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NB: This has all changed with the removal of the 6% crit reduction for locks and non-prot warriors, this change relegates lock "tanking" to low level mobs or purely spell based bosses. If you are reading this and would like me to do a full on guide for the kind of tanking we can now do, please let me know in the comments. It's going to be extremely situational in progression raiding so I won't be doing too much on it unless I get some feedback!!!!
It appears that despite what Ghostcrawler has said in the past, as of the current beta build (5.0.1 (15781)), Warlocks appear to be a fully functional, raid worthy, tank. I have tanked many random heroics as well as organized guild groups and even the current raid content out for testing. Threat generation is a non issue and healer feedback has ranged from "just fine" to being "way easier to heal than other tanks". I'm sure most of this is due to the skill level and game knowledge of various tanks but it's a good indication that there are not glaring deficiencies in our abilities to fill that role. Before anyone makes assumptions, no, warlocks cannot queue as tanks nor can we "roll" on tank trinkets or gear in group loot situations. However, what we can do is keep the attention of the trash and bosses in an instance away from the rest of the group and stay alive while doing so.
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Warlock Tanking Basics:
I assume most of you know this already but for those of you who don't know the answer to "how the fuck are warlocks a tank?" I'll address that here in brief. In Mists, for I will be referring to Mists of Pandaria by this moniker as I hate that people have settled on calling it "mop", Warlocks have been given a glyph called Glyph of Demon Hunting. The glyph grants a Demonology warlock the ability Dark Apotheosis (DA) which does the following "You imbue yourself with demonic energies, reducing damage taken by 15.10% and allows the use of various demonic abilities. In addition, Soulshatter taunts your target, Twilight Ward will absorb all schools of damage and Demonic Slash is shorter range and generates fury." What the glyph description neglects to mention is that Dark Apotheosis also grants the Warlock 500% increased threat and massively increased armor combine that with the taunt and we have the basic scaffolding on which we can construct a tank build. Please read on for the details.
Warlock Tanking Details:
Okay, so we've covered the basic passives as well as the fact that SS becomes a taunt. The damage reduction in DA scales, but not terribly well with mastery. Since tool-tips tend to be pretty off in the beta and numbers tuning for mastery is one of the last things done due to the fact it's almost always a flat increase to something it's hard to tell how this will compare to what innate reduction other tanks get at 90 but currently I have ~7.5k mastery and that increases the reduced damage by ~10%. With out DA I have ~16k armor which becomes ~50k with DA active. Let's move on to discuss the active abilities and cool downs.
Base Abilities:
As mentioned in the glyph description, Twilight Ward becomes Fury Ward, an absorb shield with a 10 second cool down that scales with spell power and costs 200 fury to use. Think of fury as a resource similar to a DKs Runic Power, it's generated from specific attacks and is spent to use most of your abilities, as compared to something like Rage which is generated by getting hit. The other base ability of note is Unending Resolve, this ability is a 12 second long, 3 minute CD 50% reduced damage CD, it's very nice.
In addition to Fury Ward you have two (three) other primary fury dumps. The first is Immolation Aura, free to cast but a cost of 25 fury per second. This is nice for picking up any adds that wander into the area or simply dumping fury while you are off tanking (NB: unlimited range refers to the cast, the AoE pulse is the same as hellfire on live. Secondly you have Void Ray, not only will this refresh corruption on any target it hits it also hits for decent single target numbers as well as every other target in a line. The reason I mention a possible third ability is the use of Drain Life. Now as a base, warlocks don't have any dodge, so the fact that you can't dodge while channeling (last I checked) is only an issue when you start gemming/enchanting or gearing with dodge but with such low dodge values the survivability gain for the first few percentages are going to be important so I recommend against this in most cases. In the event you are needed to be used as an interrupt on a given fight, carrion swarm is also a 50 fury dump but has a 12 second CD or if you are the only tank you can bring "Weakened Blows" in the form or our Aura of Enfeeblement.
We've discussed fury spending but how is it generated? There are four main sources of fury when in DA. The first is from your pet as your pet's base attack ability generates fury, so make sure it's always attacking. The fire bolts from your Wild Imps also generate fury but that's really a fairly passive source as you have little control over it unless you choose to glyph it. The three spells in our own repertoire that generate fury are Demonic Slash, Corruption, and Hand of Gul'dan. When in DA, D. Slash has three charges, is on a one second global, and charges regenerate every 5 seconds modified by haste and generates 60 fury when used (currently it still generates fury even if it misses). Corruption is it's same old self, costs mana while in DA and generates 6 fury every tick (3 second tick interval modified by haste).
The last spell is Hand of Gul'dan, which generates 2 fury per tick of the DoT effect has 2 charges and these charges regenerate every 15 seconds. The applied dot ticks once per second but it has a weird stacking mechanic (it appears that the damage gained through the SP coefficient is multiplied by the stack count but the base damage is not) so rather than maximize fury gain by making sure you get the full number of ticks out of every HoG cast you're likely going to want to clip the last tick so that you have normal_ticks-1 ticks of a one stack HoG dot and then normal_ticks of a 2 stack HoG dot but I digress. These are your basic abilities there are a lot of other niche abilities and perhaps even a core one I've overlooked while writing this up but this is the general idea.
Talents and Glyphs:
Here is a link to the talent and glyph build I use on the beta right now, keep in mind that some of the things don't do exactly as they say in the calculator and exact numbers are always being tuned. On the first tier it's hard to argue that there's a better choice for boss fights other than the 25% increased healing CD provided by Dark Regeneration as well as HoT.
