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Gallery: Video Interview with Green Home Designer Michelle Kaufmann
At a West Coast Green conference in San Francisco, we were lucky enough to not only get a sneak peek of the Michelle Kaufmann mkLotus prefab house, but also to speak with the designer herself to get the low-down on the sleekly-designed zero energy home. Check out the video to learn all the details about the energy, water, and materials packed into this compact sustainable home.
The mkLotus was open to the public as part of the West Coast Green show at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza. It's small but stunning, with gorgeous xeriscape landscaping, and the most high-tech green materials and sustainable systems available,including a greywater recycling system, green roof, solar panels, and even a spot to plug in your electric vehicle for charging!
For more info, check out the longer video here>>
Inhabitat: Thank you so much for being here, Michelle.
Michelle Kaufmann: Thanks for having me.
Inhabitat: Tell us a little bit about the house that we've got here.
Michelle: This house, called "MK Lotus" is the latest pre-configured design that we have in this series of homes that is modular, sustainable, and modern. We found that to really achieve our goal of making it easy for people to go green, we realized we needed to pre-package the green solutions to make it really one-stop shopping.
Inhabitat: Can you tell us a little bit about the green features of the house?
Michelle: Yes. So with this home, we really approached it where we wanted to have a $0.00 electric bill. We wanted to maximize the efficiency of water. We wanted to minimize waste, and maximize material resource efficiency. How we did that was if we look at water, for example, we have a number of interesting solutions. One is we have a green roof, which helps not only with storm water run-off, but it also helps with insulation.
Inhabitat: Can you tell us a little bit about the green roof?
Tim Schmidt: Yes, this green roof that we're looking at here sits on top of a insulated roof, which is made out of icynene insulation, which is already an R-42 insulation value. Now we add the green roof over the top, which even reduces more of the heat balance than the global warming of heating up the atmosphere, because the green just sucks in, and plus it gives back oxygen into the atmosphere.
Michelle: On another portion of the roof where we have a metal roof with solar panels on it, there we are actually collecting the rain water from that roof into a water catchment system. We're actually making that into a pool, and the pool aspect is actually helping to filter that water. That water then will be used for irrigation for the landscape. We also are doing a gray water system, where we're taking water from the washing machine and the shower and using that in the toilet. That way, we're not using new potable water for the toilet.
Inhabitat: That's a great idea.
Michelle: Yeah. And we're also doing low-flow shower heads, dual flush toilets, so that way we're really keeping the water usage down. For the issue of energy, we're doing PV Photovol Taic solar panels on the roof, plus we're doing Energy Star appliances. We have all LED lighting – LED lights are 90 times as efficient as incandescent. Our goal is to make it such that you don't ever have to turn on lights during the day. That's why we have windows that either go to the floor, so it washes the floor with light, or on corners, so they wash the walls with light.
Inhabitat: So we've got these lovely skylights here, which I can tell they let a lot of natural light into the house, but they also probably help a lot with heating and cooling. Is that correct?
Tim: That's correct. This whole house has been designed with a chimney effect, so you crack windows in around the house, open your skylight, and all the hot air rises, and it's a natural cooling effect instead of using air conditioning.
Michelle: That, in conjunction with a high performance mechanical system, where we have either radiant or we do a high velocity mini-duct system, so that way we're using the least amount of energy possible for the house so that way it can be all powered by the sun.
Inhabitat: Are you able to power the whole house through the solar panels?
Michelle: Exactly. We're making it efficient enough that it can all come from the sun.
Inhabitat: So you can buy one of these, put it some place in California, and be getting money back from PG&E. Is that correct?
Michelle: Exactly. You can either choose to hook into the grid – to PG&E – and you can sell back on sunny days, buy back on gray days, or if it's in a more remote area, you could be off-grid and just have a back-up system.
Other sustainable features that we have in the home are all FSC-certified wood in the flooring and in the cabinetry. We're doing concrete countertops using fly ash and in the kitchen, it's with rice halls. And in the bathroom, we have the countertop of concrete with fly ash, but using porcelain that comes from recycled toilets.
Tim: Actually, they'll plug the car in here, charge it up. You can preset the electric car to say, "If PG&E needs more electricity, then they can take it from my electric car." It looks like a standard plug-in, but it actually has a backfeed mechanism into the grid.
Michelle: Another key green aspect is really trying to design the home so it feels bigger than it is. How we've done that is through accordion glass doors by NanaWall, where you can completely open up the living room, borrow space from the outdoors, blur the boundary between the interior and exteriors. Even though the house is 700 square feet, it feels more like it's double that size. This is the one bedroom, one module version. We can go up to four modules, four bedrooms. So it really depends on the client's program, on their way of living, on their budget, and on their site.
