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It's the day of Lady Sybil's funeral (which we don't actually get to see) and Lord Grantham is, understandably, in a foul mood. So he takes it out. On basically the whole house.
Yes, he's greiving. But he's also acting like a stubborn mule. Let's countdown his fights:
1. The baby's name
An inconsolable Branson ("My wife is dead. I'm past help, but thank you," he tells Matthew) announces that he plans to name the baby Sybil. "I want to remember her mother whenever I look at her." Makes perfect sense, and is very reasonable, right? To Robert, "it's ghouiish!" he tells Mary while scrunching his face up very angrily.
2. Catholicism
In the same baby-name conversation, Edith mentions that it's time the baby is christened, but Branson announces that the child will be christened as a Catholic. "My daughter is Irish and she will be Catholic like her father," he says. Robert is, to put it mildly, flabbergasted and leaves the dinner table. "There hasn't been a Catholic Crawley since the Reformation!" Robert later says. Because people are keeping tabs on that.
Robert decides that right now is the perfect time to invite a priest to dinner, a Mr. Travis, who also, coincidentally, doesn't enjoy the Catholics, especially their "bells and incense." Travis says that all that is not "pleasing to God." "Is he not pleased by the population of France? Or Italy," Branson offers.
Edith throws in, "South America? Portugal? Have they missed the mark, too? Matthew adds in Russia and the entire Indian subcontinent, you know, for good measure.
Travis is unmoved, even though the Dowager Countess has no issue. "The Duchess of Norfolk is a dear friend," she says. "And she's more Catholic than the Pope."
Mary ends up solving things in a heartbreaking way. "Sybil would have been happy for the child to be Catholic," she says. "She said so to me. On the day she died." Branson is thrilled and heartbroken at the same time.
3. Managing Downton
Meanwhile, Matthew is having a devil of a time deciding how to fix Downton's crumbling finances. He's walking with Branson around the property and discovers that his brother-in-law has property management experience. Well, Branson's grandather was a farmer in Ireland taking care of sheep, but still, it's something.
Matthew seems to be getting some sort of plan together on how to run Downton better, but when he even tries to broach the subject with Robert, Robert is uber-offended and raises his tone in the angry-Robert way.
4. Ethel
One of the bigger fights involves Ethel, whom I'm beginning to tolerate more in this episode. When Isobel wants to invite the Crawley ladies for lunch, Ethel offers to try her best to make something lovely for them. Since Ethel even has problems even tea, Isobel says (in a nice-ish) way that she doesn't have to cook.
So she enlists the help of Mrs. Patmore for a surprise. Carson sees her at Isobel's estate and scolds her for taking to Ethel, since she's a former prostitute and all. "Ypou've been frolicking with prostitutes," Carson says. "Do I look like a frolicker?" Patmore offers. Kind of, Patmore, but we'll move on.
Still Carson is livid, so he runs off to tell Robert about the dinner and how Ethel is about to ruin/corrupt the family by serving them. Ethel actually succeeds with the dinner, though Robert high-tails it over to get them to gop home.
"We're going! Do you know who prepared this lunch for you?" Robert yells
Cora: "Yes, Ethel."
Robert: "Who bore a bastard child!"
Cora — and everyone else — refuses to leave, even though Robert stares her down. He leaves in a huff.
Later, Carson finds out what went down.
"Not even the Dowager?!" Mrs. Hughes says, shocked that DC didn't bolt. Yes, even the Dowager.
5. Sybil's death
The saddest and most interesting fight is between the grieving parents. Robert is still in the doghouse in the worst way, though in the beginning of the episode, he asks to "move back in" to his bedroom.
A nice scene from Elizabeth McGovern:
"You believed Tapsell because he's knighted and fashionable and has a practice on Harley Street," Cora says, discussing what went down the night Sybil gave birth. "You let all that nonsense weigh against saving our daughter's life, which is what I find so very hard to forgive."
Robert: "Do you think I miss her any less than you?"
Cora: "I would think you miss her more, since you blocked the last chance we had to prevent her death."
Yikes. True, but yikes. How will these two (ever?) resolve things? Robert is shaken, and goes to mom for advice on what to do. Saying that "people like us are NEVER unhappily married," the Dowager urges Robert to keep up appearances and perhaps have Cora visit her mother in New York. "In these moments, a couple do not see as much of each other as they like."
Apparently, that's not a solution. So the Dowager takes it upon herself to see Clarkson, tell him that he "created a division between my son and his wife," and to please tell them that there was perhaps little chance that he could have saved Sybil.
Clarkson says this would be tough to do. It's a "lie" to really know for sure what the chance of survival would have been.
"Lie is so un-musical a word," the Dowager says. "I want you to review the evidence honestly and without bias."
Side note: I'm totally going to use that "lie is so un-musical a word" line throughout my life now.
At the end of the episode, Cora and Robert are invited to the Dowager's home to hear from Clarkson, who tells them that the chance of Sybil's survival was "a small one, a tiny one." He says that, upon investigation, Sybil's condition is almost always a fatal one, with or without a Caesarian section, as Clarkson proposed.
"Sybil was going to die?" Robert says.
"I believe that Lady Sybil was going to die," Clarkson answers definitively.
He leaves and Robert faces Cora, who lets out a sigh and starts to cry. As Robert hugs her, she actually puts her arms around him.
And they cry — finally — together. As a couple who have lost their youngest daughter.
Free Bates!
In a storyline that was tied up a bit too neatly, Bates ends up being set free from prison (though we don't see him return to Downton yet).
I find it hard to believe that, with his case, all it took to prove Bates' innocence was to show that Mrs. Bartlett changed her story about seeing Vera ... and a judge was convinced to overturn the verdict? Sure!
