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CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Let's start with the deadline. BP, the Justice Department and five Gulf Coast states have about two months to strike a deal before the huge civil trial starts in New Orleans. Attorney General Eric Holder.
ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: I'll be very honest. We have been in negotiations with BP. We have not reached a number that I considered satisfactory.
JOHNSON: There are plenty of reasons the oil giant might want to resolve the case - about 21 billion of them. That's the high end of the price tag if the Justice Department can prove BP was grossly negligent under the standards of the Clean Water Act. Tony West is an associate attorney general who's playing a big role in the civil lawsuit.
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JOHNSON: Let's unpack that a bit. If a company behaves with negligence, it's on the hook for fines of about $1,000 per barrel of oil. But if the government can prove the company acted recklessly by disregarding red flags, that fine increases four-fold. California Democrat Henry Waxman, who helped investigate the spill in the U.S. House, says the Gulf disaster could have been avoided - the heart of the federal government's argument.
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Hymn of Thanksgiving
1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,a
his mercy endures forever.
2Let Israel say:
his mercy endures forever.
3Let the house of Aaron say,
his mercy endures forever.
4Let those who fear the LORD say,b
his mercy endures forever.
5In danger I called on the LORD;
the LORD answered me and set me free.
6The LORD is with me; I am not afraid;
what can mortals do against me?c
7The LORD is with me as my helper;
I shall look in triumph on my foes.
8Better to take refuge in the LORDd
than to put one's trust in mortals.
9Better to take refuge in the LORD
than to put one's trust in princes.
10All the nations surrounded me;
in the LORD's name I cut them off.
11They surrounded me on every side;
in the LORD's name I cut them off.
12They surrounded me like bees;e
they burned up like fire among thorns;
in the LORD's name I cut them off.
13I was hard pressed and falling,
but the LORD came to my help.f
14The LORD, my strength and might,
has become my savior.g
15The joyful shout of deliverance
is heard in the tents of the righteous:
"The LORD's right hand works valiantly;
16the LORD's right hand is raised;
the LORD's right hand works valiantly."
17I shall not die but live
and declare the deeds of the LORD.
18The LORD chastised me harshly,
but did not hand me over to death.
19Open the gates of righteousness;
I will enter and thank the LORD.h
20This is the LORD's own gate,
through it the righteous enter.
21I thank you for you answered me;
you have been my savior.
22*The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.i
23By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
24This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice in it and be glad.
25LORD, grant salvation!*
LORD, grant good fortune!
26Blessed is he
who comes in the name of the LORD.j
We bless you from the house of the LORD.
27The LORD is God and has enlightened us.
Join in procession with leafy branches
up to the horns of the altar.
28You are my God, I give you thanks;
my God, I offer you praise.
29Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
his mercy endures forever.
* [Psalm 118] A thanksgiving liturgy accompanying a procession of the king and the people into the Temple precincts. After an invocation in the form of a litany (Ps 118:1–4), the psalmist (very likely speaking in the name of the community) describes how the people confidently implored God's help (Ps 118:5–9) when hostile peoples threatened its life (Ps 118:10–14); vividly God's rescue is recounted (Ps 118:15–18). Then follows a possible dialogue at the Temple gates between the priests and the psalmist as the latter enters to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice (Ps 118:19–25). Finally, the priests impart their blessing (Ps 118:26–27), and the psalmist sings in gratitude (Ps 118:28–29).
* [118:22] The stone the builders rejected: a proverb: what is insignificant to human beings has become great through divine election. The "stone" may originally have meant the foundation stone or capstone of the Temple. The New Testament interpreted the verse as referring to the death and resurrection of Christ (Mt 21:42; Acts 4:11; cf. Is 28:16 and Rom 9:33; 1 Pt 2:7).
* [118:25] Grant salvation: the Hebrew for this cry has come into English as "Hosanna." This cry and the words in Ps 118:26 were used in the gospels to welcome Jesus entering the Temple on Palm Sunday (Mk 11:9–10).
i. [118:22] Mt 21:42; Lk 20:17; Acts 4:11; Rom 9:33; 1 Pt 2:7.
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4The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again,b "If only we had meat for food! 5We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but this manna."c
7d Manna was like coriander seed* and had the appearance of bdellium. 8When they had gone about and gathered it up, the people would grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar, then cook it in a pot and make it into loaves, with a rich creamy taste. 9At night, when the dew fell upon the camp, the manna also fell.e
10When Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents, so that the LORD became very angry, he was grieved. 11"Why do you treat your servant so badly?" Moses asked the LORD. "Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people? 12Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my breast, like a nurse carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers? 13Where can I get meat to give to all this people? For they are crying to me, 'Give us meat for our food.' 14I cannot carry all this people by myself, for they are too heavy for me. 15If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress."
The Seventy Elders. 16Then the LORD said to Moses: Assemble for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders and authorities among the people, and bring them to the tent of meeting. When they are in place beside you, 17I will come down and speak with you there. I will also take some of the spirit that is on you and will confer it on them, that they may share the burden of the people with you. You will then not have to bear it by yourself.
18To the people, however, you shall say: "Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, when you shall have meat to eat. For in the hearing of the LORD you have cried, 'If only we had meat for food! Oh, how well off we were in Egypt!' Therefore the LORD will give you meat to eat, 19and you will eat it, not for one day, or two days, or five, or ten, or twenty days, 20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected the LORD who is in your midst, and in his presence you have cried, 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"
21But Moses said, "The people around me include six hundred thousand soldiers; yet you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.' 22Can enough sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?" 23The LORD answered Moses: Is this beyond the LORD's reach? You shall see now whether or not what I have said to you takes place.
The Spirit on the Elders. 24So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. Gathering seventy elders of the people, he had them stand around the tent. 25The LORD then came down in the cloud and spoke to him. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, he bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied* but did not continue.
26Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, had remained in the camp, yet the spirit came to rest on them also. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; and so they prophesied in the camp. 27So, when a young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp," 28Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses' aide, said, "My lord, Moses, stop them." 29But Moses answered him, "Are you jealous for my sake? If only all the people of the LORD were prophets! If only the LORD would bestow his spirit on them!" 30Then Moses retired to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
The Quail. 31There arose a windf from the LORD that drove in quail from the sea and left them all around the camp site, to a distance of a day's journey and at a depth of two cubits upon the ground.* 32g So all that day, all night, and all the next day the people set about to gather in the quail. Even the one who got the least gathered ten homers* of them. Then they spread them out all around the camp. 33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it could be chewed, the LORD's wrath flared up against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very great plague. 34So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah,* because it was there that the greedy people were buried.
35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, where they stayed.
* [11:3] Taberah: means "the burning."
* [11:7] Coriander seed: see note on Ex 16:31. Bdellium: a transparent, amber-colored gum resin, which is also mentioned in Gn 2:12.
* [11:25] They prophesied: in the sense, not of foretelling the future, but of speaking in enraptured enthusiasm. Such manifestations are mentioned in the early days of Hebrew prophecy (1 Sm 10:10–12; 19:20–21; Jl 3:1) and in the first years of the Church (Acts 2:6–11, 17; 19:6; 1 Cor 12–14).
* [11:31] The heaps of quail lying upon the ground all around the Israelites' camp suggest the ambiguity of God's response to the people's lament for meat in v. 4 and foreshadow the plague which God will now bring upon Israel (v. 33). Their request had been nothing less than a rejection of what God has done for them (v. 20).
* [11:32] Homers: see note on Is 5:10. They spread them out: to cure by drying.
* [11:34] Kibroth-hattaavah: means "graves of greed."
c. [11:5–6] Nm 21:5; Ex 16:3; Acts 7:39.
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A mission group of 27 young people from Harbor United Methodist Church in Wilmington, NC, shared three days of service time with local families doing work that greatly helped families who could not otherwise have accomplished these jobs.
The summer heat was no match for a Student Life group of youth mission workers from Harbor United Methodist Church in Wilmington, NC. These twenty-seven students and their chaperones worked for two local families over three days.
The families participate in a program called the Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP). The RAPP Program serves caregivers parenting children who are not their biological children and is a kinship resource through the Family and Children's Division of the Forsyth County Department of Social Services.
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The youth mission group believes the words of Gandhi: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
The projects were coordinated by the National Student Life Organization in Birmingham, Alabama, the Student Life Mission Group in Wilmington, NC and the Relatives as Parents Program, RAPP, in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Eliminating Reforging, Hit Rating, and Expertise
So how can we get rid of reforging?
The primary reason that reforging exists is because of Hit Rating and Expertise Rating. In particular, Hit Rating has a very steep value curve that looks like a step function. When you are below the Hit cap, Hit Rating is usually the most valuable stat. Then past the Hit cap, Hit rating is a complete waste. Expertise displays a similar value curve.
So the best path to eliminating reforging would be to eliminate Hit Rating and Expertise Rating. If those two stats were gone, reforging would not be needed. It still might be nice to have, but the extra complexity would outweigh the value it adds to the game.
The easiest way to get rid of Hit and Expertise would be to say that special attacks and spells cannot miss, or be dodged or parried. White melee auto-attacks could still be affected by those stats.
If this was done, the game would not change greatly. Once you hit raiding, pretty much everyone has enough hit to make this the default state anyways. Indeed, Blizzard has started moving towards this state in small steps. First, taunts were changed to always succeed. Then interrupts were changed to always succeed. A lot of threat dumps used to miss, but now always succeed. Extending this to all specials just removes a little randomness.
Then Blizzard just needs to introduce a new stat for melee dps and ranged dps. Perhaps something like changing Expertise to increase autoattack damage. Maybe casters could get a stat like "Spell Charge" which increases damage done by spells with cast or channel times. Then each role would have a unique secondary stat. Healers would have Spirit, tanks have Dodge and Parry, melee DPS would have Expertise, and caster DPS would have Spell Charge.
But none of the remaining secondary stats would display the steep step change of value. They wouldn't go from amazing to useless at a single point. There would still be breakpoints where the value changes slightly, and that would keep the theorycrafters happy. But adding more of stat would always improve your character.
The need for reforging would disappear. Blizzard could eliminate reforging from the game. Mylune would save all the wee forest animals in Hyjal. And we would all live happily ever after.
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Breakpoints and plateaus still exists, but they aren't as extreme as Hit rating. For example, Haste always increases autoshot damage. So even if you are at a plateau, increasing haste will increase your damage. Not by as much as other stats would, true, but it's not zero. Plus, adding haste means you move closer to the next plateau.
Basically, for other stats, reforging would be "nice to have" but not "necessary" the way it is for Hit Rating.
We survived up to Cataclysm without reforging, and if hit/expertise was eliminated, we could probably survive without reforging again.- Anonymous11:04 AM, July 20, 2011
Like Ted said, certain haste breakpoints exist for hot and dot heavy classes. As well, if you remove hit rating from the game, how will elemental shamans, balance druids, and shadow priests deal with spirit on their gear? The shadow priest doesn't matter as much, because warlock and mage gear exists with hit rating on it, but there isn't any leather or mail with int and hit rating on it due to the talents for those casters that convert spirit to hit. Either the talents would change to have spirit convert to spell charge, or there would be three types of mail and leather gear.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous11:06 AM, July 20, 2011
Something to take into consideration is that in PvP reforging tends to be a nice addition because there is a very limited amount of options.
Reforging gives depth by allowing people to make alterations to minor stats making game play more interesting. As a warrior I can go all crit for improved pressure or I can reforge and go heavy on expertise to improve successfully landing a Throwdown. As a holy paladin you can balance your spirit and crit through reforging which allows you to fine tune your character to the team you are playing with.
It's all perception in the end, what I consider depth you consider maintenance. I was almost hoping this was a joke post...but I do not see a punchline anywhere so I have to assume it's not.
Personally I really enjoy the current variety of stats in the game, and have no arguments with the reforging mechanic whatsoever. Both of my plate Tanks can share mastery/hit or mastery/expertise with plate dps. This is rather nice compared to the old method where tank and dps pieces had completely different stats and reforging did not exist. I'd prefer for a piece of loot to drop twice, and be useable by two people of different specs. Previously it would just be usable for one, and would be sharded.
