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Curry and Lee had four points apiece during an 11-2 first-quarter run that propelled Golden State to a 21-10 lead.
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Submitted by Estelyen on Mon, 2012-04-02 08:44.
For those that (like me ;) ) do not know what the hell Grail is, it's a database of quests in WoW that could possibly made to communicate with WoWPro about what quests are still missing to get a specific one (if I understand that correctly :P)
Link on Curse: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/grail
Question though: Does that mean that future versions of WoWPro will be packed together with or dependent on Grail or will that just be an optional possibility for those that want the feature? Because I think a database of all quests in WoW would be quite huge (haven't tested grail though, so sorry if I'm mistaken) and people with slower computers might run into trouble.
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Ah I see... Now that I think
Submitted by Estelyen on Tue, 2012-04-24 08:50.
Ah I see... Now that I think about what you said in your first post again I realize you were talking about getting a specific piece of gear as a quest reward ("quest item" like you phrased it made me stupidly think only about those "special" items like the companion pets you rarely get for quests... Didn't about the usual quest rewards at all, my bad :P ).
Also, localization is something I would really like, I could finally persuade those guildmates of mine that refuse to use any english addons to try WoWPro (playing on a german server but using an english WoW Client myself, as I think the german localization of the game is nothing short of a catastrophe since BC, where they decided to "translate" names of people and places... makes me puke :x )
And finally, you're right, the guide logic could really benefit from it... Kind of makes the latest changes you made to the code kind of obsolete since I think Grail could do all that a lot better, doesn't it?
Life isn't like a box of chocolates, it's more like a jar of jalapeños: What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow.
Estelyen, If you are a German
Submitted by tepes on Wed, 2012-04-25 00:04.
If you are a German speaker, would you have any interest in helping to localize my frontend to the Grail database, Wholly? Also, there are some German NPCs that I do not have localized in Grail yet, and if any of your friends who run with a deDE client are interested, they can help give me the localized NPC data. Basically they would need to have the latest version of Grail installed. And then they would do the slash command "/grail verifynpcs" which would write any NPCs they encountered (that are quest related) that I do not have localized into a saved variables file that could be sent to me.
I could of course ask some
Submitted by Estelyen on Wed, 2012-04-25 09:08.
I could of course ask some friends of mine if they were willing to do that for you, but as I said before, I'm using the english client myself. I don't even have a german language pack installed, so I won't be of much help there... I'll ask around in my guild and friends list, but I don't think there's anyone interested in doing actual work for a game :P I'll give you a call when I do meet someone interested though.
Life isn't like a box of chocolates, it's more like a jar of jalapeños: What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow.
Work? Haha. It really is
Submitted by tepes on Wed, 2012-04-25 15:50.
Work? Haha. It really is simple.
(1) Download and install Grail.
(2) Type "/grail verifynpcs" (which will take a couple minutes but you can still play)
(3) After logging out or reloading the UI, post the saved variables file <WoW foder>/WTF/Account/<account name>/SavedVariables/Grail.lua to a new forum at http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/grail/forum/ or mail me here.
I know you mentioned you do not play in deDE client, and that is why I phrased my request like I did. If you are a German speaker it would be great if you could review the current German localization, but it is not necessary. If any of your friends wants to test out the German localization I have a prerelease page which has the versions in German at http://ns1.mithrandir.com/WorldOfWarcraft/WhollyGrailPrerelease.shtml and I will be updating that with some recent changes, probably today. Thank you for any efforts you make in getting your friends to help. Do not worry about it at all, as there are only about 128 NPCs for the German client that are not localized. It is just a little more difficult for me to get to them, and those playing in deDE client all the time probably have a better chance of encountering them (especially during WoW holidays).
Thanks for the hard work
Submitted by tobarstep on Tue, 2012-03-06 17:45.
I am returning to wow after 3 years away, and one of the first things I did was make sure that the Jame guides were still around. So glad to see this alive and kicking!
Now for the issue :)
I started a Tauren Druid, so this pertains to the Mulgore guide. I can't remember the actual step numbers, but it points you to pick up the quest Thunderhorn Cleansing, and a bit later there is a step to turn it in. However, there was no step that actually pointed you to the well to perform the cleansing. I had to run back and do it when I realized it was telling me to turn in an unfinished quest. Not a huge deal, but the runback was kind of tedious.
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Submitted by Gylin on Wed, 2012-03-07 05:00.
Hmmm had some others report this bug as well in the past, yet I'd never managed to replicate it...until tonight. The step to complete the quest is in the guide, however for some reason when you accept the quest, it thinks you've completed it and removes the completion step (which is after the Kyle the Frenzied turn in).
Here's the code from the guide:
T Thunderhorn Totem|QID|24441|M|48.59,59.89|Z|Mulgore|R|Tauren|N|To Mull Thunderhorn.|
A Thunderhorn Cleansing|QID|24456|PRE|24441|M|48.59,59.89|Z|Mulgore|R|Tauren|N|From Mull Thunderhorn.|
T Mazzranache|QID|26188|M|47.18,56.76|Z|Mulgore|N|To Maur Raincaller.|
C Kyle's Gone Missing!|NC|US|QID|11129|M|47.18,56.76|Z|Mulgore|U|33009|T|Kyle the Frenzied|N|Wait here until you see Kyle the Frenzied. Target him and place the Tender Strider Meat on the ground.|
T Kyle's Gone Missing!|QID|11129|M|48.31,53.17|Z|Mulgore|N|To Ahab Wheathoof.|
C Thunderhorn Cleansing|NC|QID|24456|M|44.98,45.25|Z|Mulgore|R|Tauren|N|Use the Thunderhorn Cleansing Totem at the well.|U|5415|QO|Well Cleansed|
After doing numerous tweaks to the code to try and find a fix for this, I just had a thought...maybe it had something to do with the previous well cleansing quest (Winterhoof Cleansing), so i removed the |QO| and VIOLA! no more vanishing step. I'll update the source code as well before the next release as there are a few more tweaks that this guide needs now too.
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Submitted by Gylin on Fri, 2012-03-16 22:52.
Erm....opps! I missed the 2.2.3 release.
My "few more tweaks" has now become a lot more!
Hopefully I'll have this ready for the next release, in the meantime I'll update the source code for the Thunderhorn Cleansing fix.
It´s coming up in the chatt, "swatter"?
Submitted by Maartinn on Sun, 2012-01-22 13:55.
I think it´s said that I have to install (swatter)? or somthing to make the guide work proper
Are you using the latest
Submitted by Estelyen on Sun, 2012-01-22 14:15.
Are you using the latest version of WoWPro? Because I think the check for swatter has been removed in v2.2.0.
