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Oakland Port Protesters File Lawsuit Against Police
Friday, June 27, 2003
Category: News
OAKLAND-Accompanied by a hefty team of civil rights attorneys and union groups, the 40 protesters injured by rubber bullets and wooden dowels at an April Port of Oakland protest filed a lawsuit against the City of Oakland yesterday.
Police ignored protesters' rights to free speech and peaceful assembly through use of excessive force during the protest, civil rights attorneys said at a press conference yesterday morning.
Oakland police fired non-lethal weapons at a crowd of several hundred, that included UC Berkeley students gathered April 7 to protest the war on Iraq.
Although protesters say the attack was unprovoked, police maintain the protesters threw rocks and refused to disperse.
Plaintiffs hope the class-action lawsuit will prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
"We would like to make sure that no one ever goes to a demonstration of any kind-right or left wing-and has to face what our clients faced," said attorney Jim Chanin. "We're looking for an order that basically backs that up with some teeth."
It is uncertain how long the lawsuit will take, Chanin said.
The protesters are also suing for damages-medical bills, lost wages and emotional distress.
The dollar amount will be determined by a jury, Chanin said.
The protesters are joined in their suit by nine longshoremen who were injured while reporting for work that day, and more protesters are considering joining the suit.
Both protesters and workers sustained painful injuries.
"I was following police orders the whole time and still got shot," said UC Berkeley senior John Nishinaga, a plaintiff in the suit.
Nishinaga was shot in the right hand, sustaining multiple fractures.
As a result of his injuries, he said he took two incompletes and had to delay his graduation until the summer.
Nishinaga hopes the lawsuit will help pay for his medical bills.
Other plaintiffs reported fractures, bad bruising and psychological trauma.
Among those suing is Willow Rosenthal, an Oakland woman who was shot in the calf with a wooden bullet, leading to a massive hematoma requiring surgery.
Rosenthal, who returns to work next week, was laid up for more than a month of work following her injury.
The City of Oakland recently established a third-party panel to investigate the incident, said Karen Boyd, spokesperson for the Oakland City Attorney's office.
The panel meets for the first time on Monday and will give their report in September.
The actions of the police at the port protest reflect a larger problem within the Oakland Police Department that needs to be addressed, plaintiffs' attorneys said.
"The efforts to reform the Oakland Police Department with the Riders case was just the beginning and this provides another opportunity to enhance the quality of policing in this city," said civil rights attorney John Burris, who worked on the recent Rider's case, in a statement.
A team of three Oakland police officers, calling themselves the "Riders," is currently standing trial, accused of beating people or falsifying reports.
The City of Oakland has filed criminal charges against 25 people who were arrested during the protest.
They will go to court next month, a representative from the Alameda County District Attorney's office said.
They are not the same people who filed today's complaint.
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Bilmon gives a history lesson
Bilmon's posts @ Whisky Bar were so sporadic for a while that I thought he had left us, and I dropped him from the coveted Bluememe blogroll. He's back, and in fine form. His latest post Munich is a good read, and he's back in our blogroll's good graces.

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The films have been finalised for the Reel Canadian Film Festival 2018 10th Anniversary programme!
They'll be bringing film-makers for a Q&A and pairing each film with an indie short to be screened before each film.
Early bird festival passes for the film festival are on sale for $40, from the Arts Station or online here. Festival passes will go up to $50. Individual films will be on sale in the new year.
2018 Films:
Adventures in Public Schooled – A socially inept home schooled dropout (Daniel Doheny) enrolls in public school to chase after a one-legged dream-girl (Siobhan Williams) while his mom/best friend teaches him his teenage rebellion. We will have special guests
Meditation Park – Maria (Cheng Pei Pei) has spent decades of devoted marriage dutifully excusing the prejudices and vices of her husband Bing (Tzi Ma). But when she discovers another woman's thong in his pocket, she's no longer able to turn a blind eye to his indiscretions. Flushed out of her domestic sanctum, she engages in some unintentionally comic sleuthing that not only uncovers clues to Bing's clandestine activities but also introduces her to new East Van communities and ultimately sets her on a course to self-discovery.
Breath – Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives. Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia and in celebration of Australia Day on January 26th!
Expo 67 Mission Impossible – The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or 'Expo 67', as it was commonly known, held in Montreal, Quebec is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century. This documentary lets us to relive the challenges of the men behind the Expo and the logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the "Révolution Tranquille" in the Québec sixties.
Hochelaga, Land of Souls – During a game in a Montreal college's football stadium, a rainstorm opens a sinkhole in the field, killing one player. Observing the development, archaeologist Antoine Morin theorizes the sinkhole may lead to evidence of Hochelaga, where French explorer Jacques Cartier contacted Indigenous peoples in Quebec. Morin hires Baptiste, a graduate student studying Mohawk history, to lead an archaeological excavation of the field. The study brings to light that the site was the scene of a hard-fought battle between Indigenous warriors in 1267, when many Iroquois were killed.
For full details, film bios and ticket info, please visit the website or like the event's official facebook page
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From life as a beach bum scuba instructor in a bounty ad., to the joys of englandshire-upon-sewageville...Hugs and I'll blow some bubbles for ya
Monday, February 06, 2006
Apologies, work decided to install a truly anal and ridiculous IPcop which would not allow me on blogger, or to check anyone elses musings...bastards! As such many and muchos apologies for my untimely absence, I shall resume blogging activities forthwith, dur to the benevolence of my parents, the provision of a laptop and wireless access at home.
Iain: Hope all is superfabulous, will check soon
Bill: Oz? Prob not till november, then thinking of Whitsundays for a coupla months sailing n diving.
Big hugs and love
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Two Peruvians uniting with their fellow global citizens to talk about pressing global issues.
About a month ago, in the vibrant Cape Town suburb of Woodstock, my friend Ricardo Morel and I had the great pleasure of sharing a learning experience with academics, students, and professionals mainly from the social development field during the seminar "Critical Tools for Social Change: Could impact evaluation and discourse analysis come together to address the most pressing global issues?"
While Ricardo and I were planning a road trip along the breathtaking Garden Route, we thought: why not set aside one day of our trip in order to collaborate with practitioners related to our research fields in Cape Town? I then spoke with the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA), an organization active in fostering social change with which I had the pleasure to conduct a workshop a year ago.
From my personal opinion, the seminar was a success not because we, as the conductors, brought solutions to social issues (because we did not!), but because of the significance of the outcome of the seminar: two Peruvian researchers like ourselves came together with an active social organization based in Cape Town and more than 40 South Africa-based practitioners from different parts of Africa, Europe, and North America to produce a space where we all, from our own subject positions and with an understanding of our "
The seminar intended to combine practical tools and case studies drawn from two different arenas. As a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice (IRSJ) in South Africa, my contribution came from the application of critical discourse and visual analysis, postcolonial and feminist approaches, and race theory in the study of racism and whiteness, ideology, and violence.
As a then Research Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Uganda and currently IPA's Country Director in Myanmar, Ricardo contributed with his experience in the application of innovative impact evaluation of social policy and developmental programs.
Just as we learned to cause chemical reactions by mixing elements in a Trujillo high school back in the late 90s, Ricardo and I were once again trying to bring together two seemingly unrelated fields in order to accomplish the following objectives:
1) to develop a critical understanding of how institutions articulate discursive practices;
2) to understand the way resources arrive with an entire cultural package;
3) to engage with terminology, concepts, questions, theories, authors, and cases that would endow us with critical tools; and
4) to strengthen critical thinking, global perspective, and intellectual curiosity.
"But, how can we REALLY provoke social change?" "Am I really going to learn anything today if I stay until the end of the seminar?"
These were two of the questions posed by the participants as the activity moved from thoroughly explaining a traditional perspective of impact evaluation to a critical analysis of it using discourse analytical tools. Interestingly, the answer lies not in the response one could provide, but in the very questions, we should be asking ourselves on a daily basis.
