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You Call That a Strike?!
Why does Major League Baseball use an outdated, misleading camera angle to show the batter and pitcher?
In the seventh inning of a recent game between the Red Sox and the Braves, Atlanta's Peter Moylan fired a two-strike fastball to Kevin Youkilis. Although the home plate umpire called it a ball, Braves fans could've been forgiven for thinking the pitch nipped the outside corner. Viewers in Boston, however, knew the ump made the right call.
This difference of opinion wasn't the result of home-team favoritism. Rather, it stemmed from differences in the local television broadcasts. The Red Sox telecast on NESN is one of only three in Major League Baseball that places its main camera directly behind the pitcher in straightaway center field. The other 27 clubs, including the Braves, put the camera off-center, about 10 to 15 degrees toward left field. That offset angle means the vast majority of baseball fans get a skewed sense of the pitcher-hitter confrontation, the matchup at the very heart of baseball. For fans of the Braves and most other teams, judging balls and strikes is a matter of guesswork.
To understand the problem with baseball's canonical camera angle, consider the perspective of players sitting in the dugout. Aside from cues like the movement of the catcher's glove, coaches and benchwarmers lack the proper angle to judge a pitch's path. (Of course, that's never stopped managers from expressing their opinions.) Fans at home get a better look than the guys in the dugout, but it's a flawed one just the same. Since the offset angle positions our eyes 15 degrees off-center, you need to factor in that angle to figure out whether a pitch really crossed the plate. Unfortunately, most fans don't watch baseball with a protractor next to the remote.
For a demonstration of the superiority of the dead-center camera, take a look at these side-by-side videos of Peter Moylan's fastball. The Braves feed (offset camera) is on the left; the Red Sox feed (dead-center camera) is on the right. The offset angle gives a skewed sense of the pitch's true path. With the straight-on view, the real location—just off the outside edge of the plate—is obvious.
Along with distorting location, the classic, off-center camera also fouls up baseball watchers' sense of movement. Take a look at this slider thrown by New York Mets lefthander Pedro Feliciano. In the off-center Mets broadcast (seen on the left), Feliciano's breaking ball looks like it starts behind the batter and sweeps across several feet to reach the outside corner. Cardinals fans, who watched the pitch from the dead-center angle, saw the pitch's real arc—Feliciano has a good slider but not an otherworldly one.
Sports fans' view of the national pastime has been distorted for more than half a century. Though accounts vary, many trace the advent of the offset center-field camera to the 1950s, when legendary producer Harry Coyle used it on NBC's Game of the Week broadcasts. According to his New York Times obituary, Coyle got the idea for the center-field camera after seeing a game in which the umpire stood behind the pitcher's mound rather than over the catcher's shoulder.
Before Coyle's innovation, most baseball telecasts were shot from high above home plate, looking down at the infield. Upon its introduction, the center-field cam became the status quo. With few exceptions, it has always been offset into left field and only slightly elevated—around 10 to 30 feet—above field level. At this height, it's necessary to position the camera off-center to prevent the pitcher from blocking our view of the hitter and catcher. Fans at home see the pitcher on the left side of the screen and the batter on the right side.
Why wasn't the camera placed higher back in TV's early days so an offset angle wouldn't be necessary? The contemporary TV producers I spoke with guessed that it probably came down to the expense of building a platform tall enough to make a dead-center camera feasible. To prevent the pitcher and catcher from occupying the same space on screen, the camera needs to be at least 45 feet above the field. Consider the added physical labor and potential complications that come with rigging cameras and wiring at that height, and it's easy to see why baseball broadcasters of yore would prefer the low-rise setup.
In recent years, at least three broadcasters have decided that the dead-center camera is worth the trouble. Tom Mee, who directs Cardinals telecasts for Fox Sports Midwest, says he decided to ditch the offset view in 2006 when the team's video coach showed him the difference between the two angles. The Red Sox went dead-center midway through last year at the behest of team owner John Henry. The Twins also switched last summer on an experimental basis and have since decided to keep the setup when they move into a new stadium next year. Minnesota color analyst Bert Blyleven is a fan of the new view, saying the camera makes it easier for him to convey the game's subtleties, like the tail of a fastball or a pitcher's positioning on the rubber. "As an analyst, you're an educator," he says. "Having the camera directly over the pitcher gives the fan at home a better perspective of what pitching is and the game within the game."
If the dead-center view is so much better, why hasn't it become the game's new standard? For one, it isn't infallible. Although it gives a much better sense of where a pitch lands horizontally, it makes it harder to judge height—a pitch that appears to be belt high might actually be above the letters.
According to baseball's TV gurus, the bigger impediment is a lack of stadium infrastructure. In 2001, ESPN introduced the angle for its Sunday Night Baseball telecasts. The network had to take some extraordinary measures to install the needed equipment. At Pittsburgh's PNC Park, producers had to bring in a temporary scissors lift to get the shot. At the old Yankee Stadium, they used the roof of a building across the street. The result: vastly different elevations in different stadiums, all at a considerable expense.