Still, I'm very happy that we no longer have to see Bates walk in a sad prison circle. Time for a Bates child, no?
Most annoying threesome: I'm getting pretty tired of this bizarre love-square developing between kitchen maid Ivy, who has a crush on Jimmy Kent, Alfred, who has a crush on Ivy, and Daisy, who has a crush on Alfred. "You'll all in love with the wrong people," Mrs. Patmore says at one point, exhausted from watching this whole thing. Please, let's move on.
Jimmy and Thomas awkward level: 8. Jimmy still cringes every time Thomas touches him (this time, it was Jimmy's leg that got a lot of the action). He later touches his shoulder when he plays the piano. "There's no end to Jimmy's talents," he says. If you're wondering what's going to happen with this, be sure to watch the next episode.
Best summary of Robert's attitude: Cora: "Robert frequently makes decisions based on values that have no relevance anymore." Dowton-era burn!
Daisy's future?: Out of nowhere, Mr. Mason, the father of Daisy's dead last-minute husband, William, offers her the job of running his farm. She's still deciding on an answers, but my advice: For the love of god, take it! You gonna work at Downton until your Mrs. Hughes' age?
Branson's staying put? Maybe: Branson has quickly become one of my favorite characters, so I hope he sticks around. He says he doesn't hate it at Downton, but that he doesn't belong here. He also says he would never leave baby Sybil behind. Maybe he's going to live at Downton to help with the running of the finances/sheep?


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BAMAKO, Mali — French fighter jets struck deep inside Islamist strongholds in northern Mali on Sunday, shoving aside months of international hesitation about storming the region after every other effort by the United States and its allies to thwart the extremists had failed.
For years, the United States tried to stem the spread of Islamic militancy in the region by conducting its most ambitious counterterrorism program ever across these vast, turbulent stretches of the Sahara.
But as insurgents swept through the desert last year, commanders of this nation's elite army units, the fruit of years of careful American training, defected when they were needed most — taking troops, guns, trucks and their newfound skills to the enemy in the heat of battle, according to senior Malian military officials.
"It was a disaster," said one of several senior Malian officers to confirm the defections.
Then an American-trained officer overthrew Mali's elected government, setting the stage for more than half of the country to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists. American spy planes and surveillance drones have tried to make sense of the mess, but American officials and their allies are still scrambling even to get a detailed picture of who they are up against.
Now, in the face of longstanding American warnings that a Western assault on the Islamist stronghold could rally jihadists around the world and prompt terrorist attacks as far away as Europe, the French have entered the war themselves.
First, they blunted an Islamist advance, saying the rest of Mali would have fallen into the hands of militants within days. Then on Sunday, French warplanes went on the offensive, going after training camps, depots and other militant positions far inside Islamist-held territory in an effort to uproot the militants, who have formed one of the largest havens for jihadists in the world.
Some Defense Department officials, notably officers at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command, have pushed for a lethal campaign to kill senior operatives of two of the extremists groups holding northern Mali, Ansar Dine and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Killing the leadership, they argued, could lead to an internal collapse.
But with its attention and resources so focused on other conflicts in places like Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya, the Obama administration has rejected such strikes in favor of a more cautious, step-back strategy: helping African nations repel and contain the threat on their own.
Over the last four years, the United States has spent between $520 million and $600 million in a sweeping effort to combat Islamist militancy in the region without fighting the kind of wars it has waged in the Middle East. The program stretched from Morocco to Nigeria, and American officials heralded the Malian military as an exemplary partner. American Special Forces trained its troops in marksmanship, border patrol, ambush drills and other counterterrorism skills.
But all that deliberate planning collapsed swiftly when heavily armed, battle-hardened Islamist fighters returned from combat in Libya. They teamed up with jihadists like Ansar Dine, routed poorly equipped Malian forces and demoralized them so thoroughly that it set off a mutiny against the government in the capital, Bamako.
A confidential internal review completed last July by the Pentagon's Africa Command concluded that the coup had unfolded too quickly for American commanders or intelligence analysts to detect any clear warning signs.
"The coup in Mali progressed very rapidly and with very little warning," said Col. Tom Davis, a command spokesman. "The spark that ignited it occurred within their junior military ranks, who ultimately overthrew the government, not at the senior leadership level where warning signs might have been more easily noticed."
But one Special Operations Forces officer disagreed, saying, "This has been brewing for five years. The analysts got complacent in their assumptions and did not see the big changes and the impacts of them, like the big weaponry coming out of Libya and the different, more Islamic" fighters who came back.
The same American-trained units that had been seen as the best hope of repelling such an advance proved, in the end, to be a linchpin in the country's military defeat. The leaders of these elite units were Tuaregs — the very ethnic nomads who were overrunning northern Mali.
According to one senior officer, the Tuareg commanders of three of the four Malian units fighting in the north at the time defected to the insurrection "at the crucial moment," taking fighters, weapons and scarce equipment with them. He said they were joined by about 1,600 other defectors from within the Malian Army, crippling the government's hope of resisting the onslaught.
"The aid of the Americans turned out not to be useful," said another ranking Malian officer, now engaged in combat. "They made the wrong choice," he said of relying on commanders from a group that had been conducting a 50-year rebellion against the Malian state.
The virtual collapse of the Malian military, including units trained by United States Special Forces, followed by a coup led by an American-trained officer, Capt. Amadou Sanogo, astounded and embarrassed top American military commanders.
"I was sorely disappointed that a military with whom we had a training relationship participated in the military overthrow of an elected government," Gen. Carter F. Ham, the head of the Africa Command, said in a speech at Brown University last month . "There is no way to characterize that other than wholly unacceptable."