Inhabitat: Are you going to auction this all off?
Michelle: I'm not sure yet what we're doing with it. What we're trying to do is find the best blending of being green but still cost-effective. Also, as we do more mass production, and we work in multi-family projects, for example, that's when the costs go down quite a bit, and it gets very interesting.
Inhabitat: So tract homes could actually get a lot better at some point.
Michelle: And they need to.
Inhabitat: Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us here today. I love the new design. I'm really excited about some of the new things that are happening with green pre-fab.
Michelle: Thanks so much for having me. I love Inhabitat. I love how much that you've provided a forum where people can share information, and development, and research so quickly, and in real time, which is helping everyone.
12 Comments
November 7, 2008 at 11:12 am
I am looking for builders who are more realistic. Do we have a maor builders incorporating some of these design acheivements in a practical way? Today suburbs dominate, what pre-fab designs which are storm and flood resistant are actually being built today? I know that some builders prefab walls and certain peices of construction. Are there any builders responding to Katrina and the many other storm damage we experience every year in Amerca?
October 26, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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October 9, 2008 at 6:35 am
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January 21, 2008 at 11:22 am
I own a Hair Salon – Is there any way I can generate electricity. Cycling ?????
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We are planning to build our dream home in Oriental NC starting in about two years. i am very interested in building in this format, however, we want an elevated house, because the house will be on a lake witch is fed from the NC sound
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Personalized Medicine (Patient Resource Cancer Guide)
My Cancer Genome: Molecular profiling of lung cancer (Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center)
Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium matches patients with molecular testing clinical trials (Coordinated by the University of Colorado Cancer Center)
Dr. Gandara discusses molecular testing for NSCLC video (OncLive)
Lung Cancer Biomarkers Guidelines - draft (College of American Pathologists, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the Association for Molecular Pathology)
Lung Cancer Profiles: United we test (Pfizer Oncology)
Lung cancer and personalized medicine (CancerCare)
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I lay bored in my bed, idly tapping my finger on my upper thigh. It was sticky hot outside; the type of hot that causes your clothes to cling to your skin. I lay sprawled out under my fan, trying to keep cool, cursing my landlord for not fixing our broken down cooling system. Even though I was wearing a red string bikini, I was still flushed with tiny droplets of sweat crawling down between my breasts, and I was bored.
The front door slamming got my attention, but I didn't have enough energy to get up off the bed and see who had come home. It was probably my boyfriend. If that was the case, maybe he could offer a little distraction. At the thought of that my nipples hardened slightly, and my brown eyes began to gleam in anticipation. I heard stomping footsteps up the stairs, but then I heard his voice talking to someone else. I heard a far deeper, huskier voice utter a response, and I lifted my head off the pillow in curiosity.
As I sat up, not realizing my bikini top straps were still down around my shoulders, my boyfriend opened the door and let it slam against the wall as he devoured my appearance. He nodded his head slightly in approval, taking in my flushed skin, the material from my swim suit clinging to the sweat on my skin. My brunette hair fell over my shoulders and down my back, slightly damp around the forehead, and my eyes glistened with lust. He smiled slightly, and stood aside, letting his companion into the room. I stopped breathing for a moment and just stared. The man had a presence, a forcefulness that commanded me to look into his gray eyes, and I did. They narrowed slightly, and then dropped to roam over my breasts, half falling out of my top, before continuing down across my flat stomach and then the nicely outlined mound in my bottoms.
As he perused my scantily clad body, I let my eyes wander from his slightly shaggy black hair across the strong sculptured face, then down his neck to his thick arms and strong chest, enclosed in a wife beater tank top that barely held his muscles in. Not to muscular, which is what I like, on down past his waist and then I noticed he had a growing bulge in his groin and I jumped as though branded. I glanced back up quickly to see my boyfriend grinning at me, and I knew I had been caught. The stranger just smiled in a superior way.
"Hey Elen, looking pretty hot today." my boyfriend said and grinned at me. I just glared back and pulled my straps up around my shoulders, rising off the bed to stalk into our adjoining bathroom. The two men followed me, and I could feel their gazes watching the way my tight ass moved, then on down the smooth expanse of my long tanned legs, so I threw an extra saunter into my step. I came to a stop in front of the sink, and began to brush my hair, seeing them come to the bathroom door out of the corner of my eye. The stranger was still gazing at me, his eyes a hot brand against my skin, and I felt myself begin to get wet.