Life isn't like a box of chocolates, it's more like a jar of jalapeños: What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow.
Transferring the File
Submitted by pgreen150 on Thu, 2012-01-19 21:44.
I am on a mac and when I dl the file i unzip it but my comp won't let me transfer the new folder
to my addons folder. Anybody know what's up with this?
It won't let me move the
Submitted by pgreen150 on Fri, 2012-01-20 02:30.
It won't let me move the wow_pro folders into the addons folder.
It just makes that noise that means its throwing it in the trash.
Badlands Guide
Submitted by Malorajan on Mon, 2012-01-16 06:56.
I'm doing zones for the achievements and the Badlands one keeps getting stuck on the quest "The Sentinel's Game" notes. The part where it tells me to turn the first statue specifically.
I've tried checking it off but nothing happens. I tried resetting the guide, I tried reinstalling the addon. Nothing worked.
Try right-clicking the step.
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Mon, 2012-01-16 17:16.
Try right-clicking the step. Also which guide, Horde or Alliance?
EDIT: Ok, if it is the Horde guide I see why, though right-clicking should still work. If it doesn't open up the guide with Notepad (preferably Notepad++ as it is easier to edit in) and add "|QID|27886|" (without quotes) to the lines talking about the statues.
Molten WoW
Submitted by elfy279 on Mon, 2012-01-09 05:09.
I was just wondering if the leveling addon will work with Molten WoW and if so what version would I need to install for it to be working correctly.
If you are talking about the
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Mon, 2012-01-09 15:53.
If you are talking about the private servers, we don't support private servers, so it may or may not work.
Also private servers are are against Blizzards TOU and EULA.
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AddOn not there
Submitted by firstname.lastname@example.com on Thu, 2012-01-05 00:35.
I added this guide and tomtom arrow when i loaded WoW a month ago and it worked just fine. This month I upgraded to wrath of the litch king and the guide and tomtom are no longer there. I have tried redownloading it but it did not work. Does this guide not work with wrath of the litch king? Please get back to me because the guide was so helpful
Re: AddOn not there
Submitted by Gylin on Sat, 2012-01-07 16:35.
Check your WoW install folder for WOTLK folder, you'll need to install the addons into it's interface\addons folder.
Addon Folder? Please help!?!?
Submitted by cal7007 on Sun, 2012-01-08 23:32.
hello i need your help is there an addons folder?? becuase i havent found one and there is no WOTLK folder either if you could tell me were it is or what should i do? thank you..
Caleb Murley
Addon folder
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2012-01-09 04:45.
Where exactly your addon folder will be will depend on your operating system and where you installed the game on your system (if not installed using the default settings).
The default install addon folder locations are:
Windows XP: C:\Programs Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns
Windows Vista/7: C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns
Mac: Macintosh Main HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns
If it's not installed to one of those locations, check the properties of the shortcut you use to launch the game and where it's target is, that'll be your install folder, the rest you should be able to find from there.
If you've run the game at all since you installed it, the addon folder will exsist, as much of the UI itself now is made from Blizzard made addons, which all run from the addon folder.
help plz
Submitted by CalebCraft on Thu, 2012-01-19 01:39.
i have a quetion i got it in the folder but i had to move it from another place to there becuase im using google chrome and when i go to get into my game it isent there could you please tell me what to do it would help alot thanks :)
Missing Waypoint Arrow on TomTom?
Submitted by TheNinjuhMan on Sun, 2011-12-25 08:25.
I recently created a new character and freshly downloaded TomTom and WoW-Pro Addons and started to play once I got in the game there was no waypoint arrow to guide me and when ever I would accept a quest or finish one it wouldn't say so in the current guide, it looked as if I had completed 0% of the guide.HALP?
Missing TomTom arrow
Submitted by Gylin on Wed, 2011-12-28 03:26.
Wow dude 7:25am on Christmas day....you're keen! :P
Anyway, if you can tell us what guide were you using at the time, we can then look into your problem.
Clicked on next quest by mistake
Submitted by draken321 on Tue, 2011-12-20 23:58.
So I got a new quest and i by mistake said skip quest and now i dont know what to do in the quest and the way point is set different, how do i go to my previous quest to get my waypoint back and get the details?
You can right-click the
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Wed, 2011-12-21 01:07.
You can right-click the header, then click on 'Current Guide', then just scroll and uncheck the ones you skipped by accident. You can also do 'Reset Guide', but that can sometimes clear a bunch of quests you've done already.
Am I stupid or do I have problem?!
Submitted by ossikaupp on Fri, 2011-11-11 18:15.
Hello! When I go to wow I can see that there is the wowpro leveling addon and the tomtom but the problem is that i cant get the arrow and the waypoints to map. The wowpro addon says what to do and i can see the tomtom coordinates but cannot fix it to work together that tomtom shows where to go next. So help please and sorry for my bad english :)
Sounds like you've disabled
Submitted by Gylin on Sat, 2011-11-12 11:57.
Sounds like you've disabled TomTom's arrow somehow or it's not set itself correctly. Open TomTom's option and see what you can find there
I have the same problem and I
Submitted by Vanyl on Sun, 2011-11-13 22:01.
I have the same problem and I have checked and the arrow is not disabled in TomTom. I installed both up-to-date addons today.
TomTom problem
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2011-11-14 12:03.
Ok, lets see if we can't get to the bottom of this.
Is the error occuring all the time, or just on a specific guide/step?
Have you tried resetting your guide? Right click the titlebar, then click "Reset current guide"
Does the error still happen with just TomTom and WoWPro enabled?
Same problem as Vynil
Submitted by draken321 on Mon, 2011-12-19 12:31.
I am having the same problem as him with the arrow not showing up but i still have details about the quest from WoWPRO but I have no arrow and TomToms arrow way point is enabled so clearly something is wrong.
It's on all the steps. I have
Submitted by Vanyl on Sat, 2011-12-03 07:24.
It's on all the steps. I have updated it again since the patch and still the same thing. The arrow shows when I use Quest Helper but not Wow-Pro. Also Wow-Pro is not completing any step when I finish something (flight point, quest [accept or turn in], etc.). Even if I manually click it (right or left) it does nothing. Opening the guide and clicking off the steps does nothing either.
I've fresh re-installed the addon, I've cleared the wtf saved variables and reinstalled again and nothing has fixed it.
On a side note, your captchas frequently had letters too small for me to see to enter them correctly and with no audio option, I had to refresh numerous times to even be able to post.
WoW Pro and the missing TomTom arrow
Submitted by Gylin on Mon, 2011-12-19 23:12.
Ok, could you both let me know if the issue still happens with just WoWPro and TomTom enabled.
