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Friday, May 9, 2008
New WotLK Info
Obviously this is huge news for all WoW players. The reactions I have seen on the forums and other blogs is fairly vared so far. It will be interesting how this plays out.
The sources:
World of Raids
MMO Champion
My Reaction:
General Info
No real supprises were made regarding the general feel and layout of the game. Most of the general information we had heard before in some generalized form. However, some of the more common player questions were answered. The most significant piece of info here is that Flying mounts in outland will be unlocked at level 77 and that you will be able to use your pre-WotLK mounts. The other news is that Northrend will is significantly bigger than Outland and some of the zones will have sub-zones much like Terrokar Forest.
Death Knight Info
A lot of new stuff here that a lot of people are really excited about. Here are the highlights.
* It sounds like they have scrapped the idea to have a quest chain that unlocks the DK. Instead if you have a level 55 toon then you can start a DK on any server.
* DK start at Level 55 in EPL with their own quests to teach you the new Resource system.
* A new two tiered resource systems that uses cooldowns and "runic power" that behaves like rage.
* DK can rez both NPCs and PCs temporarily as a Ghoul to fight for the DK. PC will be able to control the Ghoul.
* Tanking abilities based upon parry and resisting magical attacks.
To be completely honest I am not all that excited about the DK class. I play caster DPS toons and DKs are melee. So I probably wont be rolling one the day the expansion comes out. However, some of the info provided sounds very cool. I can't wait to play a Ghoul at some point. This could be huge in raiding and ten times bigger in Arena. From a tanking perspective they sound like an off tank on most fights to me but may be ideal for spicific encounters. I also think that managing the new dual resource system could be a lot harder then people expect.
New Vehicle system:
This is really just an extention of the Siege Engines we have already heard about, but it is nice to see that they are thinking of other ways to use it. This could provide for some interesting new quests much like bombing runs did in BC.
Raiding and Instancing:
* Heroic dungeons in WotLK will have separate loot tables than their non-heroic versions
* Regular Instances are designed to be run in an hour or less.
I like these changes. I always hated how most of the H Mech loot is the same as the normal Mech loot. If the difficulty is increase then the rewards should be increase also, and badges and gems arn't enough.
With regards to the length of regular instances, this will be great if it works out. However, I think I have heard this before and it hasn't really worked out.
* All Raid instances will have a 10 man and a 25 man version.
* The two versions of the raids will have separate cooldowns.
Most people seem to think this is a great change but I have to disagree. It has a potential to be great but it has just as much if not a lot more potential to wreck 25 man raiding. What is the motivation to run 25 mans if you can see all of the same content in a 10? Yes, the gear will be better in the 25 mans butt how much better? After you do Naxx10 for a couple of months, why would you go to Naxx25 instead of 10-man raid #2 to see something new? I assume that the gear in 10 man #2 is an improvement over Naxx10, so whats the motivation?
Basically I don't see why I would want to run a 25 man other than to say I downed Boss X in Naxx25. Especally when you have already killed the boss 10 times in Naxx10. I think this could cause a lot of people to by pass 25 man content all togeather, making guild recruitment and that much harder. I also don't think this benifits the casual player all that much. There are plenty of casual raid guilds that allow people to raid only one or two nights a week. If they don't have the time to raid 25 man content casually now, then they aren't going to have time to raid 10 content casually
Edit: Alex Ziebart over at WoW Insider expressed my point much more clearly than I did. You can find it here.
Anyway, I'm not sure how set in stone all of this is. They also mentioned in the article that they haven't designed a single raid boss yet. Hopefully they will design it in such a way that makes the 25 mans interesting even though you have done the 10 man. It also might be interesting if they used rep grinds and rewards to push people to trying the 25 man content.
That is my reaction. Here are the reaction of other Bloggers. I will update the list as I find more.
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- Ferenczys said...
Cool blog. I don't play a druid but you certainly make it sound appealing. :)
In regards to your comments regarding the new 10/25 man split to raids, think back to when TBC raiding really started to take off. Guilds well-set in the old 40 man raid make-up saw untold amounts of guild drama as everyone was forced into the 10-man mold, only to have it blow up again into 25 right after Kara.
I think Blizz is trying to accomodate guilds of varying sizes and dynamics. You have lots of guilds comfortable running 25 man raids now, it only seems fair to allow them to continue 25-man progression without having to jump through unnecessary hoops. On the other hand, you have many more guilds only now getting into Kara, and this change allows those guilds to progress as they are, without forcing them to recruit desperately to fill out the 25-man quota.
It really seems to be more about what people are most comfortable doing. I think you missed the part too where they cited different raid IDs for the 10- and 25-man versions, meaning some guilds can run BOTH if they so choose.
While it is possible people will completely ignore the 25-man versions, I think you'll find that some guilds, by virtue of their rosters of active players, might prefer to hit the 25-man version just because it lets them gear the guild faster. Time will tell I suppose.
- May 15, 2008 at 1:44 PM
- Cdin said...
Thanks for reading my blog.
Regarding 10 man vs 25 man. I completely understand what Blizzard is trying to do, and I agree with the goal. However, depending on how they do it they could really hurt 25 man raiding without helping the casuals see more content.
There are plenty of people out there that don't care about the loot and only want to see content. If they can do that by running content in smaller, easier to form, groups then why wouldn't they?
My first point is that it could make it a lot harder for 25man guilds to recruit and retain members.
My second question is how does this really help casuals? We currently have only two 10 man raids. Most casual Kara only guilds can't clear ZA. That is how much harder it is. If the new 10mans are structured the same way, how are you helping the casuals? They won't see the higher level content because they won't have the time or gear to get there.
My second point is that this might not help Casuals because they can't progress. Then all blizzard would be doing is creating two tiers of hardcore raiding. A 10man tier and a 25man tier.
It really depends on how they set up the loot and instance difficulty.
Honesty, if they expect people to continue raiding 25 man raids then the loot and difficulty of them has to be hugely greater than the 10mans.
- May 19, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- Ferenczys said...
There has been a real outcry lately from a lot of raiding guilds about this very subject; in essence, people are upset for exactly the same reasons you stated. They worry about simply not being able to pull 25 people together if the 10 man alternative is available.
Here's the thing though, people shouldn't do 25-man content because they HAVE to, they should do it because they enjoy it. Honestly, people gripe about the PVP reward system, badge reward system and all this other stuff that 'undercuts' raiding, but look at it this way: all the alternate gearing methods do is remove from the roster those people who are in it purely for the gear, and who may not have the time commitment for real progression.
When the player pool is more PURELY raid-oriented, and not just in it for the lawlepixpls, the raid as a whole should perform better. For instance, do people really think that facing Teron Gorefiend in BT would have been any easier with 40 people instead of 25? How many of those 40 would be able to do that fight effectively? By reducing the pool to people with real time and effort to dedicate, the fights can be more complicated, and thus more fun.
