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KitchenAid® Stand Mixer Ice Cream Maker Attachment
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- Summary
Use with your KitchenAid mixer to prepare ice cream parlor treats at home – it's easy with this accessory. The rotating dasher and insulated freezer bowl attach to your mixer, whipping up 2 quarts of velvety-smooth frozen dessert in just 20–30 minutes.
- Produces 2 qt. of soft-consistency ice cream in 20–30 minutes; for firmer consistency, store ice cream in freezer for 2–4 hours.
- Double-walled metal freeze bowl filled with specially formulated liquid to ensure uniform freezing; plastic housing.
- Plastic dasher/churning paddle mixes and scrapes ice cream batter.
- Drive assembly attaches to motor head and drives dasher.
- Bowl adapter ring attaches to bottom of freeze bowl to fit select tilt-head model mixers.
- For homemade ice cream at a moment's notice, store the bowl in your freezer.
- Dimensions & More Info
- 12" x 9 1/2" x 7" high.
- 2-qt. cap.
- 5 lb. 11 oz.
- Made in USA.
- Use & Care
- Freeze bowl for a minimum of 15 hours before use, or store bowl in freezer to keep it ready for use anytime.
- Do not store ice cream in freeze bowl in freezer.
- Dasher, drive assembly and bowl adapter ring are dishwasher safe.
- Allow freeze bowl to reach room temperature before hand-washing; thoroughly dry before returning bowl to freezer.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by karen from Doesn't work I bought this for my mother for Mother's Day and it basically doesn't work!. The dasher and the adapter for the mixing rod don't fit together well at all. The whole thing freezes up immediately when I pore the custard into the bowl.Date published: 2018-07-18Rated 5 out of 5 by Mrunner from Best used with a ice cream cookbook! I bought the machine this week as I love ice cream and received some ice cream cookbooks. It worked great on my kitchen aid artisan mixer. I also have a mini and it did not fit althought someone in the store said it would. both my cookbooks recommend this is the a second best to the cuisart machine. The reason some prefer this machine took cuisart as it is lighter ice cream. Reading a ton about ice cream lately I've learned it's very scientific. I read some bad reviews and wonder if it's the recipies as oppose to he machine. Invest in a good book such as Jeni's or the art and science of the scoop if you want to really give ice cream a try!Date published: 2017-07-10Rated 5 out of 5 by meemaws from Who wants icecream! Love, love, love it! I've researched icecream makers, styles, prices for awhile. The sale price and free shipping is what cemented my decision. Also my love for Kitchen Aid!!!Date published: 2017-01-17Rated 1 out of 5 by Carolburn from Don't bother! I bought this ice cream maker , stored it in the original box with Styrofoam for protection, only took it out a couple of times. Put it in a very cold freezer for a few days , made ice cream only a couple of times. It still sprang a small leak. Never will I buy this maker. Kitchen aid would not take it back. Very disappointed with product and Kitchen aid.Date published: 2017-01-15Rated 4 out of 5 by PRaphael from Works well, but your freezer has to be COLD A lot of reviewers say that this doesn't work. They need a freezer thermometer. Before buying this, check your freezer. Ideally, the freezer ahould be -5°F or colder. 0° is OK. +5°F is pushing it. If you can turn the temp lower, do so and check again in 24 hours. If you can't get the temp below 5°F, don't consider this product (or any other freezer bowl machine). You either need a new freezer or a compressor-driven ice cream maker. This attachment works best with 1 qt or less mix. If your freezer is cold, and you're using a good recipe, you can freeze the ice cream in 15 minutes. This is very good for a home machine. You have to spend a LOT to do better. Fast freezing is important for texture, not because I'm impatient. It could be better. Professional machines have metal dashers that use spring tension to scrape the sides of the canister. This uses plastic that fits quite imprecisely. The ice cream quality would be improved if KA made a better dasher.Date published: 2017-01-14Rated 1 out of 5 by erictigger from Didn't make ice cream Bought this for a Christmas present and put the bowl in freezer for 4 days. Made basic vanilla recipe and chilled in fridge. Attaching to machine was easy as I'd expect from KitchenAid but even with frozen bowl and chilled mix, it hadn't frozen being mild slush stage in 45 minutes of stirring. Freezer was on coldest setting in a bottom freezer drawer fridge and mix cooled. Hoped the 1 star reviews were bowls not frozen, etc. Our old crank unit with ice and salt worked better. Heck, two ziplock bags with mix in inner bag and ice and salt in outer bag works better. Also, you either have to plan days ahead for ice cream or take up freezer space with an empty bowl.Date published: 2017-01-03Rated 3 out of 5 by NancyML from Is this an older model? Would I recommend? Yes, I would recommend, with reservations. When you get it installed correctly, this ice cream attachment works well. It's tough to get the drive mechanism centered exactly on the motor head and requires constant monitoring so the drive mechanism doesn't slip off the dasher. The drive mechanism delivered is not the one that KitchenAid currently shows on their webside, so I'm not certain what we received from Williams-Sonoma is the latest, greatest version. The beefier drive mechanism is pictured above on the 4th photo, on the dark green mixer. What I received is a far less substantial mechanism (as shown on the 1st, 3rd & 5th photos) than the KitchenAid site describes. The instruction book I received is dated 8/2013. The leaks described by many owners haven't appeared yet. However, I always let the unit thaw completely (usually overnight, sitting on a kitchen towel) before hand washing, drying, and replacing in the freezer. Fingers crossed, it will live a long, healthy life.Date published: 2016-09-15Rated 5 out of 5 by lreale from Effective and Easy to Use I've had great success with this product. It works every time and seems to work faster than some of the ice cream makers my friends have. Make sure to set your freezer to the coldest setting and do not use until it doesn't slush around inside anymore.Date published: 2016-08-16
Does this fit a Pro 500 bowl-lift mixer?Hi RGB83, Yes, this will fit the Pro 500 Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer.Date published: 2019-06-08
Will this fit my 7 quart mixer? Ive used one that doesntHi BravoBaker, The Ice Cream Maker Attachment will fit on the 7 quart model stand mixers.Date published: 2019-04-06
1. What is the model number of this attachment ? 2. Is it compatible with Artisan models ?Hi Yzma, The model # is: KICA0WH and is compatible with KitchenAid household stand mixers 4.5 quart and larger.Date published: 2019-01-20


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The thought of next week's season-opening Australian Grand Prix helped Jenson Button push his body through the pain barrier as he prepared for a new Formula One challenge as McLaren's leader on the track.india Updated: Mar 08, 2013 19:25 IST
The thought of next week's season-opening Australian Grand Prix helped Jenson Button push his body through the pain barrier as he prepared for a new Formula One challenge as McLaren's leader on the track.