Our accomplishment as collaborators in this learning experience was to put emphasis on the fact that we need to question everything around us, both individually and as a collective. So, combining our fields, Ricardo and I suggested to move standard impact evaluation questions such as "What works in development practice?" to a different stage by beginning with something as basic as "What do you see?"
What do you see? When looking at the photo above (the main cover photo), the first thing that many people do, from my experience, is relate the two people walking to the adjacent advertisements, which promote a beauty salon, and explain the sexism or racism behind this relation.
However, could they really change a sexist or racist reality by replacing those advertisements? If we each asked ourselves "what do I see?" more insistently, we would be able to notice more than just two objects that construct what we recognize as a problematic reality. A more critical impact evaluation then, is, as we suggest, the one that takes into account the whole picture by asking "what do you see?" before posing the question "what should change in order to have a positive effect on the problematic reality?"
In the last weeks, many of us have chosen to believe that we can deal with Peru's political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental issues by replacing ministers, punishing bank employees, or demolishing a poorly constructed building. But, the picture has many more objects that need to be addressed if we want to take concrete steps towards changing our country's problematic reality.
Thus, let us start again and each ask ourselves the question: what do I see?
(Photos: Luis Escobedo)


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K-ON! Ep.9 – Ep.10
The general reaction I'm sure many of us got when the direction of the show concentrated less on the music…
Azusa joins the group in episode 9, and almost regrets it when she sees the carefree attitude of the group. It takes seeing them perform again and realizing they have a kind of chemistry to get her to want to stick with them.
Episode 10 sees the girls going on their second training camp trip, with Azusa in tow. Of course, while Mio and Azusa want to practice more, the other girls just want to have fun. So we get the usual beach antics before the actual practice session, which they of course we don't actually get to see.
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Thanks to donations from customers, a local opticians has collected more than 20,000 pairs of specs for charity over the past year.
The team at the Sutton-in-Ashfield Specsavers, in Idlewells Shopping Centre, has been gathering old, unwanted pairs of glasses from customers throughout the year, which have been donated to Vision Aid Overseas, a charity dedicated to fighting poverty by transforming access to eye care in developing countries.
Store manager, Nigel Davidson, said: 'Through the donation of old glasses, we are helping to provide access to eyecare for people who may not otherwise have access to it. Such a simple thing can transform the lives of some of the world's poorest people, helping in everything from school to work. The charity works tirelessly to ensure this need is met, and customer donations are vital to their success.'
Alongside the collections for VAO, the store also collects specs to donate to the Ashanti development charity in Ghana, as well as sending cases to Romania through the charity, Smiles Project. Members of the team travelled to Ghana in 2013 to provide free eyecare to locals at a Specsavers-sponsored eye clinic run by Ashanti Development, where they helped more than 1000 people by carrying out eye examinations, fitting second-hand specs and making referrals where needed.
Another trip is planned for October this year to return with specs that they have received through donations in store, so the team is encouraging people to continue to give their old glasses for the cause.


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Get ready for balloons, funny hats and lots of speeches. In the coming weeks, the Republican and Democratic parties will officially select their presidential nominees at their national conventions in Tampa and Charlotte, respectively.
Get ready for balloons, funny hats and lots of speeches. In the coming weeks, the Republican and Democratic parties will officially select their presidential nominees at their national conventions in Tampa and Charlotte, respectively.
Until the modern primary and caucus system was established in the 1970s, the conventions held a lot more political significance; they were where the parties actually picked the nominees. Yet, despite the fact that we have known the identities of this year�s nominees for months, the conventions still matter. Here are a few things they do � and don�t � reveal.
1Nothing substantive comes out of the conventions.
Yes, the parties� standard-bearers have already been selected and presented to the public. But the conventions give the parties a chance to shape their images and platforms.
In some years, the parties have emerged from the conventions with sharply contrasting tones. For example, when the Democrats were split over the Vietnam War in 1968, the party�s elites picked Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the convention in Chicago, and the antiwar faction went ballistic.
Police and protesters battled in the streets, while pro- and antiwar delegates shouted each other down in the convention hall. Meanwhile, the Republican Party met in Miami Beach and had a tranquil coronation of Richard Nixon. The GOP came out looking better � and went on to win in November.
And incidentally, the chaos in Chicago led to the reforms that created the modern nominating system.
The 1992 conventions pitted Republican culture warriors Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson, whose calls to �take back our country� sounded tone-deaf to many voters, against Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore, who projected youth, vitality and progress. The country rewarded their social liberalism in November as George H.W. Bush lost his bid for a second term.
And in 2004, each convention sought to portray its candidate as a war hero. The Democrats made John Kerry�s service in Vietnam a key theme, only to see it tarnished by the swift boat ad campaign. George W. Bush, who did not see combat in Vietnam, trumpeted his strong leadership after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and during the still-popular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush�s manufactured military career dominated Kerry�s actual one.
Considering how negative the 2012 campaign has been, it would not be surprising if both conventions focused mostly on the flaws and shortcomings of their opponents � a classic �lesser of two evils� election.
2The nominee�s speech is the most important part of the convention.
Many of us might get our fill of the candidates before the party meetings start. However, other speeches can have a lasting effect on the rest of the campaign.
In 1980, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy�s attempt to challenge President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination failed, but Kennedy�s words at the convention proved memorable. His �the dream shall never die� speech, imploring the party to renew its commitment to economic justice, roused convention-goers to their feet. And his endorsement of his onetime rival helped give Carter a bump in public support.
In contrast, Buchanan�s �culture war� speech dragged down the Bush-Quayle ticket in 1992, turning off moderate voters with moralistic rhetoric.
Who will steal the show in 2012? My bet is on former president Bill Clinton, who will officially place President Barack Obama�s name in nomination, and who probably will use the opportunity to burnish his record and that of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the once-and-maybe-future presidential candidate.
3 The convention bounce is meaningless.
Convention bounces � higher favorability ratings for a candidate after the party�s meeting � are generally thought to occur because many voters are just beginning to pay attention to the candidates, and their first impression is usually a good one, considering the candidates can control the setting and message at a convention much more easily than at any other time in the campaign. The bounce may be more a reflection of hype than a measure of sustained support.
But sometimes a convention can kick-start a campaign to victory, such as Bill Clinton�s in 1992. His 16-point post-convention jump in the polls, compared with George H.W. Bush�s five-point rise, was the biggest since surveys began measuring the bounce in 1964.
In other years, the lack of a bounce has hurt a faltering campaign. Democrat George McGovern didn�t get one in 1972, while Kerry�s favorability rating went down after his 2004 convention. Those were bad signs for both candidates, who fell short in their bids for the White House.
Given the latest polls, such a bounce might be more important for Mitt Romney than for Obama.
4The delegates are a bunch of political hacks on a taxpayer-funded junket.
First of all, the delegates travel to the conventions at their own expense. Second, you do not need to be a current or former elected official to attend. The gatherings are certainly dominated by those with political experience, but ordinary voters � with a little ambition, luck and disposable income � have a decent shot at attending.
The delegate process varies among states, but anyone can apply with the local party office. Each state is allotted delegates in proportion to its population and with regard to its partisan voting history. States that are deeper shades of blue, as measured by Democratic votes for president and for governor, have more delegates invited to the Democratic convention. For example, California has been allocated 611 Democratic delegates this year, while Delaware has 32.
5There are no surprises.
Even though a vice presidential candidate is now more likely to be selected a few weeks ahead of time, the convention is often a coming-out party, setting the tone for the rest of his or her political career.
The prototypical example occurred four years ago when Sarah Palin was thrust onto the scene by John McCain. Her folksy personality charmed or rankled, depending on where you fell on the ideological spectrum. The GOP convention was must-see television simply because the country was discovering this fascinating individual.
And in 2004, a young state senator from Illinois thrilled the Democratic crowd with a speech that showcased his life story and his belief in a better America. We all know what happened to that guy.
While Romney�s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, is a rising conservative star in Washington, most Americans don�t know much about him. The Republican convention is his chance to change that. However, with Sen. Marco Rubio delivering the speech introducing Romney, many in the party may be surprised to find themselves wishing their nominee had made a different choice.