American officials defended their training, saying it was never intended to be nearly as comprehensive as what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We trained five units over five years but is that going to make a fully fledged, rock-solid military?" asked an American military official familiar with the region.
After the coup, extremists quickly elbowed out the Tuaregs in northern Mali and enforced a harsh brand of Islam on the populace, cutting off hands, whipping residents and forcing tens of thousands to flee. Western nations then adopted a containment strategy, urging African nations to cordon off the north until they could muster a force to oust the Islamists by the fall, at the earliest. To that end, the Pentagon is providing Mauritania new trucks and Niger two Cessna surveillance aircraft, along with training for both countries.
But even that backup plan failed, as Islamists pushed south toward the capital last week. With thousands of French citizens in Mali, its former colony, France decided it could not wait any longer, striking the militants at the front line and deep within their haven.
Some experts said that the foreign troops might easily retake the large towns in northern Mali, but that Islamist fighters have forced children to fight for them, a deterrent for any invading force, and would likely use bloody insurgency tactics.
"They have been preparing these towns to be a death trap," said Rudy Atallah, the former director of African counterterrorism policy for the Pentagon. "If an intervention force goes in there, the militants will turn it into an insurgency war."


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I promise this will be my last pink and red post for a while, because I know you all are probably burned out by now on hearts, chocolate and teddy bears. But seeing as how Valentine's was on Tuesday, I felt compelled to share the little chocolatey treat we had after dinner that night, as well as the recipe for the cupcakes I took to a work potluck on Thursday...
So making a Valentine's dessert that didn't break the bank on my WW points didn't end up being as hard as I thought, since I just took a really simple approach. Dark chocolate in itself is actually good for you in small amounts, it's all the sugar, cream and butter that we add to it that makes it so unhealthy. A cup of hot chocolate spiced with a pinch of cayenne, a couple of maraschino cherries, and a little chocolate heart topped with a few chopped almonds was just the right portion to satisfy a chocolate craving.
Jamie requested a Boston Cream Pie, and it was a real challenge to make a miniature one that was only enough for one serving. But I love a baking challenge, and managed to bake up two tiny little cakes in ramekins using just a spoonful of a few ingredients. With a dollop of creamy vanilla custard between the cakes and chocolate ganache on top, it turned out pretty cute.
As for the cupcakes, these have been lingering at the back of my mind for a while, a cupcake with soda in it, that I could decorate to look like old-fashioned sodas or milkshakes.
There are a few ways you can handle the maraschino cherries in this recipe, but I'll tell you what I found does and doesn't work. First, I baked a yummy cupcake with maraschino cherry juice and club soda (cherry 7-up would be good, too) in the batter, and I liked how the cakes turned out, not too sweet and with a nice flavor from the cherry juice and soda.
My original plan was to frost them with cream cheese icing, then top them with the chocolate sprinkles, a striped straw, and a whole cherry. But after baking them and seeing just how tiny the mini cakes were, I thought a whole cherry would overwhelm the cupcake. So instead, I chopped them up and mixed them into the icing (which is what gave it such a pretty pink color). The reason this was a mistake is that even though I drained the cherries and patted them dry, there was still too much moisture in them and they turned my icing to soup. Which in turn forced me to add ridiculous amounts of powdered sugar to try to thicken it back up, and the icing was way too sweet for my liking.
So, my suggestion would be to chop up the cherries, toss them with a few tablespoons of flour to absorb the moisture and mix them directly into the cake batter. If you like the pink icing, that can easily be colored with a few drops of food coloring. Or, you could place a whole cherry into the center of the cupcake to bake into the batter (this would work for standard-sized cupcakes, but not minis, as a whole cherry would take up too much room). Either way, there are a few fun options.
In spite of the sugary frosting, they were a big hit with my coworkers and all the cupcakes were gone by the end of the day. (And might I add, the mini ones are only 3 WW points each!)
Hot Chocolate, with Chocolate-Dipped Cherries and a Chocolate Almond Heart
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- 2 cups skim milk
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 packets Splenda or another non-calorie sweetener (or sugar to taste)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- tiny pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
- 4 maraschino cherries, with stems
- 1/2 ounce dark or bittersweet chocolate, melted
- pinch of sea salt
- 1 tablespoon chopped almonds
Meanwhile, pat the cherries dry with a paper towel. Dip each into the melted chocolate, then place on a baking sheet lined with a Silpat or parchment paper. Scrape the rest of the melted chocolate into a small zip-lock bag (since this uses such a tiny amount of chocolate, be sure to use every last bit). Snip the corner off the bag and squeeze the outline of two hearts onto the baking sheet. Squeeze the rest of the chocolate in squiggles to fill in the hearts. Sprinkle the chocolate with the salt and the almonds. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for 10-15 minutes for the chocolate to set and harden before eating.
Yields 2 servings.
Weight Watchers Points Plus Value: 4 points per serving (1 cup of hot chocolate, 2 chocolate-dipped cherries and 1 chocolate almond heart)
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen.
Cherry Vanilla Soda Cupcakes
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- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus 2 tablespoons
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste (or seeds from 1 vanilla bean)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
- 3/4 cup Club Soda or Diet Cherry 7-up
- 3/4 cup skim milk, room temperature
- 1 jar (16 ounces) maraschino cherries, drained and patted dry (reserve the juice for above)
- 1 package (8 ounces) low-fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- cherry extract (I didn't have any, but I think a little would be good added to the frosting)
- 1-3 tablespoons skim milk
- a few drops of red food coloring
- chocolate sprinkles
- red and white striped wax-coated paper straws, snipped into thirds
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line muffin tins with paper liners (about 52 minis or 26 standard-sized).