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Todd motioned me forward with his head, and my nipples turned into twin points of burning need as I slowly laid my hairbrush down on the counter, never taking my eyes off of his. I stepped forward foot by foot, my cunt getting wetter with each inch until I stood almost face to face with him. His eyes, at first cold, got heated and then turned into a gray the color of storm clouds as he leaned forward. I tore my gaze from his eyes and focused on his lips, unable or unwilling to do anything to displease this man. He leaned forward and brushed his soft lips against my ear lobe, making me shudder in anticipation, and I stepped forward far enough that my rock hard nipples grazed roughly against his chest, making me moan softly.
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He nodded in approval, pausing to give me a tender kiss, before he leaned down to scoop one into his mouth. My whole body spasmed as his mouth took possession of my nipples, one after the other, slowly lathing them with his tongue, biting roughly, and then circling his fingertip around them before leaning in to taste them once again. I clutched my hands into his tousled hair, overwhelmed by the feeling of his cock against my pussy, grinding against my clit, and his hot mouth torturing my nipples. It was like an avalanche, I was powerless to stop his control of me, and he laid me back on the bed so gently.
He stood, leaning across me biting me on the shoulder hard, before grabbing hold of my hips roughly and jerking them into the air. Once he had my legs braced against his thighs, he ripped my bikini bottom off in one quick rough motion, his eyes savage and demanding. His gaze raked across my cunt, his mouth in a firm hard line. A spark of pleasure showed in his eyes as he traced a fingertip lightly across my shaved mound.
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I had startled him, displeased him, and I groaned softly as he leaned towards me, his eyes hard and slightly cruel. When he was inches from my face I felt his hand come down hard on my bald pussy, making me yelp, trying to jump up. One strong arm held me down as the other came down over and over flat against my burning cunt, his eyes boring into mine, demanding that I look at him. I was powerless against him.
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He bit my lip, as I reached my first orgasm, devouring my screams as he drove his fingers into me without mercy, humping his cock against my leg. He grunted slightly, taking his fingers out and stood abruptly, leaving me to shiver on the bed with the aftereffects of the strongest orgasm I had ever had. I was finally able to open my eyes to see him standing above me, twirling his finger against the tip of his cock, playing in his own precum, with his eyes slitted, watching me with a fiery look of total ownership. I smiled softly up at him, blowing him a kiss, and his eyes opened as he frowned down at me.
I became unsure at the violence in his eyes, but before I could rise, he flipped me over like I weighed nothing, his hands steady on my hips. He reached forward and pushed my head down into the bed, grabbing a fistful of my long dark hair, and then snuggled his cock up to the entrance of my cunt. I moaned a low groan, and he chuckled. His low deep laughter sent shivers straight down my spine and I arched my hips back against the head of his cock, so close to entering my aching pussy.
He laughed outright and leaned forward again to murmur in my ear, "Are you my little whore now Elen? Are you going to let me fuck you however I want, whenever I want? Do you like the feel of my cock against your cunt, so close to giving you pleasure, but not quite in? Does it drive you crazy Elen? Do you want me to fuck you?" With each sentence he whispered he pushed slightly harder against my cunt until his enormous fat cock helmet was in, slick and coated with my juices.
I then did something I never did before. I begged. I begged him to fuck me like his whore, I told him he could fuck me however and whenever he wanted, if he would just treat me like his little slut. With each breathy word, he gripped my hips tighter, until I could hardly stand the combination of pleasure and pain. His nails dug into me, and then he thrust his massive cock deep into me, impaling me like a tiny doll. I screamed out loud, never having been fucked this hard before, and he ground his hips against me, mashing his swollen balls against my clit.
He chuckled again, then groaned as I rolled my hips, corkscrewing back onto his dick. I smiled secretly, knowing I could work my hips as good as any hooker, until he reached up with one hand and yanked my hair, jerking my face back and to the side. "I want to watch you squirm as I fuck you, you little whore. Elen is Todd's little whore, and I will never let her forget it." With that he withdrew his huge cock, making me gasp at the emptiness, and then began to hammer into me at a brutal pace. I groaned, and moaned and screamed as his cock pounded into me, making wet deep fucking noises that mixed with his grunts.
His hand was a steady pressure against my hair, making my upturned face ache as his eyes bored into mine, and then I felt a crashing orgasm come across me. Every time he thrust in, his balls crushed against my clit, making it even more swollen and sensitive, until my body could withstand his demands no more. My pussy convulsed, and I jerked back against him, milking his cock, begging him to fill me up with his cum until I was dripping wet with it, until it was drooling down my legs to soak the sheets. I screamed as wave after wave came over me, but still his hammering did not stop. The feel of his dick touching my womb was incredible; I was crazy for the sensation of having his thick cock buried so deep inside me I could hardly breathe.
