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For the 5 and 24-month periods ending 29th February 2008
rainfall deficiencies definition
5-month rainfall deficiencies
24-month rainfall deficiencies
Despite a La Niña event contributing to above average rainfall
across parts of tropical and eastern Australia, the southeast of the NT
has been much drier than normal since the start of the northern wet
season in October. In addition, higher than average temperatures have
exacerbated these rainfall deficits. In parts of eastern Australia, there
was a slight easing of rainfall deficiencies at the two-year timescale,
although the overall pattern remains the same.
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rainfall pattern
For the 5-month period from October 2007 to February 2008,
an area of serious to severe rainfall deficiencies developed in the southeast
of the Northern Territory and the adjacent far west of Queensland. There
were also some smaller patches near and to the north of Tennant Creek in the
Barkly district. Maximum temperatures of one to two degrees above average have
worsened the dry conditions.
Rainfall deficiencies for the 24-month period from March
2006 to February 2008 were analysed in southwest WA, Tasmania, southeast
Queensland, northern SA and in a band stretching from the Bight coast of
SA across much of Victoria and the western slopes and plains of southern
NSW. The pattern is very similar to that observed at the end of January,
but as February 2008 was substantially wetter than February 2006 in eastern
Australia, there was some easing of these two-year deficits in southeast
Queensland and southern NSW. Record-low falls were widespread along the west
coast of WA and in eastern Tasmania, with a few patches in the southeast of
the mainland.
The worst of the long-term deficiencies are likely to remain for some time.
For example, above to very much above average (deciles 8-10) rainfall is
needed in the rainfall deficient areas over the next six months just to
elevate totals since March 2006 out of the lowest decile.
The deficiencies discussed above have occurred against a backdrop of decade-long rainfall
deficits and record high temperatures that have severely stressed water supplies in the
east and southwest of the country. Several years of above average rainfall are required
to remove the very long-term deficits. Furthermore, the combination of heat and drought
during the past five to ten years over the Murray Darling Basin and southeastern Australia
is outside the typical range of variability experienced during the previous 100 years.
For more information go to a recent
Special Climate
Statement on the six years of widespread drought in southern and eastern
Australia, November 2001 to October 2007
deficiency maps for standard periods out to three years are
Note: The terms used to describe rainfall in these
Drought Statements have the following meanings -
Serious deficiency
- rainfalls in the lowest 10% of historical totals,
but not in the lowest 5%
Severe deficiency
- rainfalls in the lowest 5% of historical totals
Lowest on record
- lowest since at least 1900 when the data analysed begin
Very much below average
- rainfalls in the lowest 10% of historical totals
Below average
- rainfalls in the lowest 30% of historical totals,
but not in the lowest 10%
- rainfalls in the middle 40% of historical totals
Above average
- rainfalls in the highest 30% of historical totals,
but not in the highest 10%
Very much above average
- rainfalls in the highest 10% of historical totals
For more information regarding this rainfall
deficiencies statement, please contact the following
climate meteorologists in the National Climate Centre:
The Bureau of Meteorology does not make formal drought declarations
as these are done by either the relevant State Governments or by the
Australian Government. The Australian Government Program is called
Exceptional Circumstances
and it is administered by the Federal Department of Agriculture,
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This is a discussion on We're in This Together (Feb2nd-Feb 28th) within the Check-ins & Challenges forums, part of the Cathe Friedrich Fitness Forums category;; Up early at 4am. Disc 15 Back and Biceps this morning for me. OMG my poor forearms. Those gave out ...
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Up early at 4am. Disc 15 Back and Biceps this morning for me. OMG my poor forearms. Those gave out before my bi's and back. I also did Hiit 30/30. I feel like such an oinker. Tony and I ordered pizza last night. I felt so sick afterwards. I didn't even have that much but I think my body just rejects food like that. I still don't feel as clear as I usually do, even now at 2:30. Ugh! And I've been starving all day. I'm pretty sure I stretched my stomach last night and now I just can't seem to fill it. Ok enough complaining from me.
Onto Ultimate Yogi.....
Deep Discount.com has it for $87.81 with free shipping. OMG yay! I'm buying it....for real this time I have been feeling so bad for spending the money on it but come on I used to spend 60 bucks a months on a gym memebership.
Thanks for all the compliments on B. He sure is a cutie isn't he?! LOVE my boy! Miss him so bad right now. I'm at work until 3:30. Once again, charting done. Assessments complete. Meds passed. Patients are in group. Waiting for the clock.
Colleen- LOVE your new avatar! It's so true that you need a vacation from your vacation. I always like to take a day or 2 to chill out at home before heading back to work, but spending that extra day or 2 at the beach sounds even better. Sorry about your neck and shoulder...nothing worse than a bad bed. So I'm crazy and have not tried any of the XTrain workouts...only core 1 and 2. My friend, the one that I'm doing STS with (she LOVES it btw), is buying XTrain so we are going to do the 90 day rotation after we finish Meso 3 Excited!
Natty- Poor Bella babe! I can just picture the night you had last night...so sorry! You are such a good mama! I'm with you on that control freak thing. I don't think I will ever be able to leave B overnight with people. I guess I better get over it when he gets older as I'm sure he'll want to sleep over at friends' houses. I get nervous enough leaving him when I'm at work, not with Tony of course, but with others. Tony got home the other day and his dad was watching B. Anyways, he told me later that when B was napping his dad covered him with a blanket. OMG I flipped. Not sure if it was like this when Bella was a baby but there should be nothing loose in the crib. No stuffed animals. No blankets. Nothing! Until they are 6 months. I previously told his dad this information and apparently he wasn't listening. Not cool! Of course the chances that something would happen is slim to none but you never know.
Sarah- Mmmm that grapefruit and brown sugar recipe sounds good. I'll have to google it. I love Bobby Flay. I don't have TV now but when we used to live with Tony's brother I loved the food network. Rachael Ray is my favorite! I have done STS before. I never got to Meso 3 though. I found out I was pregnant right before I was going to start that Meso cycle and my dr said no heavy lifting. I am seeing great results so far. I just love it. I find Meso 2 boring though. I dislike the long breaks. I'm more of a high endurance lifting girl
Hi Jen
Marie. Love the pics of B. What a smile! Kudos on your workouts.
Colleen. Yes, you need a vacation from vacation. I understand about men. Driving a person crazy is what they do.
Sarah. When I first started watching The Food Network, Bobby Flay was my crush. Glad he can cook healthy. Time gets me too on working out.
Natty. Horrible you got zero hours sleep while being sick yourself. Hope Bella has a much better night tonight.
Using my phone to update today which explains individual shorter personals.
My interview went quite well although position is on call if I choose to stay in MI. The interviewer, customer of my former employer, was honest about my former supervisor. She said she's a sour puss translating to with facial expression,
she meant bit@#. I smiled and agreed. This lady affirmed my belief that she tells it like it is. We got along well and laughed.
