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It was an exciting year in the Southwest Division, with a tightly contested battle atop the standings.
Ultimately, it was FC Golden State Force that prevailed, emerging as division champions following a fantastic 10-1-3 campaign. Following closely behind were the Fresno Fuego, who finished with a strong 10-2-2 record.
The two leaders were followed up by the Southern California Surf, San Francisco City FC, the Burlingame Dragons FC, the Southern California Seahorses, the San Diego Zest FC, the Ventura County Fusion, and Orange County SC U23.
Here's a closer look at the Southwest Division's Season in Review.
Photo by Burlingame Dragons FC
Record: 5-5-4, -1 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 5th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Matthew Wiesenfarth - 13 goals
The Burlingame Dragons FC toed the center-line in almost every way in 2017. They finished in the dead center of the Southwest Division in 5th place, with an almost-even 5-5-4 record and an almost-even -1 goal differential. Their season was a series of streaks, ultimately balancing out for a middle-of-the-road effort this season. After opening with a three-match winless streak, the Dragons won two straight by a 7-0 combined margin, but ultimately fell off again with a six-match winless streak immediately afterwards. They closed out the season strong, however, as three consecutive victories brought an end to their campaign, which had many positives to take away. The Fresno Fuego were the only team to beat the Dragons twice, and twice they tied the division-winning FC Golden State Force. Leading the way in a big way was Matthew Wiesenfarth, who scored a fantastic 13 goals in 11 games, tied for second in the entire PDL. That performance earned him a professional move, as Wiesenfarth signed a pro deal with the USL's Sacramento Republic in mid-August. In goal, the trio of Nicolas Corti, Remi Prieur and Mitchell North were impressive, surrendering just 18 goals in their 1,215 minutes in net, leaving the Dragons with plenty of good to take away from their 2017 campaign.
Photo by FC Golden State Force
Record: 10-1-3, +28 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 1st
Playoffs: Lost in PDL Championship Semifinals
MVP: Mark Verso - 13 goals, 5 assists
There haven't been many seasons as good as the one enjoyed by the FC Golden State Force in 2017. After starting the season with a perfect 5-0-0 record in May, the team continued their unbeaten success deep into June, not losing a match until over halfway through the season on June 25. The Force then promptly won three of their last four and rode that 10-1-3 record to the Southwest Division crown. In the playoffs, the Force dispatched the Portland Timbers U23 and Fresno Fuego to earn the Western Conference crown, before finally falling in the PDL Championship semifinals to the Thunder Bay Chill in a tightly-fought showdown. Leading the way for the dragons was Mark Verso, who appeared in 13 matches and scored 13 goals, tied for second in the PDL, and assisted another five. He was helped out offensively by huge production from Pedro Ferreira Fonseca, with nine goals and five assists, and Jose Carrera-Garcia, with six goals and two assists. Equally as impressive in goal were Jose Miranda and Aaron Perez, who combined to allow just 17 goals in 1,100 minutes, good for a very respectable 1.39 GAA. It doesn't get a whole lot better than the Force's 2017 campaign.
Photo by Fresno Fuego
Record: 10-2-2, +26 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 2nd
Playoffs: Lost in Western Conference Finals
MVP: Jose Cuevas - 11 goals, 6 assists
If the FC Golden State Force's season was as about good as it gets, the Fresno Fuego came inches away from having an even better year. After beginning the season with a three-match win streak, the Fuego closed out their first six contests with a 4-2-0 record. They wouldn't lose again for the rest of the season, as the Fuego would promptly go on a six-match winning streak before drawing their last two matches. In their lone contest against the Force, a compelling six-goal draw, the Fuego came just short of snatching the division crown away for themselves, as a win would've secured them the title. In the playoffs, the Fuego took down FC Tucson in the Western Conference Semifinals before falling to the Force in the Finals to end their season. The Fuego's 45 goals equaled the Force's, with Jose Cuevas contributing a team-leading 11 goals and adding six assists as well. Also contributing greatly were Renato Bustamante with eight goals and seven assists, Joey Chica with six goals and one assist, and Milton Blanco with three goals and four assists. Agustin Rey was a rock in goal, allowing just 17 goals in 14 matches, with a fantastic 1.27 GAA.
Photo by Orange County SC U23
Record: 1-12-1, -30 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 9th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Alejandro Sanchez - 2 goals, 2 assists
Contrary to the Force and Fuego, 2017 proved to be a difficult year for Orange County SC U23, who brought up the rear in the Southwest Division. It took Orange County until June 14 to win their its first match of the season, a 1-0 victory over the Southern California Surf, but it proved to be their only win this year. Aside from that result, a lone draw against the Southern California Seahorses on May 24 was the only additional point the team was able to earn, leaving them with just four on the year. Orange County finished with nine goals scored and 39 goals allowed, last in the division in both categories, and had an insurmountable -30 goal differential. One of the bright spots for the team was Alejandro Sanchez, who was in the top five in minutes played for OCSC U23, scoring two goals and assisting two others to contribute to nearly half of the team's nine scoring efforts. Brian Peek, with three goals, and Shinya Kadono, with two goals and an assist, also contributed offensive. In goal, Patrick Harding and Michael Suchy split time evenly, six matches each, but struggled with a 2.78 GAA.
Photo by San Diego Zest FC
Record: 3-9-2, -16 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 7th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Nico Tagaloa - 4 goals
While the San Diego Zest FC endured a difficult season, finishing 7th in the Southwest Division, it didn't begin that way. The Zest alternated wins and losses in their first five matches of the season, leaving them with a respectable 3-2-0 record to start the year. It was all downhill from there, however, as they would go winless in their next nine with an 0-7-2 record, including four straight losses to end the season. Offensively, the Zest struggled, scoring just thirteen goals, second-lowest in the division, and defensively weren't much better, surrendering 29 for third-worst in the Southwest. Offensively, most of the Zest's production came from Nico Tagaloa, with four goals, and Garrett Heine, with three goals. Shinya Omata lead the team in assists with three, while Patrick McGrath contributed on both sides, with two goals and an assist to his name. In goal, the trio of Rodrigo Sarmiento, Ryan Buckingham, and Sean Williams had a tough time, though Sarmiento put up an impressive 72.9 save percentage.
Photo by San Francisco City FC
Record: 8-5-1, +1 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 4th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Daniel Kirkland - 7 goals, 4 assists
San Francisco City FC was one of four teams in the Southwest Division to finish with a winning record, ending the season at an impressive 8-5-1 and finishing fourth, just behind the Southern California Surf on goal differential. Offensively SF City FC was impressive, with their 25 total goals good for third behind the Force and Fuego, while they struggled slightly on the defensive end with 24 goals allowed. After opening the season at a middling 1-2-1, SF City FC rallied in a big way to win six of their next seven and boost themselves back into the division's upper echelon. Amid those six wins were victories over the Force and Fuego, leaving SF City FC as the only team to earn victories over both of the top two teams. They'd close out the season with only one win in their final three, but it was an impressive one as they dispatched Orange County SC U23 by a 6-2 score, their biggest margin of the year. Leading the way offensively was Daniel Kirkland, with seven goals and four assists, helped out by Davi Ramos' five goals and two assists and Bryce Kaminski's four goals and two assists. In goal, Kienan Weekes was largely solid, putting up a 1.57 GAA, supplemented by Alex Clewis and Taylor Bailey picking up the remaining work.