His hand left my hair and gripped the other side of my hips, and his fucking motion stopped. He held me deathly still, and we panted for a brief second while he was completely buried inside me before I heard his low moan and then I felt the hot sperm flashing out of his dick to coat my insides. Once his sperm began to flow, he started humping me the way a dog would hump its bitch, slow and deliberate, making sure his sperm got as far into my womb as it could go. I had another orgasm just feeling this slow deliberate fucking as he came, and once he was finally spent he leaned down to lay his head against my back.
I let my weight fall into the bed and we lay like that with him on top, his cock still buried in my cunt as we gasped for breath. We lay like that for fifteen minutes before he finally started to stir. He slid his semi hard erection out of me, and turned me to face him, to see his cold gray eyes and his firm mouth. I stretched languidly, arching my back so my nipples grazed against his chest, and his mouth turned slightly upward in a superior smirk.
"What about the AC?" I asked meekly. The cold grey eyes darkened again faster than a summer thunderstorm. "I have two more holes to fuck first." he said as he leaned forward to capture me again, his vice-like grip on my head pushing my eager mouth firmly down to his waiting hardness. "Ready for round two, my Elen? My little cock slave?"


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Hollywood is full of self serving cowards. You really see it in the way this went down last night. The actors who are unionized and the musicians who are unionized and the audio techs who are unionized. All of them should be supporting the efforts of VFX artists.
They should have said HELL YES let them say it!
Instead they're just puppets of a corrupted system.
You see for yourselves what the Hollywood system is truly about!
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Seems like a trend. Get unionized, loose your balls.
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I don't know, maybe Hollywood studios are a sham run by bloodsuckers and the celebrities and others are just puppets that help keep everyone distracted. No?
Isn't it only about about money for them? The amount of crap that spews out of Hollywood should be proof enough, and the way they've been changing the rules and rigging the game so they can squeeze as much money as possible out of everyone. Everything's rigged everywhere you look. Not just in Hollywood.
Money and power has a way of making most humans void of all the things that are good.
Anyway, you might want to checkout some of the conversation going on over here:
More than 400 VFX artists protest at the Oscars...
And a couple other sites posted something about it.
guardian.co.uk: Oscars protest by visual effects workers over Life of Pi
Is The VFX Industry Going Extinct? The Dark Shadow Of Rythm & Hues
BTW: I thought Paranorman was much better than Brave.
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I hear all that, Skynet. To think that all of this is NOT designed would be naive. They don't care about integrity, its about making money...and, on a personal perception, I believe its about making you dumb too. They want to control what we consume and that includes what we watch and listen to.
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Go Green!
Notice the sudden proliferation of green avatars on Facebook?
That's cuz without VFX artists all you've got is a big green screen!
Here ya go. Feel free to use it...
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I saw the Rhythm & Hues people accepting their awards and they guy who went over the time limit who started complaining.
The Oscars isn't where you do that. It's an award ceremony that far too often in the past people used as a platform for there political or religious or personal bullshit. I can see if the movie winning the award covered a topic like exploitation or whatever, but if you're getting an award don't foul up the night with your foolishness.
Rhythm & Hues has no one to blame but themselves. They ought to take responsibility and face reality that no one is going to come to their rescue but themselves with solid administrative policy that protects themselves. In the past 12 years we've seen nothing less than the biggest scandals in every walk of life from politics to military to religion to banking to real estate and now the medical industry. Damn near half the population of the U.S. is on assistance or broke and you expect people to leap to the aid of a Hollywood special effects company?
Don't hold your breath.
I was around when Soft Image was debuting and my pal Tony was Microsoft's top seller of the product. Used to cost an arm and a leg and you had to use those Silicon Graphic work stations. We figured the prices for special effects would go down over the coming years and they didn't and got bloated. Now there's outsourcing? I wonder why?
I'm not going over this again and again. Stockholders/shareholders again are the enemy. Companies make them a profit or they get sued.
Remember, Michael Eisner only got fired because of one reason: The company's stats dropped.
That's the bottom line.
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I'd like to add that we should ALL take more responsibility for ourselves and learn to not be as dependent upon a system that trains us to be dependent.
A career that's based entirely upon a work for hire model is inherently vulnerable. Especially when you're creating content for others.
You can be DEPENDENT or you can work towards being more INDEPENDENT. Even if you have a full time job you can parlay your professional experience and your creativity in ways that can supplement what you do. Many people in animation and other areas have been doing this for a long time with success. I know of artists and animators who have no professional experience at all and have huge online followings that support them. They don't want to be working 80 hours a week with no overtime in an industry that has as many problems as VFX. Instead they're developing their franchise.
