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Among my favorite childhood memories is the Kids' Table. I come from a big family (five kids) within an even bigger family (my dad has 13 brothers and sisters). The grownups were always only too happy to seat us all at a separate table so they could actually have a civilized conversation with each other. And that was just fine with us! The last thing we wanted to have was a civilized conversation.
Ordinarily I'm all for families all eating together around the same table, but there are certain occasions when a kids' table is called for. Here are my kids' table guidelines.
1. More than one family. I only have one child and I'm not making him eat alone! But even in my childhood family of five kids, if it was just us, we all ate together. Bring in another couple with their kids, though, and I think everyone has a better time if we break it up into a kids' table and a grownups' table.
2. Kids are mature enough to eat alone. Obviously a kids' table isn't going to work for toddlers (although who hasn't fantasized about throwing the toddlers into a room with a bunch of goldfish crackers and just shutting the door?). Sometimes you'll need to do a combo -- independent, older kids at the kids' table with babies and toddlers at the grownups' table. How old is old enough? I think only a parent can decide that.
3. Have a few rules. The kids' table shouldn't turn into Lord of the Flies. Make sure everyone has forks and napkins, respects everyone else's space and plates, and doesn't throw anything. There should be some actual eating taking place, not just silliness. No outright screaming or yelling.
4. But accept a little chaos. It should still be fun, though. Maybe your kid won't eat enough. Oh well. Maybe there will be a lot of laughing and silliness. Great! The happier those kids are, the more time and space you have to enjoy the company of your grownup dining companions.
5. Make it their own. If you have time, have the kids decorate the table their own way. Have them set the table and remind them to clear their dishes after dinner.
6. Space, man. The kids' table should be close enough so you can tell if anyone is choking or injuring another. But I think having some space between the tables is more enjoyable for everyone.
Do you ever have a kids' table at your big gatherings?
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Treasure Box Wednesday: Mixed Bag o' Goodness
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- Comeca Jones said...
You liked out on the price of that jadeite great find!
- June 22, 2011 at 5:30 AM
- Jenn Thorson said...
Comeca- Thanks, I thought so too-- so much jadeite I see is WAY expensive. Thanks for visiting!!
- June 22, 2011 at 5:40 AM
- shabnamahsan said...
Hi Jenn
I just loved that green art nouveau-ish vase...congratzz that you find it for only $0.99 :)
- June 22, 2011 at 6:13 AM
- PJ | Home and Garden Decor said...
That little green art nouveau-ish vase was a true little treasure.
99 cent? Gosh, I would even have paid way more for it if I had found it in any store.
Does it really matter if it's really old or from the 60's or 7o's?
I don't think so. All that matters is that you really like your find and it blends in well with your existing decor.
Best Regards
Paula Jo
- June 25, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- moonstone said...
you are reallu kucky finding all this treasure.
- June 26, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- moonstone said...
you treasure finding are very pretty.
- June 26, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- CharityHand said...
Neat finds! I too love hunting for treasures at our Good Will. You just never know what you'll find! :)
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I'm not going to post a pattern of the voodoo doll - it's just two spheres and four tubes! The heart used a very simple chart, anyone who can do intarsia can work out how to write one themself. As for any doll, its advisable to work a tight gauge, I did two strands held together for thickness. If you still want guidance, there is a really great voodoo doll pattern here.
Anyway, I finished something. A hat. Do you think, maybe, it might just be a bit big?
It's Le Slouch (n.b. links to pdf)
I know it's meant to be slouchy, but it's not quite the look I was hoping for (even when I wear it properly). I think the problem is more likely the yarn than the pattern. It's cashmerino and has a bit too much drape. A strong woolen tweed would do a lot better, but it would have scratched my forehead.
I'm going to try wearing a bit more this week, maybe I just need to find the right way for it to hang. I love the colour and the seed stitch at this tension, even if it is a bit too drapy. If that doesn't work out I'll frog it down a few inches. As the designer says, it's basically an elongated beret. So I can try de-elongating it a tad. I hate re-knitting with cashmerino thoug - too fluffy and cotton wool like.