ESPN scrapped the dead-center cam after slightly more than a year. (Fox has used the dead-center shot on national broadcasts of Cardinals games this season, but its Red Sox broadcasts—and those for every other team—have used the offset angle. TBS, the sport's other national broadcaster, has never used a dead-center camera.) Matt Sandulli, who produces baseball telecasts for ESPN, says that despite the extra cost and extra effort, the network probably would've kept the camera "if there was a way to get the angle uniform" in every major league ballpark. As of right now, that's not possible. In Oakland, Calif., a wall of luxury boxes precludes placing a dead-center camera. The Crown Vision center field scoreboard provides a similar obstruction in Kansas City. In Denver, the "Rock Pile" bleacher seats make installing a dead-center camera a "seat-kill," in producer parlance. Other stadiums have advertising signage where a camera would be placed.
There are also television folk who believe that the offset shot is simply better. Tom Adza, who directs Oakland A's telecasts for Fox Sports Bay Area, says the old-fashioned viewpoint offers a more intimate view of the game. "When ESPN started doing [the dead-center shot], the distance from the top of the pitcher's head to the plate was fairly great sometimes," he says. "It was a really wide shot with a lot of dead space. As a viewer, you're kind of looking at it going, I feel the need to be closer. The offset shot is more compact and fits the screen beautifully."
Adza does concede that "for a fan who wants to see live whether it's a ball or a strike, there's no question the dead-center is better. It's kind of a strange thing. In sports TV, we've spent so much money to get better looks at what's happening in a game. But here we show thousands of baseball games on TV every year, and we're not showing the angle that gives the most exact information."
Some clubs' telecasts, such as those for the New York Mets and Tampa Bay Rays, use the offset camera for live action and the dead-center look for close replays—a compromise that bows to baseball tradition yet acknowledges that the new-school angle offers the best view of balls and strikes. Other producers told me that the introduction of pitch-tracking technology, in which pitch location is charted using an on-screen strike zone, obviates the need for the dead-center angle.
That argument doesn't really wash: Seeing a dot's location within a rectangle isn't the same as seeing the real thing. More than anything else, the continued prevalence of the offset angle reflects baseball's reigning philosophy: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. "People don't like change, it's as simple as that," says Marc Garda, the Pittsburgh Pirates' director of broadcasting. But contrary to Garda's assertion, teams that have switched to the dead-center angle say reviews have been positive. Joel Feld, executive producer for Red Sox games at NESN, says the team has "had really great feedback."
Since the 1950s, baseball fans have seen the sport change in countless ways. Even as artificial turf, the designated hitter, and interleague play arrived on the scene, the manner in which we see the game has remained pretty much the same. The omnipresent center-field camera lends baseball a comforting familiarity. It also gives viewers a false sense of how the game works. Red Sox, Cardinals, and Twins fans shouldn't be the only ones who have the privilege of telling a strike from a ball. Come on, baseball pooh-bahs: Get rid of all those stadium obstructions and make the dead-center camera universal. After all, isn't it time the sport embraced reality?


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The hottest topic in corporate computing is IT governance. Before you yawn and turn to a more exciting article, pause for a moment to consider just what IT governance is, and why it is important.
Like most terms in the computer industry, "IT governance" has no standard definition. It evolved from "corporate governance", which is a concept that has been around for a while and gained greater prominence from the many well-publicised corporate scandals we witnessed around the world in recent years.
Corporate governance simply means the process of properly managing a corporation, by sticking to certain rules and procedures that ensure fairness and transparency. IT governance is the same thing, applied to the IT function within an organisation.
IT management is a discipline. It's not just about technology. That's important, but it's only part of it. It's also about managing people, and about managing processes. Most of all, it's about aligning the organisation's IT goals with its business goals and is the Holy Grail of corporate IT.
I have lost count of the number of conferences I attended on this theme or a near variation of it, or the number of articles I have read (and written) on the subject, or of the number of products and methodologies that claim to aid the process. And that, with all the hype stripped away, is just what IT governance is. It is a formalisation of the management processes that ensure the IT function in an organisation support and are aligned to the business function.
Several methodologies have come into existence to help IT managers structure and formalise the IT management process. The two most commonly used are CoBIT and ITIL.
CoBIT (Control Objectives for Information Technology) is owned and developed by the US-based Information Systems Audit and Control Association (isaca.org). The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) originated in Britain, where it grew out of the government's desire to develop a common framework for auditing the IT function of its many agencies.
ITIL has grown into a multi-volume framework describing best practice (what an overused term) in IT management. It is widely used in Australia, but as with any methodology, it is also widely abused.
Last week one of the world's leading IT specialists, British management consultant Malcolm Fry, visited Australia to talk about the many pitfalls organisations encounter when trying to implement ITIL. He was brought to Australia by BMC, one of many systems management companies that have developed products for IT governance as the concept has become more popular.
Mr Fry has a list of the top 10 reasons why ITIL is unsuccessful. He admits the number is a little arbitrary, and in my conversation with him he added five more.
At the top of the list is a lack of management commitment. Listen to anybody talk about factors for success in IT, and the necessity of getting senior management on-side is always near the top of the list. IT projects need to be seen to have the endorsement of the people at the top of the organisation, or turf wars and politics will virtually guarantee its failure. Not only does the IT department have to be committed, so does the business - echoes of alignment again.
Other factors Mr Fry mentions are people spending too much time on complicated process diagrams without actually doing anything, not creating proper instructions, rules and definitions, and concentrating too much on abstract performance measures while ignoring processes and quality.
Perhaps the biggest problem, says Mr Fry, is that people fail to understand that ITIL, and IT governance, is not a project but a continuing progression.
"ITIL is not the ending, it's a beginning," Mr Fry says. "It's a blend of technology, process and people. Many organisations don't understand that ITIL is about developing a mindset and a way of doing things, rather than a project with a beginning and an end."