Yes at times reforging can be a pain, and finding out the "right" way to reforge can be tough for some classes and specs. That being said, this is a MMORPG and a bit part of these games is juggling stats, determining the "correct" gearing requirements, etc.
Additionally I do not believe Blizzard has been very successful in the past when they have removed stats. Yes the game is slightly less complicated without MP5, armor penetration and the Defense stat; but the removal of those stats really has obviously not made gearing idiot proof. In some ways they've created more problems by removing stats from the game.- Masterlooter12:00 PM, July 20, 2011
Regarding, "White melee auto-attacks could still be affected by those stats." (miss/dodge/parry)
They'd have to revamp quite a few other mechanics in the game for this to happen. It's not just as simple as saying, "OK, now you have an inate X% chance to miss". Some melee classes and specs are dependant upon having a minimum of X% of their white hits land in their current implementation.
I think removing +hit from the game is an all or nothing deal.
Maybe I misunderstood the intent, but how is Spell Charge different than Spell Power? Just that one doesn't work on instant cast spells?
Also as others have said, this style leads toward gear being specifcally for one class/spec/role. Which is something they specifically said they wanted to move away from. - Xayíde@Gurubashi12:13 PM, July 20, 2011
I must heavily disagree with this post.
Reforging gives you options, gives you flexibility. It's not all about hit, expertise or soft and hard caps in general. You can use it to focus on a specific stat for specific fights/situations, you can make a piece good for more specs that it would be if there wasn't any reforging, you can maximize your potential more easily without depending on piece x or y of gear to drop.
I love reforging since it came out. Does it need external applications so you can make the best of it? Sure, but so do a thousand other things in WoW if you are a min-maxer and personally that's one of the things I most love about the game, its complexity. And having auto-attacks with no guarantee to hit sort of screws other classes who rely on those attacks to generate the pool for their abilities, like Warriors.
While reforging can be a pain, I think it's a necessary addition so that you don't have someone in Tier 14 hanging on to a Tier 11 item just because "nothing else has the same stats." What I don't like about it, however, is the additional cost - the gold sink shouldn't be necessary.I agree, mostly.
Hit and expertise are fairly frustrating stats to deal with (for me, at least). Particularly as a caster, where 8% hit is fine for heroics. Then for raids, you need to MORE THAN DOUBLE that percentage. (17% for spell hit, assuming no buffs.) Just the other night, I got caught with my "hit-pants" down, being plenty capped for heroics and pulling 12k. Then I hopped into a BH PuG and was only doing 8.5k. Just because of that silly hit rating.
As far as reforging goes, I DO like that aspect of the game. I like having additional options of customizing my gear. Certain stats weigh heavier than others in all cases, and reforging lets you play upon those options. (eg: My DK tank, that suffers diminishing returns with excess parry/dodge on the greater stat. It's nice to be able to shave a bit off into one or the other... or into super-sexy mastery.)First of all, hit is the developer's solution to dealing with some raid boss difficulty issues...however, I will have to look for the article that explained this, as I would do the subject great injustice trying to explain it myself. I just recall that removing it creates some pretty annoying problems.
Secondly, reforging isn't hard. It requires a basic understanding of your class, some simple arithmetic, and five minutes of tweaking - or, lacking those or just being lazy, an external app.
Lastly, reforging adds so much more to the game than a way of adjusting to increased hit rating on higher levels of gear! It allows flexibility of play style. On my Restoration Shaman, I can reforge for crit or haste if I want powerful or quick heals; spirit if I don't want to worry about mana; mastery if I expect my raid to take a ton of damage and I want to land big heals consistently under the most pressing circumstances. Those choices and the strategic thought behind them are part of what make the game fun.
Lastly, when I DPS as Ele, much of the gear out there comes with crit - one of our worst stats. Reforging allows me to shift undesirable stats to desirable ones when no alternative pieces of gear with better itemization are available.I couldn't agree more with Xayide, reforging is a vast boon to the game and using external scources to min/max it is no differant than before when I was using RAWR to maximise gems/enchants/certain gear pieces. I would kinda like to see reforging expanded to the entire stat, that way you could have many pieces completely swappable between dps and tanks, and the complete lack of spirit cloth in firelands is alleviated, but admittedly that does make gear even less special and more no-brainer.
I just wish we had reforging last xpac so I wouln't have had to deal with all those terrible armor pen pieces that were so good for other classes but you just couldn't avoid completely.
@darthregis- the hit cap is so high on casters becuase that's all you worry about. Melee only need 8% hit becuase they need to cap expertise as well. To lower the caster hit cap they'd have to make spell penetration necessary for PvE, and you would sill be allocating the same amount of stats to just hitting/penetrating resistance.By many of the arguments here, it would seem people would be thrilled if Blizzard added even more stats and numbers to plug in. More is always better! Let's expand Spell Penetration to being required for bosses, give melee something like Endurance to affect the degree to how successful a hit is, get back to needing Resist sets, maybe adding enchanted gems... the sky is the limit!
I think Rohan's point is that not every decision is a meaningful one. There is nothing meaningful about the Hit cap, or the Expertise cap - like the old Defense cap for tanks, it is simply a number you are required to meet to be effective. "You need to be this tall to raid."
I agree with Rohan on the inelegance of reforging as well, but I believe that exists more as an apology that there is less gear in the game (since 10m and 25m raids were merged). It used to be that you would have more than one piece of gear available per slot depending on when you got an upgrade that pushed you over such-and-such breakpoint. Now, everyone basically has 2 choices, which splits into 4-6 with reforging, depending on which stats are on the gear.The point of the post is that hit and expertise are inelegant stats and should be removed. It's not as if you can tweak them to make meaningful decision. Currently, you reforge to get exactly the required number, which is just wasting time.
Contrast this with the decisions healers can make. For instance, someone can choose to play in a more regen-style (spirit), haste or mastery.