In a bowl, whisk together the flour (2 1/4 cups), baking powder, baking soda and salt, and set aside.
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla bean paste on medium speed, scraping the bowl occasionally, for 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated.
In another bowl, combine the cherry juice, soda and milk. Reduce the mixer speed to low and gradually add the flour mixture and the soda mixture, alternating each, starting and ending with the flour mixture, just until combined.
Chop the cherries and toss with the 2 tablespoons of flour. Fold into the cake batter. (Alternatively, you can leave the cherries whole, and place one into each muffin cup to bake into the batter.)
Fill the muffin cups 2/3 full (be careful not to over-fill the minis - they don't hold very much). Bake at 350 for 15-17 minutes (minis) or 20-22 minutes (standard-sized). Cool in the pan for a few minutes, then transfer cakes to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
To make the frosting, beat the cream and butter until smooth, then add the powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time. Beat in the milk, a little at a time, until you have the desired consistency. Beat in the food coloring and extract, if using it.
Frost the cooled cupcakes and garnish with a few chocolate sprinkles and the striped straws.
Yields 52 mini cupcakes or 26 standard.
Weight Watchers Points Plus Value: 3 points per mini cupcake; 5 points per standard-sized cupcake
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen.


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bdd wrote:But I think that our instructions are a bit dated.
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bdd wrote:The full instructions are here :
Did you set the right values for the 3 followings meta tags ?
Panotour Pro do not know them, so you have to edit the HTML file and set them by yourself.
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.MyWebSite.com/MyTourDirectoryPath/MyTourHTMLFile.html" />
<meta property="og:video" content="http://www.MyWebSite.com/MyTourDirectoryPath/MyTourSWFFile.swf"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.MyWebSite.com/MyTourDirectoryPath/MyTourPreview.png"/>
I looked at the content of your HTML files, and they are quite emmpty.
Here is the content of the HTML file for the Hotel tour : http://www.pano360.co.uk/virtualtours/hotel/hotel-virtualtour.html
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<object width="800" height="450">
<embed src="hotel-virtualtour.swf" width="800" height="450" allowFullScreen="true">
Remember also, that Facebook is looking for a "movie" meta tag in the HTML file. This movie will be the flash file that Facebook will play.
So you cannot have multiple tours in a single HTML page if you want them to be played inside Facebook.
But I think that our instructions are a bit dated.
It seems that you can do it a bit easier now in Facebook.
For example see the following facebook page :
And the original page :
It seems that the entire webpage is played, not only the flash player.
Marknot wrote:I can show the link and the play button work on timeline, but i can't create a page like this:
Wich code have you used to show the html page inside facebook ( or wich app). I'm on the right way but i miss something. Thanks Thanks
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Cellphone safety: Protecting privacy, data and kids too
This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News
by Larry Magid
A recent survey by Opinion Matters on behalf of GFI Software found that many people don't fully understand how to protect their data and privacy in the event their phone is lost or stolen.
The survey of just over a thousand U.S. adults found that 57 percent of respondents were most concerned about "the hassle and cost of having to buy a new phone" but nearly as many (54 percent) were more worried about "losing my contact list." Just over a third (34 percent) worried about losing memorable or irreplaceable photos, while 29 percent were most concerned about "being vulnerable to identify theft by having my personal information or documents stored on my smartphone compromised."
Those worried about losing their contacts or other data may be unaware of ways to back up phones via the cloud, and I wonder if those who worry about data getting into the wrong hands know that there are programs that can be used to remotely lock or wipe their phones.
If my phone were stolen, I would certainly fret about the cost of replacing it, but I would have absolutely no concern about losing my contact list or valuable photos because they're all backed up in the cloud. I use Gmail and let Google (GOOG) store my contact lists and calendar on both my iPhone and my Android phones, and my wife does the same on her Blackberry. If the phone were lost or stolen, the data would still be safe and the contact list and calendar are always in sync, so if I add or change something from my PC or Mac, I can see it on my phone and vice versa. It also means that all my mobile devices are in sync. Apple's (AAPL) iCloud offers similar backup services.
I would worry a little about my data getting into the wrong hands, but there are Apps for that. Apple's iOS operating system comes with Find My Phone that allows owners to remotely lock or wipe their phone. It can also be used to locate a missing phone. The "find" feature works by sending a relatively loud tone and displaying a message like "if you find this phone please call me at." You can access Find My Phone from any Web-enabled device or by using the app on other iOS devices.
There are many similar apps available for Android and Blackberry devices. The study's sponsor, GFI, just launched GFI VIPRE Mobile Security Premium, which includes these features along with anti-virus protection, online backup and activity monitoring and location tracking of children's' phones. The "freemium" app offers free lost device alarm, anti-virus, and contact backup. The full suite of features are available for 99 cents a month or $9.95 a year after a 30-day free trial period.
The only drawback to these apps is that the phone needs to be on and getting a signal for them to work. So, if your phone is lost or stolen, you need to act quickly while it's still running. Apple's service has a feature that sends you an email when the phone is found, which means that if someone finds it and turns it on later, you'll get an email so you know to log on to iCloud right away to wipe the device. If you use GFI VIPRE to wipe a phone that's not online, the phone will be wiped if and when it connects to the Internet via the cellular nework or Wi-Fi.
Regardless of whether you use any of these location-based products, it's a good idea to lock (password protect) your phone. In addition to keeping prying eyes away from your data, it also prevents people from using your phone to make expensive international calls or using it to send inappropriate emails or text messages that appear to come from you. It's is especially important to remind kids that their phones are an extension of them and anyone using their phone can easily impersonate them.