- May 22, 2008 at 7:24 AM
- Cdin said...
I get what your saying, and agree with it to some point. If some one is unhappy with 25man raiding then they should do it now or in WotLK. However I think you are simplifying the problem to much.
If they currently dislike 25man raiding whats to say they will like a 10man version? People dislike raiding for a lot of reasons and most of them arn't exclusive to the 25 man size.
We currently know only two things about raids in WotLK.
1. Loot will be better and more plentiful in 25mans
2. From experiance we know filling a group of 10 people will be easier.
We don't know much about the difficulty differences. If the 10 mans progress like Kara and ZA then there will be a lot of 10man casual guilds that can't progress.
I am not saying this is the end of 25mans. Blizzard could structure it in a way that is very good for raiders and casual players and everyone will be happy.
I just see the potential for it to seriously hurt 25man raiding with out helping the casual people they say it is to help.
Because if the 10mans are to hard then casuals won't progress. If 10man loot is too good then hardcore raiders won't mind skipping 25mans.
If these two things happen then all they have done is split the raiding community in to two groups which helps no one.
Just for the record, I have no problem with the badge system or with the PvP gear system. I think the badge system has helped a lot of raiding guilds progress quicker because it is easier to gear people. Playing a less popular spec I have benifited from the badge gear quite a bit. PvP gear on the other hand is for PvP in my opinion. High quality PvP gear can help some one start low level raiding but I don't like applicants with a lot of PvP gear.
- May 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM


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CARSON, Calif. – LA Galaxy Technical Director Jovan Kirovski and the rest of the club saw the realization of months of work on Wednesday with the creation of the LA Galaxy II USL PRO side.
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New Look 6000: Circly Print Dress
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I have been itching to use one of the circly print fabric I bought from Yong Le Fabric Market, Taipei. I decided to make this New Look 6000 pattern but was in a 'fabric dilemma' for a few days as the many versions I've seen of this famous Mad Men Joan Holloway inspired dress were mostly made in solid colours and the favourite colour used was red. I wonder if this busy blue print fabric with circles everywhere would drown all the details such as the pleated side waist and stand up collar. After much self-debate, I went ahead with a print fabric anyway because I couldn't wait to use the fabric, that was it!
Pattern Notes: I cut a size 10 but I adjusted the seam allowances at the sides to fit my body so I would say in the end it's approximately an 8 around the bust and tapered out to 10 and 12 around the waist and hips in the end. I was a rebel and interfaced the collars although the pattern didn't instruct so and I have read a few pattern reviewers said it's not necessary – I prefer sturdy collars.
I wished the instructions could have elaborated a bit further on how to sew the side pleats together at the side waist. Perhaps I was distracted by my Little Terror whilst I was sewing that section, during the first trial I thought I should just fold the top line to the bottom to form a pleat and just sewed across it, but realized later this resulted in visible stitching on the dress. I ended up doing it this way (1) For each pleat, make fold on the top line and edge stitch it. (2) Bring the edge stitched section to fold to meet the second line to make a pleat and then baste to hold the pleat in place. During a light bulb moment much later, I realized that the easiest way to sew the pleat (and the method that the instructions intended) is just to bring the 2 lines together, front fabric meeting, and sew through the line to make a pleat! And there will be no visible stitching when viewed from the front of the dress. I reckon I was the only person having problem in making the pleats as other sewists didn't complain about this section. My version resulted in 'looser' pleats but I guess I really like it as it provides a lot of room along the belly area for me to stay comfortable but yet the side pleats provide a lot of design details whilst disguising stubborn post pregnancy belly flab!
To wrap it up, the dress construction looks tougher than it really was. Sewing on the collars was also a breeze. I really like this dress and pattern and hope to make View A next in a solid fabric next!
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Jul 15, 2012, 09.13 AMby janene
Perfect choice of fabric. Really classy dress. Love it! :-)
Jul 14, 2012, 02.43 PMby Eva Iwakki
very , very, very, very beautiful dress:)
Jul 14, 2012, 12.49 PMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous and i love your fabric choice.its great to take a risk rather than play safe with a solid colour well done xx
Jul 14, 2012, 09.23 AMby barmaglot
Great job! And I love your fabric.
Jul 14, 2012, 09.11 AMby leokadia
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A point on that: The federal experts still recommend keeping plastic sheeting and duct tape among your supplies. I remember when that one came out, not long after the 9/11 attacks and, later, the anthrax attacks. The idea was, in case of a dirty bomb or chemical weapon, you could seal off a "safe room" in your home using the plastic and duct tape and shelter in place for a few hours until the worst was over.
Yeah, I have questions about the efficacy of that, too, but duct tape and plastic sheeting are useful for lots of things. Insert your favorite "Dexter" joke here. Seriously, though, you can use that stuff to cover broken windows or furniture you're storing or moving. Very handy.
Being prepared is a good idea in general, which is why "Be prepared" is the motto of both the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Am I 100 percent ready for the next cataclysmic storm? Not quite, but I'm going to work on that.


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LOS ANGELES—Fire roared through a 90-year-old residential hotel in Los Angeles' harbor area early Tuesday, injuring 14 people, three of them critically.
People hung out of windows of the Palos Verdes Inn in San Pedro after the fire broke out at about 3:30 a.m., and one woman jumped from a second-story window and may have broken bones, Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said.
Other residents were threatening to jump, he said.
"Firefighters immediately threw ladders and rescued them from ledges," Scott said.
Firefighters returning from a nearby medical call saw smoke at the hotel before any 911 call had been received, he said.
It took 150 firefighters 34 minutes to extinguish the blaze, which spread rapidly through the 1923 building. Television news reports showed flames engulfing the interiors of some rooms.
Seven rooms were damaged, two of them extensively, Scott said.
Tiffany Rogers, who is five months pregnant, raced out of the building.
"I couldn't even see through the smoke. I couldn't breathe. I was coughing. It was horrible," she told KABC-TV as she stood in the dark with a blanket draped around her shoulders.
"Right now, I'm really stressed out because I don't have anywhere to go," she said.
Fourteen people were hurt and 12 of them were sent to hospitals, including three in critical condition from burns or smoke inhalation, Scott said. The injured included a police officer who was helping residents and suffered smoke inhalation.
Firefighters also gave oxygen to a cat and looked for a missing Chihuahua.
The hotel had fire alarms but it was unclear if it had any sprinklers, Scott said.
Arson investigators were sent to the scene because of the fire's size and how quickly it spread, he said. The cause of the blaze wasn't immediately known.


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LAWRENCE — A 67-year-old Lawrence man accused of killing his ailing wife has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
6News Lawrence (http://bit.ly/1a8Ny9m) reports Larry Hopkins waived a formal reading of the charges and entered his plea Friday.
He is accused of fatally shooting his wife, 61-year-old Margaret Hopkins, on Nov. 5. Police say he shot her because of her ongoing health concerns.