Martin Cohen is a political science professor at James Madison University.


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Baby Ash is ten and a half months old. It seems every day we have a new achievement to cheer about in our house. Each day a new example of her finding her own ability to interact with the things of the earth and her fellow humans. Each interaction is an assertion that she is her own person. And each is accompanied by the most wonderful grin of accomplishment. Some are "normal" milestones: walking, first word, though no parent takes these for granted. And some are "special", like learning to throw a paper airplane after watching her brother and sister do it. Every milestone for our babies feels like an achievement for us parents too. We have kept them fed and safe so that they might grow. We have weathered the tumultuous first months where life is a blur and the purpose of it all seems far from our grasp. Our helpless baby, whose tiny toes we counted for the first time, mere months ago, is growing up. We are all delighting in her burgeoning personhood.
In the past six weeks she has:
Taken her first steps and progressed to running!
Walked out into the garden
Walked around the shops holding my hand
Learnt the dropping game
Discovered that she is most happy with one thing in each hand AND something in her mouth
Discovered how fun it is to race out of the sitting room door and up the stairs as fast as she can EVERY time the door is left open
Learnt to lower herself frontways off the bed without bumping her head
Learnt to support herself in a swing so she doesn't bop her nose
Learnt to clap and bop to music
Drunk from a cup by herself
Learnt to shake her head to great comic effect when she KNOWS she's doing something bold
Held a worm...and dropped it
Tried eating everything - favourites include: LEGO, stones, dice, chocolate money with the foil on, crayons...
Fed herself with a spoon
Learnt to spit out food for comic effect
Discovered that the wood burner is hot, and the fireguard is not worth squeezing around
Enjoyed interacting with chickens, piglets and cows.
Learnt to throw a paper airplane
Learnt to "talk" on the phone
Kicked a ball
Done her first drawing
Learnt to go back to sleep without breastfeeding
I am reading a wonderful book at the moment to review for JUNO: "A Different Kind of Perfect" about parenting special needs children. My heart breaks for all those parents who dreamed of their "perfect" child, and then watch the milestone times of first step, first word go by, further confirming the special needs of their child, instilling a deep sense of loss, grief, anger. I truly feel for all parents in this situation everytime we celebrate our milestones.


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Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Article States "Do as I Do" Is the Best Prescription for Quality
Contact: Glenn Withiam, 607.255.3025, email@example.com
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Article States "Do as I Do" Is the Best Prescription for Quality
New Hotel Industry Research Finds Hotel Managers' Commitment to Quality Improves Employees' Performance
Ithaca, NY, May 5, 2009 - When managers demonstrate their personal commitment to service quality, front-line hotel employees follow their lead, states new hotel industry research published in the May 2009 edition of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ). Researchers Ronald A. Clark, Michael D. Hartline, and Keith C. Jones surveyed 743 employees in 199 hotels and concluded that when managers demonstrate an empowering leadership style, they create an environment that leads employees to share the organization's values-thereby improving service.
The hospitality industry research study, "The Effects of Leadership Style on Hotel Employees' Commitment to Service Quality", is the featured article in the May CQ and is available at no charge from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research, which publishes the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/about/pubs/publications/quarterly/featured/articles-2009.html).
The study matched up managers' and employees' views about their hotel's commitment to quality. In addition, the researchers asked employees about their shared values, role clarity, and job satisfaction. They found that a directive leadership approach fails to drive service quality. On the other hand, an empowering leadership style promotes the shared values that are critical for service excellence. The researchers were surprised to find that a participative management style did not promote shared values, and they suggest that managers evaluate the extent to which they are actually involving employees in decision making.
The researchers conclude: "This study confirms the hotel industry's need to start with management for improving service quality." However, they point out that guests will see this commitment only as it is reflected in the service given by front-line employees.
Clark is an assistant professor at East Carolina University, Hartline is an associate professor at Florida State University, and Jones is an associate professor at North Carolina A&T State University.
Published by Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research, the award-winning Cornell Hospitality Quarterly is available by subscription from Sage Publishing at http://cqx.sagepub.com/.
About the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ) editorial content is broad and publishes research in all business disciplines that contribute to management practice in the hospitality and tourism industries. The objective of the CQ is to help all those involved or interested in the hospitality industry to keep up-to-date on the latest research findings and theory development in order to improve business practices and stay informed of successful strategies.
About The Center for Hospitality Research
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. Under the lead of the center's 77 corporate affiliates, experienced scholars work closely with business executives to discover new insights into strategic, managerial and operating practices. The center also publishes the award-winning hospitality journal, the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. To learn more about the center and its projects, visit www.chr.cornell.edu.
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text: For the most part I am very happy with my 3G Iphone and I don't seem to have any dropped calls, even driving around on 3G. I did notice one thing that was kind of weird though. Before I bought my 3G Iphone and switched to AT&T I had Verizon for years with multiple different phones. I have terrible cell phone service in my house. I could barely make a call on Verizon and always would get dropped calls in my house. I only have 1 bar on Edge in my house and I can make and recieve calls with my iphone no problem, I rarely get a dropped call. Here is the strange part, when I switch to 3G inside my house, I get "no service" on my iphone. It just sits there and doesn't drop back to edge. If I manually switch off 3G I am ok, but as soon as I switch to 3G on I get "no service" again. Anyone else have this problem where the phone is on 3G but won't drop to edge?


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"The individual transistors themselves are smaller than any wave of light."www.bloomberg.com
Not exactly new -- I still find the extreme bias towards sharing only new articles to be odd -- but a great post on Intel by Max Chafkin and Ian King:
Chip design is mostly a layout problem. "It's kind of like designing a city," says Mooly Eden, a retired Intel engineer who ran the company's PC division. But the urban-planning analogy may undersell the difficulty. A chip designer must somehow fit the equivalent of the world's population into 1 square inch—and arrange everything in such a way that the computer has access to each individual transistor 3 billion times per second.
The building blocks of a chip are memory controllers, cache, input/output circuits, and, most important of all, cores. On the Pentium III chip you owned in the late 1990s, the core and the chip were more or less one and the same, and chips generally got better by increasing the clock rate—the number of times per second the computer can switch its transistors on and off. A decade ago, clock rates maxed out at about 4 gigahertz, or 4 billion pulses per second. If chips were to cycle any faster, the silicon transistors would overheat and malfunction. The chip industry's answer was to start adding cores, essentially little chips within the chip, which can run simultaneously, like multiple outboard motors on a speedboat. The plan for the new E5 called for up to 22 of them, six more than the previous version, which would be designed at Intel's development center in Haifa, Israel.
I grew up in the middle of the "hertz race" (first mega, then giga), and I honestly didn't even realize why the clock rates seemed to suddenly stop going up several years back.
Intel's chip designers are committed rationalists. Logic is literally what they do, every day. But if you get them talking about their work, they tend to fall back on language that borders on mystical. They use the word "magic" a lot.
Gelsinger, the former CTO, says he found God a few months after starting at Intel in 1979. "I've always thought they went hand in hand," he says, referring to semiconductor design and faith. Maria Lines, an Intel product manager, becomes emotional when she reflects on the past few years of her career. "The product that I was on several generations ago was about 2 billion transistors, and now the product I'm on today has 10 billion transistors," she says. "That's like, astounding. It's incredible. It's almost as magical as having a baby."
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Cardamon Green – Huddersfield
Our client purchased a derelict building on the outskirts of Huddersfield and has now developed the site into a top Indian Restaurant. In partnership we designed a Corporate Image that was in keeping with the age of the building, whilst showing the vibrant colours of the Indian culture. The client has now added the image to menu's and corporate clothing ensuring consistency across there branding. Visual Impact worked very closely with the planning authorities and architect to ensure all signage complied with guidelines for the property's listed building status.


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This issue's topics:
* More on the Sober saga; Explorer, Firefox, iTunes patches; IPsec weaknesses
Virus News:
* And another Sober...