Photo by Southern California Seahorses
Record: 5-7-2, -7 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 6th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: T.J. Ifaturoti - 5 goals
The Southern California Seahorses season was one that fringed on a .500 record but would ultimately fall just short of that mark. The team would end up with a 5-7-1 record, finishing in sixth place in the division. While their goals allowed mark was similar to teams that finished above them, their goals scored was where they found themselves lagging behind, with just 17 on the season. Their goal-scoring struggles were on display as the Seahorses lost their first two matches without finding the back of the net, and would ultimately be shut out six times in 2017. The high-point of the season for the Seahorses would be a two-match winning streak in mid-June, followed by winning two of their last three to close the year, leaving several positives to take into 2018. Offensively, the team was led by T.J. Ifaturoti with five goals on the season, followed closely by Joey O'Keefe's three goals and one assist. In goal, Daniel Christensen was strong, only allowing 12 goals in his time in net, good for a 1.71 GAA, but second keeper Vincent Morales struggled, allowing a 2.75 GAA in his five matches.
Photo by Southern California Surf
Record: 8-5-1, +7 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 3rd
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Adam Vargas - 4 goals, 4 assists
The Southern California Surf had a very good 2017, but found themselves outdone by incredible seasons from the Force and Fuego and wound up at third in the Southwest Division. After splitting their first four matches with a 2-2-0 record, the Surf wound up as winners of their next three straight, including a 2-1 victory over the Fuego. However, a four-match winless streak immediately afterwards kept the Surf from competing for the division crown, as they went 0-3-1 in a stretch that included losses to both the Force and Fuego. They did pick things back up before the end of the year, however, winning their last three by a combined 10-1 margin. Offensively, the Surf struggled a bit with 22 goals scored, but defensively only gave up a division-best 15 goals. Six of the team's eight wins came via shut-out, hammering home what was a very impressive back-end showing for the Surf. A huge part of that came in goal, as Adam Allmaras allowed only eight goals in 10 matches in net for an astounding 0.81 GAA. Offensively, Adam Vargas contributed greatly, with four goals and four assists, helped out by another five goals from Nelson Pizarro.
Photo by Ventura County Fusion
Record: 2-8-4, -11 GD
Southwest Division Finish: 8th
Playoffs: N/A
MVP: Niklas Korber - 8 goals, 2 assists
While finishing above Orange County SC U23 to avoid a ninth place result, the 2017 season remained difficult for the Ventura County Fusion. After dropping their opening match against SF City FC, the Fusion bounced back nicely with a 2-0 shutout victory over the Seahorses in their second contest. Unfortunately, the team would follow that up with seven straight winless, including a five-match losing skid that saw them sent to the lower-half of the division standings. They'd grab their second and last win of the season against the Burlingame Dragons FC on June 17 before going winless over their last four matches to seal a 2-8-4 season. Offensively, they were better than their record indicated, with their 23 goals good for fourth in the division. But defensively the team struggled, with their 34 goals allowed only topped by Orange County SC U23, as their sole shutout was that earlier win over the Seahorses. That didn't stop Niklas Korber from producing a positive season, however, as he produced eight goals and two assists for the Fusion. Also producing well were Joseph Ammer and Quentin Anson with three goals apiece. In goal, the team struggled as Eric Kam and Edward Delgado saw most of the time in net and allowed 11 goals apiece in six games each.


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Melissa has been a track fanatic since she was 12 years old. She has run the mile in meets in junior high and high school, constantly improving her times and winning several medals. Best of all, Melissa truly loves her sport.
Recently, however, Melissa's parents have noticed a change in their daughter. She used to return tired but happy from practice and relax with her family, but now she's only home for 15 minutes before she heads out for another run on her own. On many days, she gets up to run before school. When she's unable to squeeze in extra runs, she becomes irritable and anxious. And she no longer talks about how much fun track is, just how many miles she has to run today and how many more she should run tomorrow.
Melissa is living proof that even though exercise has many positive benefits, too much can be harmful. Teens who exercise compulsively are at risk for both physical and psychological problems.
Compulsive exercise (also called obligatory exercise and anorexia athletica) is best defined by an exercise addict's frame of mind: He or she no longer chooses to exercise but feels compelled to do so and struggles with guilt and anxiety if he or she doesn't work out. Injury, illness, an outing with friends, bad weather — none of these will deter those who compulsively exercise. In a sense, exercising takes over a compulsive exerciser's life because he or she plans life around it.
Of course, it's nearly impossible to draw a clear line dividing a healthy amount of exercise from too much. The government's 2005 dietary guidelines, published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity for kids and teens on most — if not all — days of the week.
Experts say that repeatedly exercising beyond the requirements for good health is an indicator of compulsive behavior, but because different amounts of exercise are appropriate for different people, this definition covers a range of activity levels. However, several workouts a day, every day, is overdoing it for almost anyone.
Much like with eating disorders, many people who engage in compulsive exercise do so to feel more in control of their lives, and the majority of them are female. They often define their self-worth through their athletic performance and try to deal with emotions like anger or depression by pushing their bodies to the limit. In sticking to a rigorous workout schedule, they seek a sense of power to help them cope with low self-esteem.
Although compulsive exercising doesn't have to accompany an eating disorder, the two often go hand in hand. In anorexia nervosa, the excessive workouts usually begin as a means to control weight and become more and more extreme. As the rate of activity increases, the amount the person eats might decrease. Someone with bulimia also may use exercise as a way to compensate for binge eating.
Compulsive exercise behavior can grow out of student athletes' demanding practice schedules and their quest to excel. Pressure, both external (from coaches, peers, or parents) and internal, can drive an athlete to go too far to be the best. He or she ends up believing that just one more workout will make the difference between first and second place . . . then keeps adding more workouts.
Eventually, compulsive exercising can breed other compulsive behavior, from strict dieting to obsessive thoughts about perceived flaws. Exercise addicts may keep detailed journals about their exercise schedules and obsess about improving themselves. Unfortunately, these behaviors often compound each other, trapping the person in a downward spiral of negative thinking and low self-esteem.
We all know that regular exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. But few people realize that too much can cause physical and psychological harm:
Someone may be exercising compulsively if he or she:
It's important, too, to recognize the types of athletes who are more prone to compulsive exercise because their sports place a particular emphasis on being thin. Ice skaters, gymnasts, wrestlers, and dancers can feel even more pressure than most athletes to keep their weight down and their body toned. Runners also frequently fall into a cycle of obsessive workouts.