The second tier of talents is an even easier choice. There may be some encounters where you want the stun or AoE fear but your go to talent should be the 15% self heal on a 45 second CD. The third tier is where it gets kind of interesting. Currently I can't see any reason for a main tank not to take Soul Link. If you are using the Void Lord as your pet it gives you a health pool that is essentially 200k higher than what you have personally at raid testing gear levels (for raid testing I was sitting at over 600k total health pool between the two of us). There may be some select encounters where one will want to use one of the other options but with the way SL works right now it's just too good to pass up, more details on that below.
The 4th tier is kind of a wash as far as tanks go, it's possible that some fights will have a use for increased movement at the cost of a percentage of your health or the ability to cleanse yourself at a health cost but in general I don't use the talents in this tier too often out side of specific raid bosses. The 5th talent selection is based primarily on the fact that the improved demons also have 20% increased health, this combined with Soul Link gives you an extra ~40k to your health pool.
The final and 6th tier is a choice that's based on your roll in a specific encounter, most encounters will lend themselves to a tank taking Archimonde's Vengeance but I can certainly see some fights where having the range on your Immolation Aura doubled would be very nice.
Glyph choice is much more encounter based. Minor glyphs are mostly cosmetic, I'd recommend Carrion Swarm if it's an encounter where an AoE knock back would be frowned upon and Hand of Gul'dan if there's an encounter where you'd like to be able to drop HoG in a specific location rather than centered on a target.
Major Glyphs are reduced down to two choices since one slot is obviously taken up by the Glyph of Demon Hunting. Currently Glyph of Demon Training doesn't increase the total health of the Void Lord so if you're running the Grimoire of Supremacy talent then you shouldn't take this unless the "bug" is fixed. There are 3 other real glyph options as a tank, Dark Soul I'd recommend for any fight where maintaining a constant level of damage reduction is better than having a larger CD. Siphon Life is not awful if you're working on an encounter where there are multiple adds and/or you are able to take advantage of the healing though in general your EH will be higher due to the DS glyph than SL. Health Stone is the last real glyph option and in general I'd recommend against it. My experience in raids so far suggests that 20% instant heal is worth more to you and your healers than a 40% heal over 10 seconds. That being said I'm sure there will be encounters where a large hot like that will out weigh the instant heal.
There are some other glyphs worth discussing and when/if I think they might be used; Glyph of Soul Consumption is the first of these, right now it only seems to trigger if you (or your pet?) get the killing blow but this glyph I found to be very useful when banished by Gara'jal the Spiritbinder. Soul stone shouldn't be a glyph the tank is expected to take. Glyph of Imp Swarm is an interesting choice, this will allow you to chose burst dps and fury over the steady rate you get w/o the glyph. If this were a minor glyph I'd say take it for sure but as a tank I'm not sure it'll ever be worth the Major slot.
Nuances and/or bugs:
This will be a fairly detailed section about the interaction of some of our abilities and I'm going to assume that the reader has a good grasp on warlock talents and mechanics though I'm happy to answer any questions that arise and are asked.
Soul Link (and how it's an extra 1 min defensive CD):
The first is a detailed look at exactly how ridiculous Soul Link is right now and how that can be used and abused to no end in it's current implementation. So rather than going into "mathy" specifics I'm going to just go over it's general behavior and show how ridiculous it is. In it's most basic incarnation it turns the health pools of you and your pet into a single large health pool that is the sum of the two. To do this it splits all damage and healing you or your pet receive between the two of you. Where it gets tricky is that all damage is divided in such a way that, based on your current health, that you and your pet would die at the same time from sustained damage. A basic example is that if you have 200k health remaining and your pet has 100k left, you take 2/3rds of the damage and your pet takes 1/3rd. Heals, on the other hand, are split such that you and your pet would be healed to 100% health at the same time based on the amount of health you are currently missing. If I am at 200k/400k health and my pet is at 100k/200k health (these health pools are approximately how they are at 90) then I also receive 2/3rds of any heal either of us receive and he the remaining third. So with the health pools about you effectively have a 600k HP lock tank, cool right?! Now to turn this into a survivability CD you just combine this with the fact that for 250 fury in DA you can instantly summon any of your demons out with 100% of their health. Let't look at an extreme situation to see how this works. Let's say we get hammered by something in a raid and it reduces both the lock and our pet to 10% health. That puts us at 40k health and the pet at 20k, as soon as this happens we summon out an instant pet at the full 200k health, now any damage we take is split such that we take 1/6th of the damage and our pet takes 5/6ths of the damage BUT!!! any heals we receive go 100% to us since our pet is no longer missing any health!! Obviously all of this is only true until we get that heal and the percentages change but it's pretty sweet on a 1 minute CD!
Soul Link and the double dip!: This is something that I think Blizzard is going to have to change but right now Soul Link is an amazing way to increase the effective HPS of your healers on a single tank. Since all heals are shared healers can each roll two HoTs (one on you and one on your pet) on a single health pool as well as the benefit of double ticks of any AoE heals on both you and your pet. This "bug" gets to unreasonable levels with a holy paladin healer. Normally a heal and it's copied Beacon effect can't apply to the same target, this is not so with a Soul Link lock tank. I'm sure Blizzard is going to have to address at least the beacon effect, I'm not sure how they can possibly do it w/o reworking Soul Link or changing beacon in someway.
Bear-Catting syndrome: Depending on the needs of the encounter the only thing a Lock tank looses over a pure demo DPS is a glyph slot and perhaps slightly suboptimal reforging and gearing. With the introduction of 4 druid specs Blizzard hopped to solve the issue of having a tank that can DPS much better than others when not required to actively tank a MOB. Well, with this Glyph they've introduced a whole new one after removing the druid issue. I haven't looked at tank DPS too much when not tanking but it's possible that it's similar at entrance gear level to what a sub optimal demo lock does but I'm sure this will not scale into later Mists tiers.