Yep, Natty, Valentines is overrated.
Plan to shovel tomorrow after city plows my street.
Excited for trip!!
Sorry you had a crappy sleep too last night .
GREAT w/o yesterday . I think I just HAVE TO get L&G! The Body Blast series is awesome. I agree, Cathe looks gorgeous in it, and her personalty just shines.
I have always loved Bobby Flay. I could watch tv cooking shows all day . I'm also a bit obsessed with Gordan Ramsay. I just adore his no-nonsense attitude. Oh, and his food looks incredible too . I'm a fan of Jamie Oliver and Michael Symon .
OMG, what can I say? You are incredible. I'm speechless at how much you are able to fit into an entire day. I would have never got up at 4am when Bella was young to fit in a workout. All I wanted to do was sleep, sleep, sleep. You are inspirational my friend .
All those "SIDS rules" were still the same when Bella was born. No toys, no blankets, no pillows, nothing in the crib. I put Bella in a Halo Sleep Slack. That was one of the best things I ever bought. I'm not sure if it has to do with being Italian, but my family thought all that stuff was total nonsense . I know that first-time parents are paranoid about every little thing, but still better to be safe. I was just waiting for them to tell me that car seats were useless too .
Stay safe in the snow!
I'm glad the interview went well .
Valentines is just another holiday made up by Hallmark. IMO there is no meaning behind it. Just another way for the retailers to rake-in the $$. I mean, how you gonna make money after Christmas and before Easter? Well of course it has to be Valentines Day! I think it's cute when the kids bring Valentines to school though.
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Nat- I LOVE Gordon Ramsey too. "Oh Piss Off" My hubby does a great impression. I did 5 really big miles with my mom today. I liked it. It was a bit boring but actually better than I thought and it was perfect for today. I am finding out with different moods, and different energy levels on days that I have room in my life for so many exercise tapes. Including Ultimate Yogi, I hope.
I used to not like Bobby Flay, I felt like he was a bit arragant. But I went to Mesa Grill when we were down in LV and it was delicious. I also started watching Showdown years ago and his personality came through a bit more to me. My love before that was Tyler Florence, I had dreams about that man.
Never got into Ramsey or Tyler Florence either. I liked that guy from Canada though. He's on Cooking Channel.
Mario Batelli has a home in northern MI and Giada DiLaurentis hubby is from Metro Detroit.
Alton Brown is one of my faves since Feasting on Asphalt. Bunch of guys rode motorcycles on secondary roads from New Orleans to western Lake Superior/MN.
Up at again at 4am. I think it may be catching up to me. I'm soooo tired and my coffee didn't work this morning. I did Low Max. Hope to get some nice leg and butt DOMS tomorrow
At work until 3:30 again. Slooooow day. We have a pretty chill group of patients right now. Good for some reasons, but makes for a long shift. I'm more into people getting crazy. I love the excitement of injections, restraints and codes!
No plans for tonight. Looking forward to a relaxing night at home with my boys
Jen- Glad your interview went well. Sounds like things are moving forward in a good way.
Natty- Thanks so much for the compliments. You are so sweet!
Hi Colleen and Sarah
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Sweet love!
Just wait awhile! [She gathers a star-flower and plucks off the leaves one after another.]
A nosegay may that be?
No! It is but a game.
Go, you'll laugh at me!
[She plucks off the leaves and murmurs to herself.]
What murmurest thou?
MARGARET (half aloud)
He loves me—loves me not.
Sweet angel, with thy face of heavenly bliss!
MARGARET (continues)
He loves me—not—he loves me—not—
[plucking off the last leaf with fond joy.]
He loves me!
And this flower-language, darling, let it be
A heavenly oracle! He loveth thee!
Know'st thou the meaning of, He loveth thee?
[He seizes both her hands.]
I tremble so!
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I'm introducing a lot of technique to students right now, especially 4-mallet Stevens Technique and Marching Percussion. I find that students can either get through this initial period and on to music making very quickly, or can get hamstrung and struggle along for months without much measurable progress.
The difference in most cases, is understanding the interaction of Alignment and Capacity.
Alignment is getting the mechanics lined up efficiently. Because everyone is built a little differently, this is an individual exploration. As a teacher, I emphasize how it "could" feel, rather than how it "should", and look to remove things that are almost certainly NOT working, as way of aiming their self-discovery.
Capacity is the physical strength developed through repetition. It is also the sensitivity to how something feels physically.
These two things feed on each other. The better aligned technique is, the more targeted the muscle and sensitivity development is. The more strength and sensitivity there is in the system, the faster new discoveries can be made, and the longer practice sessions can last.
To discuss Alignment, I talk with my students about "Monkeys and Coffee Cups", a study of chimpanzees I read about a while back that mapped brain activity and physical regions of the hand in relation to a sensor object shaped like a coffee mug. The control group was given the "mugs" and tested, but the other group was given objects identical to the sensor "mugs" to play with for a month before testing. The chimps with a month to experience and manipulate the objects displayed 30x as many discrete regions in the hands.
I teach a lot of runners and swimmers, so an easy analogy for them on Capacity is to run or swim with boots on. The way you have to move in boots develops all the wrong muscles and movements, and the results will be less than optimal.
In my own high school experience, when I first learned traditional grip, we played the timeless classic,"8-16″ for upwards of an hour at a time. Within a few minutes I was blistering up and miserable, like so many first-timers are, and in the first week I found a LOT of different ways to hold the stick so I could preserve what little was left of my skin. Between that manipulation within the motion and the repetition, I quickly developed a very effective approach to playing, which I used to build the rest of my rudimental skills.
Bottom line: Play every day that you can, and focus on improving HOW you do it. Every day is more important than lots of hours on occasion, because the consistency is what improves strength and sensitivity. Doing it better each time is more important than doing it a lot, because the small improvements in alignment and execution will pay off bigger over the weeks and months.
If you constantly improve your Alignment, and consistently develop your Capacity, you will succeed in developing an excellent technique. Many people can advise you, but in the end, it is your personal journey to understand and use your own body that will bring you the most success. Embrace yourself and your journey!
A few months ago I started the "Rudiment Champion" challenge with my students. It only took about a week to realize a keyboard version was needed as well. I decided quickly on the name "Keymaster" because we've gotten into the habit in my program of referring to keyboard instruments and their players as "Keys"… also I love the original Ghostbusters movie :)
The Keymaster challenge has four levels. Each level has a collection of related skills, all using 2-mallet technique. It is my personal opinion that players are forced into the excessively technical world of 4-mallet techniques much too early, and generally long before they master the basic musical elements of their instrument. The Keymaster challenge, therefore, is a concise approach to mastering as many skills and fundamentals as possible before beginning more technically advanced studies.
