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Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott at the afterparty for the latter's starring role in Design For Living.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott at the afterparty for the latter's starring role in Design For Living.
for a friend
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Today is #FridayFiction!
#FridayFiction is a flash fiction workshop that runs every week on Twitter from 3 - 6 p.m. PST, facilitated by Richard Hugo House. Each week, we pick a theme and create a story based off of that theme. We share it with the community of #fridayfiction writers by using the tag in our tweets. You can contribute more than one story. You can use the same character in every story, or multiple characters. The important thing is that your story, with the tag #FridayFiction, not exceed the 140 character limit that Twitter sets.
Why do we do this?
Flash fiction gives us a chance to re-examine our language in a way that we normally wouldn't be able to do. The confines of the tweet force us to think of different ways of saying something, finding the word that communicates the biggest idea in the shortest way, and using Twitter allows us to find other writers on social media.
For more on why we write flash fiction and use Twitter to do it, read "Exercises in Brevity" on our website.
Last week's story prompt was "Dreams", in honor of the New Year. Click on the pictures above to see an expanded view of the stories our amazing community of writers shared with us last week.
This week's story prompt is "Mystery". Honestly, this prompt idea came to my husband and I after a week of watching the two latest Sherlock episodes. Anyone else notice that Moriarty is some amazing kind of cheerful, evil, hipster muppet?
Mystery should be an amazing prompt for us to explore within the short space we have in our tweets. You have to set up the scene, but allow enough room for the turn at the end that will suck us in. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a story that is, in itself, complete and yet leaves us messaging you, desperate for more.
Basically, if you make someone angry later today with how great your story was, if you get demands for more, then you've done your job. As always, the key to this will be word choice. Find the word that communicates several ideas within that one signifier, and you can build a great piece of flash fiction!
Experiment with POV, different characters, and write more than one story! Writing within the confines of a tweet is difficult, but it gets you into an incredible mindset. Find the right words to create the mood, the plot and convey character in as short a way as you can.
Also, try and interact with the community! Every week, a lot of amazing writers gather together and share their stories. These people don't just offer up great stories, they are great people to follow throughout the rest of the week as well. Being on Twitter is all about curating the conversation you want to be apart of and this is a great way to meet people who love being creative.
Hope to see you and your flashfiction this afternoon!
As always, it would be wonderful to see some of you join in on this. You don't have to be a writer. Everyone has a story to share and this is a really fun way to meet great people on Twitter.
Moriarty just wants to play wii with you.
I want to play Wii with Moriarty.
twist, snap.
i love you
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Blood and glitter go together right?
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Frank, get some cake in you! I was serious when I said I was concerned. Happy Birthday!
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I am alarmingly excited that I seem to be Moriarty in this situation. I guess I've always wanted to be a cheerful evil hipster muppet
ebee- replied to your photoset: danflan: Doctor John Hamish Watson. He wore…
this is how I react to your Hardy attacks.
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REGENERATION, the new exhibit at NYSCI, opened last night. To understand the installations, I followed the group of our Explainers around. Like Barbara in this photo, I listened intently to the descriptions. It was all quite interesting, and I was delighted to see NYSCI take a risk, and work with artists who had personal visions.
It remains to be seen how our young visitors will react. Each piece needs to be explained to be appreciated, and it will take some patience. Some pieces even need a tablet and one's app capabilities to understand what's going on. This lets out many of our Corona neighbors and our school groups. But I understand an Explainer will be on hand with a tablet to show folks that aspect.
We would like to support this exhibit with resources in the library. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to do that, which subject and disciplines to search for. Updates to follow!
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Atlanta Hawks backup combo guard Lou Williams missed his third straight practice on Friday but was excused due to birth of his daughter, reports Chris Vivlamore of the AJC.
Lou Williams not at practice, excused absence due to birth of daughter. ATLHawks
— Chris Vivlamore (@ajchawks) March 14, 2014
This is Lou's second child — both girls. He has a 3-year-old daughter named Jada.
He missed practice on Wednesday and Thursday, and was out for Thursday night's game against the Milwaukee Bucks but is expected to be back for Saturday's home game against the Denver Nuggets.
Lou Williams expected back for Saturday's game. #ATLHawks
— Chris Vivlamore (@ajchawks) March 14, 2014
It will be good to have Lou back, although he hasn't made much of a contribution in the last two wins and seems to have fallen out of the Hawks' rotation as he hasn't logged any minutes in the past three games, despite being healthy.
Hopefully Lou gets back in the rotation soon.
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NEW YORK – The same cracks that appeared in the Rangers' defense at crucial times in the first three games of the Stanley Cup final resurfaced in Game 4. But with a little more fortitude, they were able to stave off elimination and salvage a 2-1 victory over the Kings on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.
Defenseman Dan Girardi, whose broken stick led to the Kings' only goal in the second period, rebounded with five of his six blocked shots in the third period when the Kings had a 15-1 advantage in shots on goal.
As much as anybody, Girardi understood the Rangers survived on guts, determination and goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.
I've never been so happy to have a long flight and a time change, Girardi said of the Rangers' cross-country trek to Los Angeles for Game 5 tonight at Staples Center.
I don't think it was our best game of the series by any means, but that's how it's been going for us, Girardi added.
The Rangers scored the first goal for the third time in the series and nearly threw away that lead within a couple minutes when a puck slipped under Lundqvist and slid slowly toward and onto the goal line.
The Kings' Jeff Carter took a poke at it, but his stick was detoured by Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman, whose blade flicked the puck away before it crossed.
I saw the puck, and all I tried to do was get the stick out and, obviously, the puck, as well, Stralman said. I got a little lucky and was able to save it.


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"Hand aufs Herz" recap: Your Love is My Drug
Back at Chulos, the lighting is being kinder to Emma and Jenny than it ever has done. Even the camera can't get close enough to them.
Ronnie's there, too, yucking it up and twirling his handlebar mustache and tying ladies to train tracks and putting some roofies in Jenny's water bottle. Jenny and Emma are still talking about Sophie instead of making out. It's preposterous. Every time I hear the name Sophie, I want to punch myself in the head.
Outside, Ronnie corners Emma again, all, "Hey, watch this video of Penny Cartmann snorting blow. Say, she looks just like your girlfriend, Jenny Hartmann. Why, I think it is your girlfriend Jenny Hartmann. Whom I just poisoned, by the way. Toodles!"
Emma carries Jenny home — literally, probably, White Knight that she is — and tucks her under the most garish covers you've ever seen. Like, I'm surprised Jenny didn't still think she was tripping when she woke up and saw the hyper-circus-colored duvet. Emma watches over her — again, literally — and when Jenny wakes up in a cold sweat, she explains how Ronnie drugged her, and how she saw that YouTube video of her and Effy Stonem doing body shots off of each other and eating MDMA brownies over in Bristol. They fight about Sophie some more (self-inflicted face-punch!) and Jenny says she didn't tell Emma about her past because Emma could never have understood.