The aim remains the same but the landscape has changed. Lewis Hamilton has moved to Mercedes, Mexican hotshot Sergio 'Checo' Perez has taken the 2008 world champion's place and Button has his best chance yet of adding a second title to the one he won with Brawn GP in 2009.
Now the most experienced driver on the starting grid, having made his debut in 2000, the 33-year-old Briton has made sure he is fitter than ever as he seeks to win in Melbourne for the fourth time in five years.
"You do put in the extra bit of effort through the winter and because I've been training for so many years now, it does all add up," he told Reuters on a recent visit to the McLaren factory.
"The amount of hours that I do now I wouldn't have been able to do four years ago. Physically it would have been too demanding on the body. My body is used to it now so you can put more time into it.
"But it's not just about the physical training over the winter, its about the mental training and putting yourself through all sorts."
Button - looking 'chiselled' in the words of McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale - said a half marathon he ran in Cannes on the French Riviera on a freezing day in February had been one of the most painful things he had ever done but the rewards would come on the racetrack.
"The way that I got to the end of it was to think about the first race of the season, being prepared for that first race and being mentally prepared, not feeling the pressure, feeling comfortable within myself and within the team," he said.
"That's what keeps you going and I think when I got to the end of the race the strength that I'd gained through doing that exercise mentally and physically will help so much when I arrive at the first race."
Hot rod
When Button joined McLaren at the end of 2009, there were plenty who said he had made the wrong move and was stepping into a 'Lions' Den' where Hamilton was seen as the favourite son.
Over their three years together, Button ended up out-scoring Hamilton. Hamilton was usually quicker, particularly in qualifying, but Button was often smarter in the race.
The boot is now on the other foot, with Button very much at home as the incumbent while 23-year-old Perez must learn the ropes and show that he deserves to be in what should be one of the best cars on the grid.
Button, whose smooth driving skills and intelligence have won new admirers since he joined McLaren, will be looking to lay down an early marker against a team mate who has said repeatedly that he is aiming for the championship right from the start.
McLaren, who have always spoken of their drivers as equal number ones, expect him to show that attitude right from the first race and are not paying Perez to settle for any subordinate role.
"Of course when you are racing for McLaren you are expected to win and this is also my target," the Mexican said after his final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona.
"Sure, there is the need to prove myself but it is motivation rather than pressure that keeps me going. All the other guys that are in a top team have already proven themselves, this is something that I still have ahead of me."
Former McLaren driver John Watson, mindful of Hamilton's sensational 2007 debut when he ended the season second overall and ahead of double world champion team mate Fernando Alonso, said Button could have quite a challenge on his hands.
"Jenson now is the de facto number one driver in the team," he told Reuters.
"But as the senior driver and incumbent, he will have to now carry more responsibility than he would have done when he had Lewis as a partner.
"I thought Lewis was going to be dominant and he wasn't. But that was Jenson joining Lewis. Now Jenson has got Perez. It's never easy when you get a hot rod coming in, and Perez is a hot rod. How hot a rod he is we don't know yet."
Long game
The new McLaren MP4-28 was quick at times in testing but Button also felt the team was struggling to get the most out of what was a new design rather than a simple evolution.
The Briton, who won the first and last races of last season, was confident however that McLaren would benefit over the course of the championship.
"We wanted to build a car that would be strong throughout the year and that's why we've made so many changes to the way the car looks, the suspension geometry and how that affects the aerodynamics of the car among other things," he said.
"It's a very long season and we want to be able to develop all the way through the year. And whereas some teams might come with a car that they used in Brazil with a few tweaks to it, which means they will be strong at the first race, they won't be able to develop like us through the year.
"So that is the idea that we have but still we want to be quick at the first race, we want to win from the word go.
It's possibly going to be a tough race for everyone because it seems so close at the moment. But we still go to Melbourne aiming for a victory."
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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No Iris or Azaelas here yet, yours are nice!! What is that first flower?? I don't recognize it, it is lovely.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! That pink is just stunning.ReplyDelete
The Irises and Azaleas are blooming here, but it's too early for the Clematis still. We don't even have veggies in the ground yet. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Carol - As Nick notes, it is a clematis. Notice how it does not want to climb up a pole as it is supposed to, but prefers to "hug" the azalea. Tracy - I'm usually not a big fan of pink, but love the "blushy" pinks of the clematis and rose in these pictures. Nick - the irises have just started here. I think our clematis is an early one, because I haven't seen any others here, yet.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous flowers, Greta!ReplyDelete
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August 28, 2010Salmonella contamination. This infographic explains why intensive battery cage confinement increases Salmonella risk factors.
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October 12, 2009The argument that a vegetarian diet also causes animals to be killed is sometimes used as a defense of eating meat. According to my estimations, a vegan diet causes far fewer animals to be killed than a diet including meat, and we can remove the great majority of the suffering and death caused by what we eat simply by removing chickens and eggs from our diets. Enter below to see the interactive graphic and read about the results.