When you cleared the saved variables did you clear both the account and the character ones?
Have you tried right clicking the titlebar and resetting the guide, does it help?
Try using Carbonite instead of TomTom, does the problem persist?
Just firing off ideas here, as I can't replicate your issues
On the captcha issue, while we're sorry about that, it was unfortunately needed due to the amount of spam posts we were getting. Spending over 30 minutes marking posts as spam on each visit to the site isn't mine or anyone elses idea of fun!
Wow-pro's guide in action
Submitted by AyaJulia on Sun, 2011-10-16 07:21.
Hello everyone,
I've been a fan, supporter, and occasional contributor since I started playing WoW, and I thought I'd share a project I just finished; I leveled 1-85 using your guide, frapsed the whole thing, and condensed it so that each minute of video is actually one hour of playtime--it ended up being an hour long. Have a look, share, publicize, ignore, doesn't matter to me. :)
hi there i m new here on this
Submitted by johntravis on Mon, 2011-10-24 12:13.
hi there i m new here on this blog and at this time m trying to observing whats going on here.
Very impressive. Gratz and
Submitted by Skully0815 on Sun, 2011-10-16 12:01.
Very impressive. Gratz and thanks for sharing!
Btw I just finished Loremaster with Wow-pro's addon. Thanks for the addon guys! Good job.
Thank You to the Developers!
Submitted by Daxley on Wed, 2011-10-12 09:25.
Team,I wanted to extend a very warm and welcoming thank you for all of your hard work on the wow-pro addons. I am a new user to the site, but I used the leveling addons back years ago, before many of the current developers were on the team. You've all done a fantastic job! I have never been happier with a team of dedicated gamers!I honestly find it hard to believe that anyone would buy guides online for wow with all of the hard work and effort you have put into yours, which is available completely free to anyone. I promote your addon at every opportunity now, and again, just wanted to say thanks.Sincerely,Daxley
WoTLK version
Submitted by Lyrickcze on Fri, 2011-10-07 13:52.
Good day,
I have been using your add-on for quite some time and it is absolutely great and only getting better. Thank you for your work! But...
Im not very active player myself, due to the all real life duties. Before Cataclysm came in and raised level and equippment to insane heights, I have only managed to prepare and complete Naxxramas, Obsidian Sanctum and Eye of Eternity with my guild. I would love to give the remaining WoTLK raids a try, but at the same time, Im not interested in having first-time experience being over-leveled and over-geared.
After talking with son of my friend, I have learnt that there is some kind of unofficial servers that are still running WoTLK (or even TBC ones) and old patches, 3.3.5 in the case of one he recommended to me. I would love to give it a try and experience those WoTLK raids with level 80 and gear that was designed for them.
Problem now is that I only keep latest WoW-Pro add-on on my computer and I can't seem to find any archive here, and I can imagine that having Cataclysm add-on for old WoTLK zones isn't going to work good :)
Would any of you be so kind to point me to the latest WoTLK version of your add-on, or upload it somewhere for me?
Thank you very much in advance,and sorry for my English skill, still learning ; )
P.S. The CAPTCHA here is really really hard to read, I have "The answer you entered for the CAPTCHA was not correct." six times before it worked. Some of the letters / numbers were so small that I could not recognize them in the dots behind. Some "Refresh CAPTCHA" button would be great :)
We actually do not support
Submitted by Crackerhead22 on Fri, 2011-10-07 16:03.
We actually do not support private servers, which is what your friend is talking about. Those are actually against the Blizzard's EULA, which is why we don't support them.
Ah, I see.
Submitted by Lyrickcze on Fri, 2011-10-07 17:31.
Ah, I see. I thought its all fine as long as I own all boxes and pay monthly fee...
If there was some official pre-Cataclysm server, I would not even think about this. Im not planning to stop playing on official servers, that would make me even more delayed with progress, I consider this as an alternative, to let me experience WoTLK raids "the way it's meant to be played" :)
Anyway, Im not asking you to support private servers at all, all I ask you is older version of your great add-on, that we were all using during WoTLK.Let's call it archive of older versions, same as wowinterface, curse or ace have. That doesn't mean they support private servers, right?
addon wont work?
Submitted by sethlittleman on Sun, 2011-09-25 19:26.
it says that the wowpro addon is out of date? help plz
i am really intersted in trying this :)
Just tick the box at the top
Submitted by Gylin on Tue, 2011-09-27 03:24.
Just tick the box at the top of the addon selection screen that says "load out of date addons".
Or update your old version of the addon to the newest release (2.1.21A)
Submitted by DragonfireEX402 on Sat, 2011-09-24 01:12.
Seriously! TomTom won't work, the addon won't work properly like it used to! Whenever I accept a quest, the guide won't go further unless I choose the same zone guide again! TomTom won't load like it used to! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!?
Ok chillout, have you tried
Submitted by Gylin on Tue, 2011-09-27 03:27.
Ok chillout, have you tried it solely with our addon and TomTom, if you have any other addons? You mentioned a guide, what guide, faction and step were you on? Have you tried uninstalling the addon completely inc' saved variables?
Wont work
Submitted by F22lightning on Thu, 2011-09-15 00:19.
I downloaded the addon and added it to wow but when I went to play its not under addons, during the game or character selection.
read the troubleshooting
Submitted by Gylin on Thu, 2011-09-15 00:48.
read the troubleshooting guide here http://wow-pro.com/wiki/addon_troubleshooting_guide, there's a section that explains what to do if the addon doesn't appear ingame


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As a PhD student and researcher, I often hear friends and colleagues say that they want to learn R, but that the learning curve is so steep that they can't seem to get started. It's true that learning any tool as powerful as R can be confusing at first, especially if you are not accustomed to typing commands in a terminal. That said, there are TONS of resources available for learning R. This post describes some of the resources that I have found most useful in my jouRney.
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- Quick-R is a fast way to learn what you need to get started. I found this site after I had learned the basics, but it really seems great. Thanks for reminding me about this resource, a Tom.
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- Can't figure out your problem on the google? Reach out to the R user community. Caveat: Power R users, especially the developers, are among smartest people I have ever been in contact with. They are active in the community and they can answer your questions! And they will, within minutes or hours, but only if you ask the question in the correct way. For instance, if you say "omg....why am I getting this error"....you may only hear crickets. If you instead distill the problem down to its simplest form, ideally with a self-contained example, you are very likely to have your problem solved. It takes some effort to formulate your question clearly, and often you figure out what went wrong in the process.
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- You can also try emailing the R help mailing list. This is another very active community which includes many of the core developers of R. For best results -- especially on this mailing list -- try not to submit poorly formulated questions. It helps to read their posting guide first.
