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"We are in an ideal position to accelerate our business to continue our leadership in this rapidly advancing cloud market," says RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, in this Exclusive Q&A with the editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Alan Williamson. "We decided the timing was right to create a war chest that would take us to profitability," Crandell added. Earlier this month RightScale snagged $13M in a Series B round of venture funding.
Here's the interview in full:
Cloud Computing Journal: $13M is quite a chunk of change to raise in this climate. Was this about what you required? Was it more or less than you asked for?
Michael Crandell: We raised exactly what we set out to raise. This year we've seen a lot of interest from investors, and so we decided the timing was right to create a war chest that would take us to profitability. At the same time, we've gotten the best VCs we could hope for: Danny Rimer of Index Ventures and Kevin Harvey of Benchmark add tremendous value on our Board. Now, we are in an ideal position to accelerate our business to continue our leadership in this rapidly advancing cloud market.
Cloud Computing Journal: Where are you going to be spending that money?
MC: We'll use the funds to accelerate product and market development of our core management platform, including support for new clouds, continuing to build our ISV and developer communities, and expanding into additional geographic markets.
Cloud Computing Journal: RightScale has built up its business from Amazon EC2 customers, what plans have you to broaden this to other cloud providers? Are the other cloud providers ready for prime time?
MC: In September, we announced support for GoGrid and Flexiscale clouds, and an ongoing cooperation with Rackspace as they roll out their cloud offerings. Amazon remains in the lead in terms of functionality, scale, and adoption. But clearly we're moving to a multi-cloud market, and helping customers take advantage of the freedom and choice that provides is a key target for RightScale.
Cloud Computing Journal: For many people, they see Amazon as the only cloud provider. Is it healthy for any one company to dominate the industry so much at the start?
MC: Amazon has done a brilliant job pioneering this space, and seen impressive growth. They have almost single-handedly commercialized the notion of pay-as-you-go, on demand, virtually infinite outsourced IT infrastructure. In that sense, their leadership has established the de factor standard and that's been very healthy for customers. As the market continues to evolve rapidly, other cloud players are entering and differentiating their offerings -- which adds the critical capability for businesses to avoid single-source vendor dependency. Compared to other innovations in tech history, cloud computing is unfolding very rapidly and in an open and healthy way.
Cloud Computing Journal: At the moment RightScale doesn't provide a one-stop service; I have to pay you and Amazon. Are there plans to give me as a customer one billing point?
MC: We're working on that. Stay tuned.
Cloud Computing Journal: For all the hype and pomp of cloud computing, what do you see as the biggest myth that is circulating just now?
MC: Some seem to think that cloud computing eliminates the need for good system design and management: everything will happen "automagically"! There are real advantages to be gained from cloud deployments in terms of automation, simplification of system administration, and reliability and performance -- but achieving these still depends on well-designed solutions. That's central to what we provide at RightScale: automated management utilizing best-practices in multi-cloud design that maintain transparency and IT control for the customer.
Cloud Computing Journal: Many analysts see the private cloud as the area that will make the real money from cloud computing? What are your plans to support the private cloud?
MC: We think the public cloud is going to continue it's explosive growth. We hear frequently from customers about running out of data center space, data center power, data center budget, and data center patience (i.e., long internal IT lead times). There is tremendous pressure to leverage the cost and agility advantages of outsourcing IT infrastructure using flexible cloud resources. That said, there will clearly be private clouds in the picture too, and in that area our strategy is to focus on the nexus of the two -- hybrid clouds -- and provide an easy way for corporate developers to utilize both public and private cloud resources when appropriate.
Cloud Computing Journal: We recently ran our Cloud Bootcamp, where we had your own Thorsten von Eicken come along and take us through some of what you do. What are you finding are the top questions being asked by people new to the cloud space?
MC: People come to us already convinced that moving to the cloud is a compelling prospect -- but they have questions on how best to do it, what the "gotchas" are, and what they should expect. Basically, they're looking for guidance and a fast on-ramp to deploying in the cloud, and a system they can use to support the lifecycle of development and deployment, which is exactly what we provide.
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PENSECOLA, Fla. – Senior guard Nate Hamilton (Snellville, Ga.) spent last season away from basketball, but it didn't take long for him to shake off the rust. Hamilton started the 2012-13 season on the right foot, scoring a career-high 28 points in the 86-65 rout of Palm Beach Atlantic University Saturday in day one of the McDonald Fleming Moorhead Tip-Off Classic at the University of West Florida.
Hamilton hit 10-of-19 from the floor, including 8-of-17 from three-point land en route to his 28 points. He added three steals to the cause as well.
The Bobcats featured balanced scoring as 11 reached the scoring column, but just senior Quin Bivins (Macon, Ga.) joined Hamilton in double figures with 14. Bivins hit 4-of-7 from behind the arc, as GC went 16-of-33 (.485) as a team from long range.
Senior guard Tarrence Chatman (Macon, Ga.) led the squad with six rebounds as the Bobcats were edged 42-38 on the glass. Chatman added seven points as well. Sophomore David Wagner (Dallas, Ga.) responded well to his first Bobcat action, scoring nine points with three boards and two assists. Junior guard Aaron Robinson (Lawrenceville, Ga.) paced the team with six assists to go with his five points.
Georgia College hit half its shots from the floor (33-66) while the Sailfish managed just 36 percent (23-64).
PBA had three players in double-figures, with Marcus Hardy pacing the squad at 18 points and 11 rebounds. Matthew Gierl joined him with a 12-point , 14-rebound double-double, as Jonathan Kriedt added 16 off the bench.
GC men's basketball extends the season-opening win streak to seven, the last loss in an opener coming to Tusculum College in 2005.
The Bobcats take on host West Florida tomorrow, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. eastern.
