." I knew that she was on the current raiding tier, but this discrepancy was almost as much as the discrepancy between a fresh L85 and a Mists-geared L89 in a battleground.
We circled around to the other mini-boss --she flew and I crept over-- and repeated the fireworks.
"All I can think about is how it's going to hurt when I ding L90 and get into a BG," I said, awed, as I thanked her for the assist.
Even now, I can see myself as a smudge on the ground, with the "L2P Noob!" ringing in my pointy ears. Just when you thought you made it to the top of the mountain....
*I'm already sick of that kid. For a Mists release, he sure seems to be fighting with the punch of a Wrath-era toon. I find even Corso (the Smuggler companion on TOR) less annoying than Anduin.
**With a conspicuous opening right between the breasts. Reminds me of the old Female Armor Sucks comedy skit that Collegehumor put out a while back. Yes, go watch it through the link; it's a classic.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Oh, This is Gonna Hurt....
Posted by Redbeard
at 8:00 AM
Labels: blogs, Mists of Pandaria, wow
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Thank you for that, I'd never seen that video before.ReplyDelete
This brought back memories, My feral Druid remembers those mini-bosses and not in a fond way.Replies
"Ow! Right in the shiny part!"Delete
Yes, I've decided to take a break on the last boss there, the Sha of Despair, until I get a bit higher in gear. I came close to taking it out but not enough, and even though I'm sure Vid or someone else would be willing to help out, I ought to figure this out for myself.
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Advancements with the Flexible Collision Checking Library (FCL)
Jia Pan is a PhD student from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. This summer he worked on the FCL library, which is used in the MoveIt! project.
First, he improved the efficiency of collision checking and distance computation. FCL now includes specialized algorithms for collision between geometric primitives and additional broadphase collision algorithms that are amenable for both collision checking and distance computation between many objects.
Secondly, for broadphase collision, Jia focused on the fast construction of broadphase structure. This is very important for collision with sensor data because slow construction of broadphase structures from sensor data received at high frame rates can severely reduce system performance. To reduce the construction overhead, a lazy construction strategy is used to balance the construction cost and collision speed.
Finally, FCL can now perform collision checking with octree representations of the world. In the previous arm_navigation pipeline, regions that are unknown to the robot or are obstructed, are considered as free. This could cause problems when the robot performs actions in the unknown space. To address this issue, FCL now includes the ability to perform collision checking directly with an octree representation of the world.
The octomap library is used to construct an octree representation of the robot's environment. Each cell specified in the octree includes a probability of occupancy. FCL uses the octree structure directly, without the need for an expensive broadphase structure construction step. During collision checking with an octree, FCL determines both whether a collision occurs and a set of cost volumes. A cost volume is represented by the probability of collision, given by the probability of occupancy, and by the volume of the octree cell that incurs that probability of collision.
This capability enables robot to reason about unknown space as well. In particular, when a motion plan is computed, the cost of this plan is evaluated by looking at the intersection of a plan's swept volume and the unknown space. Using this information the robot can decide whether to execute the plan or to perform sensing operations: for example, pointing the head towards the unknown areas of the environment. This loop of planning and sensing additional parts of the environment can be performed multiple times, until the computed motion plan can be executed.
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