ITIL and IT governance conferences are all the rage at the moment, a sure sign of the trendiness of the concept. But that does not mean it is a flash in the pan. IT governance, by what ever name we wish to call it, is always with us. Its current popularity as an issue is simply the latest incarnation of a challenge that has been with us since corporate computing began, and which will remain with us for as long as corporate computing lasts.
How do we best manage the IT function in organisations, and ensure it most efficiently supports the organisation's business objectives?
That is what IT management is all about.
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Why IT governance fails
· Lack of management commitment.
· Too much time devoted to complicated process diagrams.
· Not creating written work instructions and not assigning process owners.
· Roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined and that includes management.
· Concentrating on performance criteria and not quality.
· Trying to implement too many processes at once.
· Failing to maintain momentum.
· Allowing departments to claim sole ownership of a process.
· Ignoring solutions other than ITIL.
· Ignoring the rest of the ITIL framework.
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The Gulf Cartel, which is in battle with its former paramilitary group the Zetas, has lost much of its power over the last few years and might be looking to shore up its drug transit routes in the U.S. by creating ties with the white supremacist group.
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Russell D. Feingold (born 2 March 1953) US politician, Senator from Wisconsin. The Senator was mentioned as a possible candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
Speeches and Statements[edit]
Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge[edit]
- Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.
USA-PATRIOT Act[edit]
- Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America.
- I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.
- Senate Statement on the USA-PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Deal, 2006-02-09.
On America[edit]
- Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both — and we can if we try — we have failed.
Executive Power[edit]
- This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors.
- On the President's Warrantless Wiretapping Program. "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," 12 Mar 2006
- We, as a Congress, have to stand up to a president who acts like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on September 11.
- On the President's Warrantless Wiretapping Program. "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," 12 Mar 2006
- Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.
- On the President's Warrantless Wiretapping Program. The Nation, 12 Feb 2006)
- How is that worthy of applause? Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? In that moment at the State of the Union, I felt ashamed.
- The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.
On The War in Iraq[edit]
- The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.
- It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.
- How many times are we going let George Bush and Dick Cheney say, 'You guys don't support the troops. You're not patriotic,' and let them push us around? We have to stand up to them.
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2006-03-23 in The La Crosse Tribune
- I don't care, whatever political considerations I have are absolutely irrelevant to the decisions I make having to do with people's civil liberties and something as weighty as Americans risking their lives overseas. The day that I start think politically about those things is the day I should leave politics. --(In response to the claim that his stands on civil liberties may hurt his chances with moderate Democrats and conservatives.
- Wisconsin State Journal 2005-12-24 madison.com)
- Some say 'we've got it made … let's not rock the boat,' but I believe that's exactly how we lost in 2002 and 2004. We won't win by default. We won't win by just running out the clock. We'll only win if we show we are willing to discuss tough subjects or else we will be perceived as weak and full of fear.
- The Boston Globe 2006-06-03
- The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.
- The Boston Globe 2006-06-03
Free Trade/Fair Trade[edit]
- I strongly disagree with the President's characterization today of NAFTA as a "success", and with his call on Congress to pass CAFTA this year. These comments are out of touch with American businesses and workers who have been forced to compete on an uneven playing field for years under bad deals like NAFTA.
- Senate Statement 03/23/2005
- I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.
- Senate Statement 06/30/2005
- I voted against NAFTA, GATT, and Permanent Most Favored Nation status for China, in great part because I felt they were bad deals for Wisconsin businesses and Wisconsin workers. At the time I voted against those agreements, I thought they would result in lost jobs for my state. But, Mr. President, even as an opponent of those trade agreements, I had no idea just how bad things would be.
- Senate Statement 06/30/2005
- One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities--places like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay--lost thousands of jobs as a result of those trade policies, most notably NAFTA and permanent most-favored-nation status for China.
- Senate Statement 06/30/2005
- This trade agreement fails on every count. I urge my colleagues to scrap it and tell the administration to come back with a deal that is fair to American businesses, workers and farmers, as well as the small businesses, workers and farmers of our trading partners.
- Senate Statement 06/30/2005
Web Logs[edit]
- Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.
- On the web log myDD.com, March 10, 2005
- We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.
- Regarding web logs. 2005-03-10. myDD.com
- The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just bypass two branches of government, and obey only those laws he wants to obey.
- Sen. Feingold's dailykos.com Blog Entry on Executive Power. [2006-02-02] dailykos.com
- It's time to stand up - not to cheer, but to fight back.
- Sen Feingold's dailykos.com Blog Entry on Executive Power. [2006-02-02] dailykos.com
About Russ Feingold[edit]
- It's that mix of passion and pragmatism that Feingold hopes will appeal to Democratic voters looking for a fresh-faced truth-teller come 2008. Feingold's career has been defined by his crusader nature, but it's his skills as a conciliator -- with conviction -- that may be most important for his hopes of capturing his party's nomination.
- Chris Cillzza The Washington Post Politics Blog, June 2006
- I can't see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can't even see straight.
- Molly Ivins The Progressive, March 2006
- That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.
- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2005-03-23
- The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.
- William Greider The Nation, March 2006
- Amid scandals in high places, Senator Feingold is fresh air. The country should rise up and sing.
- William Greider The Nation, March 2006
- [Feingold] showed that a politician need not shelve his conscience to achieve success.