Hopkins was found competent to stand trial in November after a mental health evaluation. If convicted he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
He is being held at Douglas County jail on $150,000 bond. He is scheduled for a jury trial starting April 14.


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SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services performance affects every analysis application. In "OLAP Performance," January 2000, InstantDoc ID 7638, I covered query performance and performance considerations for building cubes. This month, let's take a closer look at how to optimize the performance of OLAP queries.
To understand Analysis Services performance, you need to understand Analysis Services' client/server architecture and how Analysis Services executes queries. The client component of Analysis Services is PivotTable Service, which is a database driver—a nonvisual software component that supports the programmer's interface OLE DB for OLAP. OLAP applications such as Microsoft Excel use PivotTable Service to communicate with the server component of Analysis Services.
PivotTable Service performs most of the work in executing a query. Logically, because PivotTable Service can perform the same queries against an OLAP cube that's stored locally on your hard disk as it can perform against a server-based cube, PivotTable Service must have the functionality to execute OLAP queries.
To submit OLAP queries to PivotTable Service through the OLE DB for OLAP interface, you use MDX, the SQL-like expression language that Analysis Services uses to retrieve multidimensional data. PivotTable Service then goes through five steps to execute the query: parsing, prebinding, binding, execution, and cell retrieval. You can categorize these steps into two phases: axis resolution (the first four steps) and cell retrieval (the last step). Axis resolution is the phase in which PivotTable Service determines the dimension members that will be on the axes (e.g., rows, columns, pages) of the query. Table 1 shows definitions of each of the four steps in this phase. Cell retrieval is the phase that determines the values (usually numeric) that go in the cells. If you think of a query result as a spreadsheet, axis resolution determines the row and column headers, and cell retrieval fills in the numbers in the cells.
The distinction between these two phases is important. When you, the developer, issue a request to PivotTable Service to execute an MDX query, PivotTable Service performs only the first phase while you wait for the execute function to return with a status value (unless Default Isolation Mode is set to true). The second phase occurs as you request the individual cell values. This two-phase execution lets you start working with the "spreadsheet" on the screen before all the results are available. This kind of optimization can significantly improve the way users perceive your application's performance. To illustrate this point, try running the following query in Analysis Services' MDX Sample Application:
SELECT \[Time\].\[Month\].members ON Columns, \[Customers\].\[Name\].members ON rows FROM Sales
The MDX Sample Application takes approximately 45 seconds to complete this query on my laptop. But the application draws the grid and fills in the row and column headers in just 5 seconds. At that point, the axis resolution is complete and the sample application has begun requesting individual cell values. Unfortunately, the sample application displays the hourglass cursor for the duration of the cell retrieval. If you're developing your own application, you can program it to return to a normal mouse cursor and let the user scroll around the grid or perform other operations while the grid is filling in.
The OLE DB specification also supports asynchronous query execution, which lets you initiate the axis-resolution portion of the query without waiting for its completion. However, asynchronous query execution is difficult to implement from a client application and can be detrimental to performance. One of the main reasons you might use asynchronous query execution is so that you can cancel queries that take longer than you expect. However, PivotTable Service doesn't support true canceling of a query—after a cancel request, the asynchronous query will continue and block other PivotTable Service function requests while the query finishes.
Manipulating Connection Properties
You can manipulate some connection properties in PivotTable Service to improve query performance. Let's examine some important considerations for four of these properties: Execution Location, Large-Level Threshold, Default Isolation Mode, and Client Cache Size.
Execution Location. You can use the Execution Location property to force the execution of a query on the server or on the client. The default setting, automatic, lets PivotTable Service inspect the query to determine whether it should execute remotely on the server. Two conditions cause a query to execute remotely: the existence of a reference to a large dimension level and the existence of a filter operation within the query's MDX code. The following MDX expression on the Sales cube would meet these criteria:
TopCount(Customers.Name.Members, 10, \[Unit Sales\])
Customers.Name.Members is a reference to a large level because the number of members in the Name level (10,240) of the Customers dimension exceeds the large-level default threshold (1000). The inclusion of the filter TopCount suggests that executing the query remotely on the server would be worthwhile because the filter operation eliminates most of the large level.
In some situations, a query won't execute on the server even if the query meets the level-size and filter requirements. For example, a query might contain a function that doesn't execute correctly on the server. A client-registered user-defined function (UDF) is an example of a client-only MDX function. If the query is executed against a local cube file, the query can't execute on the server either.
Large-Level Threshold. This property sets the threshold for the number of members a dimension level must have to be considered a large level. Large dimension levels are important for a couple of reasons. First, a reference to a large level can cause a query to execute remotely on the OLAP server, as I described above. Second, schema rowsets that contain dimension metadata contain only an estimate of the number of dimension members in a large level. That estimate matches the default setting of the Large-Level Threshold.
This estimation of the number of members in a large level can cause implementation difficulties. Client applications also have thresholds for what's considered a large number of members, and these thresholds are frequently larger than Analysis Services' threshold. Because Analysis Services estimates the number of members, the application can't proactively decide whether to fetch all of a dimension member's children or all of a level's members. Thus, you can't estimate how long a query will take or how much memory it will use. This information is important because you might need to warn the user or avoid the operation. Such a situation might occur when a client application needs to fill a drop-down list with all the members from a dimension level. Or a user might expand a node in a dimension's tree representation that causes the retrieval of more than 1000 members. Or a dimension level could contain more than 1 million members.
One way to circumvent such a problem is to use MDX queries instead of schema rowset calls to fetch dimension members and to surround the MDX query with a subset function to limit the number of members the query returns, as the following example shows:
SELECT subset( Customers.Name.Members, 0, 5000 ) ON columns FROM Sales
You might also use a schema rowset function to retrieve the members. But if your application might have to deal with many members, using an MDX query with a subset function is safer.
Default Isolation Mode. You use this property in write-back cubes, but using this property has performance implications in nonwrite-back implementations. When the Default Isolation Mode is set to true, PivotTable Service isolates the cache contents in a single query. PivotTable Service flushes the cache before a query starts, then fills the cache with the results before retrieving them so that every read of a cell returns the same value. You want to make sure that subsequent reads of the same query results don't change because of other users' writes, even if the underlying cube changes because other users write new values. However, you do want to receive other users' updates, so PivotTable Service flushes the cache between queries.
If Default Isolation Mode is set to false, PivotTable Service preserves the cache between queries. But when the cache exceeds its available memory, PivotTable Service flushes a portion of the cache and might not preserve the read integrity of the current query.
A side effect of this property is that it can improve performance when a query executes remotely on the server. PivotTable Service retrieves and locks in memory the cell values in the query result, which reduces the number of round-trips to the server.
Client Cache Size. This property controls how much client memory is available as a PivotTable Service cache. You can set the value as a percentage of available memory or as a fixed number of kilobytes. For details about the setting, see SQL Server Books Online (BOL).