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|Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing)
This book provides a good introduction to basic statistical
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Another good entry point for a complete beginner. This book
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Dell has unveiled a range of miniature PCs aimed at anyone looking to minimise their electricity consumption and maximise their desktop space. Dell_Studio_hybrid_01 Dell's Hybrid Studio desktop: pick a sleeve, any sleeve According to the manufacturer, the Studio Hybrid PC line is "energy efficient" because it uses roughly …
Will it cope with being knocked on its side?
The disk and stuff will probably survive ok, but you won't be able to see if it works because the Nvidia graphics chip will have been knocked off the motherboard:
Oh dear.
HDMI Out for watching Blueray on @TV??
If so I'll consider one, for the living room.
The £399 version is a bit more basic than the one you mention ... 160GB disk, celeron processor, USB keyboard. Plus, took a bit of time for me to spot how to get to it as its not listed in the standard configs (usual Dell technique - advertise low price then on web page steer customers to more expensive versions while keeping the low price version "available" but not always easy yo find!)
Think I'm still waiting for the Eee Box though!
putting me right off. If it doesn't have HDMI - then not interested in at all.
For a camcorder? Why didn't you say the most obvious... a TV!
Unless there is a reason this won't work on a TV, if so, it should have been mentioned.
But, for £400, compact media player, nice. Media player with BluRay even nicer (yes, but for more).
Whats the Intel® Celeron™ Processor 550 like at 1080p? And (real world) compatibility with XP?
Would the Intel Gfx X3100 chipset have enough umph to decode HD content? Not much point having BlueRay if it doesn't...
...to use a digital restrictions management crippled interface to get pics or video or etc... from his own devices...
A Celeron will happily decode MPEG2 at 1080p. Or it will with some help from a capable GPU. If you want to watch heavily compressed H.264, forget it. Not even 720p.
My dual-core 2.2GHz Dell M1730 can play 1080p Matroska packaged H.264, *until* it gets to very complex scenes. This is with me using not-so-intuitive (and one not-so-free) software products to bring as much efficiency as possible to the process.
Hi Def can be a costly business.
as well as a freeview reception card I could have been interested...
Not available via the Office part of the site. Not available with Vista Business edition (or XP), no option for a 7200RPM hard disk.
Seriously, if you want video playback, get one of these: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/
Its cheap, plays back all the video standards, networked, HDMI, ... The list goes on.
Oh, and no f****** DRM.
and the missus will really appreciate the wooden sleeve look, but a bit of a pisser that it's only available with Vista.
Not wildly cheap once you start adding in all the options to get it to a decent machine either.
Still, good to see the majors starting to produce smaller kit like this
Looking at the pics I thought the design does look pretty neat and cool, until I saw that horrid *Dell* badge on the side. Duhhhh - that's not gonna fly with the in-crowd methinks!
And no 7200rpm HD I imagine 'cos they'll only be squeezing 2.5" drives in there.
Very nice! Would be even better if they offered a solid state drive. OCZ have a brand new 64GB drive that reads at 120GB/sec. Low power, blisteringly fast, and deadly silent.
I'd prefer a "no-OS" or an "XP" option rather than Phista.
Oh, and a quad core option would be good too, but I guess they'll add that in the future. It looks like a better deal than a Shuttle.
Now, can they do the same trick with their servers? I'd like a server that uses 70% less power please. With a Ruby Red case. ;-) Paris 'cos she's like one of these too.
the march to lower power consumption continues..
most people don't need much more than this anyway..
quite bizarre retailers punting out these quad cores for machines that don't really run much software that can use it..it's just a waste of power! (i.e. "redundant power")
dell always seem to know where the button is, even if they don't hit it every single time..they hit it more than most, imo.
like the baby laptop:
Like the full sized Studios I can't seem to find XP drivers for 'em so you can't put XP on even if you want to.
When it's off the stand they employ added "weeble" (TM) tech...
Dell Weeble's wobble but don't fall down....
used joke tag due to how bad this joke really is!
That sounds like a calculation done in the marketing department to me
@ eric - stick a tuner card in that box and all you will have is a toaster
No thanks.
dinky winky is a criminal matter.....anyone tell Michael?
Erm, it is just the geek me in? but how do you open it!!!
Microsoft have banned them from selling it with XP.
As such, since I'd rather let Michael Jackson adopt my children, Harriet Harman educate my boys, or Gordon Brown ru(i)n the economy, than use it, I'm not going to buy one. I think the phrase from Good Morning Viet Nam says it best. "Vista sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls."
(Except I wasn't going to buy one anyway, I was going to buy 4 - study, living room, kitchen, and bedroom - if the first one was quiet - like silent quiet.)
"Dinky"? It's still a big beastie compared to the Mac Mini.
Still, wood-veneer is very 1970's so at least that's a step forward for Dell...
What? No s##thouse Wifi?
Don't you mean brown, green, and red? As for quartz, I think its natural state is clear or opaque, although it can come in a huge variety of colours. Come on James, don't go all namby pamby on us...;)
Its on the front page of Dell UK now. I, like many will only use XP. I suggest everyone who thinks the same could go onto their online sales chat and ask if its available with XP, or you won't buy one. Its a nice looking little box and I would seriously consider it for a new PC I need to buy shortly. but Vista sucks.
If you just wanted a cheap unit to watch HD movies on, then, and I hate to say this being a PC fan through and through, wouldn't a PS3 be cheaper and more reliable? Sod the games aspect, as a media streaming front end, with Blu-Ray support, you can't do better for the money really.
Flame on I guess, but it isn't meant to be flame bait, I promise.
Screwdriver? For that I think a butter knife to get past the 'sealed' chassis would be far more productive.
Or the 'old' kitchen knife that only gets used on non-food items [everyone owns one] which has helped me get into many a 'non-user servicable' item.
"Sealed unit" to me reads as "challenge".
Anyway, Vista? No. I think I'll stick around for the EeeBox meself...
Steven R
>>>Very nice! Would be even better if they offered a solid state drive. OCZ have a brand new 64GB drive that reads at 120GB/sec. Low power, blisteringly fast, and deadly silent.
Actually, in a comparison against a notebook HDD, SSD's perform WORSE on the power consumption scale. This is because SSDs don't have an idle power-down mode, so they run at full power all the time, whereas most of the energy an HDD consumes is from spinning up the disk initially and moving the actuator arm for reads and writes. And HDDs not in use can be powered down to reduce consumption. Not so with today's SSDs.
More here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html
"In fact, a REAL computer would have a hole in the front to push trees into and an exhaust pipe out the back for the black smoke to come out of."