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My mother lived in a house in the Portuguese Bend Club, in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA from the early sixties until last year. At her wake we hosted at the house last weekend, someone suggested her house may be an Eichler. It appears to have a lot of the features I've been seeing on the Eichler site. How would I find out for sure? Thank you.
I follow and sell mid-century modern homes. For example I sold a Neutra on Sweetbay in Portuguese Bend. You can send me a private email at email@example.com and share the address of your folk's home so I can research for you.


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This Buckingham summerhouse is a beautiful garden building. The front door features full Georgian glazing as well as ornate handles and antique hinges. To the front is a Georgian bay window, there is also a top hung Georgian opening side window to ensure there is plenty of light within this summerhouse.
This summerhouse features many options for example, it is possible to choose a 2'6" or 4' veranda with your building. As standard the building features 12mm redwood shiplap cladding, however there are 19mm log lap and 18mm premier cladding options available. It is possible to order a mirror image of this building.
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Clean Harbors is buying Safety-Kleen in a cash deal as it looks to enter smaller markets and expand its waste treatment capabilities.
NORWELL — Clean Harbors is buying Safety-Kleen for $1.25 billion in cash as it looks to enter smaller markets and expand its waste treatment capabilities.
Safety-Kleen Inc. is a re-refiner and recycler of used oil and provides parts cleaning and environmental services. It collects approximately 200 million gallons of used oil annually, the majority of which it returns to the marketplace as reusable motor oil. The company's service fleet includes more than 2,300 vehicles and 1,000 rail cars.
Clean Harbors Inc., based in Norwell, provides environmental, energy and industrial services. It said Monday that it will be better able to penetrate small quantity waste generator markets and capitalize on increasing demand for recycled products after the acquisition.
Clean Harbors had a relationship with Safety-Kleen prior to the deal, having purchased its chemical services unit 10 years ago.
The Norwell company expects the acquisition to immediately add to its results, excluding one-time fees and acquisition-related expenses. It has received a financing commitment from Goldman Sachs Bank USA, but is currently considering several financing options that may include a combination of existing cash, debt and equity.
The deal, expected to close by year's end, still needs approval from U.S. and Canadian regulators.
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"A local case of textual harassment"
Shannon Fatheree, 6362 Log Cabin Road, was arrested by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Department and charged with a misdemeanor for "harassing text calls" on Friday, January 4.
A relatively new cyber law includes electronic communications as a means of harassment. The law counteracts harassment on a new level by prohibiting any unwanted or disturbing text message. The law also includes all electronic messages, such as emails, and deemed them capable of being prosecuted as a form of harassment.
On Friday, January 4 the MPSD received complaint that Shannon Fatheree was texting threatening messages to an individual and her relative. According to an official report both victims told Fatheree to stop texting them and Fatheree was warned twice before being placed under arrest.
One of the messages sent by Fatheree stated "why won't y'all die, all of you," was recorded in the officer's report.
According to the Website www.wisegeek.org/what-is-text-harassment.htm, text harassment is defined as "a form of harassment involving the use of text messaging services. Harassers can use a number of tactics including flooding the victim with text messages and sending abusive or threatening messages. This form of harassment often accompanies dating violence, bullying, or sexual harassment in the workplace."
There are ways to fight text harassment and one is to make sure and save the messages for proof, as stated on the Website www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs2a-cellcalls.htm. Another way to end harassing or annoying text messages is to simply block the messenger.
MPSD Chief Criminal Deputy Brian Shoemaker said the police department receives numerous complaints of text harassment.
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If you don't work in the MMO industry, you probably have a skewed opinion of how live teams operate. On this blog, I often say that I'd much prefer to manage a live game than to create a new game from scratch, and you may be thinking, "Yeah, like you deserve that!"
You might be thinking my request sounds like one of the lazy animals from the story of the Little Red Hen:
"Who will help me code the MMO?" asked the little red hen (… I mean the MMO company).
"Not me," said the independent MMO contractor. "I'm too busy doing fun easy things!"
"Fine, I will do it myself! Ah, but now who will help me run the MMO?"
"Ooh ooh I will!" said the contractor.
"No no, you didn't help me make the MMO, so you don't get to do the fun part! I will run it myself!"
If this is the story that runs through your head, you are definitely not from any of the major MMO companies. For the likes of Turbine, SOE, or Blizzard, making the MMO is the fun part. Working on the MMO afterwards is the terrible part.
You might expect that the people who spent five years making the game would be excited to run it after it ships. Turns out, not really. After five years of working on the same project, they're so sick of it they never want to work on it again. They want it to be in good hands, certainly. And they want to have some oversight to keep people from damaging their vision of how the game should run. But they sure as hell don't want to have to do that tedious maintenance stuff themselves. So companies tend to pull the experienced staff off of the live game pretty quickly, leaving behind junior people.
Live Teams Are Not Glamorous
I like the "tedious maintenance stuff." I actually prefer working on the live team. This makes me very unusual in the MMO industry. I am also a pretty good engineer with a lot of experience, which means I don't often end up on live teams — too experienced. At Turbine, I had a hard time getting onto the Asheron Call 2's Live Team, because I was expected to help develop their next generation MMO engine instead. I wanted to work on AC2 after it ships?! None of my managers could understand why I wanted to be demoted like that!
But to people who enjoy the live team, well … there is nothing as good as it. The power you have! The instant feedback! The ability to literally make hundreds of thousands of people happy with just a few weeks of work. It's very gratifying. There's also the tedium and frustration and lack of resources and constant fire-fighting and oh my god I can't keep up with everything… but that's the price of the deal.