- "A Principled Win," The Washington Post, November 5, 1998
- It's looking like he's omniscient or a mind reader.
- Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, in The Chicago Tribune
- The nation needs more leaders similar to Feingold - a Democrat in the Wisconsin Progressive Party tradition - who don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
- "When Wis.Talks, Feingold Listens," The Wausau Daily Herald, June3, 2001
- Feingold shows a knack for thinking through issues on a case-by-case basis instead of marching in a partisan parade.
- "Feingold Sets the Bar a Little Higher," The Door County Advocate, June 28, 2002
- Feingold won big after voting against the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts, and having cast the lone vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act.
- Chicago Tribune
- In fact it was at the Rockingham County event that he got something no other potential presidential candidate - Republican or Democrat - has received: a lengthy standing ovation just in the middle of his introduction.
- [O]ne of the most independent members of Congress
- Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the question of whether a nation founded in revolt against monarchy will be ruled by laws or by the crude whims of an intemperate sovereign and his out-of-control administration.
- Senator Feingold was right about the dangers when the Senate first passed the Patriot Act, and he has remained true to his cause. I stand with him today as I should have the first time.
- Sen. Robert Byrd. San Jose Mercury News, 28 Feb 2006
- Russ Feingold is one of our best - he is very smart, very hardworking and very independent. If he irritates some of his colleagues from time to time, I think sometimes all of us do.
- The New Republic recently dubbed Feingold 'The Hillary Slayer'; Vogue called him 'The Man of the Moment'; and he is a favorite on liberal blogs like Daily Kos.


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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry says "we are part of the way there" in finding those responsible for the Boston bombing and bringing them to justice.
He says the Obama administration is determined now to finish the job.
Speaking to reporters Friday at the State Department, Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, declined to comment on the ongoing investigation or the suspects' background from a Russian region near Chechnya.
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This is a little compilation of what I refer to as "Good Stuff." I have primarily done this b/c I keep losing posts that I found useful in the past and I wanted one place where I could find all of them. I would like to give a deep thanks to all the people who have supplied the information in the links below. You know who you are and I'm sure you all already know how great you are.
Please note that some of these posts will cross-link to each other. For example, the first pulling guide has links to the third and fouth pulling guides.
1. New Player: Links to General Information
2. More guides for the new and not so new player
3. Thief Video Library
4. Thief Linkshells
Getting Started
1. Vryali's Guide to Thief 1-75
2. Astika's Guide-levels 1-15
3. Hobodoug's Guide for THF 1-30
4. Starting in Bastok: Vicktur's Thief 1-25
5. Starting in Sandy I~~Starting in Sandy II
After Sneak and Before Trick
1. Problems with stealing hate
2. Phraust's thoughts on stealing hate
3. Going to Khazam
SATA before Assassin
1. Leachman's Sticky:Sneak Attack/Trick Attack + Weapon Skill Guide
2. Being Tricked On-for the nonthiefs looking to be good party members
3. Trix are for Kids
4. How to Nail a Paladin to a Cross... Basic/Advanced Hate Control
5. SATA and Pulling
6. Using SATA prior to pulling
7. Explaining SATA to a party
8. Archain: Hide+SATA Guide 1~~Archain: Hide+SATA Guide 2
1. DelennFFXI Assassin Analysis
2. Sammeh: Assassin Reviewed
3. Assassin Discussion
1. Accomplice/Collaborator
What should I merit for thief?
Alternative Levelling in a Party
1. AmbroseOdin's Levelling Guide
2. Tech's Guide to Alternative Levelling Areas
3. MysteryTour Levelling Guide
4. Allakhazam's Levelling Guide
5. Levels 73-75: Xping at Uleguerand Range
6. Levelling 73+
7. Levelling in the Near East
Alternative Levelling Solo
1. Soloing in Burburimu
2. Soloing Khazam I~~Soloing Khazam II~~Soloing Khazam III
3. Climhazard's Thf/Bst Soloing~~Climhazard's Update
4. BartelX's Q lvl 72+ Quick Guide to Soloing
1. Thf/War vs. Thf/Nin
2. Subjob Discussion 1
3. Subjob Discussion 2
4. Thf/Nin vs. Thf/Rng
5. Jrunk's Thf/Rng~~Thf/Rng
6. Thf/rng vs. Thf/war Parse & Discussion
7. Thf/Mnk 1~~Thf/Mnk 2~~Thf/Mnk 3
8. Thf/Drk
Please note that most /nin debates include advantages of exploiting the tp floor. After the April 2006 update, the tp floor no longer exists. Percent tp gained per hit continually decreases with lower delay weapons rather can giving a 5% regardless at some lower limit. No 4.5% is not a new tp floor either. There is no tp floor. There are still advantages in tp gain for ninja, but be aware that some of the tp gain arguments are not as strong as they once were.
TP Information (post-patch)
1. TP Gain for Dagger Combos*Good data and explanations
2. Dual Wield Reduction vs Haste (DelennFFXI on Supponami)
1. Beginner's Guide to Pulling
2. Tips for pulling
3. Warrior's Pulling Guide
4. Timing your pulls
5. Phraust's Pulling Motto
Hate and Related Things
1. Enmity and Aggro: Implications in Pulling and Tanking
2. GrumpyWookie: Hate Basics
Food and so much more...