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Most students take between 25-30 minutes on their first attempt. As each technical or musical issue is mastered, times come down 3-5 minutes at a time, sometimes faster. It generally takes between 8-12 weeks to complete with weekly testing and correction. This is the single most valuable lesson I ever teach, because it makes students so completely accountable for results, and covers an enormous range of developmental areas: musical, technical and psychological.
Level 2: Scale Patterns
Scale patterns are about exactly one thing: breaking up the straight line from left to right to left mastered in "Artist Scales", which results in mastery of the visual layout of the keyboard.
Students generally start on Scale Patterns before finishing "Artist Scales", because the skills overlap somewhat. Students who complete "Artist Scales" in three minutes will frequently come back after 4-5 weeks of Scale Patterns and play "Artist Scales" in under two minutes on the first attempt. This is because the patterns force generalization of key layouts for each scale, which helps the brain to group and process information dramatically faster.
This skill is fundamental to sight reading, memorization, rapid learning, and improvisation, and underlies every other skill by speeding up the ability to see and create on the instrument.
Level 3: Ideo-Kinetics
Gordon Stout is a famous player and teacher, and the head of percussion at Ithaca College. He is known as one of the few marimbists who plays from music with page turners in concert. When asked about it he once replied, "By the time I've read a piece down 3 or 4 times I play it almost as well as I ever will. In the amount of time it would take me to memorize it, I could learn 8-10 more pieces." His system and accompanying book? Ideo-Kinetics.
I have six very basic exercises to begin the study of Ideo-Kinetics. Stout's book has dozens, but the principle is very simple: Know where the notes are by FEEL, not by SIGHT. The marimba is one of the only pitched instruments in the whole world that the player does not touch before playing. Even a pianist can touch the keys lightly before playing them. For us, touching IS playing. This system of finding notes accurately and consistency while essentially blind is fundamental to any level of playing beyond the most basic.
Level 4: Octave Scale Patterns
Using the material from Level 2, this final level tackles the challenges of:
- Not being able to see both notes at the same time
- Adjusting the distance of an octave as the bars get wider or narrower
Octaves are incredibly common in both 2- and 4-mallet playing. The secret is to apply pattern visualization and Ideo-Kinetics together, making it possible to simply add an octave to anything you can play. Easier said than done.
A Level 4 Keymaster is a person with a very highly tuned and tested understanding of tone production, line, groupings, body placement, and note accuracy, and has killer 2-mallet chops as well. Beginning 4-mallet technique with a player at this level is no longer about learning an instrument with four sticks in your hand, it's about applying a new technique to a familiar instrument, and reaching for the same level of mastery from day one.
I know which position I'd rather be in.
I just finished reading "Practice, Made Perfect?" in the sports section of this week's TIME magazine.
Once again, something I've been doing in isolation by accident turns up in an article and goes from a specific success to a general principle. It's a good day :)
There was a time, not long ago, when it seemed like I was auditioning for everything all the time, and almost always winning. The secret to my sudden and unexpected success was what I called "rotation". The idea was simple: Set up every piece on the audition in a circle, and walk around the circle, playing each piece once. When you get to 5 times around playing everything exactly how you want it, turn around and go the other direction. When you get that, tear the whole thing down, set it up in a different order and do it again. And again, and again, and again.
I usually took me about 100 hours to feel like I could nail an audition hanging upside down in my sleep underwater, which is what I was going for. My specific ability to play the audition became a general ability to play anything in my active repertoire exactly like I wanted, on demand, over and over and over.
These days I'm not auditioning for things very often, but I'm using "rotation" to prepare chamber music, recitals, orchestra parts, and to develop my student's practice habits, all to great effect. I've never been so efficient with my time, or had such retention in my life. I'm not anywhere near the article's "10,000 hours" with this method, but I'm seeing results I never dreamed of even 5 years ago.
Not long ago I started a challenge for some of my students called the "Rudiment Champion". Basically, it's a list of rudiments and drumming concepts, each played for one minute continuously to prove you have consistency and endurance. It's actually pretty hard to do.
I sequenced rudiments/concepts in a logical developmental order, drawing on ideas from, among other things, Bill Bachman's new book, Stick Technique, which everyone should own a copy of. I grouped forty different things into four levels, ten per level. After many iterations I landed on something I thought was pretty good.
My assumption was that most people would quit after Level 1, because it's pretty hard, time-consuming, and gets you into territory that is less and less applicable outside of marching. The challenge, therefore, was to pack Level 1 full of the most fundamentally valuable stuff I could.
Here's the Level 1 list:
- Long Roll
- 5-Stroke Roll
- 9-Stroke Roll
- 7-Stroke Roll (16th Base)
- 7-Stroke Roll (Triplet Base)
- Paradiddle
- Paradiddle-Diddle
- Tap-Accent no. 1 (Based on Flam-Accent no. 1)
- Tap-Drags
- Inverted Paradiddles (RLLR LRRL)
Upon reflection, I had to laugh at myself for starting with rolls, because so much time in my college rep classes was spent mocking early drum books for demanding that the open roll be mastered before introducing the quarter note. I TOTALLY GET IT NOW. The above list has no written component. This is drumming as a spoken (played) language. You get it by DOING it, preferably with others around you who already do it better than you do. Reading and academically understanding notes is all well and good, but in the end, it's about pronunciation and execution, and that cannot be learned without hours of repetition, trial, error, and correction.
After some time spent teaching this, I organized the basic concepts on tone production, sticking coordination, and mental focus into three pages, designed to get you through Level 1. Here they are.
Tone Production and Stroke Types
Alternating Tap-Accent, Paradiddles, and Drags
There are a few exercises on here very minimally adapted from Bachman's book and named after him. Everyone should buy his book and get the full scope of what he's doing, as it is incredible and what I have here is not representative.
In the past few years, my philosophy has become more inclusive, putting marching and concert ideas together in the same space. These sheets reflect that, and allow me to focus not only on the mechanics of how to get up and down between notes, but also the tone produced on every note. Indeed, mechanics and tone production inform and affect each other cyclically.
I'm by no means the only person doing this, and I'm always on the lookout for similar resources from people working and developing their ideas. If you know of any, please share in the comments!
Motivation and discipline are both about getting things done.
- Motivation is emotional, we work when we "feel" like it.
- Discipline is intellectual, we work because it's a good idea.
When I think about emotions that make me "feel" like doing things, my short list is:
- Love: I just REALLY want to do things I love and be with people I love.
- Happiness: I enjoy feeling happy (who doesn't?), and I find it easy to indulge in things that make me feel happy
- Hunger: The need to fill myself, physically or metaphorically, is insistent and grows continually until it is fulfilled.
- Anger: Sometimes I just really want to GET someone or GET BACK at someone. It's hard to think of anything else when I feel that way.
- Fear: I don't like bad things to happen to me. Avoiding trouble and pain is important enough to put everything else on hold until I'm out of danger.