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I have a question, which might be silly : what do we mean exactly with "spike". I have seen that term being used since long time, but never found a specific definition (there aren't any in the wiki).
In my mind, to spike a monster, it means "Damaging a strong enemy, using various ways to increase your damages".
In "various ways", there could be any use of potions, piety, glyphs, objects... Actually, anything apart from regen-fighting.
Also, spiking is also often linked with "using resources to make you stronger for one fight", these resources being anything apart from exploration and mid-fight levelling.
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Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1996 - 791 pages
In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an "America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat." Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer's own international research, this is an epic account of a man whose cunning, duplicity, and self-invention were both at home in and at odds with the country he forever altered.
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"America's largest mystery has found its greatest interpreter."—The Washington Post Book World
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection."—Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books
"A narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the top of his form."—Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times
"The performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity."—Martin Amis, The Sunday Times (London)
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"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."—The New York Times
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."—The New Yorker
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."—The Washington Post
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."—Life
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."—The New York Review of Books
"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."—Chicago Tribune
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream."—The Cincinnati Post
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Entering is easy, leave a comment on a giveaway post for a chance to win that day's prize. I will leave all the giveaways open for the week through Sunday December 7th then I'll draw all the giveaway winners Monday December 8th and will announce all the winners at once on Tuesday December 9th.
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What is Prayer?
A very old definition of prayer described it as "the raising of the heart and mind to God." What is the "mind"; what is the "heart"? The mind is what thinks - it questions, plans, worries, fantasizes.
The heart is what knows - it loves. The mind is the organ of knowledge, the heart, the organ of love. Mental consciousness must eventually give way and open up to the fuller way of knowing which is heart consciousness.
Love is complete knowledge.
Most of our training in prayer, however, is limited to the mind. We were taught as children to say our prayers, to ask God for what others or we need. But this is only half of the mystery of prayer.
The other half is the prayer of the heart where we are not thinking of God or talking to him or asking for anything. We are simply being with God who is in us in the Holy Spirit whom Jesus has given us. The Holy Spirit is the love, the relationship of love that flows between Father and Son. It is this Spirit Jesus has breathed into every human heart. Meditation, then, is the prayer of the heart uniting us with the human consciousness of Jesus in the Spirit. "We do not even know how to pray but the Spirit himself prays within us." Romans 8:26
The Holy Spirit in the modern Church, especially since the Vatican Council in the early 1960's, has been teaching us to recover this other dimension of our prayer. The Council documents on the Church and the liturgy both emphasized the need to develop "a contemplative orientation" in the spiritual life of Christians today. All are called to the fullness of the experience of Christ, whatever their way of life.
This means that we must move beyond the level of mental prayer: talking to God, thinking about God, asking God for our needs. We must go to the depths, to where the spirit of Jesus himself is praying in our hearts, in the deep silence of his union with our Father in the Holy Spirit.
Contemplative prayer is not the privilege of monks and nuns or special mystical types. It is a dimension of prayer to which we are all called. It is not about extraordinary experiences or altered states of consciousness. It is what Thomas Aquinas called the "simple enjoyment of the truth." William Blake spoke of the need to "cleanse the doors of perception" so that we can see everything as it truly is: infinite.
This is all about the contemplative consciousness as lived in ordinary life. Meditation leads us to this and it is part of the whole mystery of prayer in the life of any person who is seeking fullness of being.
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Today I accidentally stumbled about Arora, another simple webkit based browser. And I'm very pleased. It's quite fast, renders webpages without errors, is google-mail, etc. compatible, and has a basic interface that's very similar to Firefox(tm).
That's getting pretty close to a cross-plattform Safari in my opinion. In comparison to Chrome it lacks the faster javascript engine and the multi-threaded multi-process approach, which causes it to slow down a bit with many tabs open. A private browsing feature is included.