The GFI survey also asked parents whether it's more important to monitor their kids activity on a PC (laptop or desktop) or on a phone, and 13 percent chose PC while 8 percent chose phone. Most respondents said they didn't have kids (61 percent) or that their children don't use PCs or smart phones (9 percent).
It strikes me that if you're worried about what your kids are doing with technology, you should be more concerned about their cell phone use than what they're doing on the home PC. I'm not saying that they can't get in trouble at home, nor am I suggesting that all kids need to be monitored either at home or on mobile devices; as I frequently say at my SafeKids.com and ConnectSafely.org sites — I think that talking with kids is sometimes sufficient or even better. But kids use mobile devices in places where there is no adult supervision and they can do just about anything with a mobile device that they can with a PC plus a lot more — like taking and sending pictures, allowing others to track their location and, of course, talking on the phone.
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Apparently, not even Superman can fight the evils of a health club's unpaid electric bill.
On Monday, Lakeshore Athletic Club in Chicago was closed after a local electric company shut off the power at the club for failing to pay a rather hefty bill of more than $200,000.
Here's where Superman comes in: The film crew of the latest "Superman: Man of Steel" movie is in Chicago and has been using Lakeshore Athletic Club to house extras and wardrobe while it shoots next door at the Aon Center, Fox Chicago News reports. The crew, which is using its own lights (according to the TV station), also had planned to hold a party at the club on Monday night, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business. No word on whether that party took place, and no timetable has been set for when (or if) the club will reopen.
But what will happen to the Superman movie (as if we need another installment), which won't be released until 2013? Will this movie be cursed the way the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has been? Five stunt people and actors have been injured during production, not counting the critics who have panned the show.
(By the way, does anybody remember Spider-Man on "The Electric Company"? Yes, that's Morgan Freeman as the police officer in this video.)
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Birds on BuildingsTuesday, July 26th, 2011
Many people are surprised to find birds causing problems on buildings in urban areas, but birds are actually very common in cities and many species may potentially create problems on buildings. Fortunately, by understanding the birds that most often cause problems, as well as the architectural features that attract them to buildings, nuisance bird problems can usually be addressed by making the building less attractive to the birds.
While any bird can potentially cause a problem on buildings, most problems in American cities are caused by three bird species introduced from Europe—pigeons, starlings, and house sparrows. These birds adapted to living in European settlements and cities for thousands of years, and found an easy life living in and around our buildings when first brought to America in past centuries. Early colonists first brought pigeons to America as a food source, while 19th Century enthusiasts brought over starlings and house sparrows in a misguided effort to control caterpillars (house sparrows) or introduce to America all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare (starlings). All three of these species readily eat discarded human food and nest on buildings—making them the perfect urban invaders. In addition to these non-native birds, a few native birds may cause problems, especially when large numbers congregate on rooftops (crows, gulls, and occasionally vultures) or nest on exterior walls (swallows). In fact, birds that are urban invaders do so well that there are usually more individual birds per square mile in cities than in the countryside!


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Nassau Coliseum's place in the county executive race
Two years ago this month, Nassau voters rejected a $400 million public borrowing -- pushed by County Executive Edward Mangano and New York Islanders hockey team owner Charles Wang -- to build a new arena in Uniondale.
Last October, Wang announced that, as a result, he was moving his team from the old Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The announcement dealt a stinging blow to the prestige of Republican Mangano.
The Coliseum threatened to stand on the concrete landscape like an enormous trash can holding the defeated dreams and schemes of developers and politicians.
But Thursday -- less than three months before he faces voters -- Mangano scored a redeeming public-relations coup by announcing that Forest City Ratner Cos., the Barclays Center developer, would redevelop the 77-acre Hub site at its own expense.
"We share in the revenue, and not the expense," he crowed. "This plan gives us a clear road to success."
No matter if his skeptics suspect the "road to success" could turn out like many a "Mideast road map to peace." No matter if they say it proves that taxpayers really didn't have to finance the renovations as Mangano and Wang once urged.
No matter that Bruce Ratner, executive chairman of Forest City Ratner and the adviser-turned-favored-bidder, is the same businessman who lured the Islanders out of Nassau, or that Ratner's Brooklyn project turned out different from first planned.
For Mangano, none of that has immediate consequence. In the election race now underway, the timing couldn't be much better.
No longer does he appear empty-handed on the Hub -- at a moment when Democrats stress his fiscal failings. This step gives him something new to promote and announce and ballyhoo in the days and weeks before Election Day.
He no longer needs to explain and rationalize and defend what was doomed to be an underutilized giant cistern. A Mangano political associate said: "Between the excitement that builds on this deal, and Mangano's record of holding the line on taxes, the two biggest issues for voters, taxes and jobs, lean in our direction." It's the "win-win" cliche.
Former County Executive Thomas Suozzi, whose comprehensive Lighthouse project met defeat from the Town of Hempstead, is looking for a rematch of the 2009 race in which Mangano unseated him by a few hundred votes after two terms. "The bottom line," he said in response to Thursday's news, "is that this is a central piece of the county's future, and we need to make sure that this plan will come to fruition as proposed. And more importantly, we need to make sure that there's a vision for the long term to do something more ambitious than just build the new Coliseum."
Suozzi for years has promoted higher-density "downtown centers" near mass-transit lines to build the economy, and continues to do so. Team Mangano has long said Suozzi's plans for the Hub site were "too grandiose" to succeed.