If you recognize some of the warning signs of compulsive exercise in your child, call your doctor to discuss your concerns. After evaluating your child, the doctor may recommend medical treatment and/or other therapy.
Because compulsive exercise is so often linked to an eating disorder, a community agency that focuses on treating these disorders might be able to offer advice or referrals. Extreme cases may require hospitalization to get a child's weight back up to a safe range.
Treating a compulsion to exercise is never a quick-fix process — it may take several months or even years. But with time and effort, kids can get back on the road to good health. Therapy can help improve self-esteem and body image, as well as teach them how to deal with emotions. Sessions with a nutritionist can help develop healthy eating habits. Once they know what to watch out for, kids will be better equipped to steer clear of unsafe exercise and eating patterns.
Parents can do a lot to help a child overcome a compulsion to exercise:
Most important, just be there with constant support. Point out all of your child's great qualities that have nothing to do with working out — small daily doses of encouragement and praise can help improve self-esteem.
If you teach kids to be proud of the challenges they've faced and not just the first-place ribbons they've won, they will likely be much happier and healthier kids now and in the long run.
Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: October 2013
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The intention of the Linked Pasts Community & Sustainability Working Group (WG) is to bootstrap Linked Pasts into becoming a viable, long-term and self-sustaining project. Ultimately the aim is to stimulate the start of a virtuous cycle – for Linked Pasts to foster a scholarly community, and in turn provide it with tools enabling this community to contribute to and develop Linked Pasts.
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* Scope, and develop a Linked Pasts online publication, complete with plans for implementing a commissioning, review and technical platform
* Develop a high-level exploration plan for a technical infrastructure for Linked Pasts and linked data stores.
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Creating housing from old shipping containers is generally the stuff of high-end design magazines and the territory of the urban and hip.
But one San Antonio developer is taking shipping containers to the Eagle Ford Shale region, with a project that brings modern design to the oil patch.
David Monnich has started construction in Encinal, between Laredo and Cotulla off of Interstate 35, on what will eventually be a 70-unit apartment complex made from recycled shipping containers.
The apartments are mostly two-bedroom units with 840 square feet of space and patios, created by putting together two shipping containers plus an additional space that holds the plumbing, bathrooms and kitchens. The first seven units are in place now and getting interior finishes, but the first 35 should be in place by the end of the summer.
Read more: Oil boom makes employers landlords in North Dakota
The project's conceptual design is by Mike McGlone and Helen Pierce of Alamo Architects — the firm that designed The Shops at La Cantera and other landmarks — and won a studio award last year from the Texas Society of Architects.
"The idea was to come up with something I could personally be happy living in," Monnich said.
He has long developed retail centers, but said he became intrigued by shipping containers after seeing apartments in Europe that use them as building blocks.
"We have always used shipping containers for storage," he said. "Having seen what people have done with them in Europe and other places, I decided to tinker with it."
A few years ago, he used containers to build a concession stand and bathroom at the Miracle League Field near Wolff Stadium.
Monnich said the Encinal project isn't a so-called "man camp" that will just serve oil-field workers.
Read more: Eagle Ford crude selling for far above threshold
He owns a ranch nearby and said the area lacked adequate housing even before the shale boom. He wanted to create a project that will be permanent, and that hopefully families will want to live in.
Monnich hasn't set a monthly rental price for the units yet.
"We've lived through this incredible economic growth and what comes with that," he said. "There hasn't been new housing there for years. Plenty of people will be living there after this is over. There's a demand for families and people, and not necessarily just for the workforce."
The shipping containers were purchased in Houston and modified in San Antonio.
And they're something of a pilot project for Monnich. Although the Encinal project is permanent, he and a group of investors plan by the fall to start selling them or leasing them to companies or individuals who need to quickly assemble affordable housing, but want something that's more structurally sound and attractive than a trailer.
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Anthony Koleske, PhD
Research & Publications
Anthony J. Koleske is an expert in understanding the biochemical mechanisms that control changes in cell shape and movement. After receiving a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Koleske performed his Ph.D. studies with Dr. Richard Young at the Whitehead Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Koleske discovered the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme, an important advancement in understanding how gene transcription is turned on. Dr. Koleske went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore at M.I.T., where he began his work studying cellular functions of Abl family kinases, which his laboratory has shown are essential regulators of the cytoskeleton in diverse cell types. Dr. Koleske joined the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1998, where he currently is Professor and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurobiology. Dr. Koleske is the recipient of numerous awards including a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship, Special Fellowship and Scholar Awards from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.He has served widely on review panels, including terms as Chair of the Basic Science Study Section for the American Heart Association and the Neurodifferentiation, Plasticity, Repair, and Rhythmicity Study Section of the NIH. He currently directs the combined Ph.D. programs in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Yale, the China Scholarship Council-Yale World Scholars Program, and co-directs (with Mike Nitabach) the Medical Research Scholars Program at Yale. He is married to Ruth Koleske and is father to twins Ben and Emily.
Education & Training
- PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1993)
- BSUniversity of Wisconsin (1988)
Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- BioMed SURF
- Cancer Signaling Networks
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Neuroscience
- Office of Cooperative Research
- WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)


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2007 Cycle Solutions Ontario Cup DH Awards Reminder
December 20th 7pm!!!!
That's right folks, the Cycle Solutions Ontario Cup DH Awards presented by Ventana/Foes are back. Sirbikealot Racing, Primary and Dropmachine.com believe there are some amazing people, racers and contributors to our sport in Ontario and we want to recognize you!
Best of all were having a FREE Party to hand out the awards, watch some 2007 O-Cup DH/4X footage and of course hang out with your buddies from the summer season in December.
WHEN: Dec 20th, 7pm start, 8pm awards start, then a couple movies and brown pops. ALL AGES WELCOME 10pm their DJ comes on, so we can stay if we want.
WHERE: O'Grady's Pub at 171 College Street, Toronto Ontario
1 416 596 0327
WHAT: Medals/prizes handed out to the winner in each category, draw prizes for those who attend, surprize MTB video showing!! and movie footage from the 2008 series to watch.
$4 Pints
$3 bottles
$4 martini's
$3 shots
WHY: keep the community feel going, reward those putting in the extra effort, keep our sport growing, beers with DH buddies
WHO: anyone is invited, racers, series sponsors, organizers, etc.
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Yvonne Pendleton
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Office: 650.604.4391
Dr. Yvonne Pendleton is the Chief Scientist of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. Pendleton joined NASA Ames in July 1979 having earned her Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Under NASA sponsored programs, she obtained a Master's Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University (1981) and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1987). As a research astrophysicist in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division from 1979-2005, Yvonne published 80 scientific papers and contributed significantly to our understanding of the origin and evolution of organic material in the universe. The goal of her ongoing research program is to understand the composition of the organic material found in the interstellar medium and to investigate the incorporation of the organic material from space into the early Earth environment. She is an elected fellow of the California Academy of Science and Asteroid 7165Pendleton was named in honor of her research contributions. In 2014, Yvonne was named one of the most influential women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and in 2015 she was honored with one of NASA's highest awards, the Outstanding Leadership Medal for her success in guiding teams through challenging transitions.