It's a lie, and they both know it. What Jenny really means is she couldn't bear it if Emma ever stopped looking at her with those adoring eyes and that over-earnest puppy-dog head-tilt. And Emma doesn't. Of course she doesn't. And she won't. She fell in love with all of Jenny, even the past she didn't even know about yet. Emma's main concern is: Breakfast and making sure Jenny can pass her next drug screening.
Yep. Drug screening. It's the only way her parents would agree to let her come to Cologne, apparently. Jenny knows she's going to fail no matter what. But Emma's not sending the love of her life off to Snogdon, UK without a fight. She's got a Plan B. The fact that she's got a Plan B at all makes Jenny's face do this:
And this:
It also makes her call Emma a "terrier" with such affection. But Plan B is doomed. Emma wants to do the drug test for her, but there's no way to make it happen because the drug test is a urine sample. Also, the last time Emma did an assignment for Jenny, she mixed up her Martin Luthers and they almost ended up murdering each other.
Jenny takes the drug test herself. And she fails the drug test herself. Which means her parents will be along to collect her in a matter of days to drag her away from Emma. Unless, of course, Emma's got some more of that Gryffindor heroism up her sleeve. (Spoiler alert: She does.)
The last Hand aufs Herz episode airs on German network TV on Friday. I'll have the final recap up on Friday afternoon, assuming I can get my hands on the last few clips by then. Until then, I suggest all the pizza and P!nk pajama ballet you can handle.


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One of gaming's greatest injustices is that Bub and Bob, the bubble-mouthed heroes of Bubble Bobble, are now synonymous with dull retreads, dodgy re-imaginings and endless ruddy Puzzle Bobble games.
It's an injustice because their creator, the late Fukio Mitsuji, was a firm believer that great games should stand as works of art in their own right. Despite constant pressure from Taito bigwigs to develop a direct sequel to his immensely successful 1986 coin-op Bubble Bobble, Mitsuji had no interest in returning to a concept he felt was already perfected.
Forced to revisit his greatest triumph, Mitsuji took the Bubble Bobble template and dismantled it piece by piece, in the process laying the foundations for one of the most diverse, imaginative and enduring gaming trilogies of all time.
Like many gaming visionaries of the '80s, Mitsuji drew inspiration from the abstract. Later in life, he lamented the lack of creative vision among his peers, stating that: "Just as many objects are left alone on the planet, there are many new ideas waiting to be discovered."
True to his philosophy, Mitsuji absorbed his ideas from life's untouched furniture. Soap bubbles were his first port of call.
The original Bubble Bobble followed an otherwise unremarkable format: a single screen, kill all the enemies, move on to the next screen. It would likely be lost to time if not for the tactile brilliance of Bub and Bob's offensive weapon of choice: their bubble burps.
Crucially, these bubbles weren't just spherical bullets (they merely encased enemies in an orb: the spikes on Bub's back had to finish the job), they were DIY platforms that could be shunted around and bounced upon. The non-lethal nature of the bubbles added an extra degree of panic, because the player not only had to bag enemies, but also track down their floating prey and finish the job.
In a common theme throughout the Bubble Bobble universe, freed enemies would turn into red, super-aggressive versions of themselves, and dilly-dallying dinos would be visited by Baron Von Bubba, an indestructible skull of doom who would home in on the player's last known position.
Self-made platforms and urgency: these were the only two elements of Bubble Bobble that survived into the 1987 sequel, Rainbow Islands. The homebrew platforms this time were the titular rainbows, versatile but fragile, and the urgency was represented by an ever-rising sea that would race Bub to the top of the level.
The strategy came in attempting to crush the baddies under a broken rainbow. This transformed them into one of seven rainbow-hued diamonds, whose colour depended on which of seven equally spaced (but unmarked) vertical areas of the screen their corpse landed on. Collecting all seven on an island would open a door offering permanent upgrades, and repeating the feat across all seven worlds was the only way to unlock the final three islands and the super-rare 'happy' ending.
But what really made these games purr was the unparalleled number of secrets they hid. Powerful items would appear seemingly at random; in truth, they were generated according to criteria tracked by the game as you played, ranging from the number of times Bub jumped in a level to the number of 'Hurry' messages you triggered.
One item might gift Bub the power of flight; another might cause lightning to rain down the screen. The crystal ball item, which appeared after every 18th enemy killed, even caused the islands' inhabitants to reveal their true identities: the monsters from the first Bubble Bobble, with attack patterns to match.
Mitsuji grew disillusioned at Taito and left to teach game design before Rainbow Islands 2: Parasol Stars was released for the PC Engine. Although the old magic shone through, Bub's umbrella lacked the ingenuity of the previous game's weapons, and the return to a singlescreen format felt like a step backwards.
Although still a good game, Parasol Stars really wasn't in the same league as the first two. The umbrella was a bit weak: it could be used to pick up and hurl enemies, and it made a good shield, but there wasn't the same scope for strategising as there was in Mitsuji's works.
Sadly, all rainbows pointed downwards from here, as subsequent developers returned to Bubble Bobble's format but failed to lavish the same love on their cover versions as Mitsuji did the original.
There's a lesson to be learned here about just how difficult it is to make a central game mechanic that's at once instantaneous and substantial. We hope Fukio Mitsuji taught the next generation of developers well.
After the Bubble burst
It may surprise you to find there have actually been 15 games in the Bubble Bobble series over the years, and that's not including the Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move series (which itself boasts 15 separate titles).
Sadly, the vast majority of these have disappointed in one way or another, with very few even coming close to the magic of the original Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands.
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Turlock High science teacher Brian Campbell and his children Bryce, 9, Cadence, 6, and Mackenzie, 11, show their support for the Turlock Firefighters' pink t-shirt campaign to benefit Emanuel Cancer Center.
Year after year scholarships are awarded to students across the country to help them attend universities and further their careers. Turlock native Francine Denis and her family have helped Turlock students make college a reality through the Kelly Denis-Pierce Memorial Scholarship.
Sterling Ranch Park in Denair was cluttered with canines in costumes and exotic pets for the Walk 'N Wag event on Sunday.
The Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill is all set for Thursday morning and when the imagined "big one" hits at 10:17 a.m., officials are hoping everyone remembers to "Drop, Cover, and Hold On."
Bob Gilchrist recently got rid of 41 pounds - of weight and food. The weight he lost over the past nine months through the Turlock branch of Weight Watchers. The food he donated to the Turlock Gospel Mission, as part of Weight Watchers' annual Lose for Good program.
The Turlock Irrigation District faces an upcoming milestone in the relicensing of Don Pedro as the organization files a draft of its application to the Federal Environmental Regulatory Commission by the end of November.