* Bluetooth viruses in cars
* Microsoft's antivirus offering may be taking shape
Security News:
* Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Explorer fixed
* SP4 for SQL Server 2000, Analysis Services, MSDE 2000 released
* Microsoft 'Security Advisory' service pilot
* Another critical Firefox security update
* Apple iTunes update fixes arbitrary code execution vulnerability
* IPsec configuration weaknesses identified
* Telecom "027 hack"...
As this is running very late I'll keep the introduction very short.
This month's Patch Tuesday passed with only one Microsoft security update released — a fix for a possible remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Explorer's web view mode. Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000 was also released. As this likely contains undocumented security fixes it should be considered an important upgrade despite the hassles of obtaining and installing MSDE 2000 updates. And, while still talking about Microsoft, a pilot 'security advisory' service is being tested and the first concrete steps to the release of Microsoft's new antivirus product are seen in the announcement of the Windows OneCare service.
Firefox users should obtain the new latest release as it fixes two vulnerabilities that, when combined, can be used for remote code execution.
Apple's popular iTunes has also been updated to fix an arbitrary code execution bug and exploitable weaknesses in some combinations of IPsec configuration options have been described in an NISCC advisory. Any coverage of the last week's security news relevant to us Kiwis would be incomplete without mentioning the so-called '027 hack', in which Telecom's 027 voicemail system was shown to be open to abuse from caller ID spoofing.
On the virus front, we have seen further machinations and developments in the Sober saga. And although not really virus-related, the folk at F-Secure have done some security testing of the Bluetooth functionality in Toyota cars which makes for some interesting reading.
Virus News:
* And another Sober...
Well, not really. Shortly after the previous Sober variant 'went to sleep', dropping from active-spreading mode to check-for-updates mode, it downloaded a spamming engine that started sending right-wing, neo-fascist propaganda to addresses harvested from the victim machine.
As this new pest does not mass-mail itself (or spread in any other way aside from being downloaded and run by the latest Sober variant) it is not considered viral so should not be classified in the Sober virus family. As if there was not enough naming confusion in this space already, some antivirus vendors have added it to their roster of Sober family variants, while others have added it to various Trojan families.
Sober's author is apparently also worried about being wrongly branded a spammer. The new Trojan we referred to above as a spamming engine drops a file with a message, in German, that basically claims 'I am not a spammer but perhaps I should become one'.
Computer Associates Virus Information Centre
Network Associates Virus Information Library
Trend Micro Virus Information Centre
* Bluetooth viruses in cars
Several months back there were rumours floating around that certain Lexus models had been affected, if not infected, by some Bluetooth malware or viruses. Toyota strenuously denied this and as there was no good evidence one way or the other, we did not report it in the newsletter.
Recently the lucky folk at F-Secure managed to convince Toyota to lend them a Bluetooth-enabled car to run some tests. Toyota claims its Prius models have the same Bluetooth systems and functionality as the Lexus range, so some of the F-Secure malware analysts were let loose on a Prius, suitably secured from the possibility of infecting stray phones. It seems Toyota's claims were right and the rumours wrong — read the details in the F-Secure malware analysts' blog page linked below.
* Microsoft's antivirus offering may be taking shape
Late last week a Microsoft press release described the approaching availability of Windows OneCare — a subscription service providing an 'all-in-one PC health service for consumers'. This service is initially being tested by Microsoft employees before entering a broader (US) public beta test later in the year. Microsoft did not release any details of the service's likely pricing.
Clearly targeted at consumer-level users, OneCare will provide automatic updating and configuration management of antivirus, anti-spyware and personal firewall software, schedule and perform backups and other routine maintenance tasks such as disk defragmentation. The service is also said to be dynamic, potentially altering its offerings as the threat changes.
OneCare has attracted a deal of criticism along the lines that it is somehow improper or unethical of Microsoft to charge for such service. Typically such critics suggest that Microsoft should have made its software properly secure in the first place but this partly overlooks the fact that an awful lot of 'security problems' on Windows PCs are due to user error coupled with the desire for 'easy-to-use' computers. When 'being able to run anything that takes the user's fancy' is a major criterion in deciding usability, problems are likely to follow. That the name makes New Zealanders and Australians laugh out loud should be considered a feature, not a bug.
Microsoft to Deliver Automated, All-in-One PC Health Service for Consumers
Security News:
* Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Explorer fixed
Rated as being of 'important' severity by Microsoft, the only update shipped on this month's Patch Tuesday affects all supported Windows 2000 versions including Small Business Server 2000. Windows ME also has the affected components but because the vulnerability is not rated as critical severity, there is no patch for that ageing platform.
In short, the components that supply part of the 'web view' functionality in Windows Explorer do not properly sanitise possibly dangerous characters, opening a script injection vulnerability. To exploit this an attacker would have to persuade the user of a vulnerable system to download a specially prepared file to their system and then select it so its properties are displayed in Explorer. This can allow a script to be run with that user's privileges — it does not require the user to actually run or otherwise "open" the file.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-024
* SP4 for SQL Server 2000, Analysis Services, MSDE 2000 released
Microsoft has released Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. Note that this includes SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, or MSDE 2000 — a component installed with several Microsoft and third- party applications (Microsoft applications that include MSDE 2000 are listed on the first page linked below).
MSDE is often overlooked by administrators trying to find all their SQL Server installations, as became only too obvious following the release of the Slammer worm. Cleaning up that mess also showed that finding and patching MSDE was not as easy or straightforward a job as would have been desirable. This is still the case, so MSDE 2000 administrators should read the release notes, on the second page linked below, very carefully.
Microsoft's service packs have long been rumoured to include undocumented updates, possibly including important security fixes. The KnowledgeBase articles listing the bugs fixed in SQL Server SP4 explicitly acknowledge this. "Other fixes may be included in the service pack that are not documented". Thus, we suggest it would be prudent to test and rollout this service pack with some priority.
Finally, however, note the warning about not installing SP4 on machines with more than 2GB of memory and Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) enabled. Users with such systems should check the SQL Server 2000 SP4 page regularly for a resolution to this situation.
Microsoft Products that include MSDE 2000
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 - microsoft.com
* Microsoft 'Security Advisory' service pilot
Further to the existing security bulletin service that describes security updates, the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) has started a pilot programme of security advisories. The notion behind these advisories is that often the MSRC is aware of issues it feels users and system administrators should be made aware of but that do not (or at least, do not yet) get a security bulletin because there is no update shipping to fix the situation.
Thus, the security advisory service will post information on workarounds for serious, publicly-divulged vulnerabilities that are not yet patched, best security practices for deploying various Microsoft technologies if there is a perception that these are not generally being followed or are not widely known, advice on new security-oriented features that may be added to an existing product through a security update or service pack, and so on. In general, a security advisory will describe the points of issue and link to the related KnowledgeBase article that goes into the gory details.
To kick things off, MSRC released two security advisories a few days ago. One describes how the default digital rights management settings in Windows Media Player (WMP) may, unintentionally, be used to open a web page designed to dupe a user into accepting the installation of normally undesirable software (such as adware or spyware), and describes how to obtain an updated version of MWP that has configuration options that allow better control over such situations. The second security advisory describes the new 'tar pit' options in the updated version of the SMTP service provided in the recent Windows Server 2003 SP1 release. These options are certainly not relevant for all Server 2003 users and unlikely to even be desirable for all administrators running SMTP on their Server 2003 boxes.
Microsoft Security Advisories - microsoft.com
* Another critical Firefox security update
Two vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.0.3 and previous versions, which alone are not critically severe, can be combined into a remote arbitrary code execution exploit. The Mozilla Foundation has released an updated version, 1.0.4, that fixes the vulnerabilities.
As a proof of concept exploit has been released, it may seem expedient to obtain and install the update as soon as practicable. However, although the joint exploit of this pair of vulnerabilities opened a yawning hole in Firefox's security, one of the exploits depends on behaviour of the software installation function. By default, that function will only offer software for installation from the mozilla.org domain and a subtle alteration to the server-end of that process has rendered the current exploit inoperable. It is unclear whether this sleight-of-hand could be worked around. The discoverer of the combination vulnerability suspects it may not be difficult to bypass this change, but has stated he will not investigate this further given that the patch is now available.