The post is not about reforging in general. Reforging is a good mechanic because it allows the player to tailor the gear to their playstyle.Without reforging it would have been a bit harder for Rohan to see the difference between a Mastery/Crit-heavy Holy Paladin versus a Spirit/Haste Holy Paladin without investing in/grinding/begging for drops of new gear.
It's fairly simple (40% of one stat to another), and allows for that kind of experimentation (along with enchants and gems, of course), which allows you a significant amount of customization of your character.
If you want to argue hit and expertise are clunky, sure, I've no problems with that argument. But that's only a single reason of many for reforging.Azzur does make a good point. I approached the post from the point of eliminating reforging. But it might be that eliminating hit and expertise, and leaving in reforging, is a better path.
Without the absolute caps, the math on reforging becomes a lot easier. For example, I find reforging Holy to be a lot easier than reforging Ret. Just arrange your secondary stats in order of desireability and reforge the lower ones to the higher ones.
And Talarian is also right in that reforging does allow you to "shift gears" without storing a lot of extra armor. It does narrow the gap between a Best-in-Slot piece and a non-Best-in-Slot piece.- Anonymous6:57 AM, July 21, 2011
An alternative to eliminating hit and expertise that would still making reforging less of a hassle would be if you could reforge up to 40% of a stat, instead of always reforging exactly 40% of a stat.
I know that's something I've wished for when trying to juggle around my reforging to cap hit and expertise without going signicantly over. - Anonymous7:23 AM, July 21, 2011
Nah, HR/ER shouldn't be purged altogether. Ideally, they would be based on an "overflow" concept, much like ProtWarr's Shield Block.
After the corresponding caps, HR/ER would improve the critical strikes. In order to elegantly bypass the potential crit-capping issues, post-cap HR/ER would increase the (base) crit multiplier rather than increasing the crit chance itself.
There you go : still useful in PvE, minor impact in PvP. I think the OP could use a little more Hit chance on writting to nail it :P
I find that both the removal of Hit/EX or reforging would have a negative impact for a lot of reasons.
On the matter of reforging: this was added in a haste (imho), and surely the introduction could be a little better and a better UI is needed. However, it was added for more than juggling Hit stats. I find it really useful during leveling of a new character, where a lot of quest rewards are upgrades but they have stats I don't need and can use reforging to twist them around and have a feeling of power.
Another thing reforging is good at is the shift in modes you can achieve even in the same spec with the same -more or less- gear. The holy pala changes in 4.2 and the shift to Mastery for 25mans could be an example to that. If I need fast reactions, I change my excess into haste, if I want huge bubbles I go all Mastery.
Now the issue of Hit/EX is a bit more complicated. I mean, sure you could make everything NOT miss, but you end up with an ininteresting game. Sometimes having a miss or two can spice up any fight. You could make yellows never miss and let whites miss by RNG. But then RNG is a bitch and we really like having a way to affect all that. I mean, if we liked RNG then emblems and badges and tokens for gear are such a useless drain of depeloper time...
So I guess we have to a) accept fate for what it is, or b) propose a more meaningful (?) way to remove the hard cap on hit stats. Something quite easy, like having the game automatically convert any such stat above the ceiling into another secondary stat, at whatever small quantity, even if it picks the most undesirable one. I mean 1 Hit could become 0.1 Haste for a prot paly, which is such a waste, but 1 Hit above the hard cap is worse.
You will still prefer to read up and tweak your numbers if you are a min-maxer, but it won't be as punishing if you don't hit the golden line, or if you are such a noobling and get yourself filthy rich in Hit as a healer...How does the proposed Spell Charge stat differ from Spell Power? It really just seems like a slightly different flavor of the same stat, kind of like the way feral combat skill rating was the same as weapon skill rating, just with a different name.
I do think hit rating and expertise rating are a bit of an odd duck in terms of stats. I wish they could make them work with other classes more the way they do with feral kitties.... they're good stats, but they're not the end-all, be-all until cap and then worthless after cap.
I think if they would just make it so that you could never feasibly get hit/exp capped, in the same way as you cannot reasonably get crit capped or haste capped, then the stat would work a little better too. As long as we were balanced around not being capped on hit/exp, then I think it would be better. Hit and expertise would never be bad, they would always be good, and you wouldn't feel like you had to sacrifice everything for them while gearing up.@snuzzle: I don't think making hit stats unable to cap is a realistic goal. I mean, if you always have a chance to miss, you will either get all the Hit gear you can, gem, enchant, reforge for it, and still miss, or remove Hit and make it RNG.
In the first case, you are making things worse, in the later case, well none likes RNG. Still, of the two I would pick the RNG. Effectively it is the same, and you won't have to go crazy.
Anyone with a more elegant solution?I'm pretty sure there will always be a need to reforge, no matter how minimal. To avoid DM for tanks with too much parry in compare to dodge. For hunters between haste plateaus.
Other than that some classes just benefit very little from certain stats (such as enhancement shaman and crit).
Hitting the hit and expertise caps aren't that much of a problem. Reforging often allows me to reach those caps alot more precise than passing them by say 100 rating because one piece has just a little too few points of hit.
WoW has become all about customising, first the glyphs, now your gear, I don't think they'll be removing it any time soon.
As for taunts and interrupts, they have become critical if not mandatory for certain encounters (specially with mediocre gear), which is likely the reason they never miss these days.- GlaVek3:30 PM, July 24, 2011
I think hit and expertise are fun stats - otherwise you make mindless choices of whatever has the most primary stat, with perhaps influence giving to a desirable secondary stat to choose between.
I think reforging is the single most foundational change to the game in the 3 years that I have played, and it's a delightful one. Improvements to its design would be:
A) Reforge cost is a % of vendor cost, but not the 100% it is presently, and
B) A way to save reforge sets in game, similar to the Equipment Manager. But this I only wish for on my triple/quadruple hybrids who are paladin or druid. Hmm... I'm not so sure I like the idea of having special attacks always hit. That would make any average Rogue an unstoppable juggernaut in BGs.
