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This post will be about why I left WA and how my first night was with Lastt Standd. I am hesitant to write about WA because I still have friends there and a couple of alts. However, I feel the need to get some of my thoughts off my chest. I don't think any of it will be two emflamitory, but if anyone from WA would like to post a responce I will be happy to include it in an edit.
Why I left Wandering Alliance:
I left for several reasons, but they are all kind of jumbled together in my head. Ultimately the WA I left isn't the WA I joined, and I just wasn't happy anymore, but let me elaborate.
First of all I think the guild has fallen apart and wont be back to a high level of raiding anytime soon. Guilds and other organizations never fall apart quickly but you don't always see the signs until long after it started. From my perspective, WA's more recent troubles started in mid April. Our GM's computer got fried, and he didn't have the cash at the time to get a new one or fix the old. This created a little bit of a vacuum at the top of the guild. For a while we waited for Fero (the GM) to come back, but it quickly be came clear that Fero would be out indefinitely.
Unfortunately, the guild didn't have a good replacement in my opinion. I've said it a hundred times already, but I think being GM is a hard and thank less job, that every few people can do. I know I am not capable of doing it. It requires the right combination of hard work, desire, vision, charisma, and decisiveness that few people have. Some of the guild leaders had a lot of these qualities (including Aradane who eventually took the job), but no one had all of them. As a result the guild lost some of its sharpness. Decisions took longer to make, raiders got a little more sloppy, things just didn't go as smoothly as the once did.
On top of this, the general tone of the guild started to change. It became a lot more adversarial. I don't know what caused the change. I'm sure some would partially blame me. I did get in to several big arguments with people in the Guild forums regarding guild issues. I have heard others blame some of the new members we brought into the guild. I think the lack of definitive leadership also had a big deal to do with it. Anyway, the guild be came very snippy. The raid members felt it and started leaving slowly.
Another problem we had was a bloated leadership. I remember one raid where 14 of the 25 people in raid were officers. It is impossible make any decisions quickly when you have 14 people voicing opinions. Since we didn't have a clear leader it became even harder.
These problems were recognized and under the right circumstances they could have been fixed. However due to a combination of timing, bad luck, and poor choices the guild wasn't able to turn it self around. First of all, raiding sucks on Eitrigg right now. The top two alliance guilds folded with most of their core members transferring servers. Many small raiding guilds have folded also and the ones that are still around are having serious problems with recruitment. Having all of this happen during summer when raiding generally slows didn't help either. However, the biggest issue I had was how the top leadership tried to correct our problems.
What they did was completely restructure our officer rankings, without even telling all of the officers before it happened. They didn't even attempt to get input from me or a couple of other officers. Before the change we basically had three officer ranks, Officer, Class Lead, and Class Assistant. What they did was get rid of Class Assistant, Change the name of Class Lead to Class Support, and insert a new rank between Officer and Class Support called Raid support. The way they described the change was that Officers would run the raids and the guild. Raid Support would be the back up in case officers were not available. Class support would be consulted on Class specific issues if needed.
Ultimately it was a deceptive way to try and exclude some people (Class Support) from guild management and the decision making process. A new section was created on the Guild Forums only Officers and Raid Support could see. A chat channel was created that informally acted as an Officer chat for most of the Officers and Raid Support. Its a really funny feeling to hear a raid related question asnwered over vent when you can't see the question in Gchat, Raid Chat, or Ochat and it wasn't asked in vent.
As you probably guessed I was a part of the Class Support. When the changes were made, I felt unappreciated and disrespected. I felt like I had done a lot for the guild and was cast aside without any consideration for my feelings. The promotions and demotions seemed to have more to do with who your friends were then actual abilities. Several officers were promoted to Raid Support or Officer when they didn't do any more for the guild then I did and in some cases they did less. Since Eitrigg was such a bad server to recruit raiders from, I tried to maintain a thread on the Guild Recruitment forums on the WoW website. Even after I asked several times, not a single person could help me bump the thread to keep it near the top of the forums. My morale fell very low at this point and I couldn't find a reason to keep promoting the guild or working for its survival anymore. They had successfully pushed me out.
I wasn't the only one having problems with the new system. We started losing more members and some of the Officers and Raid Support people were also having trouble with the new system and the new leadership. Criticisms from some officers stopped being constructive and was purely belittling. Eventually a good friend of mine who was also an officer of the highest level was pushed out and she transferred servers. Another friend of mine from my FoC days decided that to transfer to another server also. It was clear that this was the end of the guild as I knew it. Many of our core raiders left for one reason or another and we couldn't recruit enough quality people to replace them. Eventually almost all raiding stopped, and the guild just wasn't fun anymore.
As I said in my last post, I found leaving really hard. I was surprised at just how hard it was for me to prepare for the transfer. Mailing all of the mats and consumables between my different alts and graylo so that he would have every thing he needed was very sad. When it came time for me to announce my choice I almost couldn't do it. It felt a lot like breaking up with a girlfriend. There are a lot of things I really like about WA that I will miss, but ultimately WA wasn't able to provide me with the things I need to make the game fun. If the game isn't fun, why play?
I wish them the best of luck with what ever direction they take the guild in.
First Day with Lastt Standd:
I freely admit that I was very nervous about transfering servers. I worried about it for a lot of different reasons. What would the people be like? How strong is the guild? Is it going to progress or is it another failing guild trying to survive? And probably the most nerve wracking for me, how will I perform relative to their current members?
I raided with them for the first time Thursday night. It's a little early to make a final judgement on the quilds quality but I think last night went very well. Most of my concerns have deminished. The people were nice. I found them a little cocky at times but nothing bad. In fact they reminded me of FoC quite a bit. The guild appears to be strong. We had 30+ people on before raid time and there seemed to be quite a few people on well before raid time also. Relative to the rest of the guild my performance was very good in my opinion. I was in the top 5 on damage most of the night.
We started the night in Hyjal. They had downed the first 3 earlier in the week and wanted to down Azgalor before we headed to BT. We ended up one shotting Azgalor which was nice since it is only the 3rd kill on him for the guild. We then headed to BT. Earlier in the week they downed the first 4 bosses including a guild first kill of Gorefiend. Last night was the first time Lastt Standd was attempting Bloodboil. I was a little nervous going into this fight. I had heard that it was very tough, and I expected a long night of wipes. It turned out to be not nearly as bad as I expected.
The fight requires a lot of coordination. First you need three tanks to coordinate their threat. They have to be the top three on the threat list and can't get to far from each other. Otherwise they will be unable to take aggro from each other because he is untauntable. The second trick to the fight is the bloodboil rotation. Bloodboil is a dot that targets the 5 raid members farthest from the boss. Since it stacks you have to rotate people in and out of range so nobody takes to much damage. The third trick is Fel Rage. The boss will target one person and he will have aggro for 30 seconds. This person will be taking a ton of damage and the healers have to react quickly so that he doesn't die.
The tanks did a good job of managing their threat. Some of the DPS (including my self at times) didn't but it wasn't to much a of a problem. The Bloodboil rotation went very well. We only had problems there when someone died. The only real problem we had was with the fel enrage healing. It took the healers a few trys to pick it up. Overall, with a good raid this isn't a hard fight at all. I don't know why I was nervious.
Monday we will be trying Requim of Souls (RoS). I have read up on it a little and it sounds like another fun fight. Next week we will be attempting Archimonde. Unfortunately the PvP trinket I have is the cheap one with a 5 minute cooldown. I need to BG some this weekend to get the 2 minute cooldown trinket.
Anyway, that is it for now.
Friday, August 8, 2008
2 comments:
- Stephen said...
Too bad we never figured out the Super Secret Chat Channel where all the real decisions were made =(
Anyway I heard that your guild downed Blood Boil? Congrats!