Medicare beneficiaries have become the target of several scam artists looking to obtain social security numbers via fraudulent phone calls. Fortunately, the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program is taking steps to help citizens avoid being conned.
The first thing Ernestina Diaz said as she walked up to the Baywood Lane home in Turlock Saturday morning was "Es bonita" - which translates to, "It's beautiful."
The second week of the Journal's pink challenge was a huge success.
Local women are invited to attend a three-day conference at Harvest Christian Center that focuses on empowering and encouraging women from a biblical approach.
Q. How did your call to service come about?
The Dubyak Family Chiropractic center is hosting its 18th Annual Pumpkin Pie Contest to support the hungry citizens of Stanislaus County on Thanksgiving Day. The pies entered in the contest will be donated to the United Samaritan Foundation's Daily Bread Program.
The California Transportation Commission has allocated $359 million to 36 projects in the state, including two in Stanislaus County.
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Three weeks before he was set to leave home to play college baseball in Southern California, Zachary Olsen told his parents he would not be going to college.
Before his term in office comes to an end Mayor John Lazar will leave his post in Turlock and head to Modesto to be recognized by the Latino Community Roundtable as their elected official of the year.
The Kiwanis Club of Greater Turlock delivered 600 pumpkins to Cunningham Elementary on Friday. The service club has been donating the fall gourds to students at Cunningham for the past 26 years. This year, R.A.M. Farms donated half of the pumpkins, with the Kiwanis Club purchasing the rest. Each Cunningham student was allowed to choose a pumpkin to take home.
Turlock native Chad Scott has lost his bid to become America's latest taste maker and along with it his hopes for the million dollar prize.
Name of Business: Romson's Kebab
After more than three decades the Keyes community is joining together to reprise the fall traditions of decades past on Saturday with the Keyes Fall Festivities Parade which hasn't taken place in the town since 1981.
On Wednesday afternoon Off Center Thrift & Gift was teeming with people, but they weren't the usual shoppers hunting for a good deal. They were the volunteers, contributors, and board of directors that have made the local thrift shop a philanthropic powerhouse in the Turlock community.
Hilmar Cheese is extending the roots of its operation into Turlock, looking to grow its production personnel and provide employment opportunities for Valley workers.
Duane Johnson is the last person to let his age get in the way. Having just celebrated his 100th birthday with over 50 friends this past weekend, the Turlock resident continues to view age as just a number.
Although Westside Ministries founder JoLynn DiGrazia recently made the announcement that she will step down from her position as director, she assured guests at the organization's 30th anniversary party this past weekend that she is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Elections are largely about the narratives candidates tell according to Stephen Routh, professor and chair of the Politics Department at California State University, Stanislaus.
Gilbert Teixeira was named the 73rd winner of the Klussendorf Trophy, the highest recognition given to a dairy cattle showman in the United States.
Dick's Sporting Goods may have nearly 600 stores in the country but there is only one Dusty Baker who will be appearing at the grand opening of Turlock's newest athletic store during Halloween weekend.
The donation of an animal resuscitator made by the Friends of Turlock Animal Shelter is credited with helping to save several pets that were in a recent Ceres house fire.


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Elm Street has a Walk Score of 71 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
Elm Street is a 14 minute walk from the Framingham/Worcester Line at the Wellesley Farms stop.
This location is in Wellesley. Nearby parks include Farm Station South, Indian Springs Park and Colburn Road Reservation.
Nearby schools include St John the Evangelist School, Saint Johns School and Schofield Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Wellesley Food Pantry and Whole Foods Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Dorset Café, Dunkin' Donuts and La Riviera Gourmet. Nearby restaurants include Yama, Coconut Thai Cafe and Nick's Pizza.
Elm Street is near Indian Springs Park, Colburn Road Reservation and Warren Park.


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Fujitsu makes Windows Server 2012 see double
Small and medium-sized businesses want high availability (HA) capability for their core applications, just like the largest enterprises do. But server clustering can be intimidating and expensive, so Fujitsu has rejiggered some of its Primergy hyperscale dense servers to support the clustering of Windows-based servers inside of …
So they are putting a HA cluster in a SPOF??? What are they smoking??? Making a very complicated setup (means much more change to f*k-up) in a SPOF rig? What's the point? So you can check "we have an HA cluster"? Or is w2k12 so unreliable you always need two? or....
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If i'm reading it right, logically it isn't too bad.
The servers are effectively independent of each other, and most people would plug the power into separate feeds. True the shared disk is a single point of failure, but it is in any standard cluster (unless you start going down the resilient SAN route).
Not saying I'd go for one, but it's also not a terrible idea for a SMB that wants a bit of resilience.
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Not really a spof, unless you also consider a mainframe a spof. Multiple psus, separated and duplicated internal components etc.
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The main SPOF is going to be W2K12.
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Actually, Windows clustering has come a very long way since the days of NT4 when the cluster service caused more failures than anything else. Windows is rock solid stability-wize these days (assuming you know how to configure it and have a good hardware/firmware/driver supplier) particularly if you're using the DC edition.
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Apparently Cillit Bang is the SPOF of a one box cluster....
Erm, SATA is fine ... but not dual-ported
Actually SATA is supported with Storage Spaces, but it cannot be shared / multiple-connected like SAS can. Basically the drives need to be "dual-ported" (connected to both controllers). It's a small thing, but we like accuracy, don't we?
Storage Spaces then manages having the disks online on one node or t'other.
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Green Box NA receives approval for $125 million in private activity bonds to build two facilities in the state.
The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) has approved an inducement resolution of up to $125 million in private activity bonds to partially finance a $200 million project by Green Box NA, De Pere, Wisconsin, which is slated to build two recycling-related facilities in Detroit and Cheboygan, Michigan.
The Green Box project is one of the three projects the MSF has approved. Combined, the three economic development projects are expected to generate $350 million in new investments in the state.
When operational, Green Box NA plans to take in commercial material, primarily scrap paper from the restaurant industry in and around Detroit, and preprocess it at its new facility in Detroit. The material will be transferred in the form of bales and pellets to Cheboygan for final processing into tissue and other finished products.
The Cheboygan facility, at the site of the former Great Lakes Tissue Co. mill, will produce bath, facial, napkin and towel tissue products as well as of biofuels, fuel pellets and soil amendment products. The two facilities are expected to create 331 jobs total.
Also included will be the generation of 12 megawatts of electricity; 48,000 gallons per day of biofuels, diesel and oil; and 38 tons of soil amendments (carbon and fertilizer) per day. The biofuels, including fuel pellets, will be sold to Colonial Oil, headquartered in Savannah, Georgia. The diesel and oil will be sold to Davis Oil, headquartered in Perry, Georgia, and soil amendment products will be sold to The Mosaic Co. of Plymouth, Minnesota.