What might be smarter is that the Hit Rating and Expertise rating is directly tied to your level without adjustments. If you're up against a boss a couple of levels higher than you, it may suck but you're going to miss a certain percentage of the time. (After all, that's why they're a boss, right?)
Outside of that, I like the idea at least limiting Reforging. It seems that Reforging as implemented is Blizz' lazy way out of having to tweak gear. Maybe a smarter idea is to allow more gem slots and removing one of the bonuses in most gear Blue and up in rarity.


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See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
HTML and XHTML
This technique relates to:
The objective of this technique is to provide a logical tab order when the default tab order does not suffice. Often, G59: Placing the interactive elements in an order that follows sequences and relationships within the content is sufficient and this technique is not necessary. It can be very easy to introduce usability bugs when setting the tab order explicitly.
In some cases, the author may want to specify a tab order that follows relationships in
the content without following the order of the interactive elements in the code. In
these cases, an alternative order can be specified using the tabindex
attribute of the interactive element. The tabindex
is given a value between
0 and 32767.
When the interactive elements are navigated using the tab key, the elements are given
focus in increasing order of the value of their tabindex
Elements that have a tabindex
value higher than zero will receive focus
before elements without a tabindex
or a tabindex
of 0. After
all of the elements with a tabindex higher than 0 have received focus, the rest of the
interactive elements are given focus in the order in which they appear in the Web
A genealogical search form searches for marriage records. The search form includes
several input fields for the bride and the groom. The form is marked up using a data
table that includes the fields of the groom in the first column and the fields of
the bride in the second column. The order in the content is row by row but the
author feels it is more logical to navigate the form column by column. This way, all
the groom's criteria can be filled in before moving on to the bride's criteria. The
attributes of the input fields are used to specify a tab
order that navigates column by column.
Example Code:
<form action="#" method="post">

Search for marriage records

Search criteria
First name
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="groomfirst"
title="First name of the groom" tabindex="1">
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="bridefirst"
title="First name of the bride" tabindex="4">
Last name
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="groomlast"
title="Last name of the groom" tabindex="2">
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="bridelast"
title="Last name of the bride" tabindex="5">
Place of birth
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="groombirth"
title="Place of birth of the groom" tabindex="3">
<input type="text" size="30" value="" name="bridebirth"
title="Place of birth of the bride" tabindex="6">
A Web page contains a search field in the upper right corner. The field is given tabindex="1" so that it will occur first in the tab order, even though it is not first in the content order.
values need not be sequential nor must they begin with any
particular value. The values do not have to be unique. Elements that have identical
values are navigated in the order they appear in the
character stream.
In sections of the content where the tab order follows the content order, it can be less error prone to give all elements the same tabindex value rather than specifying a different number for each element. Then it is easy to rearrange those elements or add new elements and maintain a logical tab order.
Example Code:
First link in list
Second link in list
Link that was added long
after the original list was created
Third link in list
Twentieth link in list
Resources are for information purposes only, no endorsement implied.
Check if tabindex
is used
If tabindex
is used, check that the tab order specified by the
attributes follows relationships in the content.
Check #2 is true.
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Buttons Diapers was founded by a husband and wife team, who wanted to come up with an easy and affordable way to use cloth diapers. They came up with a wonderful one-size cover (available in 5 colors) and two size insert system. They also have a nighttime insert to double up with the daytime insert. It's really simple. There aren't a lot of bells and whistles (like various types of inserts, patterned covers, etc.), but the colors they have are adorable, and the system works wonderfully! Needless to say, they get the job done.
Amy, from Buttons Diapers, sent me a pebbles cover (which I absolutely love! The grey isn't like any other diaper we have), as well as a daytime and a nighttime insert.
it came packaged adorably! |
double leg gusset |
daytime insert on the left; nighttime insert on the right |
There's two snaps, one at the front and one at the back, which I really appreciate. This keeps the insert from shifting around while baby's playing and wiggling around. To use the diaper for nighttime, you just snap the daytime insert on top of the nighttime insert and then snap both of them into the cover. Here's what the diaper looks like with the insert snapped in:
sorry this isn't the greatest picture....squirmy toddler..... |
Now, the only thing about the nighttime insert that I didn't love was that the two inserts barely fit into the cover. It seemed like it was about to peek out the back-top of the diaper the whole time, which made me a little worried about the liquid wicking onto his pajamas. It didn't happen-we were completely leak free all night, which is a really big deal for us! But it still gets me a little nervous to see how close the insert gets to the top of the cover. Aside from that, the nighttime insert worked so great! I also love that it's a really easy solution for dads or babysitters. Sometimes my other nighttime solutions are a little involved, with fitteds, wool covers, etc. So, this would be a great nighttime solution, especially for when someone other than me is putting Myles to bed! Just snap the inserts in and they're ready to snap it on him!


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A piece of pork belly – about 1.5 pound
1 piece fermented red bean curd (Nam Yee)
1 tsp of 5 spice powder
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp of garlic powder
1 tsp of sugar
For the skin:
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp of white vinegar
Scored the skin all over with a sharp knife
Removed the charring bits with a paring knife
1. Washed and pat dry the meat. Use a sharp knife, score the skin all over.
2. In a small bowl add in fermented bean curd, 5 spice powder, salt, garlic and sugar. Mix well and rub it all over the meat side of the pork.
3. Place the pork belly, meat side down on a baking tray. Then rub the other 1 tsp of salt all over the skin.
4. Place the meat uncovered in the refrigerator overnight until an hour before roasting. The air in the fridge will dry out the pork skin.
5. Pre-heat the oven to 400 degree F. Place the meat on a rack, skin side up and put a tray underneath the rack with some water in it to catch the fat dripping while roasting so the drips won't smoke up your oven.
6. Brush the skin with vinegar. Roast about 50 minutes and at this stage you can see the skin started to bubble and blister all over
7. Switch the oven to grill/broil, move the meat closer to the top and let the skin crackle all over. This will take another 10-15 minutes.
8. Let the meat rest for 15 min before cutting into it.
Look at the bubble and blister on the skin
Note: If the skin gets too charred you can always scrape it away with a paring knife.