Appointed Chief of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA Ames Research Center in 2005, she led a scientific and technical staff of 160 people. When asked to serve as the senior advisor for research and analysis programs for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, she moved to Washington, DC from 2007-8. There she provided independent assessments and guidance to the Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate concerning NASA's science research programs and increased scientific productivity across the nation as the time required to evaluate and award research grants was significantly reduced. During that time she was also responsible for the Education and Public Outreach of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and led a team that managed the nearly 50 million dollar investment made in EPO activities, including those from NASA's science missions. Returning to NASA Ames in July of 2008, Yvonne became the Deputy Associate Center Director where she provided guidance and direction to several collaborative scientific and technical efforts and served as an academic Dean of Students for the several hundred students on the Ames campus each summer.
Named Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute in 2010, Yvonne guided the virtual institute into a larger realm when it became the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) in 2013. As the Director of SSERV, Yvonne oversaw a 15M annual budget and the activities of more than 300 researchers across the nation. SSERVI also maintains active collaborations with 9 international partnerships.
Yvonne has been very active in education and public outreach throughout her career. She served as the Director for Research for the NASA Ames Astrobiology Academy in 2004, developed the Voyages Through Time education curricula with the SETI Institute, served as an astronomer to local classrooms for over a decade with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and taught astronomy at the college level as an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University.
To read more about Yvonne, please read "A Lifetime Spent Studying the Stars, Searching for Answers", a biography of Dr. Yvonne Pendleton on the official NASA-Ames Research Center website.
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- Decoding the Domino: The Dark Side of Iapetus (2001)
- Observational Constraints on the Abundance and Evolution of "XCN" in Interstellar Grain Mantles (2001)
- The Organic Refractory Material in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium: Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Constraints (2002)
- Hydrocarbons, Ices, and "XCN" in the Line of Sight Toward the Galactic Center (2002)
- The Effects of Ion Irradiation on the Evolution of the Carrier of the 3.4 Micron Interstellar Absorption Band (2003)
- Educating the Next Generation of SETI Scientists: Voyages Through Time (2003)
- Spectroscopy of Hydrocarbon Grains toward the Galactic Center and Quintuplet Cluster (2003)
- A Census of Dust Absorption at the Galactic Centre (2003)
- Hydrocarbons in Meteorites, The Milky Way, and Other Galaxies (2004)
- Hydrocarbon Dust Absorption in Seyfert Galaxies and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (2004)
- A Candidate Analog for Carbonaceous Interstellar Dust : Formation By Reactive Plasma Polymerization (2005)
- Refractory Carbonaceous Material in Luminous Galaxies: Mid-IR Spectroscopic Constraints (2005)
- The Relationship Between the Optical Depth of the 9.7 μm Silicate Absorption Feature and Infrared Differential Extinction in Dense Clouds (2007)
- Spectropolarimetry of the 3.4 μm Absorption Feature in NGC 1068 (2007)
- The Perspectives of Laboratory Dusty Plasmas for the Applications in Astrophysics (2008)
- The origin and evolution of interstellar Organics (2008)
- Comparing ice composition in dark molecular clouds (2008)
- Hydrocarbons on Saturn's satellites Iapetus and Phoebe (2008)
- The Nature of Carbon Dioxide Bearing Ices in Quiescent Molecular Clouds (2009)
- Ices in the Quiescent IC 5146 Dense Cloud (2011)
- On the Formation of Interstellar Water Ice: Constraints from a Search for Hydrogen Peroxide Ice in Molecular Clouds (2011)
- Organic materials in planetary and protoplanetary systems: nature or nurture? (2011)
- A Spitzer Survey of an Isolated Globule: DC314.8-5.1 (2011)
- Infrared Spectroscopic Survey Of The Quiescent Medium Of Nearby Clouds. I. Ice Formation And Grain Growth In Lupus (2013)
- Aromatic and Aliphatic Organic Materials on Iapetus: Analysis of Cassini VIMS Data (2014)
- Water on the Moon. IAU XXIX General Assembly Conference Proceedings (Cambridge University Press), Submitted (2015)
Recent Posters:
- Ice Formation and Grain Growth in the Quiescent Medium of the Lupus Molecular Clouds (2014)
- Interstellar Organics, the Solar Nebula, and Saturn's Satellite Phoebe [22MB PDF] (2014)
- Phobos low density: are macroporosity and/or water ice 'condiciones sine
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Facebook Unveils Vine-Like Video Service
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) unveiled a new video feature for its photo sharing app Instagram on Thursday at a highly-anticipated product launch event held at its Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters.
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Video on Instagram users will be able to shoot videos up to 15 seconds long and will have access to 13 new filters. The service will be integrated into the existing Instagram app and will feature new ground-breaking technology Facebook is calling "cinema," which allows users to edit their videos and remove excess shakiness.
"This is the same Instagram we all know and love but it moves," said Instagram founder Kevin Systrom at the event.
Instagram's cinema will directly compete with Twitter's Vine app, a service launched in January that allows users to shoot six-second videos.
Re-watch the Facebook live stream.
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg said the Instagram team has more than tripled since Facebook acquired it in 2012 for $1 billion. It now as 130 million users that have shared a collective 16 billion photos, with more than one billion "likes" being recorded every day.
"We're really just getting started here with this product," he said at the launch event.
While Facebook didn't get into the advertising potential of the new cinema feature, the videos will likely open up a treasure trove of new ad leverage that can help the social network grow its bottom line.
Spruce Media, a leading provider of enterprise-class marketing solutions for Facebook, says it believes Facebook will make a "big play in video advertising" over the next year. Much of that could stem from ads derived from a new video service.
"From a user stand point it's a smart move – there's clearly a demand for lightweight video sharing (not Youtube) and with Vine showing 13M active users, it's starting to hit a tipping point," said Spruce Media CEO Rob Jewell.
The photo app has not been a significant driver to Facebook's top line.
"Facebook is sitting on a sleeping giant in video advertising," Jewell said.
Facebook product manager Greg Lindley said last week the company would be "rolling out a series of features" over the next several weeks. Its shares on Thursday fell 2.3% to $23.76 following the announcement, in-line with a steep drop seen across equity markets.
"Facebook still needs to come up with a strategy for how to monetize Instagram which so far it has failed to do," said Eden Zoller, principal consumer analyst at Ovum. "Given the popularity of Twitter's Vine service, it is perhaps more surprising that Facebook has not introduced video for Instagram sooner."


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Orchestra Concert Highlights Inner Talents
Albion College's Symphony Orchestra associate conductor and bass instructor are featured on their concert of 20th-century music Sunday, October 28, at 4 p.m. in the College Goodrich Chapel.