Archived Bugtraq list message - securityfocus.com
Firefox home page - mozilla.org
* Apple iTunes update fixes arbitrary code execution vulnerability
MPEG4 format parsing flaws leave users of earlier versions of Apple's popular iTunes media player open to possible denial of service or remote code execution attacks. Specially prepared, malformed MPEG4 format media files can trigger a buffer overflow in versions of iTunes prior to 4.8. There are no known active exploits of this vulnerability at present, but iTunes users would be well-advised to obtain and install the latest version as soon as practicable.
iTunes 4.8: Security enhancements
* IPsec configuration weaknesses identified
The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) has released a high severity rating advisory describing weaknesses in some configurations of IP security (IPsec) protocols. In short, configurations using Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) in tunnel mode with confidentiality only or otherwise providing integrity protection with a higher-layer protocol, and some configurations providing integrity protection with Authentication Header (AH) are vulnerable.
These flaws are due to poor configuration choices rather than improper implementation of the protocol itself. The NISCC advisory describes the vulnerable combinations and suggests alternative configurations that are not vulnerable. Although the actual attacks have been demonstrated under realistic test conditions, there are no known real-world instances of attacks using these techniques, yet.
NISCC Vulnerability Advisory IPSEC 004033 - niscc.gov.uk
* Telecom "027 hack"...
Computerworld tech journalist Juha Saarinen broke last week's largest local IT security story, with his investigation of the "027 hack". This has been fairly extensively covered in other media and online, so we'll simply provide links to the two key Computerworld reports.
Telecom's 027 service hit by 'Hilton hack' - computerworld.co.nz
Multiple victims of 027 hack - computerworld.co.nz


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Antique late Victorian porcelain brooch with a painted scene set in a cast metal frame and containing two diamonds and eight more colored and faceted rhinestones. The hand painted scene depicts a country outing or picnic with a young man and woman conversing as they sit along the edge of field just off the side of a rutted road (see all Photos). The young maiden has her bonnet on her lap and appears to be holding a flower in her right hand (Photos 2 and 5). Her young male suitor is also dressed for the occasion and is wearing white stockings, blue pants that end just below the knee, heeled dress shoes with buckles and a fancy dress coat that has a broad white collar and strapping along each shoulder. His clothing seems to suggest an early to mid-1800s date for the occasion with the setting probably in northwestern Europe. The period assigned to this brooch spans anywhere from about 1885 to about 1915 based on its style, materials and the porcelain disk. There is also a small chance that this brooch may be slightly older, but such conjecture is unverified.
The courting scene is painted in muted enamel colors placed on top of the glazed surface which covers a 1 5/8 inch by 1 inch area on the front of the brooch. The painting is carried out in the style of miniaturists with the smallest details added using a brush composed of a single hair or two (Photos 2 and 5). The back or reverse side of the oval porcelain disk is not glazed and exhibits a fine grain bisque-like vitrified surface commensurate with high quality Parian porcelain (see Photos 6 and 7). There is a small but deep circular indentation or hole about 1/16 of an inch across located in the center on back of the painted porcelain disk. The hole is about 1/8th of an inch deep and was purposefully created prior to firing the disk so that the disk could to be mounted in several ways or affixed to other kinds of frames such as those with a solid backing. But because this porcelain disk is secured to its frame by four prongs, the hole was not used in this case.
The brooch listed here has a frame that was constructed by using a detailed mold and the process of casting the piece rather than stamping or pressing it via machinery. Pressed metal frames for buckles, buttons and other small objects had been perfected in the late 1700s in Birmingham, England and the process used to produce silver, sliver plate, steel and brass items. But as noted, the frame on this brooch was cast and the metal may be either an alloy of pewter, tin or silver given its overall hardness (metal frame appears to have a hardness of between 2 to 2.5 using the Moh scale and a set of hardness picks). No warranty is provided as to exactly which alloy the frame may be, however the pin clasp on the back appears to be silver, possibly sterling, and seems to be a replacement likely done some 70 years ago or more(Photo 7). The pin and its clasp are in working order however they could use some adjustment by a professional jeweler to adjust the tension.
The cast metal frame is decorative and composed of ornamental openwork simulating delicate filigree. It displays very fine raised and beaded ridges set on the crest of the scroll-work as well as along the inner border of the frame (Photos 3, 4 and 2). Additionally, there are also two larger sizes of molded single beads that are pointed and form the middle and outer portion of the frame. The largest individual beads are just under 1/16 of an inch across and are placed at the beginning of a single scroll (see Photo 3 where a large bead sits just below and slightly to the right of a diamond).
In addition to molded ornamental details, the metal frame also has small sockets or settings for holding 20 cut stones or rhinestones. These sockets are located in the middle portion of the metal frame and encircle the oval porcelain disk. Only ten stones still remain in these small sockets. The term stone is used here loosely but with some discretion. Two of the stones are cut and faceted diamonds measuring about 1/16 inches across. The remaining eight other stones are translucent, also faceted, and can be categorized by color. These eight are probably paste, glass or simple common minerals such as garnet, quartz, etc. Colors include ruby red (two examples), amber yellow (one example), pale blue (two), and green (three). None of these eight colored stones fluoresce under short wave Ultra-violent light (see Photo 9).
The two diamonds sparkle bright white in daylight and fluoresce bluish white under short wave Ultra-violet light as illustrated in Photo 9. Specifically, the fluorescing diamonds are visible as bright bluish white glowing spheres located at 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock along the metal frame in Photo 9. The view of the diamond located in the 2 o'clock position in Photo 9 is not perfectly round because it is partially blocked by a metal prong that holds the porcelain disk in place. And while the colored rhinestones appear to display some wear on there facets from buffing or cleaning of the frame over time, the faceted faces on two diamonds are as sharp as the day they were cut.
The ten stones scattered irregularly among the twenty sockets in the frame are described as follows starting straight up as 12 o'clock and then progressing clockwise. First, there are two empty sockets followed by a white diamond, an empty socket, a light blue stone (glass paste? or sapphire??), a ruby red stone (glass paste? or ruby?? or garnet??), an amber yellow stone, and then four empty sockets. The sequence continues with a diamond, then a green stone (emerald or paste rhinestone), an empty socket, another green stone, a red stone, and then a light blue stone and ending with two empty sockets before returning back to 12 o'clock.
As an aside, cut diamonds were available from mail order catalogues from at least the 1890s onward. The smallest diamond listed in 1895 in the Montgomery Ward catalogue was 1/8 of a Carat for $7. The Sears Roebuck catalogue listed a 1/32 Carat First Quality diamond for $3.28 in 1908 and a Third Quality one of same size for $2.19 (Sears, Roebuck 1908: page 314). Consequently, this painted porcelain brooch with its remaining two diamonds and eight colored rhinestones may have sold for $5 to $10 back in about 1900.
So if you are looking for an antique brooch with two diamonds and a few other colored rhinestones, then make sure you seriously consider this one while it is still available. And as always, this item also comes with my Docs Antiques 100% satisfaction guarantee or you may return it using my return policy (see complete Return Policy details farther below). You also have the option to ask for a customized lay-away plan for purchasing this item (and others when combining orders) by simply requesting the terms you wish to use and then let Doc take care of setting it up and combining any items together as desired (payment installments may be modified at any time should the unexpected ever arise, just let me know by email and I'll change the due dates).
SIZE & CONDITION: This brooch measures 1 7/8 by 1 1/2 inches and is about 3/16 thick. The painted miniature scene on the porcelain disk held within the frame measures 1 7/8 inches by about 1 inch (see Photos). There is a grayish black patina oxide covering the face of the frame. The painted scene has just a couple of tiny scratches where the enamel paint has been detached (see Photo 5 along the left side of the porcelain disk for three tiny scratches). And as discussed above, ten of the twenty settings for stones in the frame are empty (called sockets above) and could be reset with stones if one so wished (talk to your favorite jeweler). The frame has no broken parts or missing pieces other than the stones already noted. The swinging pin and its clasp are in working order and appear to be a second generation mechanism after a repair made a long time ago. One may wish to have a jeweler adjust the swinging pin slightly should one want it to close more loosely. And as always, if the buyer is not completely satisfied, then she/he may return this miniature portrait for a refund (see our complete return policy for all details as noted below).