I like these mini desktops, and if it came with XP I'd have one. How about its performance in hot weather? I had a PC with an AMD64 which gave up after a few weeks of 90+ degree temps here in California, and that was with lots of active cooling. Will this one give up when the temperature rises?
Raises hand to ask question. I don't get it. If they can do a laptop for £299 with a screen and battery included, why is this thing £100 more? I can see a big market for these mini desktops now every man and his uncle has a 42"+ monitor sat in their lounge, but not at more than £150-200. After all, anyone wanting a full blown media centre will buy/build the beast. These little tiddlers are just right for a casual bit of surfing with your TV dinner on your lap, but currently too expensive for such infrequent use.
If you don't like Vista, upon first booting your computer refuse the license and give microsoft a call, they will talk you through your free XP downgrade.
Easy as Pie, I personally like Vista but it will crawl on these wee machines
MacMini does all this in a prettier package and has been doing so since the middle ages. Pimping the case won't make the dell match anyone's living room. It'll just clash like a golfer's jacket unless you've had all your furniture made out of shiny plastic.
And @whoever mentioned 5400 only, my laptop's running on a 7200rpm hitachi in a 2.5" form factor so it could easily be an upgrade.
I agree, why is this so expensive compared with a laptop? Is it true that you HAVE to pay Windows Tax as well?
Nice design though
Cheaper (Dell has shite spec) and great interface (front row)


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Amazon to collect Conn. sales tax, ending dispute
HARTFORD — Amazon announced on Monday that it has agreed to collect Connecticut's sales tax, ending a two-year dispute over the tax that the online retailer had previously refused to charge its customers.
The retailer also promised to spend $50 million to build an order-fulfillment center at an unspecified site and create hundreds of jobs.
Kevin Sullivan, commissioner of Revenue Services, said in an interview with The Associated Press that Amazon will generate about $8 million in the first year it collects the tax and $13 million to $15 million in the second year.
By agreeing to collect the tax, Amazon puts pressure on other Internet businesses to pay Connecticut's6.35 percent sales tax, Sullivan said.
"Obviously, we will turn our attention to them in no particular order," he said. "Amazon is very clearly the leader of the pack."
Amazon will begin collecting the tax on Nov. 1 at the start of the busy Christmas holiday shopping season. The company previously insisted it was not obligated to abide by the state's Internet tax law because it does not have a physical presence in Connecticut.
It announced in December a similar agreement to collect sales tax in Massachusetts. And last April, Amazon reached an agreement with Texas officials to settle a sales tax dispute by expanding operations in the state and starting to collect sales taxes.
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democratic-controlled legislature enacted a so-called "Amazon tax" as part of budget legislation in 2011. It requires Internet retailers to collect tax on sales generated through website affiliates in Connecticut.
Amazon severed its affiliations with websites in Connecticut in response to the tax, calling the measure "unconstitutional and counterproductive."
Amazon now supports changes in federal law "that would finally resolve the sales tax issue, level the playing field for all retailers, protect states' rights and allow states to collect the revenue owed," Paul Misener, an Amazon vice president, said in a statement on Monday.
Under federal law, a state or local government cannot force a company to collect sales tax on a purchase unless the business has a physical presence — such as a store, office, warehouse or distribution center — in the state.
Congress is considering several bills that would force companies to collect the tax.
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However, on Monday he said his statement at the time was "partly a little bit of disinformation." The state has been pursuing Amazon under the 2011 state law "and talking to them constantly," he said.
What has now changed is Amazon's endorsement of a change in federal law, Sullivan said. "That created a different climate for talking with Amazon," he said.
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Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, Antwerp 1593 - 1678 Antwerp)
An Oracle (Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle)
Oil on panel, transferred to masonite
23 1/8 x 35 3/4 in. (58.7 x 90.8 cm)
Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1964
The central portion of Jordaens's painting originally served as a modello for one of a series of tapestries devoted to the life of the Greek hero Achilles. The artist himself subsequently altered and enlarged the original panel, and the painting now offers an intriguing composite of Jordaens's middle and late styles of painting.
The exact subject of Jordaens's painting as it now exists is difficult to identify. In the central portion of the panel, which represents the artist's original conception (see Technical Data), an elderly priest, flanked by two acolytes holding large candelabras, gestures over the oracular offering burning on the altar at center. To the left, a woman enters, crowned with flowers and holding an ointment jar; her left hand is placed on the head of a young boy who carries a staff and a round golden fruit. In the immediate foreground are vessels and a sacrificial lamb.
This central scene has been identified as Thetis Presenting Achilles at the Temple (Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle). Although there is no classical source for this episode, it was recounted by the sixteenth-century mythographer Natale Conte in his Mythologia (1551).1 While the story of Achilles traditionally begins with his being dipped in the river Styx, the Conte version opens with an account of Thetis going to the oracle at Themis to ask about the future of her son. The ointment jar carried by Thetis in Jordaens's painting is a reference to her attempt to render her child's body invulnerable by annointing it with ambrosia; the golden fruit in the boy's hand suggests the apple of discord thrown down by Eris, the goddess of strife, at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. This act prompted a chain of events which culminated in the Trojan War and, not incidentally, the death of Achilles.2
The Oberlin painting is a modello for one of a series of tapestries illustrating episodes from the life of Achilles. Between 1630 and 1635 Peter Paul Rubens designed eight subjects for this series, apparently at the instigation of his father-in-law, the tapestry merchant Daniel Fourment.3 Three more designs were added to the series by Jordaens, probably shortly after 1635 and certainly before 1642. The subjects added by Jordaens were the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Pan Instructing the Young Achilles in Music, and Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle.4 In keeping with Jordaens's customary practice in generating designs for woven tapestries, each of these themes would have been developed first in a series of preparatory drawings. The more detailed modello which followed, painted in oil on panel, would have been shown to potential clients, and would have also served as the basis for a full-scale cartoon painted in water- or body color on paper and used as a model by the tapestry weavers.5
Several sets of tapestries were woven from the designs created by Rubens and Jordaens by various Brussels weavers, over a period of about forty years (ca. 1640-80).6 Three weavings of Jordaens's Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle are known: all record the central (original) portion of the Oberlin composition only, augmented by various ornamental border designs (as in the San Francisco tapestry).7
As suggested above, the central portion of Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle was painted about 1640. The panel was subsequently enlarged on all sides by the artist, probably around 1660. While the central section displays the warm, glowing palette and fluid brushwork that mark works from Jordaens's middle years,8 the later additions reflect the muted palette, slack anatomy, and more generalized forms characteristic of the artist's late works.9 The addition of these figures, which include Mercury with his caduceus on the left and a sacrificial attendant with an ax on the right, alters the original character of the scene. Stechow hypothesized that Jordaens may have conceived this new, composite image as a depiction of the blind seer Tiresias, who prophesied the heroic deeds of the young Hercules to his mother Alcmene.10
M. E. Wieseman
Together with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens was one of the greatest Flemish painters of the seventeenth century. He was born in Antwerp in May 1593. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the painter Adam van Noort (1562-1641), who was also a teacher of Rubens. Jordaens was admitted to the Antwerp St. Luke's guild in 1615/16 as a waterschilder (tempera painter), which qualified him to paint cartoons for tapestries and wall coverings. He married Katharina van Noort, the daughter of his teacher, in 1616; the couple had three children.