You should know a couple of things about the PivotTable Service cache. First, the cache is database-specific. As long as you keep the OLE DB property for the current database constant, the cache can grow. However, if you change the current database, PivotTable Service will flush the cache. Also, when PivotTable Service runs out of cache memory, it will try to flush from the cache all the information associated with cubes other than the one you're accessing. If the cube your query is accessing is a virtual cube, then PivotTable Service might flush the cache memory of one of the underlying base cubes before another base cube, thus disrupting the data.
Second, if you have the Client Cache Size property set even a little smaller than the total amount of memory required for the current query, you can destroy the performance of the cache. In such a situation, if the Default Isolation Mode is set to false, then PivotTable Service reads in the cell values during the query execution and the cell retrieval steps, which causes PivotTable Service to constantly flush the cache and make extra round-trips to the server.
Finally, you need to understand how PivotTable Service makes requests to the server and stores them in the cache. PivotTable Service has a query-optimization component that predicts the cell values that a query needs to retrieve from the server. This query-optimization component creates cell value requests to the server that contain two pieces of information: One is a tuple (a particular cell in the cube), and the other is the distance (in dimension levels) to retrieve descendants from that tuple for each dimension in the cube. The server returns the non-NULL cell values in that slice of the cube.
PivotTable Service caches both the server request and the result. Later, when PivotTable Service checks a new cell reference against the cache, it first determines whether the new cell reference is within the bounds of any of the cached server requests. If the reference is within these bounds, PivotTable Service checks the cell value cache. If no cell value is in the cache, then PivotTable Service knows the value is NULL because it stores only non-NULL values.
You have an advantage when you understand the inner workings of each software component you use. Knowing how to set the execution location, large-level threshold, isolation mode, and cache size properties is useful when you're trying to optimize the performance of queries running against cubes larger than 500MB or when you're trying to minimize query time in a cube to improve usability or scalability. I hope some of the details about PivotTable Service that I provide can help you in your next Analysis Services implementation. Thanks to Cristian Petculescu from Microsoft's Analysis Services development team for providing much of the information in this column.


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$1.3M surplus may soften school cuts
During a budget workshop last Thursday, the School Committee began the task of finding $3.4 million worth of cuts it must make in order to balance the budget after learning the approved city allocation fell short of the committee's request.
Although the City Council added $437,000 to Mayor Scott Avedisian's budget proposal, for a total school budget of $157.2 million, it's still $3.4 million short of what the School Committee approved in May. There's some sunshine for the committee as there's the possibility of a $1.3 million surplus in the fiscal year ending June 30 lessening the blow.
During the workshop, Chief Budget Officer Anthony Ferrucci explained the district's 40 budget managers went over their budgets and developed a list of areas to cut, starting with the least impact to students and leading up to the highest priority areas.
"Those items of the highest priority are listed last," Ferrucci said, referring to a handout provided at the meeting with a breakdown of potential cuts. "It is our recommendation to re-seed the last items on the list, first in FY 2014 when/if funds become available."
The list starts with the additional $437,832 in revenue received from the city; an additional $70,000 is reduced as a result of correcting a reporting error that had the salary of the summer school principal at $75,000 instead of $7,500; another $135,000 can be shaved due to the purchase of a math textbook series coming in under budget.
Initially, Ferrucci said, there was $100,000 in the line item for textbooks for FY13, which would be used to purchase books for grades 4 and 5 only, and the remainder of the books would be purchased with funds from the FY14 budget but because the department was able to identify set-aside funds, the full series was purchased in the FY13 budget, resulting in another $515,000 being reduced from FY14.
Since taking over as the superintendent of schools, Dr. Richard D'Agostino has vacated his previous position as director of special education. That position will continue to be left vacant for a $150,000 savings.
Ferrucci said another area the department can realize savings without affecting students or programs is in reduced costs in gas and heating oil, as the current price per gallon is down from what was projected in January 2013.
"We had budgeted $4 per gallon for gas and fuel, but we're looking to lock in $3 to $3.25 per gallon," he said, which results in a $200,000 savings.
The next $290,000 in savings comes from 10 percent cuts across the board in the following three areas: purchase services ($110,000), supplies ($80,000) and equipment ($100,000). Ferrucci said an additional $255,576 can be saved by eliminating operating losses in the food service area.
"The district has been experiencing operational losses of $175,000 to $200,000 in food vendor [services] over the years," he said. "We have an opportunity to bring in a new company to increase participation, reduce food costs and do anything else to achieve a balanced budget."
Ferrucci said the next $1 million in cuts would heavily impact students, as 10 certified staff positions would be laid off, resulting in the loss of some programs. When asked which programs would be affected, he said he can't comment on it at the moment, as the matter was discussed in executive session prior to the public portion of Thursday's meeting but added that information will be presented at the July 16 monthly meeting.
Continuing his presentation, Ferrucci said the final round of $800,000 worth of cuts would continue to negatively impact students. Cuts would include: $50,000 in music/arts equipment; $50,000 (10 percent) in technology-related hardware; $150,000 in transportation by eliminating two buses and increasing walking distances to state maximums and stopping the pick-up/drop-off at day care centers not on the bus route; and 10 percent cuts in both interscholastic sports ($90,000) and extra curricular activities ($10,000).
Ferrucci said he hopes to save an additional $50,000 in charter school tuition reductions and $150,000 in special education out-of-district tuition reductions, while bringing in an additional $15,000 in revenue by increasing tuition payments for summer school. He said another $45,000 would be saved by limiting outside groups' access to school property, thereby reducing event overtime costs.
Cutting professional development services will save $40,000, and further cuts in interscholastic sports and extra curricular activities would also need to be sustained, again 10 percent in each, saving another $90,000 and $10,000, respectively. The final $50,000 needed to balance the budget would come from the elimination of a new proposed half math position.
That's the bad news. However, Ferrucci said if a number of contingencies hold for the FY13 budget, which will soon be wrapped up, the school department could be looking at a potential $1.3 million surplus for FY13.
Ferrucci said $400,000 was set aside in contingency funding in the event the district was notified of any additional special education out-of-district tuition payments, which it must pay if it has any; $100,000 was set aside in contingency funding for litigation purposes; and $100,000 was set aside for contingencies in insurance premiums and office equipment repairs/replacements. If none of those contingencies are realized, and Ferrucci said it looks like everything will hold, that money will become surplus funds. In addition to the contingency funding, Ferrucci said he expects to realize $400,000 in savings in the salary/fringe benefits line item as a result of breakage and attrition with retirees, in which top step (most expensive) teachers retiring will be replaced with lower level teachers (less expensive). And in some cases, positions may not be replaced at all. On top of all that, Ferrucci said if each of the 40 budget managers could save between $5,000 and $10,000 in their budgets, it would result in an additional $200,000 to $400,000 in savings.
Although the final numbers aren't yet in, Ferrucci said, "It wouldn't surprise me if each budget manager was able to save $5,000 to $8,000, which could mean an additional $200,000 to $300,000."