Of course, it doesn't just happen that you hop onto the Live Team and suddenly you're making game-design changes. At first there are a lot of smart and talented people at the helm, helping you learn the ropes, making the hard decisions for you, keeping you from doing stupid things. But inevitably they are pulled off to other projects, and somebody relatively junior gets the helm. That's how I got to be in charge of balancing AC2's classes.
Fortunately, I had a decade of engineering experience and understood how to tune complex systems. I wrote analyzers, modeled usage patterns, and made corrections.
Unfortunately, my approach did not take the "human equation" into consideration very well.
Learning to Balance the Human Equation
I found that the Feral Intendant class was 30% overpowered, and that's why so many people were playing a Feral Intendant. Yet somehow, reducing the power of the Feral Intendant to the correct level did not suddenly make the game more fun… thousands of players were complaining and nobody was telling me they were happy about the change. Weird! I double checked my calculations. They were correct. So what had gone wrong?
Turns out that the people who played the other classes available to that race had taken on an "underdog" mentality. The people who played Claw Bearers liked that they were woefully underpowered compared to Feral Intendants. It was like playing the game on Hard Mode. And the people playing Feral Intendants liked playing on Easy Mode. In balancing the game I had failed to understand the needs of the people playing it. I just ham-handedly fixed the equations, instead of solving the problem with the finesse it needed. It was one of my more serious missteps. (And it's a great example because I think it's pretty obvious in hindsight. Most mistakes were much more subtle.)
But man, what a fast way to learn! After just a couple years of that, I became a good game balancer. The constant feedback loop helped me learn from my mistakes in a matter of weeks! Compare that to developers on traditional games, who must wait until the sequel ships before they get to try their hand at balance again. That's why working on a live team is such a fast way to learn your craft: the feedback is so much faster than any other gaming platform, that it accelerates learning by dozens of times.
But AC2 cost millions of dollars to create. Turbine didn't create it as a tool to help me hone my design skills, that's for damned sure! How did I get to do it? Simple: the designers who would have done it were burned out of working on AC2, and were called away to work on the important New Project. AC2 wasn't a blockbuster hit, so it didn't make sense to use the rock star designers on it. Better to let the B team step in.
The Steady Hand Has Left The Rudder
But here's the weird thing: WoW is exhibiting the same symptoms as AC2 did when I was doing the designing. The B team is in charge.
In February, we learned that lead designer (and part-time producer?) Jeff Kaplan had stepped away from WoW, off to work on the next big Blizzard game. However, if you were watching the game before that, it was obvious that major leadership changes had already happened months earlier. My guess is that Jeff Kaplan started moonlighting on the new project long before February. And many of the other key WoW live team people have also switched over, or are working on WoW only part-time.
Now, I am not being alarmist. The ship is still in intelligent, capable hands… but clearly not as experienced ones. Just as I did when I took over AC2, WoW is making newbie design mistakes that seem like a benefit on the surface, but are really not good decisions. There have been scores of examples… I'll pick just a few.
"It's always been stupid, and we just need to fix it!"
A few months back, the powers that be decided that Hunter ammunition didn't work right. Hunters have to carry an arrow for every single shot they take, and in order to get the full benefits from them, they have to carry them in a special quiver — which doesn't let you store other items in it, only ammo. All that ammo costs money, too. Plus, it leaves the designers unable to give out awesome "raid arrows" because you'd just shoot them all and then where would you be? Even though ammo had been a fine and fun distinguishing quirk of Hunters for years, it was time to Fix It.
The first plan was announced: WoW would no longer have consumable ammo. Instead, you would just need a single "infinite arrow" that you stuck in your ammo slot, and this would let you shoot your bow forever. Problem solved! No more quivers, no more pack space wasted, no more costs. And now raids could drop "loot arrows" that wouldn't get used up! Perfect!
Whoops, turns out that plan would be hard. So they announced their backup plan: now ammo just stacks to very high numbers. Instead of having stacks of 200, now you can have stacks of 1000. This at least addresses the "pack space" issue. Call it a win! And they removed the magical benefits from quivers, so you no longer needed to use them. So they fixed the immediate emergency, and they'll get to the "correct fix" later.
The thing is, there was no emergency. Sure, Hunters were happy to have a few extra pack slots. But the change threw all sorts of other things out of whack: magic quivers are still given out as quest rewards… they just aren't magical anymore. And leathercrafters can still make them! They just can't sell them to any sane Hunter. And so on… the game wasn't really cleaned up after this change.
But I'm sure it felt so pressing, so urgent. So they had to address the issue, side-effects be damned.
Without somebody experienced at the helm, the voice of the myopic designer tends to be the loudest. "WE HAVE TO FIX THE HUNTER" they said. Maybe they said, "Hunters have to spend 65% more on bare essentials than any other class. I will never be able to balance class expenditures like this!" Or maybe they said, "Hunters have to waste more inventory slots than any other class. It damages quest completion rates!" Or maybe they just said, "It's SO STUPID. It's always been stupid, and we just need to fix it! Do it now!" Obviously, nobody thought very hard about the ramifications, and nobody spent any time easing players into the idea. And nobody stopped to make sure they did a good job.
So some tiny little mistakes crept into the game. Nothing huge. Nothing that will sink the Titanic. But mistakes nonetheless… "magical" crafted quivers that aren't magical and can't be sold are clearly a mistake. These little bugs accumulate, like lint on a hardwood floor.
The Lint Accumulates
When we say that WoW is "polished", what we mean is that it is surprisingly clean of linty little bugs like these. But that's changing.
More and more little mistakes have crept into the game recently — changes that are positive on the surface, but have not been implemented with the finesse that makes them worthwhile. Mana expenditure rates have changed, rules for dungeons have been tweaked, the cost of items has fluctuated. It all seems useful. But it's usually full of little side effects. Worse, it doesn't take the human equation into account: it doesn't counter-balance for the actual needs of the players very well. There are ways to meet both goals, but you have to try a lot harder at it than WoW is.