All of those things are very MOTIVATING. I act after I FEEL. Motivation is REACTIVE, based on circumstances. If you exist in a motivation mind-set, someone or something else is always controlling you.
I often hear people talk about ways they try to motivate people. Based on my above understanding, that suggests to me what they actually mean is that they are trying to control people. That's a problem for a few reasons. First, it's temporary, and will not be sustained when the motivator is gone. Second, it's dangerous because even when it is done with love and for the best reasons, people simply resent being controlled. Lastly, it's self-centered, as if the people's achievement was about accomplishing your goal of making them do something. Working with people is about helping THEM, not satisfying your own need for control.
When I think about things that are a good idea, my short list is:
- Exercise: I feel better and have a better life-view when I'm exercising regularly
- Practice: Improving my skills, polishing my chops, and generally improving my professional facility helps me be ready for professional opportunities
- Metronomes and A/V recorders: "Honesty Devices" as I call them. Intended for daily use.
- Reading: Learning new things and having new experiences through reading keeps me in touch with the world and fills me with humility and wonder.
- Writing: Creating valuable things and passing my ideas on to others can have positive effects and start new ideas in others that I will never know about
- Adding Value: Teaching, talking, and pouring myself into others for their benefit will always have a good return. I don't know anyone who ever regretted it.
These things are not particularly emotionally energizing. They all require DISCIPLINE. As my leadership guru, John Maxwell said, "no one is excited about a paper when they're still writing it". They're VERY excited after it's done. Discipline is PROACTIVE, based on the goals, and the will of the individual. It is internal, and if you exist in a discipline mind-set, you control yourself.
"To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful – and much easier." ~Mark Twain
When I hear people talking about discipline, they're usually talking about punishment. It is not possible to "discipline" someone. The only kind of discipline is self-discipline, it's an unemotional choice made freely by a person to improve their situation. If you got someone to behave how you wanted by doing something bad to them, you didn't discipline them, you motivated them with punishment.
I find the public schools to be very motivation-heavy. Social pressure and grading creates a fear environment, and students learn how to survive, being led from one emotion to another all day, avoiding pain when they can, and generally escaping punishment as much as possible. There are plenty of individual exceptions, but that's how the system is set up. The expectation is: do as you're told, or else.
In my teaching, all my assignments are discipline-heavy, the early ones especially. I teach with a discipline-bias for two reasons: First, because so much of my success comes from consistent discipline. Second, because it makes the experience of learning with me instantly different, and quickly removes any negative school baggage from the relationship. In the first few weeks that I work with students, I see most transform from being semi-directionless, looking for instructions and an emotional charge, to being disciplined, focused, and looking for accountability. Their capacity for self-determination was always there, they were just used to not connecting with it.
The first and most important large assignment I give is "Artist Scales", which I adapted from my work with Leigh Howard Stevens. It is a colossal undertaking, but any 6th grader with a 4 octave instrument can do it if they are willing to follow the process. No one has ever finished it for me in less than 4 weeks (it's more likely to take upwards of 10), but by the time they can do it in under 3 minutes, they have a complete set of learning tools for any piece, and a disposition to match. As they get closer to 3 minutes, we cover other things as well in lessons, but we start every time with Artist Scales without fail until it's done.
Most of my worksheets, lessons and literature expectations flow from this first assignment. The patterns of discipline developed early on form the basic habits of preparation in all music, and eventually, I hope, in all of life. Some day, I would like to look at the lives of my former students, and see that they met their highest ambitions in their chosen fields because they learned their Artist Scales :D
The principal of discipline is not about punishment. It's about self-determination and a striving to achieve your personal goals whether you feel like doing it today or not. Motivation is powerful, and has its place, but it is fleeting and unsustainable. Discipline is powerful because it is sustainable, and its power grows the longer it is sustained.
If you wait to feel like doing something that is hard, you likely never will. If you do something anyway because you know it will help you, eventually the results it gives you will make you feel like continuing.
Over the past week a few ideas have come together for me and I feel ready to write about what I've been calling Growth Orientation. This is something I'm developing as a core philosophy and practice, and, as it is in development, I find it difficult to organize clearly. This week I made significant progress thanks to Tom Burritt's post on drumchattr.com.
Tom has been reading on university programs and on-line course offerings, and I highly recommend reading his post and following his links to the articles he's citing if you ever plan on attending a university (hint).
Here's what I'm bringing together philosophically:
- My undergrad at Iowa State imprinted on me the statement, "Lifelong Learning"
- I strongly prefer the "apprenticeship" model of education to the "lecture" model
- I believe the successful study of any discipline requires developing universal tools of learning
- I don't think anyone is responsible for my education but me
- I don't feel personally responsible to anyone for their own learning
- I feel the internet makes the above two statements totally reasonable
- I find goals to be highly motivating… until completed, then they become highly demotivating
- I find the pursuit of college degrees to be at the heart of some of the saddest, most financially crippling stories I've ever heard
- I think individual entrepreneurialism based on individual brilliance is the new normal, and anyone who can be replaced cheaply or easily will be
- I find myself to be better at the service of building people with information and action than I am at generating and protecting exclusive, unique content
That's a lot of disparate stuff, which is why I say I have a hard time focusing my material at this early stage. This is my current conclusion:
- Goals are temporary. The momentum gained while working on them reverses upon their completion. It is easier to talk about and remember how you were successful before than it is to be successful again.
- Growth is continual, and generates momentum the longer growth continues. The bigger you grow, the bigger you CAN grow and the bigger you WANT to grow.
- Therefore: Growth is a more beneficial focus in study over a long period, and Goals are only suitable as a temporary means to accomplish a short-term end.
- Furthermore: Because in western culture we are inundated with goal-oriented thinking all the time, special attention needs to be given to NOT making goals, but attending to steady growth instead.
Example: Marching season is over, so all my students are selecting pieces for solo and ensemble contest, because that's the next major calendar event (goal). Inevitably I am asked over and over, "what should I play?", which is a fair question, because you have to pick SOMETHING, but it's November, and contest for many people is in late February or March.
If I set a piece as a goal now, we start a cycle, where we work for 4-5 months to get ready, then play, then move on. The challenge becomes selecting a piece that will be a suitable goal, and fulfill all our needs for that entire period.
IF, however, I refuse to choose a piece, and place our focus on maximizing growth during this period, there will be, among other things, pieces getting played, and when we get a few weeks away from contest, whatever is good at that time can be used.
Now the "goal" is relegated to its appropriate place as a short-term solution to a specific problem. We need a piece to play so we get feedback at contest. We pick a piece, we play, we get feedback. Done. The real value in the 4-5 months of study is the growth, and that may very well be accomplished better without a big contest piece.