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In the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, the champion Boston Bruins got 11 goals and 19 points in 25 games out of first year full-timer Brad Marchand. In the 2012 post-season, rookie Vyacheslav Voynov was an important blueliner for the Kings after the trade of Jack Johnson, logging an average of 19:31 per game in a Cup run. And last season, the Chicago Blackhawks got more playoff game-winning goals out of Bryan Bickell and Andrew Shaw combined (four), than Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Duncan Keith (two). You remember how their season finished.
The Los Angeles Kings are most definitely not the Edmonton Oilers. The Kings have built up a program of unrelenting depth that looks like it could keep contending for the Cup until the next lockout hits. Linden Vey, Tyler Toffoli, Tanner Pearson; it's like these guys are arriving from AHL Manchester in a clown car.
Injuries have hit the Kings hard lately. Likely Olympians Jeff Carter and Jonathan Quick, spirited bottom line leaders Jarret Stoll and Kyle Clifford, and shutdown specialist Matt Greene are all out. But the performance of the Manchester 3 shows off the difference between what makes a recovered franchise and what makes a perpetually broken one. Strength in the system is the most important quality for an NHL team to have.
There are limits to what you can acquire on the free agent market, both because of the salary cap and the fact the support players that do make it to unrestricted free agency can only be acquired for above market value price. If you're a bad team with a strong pipeline, odds are you'll eventually be a good team. And if you can maintain that level of development after getting out of the lottery, the roster becomes a rechargeable battery.
In five games this season, 2010 second-rounder Toffoli has three goals and seven points. Vey, a fourth-rounder from 2009, has three assists in four games. And Pearson, a twice passed-over 2012 first round pick, scored his first NHL goal in his first regular season NHL game Thursday night – a power play marker that erased a 2-0 third period deficit and set the stage for Toffoli's second game-winner.
Here's Pearson's first:
Prospects acquired with the top three or five picks in the draft are pretty much already decided and first-rounders are generally supposed to be the difference makers. But it's the ability of a franchise to get the most out of the rest of its picks by turning them into contributing NHLers that separates winners from losers. Drive for show, putt for dough, as they say.
From scouting, to coaching, to proper management, there are a lot of components that go into making a well-oiled franchise and it's not an easy combination to come by.
It's why we have Kings and Blackhawks…and Oilers and Panthers.
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Delving into the origins of the concept and tracing its beginnings to the ancient institution of the covenant, Jon D. Levenson explains the love of God in Judaism as a profoundly personal two-way relationship, expressed in God's love for the people of Israel. Levenson examines the ways in which this bond has endured through countless persecutions and tribulations. To read further on Levenson's thoughts on his new book, check out his recent Q&A here.
Not long after Hanukkah comes to an end this year, the celebration of the prophet's birthday occurs on the 24th of December in the US. While there are mixed ideas of how to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday—celebrations can range from parades, decorations, readings, and food donations—others make it a time of quiet reflection and choose to fast or put aside more time to read the Koran.
The late Shahab Ahmed's book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, is a fascinating new look at Islam that challenges many preconceived notions. Ahmed re-imagines a new concept of the historical constitution of Islamic law while placing it in a philosophical, ethical, and political context. An important read for anyone looking to see the religion of Islam in a new and intriguing light.
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Men now play hockey, sometimes brilliantly, on a site where men paid the price, sometimes dearly, for their crimes.
A book by local history writers David Meyers of Clintonville and his daughter, Elise Meyers Walker of Worthington, along with James Dailey II of Kettering, takes readers to a place where most people never wanted to be: Inside the Ohio Penitentiary.
The book was released July 16.
The Ohio General Assembly approved construction of a new state prison along the Scioto River in 1932. In January 1988, despite the best efforts of preservationists, a wrecking ball began to demolish the last remaining buildings to make way for a venue for the new Columbus Blue Jackets National Hockey League franchise and eventually, the surrounding Arena District.
Inside the Ohio Penitentiary, published by the History Press of Charleston, S.C., concentrates on the years in between, as well as the famous, infamous and obscure who spent time behind those walls.
"People aren't going to be familiar with a lot of the stories," Meyers said. "They may have heard of them, but they won't know the full details."
"We find not a lot of people have much familiarity with prison life," Walker said. "There are a lot of misconceptions and a lot of rumors and, especially with true crime, there's a lot of talk about what happens right when people go to prison, but not a lot after they get there.
"We wanted to try to help people who don't have experience understand a little better what prison was like then, and we love the history of Columbus, so any chance to tell it is exciting to us.
"With the (penitentiary), we're losing a lot of the history of it. A lot of young people don't even know that there was a prison where the arena is now."
"Without revealing too much, I am fascinated by those who redeemed themselves," Dailey wrote in an email. "We all fall short. People make mistakes, though when a man will risk his own life without hesitation to save another human being, I think that their core essence is revealed.
"I believe in the goodness of people. We each have that choice. The book details examples of several men who displayed impressive feats of heroism. The true stories are as exciting and suspenseful as any book about mythological heroes, pirates or monsters. In fact, I find them even more so, as they are true and took place in our cities."
The authors brought vastly different perspectives to the book.
Meyers worked for three decades in the state's correctional system, including a stint at the Ohio Penitentiary, and Walker grew up knowing what her father did for a living.
Dailey did time.
Growing up in Wapakoneta after his parents' split, Dailey said he had some juvenile scrapes with the law, including his attempt to steal beer during a party -- one being held to celebrate his high school graduation and his scholarship to a Florida art school.