1. Thief's Toolbox
2. MenaceTHIEF's Bag-o-Trick's for the Thief with a Crossbow
3. Somepage Food List
4. Sushi Guide for a Thief
5. Ninja Tools
Skill Chains
1. Aden's Renkei Chart
2. DestinySeekers Skill Chain Chart
3. Skill Chain Chart-IGN FFXI Vault
4. DranoK's Skill Chain Calculator
5. Barlorn's Skill Chain Generator
6. Help! Lessons on Skill Chains starring Myihta
These skill chain charts and generators may not be completely accurate. Aden's Skill Chain Chart is the most trusted across the allakhazam forums. However, it may be easier for a new (or not so new) player to use one of the other charts or to use a skill chain generator. Do not feel dumb because you have difficulty with skill chains. They can be confusing. Use whatever resource necessary to help you understand them and incorporate them into your party.
Specific Weaponskill Information
1. Archain: Weaponskill Modifiers
2. Sharkbite & Martial Knife by TSP
3. Dancing Edge 1~~Dancing Edge 2
4. Screenshots:Evisceration~~Sharkbite&Dancing Edge
5. Club:True Strike~~Judgement
Combat Skills and Related Information
1. Skill Cap Chart
2. Weapon Skill Calculator
Skilling-up Combat Skills
1. Archain:Lvling Ranged Weapons 1~~Archain:Lvling Ranged Weapons 2
2. Archain: Skill-up Locations
3. Skill-up Chart 1~~Skill-up Chart 2
4. Rdm Skill-up Guide
5. Evasion
General Equipment Information
1. ReiAyanami's Equipment Guide
2. Equipment Suggestions for Levels 1-30
3. Equipment Guide for the Thf/Rng
4. End Game Equipment Sets
5. Rare/Ex Thf Equipement
6. Daggers: Lvls 68-75 Post Dagger Update
How To Obtain Guides: Specific Equipment Items
1. Guide to obtaining Thief AF
2. TaeraIfrit: How to get your Hornetneedle 101
3. Astika: Odqan and the Bravo's Subligar
4. Thief's Kote: How to Obtain
5. Thief's Knife I~~Thief's Knife II
6. Mercurial Kris
7. Key Belt
General Equipment Stats: Dex vs Str vs Attack
1. RVW: Impact Ratio of Stats on WS
2. Stat Discussions 1
3. Stat Discussion 2
4. LockeJV: Attack/Defense on IT Abraxas (formulas and numbers galore)
5. LockeJV: Evasion Caps
6. Upgraded Dagger List (Post July 2006)
Useful Macros
1. Shamaya's Thief Macro Guide
2.Equipment Change Macro How-To Guide
3. Equipment Change Macros Specific
4. Excellent Macro Guide from Warrior Forum
5. Recast, Sneak+Trick, Hide
Treasure Hunter
1. Treasure Hunter Links
Picking Chests and Coffers
1. Rayel's Sticky: Lockpicking Tips
2. Chest and Coffer Contents-A Listing
3. Archain: Picking Coffers for Non-thief-job's AF?
1. Stealing Guide Consolidated
2. Tech's Guide to Stealing
3. Mystery Tour Website
Maat Mashing
1. Second by Second Guide
2. Meepein's Maat Guide
3. LockeJV's Maat Guide
A Thief in BCNMS, Promyvians, and Other Fun Stuff
1. PsiChi's CoP Chapter 1 as Thf/Rng
2. Thief in Promyvian? Take 1~~Thief in Promyvian? Take 2
3. THF in CoP-Tips for all Missions
7. Pulling Strings ENM 60 I~~Pulling Strings ENM 60 II
8. Thief in Ballista~~Thief in Ballista 2
Thoughts on thieves by the non-thieves
Whm Forum~~Blm Forum~~Rdm Forum
Pld Forum~~War Forum
Farming/Money Making
1. Farming Suggestions
2. Thief's Guide to Farming
3. Guide to Money Making in Windy for the Young Thief
4. Questing for Gil
Technical Tidbits
1. Japanese Site Translator 1~~Japanese Site Translator 2
2. JP's Guide to Video and Screenshots
3. FFXI Log Parser~~How to use Spyle's Parser
4. Kalia's ParserNEW!
5. FFXI Timer for Palm
I have not tried any parser because I'm not smart enough to figure them out. Spyle's parser used to be fairly heavily used although I have heard it is broken. Several people on this board recommend Kalia's parser. It reportedly is not broken (big plus!), operates well in laggy places, and the screenshots of it look purdy. I am not responsible if either causes the destruction of your computer, pets, friends, family, city, state, and country. Have a nice day. :)
I have purposely left out a lot of information for endgame stuffs. This is because I don't like deciding what good links for things I haven't experienced. Math also gives me a headache so sometimes I ignore it even when I shouldn't. Therefore, if you feel certain that particular links are excellent than I will gladly add them. Just remind me I'm a dork and that should listen to the wiser cooler thieves out there.
If you would a like a subject added to this thread (even if you don't know the exact link or links), please post a request in this thread. Thanks.