Remember when WoW class balance happened every six to eight months? Players were actually excited when their classes' turn came around. I remember being so astonished to see players that were actually happy to have their classes redesigned. But now, every class is fiddled with every few weeks. It's not exciting anymore. Instead of sitting on the changes and carefully honing them, the designers are just firing out every new idea they have, willy nilly, until they get it right. But here's the thing: it doesn't matter if you get it right. It matters if players are excited and having fun. Balance changes are happening too fast, and for too little benefit overall.
Back in the day, QA held the game to a higher standard. Consider that there never used to be skill changes that would invalidate the client tooltips about a skill (unless it was an emergency exploit-fix). If the designer wanted to tweak a skill, they had to wait until the client could be updated. But the QA bigwigs are off doing something else now, so it's easy for the designers to slip this stuff in. And they do. All the time. Skills are routinely incorrectly displayed now, as the designers' need for perfect balance far outpaces the ability to do client updates.
Who's In Charge Again?
You would never let your lead artist drive decisions for your game. Chances are, they would say "This dungeon is too brightly lit! We need to hotfix it now or the mood will be ruined forever!"
But unlike artists, designers get a free ride. They're supposed to know what's best for the game. If the producers are busy, they trust the designers will do good things. But designers, especially young ones, get myopic. They tune into little issues — like perfect class balance – and turn them into epic quests. If the designer could just fix this balance problem, people on the boards would stop complaining, and the game would be perfect!
No. It will not happen. Perfection will not be achieved, ever. But there's nobody around to rein them in anymore, so they try and try and try. And leave little messes everywhere they go.
Suddenly Communications Are Open
Another surefire way to tell that upper management has left the building? The systems designer "Ghostcrawler" has suddenly started posting a lot, even about… well, nothing. For years developers were nowhere to be seen, which was a shame. And then suddenly the lead systems designer has time to play the forum game? Yeah, whoever was making employee policies just doesn't have time for WoW anymore. Not a bad thing, in this case, but certainly a dramatic shift of policies.
Nowadays it's common for WoW to tell people to "check the forums for game updates." This is a total newb mistake. Only your loudest and most annoying users will check your forums for updates. So every "update" is met with derision because only assholes post on game forums. (Statistically speaking, anyway.) Game updates are specifically what the launcher's update screen is for. If you're outpacing the ability to update the update screen, chances are you're changing too much too fast. Slow down and get it right the first time.
It's likely that Ghostcrawler started posting shortly after the upper management started wandering off to other projects. Ghostcrawler's a good guy… in fact, his posts remind me a lot of what I sounded like when I was posting about AC2's skill balance. He knows how to balance things. But he is completely unable to see the big picture. Every tiny imperfection seems like a ruinous problem. He feels assaulted on all sides by problems, too, and doesn't think there's time to do things the right way. But this is an illusion that happens to Live Teams because they get so close to the product. He needs someone checking over his decisions and making sure they're worthwhile. He doesn't have that.
WoW: No Longer Big Kahuna at Blizzard
Ghostcrawler and the rest of the team will learn their craft soon enough. WoW will survive the experience. But what's interesting is that it tells us quite clearly that WoW is no longer the most important thing at Blizzard… in fact, it might be third or fourth place. It's really interesting that this happened so soon. I didn't expect it to happen to WoW while it still had 10+ million players or more still paying. But a company has only so many top-notch people, and you always want your most-experienced people on the new thing, so it makes sense.
To be clear, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. When the game stops being in the spotlight, the live team suddenly gets a lot more flexibility to make the game fun, instead of being forced to stick to now-outdated "design visions". The dramatic increase in WoW's mobility options is certainly due to the lack of oversight. But without that safety-net of supervision, they need to exercise a lot of willpower and a lot of wisdom.
Ghostcrawler, and anybody else on the design team of WoW right now, I have a little unsolicited advice from somebody who's been there: convince your bosses to let you play a different MMO for two weeks. On the clock. Don't touch WoW. I know it feels like there's a disaster every day and you can't possibly stop focusing on WoW, but you can. After you get back, play WoW with a different class than you normally play. You'll see so many new things! Your priorities will do a 180. I guarantee you it will help your perception.
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Jackson's struggles continue in another short start
MILWAUKEE -- Edwin Jackson may need a breather more than anyone else on the Cubs.
Rickie Weeks belted a two-run homer, a solo shot and an RBI double, and Juan Francisco added a solo homer to power the Brewers to a 9-3 victory against Jackson and the Cubs on Tuesday night.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Edwin Jackson may need a breather more than anyone else on the Cubs.
Rickie Weeks belted a two-run homer, a solo shot and an RBI double, and Juan Francisco added a solo homer to power the Brewers to a 9-3 victory against Jackson and the Cubs on Tuesday night.View Full Game Coverage
Jackson allowed six runs over 4 2/3 innings, his third outing in the last 10 in which he failed to finish the fifth.
"We've got to get more consistency," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "We have to try to get that guy who we saw in the first three innings against the White Sox and a couple more outings. It's the consistency with the velocity and the power.
"I think he knows the formula. His good games have been the conviction and the velocity and try to overpower people, and not finesse anything up there."
Those three innings against the White Sox came May 28, but were wiped out by rain and don't count. Jackson also pitched well against the Pirates on June 9, giving up one run over seven innings, and followed that with a win against the Mets, whom he limited to one run over six innings. But Jackson hasn't been consistent.
Francisco got things started with his home run with one out in the second off a 3-1 pitch. But Jackson singled to open the third, and one out later, Darwin Barney singled to set up Nate Schierholtz's 11th home run, giving the Cubs a 3-1 lead.
"He keeps continuing to be our most consistent hitter on a daily basis," Sveum said of Schierholtz.