Adam Haber, Suozzi's rival in the Democratic primary, said in a statement: "While I'm pleased that a redevelopment of the Coliseum is moving forward, it is troubling that the gross revenue generated for Nassau is going from 11.5 percent under the Wang proposal to 8 percent with this deal. Nassau County deserves a good development that includes a convention center and affordable rental housing, so we remain competitive."
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Aura Storm
Aura Storm is Lucario's Final Smash in Super Smash Bros Brawl and, like other Final Smashes, can only be activated after breaking a Smash Ball. Aura Storm is not a move in the Pokémon games.
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When using Aura Storm, Lucario crouches down and telepathically shouts "Watch the power of aura!", then leaps into the air. Any character in the way takes minor damage if they are farther away, but a lot more when up close. It also spikes with a set but high knockback when used up close. Lucario raises its hands, shining with aura. Lucario then unleashes a powerful beam of dark blue aura energy down. The attack hits multiple times before a big finisher that has decent KO power. Lucario can angle the beam sideways during both the windup and the launch, which is a decent way to catch unhit enemies, although angling can also free trapped targets (which otherwise cannot escape). The move is one of the more difficult Final Smashes to use effectively,as flying or floating characters; or characters with a great recovery as may be able to easily outrun the beam, while other characters can manage to dodge most of the attack depending on the stage.
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ends on Lucario's damage. If he is at 0%, then the Aura storm will only cause 24% and have little knockback. However, if Lucario is at 182% damage (when his aura is the strongest), the Aura Storm will cause 78% and will be a garunteed KO.
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Some players of Super Smash Bros Brawl speculate the furiously powerful beam of aura to be a renamed Hyper Beam. Reasons include;
- It looks similar like Deoxys' Hyper Beam when released from a Poké Ball, or Dialga/Palkia on the Spear Pillar stage
- Lucario can use Hyper Beam in the main series games
- It has the same properties as SSBB Hyper Beams; powerful blast, short attack time, knockback only when ending, user cannot attack for a while (AS puts Lucario into a 'semi-helpless' state, in which it cannot use Special Moves but can use aerial attacks; HB dissallows Dialga/Palkia to use any attack for a while)
- Their users (Deoxys and Lucario) have similar properties: not much different than average Trainer height, powerful movest, and are both starred in movies, and
- They both are very powerful moves.


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Green cars will again be the highlight of the New York International Auto Show, which opens Friday following press previews today and Thursday. Highlights include further details on the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf electric cars, a 40 mpg Chevrolet Cruze Eco, and plenty of hybrids. The show is at New York's Javits Center and runs through Sunday, April 11. It's the last of the major U.S. auto shows, which began last fall in Los Angeles and worked their way through Detroit (January) and Chicago (February). Details after the jump.
Chevrolet Volt. The Volt has been announced and discussed for two years. General Motors brought a drivable, close-to-production-level car for a handful of media test drives. It's due to launch this fall, GM says, and uses a large battery pack for about 30 miles of electric driving, plus a small gasoline engine for longer trips and/or to recharge the battery, although wall charging is more efficient. The big question will be actual, real world range when used by customers.
Nissan LEAF. Nissan this week pre-announced (in advance of the auto show press conference) the pricing that could be as low as $20,000 after you factor in federal and state tax credits. (Thank you, taxpayers.) The base price will be $32,780 or a 36-month $349 lease ($2000 down). There's a federal tax credit of $7,500 and tax credits from some states of up to $6,000 (Colorado). Nissan also announced a 220-volt garage recharging option for $2,200 that cuts refueling time from overnight to a couple hours. It's due to ship in December.
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OXO's award-winning Uplift teakettle is a modern-day kitchen classic for its function and style. To celebrate the iconic kettle's 10th anniversary, OXO has released this special edition featuring natural cork handles. The cork stays cool to the touch and offers a soft, secure grip, while the spout opens automatically as you lift.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Changing Tactics With Inscription
Today, things have changed. Although my server was slower to catch up to the new-found knowledge, it eventually did and all of a sudden 5-6 major competitors came out of the woodwork and started undercutting each other. I continued undercutting them but dropped my undercutting to 1 copper. The new strategy worked for a while until I realized that there were simply too many competitors and a few of them were AH campers and I had no chance against them because the moment I logged off, they would undercut me.
By this point I had moved up, from 2 glyphs to 6 glyphs. I didn't dare craft more because certain glyphs simply reached such low prices that they weren't worth crafting. The campers were still at it and it had become stressful to watch the AH like a hawk for hours on end.
During this period I did some more research, particularly on Gevlon's and Markco's sites. These two guys are real goblins, in the sense that they truly live for profits and also have vast knowledge to back it up. I admit that in comparison to them I was clueless about handling such competitors, particularly in the glyph business.
You see, the glyph business is unlike any other. Sure, there are similarities but Inscription has certain particularities that will allow a knowledgeable player to make massive amounts of gold. I've stated time and time again that Inscription has been the single biggest money-maker for me in WotLK, by far. I would estimate it has earned me at least 60K gold. My only regret is that I didn't learn these tactics sooner. Little did I know back then. I'm far from being an expert now but my knowledge has increased and I am better equipped to profit from Inscription as well as from my other professions.
Getting back to why Inscription is so special, the basic idea is this: you can make a profit from selling a glyph no matter how low your price is. You can go as low as 40 silver (the price of Resilient Parchment at Exalted) and you would break even. Anything above this amount is pure profit. I'm not counting the price of Ink of the Sea because... it's free. How so? Once you get into this mindset, you will become free of prejudice and start seeing the reality.