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Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) Officer Robert Clark took the stand and discussed with Assistant District Attorney Barrett Thomas how he picked up Mr. Childers following his violation of parole with a warrant.The arrest had nothing to do with the allegation of male on male sexual assault which took place on or around Aug. 15, 2010, but Mr. Clark stated that Mr. Childers began to offer information on the incident, though the officer never asked. Because Mr. Clark wasn't interrogating Mr. Childers, he was never given his Miranda rights.The defense attorney, Paul Hanneman, was given a copy of the report from Mr. Clark. The officer noted that the meeting was not video recorded and only knew of Mr. Childers' involvement in the case.Judge Harrison then ruled that the interaction and information given to Mr. Clark by Mr. Childers on Sept. 10, 2010 would be admissible because it was given voluntarily. The jury then entered the courtroom, and for a majority of the day — even leading into the afternoon hours — the nine-woman, three-man jury heard the testimony of the victim, a 29-year-old male from Sweetwater.The District Attorney began the questioning by having the victim recall the night in question, how he partied and drank with friends and went to Club Phoenix, also known as the Cafe, to continue drinking. He was dropped off, alone, and upon entering he stated that two Hispanic females warned him not to go inside because a group of people had a plan to beat him up.As a result, he walked around outside the club and continued drinking with people he says he didn't know. He entered a red car with two people inside and following that event, he said he didn't remember much because he drank until he passed out.The next thing the victim remembered was waking up on another street in a gold car, wearing nothing from his waist down. A male was in the front seat, and when the victim asked what happened, the male told him not to leave. The male then left the victim in the car, who eventually pulled up his shorts — though he could not find his boxers. He stumbled a bit but eventually he walked out of the car and toward a friend's house.His plan was to get a gun from his friend and kill whoever he saw, but when two of his friends weren't at home, the victim walked to another friend's house, a female — Amanda Seals, who was taking care of her young daughter. He drank a beer and before he could drink another one, Ms. Seals asked the victim what happened and informed him that there was blood on the back of his shirt and shorts.Ms. Seals dropped the victim off at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital in Sweetwater to be checked out, where he saw his sister, her husband and SPD officer Sam Cunningham. He was then taken by Mr. Cunningham to Abilene for the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) examination and was hospitalized for a few days. He then stayed with his sister for further recovery.The state then entered six pieces of evidence which the jury saw: a picture of the car the victim woke up in, a picture of the victim's bruised face, the picture of the blood stains on the victim's clothing while in Abilene, and the articles of clothing — his shirt, shorts and boxers which were later found.The victim stated that he didn't remember seeing Mr. Childers at the Cafe and he never consented to having sex with Mr. Childers in any way. He did not know him before the night in question, and was unable to say exactly when the assault occurred.Starting between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., Mr. Hanneman began his cross-examination of the victim. The victim was asked about the night in question, leading up to his meetings with law enforcement. Most of the questioning, however, was based on two pieces of evidence entered by the defense an hour into cross-examination which continued until the noontime lunch recess. The first was the typed and sworn statement from the victim with SPD officer Sam Cunningham, which was read aloud to the jury; the second piece of evidence was the victim's written statement made prior to visiting with Mr. Cunningham. He stated that no one helped him prepare his personal statement.The defense asked the victim about his statements, pulling a number of excerpts and asking the victim if he remembered making them. Some statements were recalled, while he stated that he did not remember others. The victim stated that because of the timing — over a year had passed — and the trauma associated with the event, he did not remember his statements. He also noted that he tries to put the incident out of his mind and behind him. Though the questioning was bringing the case up again, he did not remember some of his statements.Mr. Hanneman noted that the victim had been in fights before with Hispanics and African-Americans, trying to cast doubt on the fact that the victim was a peaceful man. The victim stated that he is peaceful when he is not drunk, but typically gets into fights when intoxicated. He also stated that after the incident, he went back to the Cafe one more time.Following the lunch recess, three issues were brought outside of the jury's presence. One regarded the victim's rap sheet with two charges the defense wanted to bring before the court; the first was not allowed while the second objection was sustained.The other two regarded the issue of past sexual orientation and behavior of the victim, which was deemed as not relevant and excluded. The state also asked for an excerpt of the video of the victim's interview with SPD officer Sam Cunningham to be excluded which also dealt with his sexual orientation and behavior. During the video, the particular section was muted in sound.With the jury brought in, the video was shown of the victim's interview with Mr. Cunningham — which spanned around a hour and 25 minutes — recapping the night of Aug. 14, 2011 leading into the morning of Aug. 15, 2011 from the victim's perspective.The victim took the stand after the video to answer more questions from Mr. Hanneman, including a recent fight from the previous weekend. The victim stated he was drunk but remembered getting in the altercation, making the defense question his memory from both events. After the attorneys met privately for 15 minutes, they met in the courtroom for further questioning of the victim. He stated that he doesn't remember things when he's drunk but will do things while drinking though unintentional.Ms. Reed asked one more set of questions to the victim, in which he stated that he was unsure of who committed the crime against him during his interview with Mr. Cunningham or when talking to his sister. He also reiterated that he did not consent because he was unconscious and then the state entered a black shirt from the scene — not belonging to the victim — into evidence.Shortly after 4 p.m., the state called