Ferrucci said $600,000 of any surplus is already earmarked to re-seed stipends and substitutes for professional development, but he hopes the remainder of the surplus would be enough to cover $800,000 of the proposed budget cuts, thereby restoring the highest priority areas with the most impact to students and programs.
"We're trying our best to keep the line and keep things transparent," D'Agostino said, following Ferrucci's presentation. "We need to examine what we're doing and how we're doing it, and the long term facilities planning committee is important to that, with declining enrollment and finances."
Although any realized surplus funds are planned to be used to re-seed as many cut items as possible, Ferrucci warned the school department can't continue relying on surplus to plug budget holes.
"If we rely on surplus next year, we'll be back in the same boat in February/March for 2014-15," he said.
The School Committee is scheduled to vote on budget cuts at the July 16 monthly meeting at Pilgrim High School.
Please save a great program, ALAP. It is a minimal cost and a great service to our many students who need additional instruction they are not getting in the classroom. Cutting the program will only save about $150K (The cost of the average administrator position). Transportation was outsourced 2 years ago and we still have a director of transportation. Why?


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PORTLAND TIMBERS vs LA GALAXY
JELD-WEN FIELD, Portland, Ore.
July 13, 2013 (WEEK 20, MLS Game #183)
8 p.m. PT (NBC SN)
Their long undefeated streak finally put to an end, the Portland Timbers now face a huge match in the Western Conference when they play host to the LA Galaxy on Saturday evening at Jeld-Wen Field. The Timbers lost for the first time since early March last weekend, falling 1-0 to the Columbus Crew on the road. The Galaxy have won back-to-back games in impressive fashion, taking a 2-0 home win against FC Dallas last weekend.
REFEREE: Baldomero Toledo. AR1 (bench): Corey Rockwell; AR2 (opposite): Kermit Quisenberry; 4th: Alejandro Mariscal
MLS Career: 156 games; FC/gm: 25.0; Y/gm: 3.4; R: 53; pens: 60
DISABLED LIST: none
SUSPENDED: POR: Pa Modou Kah (through July 14)
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: POR: Ben Zemanski
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: POR: Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Will Johnson, Pa Modou Kah, Diego Chara … LA: Marcelo Sarvas
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: POR: Will Johnson (CAN), Rodney Wallace (CAN), Frederic Piquionne (MTQ) … LA: Landon Donovan (USA)
ALL-TIME (5 meetings): Timbers 1 win, 7 goals … Galaxy 4 wins, 12 goals … Ties 1
AT PORTLAND (3 meetings): Timbers 1 wins, 6 goals … Galaxy 1 win, 5 goals … Ties 0
FUTURE MATCH: 9/29: Portland Timbers vs. LA Galaxy, 12:30 p.m. PT (NBC)
- The teams are meeting for the second time this season. They reached a scoreless draw June 19 at StubHub Center.
- Portland's lone victory in six all-time meetings between the teams came in 2011 at Jeld-Wen Field.
- The Galaxy are 3-0-1 all-time in the series in Carson, having outscored the Timbers 7-1.
- Coaches record: Bruce Arena vs. POR: P6 W4 L1 D1 … Caleb Porter vs. LA: P1 W0 L0 D1
- There were few chances to score in the contest. Galaxy fullback Sean Franklin came closest when he hit the post.
- Timbers goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts was called upon to make four saves, as was Galaxy goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini.
- LA GALAXY (4-1-3-2): Carlo Cudicini - Sean Franklin, Tommy Meyer, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant - Rafael Garcia (Pablo Mastroeni 91+) - Robbie Rogers (Colin Clark 69), Juninho (Hector Jimenez 93+), Gyasi Zardes - Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane
- PORTLAND TIMBERS (4-2-3-1): Donovan Ricketts - Ryan Miller, Pa Modou Kah, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Michael Harrington - Diego Chara, Will Johnson - Kalif Alhassan (Sal Zizzo 88), Diego Valeri (Frederic Piquionne 67), Darlington Nagbe - Ryan Johnson (Ben Zemanski 81).
The LA Galaxy made two wins in a row, getting a pair of late goals for a 2-0 win against FC Dallas on Sunday evening at StubHub Center. The Galaxy are in a tie for third place in the Western Conference with 30 points from 18 matches.
- The Galaxy finished off the match with two second-half goals. In the 65th minute, Robbie Keane took a long pass from Omar Gonzalez on the left flank, got to the byeline and chipped in a ball that found Marcelo Sarvas running nearly parallel to the goal for the simple finish.
- The second came with 10 minutes to play. Robbie Rogers, from the byeline to the left of goal, sent the ball into the center of the box where Hector Jimenez slotted home first-time.
- Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made no changes to the team that claimed a 2-1 win against the Columbus Crew at StubHub Center.
- LA GALAXY (4-4-2): Carlo Cudicini - Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant - Hector Jimenez (Colin Clark 81), Marcelo Sarvas (Pablo Mastroeni 88), Juninho (Rafael Garcia 90), Robbie Rogers - Robbie Keane, Gyasi Zardes.
- The Galaxy have put together back-to-back league victories for just the second time this season, after defeating Kansas City and Real Salt Lake on April 20 and 27.
- "Tonight was one of our better games on the year," said Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena after the game. "… We are starting to now have close to our first group together, which has been close to impossible the whole year. So, I think we are beginning to see signs of becoming a better team."
- Robbie Keane continued his remarkable run. He recorded his second two-assist game in the last three contests; he now leads MLS with eight assists.
- "I like setting up goals so it's always pleasant. I think the position where I play I like to score goals but I think certainly I also like to set up goals as well," said Keane.
- Keane has two goals and four assists over the last three games; in just 11 league games this season, Keane has seven goals and eight assists.
- "Robbie is the leader of our team, he is our captain. He is arguably our best player. Robbie has a great head on his shoulders; he's a very competitive person," said Arena. "He took a blow in a game against Columbus on Thursday and he was a last-minute decision whether he could play tonight and you can see that he's the last guy that's not going to play. He'd have to be in real bad shape not to play. So, his competitiveness, his hunger to play and to win is contagious. Besides, his quality, his leadership is critical. Tonight he showed the team that this game was important and he wanted to win and he was there."
- Robbie Rogers made his fifth consecutive start and played the full 90 minutes for the first time since signing with the Galaxy, also contributing his first assist of the season.
- "[It] was his best performance since he's been here. … It takes a while, and I think his fitness looked real good, and the last, I'd say, 60 minutes tonight were real good," Arena said. "A little unlucky: The one header he had looked like a goal to me, [and] there was another shot they saved off the line. He was a little unlucky there, but he's in good positions, his width at times is real good."
- Marcelo Sarvas scored his third goal of the season, his second over the last three matches. The three goals are a new single-season career high in MLS for Sarvas.