The model of work for hire without residuals, profit sharing or equity participation of any kind is simply not the way to go today and it shouldn't be something that the creative community embraces with the mindset that they're going to be okay in such a dysfunctional system.
Think about it folks!
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Well they did it again! The video of the blatant [youtube][/youtube]disrespect of the VFX community at the 2013 Oscars has been taken down from YouTube. Let's try again.
The truth will set us free...
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What disrespect???
Dude wouldn't shut up. He thanked everyone except Santa Claus and then after going over his allotted time he then brings up Rhythm & Hues. If it was that important to him he should have started off with that protest.
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I agree with Greg.
We also forget that the VFX community profited largely off other jobs being lost so their field could emerge. Remember when VFX meant hand drawn animation....practical FX...animal trainers. Set builders. Stunt drivers ETC.
VFX as of now was purely created for bottom line reasons, why would they be untouchable?
Not to mention they are obligated to their stock and share holders to show profit margins rise by any means necessary. The way our country, money and commerce is set up is corrupt. Good luck trying to change everyone.
Content is king, get back to creating it! The only way the audience will care.
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Those are good points. I was thinking the same thing. Set designers, carpenters, stunt men and women, even cell painters in animation all lost out to more efficient and powerful technologies. No tears shed for these people when they were on the way out.
The VFX situation is complex. What it all underscores for me is how unappealing Hollywood has become.
VFX workers are creating content that they have no equity participation in. Even union membership won't fix this or even address it. Meanwhile an obscure but talented artist someplace other than here has just wrapped up a crowdfunding campaign for a project they own and control and they don't have to deal with any of this.
Work for hire is nice when you've got it but it ultimately becomes a dead end street in this biz.
Own your work. Don't let it own you.
I still support these guys even though they don't support us. I'd rather see them win than Hollywood.
Some Explanation & Perspective...
http://bit.ly/Y4pPul <---- Learn exactly what is going on in the VFX biz and WHY!
Here's a great article blurb and sound bite (go to the site and click Listen - upper right) that explain (and tend to agree with) this perspective on the VFX plight. Definitely worth the 11-minute listen! Accurate and informative!! Let's educate ourselves!!!
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Levy, 23, is also well-known for her starring role in the remake of "Evil Dead," which just hit theaters in April 2013. She first turned heads with a five-episode arc on Showtime's "Shameless." There's not much out there about Freitas, other than that he's been in quite a few foreign films, at least, according to his IMDb profile.
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The Lenox duo of Mason Peterson and Caleb Lange, along with Nodaway Valley's Trevor Jameson earned first-team baseball honors in the Pride of Iowa Conference.
Peterson and Jameson were both named to the first team as infielders, while Lange earned first-team honors as a utility player.
Peterson, a senior who pitched and played shortstop, hit .407 with four doubles, one triple and 22 runs batted in, with 37 stolen bases in 41 attempts for the Tigers. He also finished with a 5-2 record on the mound, posting a team-best 3.12 earned run average with 40 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings.
Lange, meanwhile, hit .391 with seven doubles, one triple and team highs in home runs (4) and RBI (29). He finished 13-of-16 in stolen base attempts. On the pitching rubber, Lange went 6-6 for the season with a 4.06 ERA, striking out 95 in 72 1/3 innings.
Jameson led Nodaway Valley to the district finals in Class 2A, hitting a team-high .531 with 16 doubles, two triples, one home run and 38 RBI. He was 19-of-19 in stolen base attempts. He also posted a 4-3 record on the mound, with a 2.19 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings.
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Earning second-team honors from the area were Jacob Still, Zane Sickels, Austin Quick and Heath Evans of Mount Ayr, Keegan Longabaugh of Corning, Lenox's Todd Stoaks and Nodaway Valley's Ryan Williams.
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Matt Marvin*, Central Decatur, Jr., Pitcher; Jacob Still*, Mount Ayr, Sr., Pitcher; Riley Krichau, Pleasantville, Jr., Pitcher; Tanner Foster, Martensdale-St. Marys, So., Pitcher; Lance Hoch, Southeast Warren, Fr., Pitcher; Daniel Weir, Central Decatur, Jr., Catcher; Keegan Longabaugh, Corning, Jr., Catcher; Zane Sickels, Mount Ayr, Sr., Catcher; Tyler Jamieson, Wayne, Jr., Infield; Dylan Gibson, Martensdale-St. Marys, Jr., Infield; Todd Stoaks, Lenox, Jr., Infield; Austin Quick, Mount Ayr, Sr., Infield; Ryan Williams, Nodaway Valley, Sr., Infield; Zack Baker, Southeast Warren, So., Infield; Kenny Thompson, Interstate 35, Jr., Outfield; Heath Evans, Mount Ayr, Sr., Outfield; Miller Hatcher, Martensdale-St. Marys, Jr., Outfield; Noah Bishop, Central Decatur, So., Outfield; Kirk Wicks, Pleasantville, So., Outfiled, Mitch Morris, Interstate 35, Sr., Utility; Joey Marcus, Central Decatur, So., Utility.