"Initially, the police accused my younger brother, since it was his car that was used," Dailey wrote. "I immediately confessed rather than see him take the rap. Due to my previous pattern of poor behavior, the judge was not happy to see me.
"I remember him looking over my college assessment test scores, rubbing his temple and referring to them as 'intimidating.' He then looked at me and said, 'But there are a lot of smart people in prison.' His gavel echoed in the courtroom. I was headed to the Big House."
Since serving his time, Dailey said he's gotten a job with a specialized printing company and begun avidly collecting artifacts from various Ohio prisons. One of those items is a cell door from the Ohio Penitentiary, which Meyers said he was somewhat startled to find in Dailey's kitchen when he and his daughter visited their future co-author's Kettering home.
Walker and Meyers earlier collaborated on a book about historic Ohio prisons, and Dailey contacted them about his collection after reading it.
"Having James along for the ride provided an entirely different perspective than I would have," Meyers said.
"He was fantastic," Walker said. "He brought different experiences from what we were familiar with. He definitely brought more empathy for the prisoners than we would have had ... especially their stories."
Among the tales Meyers said he was pleased they were able to bring out in the book is that of prisoner Charles Justice, who is sometimes erroneously credited with having invented the electric chair and then later being executed in one.
"We call that the Frankenstein myth, where the creator is killed by his creation," Meyers said.
Justice, in fact, helped to improve restraints for an existing electric chair, for which he received a pardon -- only to kill another man and find himself sentenced to electrocution in the very device he'd helped to improve, Meyers said.
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DOJ Doesn't Believe $80,000 Per Song Unconstitutional Or Oppressive
from the tell-that-to-Jammie deptWhile this probably isn't a huge surprise, given the fact that the Justice Department is stocked with former lawyers for the entertainment industry (and because it's filed similar briefs before), but it's still worth noting that the Justice Department has filed a brief in the Jammie Thomas lawsuit, in support of the constitutionality of the $1.92 million fine (and, no, none of the former RIAA lawyers are signatories to the brief, though you have to imagine their "expertise" was consulted). The reasoning is quite troubling and appears to include some serious revisionist history.
First, what's stunning is that the brief claims the awards are perfectly constitutional because it is not "so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense [or] obviously unreasonable." Really? It seems that an awful lot of people find the idea of being forced to hand over $80,000 per song without any evidence that it was ever actually shared by anyone is severe and oppressive to the point that it's disproportionate to the offense and quite obviously unreasonable. I mean, this is a woman who wanted to listen to her favorite bands, and she now has to pay nearly $2 million. How can anyone claim that's not "severe and oppressive" in relation to the actual "harm" done?
Second, the brief claims that the damages should be much more than the $1.29 price per song found on iTunes, because it "ignores the potential multiplying effect of peer-to-peer file-sharing." Except, if that were the case, shouldn't the plaintiffs been required to show that these songs were actually shared? And should Thomas also be liable for the actions of anyone else she shared the songs with? That seems to go quite beyond what the law states.
Third, and perhaps most troubling, is the Justice Department's sneaky little claim that the statutory rates are obviously fair for file sharing, because they were put in place in 1999, with the explicit statement from Congress that these numbers were there because of internet file sharing. That sounds good, but ignores the fact that this little change in the law was pushed almost entirely by entertainment industry lobbyists (the same folks who now run the Justice Department!) to protect their dying business model, rather than through any empirical evidence. The real original purpose of statutory rates had nothing to do with punishing personal, non-commercial use, but were very much about dealing with commercial harm.
It's a neat, but immensely troubling, trick by the entertainment industry. Sneak through bizarre and totally unsupported legislation through a Congress that's never met a stronger copyright law it didn't love, using your high paid lobbyists. Then, get those same lobbyists appointed to the Justice Department to defend it against Constitutional challenges. Regulatory capture at its finest.
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We told you about the Amazon Kindle Tablet announcement earlier this week, and the big reveal is
tomorrow. In the meantime, a few more details on the hotly-anticipated device
have been leaked.
This 7in tab is set to debut at around half the price of
perhaps its biggest rival, the iPad 2. So for your £200-250, you'll get a heavily modified, custom version of
Android 2.1 running on what's looking to be a sub-1GHz processor, backed by a
mere 6GB of storage. Supposedly, there will also be little or nothing in the
way of connectivity and hardware controls.
Nothing to set the world on fire, then, which is ironic given
that TechCrunch
has discovered Amazon's tablet will likely be called the Kindle Fire. Mind you,
there is a certain logical progression to the name what with kindling already
provided, so kudos to whichever bright spark thought it up.
What with plenty of established rivals (though admittedly
few worth considering at this price point), Amazon might have a hard time
getting consumers to warm to its offering, especially in the US where it will
face strong competition from Barnes and Nobles's rumoured Nook 2. However, it
does have a lot of brand recognition and a strong established marketplace to
make this tablet a potential success.
Has the Kindle Fire lit a flame in your heart, or does it
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I just found out that I came 5th in the TT! Amber Neben (ex world champ) won. It has changed GC a lot. I am now sitting 5th, 6 secs back from Ruth Corset. I'm stoked- it really gives us a huge leg-up for today's stage. The whole team is committed to getting as good a gc result as possible and we are fired up. I've got some great support and a super-lieutenant in the mountains, Alex Carle, and a top crew each with a job to do. Mine is to stay as far up as possible amd out of trouble. Today's stage is 114km from Palmerston North to Masterton.