But I think it's lean, but a true alternative and I'm writing this blog post in it - without any issues. I've tested version 0.4 in Ubuntu 8.10.
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Rocky Mountain Holiday
Greg and Jane Hills and their two children, Austin and Whitney, celebrate Christmas as countless Americans do–at home, exchanging gifts and sharing traditional holiday meals. Here, their friends and neighbors also happily mingle and enjoy the festive music and cheerful repartee.
What makes the Hills family holidays unique is the location they call home–Aspen, the glittering town high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, where every view merits a Christmas card. The family occupies a chic downtown loft built as part of an ambitious project (Greg and Jane are commercial developers) to preserve the better part of a historic neighborhood. "The city granted us permission to develop the parcel with the stipulation that we would restore three 19th-century cabins on the property to their original conditions," Jane explains. "They also insisted that the cabins continue to be used for commercial purposes, so we chose one of them as the office for our business."
Mountains freshly capped with snow and ever-so-apropos evergreens provide extra seasonal background to their built-new-to-look-old structure, with interiors fashioned by Los Angeles-based design talent Kevin Corn.
Inside the Hillses' loft, a stylish tension of architectural components marries warmth and comfort with features that could date back to a 19th-century industrial facility. Large, arched factory windows, recycled flooring, and exposed metal-and-wood structural ceiling beams make the space feel as though it has been in place for decades.
With sensitivity to the neighborhood restoration efforts, Corn incorporated decorative treatments within the second-floor loft that illustrate both the family's modern lives and the nearby area's landmark past.
The holiday spirit greets visitors in the ground-floor entry, fitted with a glass elevator that lifts to the loft and to the third-floor master bedroom. Seasonal arrangements of blooming paperwhites, miniature trees, a basket brimming with pinecones and pomegranates, and a penny candy-filled jar huddle on a round mahogany table.
The spacious second floor provides clearly defined areas, including a place for formal dining, a kitchen, a den, and the living room, where the Christmas tree occupies a niche. Bedecked in unmatched ornaments collected by the family, the tree dazzles with a pleasing bit of decorative disorder in a room that otherwise bears a clean, sophisticated appearance. "I like neutral, not flashy," Jane notes. "You can always add color accents if you want change."
Corn selected creamy white fabrics for the living room, paying close attention to texture. Two different weights and weaves of white wool hang behind a wood valance at the tall arched windows; an inner sheer diffuses the light, while an outer layer of gabardine offers nighttime warmth. "At an elevation of 10,000 feet, the light can be blinding," Corn explains. "And with windows this big, the fabric needs to have considerable heft." The sofa and two upholstered chairs sit in front of the fireplace with its handsome steel surround. Twin glass-top coffee tables are nestled together, elegantly signaling the season with a stately arrangement of white amaryllis arranged in a large glass bowl.
The generously sized walnut dining room table speaks to Greg and Jane's convivial entertainments–even when it's not Christmas. Precise, tickinglike vertical stripes cover the chairs, a contrast to the rough organic rust and gray of the brick walls. At Christmas, the table display features an array of greenery and blossoms tucked into hollowed-out logs with silver leaf embellishment, a wonderful variation on holiday decorating. A black iron chandelier with white glass shades hangs above the table and reinforces the metal theme throughout the room. "I didn't want it to catch the eye but rather blend into the background," Corn explains.
The kitchen marks a noteworthy juxtaposition of urban and country. Stainless-steel appliances complement streamlined oak cabinets stained ebony. A zinc-top table with a pine trestle base exemplifies cottage charm, especially with old wicker chairs pulled up to it.
Which season qualifies as most beautiful in this breathtaking Zip code with its year-round outdoor attractions is debatable, but there's no doubt that the winter holidays are especially meaningful for the Hillses.
"Aspen is our real home," says Jane, "not a place where we occasionally visit to ski or vacation. Our children grew up and went to school here, and we are active in local community affairs. This is where we live and create family memories."
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- A roaring fire and a traditional tree set the stage for a classic Christmas.