- August 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Leaving somewhere that has been home for a while with friends is hard. Glad you are happy with your giant step and have great fun with the new adventures in store for you. You know where to come if you need a dose of Aussie madness, Love always
- August 10, 2008 at 8:07 PM
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Kate's stepmom is not the only one who thinks that the FA movement is about "the opposite of science." I can't count the number of times we've been accused of cherry-picking the studies that agree with us, and rejecting the ones that don't. And I've got one thing to say to that: Well, duh.
Guess what: we all cherry-pick. Scientific research, especially when you move into the "softer" sciences, yields masses of complex, sometimes contradictory information. Studies aren't always designed well, and they aren't always completely thought through or even fully finished (did you know physicists refer to PNAS as "Premature News About Science"? I just found this out). And even a beautifully designed study risks running up against a previously unconsidered confounding factor. As my dad always says, it's fruitless to wait for a "killer study" that clarifies everything in one fell swoop; we achieve clarity, or at least sense, by sifting through the morass of imperfect research using the best tools at our disposal. In other words, we cherry-pick.
As a really exaggerated example, I reject any study that finds evidence for extra-sensory perception. I believe that if you scratch pro-ESP research findings, you'll find bias and criminally poor methodology. Just because that research exists doesn't mean that I need to incorporate it into my outlook. Certainly it's scientifically valid to just do indiscriminately huge amounts of research on whatever is around and hope it gets you closer to the truth — replicating others' research, using past results to inform new studies, and trying out new models and methods all help with this. (This is actually — sorry to those of you with romanticized ideas — pretty much how science really happens. It's messy and kind of haphazard.) The brute-force approach comes recommended by Francis Bacon, so that's a point in its favor, and on the whole I think it works fairly well. But part of what you have to do, in order to avoid drowning in results, is use your existing knowledge to filter and structure your findings. In other words, we cherry-pick.
So yes, I don't give a lot of credence to the studies that say fat, in and of itself, is a killing word. Meanwhile, the people who believe that fat is behavior-based are forced to ignore studies about confounding factors like genetics, gut flora, and metabolism changes from dieting, not to mention studies showing that eating can't make naturally thin people permanently fat. People who think diets work ignore studies on HAES and the metabolic and psychological effects of starvation (in that study, "starvation" means up to twice the caloric intake of some doctor-recommended diets). People who think fat will kill you also have to ignore HAES studies, not to mention new research showing that certain behaviors are salutary no matter your weight, that a higher BMI may have a protective effect, and that people who worry about fat are at least self-reportedly less healthy than people — even fat people — who don't. People who want us to think about the children ignore studies about the real effects of diet culture on children, both their mental health and their weight. In other words, they cherry-pick like CRAZY.
No real difference, except that the studies I disagree with get much more airtime, analysis, and hyperenthusiastic media commentary. Well, and except that the studies I choose to discredit generally have serious methodological flaws, like assuming that fat is coextensive with overeating and sedentary lifestyle, or failing to take into account the effects of dieting, or failing to control for comorbidities that could cause both obesity and ill health. All studies have flaws, but I think it's pretty major for someone to hang an argument like "fat is caused by unhealthy behaviors" on a model that assumes all fat people have unhealthy behaviors, or to point to the deadliness of fat without considering that the fat subjects' history of dieting might be more dangerous than weight alone. And even more importantly, the studies I choose to discredit are generally either conducted or sponsored by groups with a vested interest in the results — anti-obesity crusaders, bariatric surgeons, pharmaceutical companies. Fat is big business, and I find big business-funded research to be less trustworthy.
I certainly don't think that, if we did have a Killer Study, it would find that it's on the whole healthier to be fat than thin. I actually don't think that body size, in and of itself, would turn out to be a health risk. Honestly, here's what I think it would find: that death is inevitable regardless of your habits; that certain habits contribute to greater quality of life, no matter your size; that the degree to which you engage in these habits matters somewhat, but that you can have too much of a good thing; that these habits are practically worthless if you don't take pleasure in them and look after your psychological well-being; that the human metabolism is complicated and affected by many factors; and that the existing correlation between fat and ill health, or between fat and poor habits, is explained by an overarching causal relationship between dieting, poor habits, fat, and ill health. (In other words, that people who restrict their eating are more likely to be heavier than they otherwise would be, more likely to be in poorer health, and more likely to have a troubled relationship with food and activity, and moreover that dieting causes these things rather than merely being related.)
That's just my hypothesis, and it'll remain a hypothesis, because there is no Killer Study. But it's as consistent with research data as the hypothesis that eating and inactivity cause fat, that all fat people overeat and are inactive, that being thin is simply a matter of willpower, and that food restriction is the answer. In fact, given recent studies that challenge established hypotheses about fat, it may already be more consistent. And it doesn't require me to actively ignore any studies — it's not as though I think that research showing that fat is unhealthy never happened, I just think it failed to consider crucially important factors.
I'm proud to say I engage in educated cherry-picking. I'm only peripherally a scientist, but I know a fair bit about biology, I've looked at a reasonable amount of research, and I've developed an understanding of the issue that is not only consistent, but allows me to both engage in and promote physical and mental health. Sure, if I focused on those studies that the media promotes, I could come up with a different (and, I believe, less consistent) interpretation that said I was doomed to poor health and early death unless I exercised constantly-increasing vigilance, plus that I was probably secretly a compulsive eater and a liar. But that one doesn't make sense with my experience, and it doesn't makes sense with the experiences of people I know. And it doesn't sound like any way to live.
If you come up with a Killer Study proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that my adipose tissue comes from my constant invisible donut binges and will kill me despite my cholesterol, then please, be my guest. Until then, I'm laughing all the way to the data bank.


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The cameras of photographer Terry Richardson absolutely love Lady Gaga. Days after posting images of the Mother Monster looking like a bird-superhero hybrid in feathers and a cape while perched outside the Chanel boutique, the snapper shared a ton of images of the 'Marry the Night' singer while backstage, getting her makeup done, posing with little monsters, stretching before the show and wearing turbans.
Richardson even captioned one of the photos, saying that Gaga considers turbans "the new Jesus." The shots of her nimble body contorting into positions that we didn't think we humanly possible are jaw-dropping. How does she do that?!
She had her new "Louis Vuitton brown" hair tucked into the turban, but was also back to her platinum blonde wig in other shots, since that's a signature look in her shows.
Her puppy Fozzie Bear is in a lot of the shots, too. He clearly lives the life. That cute canine lucked out. How about those mega eyelashes too? Those need their own zip code. There's more drama in those things than an episode of 'Jersey Shore.'
Richardson documents many routine events of Gaga's life, but everything feels glamorous and eventful, even if she's just having her makeup done. He's essentially sharing a photo diary of what life is like on the road for her. And we'll keep looking.


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The gifts made during lifetime are accumulated with the gifts made at death and totaled together. If this total (lifetime and at death) exceeds your lifetime exclusion then either gift or estate tax is due. For 2012, the combined exclusion amount is $5.12 million. If you make $2 million of gifts during your life, no gift tax is due, however, if you are worth $4.12 million at death, the combined amount of $6.12 is $1 million greater than your lifetime exclusion and thus $350 thousand of estate tax is owed (2012 rates).
These rules apply for federal tax purposes. Many states have an estate tax but no gift tax. Gifts during lifetime may result in lower taxes than waiting until your estate. However, some states that do not impose a gift tax will bring these gifts back into the estate and "tax" those amounts then.
There is some discussion on whether a "clawback" will occur if the current lifetime exclusion drops from $5.12 to $1 million beginning in 2013. This "clawback" might occur if you make a large gift in 2012 and the lifetime exclusion in effect at that time of your estate is less than this gift. Most commentators agree that this clawback will most likely not occur, however, nothing is certain right now with this issue.