their next witness, Keri Halford, a registered nurse in the emergency room at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital. She recalled seeing the victim in the waiting room crying, anxious, upset and pacing in the room.Ms. Halford did a medical exam — in which the victim remained fully clothed — and found the stain on the back of the victim's shorts. When she asked what happened, she was told that he had been raped, only asking basic questions before handing the case over to law enforcement. She recommended that the victim be taken to Abilene for the SANE exam and was transferred without receiving any head scans. Ms. Halford noted that while she didn't remember the smell of alcohol on the victim, he did tell her that he had been drinking the night before.The defense questioned Ms. Halford on her credentials and also on how she was able to determine the emotional symptoms of a sexual assault victim (upset and crying), questioning if the victim's emotional state would be similar to a car accident victim.Mr. Hanneman asked about the statements made by the victim to Ms. Halford and about the pain the victim said he felt, and about being told by the victim he used marijuana on the night of the incident.She didn't take any blood or urine samples, but the state later noted through Ms. Halford's testimony that those collections were not required. She was shown the state's evidence of the photo of the victim's shorts and noted that while she had never dealt with a male-on-male sexual assault before, she believed the victim's statements based upon what she saw.After 4:30 p.m., the final witness of the day was called. Susanne Butts, the Abilene nurse who administered the SANE exam on the victim. She discussed her education, training in performing the exam and recertification for the exam.She also broke down the procedure of the SANE exam, which includes collecting the clothing, a head-to-toe exam and collecting medical history and evidence and taking photos, all of which she did with the victim. Ms. Butts read the account given to her by the victim and then the state entered two pieces of evidence, both being diagrams with notes of the victim's injuries on his body.One diagram was the entire body, while the other was of the penetrated area. The evidence was presented to the jury, and Ms. Butts discussed about how she collect evidence, which included debris and mentioned the steps taken in collecting evidence from a male. The SANE box kit was also entered into evidence by the state.The defense entered in two pieces of evidence which were pictures of the abrasions found of the victim from the incident. They were presented to the jury and Mr. Hanneman asked Ms. Butts about the photos and what and how she inspected and collected the evidence.It was noted that some fecal matter was found in the area, which was normal though not much was found. Ms. Butts testified for the state that she had so much concern for the victim that she called in a physician for further examination, and later discussed the fact that there were no defensive wounds on the victim because of his unconsciousness during the act.The defense then entered five more pieces of evidence — pictures of the victim, and reviewed the report. It was recorded by Ms. Butts that the number of assailants was unknown because the victim didn't recall. Mr. Hanneman also asked about each injury that was marked and recorded and also if the victim had been penetrated but stated she didn't know.Around 5:15 p.m., the court went into recess for the day. Testimony resumed this morning, Nov. 9, 2011 starting at 9 a.m.


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Gamers would seem a natural fit for 3D.
But the vidgame industry is lagging way behind its theatrical counterparts in the embrace of immersive technology. Wednesday at the 3D Gaming Summit, videogame pros and film folk weighed the gap, offering mostly bullish projections about the future of 3D in both mediums.
The two-day confab is presented in association with Variety.
3D videogames have been hindered by that old chicken-and-egg problem: Publishers are hesitant to develop programming until demand for the technology exists. And 3D TVs that can play these games are just coming to market in America.
Not surprisingly, there's a lot of confusion about the hardware needed to play the games.
During a morning presentation, Michael Cai, VP of videogame research for Interpret, shared sobering results from a mid-April survey of 1,400 U.S. consumers that showed misperceptions about 3D TV and glasses, among other things. Those that had tried 3D gaming mostly liked it, although they didn't all love the glasses.
Consumers were far more knowledgeable about 3D movies, which makes sense given they are much more widely available. In fact, "general awareness of 3D is primarily driven by theatrical," Cai said.
The greatest barrier to 3D gaming? It's too expensive. After all, one videogame pro noted, it's a lot less expensive to pony up a few extra bucks for a 3D screening than to buy a new TV and glasses.
On the other hand, there's no group more naturally predisposed toward 3D programming than gamers.
"Certainly, gamers are immersed in technology and ready to embrace new things," said Frank Vitz, senior art director at Electronic Arts. Joshua Glazer, co-founder and chief technology officer of Naked Sky Entertainment, which published "Star Trek: DAC," agreed. "The gamers don't usually have to be convinced they need (technology). They'll just buy it because it's cool."
Already, videogame pros said, there has been a change in perception about the viability of 3D gaming due to the extraordinary box office success of "Avatar." James Cameron's monster hit loomed large over the summit.
"Resident Evil: Afterlife" director Paul W.S. Anderson told the crowd he decided to shoot the sequel in 3D after Cameron shared early footage of "Avatar" with him. Anderson, a filmmaker with one foot in film and the other in the vidgame world, hadn't been sure the technology had developed sufficiently.
Now he's an evangelist for the immersive technology. "It's hugely exciting for me as a filmmaker," he said. "It's the talkies just came in."
There was no escaping Cameron's role in 3D at this confab: Producers referred to the before- and after-"Avatar" effect on awareness about immersive tech. A 3D marketing company proudly displayed a glittering poster of the movie in the hallway of the Universal Hilton. And actor-videogame producer Reuben Langdon told the crowd, almost in passing, that he worked on the movie for two years as a stand-in for Jake Sully's character.
What 3D gaming really needs, vidgame writer Flint Dille suggested, is an "Avatar" of its own. "3D is here, and it's going to stay," he said, proclaiming the technology is good for film and vidgames. According to him, the only question remaining is this: "What's going to be the big game-play breakthrough in 3D?"