- Knitted stockings hang from the fireplace mantel in the family room.
- The master bedroom deck affords a lovely view.
- On the Christmas tree, a diminutive pair of hockey skates references the sport that both of the kids play.
- Twinkling holiday lights decorate the downtown brick building that Jane and Greg built.
- The Hillses gear up for holiday entertaining with a bucket of iced beers and glasses set up on the kitchen counter.
- The generously scaled kitchen was designed for cooking and for accommodating informal family meals.
- In the entry foyer, the linear framework of the elevator cage is in pleasing contrast to a round table topped with elements from nature–pomegranates, pinecones, paperwhites, and miniature pine trees.
- Open to the living room and adjacent to the kitchen, the dining room takes its masculine cue from a wall of rugged exposed brick. A sturdy walnut-and-steel dining table taps into the holiday spirit with silver-leafed logs packed with greenery and berries.


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If you've missed favorite TV series, many return this week with new episodes. Here are some highlights as the 2014-15 season begins Monday:
1. "The Big Bang Theory," 8 p.m. Monday, CBS
The eighth season of TV's most popular comedy begins with back-to-back episodes. In the first, Leonard and Amy collect Sheldon, who is in Arizona. In the second episode, Sheldon must teach a class, and his students include Howard. Fans should be elated to see so much of Emmy-winner Jim Parsons. "Big Bang" will switch to Thursdays late next month.
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Justice Sotomayor Doesn't Want Cameras In The Supreme Court Because Americans Won't Understand
from the citizen-mushroom,-reporting-for-inactive-non-duty deptThis adminstration is having a hard time reaching its goal of being the "transparentest place on earth," what with its executive orders, state secrets and a whole lot of "as you were" in reference (deference?) to existing Bush-era policies. To make matters worse, Obama's appointees are proving themselves to be "team players" and blocking out much of the remaining sunlight.
Justice Sotomayor is pitching in with the "new transparency" (now available in black, charcoal and midnight slate!), reversing field on her previously stated opinions on cameras in the courtroom.
At her confirmation hearings in 2009, she said she was in favor of letting citizens see their government at work. "I have had positive experiences with cameras," she said. "When I have been asked to join experiments of using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated. I have volunteered."Apparently, much like the rest of the administration, transparency is a great talking point in theory. In practice, however, it's a very different story.
She was singing a different tune a couple of weeks ago, telling Charlie Rose that most Americans would not understand what goes on at Supreme Court arguments and that there was little point in letting them try.Now, while Sotomayor may be correct that many Americans don't understand the nuances of the Supreme Court, it's rather insulting to believe this ignorance should preclude them from observing the inner workings. After all, many Americans are ignorant of ins and outs of the entire political process, and yet, no one's suggesting (at least not legislatively) that they have their right to vote revoked. Not only that, but C-SPAN offers wall-to-wall coverage of the legislative process, something few people in their right minds would claim to understand in its entirety, but no one seems concerned that viewers drawing the wrong conclusions will somehow harm that process.
"I don't think most viewers take the time to actually delve into either the briefs or the legal arguments to appreciate what the court is doing," she said. "They speculate about, oh, the judge favors this point rather than that point. Very few of them understand what the process is, which is to play devil's advocate."
In fact, she doesn't really make an argument as to why cameras shouldn't be allowed into the courtroom. All she does is claim that the proceedings would fly over the heads of viewers. If she's concerned some of the real-time "devil's advocating" will be misconstrued, her fears are misplaced, to say the least. The public can misconstrue the intentions of the justices without a live feed, thank you very much.
And, if it's the public's understanding of the process she's worried about, wouldn't it make more sense to make the process easily accessed? It's pretty hard to increase knowledge without observation. It seems counterintuitive to dismiss the public as ignorant and think you're going to improve this by locking them out.
Unfortunately, it's not just Sotomayor making a 180 when actually faced with making a theoretical situation a reality. Justice Elena Kagan has also reversed her stance.