Remember, even if a clawback occurs, substantial estate tax savings may result. For example, if you gifted $5 million of farm land in 2012 and at the time of your estate the land is worth $10 million and the lifetime exclusion was $1 million, the maximum amount that would come back into your estate is only $5 million (the 2012 gift value), not the $10 million it was worth at the time of your estate. In this case, you have completely eliminated the estate tax on the $5 million of appreciation created after your gift ($2.75 million of estate taxes eliminated) and if there is any clawback, the payment of it has been deferred for many years.
Conclusion - All gifts are added together, whether made during life or at death, and this total is what you may be taxed on. The 2012 lifetime total not subject to gift and estate tax is $5.12 million. It is not $5.12 million during life plus $5.12 million at death, but simply $5.12 million in total. For 2013, this amount is scheduled to drop to $1 million, but Congress may change it soon.


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A new occurance:
It's my 4th time playing and something happened that I never noticed in previous games. When my 'retired Chief' finally died on of my existing villagers became a 'retired chief'. Very strange. Has anyone else noticed this?
Still no answer on 'end of the world' and 'infinate energy'?
Thanks all
yeah i had that happen. i talked to the heathen i think...and i got a new villager...a kid that had adept devotion. i had a similar one happen when they snuck into the pool and instead of running i had them confront the heathens -.- i lost a villager. that was on my first game, the second one i gained the villager.
and rascal does -not- stay when you do the map thing. he'll be there for a lil while....but not for too long. i think i timed it so he stays just a little more then the butterfly thing unfortunately.
Hi, everyone :) I cannot seem to convert my orange- and red-masked folks. I have achieved all three stages of each technology, I've solved all the puzzles, I have all the trophies except 1,000,000 food, and I have most but not all of the collectibles. Everything is built, my population stays around 100, and I have more than enough food. I have used the earthquake 8 or 9 times on the heathens and they have lit up. I've waited for the light to go off in between each earthquake. Then I hit them with three earthquakes in a row without waiting for their lights to go off. What am I missing? I would be grateful for any help you guys can give. Thanks :)
I've come across a glitch that I can't seem to find the solution to! I have a villager who is nursing, but the clock never decreases. She's been nursing for awhile now, but time never changes. I've tried using the youth power, but that doesn't work and she's already been revived a couple times.
Has anyone else came across this?
no problem claire lol i must have done it about 987987987 times and cussin it out the whole way myself
jli have no idea -.- ive been wondering that too
guest if you used the clock on the villager before and made them young again they will hardly ever drop the kid again. i've found if you randomly speed them up when they get eldery they will eventually drop the kid before they croak. its hit and miss though i've only done it with two of them so far. i have three left to go.
something i noticed when i had no less than 9 women (rebirthed) stuck on 123 mins for 2 days, as i had no more women able to have babies, I tried time warp on older ones. Making sure they were set to parenting, and choosing as young as possible. It was hit and miss but i got quite a few little ones b4 the old mums skipped off to the mausoleum. Sometimes with the bundles of joy, but hey it was worth a try.
Testiment to the power of the oldies.. hehe
to Guest posted Apr.23:
Are you talking about the trophy for divinely stopping your own storm? If so then it's not lightening you use. You have to have the tempest power. You will need at least 350 energy to accomplish this. Use the tempest power and follow with the sunshine power and you should receive your trophy. :)
i have a problem... i have a nursery but whenever i drop an adult with 3 adept skill the chidern do come to play but after choosing an activity they just wander off again.. they dont really learn anything.. i even checked the box on the deatils page for the children preference...
Plzzzzzzzzzzzzz help i'm lost...
I think the nursery is pretty much for show. Never had kids learn anything from it. Tried several times when I made older villagers younger that had no devotion and they never learned. Never had nursing mothers go there either. Are you thinking of VV4? In VV4 the mothers went to nursery. Just wondering.
dawiccankitten and others:
Yes it seems that 'teaching' doen't really do anything. I have not noticed an increase in any childs skills. On the other hand it is a nice way to get all the children and nursing mothers in one place to clear the screen to make searching for collectables a bit easier.
As for mothers nursing forever, it has happened so many times now and seems totally inconsistant, Sometimes they finally release the babies and sometimes not. If they die and are revived sometimes they are still carrying the babies and sometimes not. Seems like a true glitch. (I don't believe it has anything to do with the population).
Just starting my 5th also but have NEVER come across nursing mothers that didn't release their babes. I wondered if it could have been a glitch also. I purchased my games from LDW directly, which was before I ever came here. I now think I'm glad I did! Now that I'm about to post, the old adage rolls thru my head...never say never!! ;D
p.s. never (ha) found use for wood below food hut either.
alright so...i know in order to make a villager "honor" to get the devotion up they -HAVE- to have more then the normal run of the mill start.. ie having more then a sliver of the 'talent' already there... i had two of my Master Devotees have a child... now he's of age to work and he won't honor no matter what i do. i started him building/polishing but that's all he does he doesn't honor at all.... so what do i do
On my experiences so far is that if a villager has no devotion and ALL the heathens are converted then those villagers without devotion will remain that way. There may be an event box that may make you decide something and that decision might create devotion but it hasn't happened for me. Just a thought...
Took a very long time for me to get 10 masters of all skills. I divided the talking to blue heathens amongst 12 to 15 villagers so that they are at least trainees then pick your best ten and work on everthing else. My first tribe I had a master devotee and several trainees but I finally managed to get 10. Today I got an event box come up that said (not word for word) my villager kid found a toy that she believed belonged to a heathen kid and I had to make a choice between keeping it or returning it. I returned it and now my 4 yr. old is a trainee devotee. Remember, there's always hope!! :)
I need help!!!
My energy is stuck on 799, I cant make any more babys because ive reched my max population of 90, plus i dont have any more blue masks to convert, only red and yellow and i need 800 energy and the earthquake for that! is there any other way to make my energy increase?
also collecting new relics doesnt work either.
to Aly:
Have you converted all the purple heathens? Do you have all the relics? Duplicate relics won't increase your energy but if you don't have all 24 then you need to find one you don't have. That should increase your energy by 3 which will give you your 800. If you still have purple heathen to convert that will give you 5. Other than that I'm not sure what you can do but maybe someone else has ideas!?!
LOL i made a new tribe...and i'm making sure every one of my adults *with extra's since i got a few early converters and one deserter from an event box* talk to the blue guys... *they have stuff!sorry geek moment*
my rascal is a girl in this one....she's been a boy in all the others LOL
and totally random. all three games ive done so far, i've gotten a barrel of babies event box.its amusing!
Out of 5 tribes I have yet to get the barrel of babies. Do any of them come with any devotion? I've had one male rascal and 4 female. My female rascals are meaner than the male,LOL,though they end up becoming master villagers in the end (3 did)! I'm glad now that I couldn't get rid of them when they were 'rascals'!
i think one of the babies out of all of them did..i got like 4-5 in each barrel. what im doin with this particular game is pausing it *usually about 2 hours RT time for the lights to go away in fast mode* using my villagers in a rotating status on the blue guys, pausing it again etc... it's slower going in the beginning but then you'll get your guys with devotion..i think i have 6 or seven right now just gotta get the others >.>
to JIGuest, Apr. 30,
I agree the 'start over' button is in a bad place. It does give a second chance by asking if that's what you really want to do but if someone is hurrying then it's really easy to make that mistake. Another easy mistake is when you're switching tribes, so easy to hit the delete button. Thought of contacting LDW directly but it won't change the games already made. Might be good idea though if they're considering making VV6. Just wanted to let you know that it has happened to me once and close on several occasions. Don't know if any messages here get forwarded to LDW so you may want to go to their site and contact them directly.