The idea of Growth Orientation is one of service: I exist as a teacher to add value to my students. The content of lessons is not substantially different than what would be used in goal orientation. The pieces are mostly similar, the instruments are mostly similar, the specifics of each piece are mostly similar, etc. What is different is the emphasis on helping students to grow as people by growing as players, rather than on setting goals for completion of material or success at scheduled events.
This also eliminates the common idea that when a piece is learned it's "done". Anything that has its value defined by helping to complete a goal loses that value when the goal is complete. Any piece used in the growth process retains its value as long as growth continues, and could be called upon again at any time, for any suitable reason.
In goal orientation, each completed goal involves an opportunity for stagnation, because a new goal is needed to continue working with purpose. In growth orientation each small instance of growth leads to greater growth, because there is always one more obvious step to take.
What I want my students to take away from this idea is simple:
- You will need to learn and grow through your entire life and adapt to be successful.
- Learning itself is a skill you develop any time you learn anything.
- You are at the center of your own learning and growth. It really is all about you!
- Once you get good at it, no one will ever teach you better than you.
- The best way to grow to a higher level is to connect with someone who is beyond you at whatever specific thing you're learning. Add their value to your own!
- Always take time to benefit others in their growth as well. It is impossible to help others without also helping yourself.
I will continue to develop this idea and write on it as it gets better. I'm using it in every aspect of my life, teaching, study and growth, and I can see its positive effects every day.
Happy growing!
Without question the biggest three days of my professional year are at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). This year, PASIC was in Austin, Texas for the third time since I started attending in 2002. It is also composer John Cage's 100th birthday this year, so in addition to the usual events, a special "Focus Theme" emphasized his contributions to percussion in the 20th century with concerts, talks and paper presentations.
It's impossible to see or do everything at PASIC, so here is what I saw, loved, and think everyone should know about. It was a big year for me in a lot of ways and much of what I've been thinking about and working on took a huge leap forward as a result of this year's events.
Nebosja Jovan Zivkovic Showcase Concert: This concert was impacted severely by Hurricane Sandy. Most of the players were trapped in Europe, and two of them landed in Austin literally an hour before they played. Zivkovic, being a wizard of the stage, played brilliantly anyway, and filled out the missing 30 minutes of his program with a GREAT clinic on how he connects his playing with singing. He played several of his works while singing them, either note-for-note, or by shape and concept, and it was awesome.
Zivkovic's music always feels very natural to me, even the really weird stuff, and singing is the reason. He told us directly, "No singing, no music". As sad as it was to hear that his concert wouldn't go off as planned, I wouldn't trade the last 30 minutes for anything.
Marching Percussion Festival: There are numerous competitions for high school and college students in marching percussion including: Solo snare and tenors, small ensemble, stand still large group and marching large group. The judges are among the greatest figures in the marching community, and the comments and feedback students receive is of exceptional value.
My favorite part of the competition is seeing groups very close to and slightly above the level I'm teaching at. It's a great "mountain top" experience to look at a group and say "that is exactly the direction we could go in (6 months, 12 months, 2 years, etc)" or to realize there's something about the way a group performs or an effect they add that I've never seen that could really improve what I'm doing. I could spend all day watching groups though I usually don't, and I rarely fail to learn something.
Troy University Percussion Ensemble Showcase Concert: What a monster concert. Basically four guys carried the whole thing and were playing on set-ups they built themselves. The last piece on the program was by Aurel Hollo, who, if you don't know, writes some of the most insanely cool percussion chamber music ever. The players built a metal box frame they stood in and around with their instruments attached all around it, hanging, swinging, and sticking out in all directions. It added a totally sweet visual/spatial element to all the crazy notes they were playing. If the concert ends up on YouTube I'll link it, because it was a knock out. I love being around top-level anything, it reminds me how far I can go in my own work.
Bill Bachman "12 Rudiments=12 Hand Motions=Complete Hand Technique": Sometimes a clinic changes your life. This one might change the future of drumming. Bill Bachman is one of the greatest marching tenor drummers ever, and he's teaching the current generation of the best players in DCI and WGI. He has a very down-to-earth, common sense way of explaining some of the most technically complex ideas in percussion, and can deliver an idea with incredible clarity and brevity.
In 1933 the National Association of Rudimental Drummers (NARD) defined 13 essential rudiments in American drumming and 26 standard rudiments, and in the 80s the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) redefined them as 40 standard rudiments. Now we're at another crossroads.
40 Rudiments seems like a lot, but actually a lot of them are very similar, to the point of being almost the same thing from an execution standpoint. Additionally, in practice there are hundreds of "hybrid" rudiments which combine elements of the 40 and are, in many cases, more common and WAY harder to play. Many of the rules for how to play the 40 do not account for the challenges of hybrids.
Bill has a new book, which I bought (devoured would be more accurate), called Stick Technique. It has 12 rudiments in it, and a collection of brutal chop-busting exercises in the back. By the time you master all his material on these 12 rudiments, you can play literally anything, because the rudiments are chosen based on how your hands have to move to play them, especially to play them fast.
I'm so pumped about the potential of this approach, I'm dedicating 30-60 minutes a day to mastering the book. I've already replaced several parts of my regular teaching material because this is way better than anything I've ever seen. I love geniuses, they make me more effective than I could be on my own.
Michael Burritt Showcase Concert: Mike Burritt is my personal hero, so anything I say is really biased. I think he's pretty much the best thing ever. 8 years ago I started studying with him and he was so far beyond me I couldn't really understand where that was. 6 years ago I could understand, and could not imagine anything better. Today, he's better. Unimaginably, impossibly better.
It's mostly his physical approach and tone production that freak me out. I don't want to say "he has good technique" because that sounds academic and misses the point. He has great physical approach. He simply must be viewed to be understood. Fortunately, he makes movies. I'm working every day to capture his arm release and loose grip. It comes from structural stability and mechanical alignment, both of which are developed with lots and lots and lots of time and intent. That physical combination gives him a gesture that delivers weight into the bars and brings out a sound that lighter players can't get. Same mallets, same instrument, different tone. Of the Steven's Technique players, only he has it on that level that I'm aware of.
Thomas Burritt and the University of Texas at Austin Percussion Ensemble: Another crazy, monster concert by one of the best college programs in the world. Tom recently did a marimba concert in which he programmed a 30-minute set of works without pause in between. In order to do that he had to select the works carefully, create an expressive arc through all of them, and figure out how to change mallets and move from one work to the next without interrupting the musical line. Saturday's concert was a 50-minute extension of this idea for chamber ensemble with choir and soloists.
Tom wrote a post on this concert the week before PASIC.
Basically this was a gripping ride with no time to breathe or react as an audience member from beginning to end. It was WAY better in that sense than a multi-movement work with pauses between movements, because it felt like ONE THING and not four things grouped together with the same title. I cannot wait to see how far this idea can go, and I hope I can start to toy with it myself in some much less ambitious way.