SHIPPING: All US mainland buyers pay $6.70 for well packed USPS Priority Mail and this is an estimated savings of $2 to $4 since insurance and tracking are INCLUDED in this amount. That is, the insured postage you pay for delivery in the US is always less than our actual costs or we refund the difference back to you, and there are never any handling or packing fees added to any of your Docs Antiques purchases, ever. All international buyers will also pay less than the actual shipping costs for all verifiable locations outside the Continental US mainland. Send us your address and we will email you up to four options for sending this item to your country. We only use the USPS for International shipping to reduce broker fees and certain Custom's charges when an item is over 100 years old and the option you select allows for enclosing a special waiver. Please note that international import duties, taxes and other special charges are not included in the item price or our shipping costs and these additional charges are the Buyer's responsibility. We do offer a petition waiver for VAT relief on the behalf of the buyer which may help reduce certain import taxes when your country grants such petitions for items over 100 years old and the shipping option you select allows a waiver request to be included. Please check with your country's Customs Office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to purchasing this item -- thanks.
RETURN POLICY: Satisfaction and peace of mind are guaranteed for all Docs Antiques listings here on Ruby Lane. And this means that if the buyer is unhappy with a purchase, then she/he may return this brooch by sending the item back undamaged and post marked within fourteen days of the original receipt of the item at your address for a refund (certain shipping costs are non-refundable, please insure the item upon return and add tracking). Items damaged by shipping in the US are covered by insurance and while this rarely happens because we pack professionally, we will gladly help you file your insurance claim should it ever be necessary. Of course, never send an item back that has been damaged by shipping since that will void the original insurance. Instead, contact us for help if you have any questions and we will gladly assist.
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Are you ready to "take ACTION" this CBS year?
Our study of Mark, Philippians, and James
will certainly equip us to do that very thing...
take ACTION for the Lord!
Sharing with you one of my favorite posters
which has some great advice
for the beginning of our new year...
-Stand tall and proud.
-Go out on a limb.
-Remember your roots.
-Drink plenty of water.
-Be content with your natural beauty.
-Enjoy the view.
LOVE that!!! And how cute coming from
You know... the trees ARE alive...
and they praise the Lord without even trying.
Join with me this year and take ACTION!
Don't let the trees glorify His holy Name
I'm so excited to start another CBS year!!!


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Review ~ Joe Browns
I was super excited when Joe Browns contacted me a few weeks ago and even more excited when this contact led to a product review!
If you're not already familiar with the brand, Joe Browns is a clothing company based in the UK which was 'born out of a desire to create remarkable and distinctive clothing for independent minded customers'. So if like me you want to dress with a bit of individuality and not be a high street clone, Joe Browns is an excellent place to shop.
One item that jumped out at me was the EASY WEAR ANYWHERE TUNIC, as a busy mama I need to be able to flit between school runs, errands, appointments, coffee dates and trips to the beach…sometimes all in the same day!
I do try not to look like I've just rolled out of bed, and this top manages to make it look as though I've actually made an effort, hurrah for fab easy styling!
Having worn and washed the tunic a few times I'm really impressed.
It's retained its shape and colour beautifully, no bobbling or distortion, it's practically perfect! Even the adorable little extra of the heart button has remained, this is such a cute little 'extra'. It has survived a few trips to the beach, where the pockets proved to be an excellent place to store those handfuls of sand the kids just insisted I bring back from the beach.
Overall I'm delighted with the tunic; the pattern of the fabric is so pretty, I want a throw blanket with it please. The cut is excellent {perfect for hiding any extra bumps you might have} and the fabric is proving resilient to wear and tear, and trust me my kids ensure anything I have is 'put through the wringer'!
I love it, my new favourite!
Here's a few other items which caught my eye.
{I was provided the tunic from Joe Browns in exchange for an honest review}


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Hey folks! It's that time again - Round 3!
Please bear with me on this one, while I still have plenty of commentary, I didn't take notes (!) and it was a super-fast game this round, so this will be less detailed than usual. But should be shorter?
The map - Spearhead Assault:
The Mission - Secure and Control:
Two Objectives (Home and Away) worth three VP each if held in the final turn. Secondary Objectives are the same, except the mission is Modified so that First Blood can only be claimed on or by a Flyer - THE FLYER MISSION! YES!
No Kill Points is good for me, and this is finally a chance - both in Points level and Mission - for me to stretch my wings with my revamped Crimson Hunter! I've wanted the model to "work" since it was released, I'm hoping 8th is where that happens. It now has a Save and far more Wounds, and can't be denied shooting from being Stunned or Shaken like in the old Edition. Maybe even more importantly, it now can be deployed at the start of any turn at my call, I don't have to roll for it. That's big!
But, will it be enough to counter the Stormraven I expect to see across the table?
Then again, I can also shoot at full BS and Charge a Flyer with any unit that can Fly - Jetbike Autarch, anyone?
Here's my list:
Note I brought back all the big guns after last game. High-damage, high-Rend guns are just *so* good, they seem to outperform volume of shots every time. The changes from last round are leaving the Raider with the stock Dark Lance (especially since I read the rules that DA Vehicles don't treat them as Heavy), gave the Wraithlord back his Bright Lance, gave the Storm Guardians back their Fusion Guns, gave both Warriors units Blasters, and gave everyone who could take one a Fusion/Blast Pistol. Not to mention the Crimson Hunter's punishing loadout to boot.
The cost of those upgrades still left me with some points to spare, so I changed the single unit of 4 Jetbikes to two units of 3 - more triggers for Strength From Death, more Objective holders, a better screen for my Autarch.
I'm also going to be doing an experiment this game - I'll be rolling as if my Autarch had Mandiblasters. It won't impact this game, but I want to see if it has more of an impact than the Banshee Mask. The Mask hasn't come into effect even once since I've been running it, because my Autarch is never in combat for more than a round. It's a nice insurance policy, but the Mandiblasters may actually wind up performing better.
My mysterious "Imperium" opponent revealed himself. I saw a tray full of tanks. I figured, sure! He's running some of those transports, but he just brought his whole collection just in case!
Then I saw the list-
Chapter Master (Bike, Armor Indomitus, Warlord, "Storm of Fire" trait)
Razorback (TL Heavy Bolter)
Razorback (TL Heavy Bolter)
Razorback (TL Assault Cannon)
Razorback (TL Assault Cannon)
Razorback (TL Assault Cannon)
Venerable Dreadnought (TL Lascannon, Missile Launcher)
Venerable Dreadnought (TL Lascannon, Missile Launcher)
Dreadnought (Assault Cannon, Fist, Flamer)
Whirlwind (Anti-armor)
Whirlwind (Anti-infantry)
*Salamanders Chapter Tactics, 1 CP (lol...)
Well... Shit! I know I even wrote an article about how 8th Edition Detachments allow you to field just about any unit combination of units, but this was my first time seeing that in action. I mean, ONE Biker model and zero Infantry in 1250 points?
Not to mention - it's long table. With the changes (esp. making my units faster) to moving and Charging, it's realistically not that far to slog, but just far enough that I'm going to be on the back-foot. Here's Deployment:
Note the two Objectives, one in each deployment zone. Also note, all those tanks are red :P
First Yellow Raven Guard, now Red Salamanders! Also note that the orange ramp on the upper left-ish had another Dreadnought deployed in it, I snapped this photo too soon.
I finished deploying first, holding my Crimson Hunter in reserve, and got first turn, and he did not Seize. Or choose to use his one and only Command Point to try again.