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A Rejoinder with Fate
You find your perfect line. A single boulder, angular and monolithic, claws skyward and crowds into the blue. It is high and a bit scary. It's morning, so the air is crisp and cool enough to boulder in the sun, and this line ignites with crimson and gold, a collage of the sunrise painted on the rock face. The line is known by your mind, but a mystery to your body. You stand below, miming the moves—match crimp to a great side-pull, retch the feet higher and lunge out right and once again on small, positive edges. Reset and lunge twice more, past what seems a lifetime of smooth granite to that final jug, a rest, before the six-foot runnel leads you to the perfectly level rooftop of your perfectly dreamy climb.
This is the line before me now, and with 94 hours left in Hampi, this is the line I will break my leg on.
No Guidebooks Allowed
The wind whistles across the Rishimun Plateau, a rolling plain of granite shelves infested with enormous golden-orange boulders. The distant banana plantations sway and croon to the south, while to our north the landscape erupts lime green on every side, rice paddies tiding in symmetry with the breeze. Women draped in embroidered red, yellow and purple saris mill across the dirt and mud scaffolding bisecting the paddies, carrying banana loads or ancient farming equipment or drying clothing balanced on their heads, impervious to the wind and our prying eyes.
This agricultural tapestry, however exotic and romantic, cannot be climbed, and so we proceed to the Cosmic Cave area, huddling around a new project, hands dusted white and screaming with granite torture, mouths slack as we survey the beautiful right-leaning arete above.
"This is the hold?" asks Alon, a mischievous Israeli climber roaming the Indian subcontinent, fingering the business end of a hideous open-hand pinch.
"That's the hold," Travis says, shrugging, disappointed himself.
"That one?" Alon screeches, his head tilted in indignation, left hand poking the smooth granite like a Neanderthal toying a Rubik's Cube.
"Yup, that's it."
"Ooohhhh, Jesus," Alon whispers, dropping his hand and taking two steps back, looking stunned and dazed. "Jesus? Why do I say Jesus? I'm Jewish!"
When he asks for the guidebook, hoping to confirm the stout grade of this personal testpiece, we all start laughing. We destroyed the guidebook days ago.
The End Of The Rainbow
In the heart of the state Karnataka, near the eastern border of Andhra Pradesh, south of Delhi, south from Mumbai and the breathtaking dichotomy of global economic progress and miserable, heart-rending poverty, lies the small village of Hampi. Long ago, travelers, emissaries, traders and pilgrims from all corners of the globe referred to Hampi as Vijayanagara, "City of Victory," the famed, exceptionally wealthy and most powerful of all of south India's kingdoms.
Tucked onto the banks of the meandering Tungabhadra River, shouldered to the south by temple-pocked Matanga Hill and the north by Anjenadri Hill, Hampi explodes outward in a stellar constellation of pristine granite boulders, rent by millions of years of exposure and erosion, for as far as the eye can reach in every direction. From this vast granite acreage, kings and their subjects harvested the foundations of magnificent temples, royal centers and religious sites, now offering both the tourist and pilgrim a living history of a kingdom lost and an intimate panorama of Hindu worship, especially those gods associated with the heroic exploits outlined in the Ramayana. For the visiting climber the sprawl of the surrounding area is no less magical. Hampi's golden boulders, stacked and heaped upon themselves, are the metaphorical end of the rainbow.
Our group of climbers, numbering somewhere between six and nine throughout the month-long trip, have also come here from all corners of the earth. Some of us will write, some of us will photograph, and some of us will study native Ayurvedic techniques or volunteer at the local grade school. All of us have come, however, to find that bit of wilderness, that bit of freedom and adventure somehow lost to the Westerner, slowly whittled out of our daily existence by life's more mundane constrictions. Hampi, we will find, offers it all in spades, in wild and sometimes manic but always beautiful indifference.
Little Cave, Big Hampi
Three hundred feet below us, huddled beneath the umbra of palm trees, four women clap and whoop, raising their hands and waving happily. My friend Merrick and I have just roared, grunted and slapped our way up a chunky little line, which has hogged most of our morning. I put my palms together in a gesture of peace and friendship; I've never felt this good.
Today has been one you dream about when flying overseas for a bouldering trip to Asia. The crew has been on an absolute rampage, sending nearly every line we scope and busting our tips like masochists on those that seem remotely possible. From lowball huck-fests to heel-hooking traverses to shadowed, bat-plagued cave routes, we've been tearing our favorite cave area up and down. We have no sponsors and no itinerary, no damn 8a.nu scorecards and no V12 tick lists. This trip, and especially today, has been about adventure, and from run-ins with aggravated king cobras to shifty monkeys, these particular boulders are our gateway to equanimity, to head-space unhindered. Since chucking the guidebook we've come to call this cluster of nine or ten leaning boulders the Little Cave Area. Our crew features climbers of six months and those of 15 years, those who crave the flow and those who want to growl, and these golden-brown monsters lend us a bit of everything.
The Little Cave Area offers a microcosm of what Hampi means to the visiting climber. Among these few crystal-sharp blocks, on this one afternoon, we have topped out on almost 15 different problems, ranging from long warm-ups on perfect stone to horrifying highballs where an out-of-control fall could send you spinning and doomed into a 40-foot abyss.
But more than this, more than anything, the Little Cave Area feels like ours, despite likely prior development; it feels like our own discovery. This is Hampi's gift, a feeling of wildness not tamed but harnessed for a short time and then set free, a dream not deferred but passed on and retold by the next crew.
Breaking Bones at the Hanuman Monkey Temple
Ninety-six slim hours remain before our crew is scheduled to head across the globe and new destinations, scattering from Korea to Colorado. The rear end of a month-long climbing excursion in paradise lay at our sandaled feet, and as with any road trip, the last week with the boulders is the time to push the limits, both mentally and physically. Wake earlier, rally the projects, go higher than your mother would ever recommend – send every beautiful line hidden atop every granite plateau employing every bit of style and power you've gleaned from all time spent on rock, ever. Climb with purpose and grace, because when that plane lands, it's back to the office, back to the rent and car payment, back to washing behind the damn ears.