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First of all i registered to this website as soon as i knew about it which was yesterday and i couldnt go over all the 100+ pages of hunters discussion threads so i thought i will make this post so u can comment, help, or redirect me to whatever will help me. I saw cheek'ys spreadsheet excel sheet but i didn't really know how to use it. I will post the questions that i really want to know their answers after an introduction paragraph about my character so plz read it carefully.
As u might notice from the title i am suffering from 500-1k ms (high latency) and around 5-15fps from the first day i started world of warcraft. I've been playing since 2 years. I'm a survival specced hunter atm with 7/20/34 spec, i have DST and 4+ pieces of T6 and all of my other pieces are Bt + MH items. I'm using the /cast/cast macro including the kill command and lightning breath of my serpent in the macro. I usually spam this macro while raiding especially on boss fights and i noticed the clippings of autoshots which i think is resulting from my high latency and fps issues and maybe a bit from the macro design. I was doing fine in all the raids MH,BT,and 1st boss in sunwell (kalegos) knowing that my dps i was doing isnt that good since i can do much much more with my current gear but since my latency was very high i cant really do anything about it unless i get a much better connection and a new graphic card for imporving my fps.
However the annoying part started now, my guild is currently at brutallus and i'm the only survival hunter in the guild and they always take me to raids (Was and still a very core/active member since the beginning + im a very good boost for the melee dpsers). The max dps i ever reached on all the brutallus tries we did was 1800dps with my current 500-1k latency and 5-15 fps and usually 1600dps on all other tries while i was in a group of main tank 1 (prot warrior), main tank 2 (feral druid), and 2 resto druids which isnt really interesting for me. Now i know a hunter with my gear must be making an easy 2k+ dps. This is the armory link of my current gear so u can check it out The World of Warcraft Armory before answering my questions u might notice that my spec is 0/20/41 but that was just for yesterday where i tried to check if i can increase my dps on brutallus with it but my spec is usually 7/20/34 and don't worry about my 80 hit rating cause i have the neck from supremus (Choker of endless nightmares) which caps my hit rating when i use it. The questions i am seeking to get answered if possible are:
1. Is the macro i am using the correct one for my current auto shot speed/spec knowing that it automatically gets me to 1:1 shot rotation when i get hasted and gets back to 2:1 when im not hasted. Do you also suggest to use manual weaving since i have high latency instead of the macro cause it will just result in more and much more clippings?
2. Should i keep using my current spec with DST or?
3. Is it even possible to do more dps than 1600-1800 with my brutallus group setup and my current latency/fps issues ?
4. do u think i must bind my macro to the mouse wheel or a keyboard cursor for better results or it doesnt matter?
Thankyou all for reading my case and i hope to hear from you some helpful/constructive comments soon.
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I would like to know which is trully optimal. Sword/Sword or Fist/Sword -- Keeping in mind that I would put TPs in both Specializations for Fist/Sword and for Swords I'd have vile poisons.
Does the extra attack from Sword Specialization occur just has often when you are fist/sword?
And Does the 5% crit from Fists..apply to swords as well?
If I have further questions, I will posted/edit again.
Thank you,
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And as for Relwin sending me a infraction for signing my post , well if you have a problem signing yours that is fine but you do not delegate whether I sign mine sir and if that is a problem then just remove my membership and my e-mail from your forum .
PS - it is my choice if I wish to sign my post Relwin , not yours , I am not worried about using my name to sign a post and never will be , if someone wants me then I urge him to come and get me but better know the cat before you grab his tail huh .
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im currently hit capped with 2 t6 (gloves and shoulders) and the rest are BT and MH stuff with the exception of the badge bow.
now i've had t6 helm in bag for some time now (and i keep it in there 'cause i wont be hit capped otherwise), and should have chest soon. but if i don helm and chest for the 4 pc bonus, i'll have a huge ass dent in my hit (brings me to like 100ish or so).
question is is that even worth it? 'cause it means i'll have to use hit food and hit gems too.
with 4 pc i should hit the soft arp cap as well.