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text: UPDATED: Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act Staff and wire reports June 25. 2013 6:07PM WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gutted a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 to end a century of attempts by former slave-holding states to block blacks from voting. In a 5-4 ruling with the court's conservatives in the majority, the justices ruled that Congress had used obsolete reasoning in continuing to force nine states, mainly in the South, to get federal approval for voting rule changes affecting blacks and other minorities. The ruling comes just four months after New Hampshire was removed from the list of affected states in a March 1 decision by a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C., acting on the recommendation of the U.S. Attorney General. Opponents of the Voting Rights Act had intervened to oppose the removal of New Hampshire from the list, fearing that Attorney General Eric Holder, in defending the act, would make the case that a proper remedy could be found on a state-by-state basis. New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner said after the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that New Hampshire should have never been included in the list of states under federal supervision for election law, and that the state never submitted its election law changes to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval since the state was added to the list in 1970. "Over the years we did not pre-clear our laws, and I think they (the Justice Department) never did anything about it because they did not want to get into it," Gardner said. "It was an embarrassment that they had New Hampshire on the list if you look at the details. There was a logical explanation for every town they cited with low turnout that had nothing to do with race." The Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling in favor of officials from Shelby County, Ala., declared invalid a section of the law that set a formula to determine which states need federal approval to change voting laws. President Barack Obama quickly called on Congress to pass a new law to ensure equal access to voting polls for all. "I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision today," Obama, the first black U.S. president, said in a statement, adding that the court's action "upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent." Gardner said if a new Voting Rights Act is passed to comply with the Supreme Court's decision, he doubts New Hampshire will again be ensnared in the law. "If it's based on voter turnout in the presidential election years, we'll be fine," he said. "We had the third highest turnout in the country last November and have been at the top for turnout over the last several elections." Burden on Congress Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling upended important legal protections for minority voters that were a key achievement of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s led by Martin Luther King Jr. The decision also placed the burden on Congress to pass any new voting rights law like the one sought by Obama. Writing for the majority, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said the coverage formula that Congress used when it most recently re-authorized the law in 2006 should have been updated. "Congress did not use the record it compiled to shape a coverage formula grounded in current conditions," he wrote. "It instead re-enacted a formula based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day." The coverage formula therefore violates the sovereignty of the affected states under the U.S. Constitution, Roberts said. One of the most closely watched disputes of the court's current term, the case centers on the civil rights-era law that broadly prohibited poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures that prevented blacks from voting. In the 1960s, such laws existed throughout the country but were more prevalent in the South with its legacy of slavery. New Hampshire had a literacy test on the books back in the 1960s that attracted the attention of federal authorities, along with low turnout in 10 towns, most of which Gardner attributed to students who were counted in the population but, "didn't vote back then like they do today." The Shelby County challengers said the kind of systematic obstruction that once warranted treating the South differently is over and the screening provision should be struck down. The Obama administration, backed by civil rights advocates, had argued that the provision was still needed to deter voter discrimination. The ruling is a heavy blow for civil rights advocates, who believe the loss of that section of the law could lead to an increase in attempts to deter minorities from voting. They said 31 proposals made by covered jurisdictions to modify election laws had been blocked by the Justice Department under Section 5 of the law since the measure was re-enacted in 2006. Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, accused the Supreme Court of leaving "millions of minority voters without the mechanism that has allowed them to stop voting discrimination before it occurs." Senate action promised Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, on Tuesday pledged to move quickly to try to restore voting rights protections after the ruling. "I intend to take immediate action to ensure that we will have a strong and reconstituted Voting Rights Act that protects against racial discrimination in voting," Leahy said. The court, split on ideological lines, did not go so far as to strike down the core Section 5 of the law, known as the preclearance provision, which requires certain states to get approval from the Justice Department or a federal court before making election-law changes. But the majority did invalidate Section 4b of the act, which set the formula for states covered by Section 5 and was based on historic patterns of discrimination against minority voters. Although Section 5 is technically left intact, it is effectively nullified, at least for the near future, as Congress would now need to pass new legislation setting a new formula before it can be applied again. In her dissenting opinion on behalf of the liberal wing of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Section 5 is now "immobilized." Ginsburg read a summary of her dissent from the bench, quoting the late civil rights leader King. In her written opinion, she accused Roberts of downplaying the authority Congress has under amendments to the Constitution that were enacted after the U.S. Civil War when slavery was first prohibited, but concerns remained about how former Confederate states would treat black people. Congress approached the 2006 re-authorization "with great care and seriousness," she added. "The same cannot be said of the court's opinion today." Section 5 of the law required certain states, mainly in the South, to show that any proposed election-law change does not discriminate against black, Latino or other minority voters. The nine fully covered states were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Part of law remains intact Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York said of the ruling: "Make no mistake about it, this is a back door way to gut the Voting Rights Act. As long as Republicans have a majority in the House and Democrats don't have 60 votes in the Senate, there will be no preclearance." "It is confounding that after decades of progress on voting rights, which have become part of the American fabric, the Supreme Court would tear it asunder," Schumer added. Tuesday's ruling leaves intact Section 2 of the act, which broadly prohibits intentional discrimination in the voting arena. The Justice Department will still be able to intervene to enforce the law in that respect. The issue of voting rights remains prominent in the United States. During the 2012 presidential election campaign, judges nationwide heard challenges to new voter identification laws and redrawn voting districts. The most restrictive moves ended up being blocked before the November elections. Just last week, the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona state law that required people registering to vote in federal elections to show proof of citizenship, a victory for activists who said it discouraged Native Americans and Latinos from voting. Democrats say that and similar measures, championed by Republicans at the state level, were intended to make it more difficult for certain voters who tend to vote Democratic to cast ballots. Courts Elections Breaking News


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