In 2011 the MSF induced $3.2 million in bonds for Green Box NA Detroit LLC related specifically to a facility in Romulus, Michigan. The company experienced construction-related challenges associated with the airport and elected to move the preprocessing project to Detroit. In 2013, the MSF extended Romulus/Detroit Project's inducement. The company says it anticipates being able to authorize bonds for the Romulus/Detroit Project in the next 90 to 120 days. The expiration date for the inducement resolution is Dec. 31, 2015.
The current request to create $125 million in tax exempt bonds is separate from the Romulus/Detroit Project's inducement and will be 100 percent for the acquisition, renovation, equipping and installation of project-related assets (and associated eligible costs) at the Cheboygan facility.
Additionally, part of the proceeds will be used to acquire the assets of Great Lakes Tissue, the existing paper mill in Cheboygan.
The company says it anticipates the completion of the bond transaction upon authorization within four months. For the Cheboygan facility, Green Box says it anticipates engineering, equipment procurement, delivery and building/installations will take 16 months. The Detroit facility will be operational within three to six months of the issuance of the bonds, Green Box says.
"Today's projects will help strengthen and revitalize these Michigan communities and help growing companies generate new job opportunities," says Michael Finney, president of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC). "We should all applaud these investments in Michigan's future."
Green Box is a part of Wisconsin-based Environmentally Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ LLC. The company has what it calls "a suite of processes and technologies" that, along with exclusive license rights to a fiber additive developed by Cargill Inc., allows it to convert a variety of high-volume consumer and commercial material streams into pulp and paper byproducts, fuel, soil amendments (fertilizer) and electricity.
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Triple H was just a guy doing his job. There was no reason for the audience to hate this guy they'd come to love over, what, 15 years? Here's this legend who's done nothing wrong, and Punk's being a jerk to him because... because... Because? Whereas Mr. McMahon was just a cunt. Of course we loved Austin - he was mercilessly attacking a cunt. Heroes are usually defined by their enemies, and in Punk's case, they couldn't have got it more wrong. In Austin's case, they couldn't have got it more right.
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when Punk and Ace were going at it around the Rumble (bitter old 2nd-rate wrestler now in a position of power makes life a misery for modern-day superstar) but they ended up sacrificing Ziggler to that, and then abandoning it in favour of putting Cena in there instead. Which is basically the perfect microcosm of WWE's messed up direction these days - if something big has gotta happen, Cena's gotta do it, even if it makes no sense. To the point of Sandow having to stop wearing pink trunks.)
I definetily agree with you that in some regards they sacrificed Punk's push so they could continue with Triple H Taker at Mania. Triple H had no intentions of being Punk's Vince. Not that you can recreate Austin v Vince because you can't.
I definetily agree with you about the enemies line and that's exactly why I'm not a huge fan of Punk's long title reign. This was the perfect opportunity to build an adversary to Punk and later on Cena but they got nothing from it. They've barely pushed Punk along and created no one else in the process. You look back at the Attitude era and you have Rock Manking having an amazing feud meanwhile Austin and Vince/ Taker are occupying the Main Event.
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Sarcasm that has nothing to do with anything I've said but that she repeatedly uses as a "reply" to me? Actually, given the source, I'm certain you're correct.
If those are serious questions, then I don't know any more about their daily routines than you do. Obviously filming the event turned out to be a life-saving safety precaution.
In this particular case, I believe a video came out that shows the girl willingly participating, and that she recanted her story as soon as she heard there even was a video, before she saw what was on it (so its not an issue of being selectively filmed somehow showing an innaccurate picture).
It sucks in general to film someone having sex without their knowledge, but in this particular case I'd say it was pretty lucky that it happened, since those four men really were unjustly accused. Its really unfortunate that it happened this way at all, since the publicity will hurt real rape victims. But as unfortunate as that is, it looks like the facts in this case are pretty clear that they didn't rape her.
It is messed up that they recorded her without her knowledge. But in this case, I think it was lucky that they did. A sleazy action happened to save 4 guys from being sent to jail for something they didn't do.
It is bad to punish innocent people. That doesn't apply to the Hofstra case so I'm not sure what you're going on about. Nobody has advocated punishing innocent people.
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you know, I for one, was shamed about my sexuality as a man to the extent that I not only did pretty much all of what you said, but I also did not just limit myself to vanilla sex, for years I was afraid to even initiate any physical contact with a woman, because my feminist mother had told me to always respect women, and that respecting women meant to never *want anything sexual from them*. Of course, the wanting bit wasn't possible to overcome but I was so scared of accidentally becoming the alleged rapists that all men are, and, of course, I was scared of being falsely accused should I ever even touch a woman.
In fact, I was so affected by this that I needed years of serious counseling to (almost) get over my sexual shame. And if it weren't for a woman, who took the risk and initiated with me, without asking for my consent (I was happy, but she took that risk anyway), I'd still be unkissed, and to a significant degree because of my fear of being falsely accused.
So, for someone like, who has had a serious pyschological problem with exactly what you say, your comment must come accross as condescending.
Just something to consider.
I could give lots of WTFs to various things about this incident but I felt that others have already covered that.
Like another commenter said, obviously she didn't know she was being filmed which I see as a lack of respect towards the woman and—shock!— a violation of consent. All these guys cared about was doing some type of "kinky" sexual act and proving that they did it. And I find that disgusting.
These things don't happen in a vaccum.
"All these guys cared about was doing some type of "kinky" sexual act and proving that they did it.
Really? And what did the woman care about doing? Why not just blame the guys for making her want to do it?
Let me understand this.
When a woman says she has been raped we believe her. ( Good policy IMO.)
When a woman says she was not raped ( ie: recants) she is lying.
I'm sorry – I see a double standard here.
Yes. Or. Also, or law enforcement could not or would not find evidence to prove rape.
No then it would not meet the standards of unfounded. It would simply be a case of insufficient evidence. Unfounded does not simply mean incapable of being proved as it might be assumed in common parlance, but instead, like I said earlier, requires the allegations to be provably untrue, or for the allegations to fail to meet the legal requirements for the claim that was made.
Unfounded, as in the FBI 8%, includes false. It does not equal false.
True, however, barring a person being unfamiliar with the details of the charge of rape, it is identical to false allegations with the sole exception of contravening circumstances misleading the prosecution which can happen in any crime, be it false allegation or direct criminal endeavor.
False, to the writers, means it didn't happen as claimed, or at all. My personal definition of false also means deliberate falsehood, not a mistake.
How many times do you honestly think that a persons conception of rape drastically diverges from the legal definition of rape in the modern day? Unfounded does not mean mistaken identity, it does not suggest the type of cases where a crime undoubtedly occured but the police nabbed the wrong suspect. It means the type of cases where the incident could be proven wrong. The type of cases one brave poster admitted to having contributed to in the previous topic.