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The World of Warcraft Armory
I use this macro:
#showtooltip Auto Shot
/cast !Auto Shot
/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Kill command
/cast Steady Shot
/script UIErrorFrame:Clear()
In combination with arcane shot while healing my pet. I have the aspect of the hawk and use m hunters mark all the time.
Can anyone give me some advise on improving my playing
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(if my numbers are right)
Hit Rating caps for DW are:
* 442 hit rating with 0 points in Precision
* 426 hit rating with 1 point in Precision
* 411 hit rating with 2 points in Precision
* 395 hit rating with 3 points in Precision
What would the ideal numbers that a DW warrior needs to hit to get the best results for your hit points?
*Glyph of the Outcast only provides higher dps than Glyph of Ferocity if you're already hit capped (9% for 2h, 28% for Dual Wield) and have Blessing of Kings.
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The conference will address among other things such key issues in the field aslearners and teachers as individuals with all their characteristics, including self-concept, motivation, identities, beliefs, agency, emotions, strategies, styles, etc., the learning process and its outcomes, and the diversity of contexts.
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Download from the original websiteThis infographic gives a brief explanation of how the new Pronpack Sound Chart is organized. - See more at: http://hancockmcdonald.com/blog/pronpack-sound-chart-explained#sthash.55ueLR05.dpuf
"a description of the lessons I remember best and then a reflection on the implications for teaching and research"
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Why people are still playing around with TPR and the Silent Way is beyond me, but apparently they are and Chris Jones has tried them out and chased down some references.
Summarizing the highlights of an event, summarizing the key points in a story, and summarizing the results of research project are all common purposes for creating audio slideshows.
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Tandem MOOC was a language MOOC (LMOOC) run through the SpeakApps tools (Tandem and Videochat) and addressed to upper intermediate and advanced students of Spanish and English.
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Le Service Interuniversitaire de Pédagogie (SIUP) de l'Université de Toulouse organise, en partenariat avec le laboratoire LAIRDIL et dans le cadre du projet Innovalangues, une formation sur la conception de jeux pour l'enseignement/apprentissage...
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Hosted by CLEAR and Michigan State University in East Lansing Evolving Interactions in Digital Language Learning Welcome to the next CALICO conference. See the links below (or to the left) as they become available for more conference information
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20 ideas - that apply well beyond the language classroom - especially useful for learning how to bridge the culture divides in the global marketplace of commerce and ideas
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If you can't win the "no cell phones in class" argument, here are 20 ways to be comfortable losing that argument. Make cell phones in the class work for you!
(2015). Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching. Teaching in Higher Education: Vol. 20, Twentieth Anniversary Special Issue, pp. 455-467. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2015.1020783
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Learning and teaching opportunities for languages sometimes occur in unexpected places. As exam pressure was starting to get unbearable for some of my classes, I discovered this summer how visuals from Facebook and Pinterest could be used to motivate students in my French and Spanish lessons as well as support their literacy in general.
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France / États-Unis : le programme Fulbright offre 1 million de dollars pour les bourses 2016-2017
Le programme Fulbright indique, dans un communiqué lundi 24 août 2015, proposer "plus d'un million de dollars [855 000 €] de bourses aux étudiants (bac+3 minimum) et chercheurs français désireux de se rendre aux États-Unis entre août 2016 et juin 2017". Les candidatures sont à déposer à partir du 24 août 2015 sur le site internet de Fulbright, dont la priorité est "une vraie diversité de profils". "Le processus est compétitif mais ouvert, avec des taux de sélection qui tournent autour de 4 à 10 candidats par bourse selon les programmes", indique dans le même communiqué Arnaud Roujou de Boubée, directeur de la commission Fulbright. "Les chances de succès sont plutôt plus élevées pour les bourses doctorales et les postes d'assistants de langue", poursuit-il. Le montant des bourses varie en fonction des projets et peut atteindre 45 000 dollars [38 500 €].
Le programme Fulbright existe depuis 1948 et est co-financé par les gouvernements américain et français, "ainsi que par un nombre croissant de partenaires publics et privés". Il offre aussi la possibilité de bourses, sur un budget équivalent, à des étudiants et chercheurs américains désireux de se rendre en France
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This journal is mainly concerned with disseminating completed and ongoing research relevant to the field of language education.
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Presented at the 48th annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK on September 4th, 2015 Abstract In order to make sense of abstract thought, humans have developed a rich facility for...
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All language users have greater receptive competence (language they can understand) than productive competence (language they can produce). I can read great novels for example, but I could never write one. Traditionally, in language teaching we recognize this fact in the distinction between active and passive language knowledge, particularly in relation to vocabulary learning, where it is normally assumed that learners should be able to understand far more words than they can use. And it has generally been accepted that in second-language learning, new items first become part of learners' receptive competence before becoming part of their productive competence.