To ensure that your glyph manufacturing costs are almost zero you should start from a very cheap supply of herbs. There are only 3 types of herbs worth considering and out of those you will only actually purchase 1 or 2. I'm talking, of course, about Lichbloom, Icethorn and Adder's Tongue. Out of these 3, I'll never buy Lichbloom for milling. If I ever find it at a low price, I would rather flip it than mill it. Lichbloom is the rarest of these herbs and also has the highest level. The second rarest, but a lot more common, is Icethorn. Adder's Tongue is the most abundant. The beauty of these 3 types is that they all yield the same amount of inks when milled, meaning that in terms of obtaining the best returns, you should always go for the cheapest herb, whether it's Icethorn or Adder's Tongue.
Milling a stack of 20 herbs yields on average 6 Inks of the Sea and 2 Snowfall Inks. The Snowfall Inks are the key. Using prices from my server, I will typically buy a stack of herbs for 10-15 gold (50s - 75s apiece). Snowfall Inks currently sell for about 13 gold each on the Auction House but they used to sell for a lot more, over 20 gold. At any rate, even if I were to simply sell the Snowfall Inks for 13 gold each, I would earn 26 gold from each stack of herbs, meaning a profit of anywhere between 11-16 gold per stack. After all this, I'm still left with a shitload of Inks of the Sea. And that's where I get my "free" Inks of the Sea.
I won't typically sell Snowfall Inks but instead I will craft other things from them, thus moving down the manufacturing chain and increasing profits by selling a product with a higher added value. Such examples are off-hand items and Darkmoon cards.
Having become tired of camping the AH and undercutting by 1c, I decided to try some new tactics.
For a day or so I posted all my glyphs with a massive undercut of 10 gold and a threshold of 50 silver, meaning that I wouldn't go lower than that. The plan backfired because by this point there were already very few glyps on the AH that were selling for more than 20 gold.
The next day I lowered my undercut to 5 gold and increased my threshold at 99 silver. I kept posting as usual, for 12 hours. Things started going slightly better. I posted 6 glyphs at a time but in spite of all this I was still undercut. I felt ok because even if the days of 1000+ gold per day were gone, I was still making 300 gold or so, without too much stress.
What brought me greater satisfaction was the fact that my competitors were starting to notice the effect of my undercutting. One guy in particular buys all my glyphs around 1 gold, to repost them, no doubt. Which is great for me because I can just make more of them and force him to buy greater and greater amounts. Furthermore, an added benefit is that my competition is kept busy trying to manage their competition, essentially wasting their time, while I am simply ignoring them and posting at my leisure.
I had also read that Gevlon was undercutting by 40 silver in an attempt to drive the competition out of the market. I'm now trying a similar tactic. I dropped my undercutting to 50 silver and I'm watching how things are going.
Currently I'm not even selling glyps for profit. I'm just doing it for fun and to piss off my competition. I have more than enough inks in stock (and funds to boot, as well as other sources of income) that I can afford to sell even at a loss. Good times ahead. My plan, no matter how evil it may seem, is to drive all these guys out of the market. Yep, I'm becoming a real goblin, following closely in Gevlon's footsteps.
If you are in the business of selling glyphs and suddenly come across someone who undercuts massively and daily, my word of advice is don't get mad. He's either a clueless noob, in which case his stock will quickly dry up and he will exit the market on his own, or he's a seasoned seller with massive funds that doesn't give a crap for how much his glyphs sell and his only purpose is to become the sole vendor of glphs on that server. If it's the second case, you might as well try other means to make gold if you don't have the funds to match. Don't embarrass yourself by sending the guy reproachful mails.
Personally I would really enjoy some "carpet bombing". This is another of those terms that I love so much. In case you're not aware what carpet bombing means, it refers to flooding the AH with goods that undercut everyone else at a very low price, causing competitors to either leave the market in disgust or else attempt to buy the low priced products and repost them at the "normal" price. Of course, if you try to flip them the seller will simply post more. It's a dirty trick but almost guaranteed to work. Unfortunately I don't have the time to craft dozens of glyphs because I would do this in a heartbeat.
I hope that this article hasn't created more problems than it has solved and I hope you glyph sellers who are reading this won't hate me too much for my "dirty tactics". Even if you do, that's life, kill or be killed. I won't lose any sleep over it, you can be sure of that.
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You actually get about two icy pigments per stack of herbs, which creates 1 snowfall... So, you're not making an profit from just milling herbs and selling snowfall, unless the price of snowfall is greater than a stack of herbs. On my server snowfall goes for around 13-15g, and herbs go for 18-20g so Ink of the sea ends up being around 1g or so, give or take. You *can* make a profit milling and selling inks, but the market isn't as robust as the glyph market. Most of the time if you can sell glyphs for over 2g, you should be making a profit of some sort.
I don't really reccomend that though if you want to make money. ignoring the glyphs that people are undercutting aggressively on, and concentrating on the profitable glyphs is a better tactic, especially for someone breaking into the market. Myself, I have some loss leaders, that are common frequently used glyphs which I keep posted at a very low price to keep someone who hasn't really done thier homework from making a quick buck by undercutting on those.
- October 28, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- Vikt said...
Wow - I apparently really need to finish leveling up Inscription on one of my alts.
And I'll admit, I was largely a noob on making cash until I started reading Markco as well ~
- October 28, 2009 at 5:02 AM
- Geforce said...
I mostly quit playing the AH now, Glyph market is destroyed: the glyph pages went from 54 pre mmo post to 94 now -.-, most are below 10g aswell.
I thought that the mmo post only destroyed that market because the entry cost was so low, so I figured giving JC a shot...
my DK got 80 few days ago and I maxed JC only to find out via spreadsheets to check profit that the only things profitable are with very low profit (54G on 5k invest for doing the prospect + DE trick) and titanium stacks going for +300g while the epic gems are 150-200g.