Adjunct bass instructor Ed Fedewa moves center stage performing Serge Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto, while associate conductor Drew Dunham conducts his arrangement from Bartok's "Hungarian Peasant Songs." Rounding out the concert are "Ein Marchen," Czech composer Josef Suk's suite inspired by four Czech folk tales, and Sibelius's masterpiece "Finlandia," performed with the Albion College Concert Choir.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Albion College Music Department, or 517/629-0481.


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Hi everybody,
I was very lucky to meet Cy Curnin for a long interview in French (but with English subtitles) about the story of The Fixx. The band remains unfortunatly unknown in France and it is now time to change this situation. In my opinion, this video gives a nice opportunity to discover the band. And for those who already know and appreciate it, a nice way to have a good time!
So, enjoy, and don't hesitate to share it with french friends, if you have some!


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macOS High Sierra
Repeat, copy, or save the last spoken phrase
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier.
To repeat a phrase, press VO-Z.
To copy a phrase to the Clipboard (or "Pasteboard"), press VO-Shift-C.
To save a phrase as an audio file, press VO-Shift-Z.
The file is saved in an archive folder on your desktop. The folder also contains log files that can be used to troubleshoot problems.


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Google already sold out of the off-contract Nexus 4 but T-Mobile told The Verge that they'll be selling the 16GB Nexus 4 for 200 bucks (with a two-year contract) tomorrow. If you don't want to tie yourself with a T-Mobile contract, the same phone will cost you $500. Yikes. That's a steep price bump from the no contract $350 16GB Nexus 4 that was at the Google Play store earlier but if you snooze, you lose money. [The Verge]
T-Mobile Will Sell the Sold Out Nexus 4 for 200 Bucks Tomorrow


text: Oracle recommends websites switch to signed Java applets, a practice that establishes the identity of the signer and was used to boost privileges. It also reduced the effectiveness of the sandbox. In a move seen as one of the most significant security improvement, code signing an applet no longer confers sandbox escape privileges. Metasploit creator and Rapid7 CSO HD Moore said the practice of signing applets has been targeted by attackers and consistently abused by security auditors for years.


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Project Director: Salimah LaForce (GT).
Task leaders: Task 1 Salimah LaForce (GT); Task 2 Ben Lippincott (Shepherd Center); Task 3 Helena Mitchell, Ph.D (GT).
This dissemination project focuses on government, industry and disability stakeholders to raise awareness and champion adoption of accessible solutions for current and future wirelessly connected technologies. Objectives are addressed through three tasks.
Task 1: Inform regulatory rulemakings and policy activities.
The exponential growth of wirelessly connected technologies that enhance usability of the digital and physical environments includes the development of services, devices and applications that transform how we live, learn, work and play. Regulatory agencies realize that the release of new technology outpaces the regulatory process, and are consequently accelerating rulemaking as well as soliciting greater public input into the process. Involvement in the "process" remains a critical task. Our policy and outreach/dissemination efforts since 2011 have reached more than 15,000 persons annually including others who provide assistance to individuals with disabilities, those with temporary disabilities (first responders - firemen with limited visibility), functionally illiterate, the poor, rural populations; those for whom English is a second language, and returning vets with acquired disabilities. Our work suggests approaches to ensure an inclusive wireless technology environment that improves community life and provide "powerful capabilities for human interconnectedness".
This task will inform the development of wireless technology policy and regulations so it is inclusive of people with disabilities. Outputs will include providing formal written comments and testimony, ex parte comments, participation on accessibility committees and collaborating with disability stakeholders, public/private industry experts on the technological aspects of creating accessible wireless policy and procedures. The team will provide ongoing regulatory and legislative review and translate knowledge from research and development projects into comments, filings, and other policy outputs to inform policymakers as they revise and develop rules and regulations that govern the provision of wireless technologies and services. The goal is to ensure that the evidenced-based, policy recommendations put forth in response to Federal rulemakings can be cited, referenced and retrieved by agencies and other interested parties. Further, via our Technology and Disability Policy Highlights (TDPH) newsletter, website and newsroom, and our social media platforms, disseminate findings to policymakers, Federal agencies, advocacy organizations, designers, wireless technology developers, manufacturers, and others.
Task 2: Increase outreach and training to consumers with disabilities
For consumers with disabilities the constantly-changing landscape of wireless devices and service options complicates determining which products provide the best user experiences. Achieving increased accessibility of wireless technologies and services requires not only the conduct of cutting-edge research and development, but also proactive, comprehensive dissemination and technology transfer. This task will provide consumer oriented training and technical assistance in selecting and using wireless and wearable devices, services and applications. Our online Accessibility Resources survey results suggested that online information was difficult to find, often buried several pages deep within the structure of a company's website. As such users with disabilities became frustrated and concluded that the wireless industry was not paying sufficient attention to their needs. This task proactively promotes awareness through outreach activities of available accessibility options for consumers with disabilities, including working closely with industry to implement proactive strategies.
Task 3: Advance awareness among industry of accessibility solutions to improve access to wireless products and services.
One of the changes in the industry over the past decade has been the increasing presence of dedicated company departments that handle product related accessibility, and attempt to find ways to address user experience problems. Our established relationships with key manufacturers of traditional wireless devices and service providers will enhance our deliverables to consumers with disabilities. Outreach to manufacturers of wearable and applicable Internet of Things (IoT) devices and potential next generation wireless manufacturers, as well as assistive technology designers and developers will be among the expanded target audience. By working with industry accessibility programs in organizations such as CTIA-The Wireless Association, Consumer Technology Association (CTA, formerly CEA), Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), G3ict, and Mobile Manufacturer's Forum (MMF) people with disabilities have benefited on the latest technologies introduced into the marketplace. The Re: Wireless monthly e-newsletter covers the latest in accessibility new from industry and consumers and will include the impact of wearable technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) on accessibility and inclusive community living. In parallel, our significant commitment to consumer advocacy organizations such as the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta (CVI), Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDI), and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) allows their important contributions to be included in our outreach vehicles. Consumer awareness of accessibility features of smartphones has been improved in part as a result of national education workshops called Wireless Independence Now (WIN), a partnership with AT&T. Further, partnerships with disability consumer advocacy groups like those above have contributed to ensuring that end-user input is used by industry as they develop new devices and services. New task components will infuse innovation and inclusiveness goals.
State of Technology Conference (SOT)
The State of Technology Conference will bring together consumer, industry, academic, and regulatory stakeholders to explore the implications of the current state and emerging trends in wireless technologies and applications that are most likely to positively impact people with disabilities. We never charge a registration fee to ensure participation by the disability community. The SOT is planned for 2020. We anticipate, based on communications technology and usage trends that 2016-2021 and beyond, there will be major industry transformation which we will examine during the SoT sessions. In addition, three leadership workshops, on topics impacting independence, quality of life and community participation of people with disabilities will inform the direction for the SOT conference.


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the guys name is seriously 'Kitcat'????