At her confirmation hearings in 2010, she said video coverage "would be a great thing for the institution, and more important, I think it would be a great thing for the American people." Two years later, she said she now had "a few worries, including that people might play to the camera" and that the coverage could be misused.Once again, we have fake fears covering for the government's natural tendency to do its "best" work behind closed doors. C-SPAN has seen its share of "playing to the camera," and yet, the American public is still better off having access to this coverage. And, if Kagan's worried the courtroom coverage might be "misused," she's apparently unaware that anything can be misused, whether it's press releases, public statements, speaking engagements, interviews, C-SPAN footage, etc. Worrying about potential "misuse" is an incredibly weak argument for opacity. Of course it will be misused. But it will also be beneficial to the general public. An open feed shows the whole story, which can then be used to punch holes in the arguments of those who misuse the information.
Oddly enough, the home of free speech and democracy is lagging behind countries like Canada and the UK in terms of cameras in these nations' highest courts.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which was formed in 2009, allows camera coverage. Last month, Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge, the head of the judiciary for England and Wales, announced that cameras would be allowed in appeal courts starting in October, after judges receive media training.So, we've heard the excuses (they're not actually "reasons") presented for keeping cameras out of the Supreme Court, but what's the real reason behind this resistance to cameras in the courthouse? According to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the problem may be with the justices themselves.
Lord Judge agreed with Justice Sotomayor, to a point. "I suspect John and Jane Citizen will find it incredibly dull," he told a committee of the House of Lords. But that did not seem to him a reason to prevent them from trying to make sense of the proceedings.
Arguments in the Supreme Court of Canada have been broadcast since the mid-1990s, and more recently they have been streamed live on the Internet.
Owen M. Rees, the court's executive legal officer, said the experience had been positive.
"The filming of the Supreme Court of Canada's hearings has increased the public's access to the court and its understanding of the court's work," he said. "Of course, each court must make its own evaluation of whether introducing cameras in the courtroom would be appropriate."
Chief Justice Roberts said he worried about the effect that cameras would have on lawyers and, perhaps more important, on the justices, who may have less self-control than their counterparts abroad.If true, then the American public is being cut out of the process in order to save the justices from themselves. This is completely backwards, to say the least. If cameras provoke this sort of response from the highest court in the land, then something needs to be fixed within the court itself. Trying to place the blame on the public for a perceived lack of comprehension or tendency to misuse information is wholly disingenuous. Our Supreme Court can, and should, follow the lead of Canada and the UK and stop treating US citizens as though they have no (comprehensible) horse in this race.
"We unfortunately fall into grandstanding with a couple of hundred people in the room," the chief justice said.
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I have a '22 coupe that needs new tin in the floor of the turtle deck w/spring hump. I see them in the different manufactures catalogs but everyone has them listed for '23-25 or newer. Will the sheet metal for a '23-'25 fit in a '22? I thought most all the cars from '20 to '25 were the same size.
Denny -- I don't think the '22 and earlier turtles had a sheet metal floor. I believe the floor was wood, and it was part of the body where it extends back underneath the turtle. (Somebody on here probably knows for sure.)
The floor in my 21 is/was metal and ran from the rear of the car to the floor boards. It is one piece with bracing on the bottom and also has the the lower seat spring riser mounted to it.
With all the coupes of this vintage popping up, too bad these are not re-made along with the lower qt body panel.
I'm sorry, I was thinking of the runabouts, not the coupes.
The metal looks original and is one piece in the (turtle) trunk floor and a second piece fits just behind the seat and meets the wood floor boards just under the seat. Both are stamped metal with support ridges pressed in. I don't want to order from the vendors only to find out they don't fit and then get stuck with postage both ways.
Does anyone know if the metal sold for '23-'25 will fit a '22?
The money I save can be spent on my health food drink of barley and hops...the more health food drink I enjoy the better my rebuild job looks!
Denny, I have been wondering the same thing. Mine is in pretty sad shape. I am thinking of maybe trying to fabricate one.