- "Marcelo's been great in the last few games and totally deserves that goal. He's been doing well. Full credit to him, he's been one of our best performers in the last month or so," said Keane. Added Arena: "We've gotten more out of Marcelo and [Juninho] over the last three games getting into the attack."
- Hector Jimenez made a second consecutive start with Landon Donovan away with the U.S. national team and scored his third goal of the season, his second in the last three games.
- "I've just got to be probably more consistent and make it harder on Bruce to decide whether I should play or not," Jimenez said. "I've just got to keep building on what's going on right now and take advantage of the time Landon's gone."
The Portland Timbers saw their undefeated streak put to an end after 15 games, falling 1-0 to the Columbus Crew on Sunday afternoon at Crew Stadium. The Timbers are in a tie for third place in the Western Conference with 30 points from 18 matches.
- The Crew took the lead in the fifth minute. Federico Higuaín flighted in a corner kick from the left and Bernardo Añor powered a header inside the near post from the top of the goal area.
- The Timbers' bad start was made worse when center back Pa Modou Kah earned a red card and conceded a penalty after committing a foul on Crew forward Aaron Schoenfeld in the box. But Higuaín pulled the spot kick outside the left post.
- Timbers head coach Caleb Porter made four changes to the team that took a 3-0 win against the Colorado Rapids at Jeld-Wen Field. Michael Harrington came into the back four for Ryan Miller, and Ben Zemanski, Kalif Alhassan and Ryan Johnson replaced national team campaigners Will Johnson, Rodney Wallace and Frederic Piquionne.
- PORTLAND TIMBERS (4-2-3-1): Donovan Ricketts - Jack Jewsbury, Pa Modou Kah (ejected 11), Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Michael Harrington (Michael Nanchoff 82) - Diego Chara, Ben Zemanski - Kalif Alhassan (Mamadou Danso 13), Diego Valeri, Darlington Nagbe - Ryan Johnson (Jose Adolfo Valencia 66)
- The Timbers saw their undefeated streak come to an end after 15 games, tied for the fourth-longest in MLS history, and the second-longest within a single season (FC Dallas, 19 games, 2010).
- "It's not a bad thing to taste defeat, we haven't in 15 games. We've had a great run of results, and now that it's midseason, it's not all that bad to get bloodied and taste defeat. This team will respond positively from defeat, like good teams do, and I'm looking forward to seeing their response [this] week," said Timbers head coach Caleb Porter.
- It was the first loss for the Timbers since a 2-1 home defeat by Montréal on March 9, and just the second loss of the season for the club across 21 games in all competitions.
- "We're proud of the guys in terms of the way we battled back the last 75, 80 minutes a man down. To be quite honest, we had a lot of the ball and created a lot of chances for being a man down, and really, we kind of drove the game," said Jack Jewsbury. "From that aspect we're going to hold our heads high from the way we responded to an early goal, but we definitely have to start better than we did today."
- The Timbers allowed a goal in the opening 15 minutes of a game for the fourth time this season. They've conceded 10 goals in the opening half hour – tied for second-most in MLS (with San Jose, behind D.C. United's 14).
- "Ultimately, that first 13 minutes cost us the game," Porter said. "Absolutely admirable for our guys to play 80-plus minutes down a man – we didn't give up a goal and we had chances to level. I don't know that I've ever seen a team go that long down a man and not give up a goal; but we should have never been in that situation to begin with."
- The Timbers were also shut out at the attacking end for the second time in three games, after being blanked just once in their opening 15 league contests.
- "I thought overall our start to the game is what probably did us in. Yet, I think the next 80-plus minutes reinforced just how strong, tough and driven this team is. We had as much of the game as they did, even down a man. We had four or five chances that could've fell and earned us a point," said Porter.
- Pa Modou Kah was making his sixth consecutive start in central defense after joining the club, but will miss the LA match after seeing two yellow cards in the space of just 11 minutes. Futty Danso came on after Kah was sent off, his first league appearance since June 15.
- Michael Nanchoff made his MLS season debut, coming on for the final eight minutes in his home state, then was sent on loan to Swedish club Jönköpings Södra IF through the remainder of the MLS season.


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Here it is!! The latest Provocraft product release! A machine designed to cut gum paste and fondant for cake making! What a great home business cake making would be with this easy to use machine. It is designed so that it can be taken apart and cleaned, thus meeting health code standards. And, to make things even easier, Cricut has designed a Cake Basics cartridge that comes with the machine.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Provocraft to Produce Cake Decorating Cricut with Cartridge!
Here it is!! The latest Provocraft product release! A machine designed to cut gum paste and fondant for cake making! What a great home business cake making would be with this easy to use machine. It is designed so that it can be taken apart and cleaned, thus meeting health code standards. And, to make things even easier, Cricut has designed a Cake Basics cartridge that comes with the machine.
23 comments:
I'm not a cake maker but I do Love that Cartridge that is made for it! And I LOVE the RED COLOR! I wish it were available in the reg. Cricut!ReplyDelete
Even Cricut can't get me to start baking cakes! I hate baking! LOLReplyDelete
That is such a cool idea!ReplyDelete
Wow this sounds really cool but could you use it for both paper and sugar paste icing.ReplyDelete
I don't need the machine and I didn't think I would be interested in the cart, but there are actually some really great shapes and borders on their that could add a lot to our other carts.ReplyDelete
Interesting idea for a cake maker! Sounds great!ReplyDelete
TR-I've seen a red expression before. Can't remember where it's sold but I know they make a regular red expressionReplyDelete
- CynthiaJanuary 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM
This looks so fun! I'm not big into decorating cakes but using this would be fun! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Wow!! What will they come up with next!!ReplyDelete
Nice, who's going to bake the cake for me?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 4:06 PM
Like the cartridge, I'm just not into buying ANOTHER machine though but I can see that baker's would like it.ReplyDelete
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I do cake decorating occasionally (not enough to purchase this machine) but I must say it is really really neat. I do wonder, though, how someone could legally use this in a business?ReplyDelete
Oh wow! How cool is that?ReplyDelete
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The red regular cricut was available through Walmart on Black Friday. Not sure if they offer it still.ReplyDelete
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Not sure what happened to the other comment that I left, but here goes again. That cake cartridge looks like a lot of fun ahead.ReplyDelete
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Greensboro, N.C. - The Division III PING All-Region honorees have been announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Players across six regions - Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South, Great Lakes, Central and West - earned all-region honors for 2014.
Senior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) was named All-Northeast Region for the second consecutive season. Larkin posted a career-best 74.41 scoring average over 19 rounds this year. He captured his third Conference Championship at Bethpage Red to earn Skyline Player of the Year honors. In eight events played this fall, Larkin tallied six victories. He tied his school record round of 68 twice (FSC Skyline Invitational/LI Intercollegiate) and leaves Farmingdale State with a 76.1 career scoring average.