That's pretty much how I've played too. If there's other things to do like building,etc. I play but for the most part I just get the experiences started and pause so that when I come back to game I can start all over again. One game though, the heathens were converting very easily. 2 and 3 @ a time. That tribe is still going but I doubt I will get trophy for 10 masters. It'll be a very... long...time.
First tribe has all trophies except--million food (only 290,000), 50 island events (14),cured 100 villagers (66) and lit fire 50 times (9). Those will take forever. I've always had my population maxxed @ 90 and then converted red and yellow heathens, making 100 (2 tribes). My others aren't complete yet. Not sure how I reached the 90 but will pay attention with my other 3! Never got over 100 villagers.
@ Susan: Have you done the blind totem (upper right corner)? If you have that done and the chief ia sitting in there then any villager should take the assembled necklace to him. The chief has to be sitting in the circle not walking around. Hope that helps.
to jazz: Have you finished puzzle 7 (tearing down blocking totem)? That's the only thing I know that you would need a master builder for. You can increase trainees' experience by checking construction for them and have them polish the statue and fix the huts. This takes a long time though. An adept builder will work for the challenge with the heathen master builder and once that puzzle is done then you will have a master builder convert and he/she can tear down the blocking totem. Energy is increased with relics (by 3 each),having babies or heathen converts (by 5 each) and using tech pts. for spirituality (level 2 & 3) along with building the statue. You'll also need to buy construction for the statue.
JIGuest, May 2: If your chief is roaming around meditating or looking for scraps of food then just wait. Sooner or later he'll return to forest (upper right). That's when you can give him the completed necklace.
on the bottom left of your map you see that area that's all covered over with stuff? The stone cave looking thing that the heathens are working on?
That's the mausoleum. once you have that unblocked (and unless you do it early early in the game it takes for freakin ever) they will put the bodies in there...if not the bodies wil just sit on the ground, but they will go away over time
in regards to getting master builders...
there is the statue thing, and it does take forever to polish it...and if you haven't unburied the crypt yet, i would just randomly toss my people on it after chasing the heathens away... course now in this game i did it early LOL so im going to be cussin myself out later
Hi folks, Im happy to say I have completed a game with ALL trophies except for "island events" and relighting the fire 50 times, which I am still working on. Might take a few weeks but I will get there. I found that when a villager teaches the nursery, the kids do gain an increase in their preferred skill. Seems to be only after they are released by their moms. In my new game I am still having trouble finding all the lab items, that rotten magnifying glass is very ellusive.
@ Rachel: Villagers don't sleep, they relax, look at clouds, etc. If a villager is SICK then and only then will another villager be able to heal. If a villager is WEAKENED and you want to improve their health then the only thing I know is to place that villager on the food hut REPEATEDLY. This is a very gradual fix and may take quite some time depending on how low the health gauge is. Once the gauge reaches approximately half way the villager should upgrade to healthy but you should continue to check often. Age and work play a role in this too. Overwork can weaken them and older villagers slow down and may be weaker. Hope this helps. :)
@ Suze: Lucky you. I have 4 tribes and have never got the children to learn in the nursery even after using 'grant youth' power. I've used masters for teachers and have checked all skills (especially devotion) for each child and never got the least movement on any of the gauges. I also have never had nursing mothers go to nursery like they did in VV4. I still have to get 100 sick villagers cured but that and the island events may take months. Tribe one is already 2 months old and I am still waiting!! :/
anyone have a problem with your villagers randomly honoring? i'm all squee cause it means i can get the 10 masters and all... and while villagers DO stubbornly do their own thing... usually if you have a box checked, like building or farmin etc.... they will do that....i got a builder who i constantly have to drag away from honoring to build my hut...
and has anyone noticed the huts take FOREVER....and everything else statue etc seem to get done faster no matter how many people you have on it? i had two on a statue, and like 9 on a hut and the statue got done first -.-
its crazy! i jus don't understand it at all -.- like i need the huts more then the statue people! build your houses!
tho i dont understand -why- in this game they 'get out of the rain' by running to the stairs....didn't they run into the huts in one of the previous games? or am i thinking of something similar?
Some villagers and nursing moms that ran from rain used to head for the first built hut or under the tree near the water in VV3 and the tree of life in VV4 but in VV5 they go to the stairs which I think is dumb!! The nursery is dumb too cuz it serves no real purpose like VV4 did. Even in VV3 the chief would teach the kids and they actually learned something. The huts and master builders take so very long to get done in this one. Those are the things I really dislike in this game. Huts go up faster if you put alot people on it but if you're trying to make master builders (especially for the trophy) then you're defeating your purpose. Makes the game drag and becomes boring. My opinion. %/
helli had like 12 people on a hut and 2 on the statue. most of my master builders where on the hut *i needed to up my population* some master builders i switched out to do something else like research and such, and i had two adept builders on the statue and they finished before the hut was done....-and- the hut was like 50% done by the time they got there to do the statue! -.-
Well, I'm about done with the game, so I started experimenting random stuff, such as turning various people young.
I had an Adept Parent, but the weird thing about her was that she was carrying around her baby and nursing when she was 56. Most of my parents only had children before 50.....
I took a risk and used the youth on her, even though I knew there was a possibility that the child would vanish.
Surprise! She was a 5 year old lugging around a baby the same size as her at her feet. She never played with the kids except for tag, and then she got frozen at 30 minutes till done nursing. She runs with the mothers to the staircase, too!
She's 9 now, and I doubt she's gonna let go of that baby till she's 18. Just wanted to share a weird happening to you guys! :) Good luck finding out the weird extras of the game!
P.S. How do you get Master Devotees once all the "heathens" (hate that word) are converted?
My first time running through the game. I have a population of 105 - which is maxed out - and two red heathens left to convert so I have to wait until someone croaks. Taking that time since nobody can officially reproduce to bump up the parental scores so that I can get my ten masters of all skills.
Anyone know how old the life expectancy is when you have maxed all your levels to 3? My oldest is currently 71.
I had 100 population on my first tribe and was missing one science relic for a long time so I know you don't HAVE to have both collections complete to get 100. What I don't remember is how I got the 100. All I remember is I had 90 and then converted the red and yellow heathens making 100. I think if I had both collections completed prior to converting the last ten then I would have maxxed @ 105,maybe more. Once you complete each collection your max pop. increases and when you have both complete it also increases. After you hit your max population, that is a good time to increase villager's parenting skills.(of those who have some to begin with)
@ Khanada: Never heard yet till now of 105 pop. w/2 heathens left!! Wow! My eldest so far is 78 and healthy!
Ummm... all you guys... I sort of have a problem that can or cannot be sloved every time I have and item and it's uncommon or rare, the little rascal wearing a orange mask runs toward the place where the destination of it is put back and the girl, Haapiti comes and scares the child that's why I dont have any uncommon or rare items I only have common!help
if you see the relic fast enough put some butterflies somewhere away from it, pause the game, pick up a kid and go over to the relic...unpause and let the kid start to run to the butterflies then pick it up and put it on the relic.... if you do the butterflies before you pick it up, rascal will play with the butterflies and won't bother your villagers. but you have to do it before you pick up the relic or your villager will drop it and go run to play with the butterflies
@ Ladycakes:
An event is usually the orange boxes that appear on the screen telling you some event and sometimes giving you a choice to make. They happen randomly so it takes a very long time to get to 100.
@ ZombieDonna:
The master builder heathen (purple) will try to fill the mausoleum as you get nearer to finishing. Once you COMPLETELY unblock the mausoleum he/she will walk away. Using 2 or more villagers unblocking will keep you ahead of the purple master builder.