If there hadn't been a video of the intercourse, these men would be in prison for years.
Do you honestly expect me to believe that you would not have advocated for their punishment if that video had not existed?
There's a reason I included links.
Recommendations for Law Enforcement Response
• A False Report is a report, to a law enforcement agency, of a sexual assault crime that an investigation factually proves never occurred.
• Case Unfounding is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting, as a method of case clearance utilized for reports that are found to be false or baseless.
o A false report has the meaning listed above.
o A baseless report is a reported sexual assault that does not meet the elements of a crime (often the result of mistake of law or insufficient information collected during the initial report).
False = factually proven didn't happen.
Unfounded per FBI = false OR baseless
Insufficient evidence is included in "unfounded."
Furthermore, via Oregon SATF:
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"Identifying a false report of sexual assault requires a thorough investigation that factually proves that a criminal sexual offense neither occurred nor was attempted. While case unfounding is an appropriate method of case clearance when a case has been determined to be false, it is not an appropriate method of case clearance for reported incidents where the investigation was unable to corroborate or substantiate a sex crime. Using case unfounding as a clearance method when there is insufficient corroboration to prove or disprove a report of sexual assault is improper."
You: "Unfounded does not mean mistaken identity, it does not suggest the type of cases where a crime undoubtedly occured but the police nabbed the wrong suspect. It means the type of cases where the incident could be proven wrong."
Or. OR "baseless." Unfounded explicitly includes per above linked PDF, but does not EQUAL false. False, to FBI and Oregon SATF = proven wrong.
I'd hate to be in a situation I needed to "prove" an accusation wrong, because I just can't see how that is possible for me who has regular intimate contact with clients. In cases like that 88 year old woman, only the fact that the entire staff had direct experience with her as well as some directly witnessed her experiencing delusions, "proved" my male coworker and I weren't assaulting her. If the woman had not (when lucid) explicitly identified "the man" as a Christmas ornament visible from her bed, or a dwarf who lived "in the ceiling," we'd have been fucked. If her descriptions had been vague, or she pointed out one of us as "the man," we'd have been fucked. (For that matter, there is no way I would be able to "prove" I am NOT abusing my wife or children, because even lack of physical evidence, recantation or videotaped evidence are not accepted by many.)
If any other resident or family member claimed that a staff member "fondled" them during or under the pretense of providing care (and all sorts of accusations are made in our line of work, from stealing non-existent or long gone objects, to kidnapping and entrapment, to attempted murder while simply wiping someone with a damp cloth), we'd be up shit creek, because most of the time there are no witnesses.
Although I don't find anything particularly feminist in equating respect for women with not finding them attractive (I can't do much with your phrase "wanting anything sexual from them"); nor does drowning you in shame and anxiety seem essentially first, second, or third wave; still, I am glad that you were able to find support to ease your suffering. No one should have to limit their behaviors in the manner alluded to in my first post.
It's not unusual for people to oversimplify opinions they don't agree with.
When a woman says she has been raped, yes, we should believe her. But no one is saying that when a woman says she was not raped she is lying. What myself and others have been saying is that all we really know is that she is recanting. There are reasons for an accuser to recant that exclude the innocence of the accused. We want those reasons to be acknowledged.
Of the reasons submitted, some have included:
*intimidation: threats of violence or death or revenge
*public humiliation: psychological stress from unwanted public attention and scrutiny
There are probably more but these seem to me like the most easily anticipated.
When *anyone* says they are raped, we should believe them. I have to work on being more gender neutral.
My advocating for their punishment and a jury convicting them are two different things. In a world where ACTUAL RAPISTS rarely spend any time behind bars it's highly unlikely the absence of video would have resulted in much of anything for these men.
OR, the only time we should believe a woman is when she recants a rape allegation.
There's your double-standard.
Insufficient evidence is included in "unfounded."
Insufficient evidence during the initial report which is the key part you missed. Insufficient evidence as a whole, and insufficient evidence in that initial report are different things.
What unfounded means is that if a person comes to the police to report a crime, and, after their description of everything that occurred, and assuming that everything they said was completely accurate, there was not a crime committed. Not because of an inability to prove the allegations to a court of law, but because none of the allegations were actionable. Only then can the report be decided to be "unfounded".
"Rape culture does not just encourage men to proceed after she says "no." Rape culture does not simply teach men that a lack of physical resistance is an invitation. Rape culture does not only tell men to assert ownership over whichever female body they desire. Rape culture also tells women not to claim ownership over their own bodies. Rape culture also informs women that they should not desire sex. Rape culture also tells women that saying yes makes them bad women."
Obviously, we don't know what went on here. But for me the problem is not so much that "rape culture" tells women they're bad women for saying yes to sex. I think there's a massive problem with men not acknowledging, or perhaps not fully understanding, the enormous power dynamic in play when there are four men and one woman (tied up or not) involved. I'm not saying that group sex just should never happen, but I think it's too easy for it to happen with "consent" on the woman's part, without the woman involved having full agency, or the men involved having any consideration of that. I'm not talking about legality here; legally, of course, yes means yes, and I can't see any way around that. Oh, I don't know how to finish this. You know what I mean, fuck the patriarchy etc.
They could establish sex took place and few would have believed she engaged in the act consensually if there was not evidence to show that she did. You would have advocated for these men to be convicted, and the jury would very likely convict them. You make light of that as if every time there is some miraculously exculpatory evidence which will be revealed to the DA.
So yes, these men would have gone to jail if it were not for the fortuitous video evidence. And we should treat this as an attempt at an extremely serious crime which was narrowly averted. Not as a non-issue simply because the culprit was caught early.
what is the power dynamic there. how do you know she didnt feel empowered pulling 4 men? would you find the power dynamic tilted towards the women if i were 4 women and 1 guy?
Obviously filming the event turned out to be a life-saving safety precaution.
Walk with me a bit on this one, aleks. I'm not as ready as some people are to go all Chicken Little about the imagined horrific future of the four (plus one) guys. As some posters have noted, even in real, live, actual sexual assault cases, conviction and incarceration are quite infrequent.
Imagine DA Rice and Chief Skrynecki talking the case over.
DA: OK, Chief, make this one a slam-dunk for me, I've got a golf date this afternoon.
C: Well, Ms. Rice, the case is kind of "problematic."
DA: Don't be silly, Chief. Girl was tied up and gang raped on a college campus. How complicated can that be? Of course, you checked the ropes for her DNA?
C: We didn't find any ropes.
DA: That's unfortunate. Well, when a person is tied up and struggles, there are ligature marks on the body. Show me the Polaroids. Wrists? Ankles?
C: Well, there weren't any ligature marks on her to photograph.
DA: You got something against golf or something, Skrynecki?? Tell me about the bruising – even without ligature marks, there's often bruising when there's restraint, right?