I didn't mention it before but yesterday's TT was not a smooth affair. Our start times were delayed twice, first by 30 mins ans then by another 15. I almost got jack-knifed by an over-zealous marshall with ambiguous hand signals, then had a citizen driver pull in front of me as i entered the final motorway. By the time I finished it was almost 7pm. It's impossible in an event as big as this for there not to be hiccups, and the organisers for the most past have done a great job. But when the policewoman came into the dining room last night and demanded to see the driver of the ntid vehicle, well, it's easy to lose perspective. Luckily no one went to jail and we are all starting today.


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Contrary to what you may have thought manufacturing is not dead in North Carolina, but it is quite different from our old perceptions of textile and furniture mills and tobacco factories. Some were surprised when The Emerging Issues Forum announced this year�s theme: �Manufacturing Works.� We�ve learned over the past 28 years this group is on the leading edge of public policy issues and this year was no exception. Those attending learned that manufacturing is alive and growing in our state.
North Carolina was hit hard by the recession, losing almost 31 percent of our manufacturing jobs between 1992 and 2010. But during that same time the number of manufacturing establishments increased by 34 percent to some 23,308. We rank fourth in manufacturing production in the U.S., employing some 616,800. But these firms are different. They require less space, are less labor-intensive, employ more technology, automation, newer machineries and smarter logistics.
We heard success stories from entrepreneurs like Gart Davis, co-founder of Spoonflower, a Durham on-demand textile manufacturer who uses computers and professional printers to manufacture small quantity custom textiles. Employing the Internet, they market across the world in English, letting Google translate their web site content into the language of the customer while Pay Pal calculates the appropriate pricing, based on the customer�s currency, and pays Spoonflower in dollars. Davis bragged that they have spent next to nothing on marketing, have few employees and are thriving.
If North Carolina is going to lead in this new age there are challenges that must be addressed. Even today, with a 9.2 percent unemployment rate, jobs are going unfilled because our workers don�t have the skills needed. Apprenticeship programs need to be started, using a partnership of companies, high schools and community colleges who can train and retrain skilled workers like welders, printers, technicians and others; jobs paying 60,000 dollars or more a year. Our 58 community colleges must be better funded to conduct this training. These new companies are also going to need more streamlined regulations that eliminate unnecessary barriers, excessive permitting and tax policies that encourage them to grow their businesses. And we cannot build tomorrows �makers� without more readily available capital.
Again we hear the call for improving our infrastructure. Better roads and transportation networks are needed to import and export raw materials and finished products. An improvement in high-speed broadband is essential for a business cycle that demands faster communications, greater networking and faster turnarounds. Mostly, we need to �rebrand� manufacturing, to change our thinking from smokestacks, pollution and assembly lines to today�s new manufacturing reality. And we must have more collaboration between government, business, educators and our citizens.
The benefits are obvious. While fewer will be employed the average wage will be higher. Studies show that 70 percent of research and development and 90 percent of all patents stem from manufacturing. For every dollar spent in the manufacturing sector there is a ripple effect of $1.35 elsewhere in the economy. It is a positive sign that Governor McCrory has created a new position of Deputy Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing.
Thanks Emerging Issues Forum. We applaud today�s new �makers� and welcome them to come and grow here. They will help make us a better state.
Tom Campbell is former assistant North Carolina State Treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of state issues airing Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on WJZY-TV and at 10 p.m. on WMYT �MY TV 12.�


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If you know Geni like I do, you know that they post a link to the profile of each week's star on their blog as Profile of the Day. Just for fun I like to go on over there and check it out to see if hubby or I are related. This is the path that I found:
Of course I had to double check it to make sure it was accurate. My database only went as far as Willoughby Skipwith. While doing some googling I stumbled onto this Slovak Yankee blog post and discovered that my Skipwith line goes back to royalty. Not only that, I discovered that I actually have an ancestor that was a doctor through this line. The following paragraph is from page 178 of The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London: 1518 to 1700 By Royal College of Physicians of London, William Munk, G. H. Brown. If you click on the paragraph, it will take you to the page on Google books.
Dr. Saunders is my 11th great-grandfather.
I also discovered that I am not actually related to Ashley Judd through this line. My 10th great-grandfather Willoughby Skipwith, Esq. was actually the son of Anne Portington, not Anne Hussey.
However, I did eventually find a connection to Ashley Judd. She is my actually my 12th cousin twice removed from the Brewster line.
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So my friends, it is well worth your time to go check out Geni Profiles of the Day. Even an error can lead you to a wealth of information.


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Well, today is the big day! I hope you're all suitably excited – I know I am. So many fantastic and fun things for everyone to see and take part in.
For those attending today's event, there's just one main thing we'd ask of you all: Please be excellent to each other today.
There are couple of other things worth mentioning that relate to the approach we've taken to planning and running this event. Understanding these ideas might help you understand the style of the event a little better.
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The other important thing to note is that we've adopted in large part an "unconference" approach to running this event, using some of the main ideas behind the Open-Space Technology (OST) approach.
The main thing to keep in mind is that the day is your day: make of it what you will. If something isn't working, please feel free to work with others to improve it. If you don't like something you're involved in, make use the rule of two feet. Although we have many elements of the programme pre-planned and organised, we've attempted to have Makers contribute to that process as much as is practical. We've also left some elements of the programme open to dynamically evolve on the day, particularly with respect to presentations, talks, demonstrations, discussions and potentially even adhoc. workshops that don't require a lot of preparation.
We're standing on the shoulders of giants: these philosophies for running events come from a number of sources, including our friends at Noisebridge Hackerspace. What follows is a a discussion of their Tripartite Pillars system, in the context of our Maker faire event.