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Last fall I published a chart comparing alternatives to using Google Image search. This evening I updated that chart to reflect a couple of changes to those tools and to add a new one to it.
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Not google image search. This was the result of a neural network Google built in order to recognize patterns in images. Feed it enough photos of cats, for example, and it would eventually be able to identify cats in pictures it hasn't seen before. Then they took this neural network and fed it random images, such as clouds, or even just static white noise, and told it to find certain things in the images. The program starts by taking anything that remotely looks like a shape it recognizes in the static, and accentuates the features it recognizes. Then it loops on itself, and is fed this accentuated image. http://www.trainingintambaram.in/web-designing-training-in-chennai.html
La Bibliographie Sociolinguistique Francophone (BSF) est la plus grande bibliographie de son domaine. La BSF est accessible à tous gratuitement.
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J'ai cherché par mot-clé "apprentissage langue étrangère" - 20 concordance, 5 ouvrages, 15 revues, la référence la plus récente date de 2005. On peut contribuer à la base de données en envoyant des références bibliographiques en langue française.
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The book focuses on practical ways teachers can explore and exploit the potential of the vast web-based video resources that now exist on the internet. In addition to this the book offers guidance on how to encourage students to use video as a creative tool that can support their language learning.
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What is the Practical Pedagogies Conference?
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One of the questions that my learners (who are IT people) are very likely to be asked during interviews and promotion reviews is 'Tell us about your favourite technology'.
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The rival view of ELT:Standard English is one variety of English; it is not the subject taught.Texts (discourse) are the subject matter of EFL /ESL.SLA involves the socially-mediated development of interlanguage.A process syllabus is used. This focuses on how the language is to be learned. There's no pre-selection or arrangement of items; objectives are determined by a process of negotiation between teacher and learners as a course evolves. The syllabus is thus internal to the learner, negotiated between learners and teacher as joint decision makers, and emphasises the process of learning rather than the subject matter.No coursebook is used.The teacher implements the evolving syllabus in consultation with the students.The students participate in decision-making about course objectives, content, activities and assessment.Assessment is in terms of low-stakes formative assessment whose purpose is "to act as a way of providing individual learners with feedback that helps them to improve in an ongoing cycle of teaching and learning" (Rea-Dickens, 2001).
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Clemons (3 year/ 6 million)=2
Starks (4 year/ 25 million)=6.25
Hartline (4 year/ 18 million)=4.5
Fasano (2 year/ 7 million)=3.5
Bring in:
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Mike Wallace (5 years/ 50 million)=10
We've seen that this FO isn't afraid to trade away star players for picks. I was fine with the Vontae trade but we did get ripped off with Marshall. Fact is we're loaded with 5 picks in the first 82(?) and I still think we're gonna add another pick during the draft.
Most drafts have us taking Keenan Allen or C. Patteron.
My mock draft has us trading down 7-8 spots with either the Giants or Steelers.
With the 19th or 20th pick we still get our man in C.Patterson (I prefer him more). The first WR after us would be Allen going to St. Louis and then 2 more soon after.
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49 (36th)- Trade 49th, 4th & 7th round pick to Detroit- Barrett Jones OT
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Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience
"Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience," from the creators of "The Matrix" Trilogy, has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience®. Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, "Speed Racer" is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized--the legendary Rex Racer--whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill.
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Ariel Winter, Nicholas Elia, Melissa Holroyd
Produced by: Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Written by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Tatsuo Yoshida, Patrick Read Johnson, John Lau
Running time: 2hr 15min
Opens: May 09, 2008 Limited
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NPR's business news begins with good news for Google.
INSKEEP: The search giant is expected to be the top firm in online display advertising revenue this year, according to analysts at the industry news site eMarketer. If their prediction comes true - if - Google will unseat the reigning online ad champ Facebook, which would be a blow for Facebook, which only last year managed to beat back the previous top-earner, Yahoo.
Google is expected to net $2.4 billion in ad revenues - an almost 40 percent increase over last year - although, that's an updated forecast. Originally, eMarketer had predicted that Facebook would beat Google out again this year, but strong ad sales on mobile platforms and on YouTube pushed the search firm into the top slot. So, there. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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changes to creative computing
In the moment I am working on changes to the texthandling of cc. Text will now be handled using text objects instead of using the text methods in the CCGraphics Object. Every text Object will store its position, text and font settings. There will be dynamic text objects for text that changes and static text objects for better performance. Once I am finished I will also include a tutorial on working with text.