C: Right. (pause) The thing is, there wasn't any bruising.
DA: Any marks indicating slapping, hitting, choking, punching?
C: Uh, no. No, uh, rope marks on the paint in the bathroom stalls, either. Actually, there's not a lot of physical evidence…
DA: Did she even have sex with these guys?
C: Affirmative.
DA: Ok. Injuries?
C: Nothing inconsistent with a one-on-five.
DA: Not a lot of tact there, Skrynecki. Witnesses? Anybody see or hear anything?
C: No.
DA: No?? You're telling me these kids are gang raping this girl in the middle of a freaking college dorm, and nobody heard nothing?
C: No. Body. Heard. Nothing. Yes, M'am.
DA: In a freaking men's dormatory bathroom, where at any moment some guy who has to take a piss or his sneaked-in overnight girlfriend could wander in and discover something?
C: Nobody saw or heard anything.
DA: Shit. How long…? Look, five times even as quick as as the fastest guy takes to — that still adds up to a decent amount of time… Nobody??
C: Nobody.
DA: (pause) Tell me they dragged her in off of the street, at least.
C: She met them at an on-campus dance party. It looks like she went back to one of the guys' dorms.
DA: Unbelieveable. What DO you have?
C: Well, we have her cell phone.
DA: Whoop-di-do. Anything else?
C: Well, she told us it happened.
DA: Look, Skrynecki, I got this burning in my middle that says it wants to grow up and become an ulcer when it's a big girl, and I'm eventually going to have to stand for re-election in this job, so I have to win my cases, not look like some kind of jerk social worker — have you got a case, or not??
C: Well, the suspects are… er… minorities.
DA: What do they say?
C: They say they don't even know the girl, don't know why she'd make up such a story.
DA: Great. (pause) Maybe we can get a change of venue and try this thing in the Deep South, Skrynecki, and then get a change of decade, while we're at it and do it in the '50s or '60s — preferrably the 1850s and 1860s — instead of Lawn Guyland in 2009.
C: District Attorney Rice…
DA: You. Got. Nothing. We can play the "race card" and pick the boys up, we can play the "daddies, protect your daughters" card and the "college should be an ivory tower" card and hold them for a few days, but we probably couldn't win this case even if we had a videotape of it…
C: Uh, Ms. Rice, about that videotape…
I posted this in the other thread, going to repost here:
I really want to know if this woman knew she was being recorded on a cell phone. Did she give consent for that? If she didn't, isn't that in itself a crime? Those boys recorded her and showed it to other people. Isn't that criminal behavior anyways? Rape or no rape, that's a crime! How come no one is asking about that?
You're right. That is a perfectly valid point. Her reaction suggests she did not know there was a video, nor did she consent to any video.
"OR, the only time we should believe a woman is when she recants a rape allegation.
There's your double-standard."
Why is there talk about who to "believe?" I'd be much happier if every rape/assault accusation was investigated before we throw people in jail.
The men accused were in jail less than 24 hours.
We should expect more of our police and legal system. Why were they arrested and in jail before a serious investigation took place?
Don't 'believe' people when they accuse or recant. We should investigate all claims with the presumption of innocence.
"Isn't that criminal behavior anyways? Rape or no rape, that's a crime! How come no one is asking about that?"
I think people _are_ talking/thinking about it. I believe most people understand that it's wrong and illegal.
I think most people are comparing the illegal taping and the recanted rape accusation and doing some serious comparisons and finding that they would rather be convicted one than the other.
I assume she did not consent to any video. Filming her without her permission is a crime, as far as I know. But think about the real world situation. She had these 4 guys thrown in jail, potentially for years, for something they didn't do. Is any jury going to send them to jail again for a much lower level crime that ended up proving she was lying? It might not be entirely fair, but I can see the prosecutor thinking it just isn't worth pursuing this one.
Also, I think I heard that it was some unnamed 5th guy who took the video, so if they don't know who he is they might not try real hard to find out. They also all can probably argue that they weren't the one filming, and if she didn't notice they were being filmed there's no reason to assume the rest of them would notice… So possibly only one of them is guilty of filming sex without the consent of the others.
That's a fair point– they may not have been convicted even if this video hadn't come out. But even if they were acquitted, it would be hanging over their heads forever, and lots of people would still think they did it. Now, with this video, everyone knows they didn't rape her. Of course, everyone also knows they had group sex in a public bathroom, which could still be damaging to some job prospects, etc, but not as much as people thinking you're a violent rapist.


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@ScanIAm: Not being an advocate for database lookups, infinite loops and formatting C:\ in property code myself, I quite agree with you. However I see the broader issue as transparency in code.
The term "honest" has been used to describe code that signals its own effects, whether formally through types or informally through names or perhaps even comments (and "dishonest" vice versa). I prefer the term transparent because it's more neutral.
Haskell has the IO monad to make certain effects transparent. Java has checked exceptions to make exceptions transparent. C# has async methods to make time-consuming mehods transparent and asynchronous. In a double-whammy there's also a naming pattern associated with the use of async.
These constructs make it (painfully or blissfully) obvious to the consumer what the effects of calling a piece of code are. The IDE also has a role to play here, by making effects more clear to the developer. But by formalising effects, perhaps we can better manage code evolution by seeing types change as effects change - and indeed requiring types to change so that code built on the assuption of no effects - or only some particular effects, has to be revisited when the code it depends on changes effectfulness.
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Since Braylon knows Coach Hoke so well, wouldnt one think that HE would call Hoke to see where his brother stands, instead of taking it to twitter?
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Since Braylon knows Coach Hoke so well, wouldnt one think that HE would call Hoke to see where his brother stands, instead of taking it to twitter?
Especially since Hoke takes no part in twitter/facebook/email and will never see what Braylon is talking about. Won't Stan and Braylon be around spring camp anyways? Why not do a face to face. Seems like it was more of a knee jerk reaction to finding out that another person has committed for 2013.
If Braylon cared about Michigan, he'd foot the bill, and not ask Hoke to burn a scholly on a kid that isn't ranked top 10 in the state.
Braylon (quite rightfully!!) drew praise from all over, for having made a promise to a class of Cleveland kids with whom he had no other relation than having been a former member of the Browns, to sponsor scholarships.
But he's apparently offended about the mere possibility of doing something like that for Berkley.
I'm willing to stop right here, take a deep breath, and let Braylon explain himself. Or let Stan explain Braylon for everybody else. (That usually works better.) But has there ever been an occasion when things have been improved by Braylon explaining himself?
It's his brother. Pretty understandable imho.
he's not happy.
I haven't heard much out of Edwards the younger, but maybe Hoke just doesn't want to deal with Braylon-like attitudes for the next four years.
I heard Braylon's going to transfer from UM to focus on his family's snow plow business.