I was wondering, I didnt read everything above so IDK if this has been mentioned, but I have a master scientest and I thought that once you have a master at something, they can talk to the purple mask of their specialty (in this case science) But when I put him on the purple guy, the purple guy shakes his head. Help!
Hi - something wierd just happened (at least it think it was wierd?!)
I went back to VV5 after leaving it overnight. I had enough tech points to finish spiritulality and medicine. So i got the builders onto finishing the hand statue.
This left me with less than 5000 tech points and i only had about 1500 food and the fire had just been restarted, i had about 6 kids running about and about 6 elderly villagers.
I got called to the door and was away for about 10 minutes. When i get back - the hand is finished - cool.
But - - , the fire was out, all my elderly villagers have died, all my kids have grown up by 10 years and all have half full skills, my food is upto 23000, my tech points upto about 210000.
So did i miss something normal? or has something odd happened??
Does it matter which technology I upgrade first? If so, what is the recommended order of upgrading them? (for example: science first, learning second, construction third, etc). I ask because it can take a while to earn tech points so I don't want to upgrade science technology and then find I should've done one of the others first! Thank you.
@ JIGuest, May 27,
The revive power is for the lake. Once you have the lake filled and you use the revive power on it then you will bring fishing back for your villagers. As for your 1 devotee that's left you can use the 'grant youth' power on him/her if your goal is to keep them alive. This will take them back to being a 5 yr. old. If you use revive on someone who has died then it must be done before a villager picks up the skeleton. Once in mausoleum it's too late. Doing this won't extend their life for very long. They generally die right away again.
@Leyns: you should start with level 2 upgrades in construction (needed for garden) and level 2 spirituality (increases energy). After that it is pretty much up to you. Level 3 in constr. and spir. is important but takes a long time to collect enough tech points to get there. That's where it comes down to it being up to you. My opinion. Hope it's of some help.
I was wondering, have you attempted Ian's "recipe" for the end of world? I haven't yet and seeing as I don't have "infinite energy" then I hesitate to try. It would take some time to replace that energy used to do each step. It's been over 2 months since Ian posted and was hoping for a response by now.
Tried the first one, also borrowed earthquake. Set villagers to devotion and gathered relics after earthquakes to build up energy again. Nothing happened here either. 'Borrowing' the earthquake power from another tribe could be a factor but I highly doubt it. Ian may be sitting there, reading this and having a good laugh. Aah well! ;/


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Father of abducted Amish girls sorry for suspects
OSWEGATCHIE, N.Y. (AP) — The father of two Amish girls abducted last week said he feels sorry for the man and the woman authorities say kidnapped and sexually abused them before letting them go.
The parents of the 7- and 12-year-old sisters spoke to the Johnson Newspapers at their home in Oswegatchie on Sunday, two days after Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey were charged with kidnapping with the intent to physically or sexually abuse the girls.
"It's sad," the 44-year-old father said. "They must have ruined their whole life."
These images provided by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office shows the booking photo of Stephen Howells II, left, and Nicole Vaisey, who was arraigned late Friday Aug. 15, 2014 on charges they intended to physically harm or sexually abuse two Amish sisters after abducting them from a roadside farm stand. (AP Photo/St. Lawrence County Sheriff)
The Associated Press is not naming the family members because it generally does not identify people who may have been victims of sexual abuse.
The sisters were abducted Wednesday from a farm stand in front of the family's home near the Canadian border. They were set free about 24 hours later and turned up safe at the door of a house 15 miles from where they were taken.
Howells and Vaisey were arrested Friday. Authorities say the couple sexually abused the girls before letting them go. St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain has said additional charges are likely as early as this week.
On Monday, she said Howells had waived his right to a hearing before any grand jury presentation. She said a preliminary hearing for Vaisey was still scheduled for Thursday.
St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells said Monday that investigators have finished gathering evidence at the home Howells and Vaisey share. He said that it will take time to go through that information and that there had been no decision to file additional charges ahead of the hearing.
Lawyers for the suspects could not be reached by phone Monday, but Vaisey's lawyer, Bradford Riendeau, told The New York Times that she was in an abusive relationship with Howells.
The kidnappings touched off a massive search in the Amish family's remote farming community. Searchers scoured the community of about 4,000 people but were hampered by a lack of photos of the girls.
The Amish typically avoid modern technology, and the family had to work with an artist who spoke their language, a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, to produce a sketch of the older girl.
The parents, who have 14 children, did not express anger toward the suspects.
A 19-year-old sister told the newspaper group, which includes the Watertown Daily Times, that her younger siblings were not speaking much about their ordeal. The mother said that she is grateful to have her girls back home but that daily life has not returned to normal.
"We feel relieved we have them," the mother said. "It's still not like it was."
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I do actually have a lot to be thankful for. I'm thankful for the memory of a special Thanksgiving day, three years ago, when our firstborn son entered the world. He has been a delight to us ever since. I'm thankful for his good health, his quick mind, his sweet spirit, and yes, even his boyish energy. :) I wanted a son named Edmund and God graciously gave me the desires of my heart. He is so hilarious; I can't even tell you all the funny things he says that crack me up! Here are a few recent funnies:
- At naptime, I put him down in his crib and covered him with his blankets. He looked up at me and sweetly asked, "Mommy, where are my pocket-handkins? Where's my pinnie?" (The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle reference, for those of you who are too far removed from Beatrix Potter books.)
- the other day at lunch: "On your marks... get set... GO! PRAY! Lord Jesus, thank you for this day..."
- I was walking past the (closed) bathroom door and heard a little voice inside practicing the "Minuet in G": "La, de, da, de, da, de, da, de, da. La de da. La de da." etc. He was using the Think System from The Music Man, hahaha.
I'm thankful for our lovely daughter, who just turned six months old. I can't wait to see the beautiful person she will become. I am also thankful for her good health and her sweet temperament. She charms people everywhere we go with her ready smile. We're often asked, "Is she always this happy?" (For the record, no.) She has the cutest mannerisms, from sucking her thumb to making adorable "ba ba ba" noises to squirming and dancing in the most fetching way. What a sweetheart!
I'm thankful for my husband, who has worked so hard to provide for our children and me. I'm proud of the steps he has taken to create his own business, and amazed at his multiple talents in creating websites, brochures, marketing, creativity, etc.! That on top of his talents as a musician and a teacher. He has stretched himself out of his comfort zone (and mine) again and again, all for the sake of his family. He keeps persevering in the face of setbacks and discouragement. What a man! He is my best friend. He is the funniest guy I know -- once in a while he'll come up with something that has me literally crying uncontrollably with laughter. That's a good feeling.
There's more, but I'll stop there and keep the rest in my heart (or for another blog post). ;-) I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving meditating on God's blessings!


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On the Case:
HSLDA Defends Homeschooling Family in Supreme Court
|Senior Counsel Jim Mason is a member of HSLDA's litigation team. He and his wife homeschool.
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The Supreme Court of Nebraska will decide whether homeschoolers Eric and Gail Thacker violated Nebraska law because their homeschool calendar didn't start until October while the public schools began in August.
Because this homeschooling case will now be decided by the state's highest court it is of great concern to all homeschoolers, especially those in Nebraska. HSLDA did not choose this fight, but we covet your prayers for a good decision.
This case began when the Thacker family moved to Nebraska in 2011. Committed homeschoolers, the Thackers carefully reviewed Nebraska's compulsory attendance statute and homeschool rules. In Nebraska, homeschools operate as exempt private schools. The Thackers understood the law to say that first-time exempt homeschools—such as theirs—could be established at any time, as long as they provided 1,032 hours of elementary instruction to their children between July 1 and the following June 30.