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MTR to appear at Melbourne and Canberra Writers Festivals August 27-28 in sessions on sex industry survivors – and those who didn't
Bringing invisible women out from the shadows
On Saturday August 27 I'll be part of a panel titled 'Invisible Women' at the Melbourne Writers Festival. I'll be talking about the book I co-edited with Caroline Norma, Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, 2016). With me will be Melbourne academic and author Meagan Tyler as moderator, and Ruth Wykes, co author with Kylie Fox, of Invisible Women: Powerful and disturbing stories of murdered sex workers (Echo Publishing, 2016). The book is described on the back cover:
When news of a murdered woman hits the headlines in Australia, people sit up and take notice. Unless that woman happens to be a sex worker. Invisible Women tells the stories of 65 murdered sex workers – all of whom are somebody's mother, daughter, wife or sister – whose identities have been erased. Why do we see some lives as less valuable than others, and what price do we all pay for this disgraceful lack of care? These amazing stories of incredible women are both deeply moving and shocking in their insight and clarity. And definitely way overdue.
I read Invisible Women on a flight to New Zealand a couple of weeks ago. (One advantage of spending a lot of time in the air is uninterrupted reading time). It was a grueling read. What first hit me was the table of contents – so many names of women whose lives – and their end – are acknowledged and recorded in this book. And an even longer list of names in the Index of Victims: Missing and Murdered Since 1970.
Invisible Women is a forensic work, giving names to the dead, situating them as women who had families, children, personalities, who laughed and struggled. The works lifts them out of and above the dismissing common responses that they were 'just prostitutes who deserved what came to them' (One Queensland journalist described dead women in his state as the 'bottom feeders' of the sex industry).
The authors unpack vulnerabilities, backgrounds of poverty, family breakdown, addiction, marginalization, sexual abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and mental health issues which contributed to the women ending up in the sex industry. The drivers that "keep street-based sex workers enslaved to a lifestyle they don't want, but can't find a way out of."
This is a road for women who may have fallen through the cracks of our society, Women who, as children, found themselves in the confusing world of foster care; a world where, far too often, paedophiles are circling, ready to groom, persuade and abuse those least equipped to tell, or to fight back. Women who don't remember the first time they were sexually assaulted. They were too young. And it happened so often, accompanies by words of love – or threats of punishment and pain. Those women know sex means nothing now; it's a tool, a weapon, a way to get what they need to survive. Other women … made excuses the first time their partner hit them, when he controlled their money, when he isolated them from their friends, from their family. Women who, as children, lost a parent, a sibling, a friend and who stayed too quiet, bottling up their sadness until one day they were introduced to a drug that – for the first time in their young lives – took their pain away…Women with no money, no networks of family or friends, very poor job prospects…Sometimes it is about mental illness and the scarcity of support…It is these women: the homeless, mentally ill, abused, assaulted, drug-dependent members of society who are most at risk of having to become street-based sex workers. They are the women society has discarded, de-funded, disowned. It beggars belief that when they are injured or killed, people proclaim that it is their own fault, that they put themselves at risk.
Wykes and Fox point out that the average age of starting out as a street-based sex worker is 13. They cite studies showing that "80 percent of street-based sex workers have experienced some form of violence in the last six months of working…Sometimes the violence leaves a woman so badly injured she is unable to work for days or weeks. Women are abducted for days at a time and held as sex slaves before being released." And of course crimes against women in prostitution are rarely reported. They are accessible, easy prey, that they have gone missing may not even be noticed. The authors note the case of 'Jenny' and 'Susan, whose badly decomposing bodies were found in a bedroom in a Sydney apartment in 2008. Nobody seemed to know anything about them or their murders – despite the fact they died a brutal death in an apartment share with 11 others.
I'm with the authors in that we need funding of outreach programs and safe houses "to help deal with the complex, and incredibly difficult task of helping to affect change" in the lives of women in the industry.
(Tickets to our session have told out however you can add it to a 'wish list' in case tickets become available through cancellation).
And here's the Canberra Writers Festival session – MTR on sex trade violence
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Check out the schedule for other events including Townsville book launch this Sunday and other talks in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
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Judging by the large brown stain on the seat of her pink shorts, this woman appears to have possibly shit herself. If you're on the road and need to remedy a situation like that on the quick, there aren't many places better than a DIY spray wash to git 'er done. (Slightly NSFW, mostly disgusting.)
There's really not much else to say about this, other than, oh god, why, WHY, did I not wear shoes last time I took my car to a DIY spray wash?!
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Patch 3.2: First Impressions
New Eclipse:
It felt very odd at first. In fact, I had forgotten about the change while I was running a 5-man and it kid of shocked me at first. We were working on a boss and I was going through my normal rotation and all of a sudden Solar Eclipse proced on the first SF cast after the buff. It just felt way to soon and just strange. It will be interesting to see how it feels tonight when I get in a raid.
Goblinish Activities:
I don't claim to be a goblin, but I am trying to make more money off the AH and take advantage of temporary situations. The only pre-patch position I took was to buy several stacks of Titanium Ore, to try and capitalize on the Epic gem feeding frenzy that was going to take place when the patch was released. When I looked at the AH when I got home from work, my position seemed like it was going to pay off. Gems were selling for 350 - 400g. Stacks of Ore were selling for about the same. The big question I had was do I sell the Ore or do I prospect it and sell the gems.
I ended up prospecting the or and got a decent haul. I put all the Gems on the AH and most sold. Oddly enough it was the blue gems I had the biggest issue with. In the end, I've made a little bit of gold. I wish I had taken out a larger position, but this opportunity has definitely past. Gem prices have already been cut in half after the first day feeding frenzy.
The other funny thing I saw was that in all the chaos people seemed to forget about other parts of the market. For example, there were no Chaotic Skyflare Meta gems on the AH. I put several on the AH at way above market price and most of them sold. The Flask prices on my server also rebounded a little bit.