Sandi Rennick and the Santa Clara Vanguard Front Ensemble: This whole experience can be summed up very simply in a quote from Sandi during the clinic. "The exercise example we just played takes about 2 hours to complete with all the stickings and transpositions". The SCV Front Line is crazy consistent, crazy strong and has crazy endurance. The exercises are the typical chords, scales and arpeggios, but taken to an extreme of re-voicing and transposition so that they take hours to play beginning to end. The material is all more exotic-sounding than usual, which keeps it interesting to listen to hour after hour. They play what I surmised to be about 5 times more music than the rest of the corps in the summer. They can only get the show so good without the full ensemble, and they can't play with them while drill is being set, so they have time to rock 2-hour long exercises and learn all-new pieces while they wait for everyone else to be ready. In addition to that they are all college percussion majors and individually are total knock-out performers already.
What do you get when you combine great players with teamwork, leadership, and discipline? Winners.
So those are my big PASIC 2012 takeaways. I saw more stuff than that and lot of it was really good, but these are the things that will color my life for at least the next 12 months. I do my very best to never miss PASIC, because without the immersion and the experience of what's happening right now, it's easy to forget how fast our field is moving, changing and growing.


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Thankfully, I am 100% confident that my kitty's thyroid medicine does work; she has hyperthyroidism from a benign tumor on her thyroid. It was VERY obvious that it was having a positive effect when the vet put her on it and I saw her plump up and feel tons better. Vomiting was another symptom... and that ceased. Another symptom was that she was dropping weight, which was scary because she was always hungry despite getting skinnier and skinnier. In fact, once she was on the medicine, she got a bit chubby and we ended up having to lower her dosage. She then trimmed down to normal weight and we keep her on a managed dose; she needs to be on it forever. No doubt at all that this particular med works. Forget the name offhand, though.
You are right about the C-64 power supplies. I went through a few of them, myself. I remember ultimately getting a 3rd party model that was advertised in Compute or Compute's Gazette back in the day. They touted that it was far more reliable. I think it was pricey... I have a weird memory of it costing $35 back in the 80s. (My grandmother was kind enough to spring for it.) I still have it to this day and it still works like a charm, so I guess it was worth the money.
On the other hand, you won't get me to easily praise much about the ADAM. heh I remember the commercials for it made it look great, though. Dragon's Lair looked quite good on it for the time! And it did play Colecovision game cartridges, so that was always a good thing.
But it all comes in one box!
That video from the link in the post is like a cavalcade of hipsters!
So long and thanks for all the..... GURGLE
"Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune..." Never thought I'd hear someone say that sentence without joking about it.
If I had a mod point, I'd toss it at ya.
Space Invaders?
Tempest 2000 and Aliens vs. Predator are the games worth having a Jaguar for. Tempest 2000 being THE better game of the two. Being a Vita owner, I am completely thrilled to hear this news. The Vita has some great titles, but MORE, MORE, MORE!
Keep Calm and Die A Slow Painful Death
Tablets now fall under the umbrella of being a PC. BAM! Problem fixed... no more PC sales decline.
Windows 180 would be a good title... to go along with their XBOX ONE EIGHTY! They spun quick on that DRM crap after the Internet bit their face off.
The King death rumor is just that... a rumor. He's alive and well.
I think it is just worded wonky... I get the impression that they mean that PINBALL is the unlikely place in retro gaming that people would expect a resurgence.
A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.


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We are recently encountering the opposition as well as a complete acceptance of weed such as: ( Marijuana, THC etc...). What is your justification as for bieng against or with it?
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Jun 27 2013: Yes, legalize it. Tax it like you would cigarettes or alcohol. Quit wasting money trying to prohibit it, didn't we learn anything from Prohibition. By legalizing it, we should be able to negate the illegal profit margins and drive the drug dealers out of business.
Once legal we have to create laws and regulations for driving under the influence of weed. Have the right to terminate an employee showing up to work high, just like being drunk. Legalization will have to have it's responsibilities.
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This tiny shop in the Marais (just down the block from Home Autour du Monde) has an excellent selection of furniture and accessories that fit the name "Yesterday for Tomorrow"…
I am far from knowledgeable in the pricing and demand of Mid-Century furniture in Paris (or the € conversion!) but the excellent selection seemed to reflected in the prices! Hier Pour Demain is a worthwhile shop to visit when trekking around Paris.
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Enough with le Marais Aaron, sure shops there are lovely and entertaining but way overpriced. Come to the Batignolles in the 17th, it's traditionnally an area specialised in "brocante" and we have a vivid authentic design commerce. Plus you keep bumping into treasures on the street, my apartment is mostly furnished with some.
It's so unusual for me to find a familiar name on here (I live in Sydney), but this lovely shop jumped straight out at me. In Paris last year, we stayed just around the corner from it - it brought back all sorts of happy memories of traipsing through the Marais!


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There is really no way to know for sure if you're going to get colorectal cancer. Certain factors can make you more likely to get colorectal cancer than another person. These are called risk factors. However, just having one or more risk factors does not mean you will get cancer. In fact, you can have many risk factors and still not get colorectal cancer, or you can have few or no known risk factors and still get it.
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I am older than age 50.
The average age that people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer is 69. That doesn't mean you can't get the disease if you are younger. Even adolescents can get it. But the fact is that more than 90 percent of cases are found in people older than age 50.
People in my immediate family have had colorectal cancer.
One out of every five people with colorectal cancer has relatives who have had the disease. That's because family members share many of the same genes. It may also be because family members often have similar lifestyles. If your parents, brothers or sisters, or your children have had the disease, you're at a much higher risk than other people. This is especially true if your relative had the cancer before age 45.
I have had colorectal cancer before.
If you've had colorectal cancer before, you're at risk for developing it in another part of your colon or rectum.
I have had polyps in my colon or rectum.
Polyps are growths that can occur in your colon and rectum. They are common in adults older than age 50. Usually they're benign. That means they are not cancerous. However, some polyps can become cancerous over time. That means that if you have a history of getting them, you may be more likely to get cancer. Polyps can be discovered and removed before they become cancer. This often happens during a routine screening test, such as a colonoscopy. You should talk with your health care provider about how often to have one of these tests done.
I have the condition familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).
FAP is a fairly rare inherited condition. It causes hundreds or thousands of polyps to form in someone who has it. These polyps often start to form during a person's teen years. Beginning at about age 20, the polyps could become cancerous. Most people with FAP develop cancer before age 40 unless they have preventive surgery.
I have the condition hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, also called HNPCC or Lynch syndrome.
About four out of every 100 cases of colorectal cancer are caused by HNPCC. This is a rare inherited condition. It causes polyps to form early in a person's life. But unlike FAP, which causes hundreds or thousands of polyps, this condition causes only a few. This condition can also cause other cancers such as endometrial cancer or cancer of the small intestine.