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At the core of the event, we're applying the basic thinking behind the Noisebridge Hackerspace Tripartite Pillars, and we're asking all our makers, volunteers and attendees to abide by and help promote this philosophy:
– Excellence: "Be excellent to each other" (yes, courtesy of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure). Mini Maker Faire Melbourne will be a fantastic day if we all take ownership of that one simple principle. Everything else will flow easily from there. If you think an action you're about to make may not be considered excellent by others, ask someone else first and avoid having someone refer you to the fundamental rule of all social spaces.
– Do-ocracy: We've created this event and the spaces within it to provide makers the opportunity to showcase what they do. It's your day and we want you to take advantage of it. We're running this event with volunteer help, donated facilities and services, and limited funds. It will help us immensely if you take ownership of your needs and help to make the day a great one for yourself and everyone else. You don't need to ask permission to do something excellent, particularly where it won't adversely effect others. If you see something that needs doing, or a problem that needs to be addressed, please step in and fix it yourself. If you're in doubt whether your action is a good choice for others, whether it is safe or whether you can handle it alone, find a buddy and work on it together: grab another maker or a volunteer and work out a solution.
– Consensus: With a nod to "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few", we're encouraging – as much as possible – making decisions by consensus. Where that's not possible, and particularly where Excellence or Do-ocracy are at risk, we'll employ judicious use of "benevolent dictators" to keep the show moving and support the needs of as many people as we can. Also see here.


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We read fantasy books for all sorts of reasons, including escapism, gritty action, and immersion into detailed, ornate worlds. But one great reason to read fantasy novels is because many of the genre's best works deal with how to be a good, ethical human being.
So I was wondering — what's the fantasy novel that you feel did the most to teach you about how to be a good person? (For me, it was probably Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.)


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In Sheila Owen's kindergarten class, all five- and six-year-olds are "readers and writers from day one." In this video, her students listen and respond to a story about pumpkins, create sentences using the word wall, and chant a poem focusing on the letter D. Carefully guided by Ms. Owen, they write a group account of the pumpkin life cycle, and then work independently on their writing. Students use books, poems, games, and manipulatives as they listen, converse, read, and write independently in large and small groups.
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That was my thought too. There have been so many posts here about how companies shouldn't have sued other parties and should have instead embraced the attention. Now, we see a company doing that (kinda, at least they didn't attack the user or try to sue them) and you complain about that too?!
I'm no fan of Mc D's, but seriously, it's like lose-lose around here. I expected better from Techdirt... maybe it's just that Mike didn't pen this one?
Also, in the cop's defense, the motorcycle was rolling backwards away from the cop as he got out, making it look at a glance like the cyclist might try to run for it.
Let's see, a civilian car cuts you off and the civilian driver jumps out of the vehicle with a gun, yelling at you. Yeah, I'd try to get the hell out of there too!
The officer pulled his gun, unprovoked, and he didn't even bother to mention that he was an officer until well after the fact. I'm no law enforcement officer, but it's hard to believe that is standard procedure.
I think you greatly underestimate the average consumer.
I don't expect to see a mass defect to BB to rent new releases or anything, but I can see people being incorrectly upset with NetFlix or RedBox as a result because they assume THEY are the ones delaying releases.
Totally forgot about that, but you're right, I did see that when I was at my parents' a few weeks ago. If I paid for TV service at home, I probably would have see it there too...
If my local market is any indication, not well. All the ones in my area have closed up shop. 1 was evicted and the building remains vacant, the other seems to at least be rented to a pet store now.
Wow, I had white-listed them after reading that article, but now I've seen some of their responses to their users. Breaking the site and then trying to scold and guilt their users? Screw them!
I'll just do what they want me to do and never come back. It was rare that I ever found read-worthy articles on Ars anyway...
Yeah, EA left a bad taste in my mouth with Spore. I won't buy their games anymore. I think the only difference between EA and Ubisoft now is that EA has games I actually would like to play...
If everyone has an internet connection, and piracy is 100% legal (no risk of getting caught), why would anyone pay?
Ask all the people buying stuff from iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster and all the other media delivery services. Those companies have a lot of paying customers, and those customers are all buying things that can easily be found online for free illegally.
You may argue that those companies are all US-serving, to which I would argue that there's basically no risk in downloading anything illegally in the US already (which is somehow 100% legal by your definition too).
So, of those paying customers, "everyone has an internet connection" with "no risk of getting caught" and they're still paying. Your concerns seem somewhat unfounded.
You are trying to read too much into my point. _All_ I am saying is that there is no reason why a different delivery mechanism should _have_ to mean a different price. Furthermore it isn't clear that the price should have to fall either.
You're kind of right, in principle, but I think most people feel that if you're paying additional money for the ability to consume a different medium, that medium's price should reflect a savings to recoup that initial investment. Especially when the new medium is less valuable (in the case of ebooke: can't share it, can't write on it, can't use it without power, etc.).
And even if you are trying to maximize profits, you need to be able to drop that price to keep up with competition or they'll price you out of business. In the case of this story, I doubt NYT is prepared to keep prices in check...
And don't forget price.
I suspect the ~40% of people represented as "will never buy online" are probably the people who expect their demands will never be met. The ~50% of the "might buy online" crowd are at least hopeful they'll one day get what they are looking for.
The big unanswered question is "How much would they pay?" And a second question is, "Under what terms?"
Well said.
That's what I thought too. The orange bar means nothing, it's a fantasy figure. The blue bar speaks the truth, and the truth is that few people are buying content online. If they lowered the prices to meet the supply, they'd see a lot more people buying and probably even make a lot more money. At the very least, they'd still be making the same amount of money but selling a lot more (ie. the blue bar would go up, but the profits would be the same).