Now, I already made several major mistakes that hurt me badly this game: first, nearly all of my stuff is short to medium ranged and up-close focused. I KNOW I should always deploy on the very, very edge of boards like this. And in this game I should have Advanced everything first turn and eaten the shooting, just to be in a better position turn 2. It also hurt me a lot that we mostly placed terrain as if it wasn't a long-table mission, I didn't even think about Line of Sight blocking during that step (which is blindingly stupid in hindsight :P)
But, this is my first time facing Razorbacks in 8th, and I had no idea how ineffectual my shooting would be early on.
Turn 1: Aeldari
Another mistake - I ran my Crimson Hunter off to the side. While it was absolutely the right choice to bring it in turn 1, it was real dumb to not put it close to my Autarch to benefit from those re-rolled 1's.
But, in my Turn 1 I moved everything up, shot all of my longer-ranged weapons, and Advanced with my Infantry on the right. I got up the board at a good clip, but I was still barely in range with most weapons. In the Psychic Phase, I Guided and Fortuned my Wraithknight, hoping to get some use out of that Bright Lance.
I split all of my shooting between the double-Assault Cannon Razorback (center) and the nearest one behind the wall (because that's the one I wanted to be shooting at first, with the 2+ :P)
I brought the double-cannon one down to 2 HP, which was pretty good, but I had *atrocious* rolls. A Crimson Hunter's loadout should be enough, with decent rolls, to take out a Razorback in a single round of shooting. I did not have good rolls, missing half of my shots and failing to Would with one of the Pulse Laser hits. Then rolling 2's for damage. The Dark Lance on the Raider and Bright Lance on the Wraithlord plinked off some of the last, barely failing to drop that one, while the Jetbikes shaved a few HP off of the one in cover.
Turn 1: Marines
Return fire was predictably brutal, with the above being my casualties from Imperium Turn 1. Losing the Infantry was expected facing that many heavy-shot guns, but losing that many Jetbikes was bad. I couldn't roll saves at all!
Losing the full 3-man unit granted Imperium First Blood (since they Fly), and gave me the option to Soulburst, which I used to shoot with the surviving unit of Jetbikes, because my other option was to Advance my Autarch and have him be hanging by himself for a turn.
I also got to see those Lascannons in full fury, with the Dreadnoughts putting out 2 Lascannon and 1 Krak Missile shot each, and re-rolling 1 to-hit and 1 to-Wound every turn thanks to Salamander's Chapter Tactics. That came up every. Single. Time they fired, netting a truly massive increase in damage output. The rest of those units were also re-rolling to-hit because they were within the Chapter Master's bubble, and he had the Storm of Fire Warlord Trait, meaning any to-hit (or was it Wound?) roll of a 6+ was at one better Rend (Rend -1 becomes Rend -2, etc)
Aside from the casualties above, he also tagged my Crimson Hunter for a full 10 HP, leaving it with 2 (!) and significantly de-clawed. Crap.
Turn 2: Aeldari
In my Turn 2, I again came up fast, Advancing what was left of my Infantry (after losing two Storm Guardians to a Morale check), and fired again. This time I'd Guided my Crimson Hunter and was able to cast Smite on the in-cover Razorback, as well as Fortune on my Wraithlord. With Smite, I was super proud to have rolled 10+ for the D6 damage, and rolled a 2. I was so grumpy at my dice at this point that I Command Re-rolled my D6 and got a 3. SMDH - worth it!
In the picture above, you can just barely see my Jetbikes and Autarch behind the Hunter. My Autarch shot at the Dreadnought, doing respectable damage, while the Hunter, damaged as it was, was able to finish off the 2 HP Razorback - barely. And it didn't Explode, sadly.
Turn 2: Marines
In the Imperium's Turn 2, the Dreadnought here jumped down, and shot at the Jetbikes, along with some other units, trying to clear them so heavier guns could shoot the Autarch. The Crimson Hunter was easily taken down by a Whirlwind, but didn't Explode (whew!)
He also cleared my Raider, with that increased Rend and re-rolls to-hit making an enormous difference in damage output! The resulting explosion killed two of the Warriors embarked in it - yikes.
On the plus side, the Soulburst from losing the Jetbikes allowed me to shoot the Dreadnought with the Autarch again, bringing it to dangerously low health. And the Soulburst from losing the Raider let Eldrad polish off the other damaged Razorback with a lucky Smite!
Shortly after this, he easily finished off both Infantry units, leaving my Visarch to Soulburst away. Here, I would have preferred to Advance forward, but where he was at the time, the two surviving Jetbikes were still just a tiny bit closer to units that hadn't fired, so I opted to leave him further back to save from some of the shooting coming his way.
Then, the Dreadnought Charged (!) and used it's S... 13? Power Fist to really punish my Autarch. I got lucky here in that he failed a couple hits, but landing for 3 Damage each, I still took too many hits. I got SUPER lucky making all but 1 4++ Invul save, but since that one Wound going through would do 3 Damage (half of the Autarch's health), I opted to CP re-roll it - and passed! WOO!
I want to point out that this is my final CP re-roll of the 6 I started with, and at the bottom of TURN 2 - I'd been rolling so badly that I had to use them, and still was getting awful rolls, with this one exception :P
But, here's the kicker. In return Combat, my Autarch finished off the Dreadnought, and the #$%@ing thing Exploded! For THREE Mortal Wounds! Had I not re-rolled that one save, that would have outright killed my Autarch! Hence why I took that photo above, and why I kept it even though it's blurry as crap.
Top of 3, my turn with my much-reduced army. I still have my Autarch, mostly, an undamaged Wraithlord, Eldrad and the Visarch. It's not much, but it's something. And, barring the Crimson Hunter, it's all my toughest and hardest-hitting units still standing. So there's hope?
On the downside though, all I've taken out are three Razorbacks and a Dreadnought, there's plenty more where that came from. And I'm quickly losing the battle of attrition. What's worse, I can't even fall back on my home Objective because it's smack in the middle of a killing field (oops).
My only option is to play very aggressive, which I'm perfectly happy to do. But will it be enough?
Turn 3: Aeldari
This shot perfectly sums up my positioning all game - just a little too far back, just a little too late. Not going fast enough on that first turn killed me, because I needed to be making my Charges and firing, with without Advancing, I was juuuuuust out of position. When I first moved my Autarch to shoot the first Dreadnought, he was 2" out of Melta range AND out of range to shoot with the Laser Lance. Same situation here, so I missed out on two turns where that critical 2d6 Damage and whole extra shooting attack might have turned the tide, just a little.
Then, to make matters worse, I failed Fortune AND Doom, and *barely* pulled off Smite with exactly a 5, and dealt a whopping 1 Wound to the nearest Razorback. Goddammit.
In shooting, the Wraithlord whiffed, the Autarch did very little damage.
Last, but not least, I failed the Charge with my Autarch, meaning he's just there with his wounded butt hanging out and a still-quite-potent wall of guns in his face. On the other hand, my Visarch did make the Charge, but largely failed to Wound (dangit, Doom...) leaving me in an arguably worse position than before.
I'd been getting really bad rolls all game, but this was the turn where it really felt like it. Holy hell.
Turn 3: Marines
In the Marines turn, the one saving grace was that the Razorback the Visarch was engaged with had to Retreat, so it wouldn't be shooting. That was good, but I should have been able to knock two of them out of shooting with the Autarch's Charge.
In shooting, the Visarch tanked nobly, but went down in the first volley from the anti-infantry Whirlwind. That left other shooting to neatly polish off the Autarch, and a single Dreadnought nailed the Wraithlord for EIGHT damage (!)
Only Eldrad was spared. And now I'm going in to Turn 4 with nothing but a mostly-dead Wraithlord and Eldrad. Balls.
Turn 4: Aeldari
I hit the Wraithlord with Fortune - or tried, before failing again. And then got but one more lowly Wound with Smite, and failed Doom. Theme, much? Keep in mind, these Psychic Phases include Eldrad's mighty once-per-phase re-roll of 1 or both dice. Harrumph.
I Charged, this time mercifully making the Charge with all that was left of my battered army, and actually did a significant amount of damage, with Eldrad's weapon doing the lion's share, while the Wraithlord hitting on 5+ fell a bit short. But still, it wasn't enough to bring it down.