I smoke.
Smoking raises a person's risk for colorectal cancer. There are many known cancer-causing agents, also called carcinogens, in cigarette smoke. Some are swallowed and can cause cancer in those parts of the digestive system they come in contact with. Some enter the blood and travel through your body to your intestines. If you smoke, your health care provider may be able to help you find a stop-smoking program that can work for you.
I'm very overweight.
Colorectal cancer is more common in people who are obese than people who are not. This is especially true for men. Researchers think that the extra weight increases insulin levels and that higher insulin levels cause polyps that can become cancerous.
I'm not physically active.
People who don't get much physical activity are at higher risk for colorectal cancer.
I have type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent) are more likely to get colorectal cancer. Type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer share some of the same risk factors, including obesity and physical inactivity. But even after taking these factors into account, people with type 2 diabetes still have a higher risk for colorectal cancer.
I drink a lot of alcohol.
People who drink a lot of alcohol are more likely to get colorectal cancer. And the more you drink, the higher your risk becomes. Researchers think that too much alcohol can change your DNA. Heavy drinking also lowers folic acid levels in the body. Working with your health care provider to stop drinking could lower your risk.
I eat a lot of red or processed meat.
Red meat includes beef, pork, lamb, and veal. Processed meats include hot dogs and luncheon meats. Studies show that if you eat a lot of red or processed meat, you are at a higher risk for colorectal cancer. A healthy diet that lowers your risk for cancer is one low in animal fat that includes plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain products. Eating red meat well-done may even add to your risk. Researchers say that the high temperatures usually used to cook meat can produce certain cancer-causing compounds called carcinogens. Meat may also affect how your colon works by raising your levels of iron and producing compounds that damage cells.
I have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
There are several types of IBD. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are two. Chronic IBD causes long-term inflammation of your colon. This increases your risk for colorectal cancer. The longer you have one of these conditions, the more important it is to be screened for colorectal cancer at an earlier age and more frequently.
I'm African-American.
If you're African-American, you're more likely to get colorectal cancer than members of other population groups. You're also more likely to die of the disease. It is not clear why these differences exist. One possible reason, researchers think, is a difference in access to screening and medical care. Another possible reason could be differences in socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. Researchers are also studying the way tumors develop in African-Americans.
I'm Jewish.
If you're Jewish and of Eastern European descent (Ashkenazi), you may have a higher risk of getting colorectal cancer. Some evidence suggests a gene mutation is the reason. It isn't clear, though, that this genetic change is responsible for the increased number of colorectal cancers in Ashkenazi Jews.
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Nopunin10did said...
I don't believe they've mentioned doing that. You'll probably still need to kill one of the three end bosses to get those.
This whole nerf thing says to me, if you want to see content, but not have to deal with other people failing, and you don't care about gear or being super elitiest, then wait until a new patch comes out, go in, coast through, and then go back on hiatus until the next patch turns on ez-mode for the new stuff.
Really? They need to actually change the encounters? It will be easier to gear up already...so...why do you have to make it easier? Instead of a group going in in Blues, and having to be utterly perfect to get through, they can grind on heroics for a couple weeks and be in full T11 and then go do it and have plenty of room for mistakes and learning.
So now, you can get instant T11, and go through a raid thats been dumbed down to near dungeon level.
Or you can try and talk people into doing the Heroic version, but, hah, who wants to go through that pain with Firelands and T12 sitting right there?
In addition to being handed 365 gear from daily quests and 359 gear from heroics, it seems a bit strange that they'd tab on additional nerfs. Especially nerfs [i]this[/i] drastic. Things like Chimaeron, Nefarian, and Al'Akir's nerfs are a bit ridiculous. They're removing major elements from the fights.
Obviously they're reaching out to the population of WoW players that are struggling to complete normal mode Tier-11, but what's going to happen after they do? They're just going to go up to Firelands and get hit by a brick wall? I'm also worried what this actually means for Firelands - who are they tuning the content for? Are they expecting those who kill Nefarian for the first time after 4.2 to be able to succeed in Firelands?
The problem with nerfs this drastic is that it accelerates people into content that they're simply not ready for.
Congratz, you killed Al'Akir for the first time after 4.2, and you've got your "Defender of the Shattered World" title. Does this player have even a remote chance at succeeding in Firelands? If yes, then Firelands is way too undertuned. If no, then why are you throwing them into a brick wall?
"Really? They need to actually change the encounters? It will be easier to gear up already...so...why do you have to make it easier? Instead of a group going in in Blues, and having to be utterly perfect to get through, they can grind on heroics for a couple weeks and be in full T11 and then go do it and have plenty of room for mistakes and learning."
Gear doesn't help with the vast multitude of 1-shot or raid-wipe mechanics that are in the "normal" difficulty T11 boss fights.
I don't think you've tried to do Council with people who don't respond to lightning rod or Atramedes with people who can't kite fire or Alakir with people who can't dodge squall lines, etc. etc.
You call those people "bad." I call them my friends whom I want to play WoW with and not get angry at. I don't want to replace them with ... you.
One could argue that a chain of successes benefits a team's morale more than a chain of failures.
Yes, nerfing the T11 content with the release of T12 will produce a bunch of epic'd characters who don't know how to raid well -- but this increases the pool of geared players who can potentially fill in slows for Firelands raids. It eases gearing alts to also fill in slots.
If the objective is to allow the broader playerbase to see the content, nerfing the content is better than overpowering the players. Though would you prefer if the T11 raids were instead made accessible by bringing back the ICC buff mechanic instead, which progressively increase player effectiveness instead of nerfing bosses?
Sure mistakes happen and in regular mode one simple mistake shouldn't wipe a raid, but when you allow strong players to carry oblivious players (not weak players, weak players can get better with practice, oblivious ones don't care to get better), then you perpetuate the system of being rewarded for bad behavior, ie being rewarded for intentionally not caring about the fight mechanics.
THAT is what a great deal of people are afraid of, not people getting to play with their friends, if you and your friends genuinely want to play you'll care enough to at least try to learn some of the fights. When you bring your friends that don't want to play then you have players that don't want to be there and don't care about the fights- so if that is also the case don't bring people that don't want to come, friends or not.
Sorta curious what I got downvoted for. I'm all for raids with normal modes that are forgiving of an occasional mistake here or there, of people raiding with their friends assuming that everyone wants to be there.
All I said is that you shouldn't be allowed to brute force your way through every mechanic in a fight, otherwise its just Patchwerk, and boring to everyone, in addition to rewarding people for intentionally ignoring fight mechanics.
IMO fights are about learning to cooperate, if you don't cooperate as a whole, and difficulty for raid bosses should scale not based on gear but on how well a raid group cooperates with each other.
emberdione said...