A Plan to Homeschool
Because the Thackers' living situation was uncertain (they were considering a job opportunity in another state that could cause them to move again), they decided to start their school in early November. Accordingly, they filed their notice with the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) at the end of September. Along with their notice, they submitted a calendar that mapped out how they would provide more than 1,300 hours of instruction over the course of the 2011–2012 school year.
Before the NDE could acknowledge receipt of the exempt-homeschool notice, the Thackers received a court summons. The charge? Their children had not attended the local public school from mid-August when classes began.
Shortly after they received the summons, the NDE acknowledged that their exempt-homeschool notice had been received and that their exempt homeschool was in full compliance for the 2011–2012 school year.
Truancy Charges
The county prosecutor nevertheless charged them with truancy in county court for every day the public school had been in session until the NDE's acknowledgment in October. Home School Legal Defense Association litigation attorneys Darren Jones and Peter Kamakawiwoole represented the Thackers at trial.
The state's case had two glaring flaws: First, Nebraska's compulsory attendance law only requires regular attendance at the public, private, or exempt school in which the child is actually enrolled. How could the Thackers be charged with absences from public school if they had never enrolled their children in public school?
Second, Nebraska requires every kind of school—public, private, and exempt—to provide 1,032 hours of instruction sometime during the school year, but does not dictate the start date for any of the different kinds of schools. How can it be a crime to provide the required hours of instruction in the required time in an exempt school?
Unsettling Answer
The state's answer was both novel and unsettling: in Nebraska, the prosecutor argued, children are presumed to be enrolled in public school, unless and until their parents take them out. The Thackers may have started their homeschool in October, but until they did so, the prosecutor's argument went, their children were enrolled in the local public school by operation of law—even though not actually enrolled—and were legally obligated to attend the public school.
The county court judge agreed with the state and found the Thackers guilty of violating compulsory attendance laws, a Class III misdemeanor. The judged sentenced them to a fine of $0.00 (yes, you read that right, zero dollars).
HSLDA appealed to the district court not only because the Thackers had clearly complied with Nebraska's homeschooling laws, but also to challenge the state's theory of "presumptive enrollment."
Favorable Ruling
The district court judge threw out the conviction, noting that the Nebraska law has no deadline for commencing an exempt school for the first time. He also said that the Thackers' exempt homeschool had ample time to complete the 1,032 hours of instruction before the end of the school year—in accordance with the calendar they had provided to the NDE.
The state refused to accept the district court's opinion and appealed. In an unusual twist, the Supreme Court of Nebraska decided to skip the intermediate court of appeals and took the case itself. In this procedural posture, the Thackers' convictions cannot be reinstated, but the Supreme Court has demonstrated that it wishes to settle the legal issues raised by the case itself—once and for all.
You may read the state's opening brief here, and our response brief here.
Vigilance Required
This case demonstrates that we need to be ever-vigilant in defending homeschooling freedom. Please join us in praying for favor with the Supreme Court on behalf of the Thackers and homeschoolers in Nebraska.
Our efforts to defend families like the Thackers would not be possible without the support of our members. If you are not already a member, please consider joining HSLDA to stand with the Thacker family. Or please consider supporting our ongoing work in advancing the cause of freedom by making a tax-deductible donation to the Homeschool Freedom Fund.
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The spinal abnormalities are most commonly seen in the lower half of the spine. The baby may have an enlarged head from hydrocephalus, which sometimes develops as a consequence of spina bifida. When the spinal cord or the nerve roots in the lower back are involved, varying degrees of paralysis may be present below the involved level, usually affecting bladder and bowel functions. Since spina bifida occurs in the fetus, many problems can be seen at birth, such as a clubfoot or dislocated hip. There may be other birth defects as well.
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The cause of spina bifida is not well understood. Genetics may have a large role, but nutritional and environmental factors could play a part. Getting enough folic acid during pregnancy may prevent spina bifida.


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Green light for Tarkine mine
A controversial open-cut mine in Tasmania's Tarkine region has been given the go ahead.
After almost two years of assessment, Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Shree Minerals' $20 million magnetite and hematite mine at Nelson Bay River near Temma, in Tasmania's north-west.
It is expected to employ 70 people.
Mr Burke says he is satisfied the mine can go ahead without any unacceptable impacts on endangered species such as the Tasmanian devil.
He has imposed 29 conditions on the mine's operations, including road use restrictions to minimise road kill.
Shree will have to report all road kill deaths and the Perth-based company will have to pay compensation if the tally exceeds predicted levels.
Opponents had promised protests rivalling the Franklin Dam blockade if the project went ahead.
Tasmania's Resources Minister is confident it can co-exist with Tasmanian devils.
Bryan Green says the need to protect the north-west stronghold of healthy devils was considered in the approvals process.
"The mining industry has co-existed with the environment for over a hundred years and I think the mining industry has a very good record with respect to making sure it understands the impacts it's having," he said.
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Accounting Education in a Free Enterprise System
by JOHN W. QUEENAN Executive Office
Presented before the Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan—August 1962
MY TOPIC for today combines two large areas: free enterprise and accounting education. The literature of accounting is replete with analyses of our educational system, so I will not attempt to assess our successes and failures nor will I evaluate the nature of the prescriptions
for perfecting it. I believe it will be helpful, however, to consider some of the history of the development of the free enterprise system, particularly as we find it evolving in the United States, and the implications therein for accountants and for our program of accounting
Free enterprise may be considered as having progressed through three broad stages: pre-business, private business, and public business. In the first stage the status of the individual was dominant in that he was not able to move freely from one stratum of society or occupation to another. The second marked the emancipation of the individual; his economic activities became mobile and his social status became fluid. This stage extended from the petty capitalism of the 13th century
through the flourishing trade under mercantile capitalism to the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. It culminated in the financial capitalism of the 19th and 20th centuries, characterized by emphasis on control—internal operating control within the business
enterprise and external financial control of the enterprise as a unit. The third stage—public business—may be divided into two phases: national capitalism, characterized by political instead of financial
control of private capital, and (a term I think has merit) international
capitalism, only now appearing on the horizon and characterized
by international political control.
International capitalism is a phenomenon we are watching unfold before our eyes. The economies of Western European nations are being linked through the Common Market. The ultimate effect of that system on our economic environment is difficult to predict, but it


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Decorating with your cat!
In my habitat, things are beginning to get a bit more interesting. Lots of shiny objects are coming out of boxes and twinkling lights are being strung across the mantle. Even my sunroom takes on a winter wonderland feeling when the blinking star garland takes it's place and the Christmas tree is adorned with ornaments in the shapes of many of my favorite animals.
My parents make sure all the super shiny glass ornaments are resting out of my reach and they place the soft satin and other unbreakable ornaments on my little tree in the sunroom. This is better for everyone, including me, because after all I am a cat and when the lights are twinkling and the glass ornaments are super shiny and interesting to touch, sometimes the glass ornaments leap off the tree and crash to the floor. Shards of glass are not good for any of us.


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Poll sponsored by Democratic group shows Miklosi trailing Coffman by slim margin
A poll released this week by the left-leaning political action committee Democracy for America shows Democrat Joe Miklosi trailing Republican Rep. Mike Coffman by four percentage points in their 6th Congressional District showdown.
The poll, conducted Aug. 7 and 8, surveyed 669 likely voters in the Aurora-based district. If the election were held in that time frame, 40 percent of respondents would vote for Coffman, 36 percent for Miklosi and 5 percent would back unaffiliated candidate Kathy Polhemus.
Moreover, according to the poll, President Obama holds a 52-43 advantage over presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Democracy For America is based in Vermont and founded by Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Miklosi is a part of the group's "Dean's Dozen," which highlights Democratic candidates in what are perceived to be competitive races nationwide.