The Open Rights Group (ORG) has condemned the May 2007 pilots of e-voting and electronic vote counting in the English and Scottish local elections, saying the technology involved is simply not suitable for use in statutory elections. "We came into this not as a blank sheet," ORG e-voting coordinator Jason Kitcat concedes. "But …
With everyone banging on about their rights, might it be time to include the associated responsibilities?
Force people to vote (preferably using a paper ballot) and include a "none of the above" box on the form. This would allow people to express their justified boredom with the same ol', same ol'. It may be impotent frustration initially, but when the political elite are forced to acknowledge the scale of the problem of voter apathy through such a scheme, the excuses will be whittled down.
It's possible that the motivation behind some of the initiatives is about trying to re-engage people (i.e. greater postal voting / e-voting), but the execution of these plans has been diabolical at best and brought shame to one of the oldest democracies in the world ("A farce worthy of a banana republic" according to the judge in the Birmingham postal vote fraud).
Of course, there's every chance that the mindless, latté-sipping drifters of our celebrity-obsessed consumer society will continue with their "am I bovvered " approach to this. What else can we do to (metaphorically) put a rocket up their ar$e and get them interested in something that really does affect them on a daily basis? Too many lives have been lost defending our freedom to allow these poorly schooled morons to perpetuate their special brand of laisse-faire cretinism.
Actually, this also ties in nicely with a previous post of mine ("Technology for technology's sake"). All this extra expense and it still doesn't work! Remember that story about the Yanks spending $millions developing a pen that would write in space? The Russians saved a few bob by taking a pencil instead.
"Our view is that you can't actually build an electronic voting system that meets these [Kitcat is presumably refering to a voters ability to check that their vote was counted] requirements," Kitcat told us.
Voters are given no guarantee in today's system that their vote is counted. They are given assurance yes, but no guarantee. Furthermore, today's systems do not even provide privacy - the way in which a voter cast her vote can be revealed!
e-voting systems aim to provide strong cryptographic guarantees. The none-technical reader should note that a crypto guarantee is far stronger than an assurance. One such e-voting system is the well known FOO protocol, developed in 1992, which has been verified to provide the following properties:
Privacy: the way in which a voter cast her vote is not revealed to anybody.
Fairness: no partial tally of results may be obtained until the official count.
Eligibility: only authorised voters may vote and at most once.
Individual verifiability: a voter can verify that her vote was really counted.
Kitcat's claim that you cannot build an electronic voting system that allows voter verifiability is simply unfounded - you can. However, FOO is not suitable for practical deployment*. I am not aware of all the literature in the field, but I suspect there are e-voting protocols in existence which satisfy at least the four properties introduced above. And maybe even:
Receipt-freeness: the voter is unable to prove that she voted in a particular way.
Universal verifiability: anybody can check that the published tally really is the sum of the votes.
Receipt-freeness prevents vote selling - if a voter buyer cannot be convinced that a voter did indeed vote in a particular manner, he will not pay the voter.
* FOO requires voters to participate in three sessions, thus making it impractical for use in local/general elections.
Why not use the electronic equipment to produce a machine punched card with your vote. You can then manually put this into the counting box. The cards can then be machine read with (presumably) a pretty high accuracy due to the uniformity of the holes punched.
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
You are not so far off...
The idea I read was from Bruce Scnheier. You use an electronic system to prepare (note: prepare, not cast) your vote. When you are ready, you press the "OK" button, and a small printer whirrs out the voting paper, pre-printed, and stores voting info into a DB.
From there, the voter checks the paper, and either cancels, retries or maintains. This is also stored.
The voter then walks over to the ballot box and slides the print in.
At the end of the vote, the total number of votes are tallied, and compared to a printout. If everything matches up, then there is a chance that the computer is right, as long as no voters complained about the wrong slip being printed.
A cursory count of the ballots can also be done by hand and compared to the box.
If all is ok, then the computer is a backup and "recount" to the manual paper system.
If there is a discrepancy, then the paper votes are law, as they were checked by the voters by hand before voting.
In this way, the standard voting process is achieved, on paper, but using the computer as the recount. Also, if all is OK, then the computer can also upload the statistics part of the vote data to internet and inform the voter that they have voted and that their vote has been taken into account, or that a manual recount has taken place that is overriding the computer tally.
This would alleviate the needs of multiple manual recounts, but voting is a human affair and it is wrong to delete the human element from the checks and balances. A computerised system is there to assist, but in no case is it there to replace (and voters like putting their piece of paper into the box).
It reminds me again of a short story I read on the internet about a US presidential election 100% run on federal mandated electronic voting machines. At the end of voting day, the president elect was a 22 year old unpartisan candidate unknown to the general public who was until that day a programmer from the company that made the electronic voting software, with a totally unexpected unexpected landslide win....
"Come to the podium M. Acker. My fellow Americans, I present John H.Acker, the new president of the United States..."
Yes there are cryptographic algorithms for voting that provide all sorts of lovely provable properties. However you have to factor in that the average person is incapable of understanding the principle of operation of such a system, let alone auditing one. A black box that claims to use cryptomagic is no more trustworthy to Joe Bloggs than a black box that claims to add up correctly.
Look at the state of online banking over https. A customer, who always checks that the url is at the correct domain and that a padlock symbol appears in the status bar, is above average. Yet this is a long way from truly auditing the system and still relies on a lot of blind faith. Did you check the host certificate's chain of trust? Has the browser been modified? Has the OS,graphics driver,keyboard driver,keyboard,browser compiler or CPU been tampered with? What about the compiler used to produce the software that did the design of the northbridge in the machine that's doing the auditing calculations?
Full e-voting will never be guaranteed secure. Electronic counting of some easy to recognise physical voting token sounds like a much better way to me.
@Sir Runcible Spoon,
e-voting does not necessarily mean voting on a computer. The people involved with making these decisions don't even know this. e-voting incorporates all technologies which allow voting by an electronic means. Therefore your punching machine and an electronic ballot counter fits the definition and is thus an e-voting system.
Daniel proposes a method _almost_ like the "Voter Verified Audit" one, but including the step:
The voter then walks over to the ballot box and slides the print in.
This has the problem of being enough like the traditional paper ballot to be vulnerable to the "shirt-tail vote". This starts with one voter palming the real ballot and sliding a blank sheet of paper or fake ballot into the box. It will be discarded, but no matter. The ballot thus obtained is marked with the party's choices, the first "voter" is paid, and the second (third, etc.) voter is given the pre-marked ballot to deposit, returning the new unmarked ballot each time to the waiting party officials.
Not that the scheme with a visible (but not touchable) printed ballot is immune to problems. Since the "ballots" are kept in a single roll, it is possible to discover with fair accuracy what votes a particular voter cast, followed by reprisals from the authorities.
Any quick fix is likely wrong. There is (was?) a freely available (and free-software) system from Australia, inventors of the secret ballot, some years ago, that used a keystroke audit trail for verification, but I do not know what came of it.