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The Gaillardias are one of the great glories of American wildflowers, carpeting whole landscapes to the horizon in the plains states and the west. The natives are the famous yellow and white pinwheel bi-colors. In our wildflower seed department, we sell the much-loved annual, Indian Blanket, and the native perennial as well, G. aristata, often called Blanket Flower.
But hybridizers are always anxious to improve native plants, no matter how beautiful they may be. And in this case, they have. Goblin is one of the oldest, and still probably the most popular hybrid, with very large flowers and a long bloom season.
Many other newer hybrids emphasize one color or the other--the red or the yellow. And in very recent years, even the flower form has changed. With Fanfare, we were introduced to Gaillardias with tubular ray petals, each one a miniature flaring trumpet. Now that form is expanded with the exciting new Commotion group. And the stunning new Dakota Reveille has turned the whole flower into a fluffy ball of petals.
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i'm the most flexible with all these pots as any good tea goes. currently using them more for catalytic purposes than to serve an absorb-tive role.Tead Off wrote: Very nice prizes! Tell us what you brew in each of them and why.
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The newest trialist hoping to impress the Colorado Rapids coaching staff is Honduran forward Walter 'Pery' Martinez, who joined the team in Tucson, Ariz. on Sunday night. Martinez, a forward on Honduras's 2010 World Cup squad, was most recently playing with Chongqing F.C. in China.
The 30-year-old made his professional debut with Honduran club Victoria in 2001, and also played with Vida and Marathón in his country before moving to Chinese first-division club Guoan in 2007. He also played with Spanish second-division side Deportivo Alavés and returned temporarily to Marathón in between his two stints at Guoan. At the 2010 World Cup, Martinez started against eventual champions, Spain, and came on as a substitute against Chile and Switzerland.
MORE: Rapids players arrive in Tucson for preseason matches
Also joining the Rapids in Tucson are Brenton Griffiths and Marcello Castro, two players selected by the Rapids in last week's MLS Supplemental Draft. The other two supplemental draftees, Machael David and Stefano Pinho, will join the team in Colorado after the Arizona portion of preseason.
The Rapids are participating in the Desert Friendlies, a preseason tournament presented by FC Tucson. Colorado will face the Portland Timbers on Tue., Jan. 29 (11 am MT), the Houston Dynamo on Thurs., Jan. 31 (6 pm MT), and the San Jose Earthquakes on Sat., Feb. 2 (11 MT). All training sessions and matches will be held at the Kino Sports Complex in Tucson.


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President, The Gallery Council, 2010–2014
When Mary Sue Jack, an assistant professor at UR's School of Nursing, decided to retire in 2002, her friends knew just what she should do with her newly acquired free time—join the Gallery Council.
One friend, Jane Labrum, sponsored her for Council membership. Another, Pam Foye, recruited her for one of the organization's biggest events, the Fine Craft Show. That major fundraiser, which she's now chairing for the third year, provided a perfect segue into her new job as Council president.
In addition to organizational skills, Jack brings enthusiasm and a fresh perspective to the presidency. "I'm really looking forward to the next two years," she says, noting that this exciting time will be filled with preparations for the Gallery's 100th anniversary. "I plan to follow the example of my predecessors in working collaboratively with MAG staff and enhancing communication with the Council membership."
Jack received her nursing degree from the University of Michigan, worked for a time in Colorado, where she completed her master's degree, returned to Ann Arbor to teach, and in 1979 came to the University of Rochester to earn her doctorate. It was here that she met her pediatrician husband, Richard Kreipe.
She admits that as president she may have to cut back on some of her other volunteer activities. But she'll continue making time for what she calls her "greatest passion"—riding her horse, Spot, a retired thoroughbred, as often as possible. She also enjoys gardening and quilting, and she's an accomplished knitter who has studied several years with Creative Workshop instructor Lynne Sherwood.
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Even as images of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings are fresh in America's conscious, a pro-gun group is sponsoring a promotion to give away 30 guns in 30 days for the month of April.
Technically, the U.S. Concealed Carry Association—publisher of Concealed Carry magazine—isn't giving away guns, but, it says, the exact dollar value of each gun that it posts daily on its website for the month of April. The group expects to give away about $20,000 to its members this month—whom it hopes will use the money to purchase guns.
"I'm very sorry about what happened at Sandy Hook," says Tim Schmidt, founder of group based in Jackson, Wis. "But if there were more responsibly armed citizens, this sort of thing wouldn't happen."
The move comes at a time President Obama is lobbying for gun legislation and when nine of 10 Americans say they support toughened background checks for gun ownership. With the topic of gun violence front-and-center in America, the timing of the public relations gambit is obvious—but it may be a bust, one public relations expert says.
"Good public relations is not just about getting coverage—which this certainly will," says Steve Barrett, editor in chief of PR Week, a trade publication. "Good PR is about furthering your brand's objective. And this certainly doesn't further the objective that gun owners are responsible."
Schmidt insists it's not a stunt. But his group's marketing director concedes it's a well-timed PR ploy. "To be honest, that's exactly what it is," Franklin Cole says. "We want to get the word out about the product we offer."
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That product includes a magazine that publishes eight times a year as well as a series of DVDs and videos that, Cole says, teach about responsible gun ownership. Revenue at the group's parent company, Delta Defense, topped $12 million last year, Schmidt says.
But some are abhorred.
"It's stunts like this that distract from what's really important," says Debra DeShong Reed, a spokeswoman from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Putting more guns out on the street is not the answer."
A spokesman at Sandy Hook Promise, the Newtown, Conn., community group formed in response to the Sandy Hook tragedy, declined to comment.
But Patrick Brown, a retired jockey from York, Pa., is tickled about winning $700 from the group this week. While he won't use the money to purchase firearms— since he already owns three—he plans to use some of it to buy additional ammunition for target practice.
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Review: Surly Troll
By Jon Pratt. Photos by Jon Pratt and Justin Steiner.
Surly has long been building simple, utilitarian, steel bikes designed to do their jobs without complaint, like the Moonlander, the Cross-Check, and the Long Haul Trucker. It's added another feather in its cap with the introduction of the Troll, a 26-inch-wheeled, off-road touring bike designed for a multitude of tasks: touring, commuting, mountain biking, hauling, and just about anything else you can think of.
The Troll is based on Surly's 1×1 singlespeed frame, and adds rack and fender bosses, a derailleur hanger, a spot for anchoring a Rohloff hub, and holes for Surly or B.O.B. trailer mounts. You can choose to run the chromoly fork, included in the complete bike build, or throw on your own 100mm suspension fork.
Initially, I set the Troll up with fenders and a Surly rear rack to commute to work and run errands around my neighborhood. On short trips to the store it did well smooth and capable of hauling everything I needed it to. On my 12-mile pavement commute, the stock 2.3 Kenda Kiniption tires slowed me down noticeably. I did, however, enjoy the view from a more upright cockpit thanks to the swept-back Surly Open Bar handlebars.