"I just got caught doing something I've been doing to that guy several times," Milwaukee's Kyle Lohse said of the at-bat with Schierholtz. "I think maybe he was looking for it. He did his homework. Sometimes guys make adjustments, and sometimes it comes in a bad spot. After that, I just had to make pitches and try to keep them there."
Francisco walked to lead off the fifth and scored on Weeks' double. One out later, Weeks scored on Caleb Gindl's single, his first Major League RBI, to tie the game at 3. Gindl moved up on Lohse's sacrifice, Norichika Aoki walked and Jean Segura hit a go-ahead double. It was Segura's 100th hit of the season, the most in the National League.
"I put myself in a position to get out of that inning with one run and still a 3-2 game, and I wasn't able to put those guys away," Jackson said. "The balls were up, or too much over the plate with two strikes."
Jackson now has reached double-digit losses for the second straight year and third time in the past four years.
"There's a long way to go," he said of the season. "There's nobody in this clubhouse who has lost confidence. It's a tough game we play. You've got a choice: You can either give up and get buried, or keep fighting. We still have a lot of baseball left. It's how you finish. You can start off not how you want to and finish the season up spectacular. You just keep going. Nobody's feeling sorry for themselves. We don't have time for that."
But there have been too many games when Jackson has had one inning be his downfall.
"We just can't control some innings when they start going a little bad, whether it's fastball command," Sveum said. "Tonight, from the get-go, he didn't have much of a fastball. He averaged 92 mph. It's going to be tough for him to pitch with that velocity. It seems like innings get out of control and they turn into big, crooked numbers."
Jonathan Lucroy hit a two-run single to open a 6-3 lead and chase Jackson, capping Milwaukee's five-run fifth. Weeks belted his two-run homer off Hector Rondon in the sixth and added a solo shot off Shawn Camp in the eighth.
The Cubs were without .228-hitting Starlin Castro, whom Sveum sat for a one-day break. Could Jackson use a similiar breather?
"That's in a perfect world," Sveum said. "You've got to get out there and pitch and have the same mentality all the time."
"I don't feel like I didn't have a feel for my pitches," Jackson said. "A couple at-bats got away from me. I felt like, for the most part, I could throw strikes when I wanted to. I just had counts where they were too good of a strike."
Schierholtz, now 10-for-31 in the No. 3 spot in the lineup, is one of several Cubs being watched closely by teams looking for that missing piece prior to the July 31 Non-Waiver Trade Deadline. There were plenty of scouts at Miller Park.
"The phone calls ramp up this time of year," Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said.
Hoyer and Theo Epstein, Cubs president of baseball operations, have talked to every general manager over the last four to five days.
"In some ways, it's an invigorating time of year, because there is a lot of action going on and a lot of things going on," Hoyer said.
It also can be frustrating. The Cubs went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position, and didn't help themselves on the bases. Welington Castillo doubled with one out in the fourth and made a baserunning gaffe as he was easily tagged out trying to get to third on Cody Ransom's grounder to short.
It's also been rough for Sveum, who played for the Brewers. Instead of a nice homecoming, Chicago is now 1-5 against Milwaukee this year and 2-19 against the Brewers in their last 21 games at Miller Park.
With the loss, the Cubs dropped into last in the NL Central. Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said they're not thinking about the standings.
"We're not battling for last place, we're battling to try and get back in this thing," Roenicke said. "Hopefully, get closer to .500, and then we'll see."
The Cubs and Jackson are thinking the same thing.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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Two goals in the opening six minutes earned Bournemouth a 2-1 victory over strugglers Shrewsbury on Tuesday night.
The Cherries earned a fifth win in six matches since manager Eddie Howe returned to the club.
Charlie Daniels opened the scoring when he ripped a low third-minute free-kick through Shrewsbury's defensive wall after Darren Jones had handled on the edge of the penalty box.
Three minutes later Marc Pugh cut in from the left to tee-up a simple header for Josh McQuoid, the striker's third goal in two matches.
Shrewsbury clawed a goal back through Matt Richards from an 11th-minute penalty awarded for a soft Miles Addison challenge on Marvin Morgan.
But the visitors, with only one win in their previous 10 matches, were fortunate to still be in the contest at half-time as Bournemouth squandered a catalogue of chances, with Lewis Grabban twice a guilty party and Simon Francis denied by goalkeeper Chris Weale.
Bournemouth continued to dictate the play after the break, but Shrewsbury were more compact and assured in defence and restricted the Cherries to a series of half-chances.


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CBS will have three games in the 5 p.m. window for the NCAA Tournament. Their projected start times are 4:50 p.m., 5 p.m. and 5:20 p.m. Each game takes just over 2 hours to complete. CBS will cut into each game so the entire nation sees the finish and then the East and Central time zones will join 60 Minutes in its entirety probably around 7:30 p.m. So expect TAR to start around 8:20 - 8:30 p.m. provided there's not an overtime period. I get the CBS Sports press releases so I do have their tip times for the Tournament for this weekend.
Ap,My contacts at CBS have told me after eight days of promotion, they're not going to cut the Obama interview from the lineup nor will they cut TAR. The entire lineup is running as planned. The earliest 60 Minutes can run with a break for network and local commercials is 7:35 p.m. and that depends if everything runs on time. Big East teams like Louisville have a tendency to play games for more than 2 hours so expect the game to run past 7:40 p.m. on the East Coast. For those of you have CBS Eye-lert via text or e-mail, be ready for notification in the 7:30 - 7:45 p.m. range. And yes, Joab, keep your fingers away from the keyboard for longer than you normally do.
whats bout global tv , canada channel...... who got it??
Hi guys, just wanna let you guys know that here in the Philippines, TAR is currently airing, were in the middle of the race already. - but I won't spoil it for you guys...