Considering the amount of FUD/spin/shit the general masses are willing to accept from people they precieve to be in authority its a wonder people still think its all a good idea.
Germany in the 1918/19 was the first country to allow universal suffrage and using PR (which on the surface may seem even more democratic). Fast forward 15 odd years and look where they were.
Universal Suffrage Democracy is not all its cracked up to be if u ask me, even the Greeks didn't let everyone vote.
What you all need to do is make me your dictator, I will ensure that people will be proud of Britain but also that there will be social equality, does that make me a National Socialist i wonder :)


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April 30, 2012
A Chilly Challenge!
The First Annual Cougar Challenge 5K was quite a success, with more than 150 runners and walkers taking on the 3.1-mile course at Bridgeview Golf Center Saturday morning. Bundled up against temperatures in the 40s, runners and walkers completed the course to raise money for student book scholarships. The race was organized by the Staff Advisory Council. Race results are online here: http://www.premierraces.com/viewresults.asp?resultsID=861.
In-Service Day survey available
The link to a short survey about In-Service Day has been restored, so if you were unable to access it last week, please try again here: http://web.cscc.edu/snapwebhost/surveylogin.asp?k=133346510738
Scholastic Book Fair starts today
Visit the Scholastic Book Fair, going on today and tomorrow at the Bookstore!
Writers Conference keynote address by Naomi Wolf is free
Naomi Wolf
The Columbus State 9th Annual Writers Conference this Saturday begins with breakfast at 8:00 a.m. and includes 20 workshop sessions (including a session with Naomi Wolf), lunch, plus a keynote address and book signing with Naomi Wolf. Cost for the full day is $60 if you preregister ($80 at the door). The cost for students is only $20.
The keynote address, which will begin at 12:45, is free and open to the public.
For information or to register, check the website: http://www2.cscc.edu/academics/departments/english/writers-conference/index.shtml.
Human Performance Center to schedule Summer Quarter training
The HPC will begin scheduling personal training for Summer Quarter on Monday, May 7 (current clients) and Wednesday, May 9 (new clients). Due to high demand, scheduling must be done in person with Mandi Cecil. To schedule:
Starting at 6 a.m. May 7, current HPC clients should bring their Spring Quarter Fitness Assessment to the HPC.
Sign the client/trainer agreement.
Receive a statement for payment. Any credits you have will be applied to the new session.
Payments are made at the Cashier's Office in Rhodes Hall.
Pay within 48 hours of scheduling to hold your spot. If your statement has not been paid within 48 hours of scheduling you will be removed from the HPC schedule. It will be your responsibility to reschedule.
If you have any questions, please contact Cecil at ext.2083.
Document Management System: An Image of Success
With thousands of employees and more than 30,000 students, managing information is an important and necessary part of what we do here at Columbus State. The Document Management System, or DMS, is an integral part of this process.
Mary Brown, coordinator of the Administrative Withdrawal and Tuition Refund Requests in Records and Registration, uses the DMS system.
Implemented in early 2010 as a way to safely and securely manage documents between our Columbus and Delaware campuses--as well as our Regional Learning Centers--the DMS saves the college tens of thousands of dollars by allowing departments to process and scan documents in-house. DMS is currently used by Admissions, Advising Services, Enrollment Services, Financial Aid, Health Records, Library Technical Services, Public Safety, Records and Registration, Staff Advisory Council, Student Accounting, and the Testing Centers.
The Records and Registration Department processes the largest volume of documents into the system--a total of 137,214 since October 2011. Sue McLaren, Records and Registration assistant who works with information related to enrollment verifications, says her daily processes are positively impacted by the DMS, especially the tracking of non-CSCC documentation. Mary Brown works with DMS as part of her Tuition Refund Request and Administrative Withdrawal procedures, and points to the ease of use as one of the system's best features, noting that "the convenience factor is an A+." As a transcript evaluator, Summre Jones stresses the immediate access to documentation as an important benefit of the system; this instant access to information translates into more efficient and effective solutions to student questions and concerns. DMS is an essential piece of the puzzle for employees who focus on and promote student success!
20-S lot closed tomorrow
Due to an event in the Center for Workforce Development (WD) on Tuesday,
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So, this means that spell queuing works well with Starfire and Wrath casts with little haste. However, once you start getting close to the 1 second GCD, haste starts to have real issues with the spell queuing system.
Like a lot of you I was excited by the possibilities of all the changes changes introduced to the PTR last Friday. Its the first time I've every seen a significant number of buffs introduced outside of an expansion and I liked the changes, but it also made me nervous. Moonkins have stuck by the Starfire for Raiding/Wrath for PvP mantra for years, and all of a sudden this core principle of our spec seemed to be threatened. However, the more reading and math I do the more I realize things are going to stay the same. That is not to say that these changes are insignificant, I just don't think they are going to change our core play style as much as it seemed at first.
Before I get into specifics lets get one thing clear. These changes are only on the PTR. It is very possible and somewhat likely that changes will occur. Don't get your heart set on anything until it goes live. Now, lets look at some specifics.
Insect Swarm:
In my last post I speculated that the Coefficent would be brought up to 0.8 from 0.76. Well, Dukes on the EJ forums did the testing (link), and saw the coefficent has been increased to 1.2. Obviously this is much more then I expected and it is now obvious that IS will be staying as a part of the Moonkin Rotation. Realistically this was probably necessary to keep the spell relevant. IS dropped out of our rotation in T5 content because it didn't scale as well with Spell Power, and it was in danger of having it happen again in T8 or T9 content.
Natures Grace:
I think Randomsmo said it best on the WoW forums:
NG is exactly the same for Starfire in 3.1, except it will effect multiple spells.
NG is exactly the same for Wrath in 3.1 (unless you had really horrible haste), except it will effect multiple spells and it *might* (this is unconfirmed, so don't get too excited) lower the GCD to prevent clipping.
There are two angles from which you need to look at this change. The first is a cast time perspective, the second is an uptime perspective.
CT Perspective:
From the cast time perspective this does almost nothing for Moonkin raiders. For Starfire, 20% haste brings an unbuffed starfire down to 2.5 seconds just like the live NG currently does. For Wrath, it brings the cast time down to 1.25 which is a nerf when compared to the live version of NG. However, the impact is minor once you start considering raid buffs and haste from gear. Assuming your specced correctly a moonkin is going to have an additional 11.41% haste from talents and Wrath of Air, and that brings our haste total to 33.67%. Now you need just12.21% haste from gear to reach a 1 second Wrath. That is just 400.45 Haste Rating. If your raiding 25mans consistently then your most likely already past this point. If your not I'm sure that raiding Ulduar will push you past it quickly.