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The Brandeis men's and women's track & field teams continued their fast start to the indoor season over the weekend, notching several personal records and standout performances at the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational at Harvard University. The GBTC meet features a number of unaffiliated and sponsored runners, as well as several local universities. Many of the events were split into two fields, with several Brandeis runners earning places in the "invitational" races.
On the men's side, senior co-captain Vincent Asante (Bronx, N.Y./High School for Arts Imagination and Inquiry) finished third in the 60-meter dash, clocking in at 7.03 seconds. Asante finished just one one-hundredth of a second behind second place and one tenth of a second out of first. His time of 6.98 seconds at the Dartmouth Relays last week is still the 11th-fastest time in Division III this year.
Rookie Nick Wactor (Oakland, Calif./Head-Royce) continued his fine start to the season, grabbing ninth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.34. Wactor also placed 13th in the 200.
Brandeis took third, fourth and fifth in the 600. Junior co-captain Mohamed Sidique (Harlem, N.Y./St. Raymond H.S. for Boys) finished in 1:29.48, sophomore Trevor Tuplin (Weymouth, Mass./Weymouth) in 1:31.87 and rookie Jeremy Wilson (Elizabeth, N.J./Elizabeth) in 1:32.07
Rookie Omar Scruggs (Tampa, Fla./Berkeley Prep) took eighth in a packed 800-meter invitational field. Scruggs' time of 1:58.60 was less than four seconds behind the winner. He was also the second fastest collegiate runner.
Sophomore Grady Ward (Essex, Vt./Essex) finished seventh in the mile invitational, crossing the line in 4:27.39. Ward's time was second-best of the collegiate competitors, and shaved more than 2.5 seconds off of his personal record.
Rookie Quentin Hoey (Watertown, Conn./Watertown) also competed in the mile, finishing 13th with a time of 4:35.61, a new personal best.
The Judges had several impressive results in the field events as well. Rookie Mark Franklin (Auburn, N.H./Pinkerton Acad.) was fourth in the men's high jump. Sophomores Brian Louis (Elmont, N.H./Bishop Ford Central Catholic) and Adam Berger (Concord, N.H./Concord) placed fifth and ninth in the triple jump with lengths of 12.67 and 12.22 meters, respectively.
Sidique placed 11th in the long jump with a distance of 5.9 meters. Louis and Berger were also 19th and 16th in the long jump.
The Brandeis women's team was paced by senior co-captain Victoria Sanford (Andover, N.Y./Andover). Sanford was the top collegiate athlete in the mile invitational (7th overall). Her time of 5:06.15 set a new personal record and is currently the sixth-fastest time in Division III this year.
Rookie Maddie Dollins (Highland Park, Ill./Highland Park) and sophomore Kelsey Whitaker (Kingston, Mass./Notre Dame Acad.) also competed in the mile invitational and finished 13th and 14th, respectively. Dollins finished in 5:18.01, a new personal best, while Whitaker finished in 5:22.65. Both have qualified for the New England Division III Championships and own top-50 times in the country so far this season.
Rookie Ashley Piccarrillo-Horan (North Granby, Conn./Granby Memorial) was the second-fastest collegiate runner (5th overall) in the 800-meter invitational, finishing in 2:24.47. The race was one of the closest of the day, as second-through-sixth finished less than 1.5 seconds apart.
Fellow first-year Ashley Hebard (Pasadena, Calif./Westridge) took 13th in the 400 with a time of 1:10.95. She was also 28th in the 200.
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* Enrichment firm says laser method key to U.S. "energy security"
* Some nuclear experts worry about proliferation risks
* They say laser enrichment plants smaller, harder to detect
* Iran says it "possesses" laser know-how but won't use it
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VIENNA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A new way of making nuclear fuel with lasers may help cut costs and ensure energy security but could also make it easier for rogue states to secretly build nuclear weapons if they got hold of the know-how.
A debate about the benefits and dangers of using lasers instead of centrifuges to enrich uranium underlines the sensitivities surrounding nuclear activity that can have both civilian and military applications.
Iran, whose underground centrifuge plants and history of hiding nuclear work from U.N. inspectors have raised Western suspicions of a covert atom bomb programme and prompted Israeli threats to attack Iranian nuclear sites, says it already has laser technology but experts doubt Tehran has mastered it.
Uranium can provide the explosive core of a nuclear warhead if refined to a high fissile concentration, explaining why any country or other actor interested in obtaining nuclear arms might be eager to learn about technical advances in enrichment.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last month issued a license to a partnership between General Electric Co. and Japan's Hitachi Ltd to build and run a laser enrichment plant for manufacturing reactor fuel.
It would be the world's first facility to refine uranium on a commercial scale using lasers, a technique "particularly suited for nuclear proliferation", said Assistant Professor R. Scott Kemp of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
"It appears that they have allowed the license to go forward without a serious review of the proliferation implications," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a Washington-based advocacy and research group.
An NRC spokesman said a State Department assessment in 1999 concluded essentially that it was in the U.S. interest to bring the Australian technology "here, where it could be properly safeguarded, rather than having other countries develop it".
Citing an NRC letter to U.S. lawmakers two years ago, David McIntyre added that NRC requirements - covering the facility's security and protection of classified information - "effectively protect against the threat of proliferation".
Kimball disagreed. "History shows that even the best efforts to safeguard sensitive enrichment technologies can and will eventually fail."
General Electric said Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) - the GE-Hitachi company which would build the plant in the U.S. state of North Carolina - had "met - and in many cases exceeded - all regulations pertaining to safeguarding this technology."
GLE head Chris Monetta said the laser method "could be one of the keys to the nation's long-term energy security."
However, some nuclear proliferation experts worry because plants enriching uranium with lasers could be smaller - and therefore even harder to discover - than the traditional facilities with rows and rows of centrifuge machines.
Lasers could also refine fuel-grade uranium to possible weapons grade in fewer steps than centrifuges, they say.
Those features could make laser enrichment an attractive option for any state wanting to develop covertly the capability to produce nuclear weapons, which the West is accusing Iran of doing with its centrifuge-based programme.
Tehran - which only disclosed the existence of its Fordow subterranean centrifuge site in 2009 after learning that Western spy services had spotted it - denies any nuclear bomb designs.
"The smaller physical footprint and lower energy requirements would make a clandestine laser facility more difficult to detect," said Jim Walsh, a research associate at MIT's Security Studies Program.
But Olli Heinonen, a former U.N. chief nuclear inspector, played down concerns that embarking on laser enrichment in the United States would cause the technology to spread elsewhere.
"Technology holders have been fairly good in recent years in protecting their secrets. Proliferation mainly took in place in the 1970s and 1980s due to poor export controls and legislation," said Heinonen, now at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
His former employer, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has tried in vain to get more information about a 2010 statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Tehran "possessed" laser enrichment technology but would not use it.
"Iran had its own laser programme, and they have got a good understanding about the process," Heinonen said, referring to methods used before the GLE's newer technology.
But laser enrichment is more difficult to master than centrifuges and the equipment used in Iran's research has been dismantled and placed in storage under IAEA monitoring, said the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank.
"Based on the IAEA assessment it appears unlikely that Iran's laser enrichment programme represents a serious proliferation threat," IISS said in a 2011 report.
Centrifuges increase the ratio of the fissile isotope U-235 by spinning at supersonic speed, enriching up to 5 percent for power plants and 90 percent concentration for bombs.
Laser beams can also separate uranium isotopes, but MIT's Kemp said the technology had been pursued unsuccessfully for decades. "Indeed we do not yet know whether" the technique to be used by GLE will work or not, he added.
Laser enrichment could produce half the refined uranium the United States needs each year for its nuclear reactors, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
General Electric plans to build the first plant on its campus in North Carolina, but it said a "commercialisation decision", based on several factors, must still be made.