The 23 - 25 trunk floors will not fit the earlier coupes.
Dave S.
Thanks Dave.. Is there a source for earlier coupes or do I need to fabricate something.
I don't know of a source for the earlier coupes. You are probably going to have to fabricate something. Can you post a photo of what it looks like?
Dave S.
It looks like the photos of the sheet metal floors in the vendors catalogs for the '23-'25 coupes. Perhaps if I get some measurements I could compare it to those. Will the vendor send me measurements if I contact them?
I have to go out of town on business for the next few days so I won't be able to post anything for a while. I need to ask my daughter-in-law how to post photos but I'm sure I can get something together.
Denny, where are you located? Is there enough of yours left to use as a pattern? I've made a lot of floor panels over the years and many times have been able to duplicate then where it can't be told from a factory one.
Call Howell sheetmetal and see if they can make one. I have used their parts and found the parts to be good, prices fair and the people friendly.
Ted, I emailed them Friday with a very simple question. Still no reply. It doesn't take long to type "yes" or "no".
Some photos my 21 floor pan;
The bend down tabs on the front of the seat rizer hold up the back of the floorboard. It is one piece front to back. The holes that you see in the seat rizer along the front are tabs that are bent back and rivited to the floor pan.


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Actor BRUCE WILLIS has poked fun at the KRISTEN STEWART cheating scandal in a hilarious DIE HARD parody.
The action star, reprising his role as tough detective John McClane, sobs over Stewart's break-up from Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson in the clip, which aired during Willis' appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday (30Aug12).
The hardman breaks down in tears as he tries to deliver his catchphrase, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf**ker!" in the mock trailer for fake sequel Twi-Hard: With A Vengeance.
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Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect eighth inning in his final All-Star appearance, Jose Bautista, J.J. Hardy and Jason Kipnis drove in runs to back a night of pulsating pitching, and the American League beat the National League 3-0 Tuesday night to stop a three-year losing streak.
Ten pitchers combined a three-hitter and the 43-year-old Rivera, who is retiring at the end of the season, remained unscored on in nine All-Star innings. Rivera won the MVP award.
The only older pitcher to appear in an All-Star game was 47-year-old Satchel Paige.
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Bautista had a sacrifice fly in the fourth off Patrick Corbin that stopped the AL's 17-inning scoreless streak. Hardy added a run-scoring grounder in the fifth against Cliff Lee and Kipnis hit an RBI double in the eighth off Craig Kimbrel.
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by Tena Starr
copyright the Chronicle 12-19-2012
BARTON — For the first time in two centuries, an Abenaki tribe in Vermont can claim tribal forestland. As of Monday, the roughly 1,000-member Nulhegan Abenaki own 65 acres in Barton on the May Farm Road. Title is held by Abenaki Helping Abenaki, a nonprofit created several years ago to preserve the culture of the Nulhegan Abenaki.
The tribe, which the state of Vermont officially recognized in 2011, has been working on the purchase for more than a year. The Vermont Land Trust holds a conservation easement on the property to make sure it remains undeveloped.
Tribe members will continue, and ultimately expand, an existing sugaring operation on the land. It will also be used for a tribal community garden, said Luke Willard of Brownington, former tribe chief and a current trustee who was pivotal in organizing the purchase.
"All Nulhegan Abenaki land has been gone for a long, long time," Mr. Willard said. "This is the first community-owned piece of land for the tribe in literally over 200 years. We've got a lot of celebrating to do. This is a really big thing for the leadership and the citizens of the tribe.
"It's also a big thing for the town of Barton and surrounding communities," Mr. Willard added. "The way we've set it up the land will be conserved forever. We're allowing public access. We're not allowing motor vehicles, but foot travel, horseback riding, cross country skiing, bird watching, hiking within reason. We're willing to share the woods with folks."
The land was paid for largely through fund-raising and grants. Prior owner Eric Lanou sold the development rights to the Vermont Land Trust.