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David Beckham has revealed he is taking inspiration from former Manchester United team-mates Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes as he attempts to prove himself again at Paris St Germain.
Beckham stole the headlines on transfer deadline day when it was announced he would join the big-spending Parisians on a five-month deal.
There has been some questions raised, however, as to whether the 37-year-old's arrival is more a publicity stunt than a boost to the Ligue 1 leaders' on-field fortunes.
Beckham is determined to prove those doubters wrong and has cited the likes of Giggs and Scholes - who continue to play important roles with United - as proof he can make an impact on his return to European football after leaving the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Asked if he can help PSG's push for domestic and Champions league success, he told French broadcaster beIN Sport: "Why not? I feel great, physically, I've always said, as long as I can continue to play the game at the highest level then I will continue to play.
"I never expected, when I was 30 years old, to still be getting the offers that I'm getting at 37 years old.
"Motivation never changes. I think once you have that motivation in you, it continues throughout your whole life.
"I look at players like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, playing at Manchester United, still at the highest level - they don't play every game but when they do play they are big influences in the game, so I'm looking to do that.
"I'm looking to continue to be successful. And like I said, what keeps me going, I have four children at home, three boys and a little girl, so my energy comes from them."
Despite his optimism Beckham admitted he was not sure where he would fit into a star-studded PSG squad.
Under their Qatari owners the Parisians have assembled a squad that includes star names such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic while Beckham is set to compete with the likes of rising Brazil star Lucas Moura and Javier Pastore for a place in midfield.
Beckham is not expecting any favours and - with his debut still likely to be a couple of weeks away - does not expect to go straight into the starting XI when he is fit.
"We'll see, I don't know (where he will play). I can either play in the middle or on the right," he said.
"Goalkeeping's not my biggest strength so I'll stay out of the way of that one. I don't expect to come in to this team and to be a starter in the teamsheet.
"I've never expected that wherever I have gone. I'll work hard for my place, I'll work hard to make the team successful."
Beckham has been training with Premier League side Arsenal in order to try and fast-track his fitness before he is due to meet up with his new team-mates in Paris next week.
"It's going to take me a couple of weeks at least to get up to speed with the rest of the team," he said.
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Tyler Bitzer of Shelbyville recently was recognized by the American Gelbvieh Association as being the owner of a cow that has exhibited the consistent maternal efficiency of the breed. The AGA designated his cow as a Dam of Merit and Dam of Distinction.
I spent most of the day on Sunday in the vegetable garden. It was both a beautiful day and a melancholy one because of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
This helps me stay on task actually…quiet contemplation and physical work is a good combination. I was motivated to get the garden cleaned up and replanted with some fall crops like turnips, beets and lettuces. The remaining empty beds were planted with a cover crop.
As the harvest season moves into full swing across the commonwealth, it looks like farmers survived another difficult growing season – emphasis on "survived."
After a spring that saw rainfall reach record levels, farmers had to fight through another dry summer.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is predicting Kentucky's corn and soybean crops to exceed last year's totals, but that optimistic outlook isn't carrying over to Shelby County's farmers.
This completes the list of results posted on kystatefair.org
4-H results
Dish Gardens (desert or tropical)
Red, Destiny McDonald, Mount Eden, 4-HShelby
Class 568 Annual Container Gardens
Red, Breanna Lyons, Waddy, 4-HShelby
Dairy farmer Rowlett
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Terry Rowlett, a dairy farmer from Campbellsburg, told the Shelbyville Kiwanis Club last week that farmers love what they do: providing food supply for the community.
The Rowlett family owns Rowlett Farms near Campbellsburg, Kentucky. They milk 100 cows twice a day, every day. On the 600-acre farm, corn, hay, wheat and tobacco are also raised.
Whenever brown patches or dead spots appear in the lawn, we are quick to suspect a grub infestation. This is not always the case though. In fact, contemporary lawn care routines may be more to blame then you realize.
Some lawn-care habits encourage disease and/or make your lawn more desirable to Japanese beetles and masked chafer beetles, both of which deposit the eggs that grow into grubs.
Winners as posted on Kentuckystatefair.org by Aug. 7, 2011
Beef cattle
Early Sr Heifer Calves Sept 1 and Oct 31, 2010
3. 3rdKY, Kost Bade Blackbird 1054, Andrew Glass, Waddy
Jr. Yearling Bulls Jan - Feb 2010
1. 1stKY, MS Forward Progress, Phil Tripp, Shelbyville
Phase I of the Shelby County Community Agriculture Investment Program is under way.
Agricultural producers in the county may submit applications for grants between Sept. 26 and Oct. 7 through the Shelby County Extension Office.
Tammy Brookshier of the Shelby County Cattlemen and the extension office is coordinator for the program, and she says applications are available now at the extension office, which is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at 1117 Frankfort Road in Shelbyville.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb track and field team will use a partial split squad this weekend competing at the Ole Miss Invite in Oxford, Miss., and at the Boston Moon Classic in Nashville.
"Ole Miss is a great meet," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "We are going to send Tucker Peabody and see if he can build off of his successes last weekend. Brenna Thompson will run the 400, looking for a breakthrough there. Our hurdlers will go along with other sprinters with a total of 11 people."
Peabody, the Atlantic Sun Track Athlete of the Week, broke two school records at the Sun Angel Classic last weekend. He ran the top time in the A-Sun this season in the 200-meter dash in 21.13 seconds. He also ran the 100-meter dash in 10.5 seconds.
Brenna Thompson has the fifth fastest time in the 400-meter run. She ran in 57.11 seconds at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invite in March.
The Bisons have three of the top-five runners in the A-Sun in the 400-meter hurdles, with all three running at the Ole Miss Invite. Nelson Scott ranks second, finishing in 54.68 seconds at the Samford Invitational while Andrew Wolf and Ryan Whitley are fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Boston Moon Classic, hosted by Tennessee State University, will also see a small contingent of Lipscomb athletes.