I'm curious what they were asked exactly too. I mean, I'd buy content online too, so I guess I'd be in the orange bar. But I won't buy it at the current prices and definitely not through the most popular channels. For example, I'll never use iTunes since I think it's a terrible piece of software and I lack both an Apple device and a compatible operating system; it's not JUST the price keeping me from using their service, but the price DOES keep me from even considering it.
As for the paying to remove ads thing, I still see that from time to time. It's pretty dumb to base you ENTIRE model on that, given the ease of competing (as you pointed out), but also given niceties like AdBlock/AdThward, which makes removing ads trivial and free for the user. It's a bad reason to buy.
Making it clear that he's NOT a representative for the company is a bad thing? It's not like they are trying to sue him, they are just making sure that people know he's not working for Heinz.
Is it a missed marketing opportunity? Perhaps, but I think it was very smart of them to make it be known that this guy doesn't work for Heinz and doesn't actually represent the company. I mean, if he was building a following and then one day turned on the company, that would have looked pretty bad for them, wouldn't you agree?
I think it's pretty interesting that Twitter didn't remove the account though. They could have easily done so (and I'm sure they HAVE done so on a regular basis), but instead just renamed it.
Not that it matters much, but I've heard the album, and it's pretty solid. I wonder if this will escalate the album to the status of the Grey Album. It was, in my opinion, far better than the original Black Album, just as this is far better than the original 36 Chanbers.
I won't be sad to see EMI go though.
The difference between 0.99 and 1.29 isn't enough to turn people away.
That's almost a 30% increase in the cost of music. I'm not willing to pay $0.99 personally, so there's no way in hell I would pay 30% *more* than that. This may not apply to people who are used to the iTunes experience but it does matter for people that are just buying music.
People will only pay for music as long as it's cheap enough to not be worth pirating. I would argue that for a good number of people, a roughly 30% increase would be enough to tip them in favor of piracy.
If you want 3G speeds, your only choice is AT&T anyway. The radio doesn't support T-Mobile's network. If the demand is there, I'm sure TMo would be quite happy to offer pre-paid Micro SIM cards though. Plus, I think you can take any SIM card you want to any GSM provider and they'll activate it. AT&T might not let you get the data plan without their SIM card, but T-Mobile is unlikely to care much.
For the record though, AT&T USED to offer an unlimited data plan for smartphones (iPhones expressly prohibited) for $30/mo (or maybe $35/mo). Looking at their website now, this is no longer the case. Seems they've dropped the plan and offered it up to Apple as some kind of fancy new plan...
I was thinking the same thing actually. For a service to be so notorious to not have any real competition is pretty appalling. I realize that it would be near (or completely) impossible to break in to the eBay payment business, but there's money to be made just handling credit transactions on the cheap...
I'm more curious if his servers will be returned now that he's been found not guilty and they had no infringing information on them. From what I understand, they confiscated a lot of equipment.
I wasn't a member (never heard about it until it got raided, kind of a Napster story I guess), but the site's full return would be cool too.
Are companies really writing software that will ONLY run on Win7 now? As far as I know, even DX10 still wasn't taking off. Your explanation makes sense though from the OEMs view. Now I'm curious what the hardware limits on XP were for netbooks, but I'm too lazy to look. I think they were probably the same though, so I guess putting XP on instead of Win7 Starter wouldn't help them get around that hardware limitation. They simply need to fork out the cash for the higher priced Home Premium license, bump up the RAM and charge more. Sad, considering netbooks are already so overpriced.
'Anyone care to explain how Microsoft is "limiting" these?'
From the article, it looks like Starter is limited to machines with 1GB memory and a 10.2 inch or smaller screen.
I believe Starter costs less than Home Premium so that means more money in the manufacturer's pockets by selling it with Starter instead of Home Premium.


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1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 onion, minced
3 garlic cloves, minced (I use a tablespoon of the bottled minced garlic available at Aldi)
2 tablespoons chili powder (adjust to your personal taste)
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 pound ground beef or ground turkey
1/2 cup smooth canned tomato sauce
1/2 cup low sodium chicken broth
2 teaspoons cider vinegar (not available at Aldi)
1 teaspoon light brown sugar
8 taco shells
Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add the onion and cook until softened, about five minutes. Stir in the garlic, spices, and 1 teaspoon salt and cook until fragrant about thirty seconds. Stir in the ground beef and cook, breaking it up with a wooden spoon until no longer pink, about five minutes. Stir in the tomato sauce, broth, vinegar, and sugar until thickened, about ten minutes. Season with salt to taste. Divide the filling evenly among the taco shells and serve passing any desired accompaniments separately.
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Three frogs are living here, like the three bears – a big one, a middle sized one, and a tiny one. The big one, Thaddeus, has a lime green head and a pinkish body. I sent a picture to a professional herpetologist (I suppose there are stranger ways to spend your life, but I can't think of any at the moment) … where was I ...oh, he told me it was a common northern green frog, and though they are variable, this was admittedly unusual coloring. He may have been just trying to mollify me for asking a dumb question.
Uninvited but welcome residents, they live in my lily puddle, a preformed pool in the ground that holds maybe a couple hundred gallons. Tiny. And they share this space with roughly fifteen fish. I haven't been able to get an exact count. Fish don't hold still. It started with three fish, but you know how fish are.
These are humble goldfish. Pretty goldfish, a little fancy, but still just goldfish. When I first installed this small pool, I had to do the trendy thing. I got some koi. Koi at whatever size go for 10 or 20 times the cost of similar size goldfish, and that gives them a sense of entitlement. They get rowdy, stir up mud, tear up plants. Koi are thugs. After a couple of years of this, I replaced them with better behaved fish.