Well, Braylon is in wonderful company right now. You won't believe how many alums and important people are (and will be) contacting the University to see why their kid wasn't offered admission. 'Tis the season.
Braylon really needs to stop thinking he runs the team. He got away with his crap when RR was in Ann Arbor because of the backstabbing that was going on. He isn't going to get away with pulling anything on Brady Hoke, because Hoke has too much support.
Braylon is just another alum now who thinks his donation buys him the right to make decisions for the coaching staff. Someone, whether it's an ex-coach or a good friend, needs to text four letters to Braylon now: STFU.
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I criticized these once in deep snow when the lens popped out for cleaning mid run. However I have now purchased an additional pair for myself and my girlfriend who loves them. They look fab and work great...just be careful not to pop the lens out when removing frost in a major storm mid-tour.
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(i.e. excellent car camping pad.) This is what the Dreamtime has underneath the foam cover.
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This helmet is sleek and non-bulbous (lower-profile than average)...This helmet is what your looking for if you want something low key (L/XL) and asthetic. Two other suggestions are a POC racing helmet such as the Skull Light, or even the Smith variant. I don't own the Smith but I see it all over the tram every ride up so there must be something good about it...I do have and enjoy the clutch but now I wear POC receptor bug (my fav) exclusively when in the gnar and a chance of injury increases, plus although it's more bulky/bulbous POC seems to have the asthetics dialed too...
Match made in heaven (or Sweden)
These are great goggles for non-heavy snow days...not because of the lens' vision properties, but because the way it attaches. The four points of contact for the lens is intended to make it easy to interchange lenses when conditions change. However, in the BC when your life depends on your ability to see, you may want to consider the fact that after ice accumulated inside the lens, I tried to clean the inside with the cover but the lens continually popped out because it's not designed to be pressed on from the inside. I had to huddle down and put the goggles' lens inside my shirt for a bit before I could even bail. It did ruin my day. It really does have poor venting and the lens comes off too easily with routine handling. My model was 2009.
The positives are it works great when it's not pounding snow and fits my poc helmets perfect. I switched to the other cylindrical POC goggles and am happy.
UPDATE: I changed my mind, just bought another pair of lobes for blue sky days. Goggles are sick.
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Just like the Bug, except slightly heavier due to the impact barrier...(can't notice the difference...I have both). Also, the sizing on this is "slightly" looser than the Receptor Bug, maybe to accommodate for other seasons? maybe an individual fluke on my particular piece?
I'd still buy it again...in fact did I mention I have two? Bought my daughter a POC poquito helmet after I wore this a few times. Done deal.
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Brundir heals 10%, gains even more damage and jumps the second tank. More cooldowns are poppedI thought we were killing Steelbreaker?Looks great again Argent!
Steelbreaker ... After the second, he will start killing a tank every 60 seconds, healing himself and gaining damage for each death.Steelebreaker... Soon after the second Supercharge hits him, he will (de)buff his tank with Overwhelming Power. This means that this tank will die and explode as soon as debuff falls off - 60 seconds after its applicationLooks like 30 seconds to me >.<Stormcaller BrundirLikely the easiest member of the Coincil.Spelling mistake :3Overall, nice job. I think it should be noted that when doing hard mode, Steelebreaker becomes a DPS race and using Molgeim for his Rune of Power just before he dies can help quite a bit by giving your DPS a temporary boost.
Gorefiend, it's 60. Tooltip error. Overwhelming Power is what I should have linked (and what I am about to link right now). I specifically bolded the "60 seconds" part, to say "I know it says 30, but it's 60!" :DFixing spelling again...
Oh, yeah I wasn't sure, I thought the bolded text might be refering to that, but I mentioned it anyways incase it wasn't >.<
Heh, we call those runes "pokeballs" too.The hard mode instructions are gonna be so helpful... we have been thinking about the hard mode for a while now.A death knight off tank would be pretty good for the hard mode... since he doesnt need anything hitting him to build threat.
I've seen the unsuccessfull fight of my boyfriend's guild, soooo many times, that I 've learned the tactics.So many times.....Edit:Where's my signature?O_o
i will hit you with my Fishing Pole Raaar!?
i will hit you with my Fishing Pole Raaar!?Actually I know which is my signature you don't have to mention it!But why cant I see it under my comment nor the other's as usual?Or you can edit it every time!Edit:Ok I can see it now.After a moment I started panicking
Can anyone confirm if the tank (on steelbreaker) is saved by using Guardian Spirit?
Can anyone confirm if the tank (on steelbreaker) is saved by using Guardian Spirit?If a tank is affected by Meltdown, they WILL die in 60 seconds (30 seconds in 25 man). Nothing can stop it.
Can anyone confirm if the tank (on steelbreaker) is saved by using Guardian Spirit?If a tank is affected by Meltdown, they WILL die in 60 seconds (30 seconds in 25 man). Nothing can stop it.Correct. Guardian Spirit does not save the tank. It will not proc at all. In case you really need that tank again, have a warlock Soul Stone or a druid with Rebirth.
On 10-Man, you can kill it before the 2nd tank dies with moderate DPS (or before the first with 25-man gear), but on 25-Man you're going to need up to 4 tanks if you push it to the end of healability. Usually the 4th tank is the first one bressed/soulstoned.Another major part of the Steelbreaker strategy I've seen a lot of people use is stacking up on him except for a few ranged, limiting the randomness of Static Disruption to just them (Hunters and Warlocks make excellent choices). The minimum number is 3 afaik, but we use a group of 5.-Excelion
Hmm...I didn't know the 25-man version of Overwhelming Power lasts only 30 seconds. That makes things interesting... but it makes sense, I guess. I will make adjustments to both the blog and the actual boss pages.
He isn't tauntable on normal ? I'll have to ask our tanks because i'm sure i asked them to taunt at the end of Meltdown and they never complained about something being wrong (though we haven't had to use more than two tanks and they could simply have been building their agro correctly).
He's tauntable on Normal, but dunno about Heroic, as we haven't done hardmode there yet.On our first kill, we "wiped" due to the second tank blowing up after the kill. We were too busy congratulating ourselves.
He's tauntable on heroic too. I don't know why there's confusion about this?Anyway, very nice overview!When my guild does 25-man hardmode, we go through 3 tanks. The first tank gets a soulstone and resses. We found that it's a big strain on healers to do 4 tank rotations. His damage buffs from player deaths affects all of his damage, inlcuding his aoe, meaning that the raid damage increases alot every 30 seconds. And after a while he starts oneshotting tanks if they don't use cooldowns. We also use 3 Static Disruption soakers (spriests or locks for their passive damage reduction). 2 on normal. They stand away from the raid and each other and have a dedicated healer in P3. Towards the end of the fight (after 2+ tank deaths) they start taking huge damage. The rest of the raid stands in his melee range where Steelbreaker won't target them for Static Disruption (hunters can DPS fine there).