"You call those people "bad." I call them my friends whom I want to play WoW with and not get angry at. I don't want to replace them with ... you."
This so ACCURATELY boils down the points I have been trying to make all day. /salute
"I call them my friends whom I want to play WoW with and not get angry at."
I don't have a problem with that. That's a great goal! I'm the same way. I like to play with my friends too.
Video games have never really been about "play with anyone at any skill level" though. You can just play with your friends in Halo, but if they're not any good at it (like me!) your group will not win very much and not have a fun time. Same for Starcraft. Those are against other players though, true. What about a single player game? Well, you could do Halo co-op...but you'll still get destroyed on the harder difficulties if your friends aren't any good. There you have the choice of a lower difficulty level. How about Portal 2? Well, I've not actually done the co-op yet, but if you and your friend can't solve the puzzles you aren't going anywhere. If there are any "shoot the portal at just this time" like there was in Portal 1 (which there probably are), you and your friend will need some level of coordination and reflexes.
Many, many video games have required a certain "skill" or "competency" level to progress. This is true for both solo and multi-player. This is not a new concept at all. At it's heart, there is nothing wrong with the idea of a difficult video game. The place WoW runs into trouble is the lack of difficulty VARIETY. Halo has 4 difficulty levels. So does Starcraft 2. The Warcraft RTS had difficulty levels, as did Diablo. At the release of a current raid, it has a normal level and a hard level. It lacks that easy level that a significant portion of the playerbase likes. It's the "easy" level that lets you play with just about anyone, to get your friends into the raid even they just aren't very good. Interestingly, the only time WoW has had that Easy level present from the beginning of a raid was Naxxrammas. It wasn't present at the beginning of ICC. Well, the first few bosses were, but the rest of the place was pretty rough until the stacking buff hit.
It's interesting. I don't recall such an outcry at the release of Ulduar, most of which was also very rough, but came right after the ease of Naxx. My guess is that it's mostly related to the lack of any raid content to run. Even with Ulduar, people could go back and run Naxx again if they wanted something to do. Also, it's possible the, uh, "easy raiding boom" didn't happen until later. Possibly people expected Naxx to be the exception, so when Ulduar was hard and not cleared by many, it was just business as usual. That mentality shifted with ToC and ICC. Interesting how it started shifting with ToC, despite how nasty the Faction Champions fight was.
One of WoW's difficulties with, uh, difficulty lies in the "reason people raid." Overwhelmingly, it appears to me that people raid for loot. While loot is nice, it's a lot better to raid just for the fun of it. Perhaps that's just my perception. Maybe I'm wrong...but I don't think so. So in addition to the difficulty level, Blizzard has to balance the reward element. Plus, with raiding (partly due to that reward element) people tend to start at the lowest raid level and then move up. I worry that if an "easy level" was added that raiders who should be on normal would start at easy, then move up. This would contribute to burnout I think. A rough problem to solve for Blizzard.
This is a lot longer than I intended, so back to the original point which is that historically, it is quite common for a video game to require some minimum competency level. This certainly varies from game to game, but I think it's pretty unique to MMOs to see this sort of "I want to play with my friends but can't" problem show up. Oh, I'm sure it's happened in many games, but the complaints don't crop up, probably because most other games are pretty static. Anyway, it's certainly a reasonable request that makes sense, but it's still seems odd to me. Not odd that you want to play with your friends, but odd that you want to alter the game to fit your needs. Most times, when a game is too hard people just find a new game. I'm not advocating that (well, to an extent I am, don't play something that's not fun!), but it's certainly more common to stop playing the game than to try to change it...except for MMOs. They are an odd creature indeed.
In Halo we could do free for all. Or play the campaign on easy. Bad or inexperienced players will be matched against each other. All of these things are designed to allow the whole game to be accessible to anybody.
I think that heroic modes aren't much of a substitute for difficulty settings, though. You generally don't walk into a raid for the first time and flip it on heroic. They're more like artificial progression extensions. I think that they should be more akin to difficulties in other games.
I do find it ironic that anyone is upset about nerfing the encounters in 4.2 anyways. If you're an elite player, go do the new hotness. No need for you to rub elbows with the unwashed masses. At least now more people will be able to get more value out of the game they're paying for. Whining about less skilled players being able to do a raid that you're not even gonna do anymore is quite silly.
Poltergeist said...
A lot of these players that are so quick to QQ don't stop to think that two, maybe three months from now, their elitist guilds will wind up losing a handful of players that need to be replaced. A portion of these losses will inevitably be replaced by skilled players who took advantage of an easier gear curve due to getting into Cata later than others.
A lot of these players that are so quick to QQ don't stop to think that at some point in the future, their elitist guild may not be the well oiled raiding machine that it is today. I used to be in a guild that I though would never collapse, having been together for years. Guess what, it did. And when the rug gets pulled out from underneath them, they may have to resort to raiding with people that took advantage of an easier gear curve to kick start their progression.
A lot of these players that are so quick to QQ don't stop to think that they will get quite bored with whatever character they tend to raid with today, and that someday they would love to try playing an alt that, thanks to an easier gear curve, will have a much easier time getting brought up to par with relevant raid content.
A lot of these players that are so quick to QQ don't stop to think. Period.
I suspect Blizz may also be "reaching out to the population of WoW players that are struggling to complete" heroic 5-man dungeons. I shut off my account three months ago when it became clear that you have to be in a raiding guild just to complete a heroic daily.
The normal routine was "Wait 40 minutes in the queue, group wipes 5 minutes in, group breaks up; wait another 40 minutes in queue...."
After completing only one heroic after about 15 tries, I said screw it.
Oh, and now that the initial raids will be easier for casuals, will we be seeing a Raid Finder any time in the future? Because as I said, I ain't in a raiding guild and these guys are apparently the only ones who are seeing the insides of these joints.


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There's been an arrest! The alleged killer of Baby Hope, the little girl murdered and shoved in a cooler, then left on the side of a New York highway 22 years ago, has been identified by police as a cousin of the little girl know known to be Anjelica Castillo.
Finally! Some justice for the little girl buried under a headstone paid for by police detectives under a name that wasn't her's in a dress bought by the wife of one of the detectives.
It was just this week that cops tracked down Baby Hope's mother, and then her name. They were searching for her father, but the course of the investigation led them instead to the father's cousin.
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I think it's disgusting and why the hell didn't the parents report her missing. And why hasn't a real picture of her been released instead of this terrible sketch? Something here is still fishy with regard to the family.
Why is the mother still out of jail?
How s it hat if the mom didn't do that she wasn't reported missing? If she had been reported missing then it would have been solved long ago....and how is in no one else in the family thoughg nothing of her just being gone one day? Something doesn't add up!
The statute of limitations for child endangerment has run out in this case. That's probably all that they could really charge the parents with. God will have to take care of them, and I'm quite sure that He will.


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