All in all, I didn't make a lot of gold, but it gave me great experience for the next patch and gave me a little more confidence to take some positions.
Isle of Conquest:
When I was buying gems I noticed that I was just a few hundred shy of being able to buy another gem with Honor. So, I took this opportunity to try out the new BG. For those of you that don't know IoC is kind of a combination of several BGs that have come before. The best way to describe it is AV/AB + Vehicles, and I had no idea what I was doing. It has the Cap and Hold aspect that you find in AB and EoT, but it also has the Kill the Boss aspect that you find in AV. Of course, I knew none of this since I paid very little attention to the PvP aspects of the patch before release.
That said, I did have fun. It was very lagging, and I didn't know anyone in the BG, but Alliance won and I got the honor needed to get a new gem. It's not going to spur me into a lot of PvP play, but I think it is something that the PvPers will enjoy.
Daily Quests:
I'm not exalted with The Silver Covenant so I didn't do any of the new dailies, but they did change the old AT dailies. They basically made them a little more difficult to complete and it makes me wish I had finished this up before the patch. First off, the two scourge quests are now different, so you can't just kill 15 mobs and complete both quests. The second thing was they changed the number of commanders you have to kill in the jousting quest. It may have been the lag and the number of people trying to complete them, but it took forever to kill 3 commanders. I can't wait until I am done with this whole thing.
I also did the Heroic daily which was Drak'Tharon Keep. It was a pug with what seemed to be a bunch of casual players. I didn't expect it to be hard but it was beyond easy. The hardest part about it was getting into the instance. Everyone and their mother was running instances last night so it took us 10 minutes to zone in. If it had been a guild run with chain pulls I'm sure we could have completed the instance in 15 minutes. Now I just need to do it for the next week or two straight so that I can get 25 EoTs to get the new idol.
The biggest disappointment of the night for me was how few of my addons were updated. I usually log in and most of the main ones have a new version out, but I think I updated 30% of my addons at most. Hopefully this won't present a big problem for raiding tonight.
Toon Update:
Graylo - Our raiding has hit a little bit of a snag. Like most guilds, we are having a lot of absences due to vacations and such which is slowing down progress, but we've also seemed to have lost some of our focus. The good news is we recognize the problem and the guild leaders are taking some steps to try and correct the issues.
Other than that Graylo has been trying to complete the AT dailies and get ready for raid. I am in the process of updating all of my gems to epic gems. Thank goodness I have a large stock pile of emblems.
I am also thinking about dropping herbalism on him and picking up Inscription. My original plan was to level Grayvik up and make him my herbalist/inscriptionist and have Graylo pick up jewelcrafting instead of herbalism. With the changes to jewelcrafting that doesn't seem to make sense anymore and I was unsure what to do with Graylo's second profession.
After thinking about it a little bit I think I am going to keep Grayvik a herbalist/skinner and have Graylo pick up Inscriptions. I already have most of the herbs to level it up, and I don't really do any farming anymore, so it wouldn't be a big loss to not have Herbalism on a level 80 toon. I may make the switch over the weekend. Please let me know if you know of a good way to power level inscriptions.
Graypal and Grayfel: These guys are really just profession mules for me at the moment so not a lot has happened. I do need to try and get Graypal into the new 5man though to try and pick up some more gear.
Grayvik: He is now in Outland and progressing quickly. I went into the zone at level 58, and wasn't able to pick up some of the quest when I wanted to but after a couple of quick runs through HFP and BF I was back on track very quickly. The funny thing about it right now is being able to fly. I didn't buy the epic land mount when I hit level 60 because I new it would be cheaper when the patch hit. So, I went from the slow land mount to flying in a day. Its just a little strange.
Graybel - I used up all of my rested XP on Grayvik so I put a little effort into the shaman. I started leveling him using Brian Kopps guide, and I'm now trying to level him up using the Zygor guide. The problem is that due to all the rested XP I am way ahead of both guides, and they are very different in the beginning. For example, the Kopp guide has you going to level 20 in the Draenei starting area. The Zygor guide has you only going to about 12. So, switching from one guide to the other has been difficult, but I think it is all worked out now.
Final Note:
So that is my experience with the patch. Let me know what you guys think.
26 comments:
- lyrics said...
Yeah. I'm feelin' ya on most of the things in this post. Lag was insane last night, and I also wish I had finished the Argent Tournament before 3.2, the new dailies are kind of annoying.
My UI was mostly effed up completely for the most part, and the new Eclipse kept throwing me off. Its going to take a little getting used to it, especially remembering which spell to spam during the other Eclipse's CD, especially if you are trying to pay attention to other things or lead raids.
- August 5, 2009 at 10:19 AM
My guild went into the new Coliseum raid on 25s and the Northrend Beasts encounter was pretty easy. I highly recommend looking at Matticus' Guide to the encounter to get you ready. We also split into 10s and did the Northrend Beasts encounter. One of our groups ended up downing it after a few attempts, but both groups had issues with the Burning Bile / Paralyzing Toxin debuff. 25s are lot more forgiving it looks like.
On a side note, we went into Ulduar and found out that there are lots of bugs popping up. Specifically, XT was spawning a ridiculous amount of adds - we had a dozen Bomb Bots, 2 pummelers, and at least 40 scrapbots after the first phase. Reports on the WoW forums suggest to do Hard Mode to combat this. Also, the sticking to one side of XT's room does not work anymore; the nearest piles will spawn adds now. I heard that FL also had an issue with still getting buffs from towers that were destroyed (we did 4 towers so it didn't affect us). Hopefully, these will be hotfixed before raid time tonight.
- August 5, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- kingfelix said...