My little pool has a population density resembling Tokyo. Tokyo has a sewer system. My pool does not. Fish and frogs produce … um, what we gardeners call organic fertilizer.
Here's how it works. The pond water quickly becomes a nutrient rich soup. Sun, warm water, and nutrients are the perfect environment for algae, and the water turns pea green. Many install expensive filters and regularly engage in the inspiring job of cleaning them. Often they still get green water.
I have no filter. I have no green water. And the reason is not only simplicity itself, it is beautiful.
As the hormone supplement ads tell you, it's all about balance, except with ponds it's really true and it really works. You need water plants to absorb what the fish pump out, to eat up the nutrients in the water. If you have green water, you have either too many fish or lazy, small plants.
Cattails are great nutrient suckers for large ponds and water lilies for medium sized pools, but my puddle is too small for either. I have a couple of plants that are attractive though not very efficient at nitrogen removal, but the one that keeps my water clear is variegated sweet flag, Acorus calamus variegatus.
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And it is easy. Just break off a piece of a friend's flag (drop by) and plant it in a small pot with poor soil, not the richly amended soil from your garden. (I grab a trowelful from a neighbor's garden.) The roots will quickly escape the pot, which is a good thing.
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The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft's dramatic, some would say romantic, quest for an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star in its habitable zone has suddenly been put on hold, NASA officials said Tuesday, while engineers try to figure out what caused the craft to lose its ability to point itself at its distant targets.
The spacecraft is essentially hibernating, NASA said at a hastily called briefing late Wednesday afternoon, having put itself into "safe mode" on Sunday after sensing it was pointing in the wrong direction.
Controllers discovered the glitch Tuesday during their twice-a-week touch-base with the craft, currently some 40 million miles away in an Earth-like orbit around the sun.
When the craft is in safe mode, thrusters control its orientation, rather than the fast-spinning "reaction wheels" that normally provide stability. The craft uses these wheels to maintain the exquisite pointing precision needed to relentlessly stare at stars long enough to detect the telltale dimming imposed by a planet as its orbit carries it in front of the star.
As controllers tried to restart the craft's reaction wheels Tuesday, one of the wheels woke up, then balked. This left the craft with two functioning wheels. It needs three to resume observing the patch of sky that for four years it has scanned for Earth-like planets in Earth-like orbits around sun-like stars.
While the malfunction is serious, NASA officials were not ready Wednesday to declare the mission over.
"The loss of the reaction wheel is not good news," said Charles Sobeck, Kepler's deputy project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
The goal now is to place the craft in an operating mode that reduces the use of its thrusters in order to preserve fuel and "take the time to figure out what to do next," he said.
Kepler was launched in March 2009 as a kind of planetary census taker. The mission's aim is to observe the same 170,000 stars in a hunt for rocky planets orbiting in their stars' habitable zones – roughly defined as a distance that leaves a planet's surface not too hot or not too cold, but just right for liquid water to persist on its surface. Liquid water is a key prerequisite for organic life.
To date, Kepler has found Earth-mass planets. And it has found larger, super-Earths orbiting in their star's habitable zones. The Kepler team has yet to uncover its ultimate planets. But after bagging more than 2,700 planet-candidates so far, finding the first "just right" extra-solar planet isn't far off, says William Borucki, the mission's lead scientist.
"I'm absolutely delighted that we've got all this data," he said at the briefing. "The mission was designed for four years. It operated four years. It gave us excellent data for four years. On the other hand, I would have been even happier if it continues another four years."
The discoveries the additional data would have yielded "would have been in some sense frosting on the cake," he acknowledged. "But we have an excellent cake."
If Kepler can't be revived, analyzing the 2,700 planet-candidates in the queue so far will keep the team busy for at least two more years, he noted.
But engineers have some tricks up their sleeves they want to try before they give up and NASA declares the mission finished.
Reaction wheels spin constantly at high rates of speed, so engineers anticipate that they will fail at some point.
One approach would be to command the balky wheel to rotate back and forth to see if whatever is preventing it from operating can be dislodged. If the reaction wheel can't be revived, the team could try to reactivate the wheel they took out of service last year.
If that doesn't work, the team will examine other science missions the craft might be able to perform that don't require the level of precision pointing that planet-hunting does. That means relying on the thrusters more frequently to orient the craft, so remaining fuel supplies become a limiting factor.
If the requisite number of reaction wheels can't return to service, and even if researchers can cobble together other astronomical observations the craft could undertake, that does not guarantee that NASA would extend Kepler's activities. Any new science plan for Kepler would still have to compete for funding with other NASA missions being proposed.
Should Wednesday's announcement truly herald Kepler's imminent demise, the mission's impact will be felt for a long time, researchers say. The mission has been nothing if not an object lesson that if you give smart people the right tools, they can wield those tools in ways few imagined when the tools were first built.
For instance, the craft has measured light from the individual stars in its target patch of sky with enough sensitivity to track the smallest variations in starlight.
Indeed, the craft has delivered such high-quality data on the stars themselves that the mission has been a gold mine for astrophysicists studying star structure and behavior.
Apart from its own discoveries, Kepler data and the operating experience gained in running it for four years can inform future planet-hunting missions.
In 2017, NASA plans to launch another planet-hunting craft, called TESS, that will focus its gaze on the 500,000 stars nearest the sun. These are close enough to allow space-based telescopes such as the James Webb Telescope, currently planned for launch in 2018, to study the atmospheres of planets TESS discovers.
"Kepler's been such a wonderful story," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate and a former shuttle astronaut who helped perform the last set of repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope before the space-shuttle program ended.
"I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," he said.


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