All of this races through my head as a brief bus ride spirits us to the foot of the monkey temple, Hanuman's awesome mansion. Over 600 granite steps lead to one of Hampi's architectural jewels, a white granite temple complex tucked among the boulders high atop a hill, a Hindu place of worship and pilgrimage, though controlled with Mafioso diligence by hundreds of monkeys darting in and out of the cavernous rocks.
The temple, however, will have to wait. We're off to explore the slightly pitched granite plain below, home to a forest of boulders, many seemingly unspoiled, all new to us.
And here, alone and stolid, is my singular line, defiantly rising skyward above the surrounding blocks of sun-seared granite. All these weeks in Hampi, all those busted tips and maniacal yawps and line after line of blameless stone, and only now do I see it. Has it been waiting for me?
I tear myself away from the boulder and begin a half-hearted warm-up session, unconsciously gazing over my shoulder at the route, almost always mid-top-out on every chill line, all refusing to retain my focus. On their own these moderates would launch me into a head-spinning froth, but my mind is blazing in the most basic sense, a psychosomatic preparation charging through me with no mindfulness of the physical problems I'm readying myself on. Halfway through the opening crescendo of another warm-up, I leap from midway up a slabby incline and charge off to my destiny.
After a handful of attempts, a good deal of sussing for anything loose or chossy, and a serious debate over our one pad placement, I am standing next to Travis, both of us staring affectionately at the line.
"Dude," I whisper, "if this thing goes it'll be the crown jewel of my bouldering trip." I have very seldom felt this urge, a soul consuming desire to stand on top of a rock, just once, on this day, in this perfect heaven of bouldering. I can taste the rock, my fingers are home on these holds; it's all I want.
I chalk my hands as if putting on winter mittens and look back past my spotters toward two grinning goat shepherds who have squatted nearby to watch the crazed American scale this rock he's been fondling and mewling over for the past 20 minutes. They bobble their heads and wiggle their arms skyward, goading me for a show. I wonder what they're chirping about to each other, if they'd like to see me triumphant and hooting after an entirely harmonious send, or lumped in a ball of failure, stewing and cursing and acting altogether inharmonious. Either way, these thoughts being cockamamie gibberish, I suppose this is the green light I've been waiting for. I nod at the goat-men, nod at myself, nod at the rock and my spotters, and I'm off.
After 12 feet of climbing, my mind a hollow pot receiving each new move, each shallow divot and biting side pull, I'm shaking out on a deep crimping rail, my eyes focused on a bulbous pinch three feet above and to the left, the final strenuous move. I set my feet, swing out and lunge for the hold, snagging it with perfect mindless simplicity. One move left. I cut my feet, reset them, draw my right hand slowly over to match on the exit hold, and in that moment the unthinkable happens.
My final exit hold lives up to its name by exploding off the rock, detached and heavy and totally objectionable in my hand, pitching me into a wild, twisting downward mess of flailing arms and legs. My spotters, at that moment bent over and moving the pad left to where the lunge should have taken me, get only one hand on my back as I crash into the ground, one foot on the pad and safe, the other smashing with a twist and snap onto the granite earth.
Prostrate and slithering, I'm squinting through the pain into the cloudless sky, still holding the fissured pinch in my left hand, wondering what the hell happened. I stand up and fall down, trying not to curse and failing miserably, then stand up and fall again. As I rave about broken holds and broken bones and the broken chasm standing between my swelling leg and the granite world now taunting my foul words, the shepherds stand quickly, and say, "Oh oh oh, bad luck, baba!"
Bad Luck Hospital
"Climbing rocks … so dangerous," the doctor says, his head bobbling, hands shuffling invisible cards deep inside his gray slacks pockets. He looks tired, even exhausted, but he's tap danced around my bloated leg and X-ray results for long enough. "You have bad luck, I think."
"Yeah, so I've heard," I mumble, my mind shoveling dopamine onto the rising flames of an anxiety attack. "But what's the prognosis?"
"Well, it does not look good. You have a broken leg." Head still bobbling, hands still shuffling cards.
I look at my friend Travis, slumped next to me and looking suitably crestfallen. "I knew it, man, I knew it," I whisper. Travis purses his lips and I purse my lips and the doctor shuffles his invisible cards.
Somewhere in the dimly lit vestibule of this grimy third-world hospital, a nurse plucks the television from a bleating Bollywood song to an Indian sit-com, neither of which I can fathom nor appreciate, and for this moment, all hope is lost.
Homeward Bound: At the Guntakal Train Station, Somewhere Between Hampi and Mumbai
"What the hell! The train's going!" Though I have now surrendered almost all recognizable human function, I look up through the fog of mental collapse, leaning dangerously ahead of my crutches onto my one good leg. Paul is all fluttering arms and bursts of foul English, a gentle bird suddenly perverted with fury. Kyler, our stoic photographer, shuffles from one foot to the other, observing this mad creature's habits, tinkering with the notion of snapping a couple photos for posterity's sake. This ancient train, awash in humanity, has indeed begun chuffing along.
Here in the tight aisle stand maybe 20 Indian men, drunk and belligerent with curiosity; three beefy, rigid, khaki-clad police officers; and us three: soiled, unshowered and basically indecent climbers, one of which now ponders the effects of a berserker attack with thrashing crutches and stout leg cast. The air outside is humid and thick on this October night, which basically means it's stinking hot and altogether unpleasant standing squeezed shoulder to shoulder.
We have caused some small cataclysm by falsely claiming seats on this particular Mumbai-bound train, been chucked off by its current residents as impudent nincompoops, wrangled and interrogated by the police on the station platform, and finally thrown back aboard. My broken leg is barking like a crazed dog and thoughts of amputation strangle my cognitive capacity, though I know this to be nonsensical. But traveling for six days on an unmended and cleaved tibia, through the Indian hinterland in stuttering rickshaws and lurching cabs, from which I will continue overseas for two days in Korea, then finally to the States … have stranger things happened? Damn right they have. I'm screwed.