Have you noticed the change of balance of power talent? The tooltip says that it increases your chance to hit by 6&, but testing my dps on a dummy with 211 hit rating from gear (8.04%), FF on it and that talent I still miss. Maybe an error?
- August 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- Phil said...
Well, like every patch thus far it killed my modem. Once second log in one sec crash. I forget to log out in a area rathern than a city when patches are comming... I dont know why this happens but my lat was up in the 2ks and i didnt get a chance to see the framerate... for soemone whi is used to 80fps on the advrage I dont understand why this happens... So I wait till morning direct connect my internet to the hardline ask a GM to move my toon from an alt that is somewhere not populated, and I am off to the North. The new 5 man was fun though I did forget to re-arm myself after the mounted phase.
I did some heroics and found that not all the bosses drop the new Emblums, weird. All and all it's just another Bliz atempt to keep us on our toes. Can't wait for the next patch, prob comming out next week to fix this one. Oh, and we found a bug but didn't exploit it, perhaps we should have. ;-)
~Gargen of Vek'nilash
- August 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Overall im pretty happy with the moonkin changes, it really seemed my DPS noticeably increased during 10m TotC even before doing the gem upgrades. The new Eclipse does take some getting used to but overall a good change.
- August 5, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Nick said...
Hey Gray. This'll be my first time responding to a post of your's, but I've been a reader for quite some time.
I agree with most of what you said concerning the patch. As for me, our guild does raid on Tuesday nights.
We entered the new raid instance, the 25 man version. I guess we aren't able to attempt heroic mode until having completed each fight in the normal mode first. It was rather easy. We wiped once on the twin snake-like things due to some confusion on what to do when getting the Paralyzing effect (hint: those on fire should run to those paralyzed to get rid of the debuff). There were 3 "bosses," the last of which turned out to be a fun little fight. He dropped a very, very nice caster Dagger that I was hoping to upgrade to.
The new eclipse effects turned out to be a bit... awkward, at first. And to be honest, I didn't see that it increased my total Boss DPS that much. I did notice, however, with a Twisting Rotation, I go OOM much quicker. Then again, I've ditched any and all Mana Regen talents, as I never needed them. I might have to rethink that decision.
Luckily my old version of Squak&Awe worked just fine, showing each new Eclipse duration and such. I was expecting trouble with it. I don't like the newer version, so I've stuck with the old one that still works just fine. Like you, though, only three or four of my addons had been updated... it felt very odd, as usually for a major patch, there's tons of updates to all addons. Luckily I only use a few addons to raid, and the ones that weren't updated, worked just fine.
I used to use Starfall during the internal cooldown of an eclipse, but now I just use it every time it's up - no point not to. I have to get used to the new rotation, and such. I only had one night of testing, and I still ended up ontop of the Damage Meter, but felt as though I should have been higher.
Also, can confirm the Ulduar FL and XT bugs.
- August 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM
I got to raid the first night of the patch and found myself regularly at the top of the caster dps and damage done and was fighting our rogues for the top spot most of the night. I got in a fair amount of practice on the ptr so the improved eclipse felt natural to me.
I'm interested in why you are so interested in pursuing inscription. Is it simply because you have so many mats already? It's decent for income, but doesn't compete with tailoring for dps increase (tho I have limited info on the embroidery in 3.2, so this needs to be confirmed).
- August 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Graylo said...
To be honest, I hadn't noticed the change to the embroidery that came in 3.1. My Tailor is not a raider and I hadn't really paid that much attention to it.
That said, when I look at some of the theorycrafting posted on WoWhead regarding its value, it is obvious to me that they are overestimating its value to some extent.
The main problem they have is that they don't differentiate between uptime and effective uptime. They are just dividing 15 by 45, 50, or 55 and saying that is the up time. That may be true but not all of those 15 seconds are going to be effective. The spell that procs the buff probably doesn't benifit form it so there goes 1 second. Your going to lose some time on the end so there goes another half a second or more. On top of that you have all of the buff thats going to be wasted due to movement or other game mechanics. I've used this type of analysis before but I also try and keep in mind that I am over estimating.
Second, most of the calcs ignore the fact thatyou lose 23 haste to use the enchant. Haste isn't a huge stat for a moonkin that is over 400 already but it still has some value and there are a lot of us that are not above 400 for whom haste is of much greater value.
The Embroidery is probably a little bit better, but it isn't as much as some people seem to think.
The primary reason I picked Inscriptions is because I don't have a high level yet and I want to be able to craft my own stuff. Plus, I do have a lot of the mats.
- August 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Hi Gray,
I'm Oceanic, and I raided last night without any preparation for the new eclipse. I found that I tended to lose mana more quickly. I felt I was casting more Wraths, so that may be why: solar procs so easily and lunar procs less easily.
I was doing a trial run with another guild, with a bunch of current guildies, and against my dps-ing guildie I was doing insanely better. He's a hunter and usually is all over me in the meters, but last night I was ahead the entire time. Additionally, it turns out that it was the guild's top DPS-er (ret pal) I was challenging hard, at about 3.7 - 4.1k dps for the night. I'm in 4pc T7, he was in 4pc T8.
So all in all, I think that this has given us a significant advantage in DPS.
Re: Uld we had the bugout with XT but FL was fine and we did it with a lame 0 towers.
- August 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Ivan Moreira said...
Sooooo many lag. But I got to see the new instance and new Eclipse. I just get one after the other. I almost dont have time to nuke out of eclipse.
So far, I'm refreshing dots on both lunar and solar untill around 5 seconds on lunar and 3 on solar. That plus the new gems and the t8 i finally got, buffed my dps pretty well.
And I liked the new eclipse so far.
- August 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
So now that we don't have a set rotation, think we should start using the IS idol from Kologarn until we can buy the badge one from triumph?