I think I'll quit with making money until there's a new way not so common.
- October 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Anonymous I'm using Wowhead numbers and my own statistics prove it.
Taking Icethorn as an example:
100% chance for 2-4 Azure Pigment per mill (5 herbs), average is 3 Azure Pigment per 5 herbs or 12 per stack of 20 which translates into 6 Ink of the Sea.
50% chance for 1-3 Icy Pigment per mill (5 herbs), average is 2/2 Icy Pigment = 1 per 5 herbs or 4 per stack of 20 which translates into 2 Snowfall Ink.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but like I said, even if I interpret Wowhead's numbers the wrong way, my own observations confirm these rates.
@Vikt it's not that easy to bring Inscription to a pro level and I will tell you why in a coming article.
@Geforce it's not that bad actually. There's still profit to be made but at a lower rate.
- October 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Wowhead is telling you that 100% of the time milling icethorn will get you azure. Every time azure drops you get at least 2 and as many as 4. 50% of the time you'll get an icy, but you'll find that the multiple drops are rather rare, and statistically don't really change the rate at which you get icy from milling.
Take a look at the comment on Wowhead by Killerpet. What he has found is that there's an average of 3 azure and .5 icy per mill. He's taken a pretty decent sample and tracked it.
If you're seeing differently, I'm happy for you, but I've milled a lot of herbs and sometimes I'm at 1 snowfall per stack, sometimes not quite, and sometimes slightly more. When I mill 15-20 stacks at a time I can definately say I've never seen icy drop at an average of 4 per stack on either adders, icethorn or lichbloom.
- October 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Shoot, forgot the wowhead link. The post from Killerpet is here:
- October 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM
The average for snowfall ink is definitely NOT 2/2 pigments. Are you even looking at the results you're getting while milling? You only rarely get more than 1 icy pigment when milling, it's like 95% only 1 icy pigment, 5% two or more.
Furthermore, inks of the sea are not FREE. You are making the worst M&S mistake imaginable. If inks of the sea sold for 3g each on the AH, and you're posting glyphs for 99s, you are LOSING money. You would've been better off just selling the inks.
- October 29, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Anon I was milling herbs last night and getting 1 Icy per mill. 3-4 for each stack. Icethorn and Adder's. I will do further tests but like I said, my own numbers match the ones inferred from Wowhead. I could always be wrong, of course. Needs more testing...
Inks of the Sea sell for around 2G on my server. Problem is, they don't sell very well. I tried that in the past. It doesn't really matter to me if I'm losing money by selling glyphs at 99s because I'm simply trying to screw with the competition. It's no longer a question of money. In fact I'm stocking up for a carpet-bombing mission as we speak :)
- October 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM
I just milled 20 stacks of herbs (Adder's Tongue) And it yeilded 229 Azure and 45 icy pigments.
By my maths, thats about 2.86 azure per mill and .56 icy. 11.5 and 2.25 per stack. If you do this experiment yourself, you'll probably find results within a reasonable margin of error.
Sure you'll get some stacks where you're hitting icy all the time, heck, I know I've seen 5 icy come out of one stack before, but I've seen no icys come out of a stack more often.
- October 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Rob Dejournett said...
I guess I'm one of those MMO champion guys. I had two inscriptionists at 430 or so (horde/alliance), and never really made much money, and I found that manual posting was too much of a pain. So i stopped and did something else for a while. Since now I know how to config ATSW and QA2 my life is 100-fold easier with regard to glpyh making. So, I started with some very seasonsed inscriptionists, that's key. The second key is to buy every single book of glyph mastery you can get a hold of. I just bought 30 yesterday, and am close to the inscription limit on one toon.
As an initial experiment I focused on just DK and druid glyphs, and started selling at very typical levels (50g max, 2g min, 10s undercut, 2 per posting). I made 2500 gold in about 10 days. Thinking that was so succseful, I am now branching into other classes (and just server transfered to boot). I'm making 1000g (for one day) but I'm not sure what the long range is. I am getting ready for 3.3 and I expect a TON of people to come back to the game because of the new IC dungeons and the improved LFG. I want to be there to capture it.
Anyway, my point is surprisingly even for very normal tactics on two different servers there is still quite a bit of profit to make. And nowadays I really just login to make money. Wierd isn't it? The AH game is just as fun as the PVE game to me. (I also have a 450 JC, and made a ton on that as well)
- November 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM
My server is currently controlled entirely by one guy. This guy has kept glyph prices under 2g50s for at least three months, and is only now starting to let up. I sell a few glyphs each day, and would sell more if only he didn't camp the AH 24/7 (seriously, he does. I alway see him /afk when I login, *always*).
There is no way you can beat a no-lifer who are willing to step down to ridiculously low prices. I guess it should upset me, but if he's spending so much of his time trying to earn virtual money then I say, let's not fight with that guy. It's not worth it. :)
- November 3, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Gibbiex I have 99% of all glyphs, except some very common ones sold by the trainer that I never bothered to get because either they don't sell or are useless. That means I have exhausted both types of research and I've learned all the books. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be around for 3.3 because I'm planning to take a longer break but I do recognize the opportunity. I'm sure a lot of money will be made with inscription.
@Anonymous some of these 24/7 campers could be kids and/or they might have a second account where they are always logged in. The best you can do, i guess, is to try and undercut him and force him out of the market by driving the prices even lower. However this approach can be difficult due to the fact that he may have a lot more funds and patience than yourself, or he may be willing to sell at a loss just to see you fail, or he may have a very cheap source of herbs/inks and he'll afford to drop his prices even lower. Have you tried finding a herb farmer who's willing to sell to you for very low prices?
- November 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM


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