I don't know why there's confusion about this?Because ArgentSun's Steelbreaker's description says that he isn't tauntable on normal, which suprised me somewhat.
Some little things you may want to add...Stormcaller is stunnable and silenceable, and many of his skills are interuptable. However, something that only silences, but doesnt interupt, wont stop Lightning Whirl from finishing (Gag Order on a Warrior's Heroic Throw wont work). I think he MAY be immune to stuns during Lightning Whirl as well. Also, in the third phase be becomes immune to Stun. Only silence and interupts to keep him in line.In third phase, during Lightning Lightning Tendrils, Stormcaller will actually follow his highest threat target first of all. However, after that its totally random, and he gets no threat from anything you try.It is possible for a Tank to take both Runemaster and Stomrcaller at the same time while everyone else deals with Steelbreaker. They dont hit for too much even combined (still, get them out of runes), and as long as your hitting Runemaster a bit (and dispelling his shields) he wont forget to attack you. As a warrior tank I just focus on Stormcaller, stunning/silencing/interupting him where possible and spamming Cleave, untill overload, then run outside his Overload range, charge back in. If you run away sidewards, Runemaster still seems to hit your shield.I dont know why, but when third phase comes along and your doing Stormcaller last, It feels like everything gets faster. Maybe im just focusing too hard at that point, and fail to realise its just a Haste buff, But it does feel like everything just moves along faster....


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Harry has kindly agreed to not only give an interview but in addition, has provided some exclusive work to show on here that, as of right now, cannot be seen anywhere else online.
What prompted the US road trip?
I suppose I'd wanted to do it for a long time - I'd been to the states when I was 16 and stayed in a small town about an hour between New York and Philadelphia with my cousins. Coupled with a few earlier trips to the west coast and certain parts of the East coast with my family, it sparked a definite interest with America. I think it was only when I started to take photographs more seriously when I was about 17 or 18 that I realised I really wanted to go back and see more of the country and make pictures of and about it. A roadtrip seemed a pretty good way to do this; I'd also just finished my first year of university, studying photography, and felt a bit burned out and wanted something totally new to engage with. I'd been getting into a lot of photographic work made about the American landscape - from Shore and Sternfeld to Aaron Huey's hike across the states - and was curious to see it for myself.
How did Mason (Dent) fit in to the plan?
Mason's also a photographer, from Chicago originally. He'd just finished a year at a college in California and I think felt kind of similar to me at the time. We originally discovered each other's work through the internet, eventually we started talking about the idea of doing a roadtrip. We played with lots of ideas, about getting an RV, a convertible, a 4x4, which states to go to, what we wanted to shoot etc. Mason bought an '88 Suburban truck, fixed up the engine and interior, I flew over to NYC to meet him where we hung out for a few days, then we started driving south. We drove down the east coast, then west across the south - south carolina, tennessee, mississippi, texas, new mexico - then up through colorado, then west, through utah and nevada, ending up in LA. I ended up getting a greyhound bus from LA to San Francisco overnight, and flying back to New York for 4 July. We stayed mostly with friends and family of Mason's all over the place, sometimes sleeping in our truck, camping once in the desert in Utah, occasionally a motel - which ranged from something out of a slasher film in tennessee to one in a sleepy mormon town in Utah.
Do you have one memory from the trip that stands out against the rest?
I don't think I could isolate one, but there are a few that stick out for sure. Hanging out with freshly released convicts and an ex Vietnam vet sniper in a border town in South Texas, then going to herd horses with them across the freeway, that was pretty awesome and surreal. Going to the 'Colonel's Quarters' for dinner, a mansion in Oxford, Mississippi was pretty amazing. Sleeping in the desert in Utah. Cycling through downtown LA at 2am, where at one point we stopped by police who just laughed at me after finding out I was english. Watching dry lightening storms and drinking beer in Marfa, Texas and going shooting in Colorado.
You mentioned earlier that this trip helped you get over a burned out period. How would you deal with that sort of thing if you couldn't just get up and leave?
I think those phases just come and go. The best thing I find is just to keep working, in some way or another. If I didn't feel like going out and photographing, I'd do some retouching, scan film, edit old work, or just look at pictures. Obviously it's pretty important to find ways to work it out, because otherwise you're not making work, but I think it's normal to feel confused about what you're doing sometimes.
Any future plans for more travel?
I'm going to Buenos Aires in mid July for a photojournalism workshop called Foundry. From the beginning of August I'll be in New York city for six weeks, seeing friends and taking pictures mostly. I might try and see a bit more of the east coast if I can. So if anyone is from NYC or nearby and is reading this….write to me, I'd like to hang out and sleep on your floor.
What's it like in Brighton at the moment with the buzz around all the talent coming out of that school and that area?
There are definitely a number of photographers living, working and studying there who are making good work at the moment. But I think if there is a buzz, at least one perceived by others outside of Brighton, I'm pretty ignorant of it. When I am in Brighton, I tend to spend 90% of my time working, have my head in the sand a bit. Plus, I tend to split my time pretty evenly between there and London.
Though I don't shoot much in Brighton, it's a great city to be a photographer in - you have magazines like Photoworks based there which are pretty involved locally, and of course the Biennial. Plus I'm lucky enough to have a bunch of great photographers as friends living there to bounce ideas off.
Tumblr, Flickr, Wordpress, Facebook. You've used each of these to showcase work in some way or another. Has an impressive online presence helped you in terms of the real world?
Yeah, definitely. If it wasn't for platforms like Flickr and Wordpress, I wouldn't have been picked up for most of the jobs I've been lucky enough to do. Plus, Flickr and Wordpress gives a free opportunity for me to show work - if it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't be doing this interview! I am slowing down on those things now though. I've almost finished working on the content for my site, which should hopefully launch really soon. From there I'll probably just use that to show new work, and keep my tumblr to post the odd snap and bits of news/links.
I think it's also made me a keener editor of my own work. Being exposed to that many photographs on a daily basis on blogs, Flickr, has made me a much harsher critic.
Finally, what's the most important skill you've learned that will help you in the photo world that isn't camera related?
I feel like I'm still learning it, but most importantly, more than anything else, I guess most relevant to the way I specifically work, is to be able to talk to people. There is no point trying to photograph people if you can't interact with them. Growing up in London, I sometimes felt like everyone was too scared of talking to each other. I always found it kind of funny how you could be packed into a tube carriage, pressed up against someone, yet they'll do anything to avoid eye contact or conversation. It's important to cultivate that ability to engage with other people, and try not to make any snap judgements.
Harry Mitchell currently resides in Brighton, England and can be found online at the following:
Flickr | Tumblr | Own Site (Coming Soon) | Wordpress
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