- August 5, 2009 at 11:44 PM
yeah as usual yesterday on a patch day the servers were down til 2pm, although i struggled to login at 3:30pm. I'm on an EU server....
Not as much lag as other patches unless you were in Dal.
I ran the daily heroic and got my nice shiny new 2 EoT's. Also ran Drak and Gun and got a dozen EoC. All in all very happy with the badge changes and looking forward to getting my first EoC upgrade.
Took a quick look at the new 5 man on heroic - but unfortunately we had not realised it was going to be jousting/pvp 5 man rather than a normal dungeon.
A couple of people including our guildie tank hate pvp and have done none of the Argent Tourny dailys so after wiping on 3 Ally jousting bosses people wanted to leave and go somewhere else !
I'll go back as will some others in the grp as i quite enjoy some jousting in small doses and with 5 of you doing it i found it fun as long as we had co-ordination on the bosses.
The changes to the Tourny daily's I also did not know about - the 3 commanders for Citadel took the pug grp of 3 of us by surprise and yes took us ages to kill given the amount of people doing it.
Plus the changes to the ones you could do at the same time killing the 10 or 15 scourge. So i am big time happy that I already have my Crusader title and put in the effort for it, which i only got a few days ago !
We struggled to enter heroics like other people have said and we saw a few bugs inside them, like floating mobs and 3 extra non elite mobs in one place in Gun.
Guildie DK tank was very unhappy with the new/changed talents saying he now has to take worthless/needless talents to get to ones he used to have and wants again. He seemed to do ok in the heroics although the healer did comment he was taking more damage. So not sure about this yet he needs to play more i guess and maybe even change talents again in a few days.
I cant say i noticed anything different for my oomkin - but as i dont raid i've never used Eclipse and dont have the talent.
hoping to run the new 5 man heroic tonite as i've seen some of the loot and it does look nice for a non raider.
- August 6, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Im on EU side of the game and a late night raider. So when we started up at 23.00 Eu cest time yesterday it all worked fine.
After some testing on the first raid encounter in the trial I found out something that seemed to up my dps by quite a bit.
2x wrath, 1x starfire repeat until the first eclipse happens. Since it does not really matter wich eclipse you get by chugging like this I many times managed to have of the spells almost done casted when the eclipse procc came for the first time or if both was off cooldown.
Maybe with a bit more haste you could chug 3xwrath im kinda low on haste only have 339 at the momemt
- August 6, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- Selphë said...
The new cycle eclipse is boring. ;(
- August 6, 2009 at 7:44 AM
On my server (should mention that my server was amoung the last to be put back up) we had no lag, no instance or dungeon crashes or glitches, and 0 of my addons were broken. Dethecus is by no means a wonderful or miraculous server.
Got to try out the new Eclipse over the course of the new 5-man, 10-man, and 25-man which were all disappointingly easy. Somehow regular modes don't feel "right" anymore; I feel like their should be fire and biting cold debuffs hounding me...
The new Elipse change doesn't assist in Lunar Eclipse proccing any quicker. Sometimes you'll spend that 15s just trying.
It sucks that we have to wait for the rest of the instance to get released before we can even TRY the heroic mode for the 'actual' tier 9 set tokens.
- August 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- Phil said...
I must be screwing it up, my dps is 500-1000 less than pre-patch. I do my norm rotation then spam the other nuke till proc...so FF, MF, IS, Wrath till proc, SF spam keeping DoTs up till next proc, then switch... maybe we are just killing crap too quickly for the rotation benfit to matter, I have only done the new content and 5 mans after this patch thus far. Maybe i'll try it on Patchwork or some thing more stable.
- August 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Your hit rating is over the cap even for a 25man raidboss. You have BoP, Imp. FF and 339 hit rating, way too much. It should be 237 if you have a draenei in your party, or 263 if you don't have heroic presence. Well, that shouldn't cause the drop in your dps, but it sure affects it negatively.
- August 7, 2009 at 3:26 AM
- Greg said...
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- August 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- Chris Tobin said...
Inscription is very intuitive to level up. You train new glyphs every five levels of inscription. So make five of those glyphs, train again, make five more, etc..
The biggest issue is you will not have any of the discovered glyphs at the start if you are trying to be 'goblinish'. But you can get to the point where you get the upgraded shoulder enchant for raiding very easily.
I have a maxed inscription toon and haven't picked an herb myself in Wrath. Don't worry about not having that gathering. With just a little work and one or two add-ons you will have as much gold as you care to spend time in the AH with insciptions.
- August 7, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Lothildin said...
I want to add something. Flame Leviathan is madly glitched.
- August 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM
- Znheb said...
The moonkin rotation in 3.2 is hard to define for now. I played XT and Razorscale only and I'm not really impressed for now. The solar part is really RNG related, sometime I've experienced a full lunar cooldown without SF crits. In the worst case scenario this means the new rotation is exactly like the old one.
Of course when the stars align... Well the DPS output is really nice.
- August 8, 2009 at 3:02 AM
- David said...
mana is a bitch now and the rotation changes barely fix anything. with great rng you can pro out charts. sometimes its a seamless transition between eclipses but sometimes youre stuck on either one.
one thing that might help would be the new idol which will take a little bit to get. 300 crit rating would be huge with procs and insuring more crits during your solar eclipse which really helps push your dps.
overall its not bad. not great but not bad. keep dots up at all times but make sure during each rotation you HAVE to have the correct corresponding dot at all times or you'll lose out on tons for DPS.
- August 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Ivan Moreira said...
I want to add another thing. I was getting a little bit of problem with mana, but with the new innervate I just started to use it whenever. Our healers hardly go oom to need it and when they do, half bar is enough to keep them going.
So, for any moonkin having mana problems, remember to use Innervate whenever you need.
Ah, the new raid sucks so far. The only "different" thing is the trample the thirs beast do. Other than that, pretty boring stuff
- August 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM
- Phil said...