The mustachioed, barrel-chested head cop spreads his thick arms like a horrific and flightless beast, nods at the men who have our seats, now cross-armed and triumphant, and begins shuffling us toward the exit. His heft collides into me, wobbling my crutches, and I am reminded of any number of unfortunate incidents shared with hulking bouncers. Once again, it seems, my friends and I are the corrupted and bellicose ruffians around whom this nasty affair has ballooned.
"Go!" he barks down the aisle, and all of us decide this to be the best course of action.
"GO!" We pinball our way through the maw, wide-eyed Indians still asking us what our seat numbers are, where we are from, what are our names. No time, my good fellows! I think, as the train continues, picking up speed. Must be off!
The brawny cop corrals us to the end of the cabin, where we see the doorway yawning open and the ground zipping by in a dark blur. Paul, beside himself with disbelief, bellows to the cop, asking how he could throw a man on crutches out of a moving train.
"For God's sake, man, can't you see he has a broken leg?" What sort of brutish bastard would allow such an atrocity, what type of apathetic scoundrel would huck a wounded tourist from a moving train, lurching along at almost 15 mph. Our man blinks, bear hugs me across the chest, enclosing my breadth with disturbing ease, closes his eyes and roars, "You go, now!"
Kyler replaces Jesus' middle name with an F-bomb and leaps from the train, the night instantly swallowing him and his indecorous verbiage. Paul, next in line and radiant in his sullen majesty, flings himself into the dark, but does not disappear for long. After a moment, he reappears like a grungy phoenix. He catches my heaved crutches and braces for the world's first spot of a Yankee climber with a broken leg jumping from a moving train in the middle of the Indian night. I wrench myself from the arms of the policeman, and am surprised to see him, lower lip tucked under his upper mandible, actually disquieted by this whole circus. I have little time for a chin-quivering moment shared with the colossus whose singular charge is to eject me out of a huffing train. Dumping icy water on our intimate kindling, I toss him a roaring "Tally Ho!" and I'm off into the night.
Customs With A Cast
The afternoon sun slowly disappears into the poisonous cloud that engulfs Mumbai, another brilliant sunset dancing in its own irony. At any one time, I am told, some one million domestic fires choke the sky in and around Mumbai, and I am thankful to be sitting in the airport's customs annex. Kind of. This wheelchair is killing my ass, and because all four wheels are too tiny for me to assist myself, an airport employee stands fussing over my back like an infant's mother.
"How did this happen?" a tall, well-manicured policeman demands, standing very erect and very near and pointing his finger at the muddled arts project that is my casted leg. His comrades patrol nearby, assault rifles slung over their backs.
"I broke my leg rock climbing. In Hampi."
"Hampi? When did this happen?" he asks, bending down to get a closer look at the cast.
My man, seems like a year ago, I think.
"Five days ago, at Hanuman Temple." Despite myself, I'm giving too much information and hoping to sound convincing while his impressive intensity demands I must be a filthy liar.
"And where did you get this?" he asks of my cast.
"In a hospital in Hospet. Pretty bad, huh?" I say, letting loose a stunted chuckle. He grunts hmph, assesses my ticket and passport again, and finally squares on me.
"Show me a receipt, please. A hospital receipt," he says, boring holes through all the truth in my consciousness.
"A receipt? I, uhhh …"
Fumbling through the pack resting on my lap, I turn up the mystery drugs the doctor had given me on my first night at the hospital, wrapped in the crinkled prescription form he had obliged me not to misplace.
I hand him the prescription sheet and he breezily scans it, frowning and losing both his upper and lower lip to the tremendous volume of his black mustache.
"This is not a receipt. Do you have a receipt for the … leg? For the …" He obviously doesn't know the word "cast." but I can hardly blame the poor fellow. The rapidly rotting shell of plaster and fabric could hardly be mistaken for a cast.
"No. I mean, I don't have it anymore. Why do I need a receipt?" I ask with all the fawning innocence I can muster, displaying my undeniable talent for and mostly confirmed status as a "Stupid American."
"We cannot let you pass without a receipt, sir. We must have it. Or we could take it off. This is how people smuggle in India."
"Well, what about sliding me through the x-ray?" I suggest, snorting a pitiful laugh. The officer darkens and does not smile, and again I butcher my humor muse mercilessly about the head and face with a rounded, blunt object.
"OK, let me look again," I say, again shuffling through my pack, grabbing whatever proof I can to confirm my rock-climbing exploits in Hampi.
"Here's my journal. Read it, if you want, it's every day I was in Hampi," I appeal, shoving my Indian notebook into the officer's hand. He frowns at the cover, which features a scantily clad Bollywood actress crooning, then opens and shuffles through the pages. He frowns a lot. As he closes my notebook, visibly unimpressed, I find my camera, click it to life and hand it over.
"These are all pictures of us climbing in Hampi. The last pictures should be at the hospital."
My chest is growing tighter. Seconds linger as he flips through my photos with his right hand, my useless meds and journal folded under his left arm.
And then, as if the sunrise has exploded through the pollution of a billion street fires, the officer smiles, hands my stuff back to me, and casually nods Paul, my noble chair pusher, and me to carry on. This man has most certainly had enough of me and my stammering lawlessness.
"You can understand our concern," he says, seemingly shedding height by the inch. "But I believe you, of course. Have a good flight, and I am sorry for the leg. This is bad luck."
Karma Happens
The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines having luck as "to prosper or succeed especially through chance or good fortune." So bad luck must, well, be the opposite. I've been ruminating lately, crutches still nearby, on all that talk of "bad luck" in Hampi. Was I really unlucky, like the goat herders said, that one moment crashing into the deck? Was that simply the inauspicious extension of chance?
All the way to India we traveled, searching for magic and enlightenment and adventure. We befriended local shopkeepers and their children, doctors and farmers and tourists. We tangled with the police and god-awful sticker peddlers and their twisted kin, a treacherous rickshaw pilot, all looking for a bit of exotic wisdom. Some have suggested luck is just another form of superstition, and that karma is the universal truth. But alas, I've only found that some things just happen.
Photos: Kyler Deutmeyer