Sure, you could gear differently so that you take more Crit and minimize your Haste rating, but I don't think that is very likely. I have a spreadsheet that I use to value gear items. I built it to eventually provide a comprehensive list of gear choices with a relative value attached to each. When I updated the model for these changes I was surprised at how little changed. The values changed but the ranks didn't for the most part. The fact of the matter is that haste is unavoidable, and anyone who gets to the higher levels of raiding will blow past 400 haste whether they like it or not.
UT Perspective:
From an Uptime Perspective this is huge. Lets remember one important thing. Cast time is determined at the beginning of the spell cast. So a 3 second buff will affect multiple spells even if it takes more than 3 seconds to cast those spells.
Without haste from gear, your Starfire will have a cast time of 2.24 seconds (3/(1.03*1.03*1.05*1.2) = 2.24). Therefore I think it is safe to assume that you will usually be able to start two Starfires in 3 seconds.
Wrath will be down to 1.12 seconds without any haste from gear (1.5/(1.03*1.03*1.05*1.2) = 1.12). Therefore I think it is safe to assume that you will usually be able to start three Wraths in 3 seconds.
So, we can calculate the theoretical Natures Grace uptime like this assuming a 40% crit rate for both spells:
SF NG Up Time = 1 - (1 - 0.40)2 = 64.0%Actual uptimes will be lower then this because of movement and casting spells that don't crit, but this is a significant increase over the live version of Natures Grace which would be a little less then 40% for both spells.
Wrath NG Up Time = 1 - (1 - 0.40)3 = 78.4%
So to sum up the section, from a cast time perspective this change change has little impact, but it will affect a lot more spells because Natures Grace will have significantly more Uptime then the live version of the spell. This is a buff for PvE moonkin.
Spell Queuing:
I hesitate to talk about this because I don't have any formal understanding of the mechanic. I only know what I know from personal experience and random comments on various forums. So, this is a warning, I believe that what I'm about to say is correct, but I don't have a solid foundation to base it off of.
It is my understanding that WoW has a Spell Queuing system to help minimize the impact of latency and human error. The way I think it works is if you try and cast a spell a little bit before your current cast is completed, then the game will Queue the spell to start casting when your current cast is completed. It's kind of like a caster version of auto-attack, and it works great for longer cast time spells like Starfire.
However, for shorter cast time spells like Wrath the system starts to breakdown because the global cooldown get is the way. If your Wrath cast time goes below 1 second the queued spell will be unable to cast because the global cooldown blocks it. So the timing of your next spell cast is determined by when you press the button reintroducing the impact of human error and increasing the average time between Wrath casts. Even a small increase in cast time like a tenth of a second will increase Wrath's average cast time by 10% and have a significant impact.
I'll say it again that I don't completely understand the process, but this is one of the main reasons Starfire is currently considered to be a superior dps spell then Wrath.
There have been some interesting posts on the EJ forums discussing this subject. It is a little spread out over the thread but it starts here with post 485. Update: Erdluf did some testing on Spell Queuing. You can find his results here.
I don't want to rehash everything I did in my four part Eclipse series, but obviously with the changes to Natures Grace and Eclipse there is an impact. If these changes go live I will update the analysis, but I want to just give you a summery now. Murmurs also did some nice math regarding this change on the WoW forums. you can find it here.
Spell vs Spell:
I've run the numbers for the hypothetical moonkin I used in my Eclipse post who had 2000 Spell Power, 35% crit, and 6% haste from gear. Under these conditions the average Starfire with Eclipse will do 3,499 DPS. A Wrath cast using the same stats will do 3,791 DPS on average. Spell vs Spell a Wrath cast with eclipse will do 8.3% more damage on average than a Starfire cast with Eclipse.
Rotation vs Rotation:
While the Spell vs Spell view is all fine and dandy we don't cast spells by themselves. We cast them as a part of a rotation, and the rotation view of Eclipse is not kind to Wrath. Using the hypothetical moonkin, an Eclipse rotation that favored Starfire did on average 3297 DPS. An Eclipse rotation that favored Wrath did only 3301 DPS. I ran the numbers at higher levels of gear and Wrath did improve relative to Starfire, but at most Wrath's advantage was at most 2.5% to 3% and this is ignoring the impact of Spell Queuing. If you add a tenth of a second lag to Wrath its advantage is completely erased and then some.
I can't help but concluding that the Starfire rotation is still the superior rotation if these changes go into affect, but that does not mean that this change is meaningless.
This change helps us in three ways.
1. First, if your looking for a more stable DPS rotation then the Wrath rotation is for you. It has a 100% chance on a SF crit and the buff is a straight damage buff. Therefore it is not affected by RNG nearly as much as a Starfire rotation is.
2. Second, this change limits the impact of mistakes. We've all been in situations where we get to focused and accidentally proc the wrong Eclipse. Now that the Wrath buff is 30% this mistake isn't as costly as it is on Live.
3. Each boss has its own issues and the all favor one style of casting over another. Stand and Nuke bosses are great for long cast spells like Starfire, but in high movement fights like Thaddius, Starfire can be an issue because you have to move before you can complete the cast. Therefore Wrath may be better for high movement fights because you will be able to get more casts off.


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Les Chandler was born in 1888 and spent his early life at at The Basin. Later he trained as a jeweller in Melbourne and joined the Bird Observers' Club around 1907/8, the Royal Ornothologists' Union in 1910, the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club shortly after this and co-founded the Sunraysia Field Naturalists' Club in 1949 and was an original member and part founder of the Mildura Historical Society.
He was one of Australia's first bird photographers and made the rings as well as carrying out the first bird banding in this country.
After the First World War, Les spent several weeks exploring the Kulkyne area and became a friend of the last surviving member of the Kulkyne tribe, Mary Woorlong. In 1921 he returned to Red Cliffs and joined the Nursery Camp before taking up Block 406. He worked there until his retirement to Red Cliffs township 35 years later. He was a prolific writer and photographer of nature and had his work exhibited throughout the world. He won many prizes including the Kodak medallion for achievement in photography.
As early as the 1930s he was trying to have the Hattah Lakes declared a national park and he worked tirelessly with others to that end until part of the area was declared a park in 1960. Just prior to his death in 1979, he was to see another long-life ambition realised - the rest of the lakes system and the Kulkyne Forest proclaimed the Huttah Kulkyne National Park.
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My business partner and myself are forming a new tour company based in South Africa which will specialise in sending wildlife enthusiasts into the wilds of Africa to enjoy the wildlife, scenery and people of Africa. I have been in the African wildlife safari industry for more than 30 years now and this is an attempt to provide an intimate wildlife safari service to people who are seriously interested in learning about and experiencing Africa's ecosystems in a deep, real and meaningful way. Our safaris are not just shallow supreficial visits to places, but involve quailty time and deep exploration and learning, whilts at the same time being exciting and rewarding. An example of the contrast that we create on safari: stop the safari vehicle at night, switch off all the lights and look up at the unpolluted night sky in silence, perhaps a hyaena calls in the distance. OR find a pride of lions on the hunt through the bush at night. We follow them for two or three hours until they make a kill right in front of our eyes!
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