Okay, I did a Naxx 25 man run the other night and everything is great. Little low on the mana side and I have to inervate myself instead of a healer but my DPS was back to top.
@ Anon,
thanks for the advice in regards to hit cap. perhaps I should look at all the caps and re-asses my gear choices. I have my main bank screen full with epics from runs all with slightly diff stats. I think my feelings just did a 180. The patch is okay but not great as it is harder to get high DPS on the small stuff. I was #6 on the chart in 25 man Ul and #2-#1 in 25 man Naxx. (I think I am better in naxx because you don't have to move as much, eg eyebeams/ blueflames...)
~Gargen of Vek'nilash
- August 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Have you ever considered running Tailoring for the Back enchant? It's actually quite nifty since the patch. A nice little DPS boost, like a 3rd trinket.
- August 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Lazurturkey said...
Sorry, didnt read the instructions above.
Have you ever considered picking up tailoring? The enchant to back is almost like having a 3rd trinket. It's actually quite nice and better than inscription IMO. 70sp 15crit versus 295sp proc for 15 seconds. Most would choose the latter. And most boomkins I know run tailoring and the 2nd profession would either be JC or Alchemy.
I'm currently running Inscription/Tailoring and am working on gathering mats for JC.
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My second reaction to the Obamacare decision is to re-remember just how important elections are. Elections have far-reaching consequences. Obviously, the president nominates the judges (who generally serve for life), and the senate confirms (or rejects them).
The Supreme Court virtually governs our lives today, although that should not be the case.
The affable Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote, upholding Obamacare, despite its assault on the sanctity of life (at both ends of the spectrum). The liberal press is sure to embrace Chief Roberts as having "grown" while in the office.
Though Roberts nixed the so-called "individual mandate" requiring all Americans to buy insurance as unconstitutional under the commerce clause, he "helpfully" reclassified the mandate as a "tax," thus putting it under Congress's constitutional powers-even though Congress vehemently denied that it was a tax while passing the law-since it never would have passed as such.
As a colleague noted, "though Roberts' ruling is wrong, it's not a classic case of judicial activism. In this case, he deferred to the Congress too much at the expense of the Constitution. It wasn't a case of writing a bad law from the bench-it was a case of failing to kill a bad law Congress had passed."
A friend, John Rabe, dredged up a blog he had written on his concerns about the unknown John Roberts at the time of his nomination. He wrote: "The Amen Corner is saying that Roberts is just an excellent, excellent choice. Now, he's no ideologue, they caution. He's not going to 'slash and burn his way through an opinion' like Scalia does. But he's conservative nonetheless."
John went on to say, "But what does this mean, exactly? Are Thomas and Scalia considered 'ideologues' even by people on the right because they believe the meaning of the text of the Constitution ought to be what governs decisions? And if Roberts isn't one of them, then what meaning does he think should govern decisions? It's kinda like being pregnant: either you are or you aren't. You cannot be a semi-originalist. Either the text governs, or the opinion of the judge does. If it's not the text, it's not originalism. If that is 'ideological,' so be it."
Pro-life author Wesley J. Smith once said this to me on the subject of judges moving from originalism to activism (but not vice versa): "I used to wonder why it is that a supposedly liberal judge will very rarely if ever move to the conservative side, but conservative judges often move to the liberal side. And it occurred to me that perhaps the reason for that is: If you're a conservative judge, a so-called strict constructionist, you are pushing away power. You are saying, 'It's not up to me to judge, but it's up to a legislature.' But if you become a more liberal judge, what you may be saying is, 'Hey, I have the power to make that decision.' And that can be a very heady seduction, to be able to say, 'The law says what I say it says.'"
Robert Bork, who was "borked" from serving on the Court because of a massive smear campaign against him, once said,"the fact is that the public is far more conservative than the court is, but that's because the court is part of the intellectual class and it responds to the intellectual class. You know, they may not even be conscious of it, or some of them may not be conscious of it. But if, when you go one way, you get praised by all of New York Times and the Washington Post and NBC and CBS and ABC, that's kind of seductive. But if you go the other way, you get criticized and over time that, I think, has some effect on some justices, not all."
If anybody takes a half hour or so to actually read the Constitution, he will see that the founders said much more about the legislative and executive branches than they did the judicial branch. The founders never envisioned the day-nor would they have countenanced it-where we are essentially ruled by our robed masters.
Third President Thomas Jefferson warned what can happen with runaway courts that legislate from the bench, instead of simply adjudicating: "The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in . . . the federal judiciary."
Name the issue today-abortion, pornography, loss of religious liberty, same-sex marriage-and we find that it's generally the courts, many times the Supreme Court, that have legalized something contrary to God's will, and often contrary to the will of the people.
Writing in Federalist 49, James Madison said, "The members of the executive and judiciary departments are few in number, and can be personally known to a small part only of the people." And he added, "The members of the legislative department, on the other hand, are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large."
In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton said (in a footnote, no less), "The celebrated Montesquieu, speaking of them [the branches of government], says: ``Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing.''
In the same essay, Hamilton said, "It is not otherwise to be supposed, that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents . . . . It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority."
In short, the founders viewed the courts as interpreting laws, not writing them. They envisioned the justices adjudicating from the bench, not legislating from it.
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Confirming widespread reprorts, Lotus Renault said today that Bruno Senna, nephew of racing great Ayrton Senna, would run the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend, bumping Nick Heidfeld. This can't be just another marketing ploy by Lotus, right?
There's some poignancy in having a Senna race a car with the Lotus name — even if the name is only advertising for an all-French car underneath. Renault hasn't explained its decision; Heidfeld had a podium finish this year and had more points than teammate Vitaly Petrov after taking over for the injured Robert Kubica, but had struggled in qualifying. It's not even certain Bruno Senna, who drove for the back-field HRT team in 2010, will race much beyond this weekend's event.