Turn 4: Marines
Final score: Eldar 0, "Salamanders" 5, having gotten First Blood, Slay the Warlord, and the 3 pt Objective they'd held all game. Huff!
Closing thoughts-
Holy Magnus' flaming ballsack was that BRUTAL!
8th Edition is all about synergy - I have some in my army with the Autarch and Soulburst, and it's potent, but this was the first time I'd seen a list build with this dramatic a single-minded purpose. The Salamander's Chapter Tactic on those Dreadnoughts came up *every single turn,* much to my detriment. And the Chapter Master's re-roll bubble on that many guns was nuts. The gravy that was Storm of Fire played a role as well, removing more than a few of my saves with "weaker" guns.
The Mission also played well to this. The narrow Deployment Zones allowed that boxy deathbox to have clear shots to all the important places, while easily staying within the Chapter Master's aura. Our choice of terrain also fed right into those tactics, I really don't know what I was thinking.
But let's talk about some other things - who the HELL thought TL Assault Cannons needed to be Heavy TWELVE?! Especially while rocking Rend -1? What were you thinking, mysterious far-off stranger! Didn't AC's use to be Heavy 4? Or am I mis-remembering that? Heavy 8 would be bad enough, but freaking TWELVE?
And Salamander's Chapter Tactics are incredible, especially on Dreadnoughts, but just in general really. While most of the vehicles in this army didn't benefit, the Dreadnoughts sure did - and a flat re-roll to hit and to-Wound on that kind of heavy ranged firepower is ludicrously good. Seriously, every single volley a failed Hit and a failed Wound were turned into successes. It was enough of an uphill fight without that, but that really did me in. It didn't help that he kept rolling 6's for Damage - but hey, dice game :)
As for my army... You know, it's not a stellar list, missing most Transports and long-range, but I did have the tools to take on an enemy list like that. Had I gotten right up in his grill a turn, or even two turns, before I did, it could easily have been a different story. But I didn't.
There are a dozen what-ifs in this one, but the long and short of it is that I felt like a *could* have won, and what actually happened is the absolute worst the game could have gone for me. And even with that, I face a hard-counter, long-table, where I'd screwed up Terrain, Deployment, and the first turn, and I still took it down to half-strength. Even if that took everything I had.
This was a very brutal, very quick game against a brand-new opponent who I enjoyed meeting and playing. I just brought a big pack of coyotes against a guy who'd come loaded for multiple armies of bears, which is my fault.
I'll chock this one up as my kharmic retribution for last League I played, where we played almost this same mission but I brought 800 points of Dark Reapers against Harlequins. Ouch. I still feel bad about that one, Schneider!
Ah well, I'll get my head in the game for the next round!


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I hope everyone will bear with me as I attempt to learn more about blogging. This is all new to me but like anything else I do, I am determined to succeed. I am also open to any suggestions and / or criticism.
My main reasons for doing this blog is two fold. 1) I want to highlight work done by my customers. This includes the beautiful cards made by the many card making experts (and you are all experts), amazing scrapbook pages and chipboard albums, and the mixed media work. I also want to use this site to link different products to u tube videos so people new to the craft have reference to look at.
It may take a few weeks for me to get the hang of this and get it up and running...PLEASE be patient
Thursday, 23 February 2012
My First Blog Post....Here goes!!
Posted by Scrapbooking Cafe at 20:39
3 comments:
- featheredheaven said...
Hey Lady!
Congrats on the new blog! Very happy that you decided to start a blog! Funny how we were just talking about this today!!!
Looking forward to see "what's happening" on your new blog!
Congrats again!
Sue O
- 24 February 2012 at 00:06
- Laurie said...
Woo hoo! Congrats Kristy! Looking forward to following along on your new adventure!!
- 24 February 2012 at 01:08
- Auntie Em said...
Yea Kristy! Congratulations on getting your blog going. Looking good and if I can manage a blog, you will not have any problems whatsoever! lol :D
All you need now is a place for followers! :)
- 24 February 2012 at 06:40


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Welcome to the crafty side of my life. Here I'll be musing about projects I'm working on, and the creative process around them. Oh, and there will be occasional bouts of cooking, photography, and poetry, too.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Viking Wire Weaving: 4 necklaces
This first necklace, so nicely modeled by my daughter Michelle, is made of 24 gauge copper wire. The slide bead is created with Delica seed beads that have been peyote stitched together. I'm living in Arizona, and copper is one of the 'three c's' that the state's economy was based on. (Cattle and Cotton were the other two.) So I decided to go for a desert Southwest feel, with the black and turquoise focal bead to complement the copper.
These next two are made with non-tarnish silver Artistic Wire. That one on the right is a collaboration with gem carver Epaul Fischer (http://www.gemartist.com/). It was a high school graduation gift for my daughter. The phoenix 'Wings' design was inspired by a needlepoint work that my folks had up on their bedroom wall when I was a kid. It read, "There are two lasting gifts you can give to your children. One is roots. The other is wings." So, this was her gift of wings.
And then I got to thinking about the Artistic Wire. It is copper wire, with a coating plated onto it. It comes in a variety of colors, which looks great to work with. But I'm not sure how durable the coating is. So, I decided to experiment. This last necklace is made of 5 colors of 26 gauge wire for the chain, and about 20 gauge copper for the clasp. I wove an inch of each color, and then pulled it through the draw plate. The coating didn't scratch in this process at all, and the sections are still even in size.
I'm wearing this necklace right now. I love the way it looks! But I'm still worried about the durability. I'm going to wear the necklace pretty much non-stop for the next few weeks, and see how it fares. I'd hate to put in all those hours weaving a piece of jewelry, if it won't hold up to normal wear and tear.
Has anyone else experimented with the Artistic Wire? What is your experience with it?
4 comments:
Love these! Is this something you could teach at the next Fiber Retreat? 8-]ReplyDelete
That would be fun! Yes, I think I could figure out a class.ReplyDelete
I've recently been making some viking knit and I'm hooked. Love yours. Absolutely beautiful. I'm partial to the copper one. I've only made them in copper, sterling and fine silver though so I can comment on the artistic wire. Frankly, I'm surprised that it held up to the weaving and drawing and would think it should hold up to normal wear and tear if it survived that. Lots of good luck with it.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Lois! I think I'm going to bite the bullet though, and order some sterling wire. If I'm going to put in that amount of time, I'd like to be sure the result will last.ReplyDelete
I popped over to your blog, and am now following. You do beautiful work!


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artist information
Mary Frazier
Mary Frazier, Artist
B.S. in Secondary Education with Art Major
All levels teaching certification in Art from T.E.A.
University of Texas, University of Houston
Post Graduate Studies Dominican College Houston
Museum of Fine Arts Houston andÂ
Palazzo Vasari Florence Italy
Workshops attended: Cloudcroft N.M. , Houston, and
Rockport Center for the Arts
Accepted in Juried Shows: The Women's Club of HoustonÂ
First Annual Fine Art Show 1972
Southwestern Watercolor ÂSociety Houston Chapter
Membership Exhibition 19972, 1973, 1974
Galveston Art League, Inc., 1974
Texas Watercolor Society 53rd Annual Exhibition A
Awards: Rockport Center for the Arts Merit Artist 2002,
Rockport Currents Show 2003 Honorable Mention.
Corpus Christi Art Center All Members Show 2006
First Place Works on Paper, Watercolor Society of SouthÂ
Texas March Show 2006 Honorable Mention
Art published in Mari-Thyme Treasures Cookbook 2001
Aransas Artists for Nature 2006 and 2008
Work is currently shown in Windway Gallery and
Rockport Center for the Arts Member Gallery
Copano Sunset #1, 2006
Girl with baby, 2007
Marsh Birds, 2008
Marsh Flight, 2006
Night view, 2008
Oaxaco Dancers, 2008
Oaxaco Dancers, 2008
Pelican group, 2008
Shapes and shadows, 2007
Traveler, 2006
Windswept oaks, 2005


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