It would use lasers conceived by Australia-based Silex Systems Ltd and developed by experts of GLE, the GE-Hitachi partnership in which Cameco Corp., the world's largest uranium producer, also holds a 24 percent stake.
Silex said on its web site that the uranium enrichment market was expected to grow to $20 billion by 2030 from $6 billion now, highlighting the technology's commercial potential.
It said the method its scientists invented in the 1990s had several advantages over other ways to refine uranium: higher efficiency, lower operating costs and less capital expenditure.
But Tom Clements of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a non-governmental U.S.-based group, said such advantages also held nuclear proliferation risks.
The NRC's approval of the license without a specific proliferation assessment "may well be a green light for the eventual spread of what could be a dangerous technology which has nuclear weapons applications," Clements said.


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Lindsay Lohan's prosecutor said she wouldn't have a problem with the "Mean Girls" starlet being released early from her court-ordered 90-day stay in rehab.
"I am going to stick with whatever the medical professionals think for her, because they are the experts," Dannette Meyers told E! News on Thursday.
The prosecutor also lashed over the apparent release of Lohan's medical records to TMZ.
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"Everyone has a right to privacy and I was disappointed that they put it out there," Meyers told E! "Someone leaked her personal records and she is entitled to privacy."
Lohan has been in treatment at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center since Aug. 2 after serving 14 days in jail for violating probation.
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SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo takes place November 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, SYS-CON.TV recently invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the economics of the Web to Enterprise IT and where the move to the cloud will take the industry overall. The participants are Amazon.com VP & CTO, Werner Vogels; Rackspace CTO, John Engates; Booz Allen Hamilton Principal, Rod Fontecilla; and Sun's CTO of Global Sales & Services, Hal Stern.
View SYS-CON.TV's Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square here.
The participants were (left to right, after SYS-CON.TV Host Jeremy Geelan):
WERNER VOGELS - VP & CTO, Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
JOHN ENGATES - CTO, Rackspace
John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August of 2000 and has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Engates has been responsible for managing the ongoing development of Rackspace's Intensive segment. He was one of the leading forces behind Rackspace's Microsoft Gold Certification. Prior to joining Rackspace, Engates was a founder of Internet Direct, one of the oldest and largest Internet service providers in Texas.
ROD FONTECILLA - Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Rod Fontecilla is a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the design, development, implementation, and management of Large Information Management Systems. He is an expert in the field of Computer Science within the federal government and private sectors. Dr. Fontecilla has Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and previously served as a Professor at the University of Maryland Computer Science Department before entering the consulting industry.
HAL STERN - CTO of Global Sales & Services, Sun Microsystems
Hal Stern is a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Global Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership, training, and management of Sun's customer engineering teams in Global Sales and Services. Hal's current projects include security architecture, cloud computing design patterns, and large-scale analytics and data management. Hal was involved in both the Sun ONE and Liberty Alliance Project architectures from their formative stages, and has been working with teams open sourcing Sun software projects.
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How the Delivery of Virtualization is Being Transformed
My Cloud, Your Cloud, Our Cloud
Shifting Clouds: How the Cloud Landscape is Evolving
Working with Big Data and Hadoop
Hosting your Application in a Cloud
CTO Power Panel: Where's the Cloud Headed Next?
How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again
Cloud Storage - Cutting Through the Hype
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
Application Delivery Networks & Cloud Computing
Leveraging Cloud-Based Integration To Increase Customer Loyalty, Retention and Revenues
The Rich Services Cloud
Top Cloud Computing Security Risks
The Enterprise Private Cloud: From Infrastructure to Applications
Understanding the Relationship between Workloads and the Cloud
Rich Internet Applications in the Cloud - A Match Made in Heaven
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
User Virtualization for Dynamic VDI and Personalized Virtual Desktops
Migrating Collaborative Applications to the Cloud
Orchestration in the Cloud
Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything!
Developing Advantage: Platform Leverage in the Cloud
Cloud Management: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Cloud Apps
Tactical Cloud Computing
Delivering Desktop Virtualization
Cloud & SaaS Proponents: Know Your Enemies!
Negotiating the Virtual/Grid/Cloud Legal Minefield
Technologies for Virtualization-Based Desktop Management
A Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security Fable
Virtualizing Resources in Production Database Systems
Trusted Computing for Virtualization Security
Policy Enforcement in the Virtualized Data Center
Managing Sprawl and Self-Service for Virtual Machines
Cloud Computing as a Strategy: Enabling IT's Evolutionary Change
Cloud Computing Bootcamp
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level of Trust
Moving Your RIA Apps into the Cloud: 7 Challenges
Cannibalizing Google App Engine
Yahoo! Query Language - YQL: select * from internet [including Live Demo]
Revolutionizing Security Through Virtualization
Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth with Ultra Low-Cost Endpoints
Top Infrastructure Headaches When Managing Applications in the Cloud
Cloud Computing Drives Real World Enterprise IT Value
Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure
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- How to Create a Gadget for Google Desktop
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A fourth home involved in the closely watched settlement of the David Copley estate has been sold, real estate documents show.
The property is a 700-square-foot cottage on Ivanhoe Avenue near Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla. It sold for $725,000, below the asking price of $795,000, based on transaction records.
Paul M. Greiff and Anita Greiff, of Peachtree City, Ga., are listed as the buyers.
The property transaction, completed last month, marks at least the fourth one tied to the settlement of the Copley estate. Homes now off the market include a Mission Beach house that sold for $3.85 million, a vacation retreat in Borrego Springs that went for $712,500 and a downtown condo with a $3.4 million sale price.
Related: Copley downtown condo sold for $3.4M
The Ivanhoe home is the smallest of the Copley properties, with one bedroom and one bathroom. It was previously purchased in April 1999 for $340,000, assessor's documents show.
Copley, the former publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune, died from a heart attack in November at age 60. He was unmarried and left no children.
It's still unclear who will receive the proceeds from the sales of the homes and other assets, including luxury cars, household items and artwork.
News of any transactions have been particularly interesting to the arts community because Copley was a mega-benefactor of organizations, including the La Jolla Playhouse, the Old Globe and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He also donated money to animal shelters, hospitals, and the new downtown library.
Copley's will offers no clues of his estate's beneficiaries except to say that Dean P. Dwyer and Charles F. Patrick are the co-executors of the will and that his entire estate will go to the David C. Copley Trust, the document says. An executor is the person who will carry out the terms of the will.
Both men are executives of Copley Press Inc. Dwyer is the chief financial officer, treasurer and vice president of finance and Patrick is the chief operating officer.
"My estate, after being added to the principal of the trust, shall be subject in all respects to its terms and conditions in effect at the date of my death, including any amendments made during my lifetime," reads the will, dated March 14, 2008.
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Westminster's Cornelson Invited to All-Star Hoops Invitational
FULTON, MO - Westminster's senior Kenna Cornelson was invited to participate in the inaugural D III All-Star Hoops Invitational on May 3-5, 2013 in Salem, Va.
The D III All-Star Hoops Invitational is a college basketball showcase where the best of the best NCAA D-III athletes compete in a round-robin tournament. The Invitational weekend was founded to celebrate the lifelong journey in basketball and prepare athletes for the next level.
Cornelson was described as a leader both on and off the court for the Blue Jays. "Kenna was very beneficial for us, especially late in the season. Her management of the team and the game gave us confidence and composure in late game situations. She deserves this honor," said Westminster's Head Coach Tracey Braden.
While this invitation is a great honor, Cornelson has declined attendance to the Invitational. Cornelson is a member of the Westminster Softball team, and they are in the running to participate in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) Softball Tournament during the same weekend.