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I am writing in reference to your article "UVA rape case: Student accepts lesser charge" [April 29, 2004]. I was closely involved in the case and was very disappointed to find the details in print. The extent to which you reveal the events of the night is both inappropriate and in some instances inaccurate.
I urge you in the future to consider why you are writing an article and whether what you write serves that purpose. Exposing to the public the details of a rape case, I believe, does little to fight sexual assault in the community and thus can serve no other purpose than to place in the public what those involved had hoped to keep private.
You have affected a number of lives in writing this article, and while that is your right, I believe you could have gone about it in more tactful ways. I am a strong supporter of a free press, but I would hope that you would be more conscientious in your participation within it.
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BARSTOW — The Div. 5, No. 6-ranked Burroughs girls tennis team continued its undefeated start to the season on Tuesday. The Burros beat Barstow 14-4 to creep closer to a league championship.
BARSTOW — The Div. 5, No. 6-ranked Burroughs girls tennis team continued its undefeated start to the season on Tuesday. The Burros beat Barstow 14-4 to creep closer to a league championship.
"We played very well today," Burros head coach Kenold Prince said. "It was a good day for us and I was very pleased with their performances."
Burroughs (12-0, 9-0 DSL) won eight of the nine doubles matches on the way to its most decisive win over Barstow this season. The Burros beat the Aztecs 12-6 in each of the previous two meetings between the teams.
"I saw some excellent tennis from the doubles teams," Prince said. "They were aggressive at the net, controlled their volleys and had good switching."
No. 1 singles player Celsea McGrew swept her sets without losing a game for the third straight match. No. 2 singles player Myisha Edwards also swept her sets with scores of 6-3, 6-0 and 6-2.
On the doubles side, the No. 1 team of Lara Luu and Camynn McGrew swept its sets 6-1, 6-0, 6-0.
The No. 2 doubles team of Daytona Burks and Hayley Weik also swept its sets. Burks and Weik beat their Barstow opponents with scores of 6-1, 6-0 and 6-3.
"Hayley and Daytona stepped their games up today," Prince said.
The No. 3 doubles team of Emma Heflin and Amanda Cook won both of its sets by margins of 6-0 and 6-4. Heflin and Kiaundra Ellison lost 5-7 in the final round.
Burroughs' No. 3 singles spot went winless against Barstow. Katie Koch lost her sets 2-6, 1-6, and substitute Miriam Kolar lost 2-6 in the third round.
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Friday my Grandma made the choice that she was done fighting.
My family have all spent the last few days in her hospital room; crying, laughing, sharing, comforting. I have spent the last few days mourning someone who's still here…but lost to me. I was able to talk to her Saturday night on the phone, to tell her I love her and I'm glad she's no longer in pain.
Now I sit and wait for a call to tell me the waiting is over. The doctors had said it would be a couple of days…those have come and gone. She's always defied their predictions. She's planning on going home today or tomorrow with hospice. But all plans are ultimately in His hands.
I have so much I've wanted to write, so much I'm thinking and feeling, but right now it's still too deep.
Thank you for your prayers and support during this time. They are greatly appreciated and needed.
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The Wyoming Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the National AIA awarded eight scholarships to Wyoming students enrolled in accredited architecture programs. The scholarships range from $2000 to $3000.
From this region, Levi van Buggenum of Story received the Christopher Robin Hard Scholarship and attends the University of Arizona in Tucson.
A media release issued Tuesday morning says that the profession of architecture requires a degree from an accredited school of architecture for licensure.
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Kay Guidry if Cheyenne received an AIA Wyoming Firms Scholarship and attends Boston Architectural College.
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Tama's 34th annual Lincoln Highway Bridge Festival kicked oof on Friday and continues today - Saturday, May 18, and promises some surprises mixed with old favorites. The celebration is themed for the famed bridge built in 1915 on East 5th Street which has been carefully preserved and still in use today. It is on the National Historical Register.
The original route of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States, utilized the bridge as part of its route across Tama County.
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Whether or not you approve of where Regina Spektor has ended up, a decade on from 11:11 – and I'm pretty sure I don't – it would be silly to deny that Live in London catches her at an interesting juncture.
While her most recent LP, Far, sounded like a disappointingly conventional attempt to secure an exponentially increased audience won via tracks like 'Fidelity' and 'On the Radio' from 2006's Begin to Hope, she's obviously continuing to write stranger, funner stuff on the sly: 'Silly Eye-Color Generalizations's unaccompanied, stream-of-consciousness blend of showtune and beat poetry, for example, and 'Love You're A Whore's pitch-perfect country and western pastiche, both unquestionable highlights here. And so while a single like 'Eet' is, (irritatingly) kooky title aside, the natural next step on from 'Us's anthemic tempering of Spektor's vocal twitches – rather than the rest of Soviet Kitch's chair-hitting and back-of-throat noise-making – it is the latter she continues to relish most of all at gigs. Live in London's version of 'Sailor Song' marries a makeshift background clatter with crackled vocal interludes and one long bending note sung high into the Hammersmith sky.
Regina Regina Reginah-ah-ah is, in short, a pretty big deal these days, but lacks a pretty big deal's hit-studded back catalogue. She can fill the Hammersmith Apollo but in doing so, only has the opportunity to show off her more grandiose affectations – 'Apres Moi's thrillingly multilingual take on Boris Pasternak's 'February', for example – rather than the half-spoken, more minimalistic compositions of the early albums, which only work in venues on a scale of, say, the Bull Moose record store where a 2005 live EP was recorded. Boys and girls who like films like [500] Days of Summer head to her shows expecting an intimate, vintage-tinted experience and come away disappointed that the crowd was massive and she only said a few words to them ("thank you! I'm so happy you're here!") without realising that, ironically, it's precisely because of films like [500] Days of Summer that her shows are like that now.