Jordaens's earliest paintings are dated 1616. He was active as an independent master in Rubens's atelier by the mid 1620s, and collaborated with him on several commissions throughout the 1630s. Jordaens was active as a portraitist, history and genre painter, and designer of tapestries, and was also a printmaker and a prolific draftsman. Particularly after the deaths of Rubens and Van Dyck (in 1640 and 1641, respectively), his work was much in demand by civic, ecclesiastic, and private patrons in Antwerp and throughout Europe--notably England, Sweden, and the northern Netherlands. Jordaens's vigorous, colorful, and plastic style is characterized by a robust naturalism and vitality. He continued to paint until the end of his long life; although there was some decline in his powers at the close of his career, many of these later works are expressive and accomplished.
General References
d'Hulst, R.-A. Jordaens Drawings (Monographs of the Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw, 5). 4 vols. Brussels, London, and New York, 1974.
d'Hulst, R.-A. Jacob Jordaens. Translated by P. S. Falla. London, 1982.
d'Hulst, R.-A, Nora De Poorter et al. Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). 2 vols. Exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1993.
Possibly identical with "de Offerande," listed among the modelli or designs for tapestries in the inventory of the collection of the tapestry merchant Michiel Wauters, Antwerp, 16 October 1679 11
Collection Arthur Holford, London
Sale London (Christie's), 29 November 1963, lot 72 (£1470)
With Frederick Mont, Inc., New York, from whom purchased in 1964
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1968-69. Jacob Jordaens. 30 November - 5 January. Cat. no. 73 (as "Thetis conducting the young Achilles to the Temple").
Denucé, Jean. Inventare von Kunstsammlungen zu Antwerpen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Antwerp, 1932, p. 303.
Puyvelde, Leo van. Jordaens. Paris and Brussels, 1953, pp. 158, 168.
Stechow, Wolfgang. "A Modello by Jacob Jordaens." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 16 (1965), pp. 67-79 (reprinted in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 [Fall 1965], pp. 4-16).
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, p. 90, fig. 53.
Cavallo, Adolph S. Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Vol. 1. Boston, 1967, pp. 27, 122 under no. 35.
Jaffé, Michael. In Jacob Jordaens. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969, pp. 115-16, 186, 292 ill. (as "Thetis conducting the young Achilles to the Temple").
Jaffé, Michael. "Reflections on the Jordaens Exhibition." Bulletin, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/Galerie Nationale du Canada, Ottawa 13 (1969, pub. 1971), p. 14.
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. The Achilles Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part 10). London, 1975, p. 78.
Bennett, Anna G. Five Centuries of Tapestry from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1976, pp. 168, 169 ill.
Nelson, Kristi A. "Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries." Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979, pp. 15, 432, 435-36.
d'Hulst, R.-A. Jacob Jordaens. Translated by P. S. Falla. London, 1982, p. 305.
Bennett, Anna G. Five Centuries of Tapestry from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Rev. ed. San Francisco, 1992, pp. 184-86.
d'Hulst, R.-A. In Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Vol. 2, Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1993, p. 69.
Technical Data
Prior to acquisition by the museum, the paint and ground layers were detached from the original wood panel and transferred to a masonite panel, which is covered on the back by fabric and a thin wood veneer.12 A light cradle has been attached to the back of this panel. The original wood panel was composed of five members: a central section, measuring 54 x 41 cm, was expanded on all sides by strips of wood, almost certainly by the artist himself. These additions measure 12.7 cm and 5.08 cm wide by 54 cm long at top and bottom, respectively; and 17.1 cm and 17.8 cm wide by 58.8 cm high at left and right, respectively.
The paint is applied over a multilayered white ground, which appears to be thicker in the central section than on the added pieces. X-rays (taken in 1964) show two different figures beneath the present composition: a standing nude figure was originally painted beneath the figure of Thetis to the left of the altar; and a seated male figure originally appeared in the space now occupied by the two figures to the right of the altar. Traces of the latter are evident in pentimenti.
Jordaens made several changes to the central design when the peripheral panel members were added: the position of the sacrificial lamb in the immediate foreground was reversed, and a balustrade and hanging rug were added to support the two figures introduced in the top section at right, replacing the semicircular niche shown in the tapestries. Other, less significant, alterations were made to the background to integrate it with the elaborate architectural framework devised in the enlarged composition.
The painting is in good condition with some areas of moderate abrasion; inpainting is concentrated in areas of the original panel joins. The painting was surface cleaned in 1983.
1. Egbert Haverkamp Begemann (The Achilles Series [Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part 10] [London, 1975], p. 78 and n. 23) has demonstrated that Jordaens consulted the free, expanded French translation by I. de Montlyard (Mythologie ou Explication des fables... [Paris, 1627], p. 1010) of Natale Conti's Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum libri decem (first ed., 1551). Wolfgang Stechow ("A Modello by Jacob Jordaens," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 [Fall 1965], p. 11), correctly refers to Conti as the source for Jordaens, but cites a 1605 Latin edition that incorporates a slightly different version of the event, one less closely related to Jordaens's depiction.
2. Wolfgang Stechow, "A Modello by Jacob Jordaens," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 (Fall 1965), p. 11.
3. Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, The Achilles Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part 10) (London, 1975), p. 15.
4. Alternatively, Adolph S. Cavallo suggests that Jordaens may have designed an entire series of tapestries, of which only these three subjects survive; see Adolph S. Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 1 (Boston, 1967), p. 124. See also Kristi A. Nelson, "Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries" (Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979), p. 15. Marthe Crick Kuntziger ("La Tenture d'Achilles d'après Rubens et les tapissiers Jean et François Raes," Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire ser. 3, vol. 6 [1934], esp. pp. 8-10 and 70-71) was the first to discuss Jordaens's contributions to the Achilles Series.
5. On Jordaens's working process for tapestry designs, see Kristi A. Nelson, "Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries" (Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979), pp. 6-8. Other surviving modellos for Jordaens's contributions to this series are the drawn modello for the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. no. 1716), and the painted modello for Pan Instructing the Young Achilles in Music (private collection). See R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), vol. 2, Drawings and Prints (exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1993), pp. 69-70; and Kristi A. Nelson, "Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries" (Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979), pp. 429-30, 438. None of the cartoons made from Jordaens's designs for the Achilles series is known to survive.
6. Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, The Achilles Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part 10) (London, 1975), pp. 71-90; also Adolph S. Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and of Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 1 (Boston, 1967), pp. 124-25; and Kristi A. Nelson, "Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries" (Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979), pp. 423-40.
7. The tapestries were woven by Jan Raes, probably between 1642 and 1653 (335 x 462 cm; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, inv. 68.23); by Geraert van Strecken, probably between 1653 and 1662 (424.5 x 460 cm; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 30.484); and by Frans van den Hecke, about 1665 (Turin, Palazzo Reale).
8. Several motifs in the central panel are also found in Jordaens's other paintings from the period; for example, the figures of the aged seer and the two acolytes are paraphrased in Paul and Barnabas Preaching at Lystra of about 1645 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum).
9. It has also been suggested that these later additions may be the work of studio assistants; see Wolfgang Stechow, "A Modello by Jacob Jordaens," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 (Fall 1965), p. 6.
10. Wolfgang Stechow, "A Modello by Jacob Jordaens," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 (Fall 1965), pp. 13, 16.
11. Kristi Nelson ("Jacob Jordaens as a Designer of Tapestries" [Ph.D. diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979], pp. 435-36) suggests that the Oberlin painting may have been in the following collections (all persons known to have made or authorized tapestries from this design in the seventeenth century): Collection Daniel Fourment, Antwerp, until June 1643; Collection Peter Fourment, Antwerp, until 28 April 1653; and Collection Gerard van der Strecken, Jan van Leefdael, and Hendrick Lenaerts, Brussels, 1660. Nelson admits, however, that this provenance is difficult to reconcile with the later additions to the panel made by the artist; nor is it certain that the tapestry weavers would have been in possession of the painted modello as well as the paper cartoon for the design.
12. See also Wolfgang Stechow, "A Modello by Jacob Jordaens," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 23, no. 1 (Fall 1965), pp. 6-7.


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Plymouth track competes at NLCs
WARSAW — If ever anyone had an excuse to just sort of coast through their senior track season, it would be Plymouth's Dan Samuelson.
As a DI University of Michigan recruit in his primary sport of football, Samuelson is already one of the Rockies' most accomplished athletes. And the Wolverines' workouts give him plenty to do besides.
Rather than resting on his laurels, however, Samuelson has been one of Plymouth track's most consistent points-scorers in the field. And on Tuesday he continued to produce for the Pilgrims, earning his school its lone Northern Lakes Conference championship with a winning throw of 143'10" in the discus.
Warsaw dominated both boys and girls meets with dual championships on its home track, while Plymouth's boys finished seventh a point ahead of NorthWood with 53 points, and the Lady Pilgrims placed fifth with a score of 70.
Samuelson was personally responsible for 18 of his team's 52 points with PHS' only NLC championship in the discus as well as a runner-up shot put of 51'7.25".
"I'm just proud of Dan," said Plymouth boys track coach John Barron. "I've been at it 20-plus years, and I've seen a lot of athletes come and go, and for a kid to achieve what he's done in football as one of the highest recruits Plymouth football has ever seen, to fulfill his commitment as a track athlete where he really didn't have to, I'm just really proud of him. He's a kid I could talk about for as long as I coach."
While Samuelson earned his school its only conference title, Lady Pilgrims sprinter Allie Wright earned At-Large NLC honors for her turn as runner-up in two events and a third-place finisher in another.
Wright opened the finals with a second-place finish in the 3200 relay along with teammates Meagan Fisher, Libby Read and Abby Patrick, where the foursome cut 20 seconds off their previous best to finish in 9:40.42. Exhausted at the end of the open 400, the Plymouth sophomore fell across the line just .12 of a second behind Warsaw champion Tennie Worrell's winning time of 59.47 for Wright's first-ever NLC defeat so far in the event. She rejoined Fisher in the 4x400 to close out the night with a third-place result in the 4x400 alongside Megan Maxwell and Alex Drummond.
"I think Allie went out a little quick (in the 400) through the 200 split, but she PR'd in the race, so she's getting stronger," said Plymouth girls track coach Paul Patrick. "She got beat and that's unfortunate, but that happens."
While Wright was named At-Large All-Conference for the Lady Pilgrims, Fisher's performances didn't go entirely unnoticed Tuesday.
Along with her second and third-place turns in the 3200 and 1600 relay, Fisher finished second in the 800 with a 2:20.18 behind Elkhart Memorial runner Sierra Moore's 2:23.06, and she was awarded an All-NLC Honorable Mention for her efforts.
Plymouth jumper Kaydon Fosler was also named to the conference's Honorable Mention list for her runner-up jump of 5'02" in the high jump, which complemented a seventh-place turn in the long jump.
"Meagan ran awesome (in the 800). She ran 2:20, and she hadn't broken 2:28 in the open 800 all year," said Patrick. "Now she's run some fast relay legs, but she ran a super 800 at the Goshen Relays (last weekend), she led off the 3200 relay with a 2:21 and then ran a 2:20 in the open 800. The only time she's broken 2:20 in the 800 has been the last two years at the regional meet. So she's two weeks ahead of that, and I think that'll be a great confidence boost for her.
"Kaydon was seeded first in the high jump, she got second. She's struggling a little bit with her approach. She's a great jumper, she just needs to get her approach down, and she'll come back and she'll be fine."
Plymouth's didn't receive any at-large or honorable mention All-NLC nods, but the Pilgrims did see two other standout performances at Warsaw.
Senior Adam Lacefield recorded a 136'02" toss in the discus for third place behind Samuelson in the event — as Plymouth's boys scored nearly half their points in the weight events — while junior Michael Hartman placed second in the open 400 with a time of 50.93 behind Memorial sprinter McNeal Stewart's 50.32. Hartman also finished sixth in the 200 after making the finals cut in that event.
"It wasn't a great night for Adam, but he hung in there and got us some points; we didn't score a whole lot tonight," said Barron. "Michael Hartman, I'm just so happy for him. He ran his best race and almost broke 50 seconds in the 400. He lost to a really good kid. He was second in the 400 and placed sixth in the 200.
"Those guys' performances tonight really stand out in my mind."
With Tuesday's NLC meet out of the way, Plymouth's track teams now ready themselves for next week's IHSAA sectionals. The Lady Pilgrims travel to the 10-team Rochester Sectional on Tuesday alongside Culver Girls Academy, Culver Community and Triton, while the Pilgrims play host to their own 10-team field on Thursday night.