"The TSU meet will have 10 people there highlighted by our throwers," Taylor said. "Houston Ward and April Terry are obvious right now. Taylor Mason and John Clevenger are ranked second in the conference in the javelin and Kevin Floyd is second in the pole vault."
Mason and Clevenger are coming off victories last weekend at the Margeret Simmons Invitational hosted by Murray State. Mason's top throw on the year came at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invite with a throw of 38.93 meters. Clevenger's best throw came at the UNF Spring Break Invitational, where he threw 50.33 meters.
Ward has the top throw in the A-Sun this season in the shot put with a toss of 15.48 meters last weekend at the Sun Angel Classic. Ward also has the third-best throw in the discus and fifth-best in the hammer throw.
Terry ranks second in the shot put with a 13.5-meter throw at the Sun Angel Classic and is ranked sixth in the hammer throw.
Using a limited squad will allow the middle distance and distance runners a chance to recoup after a busy four-week stretch of traveling.
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Competition gets underway in Oxford at 9 a.m. with the last event starting at 8:10 p.m. The Boston Moon Classic will also begin at 9 a.m. with final events at 4 p.m.
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The Jeff Matthews Museum in Galax is collecting Galax High School yearbooks, and local historian John Nunn is hoping alumni will bring some forward to add to that collection.
So far, the museum has collected four yearbooks — years 1947 through 1950 — that were found at a local antique shop. Nunn's sister purchased the yearbooks with the thought of starting a collection at the Jeff Matthews Museum.
"It's history," said Nunn. "It's nice to see who dated who and superlatives. It's interesting to see what happened 20, 30 and 40 years ago."
Nunn noted that yearbooks can be willed to, loaned to or preserved by the museum. "Don't just toss them," he said.
Nunn estimates that the first Galax yearbook was produced 10 years after the first class was held in the early 1900s in a building in downtown Galax.
"If a person gives a yearbook to the museum, they can consider it a loan," said Nunn. "It'll be there where it will be taken care of."
• For more information, or to donate a Galax yearbook to the museum, call 236-7874 or visit matthewsmuseum.com. The museum, located at 606 W. Stuart Drive near the Galax Public Library, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (1 dash Fee's, 1 dash Regan's Orange Bitters)
2 Dashes Syrup. (1/3 tsp. Depaz Cane Syrup)
2 Dashes Absinthe. (1/3 tsp. Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4… Oh ok, really, it was 1 ounce Junipero Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I did look in a couple other vintage recipe books for this one, and every one gives the amount of Gin as the same 1/3. To be fair, 3/4 oz isn't an unusual amount of spirits for a Savoy Cocktail. It's just that 3/4 oz of spirits is usually is accompanied by vermouth or some other mixer. I mean this really is just about the Savoy Fourth Degree without the vermouths.
I got out my tiniest glass and did my best to respect the recipe.
Tasty, anyway. Cold Absinthey, orangey, slightly sweetened gin. Thank you, I think I'll have another!
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Reflecting on the World Youth Congress – UniSA student magazine piece
I was one of the first students enrolled in the University of South Australia's double degree in journalism and international studies. I'm now in my fourth year, which will drag into my fifth because of extracurricular commitments. The latest has been attending the World Youth Congress in Stirling, Scotland, as one of six Australian delegates.
Starting out in the degree, I thought the logical resulting career would be as a foreign correspondent! Some years later, after working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, I've replaced that ambition with something a little more complex. The best thing about the degree – more than any lectures or tutorials – is the opportunities that come with it. I've tested the waters with jobs as diverse as reporting at the Rugby World Cup, looking at legal issues in radio programs for the Law Foundation of South Australia, and editing an environmental paper.
I'd say these diverse jobs, along with my international experiences, led to my acceptance as a delegate and journalist for the World Youth Congress. I was one of 40 journalists, and about 550 other young people working towards sustainable development, who attended the 10-day event.
Young journalists were asked to arrive in Stirling two days early for media training and briefings. This was in addition to delegate responsibilities of attending workshops and helping prepare a policy document, to be submitted to governments worldwide, and an action toolkit for young people wanting to contribute to development. As journalists, we were also involved in making documentaries that screened at the Congress each day, publishing a daily newspaper, and editing and formatting the outcome documents prepared by delegates. It was a busy 10 days.
The two days before the Congress, which included film documentary and photography workshops, were a great opportunity to network with young journalists from places like Serbia, Brazil, Cameroon, and China. It was the ideal way to get experience in both the disciplines I'm studying.
As well as being great personal development for all the delegates, the Congress will hopefully go beyond that and contribute to international development. I've joined some Australian and international non-government organisations as a result, which is just the beginning. There's a worldwide movement for youth-led development, particularly in African and Pacific nations where, unlike Australia, the majority of the population is young people.
We're lucky in Australia. Most young people have the chance to be students. As students, we have opportunities that most young people in the world don't. It's only in the latter half of my degree that I've really started to get active on international issues. I've been reporting on them, and studying them, but I haven't done much. I'm trying to change that.
The next World Youth Congress is planned for 2008, to be held in Quebec. If it sounds like something you'd be interested in, start thinking now about how to get there. As a student, there is ample opportunity for you to contribute to youth-led development.
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I also learned how to add images to my TNG database. Pretty simple, actually. This program really needs a manual! If I need help, I have to consult either their wiki or forum pages, where I may or may not find answers to my questions…
For whatever reason, my RootsMagic GEDCOM is easily imported into TNG, but the images are not. I have RM set to export images, but the images don't make it into TNG. The name and info about the images arrive, but not the images themselves. Have I got TNG set-up incorrectly? Quite possibly, as I said there is no manual.
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