I had the opportunity to see how the Troll would do as a touring machine on our rail-trail trip to Washington, D.C. Expecting the worst—it was March and the 345-mile off-road route can get interesting with precipitation—I threw on a Surly front rack and a set of knobbier tires. The Troll weighed 39lbs. before loading any gear, and it topped out at 94lbs. when all was said and done. So, off we went.
The Troll did pretty well on this tour. Shimano Deore front and rear derailleurs dealt with the shifting demands under the heavy load without a whimper. The saddle wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world, but it held its own. I did experience noticeable flex in the handlebars and some flex in the frame. While I may have been a little over-sensitive to the frame flex, the handlebars just didn't stand up to the job. Along with their lack of stiffness, they didn't provide enough comfortable hand positions for a long haul.
And while I enjoyed the 26-inch wheels around town and on some off-road shortcuts between destinations, I would have rather had 29-inch wheels on tour. Those touring in foreign parts may prefer 26-inch though, since 700c wheels, tires, and tubes can be scarce outside the U.S.
My experiences with loaded bike touring have taught me that how you set up your racks and disperse the weight is very important to your overall comfort and the bike's performance. The upright riding position of the Troll means more of the rider's weight is carried by the rear wheel, so the front rack needs to carry enough gear to offset this. While you're at it, make sure those racks are as low as possible, close to your wheels or fenders. Initially, I had my rear rack a bit too high and experienced some shimmying from the front end as a result. Low, balanced, and well-secured gear is the way to go.
I came away from my time with the Troll both loving its multi-purpose beauty and disliking its few shortcomings. Taking the good with the bad, the Troll succeeded in its do-it-all, burly goals, but fell a little short in its commuting and touring prowess. I'd recommend it for someone interested in light touring, or needing an urban utility vehicle. Three-year warranty on the frame, one year on all the Surly parts.
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- Age: 41
- Height: 5'11"
- Weight: 185lbs.
- Inseam: 32"
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- Price: $1,399
- Weight: 30.4lbs. (without pedals)
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Frostbike, for those unfamiliar with it, is distributor QBP's (Quality Bicycle Products) in-house tradeshow. It's not open to the public—only to a limited number of their dealers, and features small, simple booths featuring the brands that they distribute (not just BMX, but road, mountain, and everything bicycle in between). Attendees are treated to a couple of days of amazing food, drinks, floor time with shop owners/employees, tours of QBP's incredible facility, seminars, demos, and good times with QBP's ultra cool and super friendly employees. It might sound kinda dull if you're young and just want to ride your bike, but anyone who is into new products (who isn't?) and seeing different aspects of industry would enjoy it. And any BMX guys who brought their bike also get a chance to get some shred time in at the Fantasy Factory indoor ramp spot nearby.
At this year's show we saw new products, colorways, prototypes, and more from Odyssey, Stolen, Profile Racing, ODI, Deluxe, Maxxis, Volume, Demolition, FBM, Flybikes, Deco, Mutant Bikes, Tree Bicycle Co., The Shadow Conspiracy, and more. Check out the gallery for what was on display, who was manning the booths, and some basic info on everything. For more specific info on the goods, go to the links above. And to see these items, as well as everything QBP distributes, and find a QBP dealer near you, go to the QBMX homepage at qbpbmx.com.


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Oversized Sinks In The Kitchen & Bathroom
Last week I brought you Farmhouse Sink inspiration and I admitted that what initially attracted me to them was their oversized shape. I dream of the day that my sink won't be filled to the brim after only a few dishes.
It's a shame that the average house doesn't have an ample sized kitchen sink and luckily, there are so many different kinds that can be installed (with a little countertop modification, of course). Oversized sinks can be made out of poured cement, porcelain, marble or well, just about anything. The rustic look of an oversized poured cement sink will transport you back to that tropical vacation. It exudes a relaxed, rustic and romantic vibe that'll make you want to spend all of your time in the kitchen.
A more streamlined approach is marble or stainless steel. Those materials used in an oversized format will modernize the kitchen while still maintaining a slightly vintage feel. Of course, oversized vintage porcelain sinks are still alive and well if you aren't lucky enough to have one in your kitchen, they're easily found. White is the most popular, but how can you resist a powder blue oversized country sink?
• Rustic In Mallorca, French By Design
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CagePotato Roundtable #11: If You Could Fight Any MMA Fighter in the World, Who Would It Be?
Today on the CagePotato Roundtable, we're taking a trip through the magical world of make-believe! Which MMA fighter would you scrap with if reality was no object? Would it be a hated heel? A personal idol? An undersized Japanese lady who you might actually have a puncher's chance against? Joining us this week is Vince Mancini, the esteemed editor of FilmDrunk.com and occasional CP commenter. Follow his shit @FilmDrunk, and if you have a topic idea for a future Roundtable column, please send it to email@example.com.
Saying that I could fight any MMA fighter implies that I also have the option not to do so, and I would exercise that option. You see, I'm what scientists call "a pussy." I don't like my chances in a scrap against anyone, trained or not. In that way I'm kind of like the anti-Krazy Horse: I'll back down from men, women, children, retarded people…
But if I had to throw down with an MMA fighter of my choosing, it's going to be Bob Sapp, all day. The reasons are plentiful. As stated earlier, any trained fighter is going to wreck me, badly, so I'm certainly not going to pick someone smaller than me or a female — why give my detractors [friends] more to mock? No, I'm going to pick an intimidating juggernaut, and few fit that bill better than Bob Sapp. If I lose the fight — which is pretty much the only possibility — non-MMA fans [again, my friends] will look at pictures of him, then back at my unimposing frame, and accept the loss as a forgone conclusion while giving me eternal props for climbing into the cage with such a monstrosity.
Actual MMA fans tuning into the fight will already be expecting to see someone turtle-up and play dead before the first punch connects, so they won't be disappointed if I take a page out of "The Beast's" own playbook and hit the canvas prematurely. All of Sapp's recent battles have been farces, so at least no one will be expecting a real fight; I'd hate to disappoint the crowd.Read More DIGG THIS


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Tinariwen Win Uncut Music Award!
Tinariwen beat big names such as Kings of Leon and Bob Dylan, winning this year's Uncut Music Award.
The Mali band were the subject of a news story on our site last week, which included an interview where the band talks about their favourite amps, the Vox AC30 and the little Vox DA5.
Now, Tinariwen have beaten a strong competition which included Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan and Animal Collective, amongst others. and claimed the Uncut Music Award prize for their fourth album, 'Imidiwan: Companions'.
The award was decided by a judging panel including Uncut editor Allan Jones, Billy Bragg and Robin Pecknold of last year's winners Fleet Foxes. It was given to the artists who had, in the judges eyes, made the best album released in the past year.
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib of Tinariwen said: "This makes us really, really happy, all of us and I'm glad that this important magazine should recognise our music. It gives us the strength to carry on working and spreading the message about the peace of our desert home, and I'm glad that our music can cross the frontiers and talk to people around the world. Thanks very, very much."
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