"We're improving. I think our girls needed to see that because they're working and working and working, and they're not seeing their times drop and they're starting to question what they're doing," said Patrick. "I think (their second-place finish at the Goshen Relays) Saturday got them thinking positively, and tonight they're going to walk out of here — even though they didn't get any firsts — they're going to walk out of here thinking we're ready to go for sectional."
"I've said we are who we are. I don't think we had any really bad performances tonight; our conference is just very, very talented. That's pretty much where we figured we would be," said Barron.
"Now It's all geared toward trying to win our sectional. Our kids are lucky that we don't get chewed up in our sectional with a ton of NLC schools. I know we've got some teams coming in that love to compete against Plymouth and would love to beat Plymouth in their sectional… We host it, it's our meet, and we expect to do well and try to win it."
Team scores: 1. Warsaw 202, 2. Northridge 128, 3. Elkhart Memorial 112.5, 4. Concord 94, 5. Plymouth 70, 6. Goshen 46.5, 7. Wawasee 41, 8. NorthWood 37.
4x800 relay: 1. Northridge (Mandy Campbell, Olivia Golden, Mackenzie Gray, Corinne Comnator) 9:30.72, 2. Plymouth (Meagan Fisher, Libby Read, Abby Patrick, Allie Wright) 9:40.42, 3. Elkhart Memorial 9:54.87; 100 hurdles: 1. Jessica O'Connell (C) 15.49, 2. Jackie Ferguson (War) 16.28, 3. Brittney Rhodes (War) 16.5; 100: 1. Ann Harvuot (War) 12.51, 2. Mariah Harter (War) 12.92, 3. Mariah DeFreese (C) 12.95; 1600: 1. Sarah Ray (War) 5:06.76, 2. Sierra Moore (EM) 5:13.31, 3. Olivia Golden (NR) 5:16.56; 4x100: Warsaw (Mariah Harter, Samantha Alexander, Brittney Rhodes, Harvuot) 49.85, 2. Concord 50.98, 3. Memorial 51.16; 400: 1. Tennie Worrell (War) 59.47, 2. Allie Wright (P) 59.59, 3. Megan Kratzsch (War) 1:01.52; 300 hurdles: 1. O'Connell (C) 45.36, 2. Ferguson (War) 47.98, 3. Nicole Eckert (War) 48.68; 800: 1. Moore (EM) 2:17.88, 2. Meagan Fisher (P) 2:20.18, 3. Hannah Dawson (War) 2:21.24; 200: 1. Harvuot (War) 25.93, 2. DeFreese (C) 26.38, 3. Cianna Bonfiglio (C) 27.24; 3200: 1. Ray (War) 11:01.66, 2. Morgan Blyly (NR) 11:28.21, 3. Jennifer Schrock (NR) 11:34.63; 4x400: 1. Warsaw (Eckert, Kratzsch, Ferguson, Worrell) 4:03.94, 2. Concord 4:07.73, 3. Plymouth (Fisher, Megan Maxwell, Alex Drummond, Wright) 4:12.09; High jump: 1. Jamie Lacheta (War) 5'03", 2. Kaydon Fosler (P) 5'02", 3. Michelle Detwiler (C) 5'01"; Long jump: 1. Stephanie Bettis (EM) 16'4", 2. Samantha Alexander (War) 16'2", 3. Christian Juroff (NR) 15'2.5"; Discus: 1. Samantha Jensen (War) 119'11", 2. Deanna Cornelius (EM) 111'04", 3. Madison Stewart (NR) 109'0"; Shot put: 1. Stewart (NR) 38'8.5", 2. Brooklyn Harrison (War) 37'7.5"", 3. Jordan Edington (Waw) 37'0.5"; Pole vault: 1. Megan Dearlove (War) 10'4", 2. TIE Chelsea Bettis (EM) and Tricia Place (G) 9'4".
Team scores: 1. Warsaw 169.33, 2. Northridge 116.5, 3. Elkhart Memorial 101.83, 4. Goshen 88.5, 5. Wawasee 84.33, 6. Concord 63.5, 7. Plymouth 53, 8. NorthWood 52.
4x800 relay: 1. Warsaw (Ismael Calderon, Jacob Poyner, Daniel Messenger, Tyler Houvener) 8:00.74, 2. Goshen 8:04.03, 3. Elkhart Memorial 8:04.43; 110 hurdles: 1. Clayton Cook (Waw) 15.19, 2. Taylor Cone (War) 15.34, 3. Austin Healey (NR) 15.7; 100: 1. Danotea Millsaps (EM) 10.99, 2. Wyatt Jones (War) 11.16, 3. Tristan McClone (War) 11.34; 1600: 1. Robert Murphy (War) 4:22.41, 2. Jacob Poyner (War) 4:25.25, 3. Reid Zimmerman (G) 4:27.43; 4x100: 1. Warsaw (Wyatt Jones, Nathan Kolbe, Gabrial Furnivall, Tristan McClone) 42.92, 2. Goshen 44.28, 3. Concord 44.32; 400: 1. Stewart McNeal (EM) 49.6, 2. Michael Hartman 50.05, 3. Furnivall (War) 50.35; 300 hurdles: 1. Cook (Waw) 40.07, 2. Cristian Barron (G) 40.27, 3. Ryan Goon (War) 40.82; 800: 1. Murphy (War) 1:54.21, 2. Zimmerman (G) 1:57.03, 3. Nick Skwarcan (NW) 1:47.7; 200: 1. Millsaps (EM) 22.16, 2. Jones (War) 22.53, 3. Caleb Platz (EM) 23.12; 3200: 1. Poyner (War) 9:31.01, 2. Blake O'Dell (NR) 9:38.77, 3. Jacob Frost (NR) 9:51.86; 4x400: 1. Memorial (Millsaps, Blake Kramer, McNeal, Jared Peek) 3:20.32, 2. Warsaw 3:20.59, 3. Goshen 3:30.2; High jump: 1. Will Stueve (NW) 6'5", 2. J.J. Gilmer (Waw) 6'4", 3. Bennett Parker (NW) 6'2"; Long jump: 1. David Doyle (EM) 20'9.75", 2. Gilmer (Waw) 19'8.75", 3. Kolbe (War) 119'7.5"; Discus: 1. Dan Samuelson (P) 143'10", 2. Ethan Brown (Waw) 141'04", 3. Adam Lacefield (P) 136'02"; Shot put: 1. Seth Fouts (War) 53'05", 2. Samuelson (P) 51'7.25", 3. Tyler Hoffman (C) 48'9.75"; Pole vault: 1. Josh Rheinheimer (NR) 13'8", 2. Devin Puckett (NR) 13'0", 3. Albert Gongwer (NW) 12'6".