Live in London is the sound of Spektor navigating an efficient path through this mainstream-alternative liminality. She begins by rattling through 'On the Radio' and three of Far's bigger hitters with minimal adornment and at a lick that makes what turns out to be a 22-song set actually feasible – the best bits being those moments when a lyric fragment like 'Folding Chair's "the sea is just a wetter version of the sky" shimmers out a song and lingers long after its been sung. An even more lusty than usual 'Apres Moi' then breaks things up a bit – and an instrumental-led version of the ridiculously enjoyable 'Dance Anthem of the 80s' along with Regina-plays-guitar live staples 'Bobbing for Apples' ("somebody next door is fucking to one of my songs") and 'That Time' are the result. It quickly becomes apparent that the crowd is saving its big cheers for three things in particular: singles, tracks from Far and those times Spektor makes an especially eccentric noise. This is a bit annoying, particularly where the latter is concerned.
Neither is it an accurate reflection of the set's peaks and troughs. The high notes of a gorgeous, cello-flecked version of 'Ode to Divorce' get caught up in the cavernous Apollo's natural reverb and it's a stunning tribute to Daniel Cho, Spektor's drowned cellist, to whose memory Live in London is dedicated – not to mention the best thing on the record. Actually, one thing I will say for her newer songs is that they take her voice – as in, her actual singing voice – in stunning, sweeping directions. I barely noticed 'Laughing With' and 'Man of a Thousand Faces' on Far but live, the switch-on switch-off combination of tenderness and melodrama is compelling. Much more so than on the better-known stuff that brings proceedings to an audience-delighting (and loudly sung-along) close: a 'Hotel Song' that's surprisingly reminiscent of Vampire Weekend's Ivy League Africana; 'Fidelity' with the addition of a couple trills that can't disguise the fact you'll, like me, have heard it way too many times; 'Us' and 'Samson', the soundtrack to a thousand Zooey Deschanel movies.
And then that raucous, breathless, daft, brilliant "little country song" she's obviously written purely for the fun of it, which made me long for a Regina who hung out with, I don't know, Jeffrey Lewis in charmingly frayed Lower East Side cafes once more. Unhelpful as such a longing is.
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SOMERSWORTH — Police continue to investigate the multiple attempts to stop an intoxicated driver last week who ignored police through several communities before three passengers of the vehicle were detained near its final resting spot on Whitehall Road in Rochester.
According to Rochester Police Capt. Paul Toussaint, there had been a report of a suspected drunken driver in the area with whom police were unable to make contact.
After being pursued by several other agencies, the car ultimately wound up in the area of 10 Whitehall Road where three passengers had each admitted to being in the vehicle, but all claimed someone else was driving.
At about 10:50 p.m. on Friday police attempted to make contact with a vehicle that Rochester police had issued a "be on the lookout" for earlier in the evening, according to Somersworth Police Capt. Russ Timmons.
Timmons said an officer observed the Toyota Corolla, which had a smashed windshield at the intersection of Green and Franklin streets. The officer saw the vehicle make a turn onto Pleasant Street and continued to follow the car. While following the vehicle, Timmons explained, the officer observed the Corolla begin to make turns only to turn in the opposite direction so as to throw off the officer.
At that time, he said the car headed toward Market Street and picked up speed. Timmons said the shift commander on duty that evening told the officer to terminate efforts to make contact with the car. He said the officer last saw the vehicle turn onto Route 236 and drive into Maine.
The car drove through several communities including Dover, Rollinsford, and Berwick, Maine and ultimately stopped in Rochester.
Dover Police Capt. Bill Breault described the vehicle's path through Dover as including traveling on Oak Street, Mount Vernon Street, Sixth Street and Chestnut Street where he said he believed the car, which was traveling at about 45 to 50 mph, hit the curb and popped a tire.
The driver then continued on to Locust Street toward Exit 7 and proceeded northbound on the Spaulding Turnpike. He said at that point, the car was traveling at about 60 to 70 mph and sparks could be seen from the bald tire. He said Dover police stopped following the vehicle when it turned from the turnpike onto Exit 9 where Somersworth police were waiting near the Chili's restaurant.
Breault was unable to be reached for further comment on Tuesday.
In Rochester, Police Sgt. Patrick Emerson told Foster's previously that a paramedic at Frisbie Memorial Hospital reported a vehicle left in the area of 10 Whitehall Road. When officers arrived, three subjects were found in the woods near the same area. The vehicle matched the same description that Dover had provided via emergency radio communications.
It did not appear the vehicle crashed, however; the Corolla was parked in the woods with damage to its right front wheel.
Christopher Grant, 26, of Somersworth was arrested at the scene at about 11:21 p.m. for resisting detention. His arrest was said to not be due to the actual chase.
The driver of the car was not known at the time the vehicle was located and police continue to investigate that person's identification. The owner of the car was also unknown.
Anyone who may have witnessed this vehicle or have information pertaining to the driver is asked to call their local police department.
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SOMERSWORTH — Police continue to investigate the multiple attempts to stop an intoxicated driver last week who ignored police through several communities before three passengers of the vehicle were detained near its final resting spot on Whitehall Road in Rochester.


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Johnny Aralaji, the leader of a Badjao community in Puerto Princesa, Philippines, scans the sea for almost nonexistent schools of fish. Because the Badjao, a waterborne, mostly Muslim people known as "Bedouins of the sea," do not celebrate birthdays, Aralaji guesses his age to be around 70. He sees the culture and traditions of his people sinking but remains unsentimental and resolute because he knows that they must seek land-based alternatives in order to simply survive. Palawan, Philippines, July 15, 2009.