"We worked hard to raise this money," Mr. Willard said. "But everybody loved this project. People wanted this to happen."
Tribe members plan to sugar on the land this spring, gradually increasing the size of the operation as time goes on, Mr. Willard said. They'll do it the old-fashioned way, with buckets rather than tubing.
Eventually, the Nulhegan hope to tap as many as 3,000 or 4,000 trees and to develop their own brand of syrup — not just pure Vermont syrup, which has its own fame, but the first brand of Vermont Abenaki-made syrup. "This is going to be the first maple syrup produced by an Abenaki tribe in centuries," Mr. Willard said.
The sugaring operation will be labor intensive. "Our intention is to take folks who are unemployed or underemployed and put them to work for the season," Mr. Willard said. "It's going to be done fairly old school."
Also, he said the tribe will invite schoolchildren to come see how sugaring is done the old-fashioned way.
"And we want to have a small exhibit where folks can actually see how maple sugar was produced prior to Colonialism," he said. "It's very laborious compared to contemporary sugaring."
Money from the sugaring operation will go to support the tribe's programs, such as Nulheganaki Youth Outreach, which does presentations about Abenaki history and culture. When that program first started audiences were tiny, sometimes no more than a half dozen people, Mr. Willard said. These days presentations are made to much bigger groups of 50 or more people.
"It's grown incredibly with zero funding," he said. "So can you imagine what they could accomplish in that program with $4,000 or $5,000 in revenue generated from sugaring?"
The Nulhegan also operate a program called The Seventh Harvest, which is basically a community garden.
Mr. Willard said it started years ago, largely as a typical food shelf to help the needy. "We realized we were helping people who were down and out, but we weren't really empowering them to help themselves," he said.
By coincidence, a Johnson State College professor took an interest in the Abenaki gardening practices, which were still being used by some.
"He was under the impression that these practices were pretty much extinct," Mr. Willard said. "When we realized that was the common belief, we worked with JSC and got a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to study these agricultural technologies. It became apparent to us that these ancient practices could be extinct in as little as a generation."
The study, combined with a desire to provide healthier food, led to a community garden at Mr. Willard's home in Brownington.
That garden will move to a clearing on the Barton land. It could provide food for 15 or 20 families.
The rules for its use are that growers must learn traditional Abenaki growing practices, if they don't already know them, and they must agree to pass that knowledge on to someone else in order to keep traditions alive.
The little clearing with its rich soil was one of the reasons the Barton land was so appealing, Mr. Willard said. "I looked at it, and I saw mound gardens."
Although the land has practical uses, it also has more symbolic ones as well.
A tribe is not an organization; it's a body politic, just like a town, Mr. Willard said. But the Nulhegan have not had a communal meeting place.
"There are Abenakis who own their own land," he said. "But we didn't have a community place to meet like towns do. We were always borrowing places to meet. It's difficult to maintain a government when you don't have a central place."
The tribe will use the land to hold meetings, events and celebrations.
"Part of our creation story is that the creator wanted us to be the stewards of the land," said current chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki, Don Stevens, who takes a more spiritual view of the acquisition. "After the land was taken from our ancestors, we were no longer able to be the stewards we were asked to be. Our hearts are heavy with that burden. With our own forest, we can pick up the soil, feel it, smell it, and know that our ancestors walked on this land and it is ours to protect. For this land, we're able to fulfill our promise."
Gaining official recognition for the tribe, as well as others in Vermont, was a long and contentious process. Mr. Willard said that was, at least in part, because some believed the tribes would make land claims or try to establish casinos.
Nothing could be further from the truth, he said. The tribe paid for the Barton property, which it intends to share with everyone. "Our intentions were always positive."
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OMG!!! Owlkin Frenzy is awesome in ICC because of all the raid damage. You guys are noobs if you don't pick it up.I was always very sceptical of these claims. We've known for a long time that not all damage procs Owlking Frenzy, but how the mechanics actually works has been a little unclear to me. ICC does in fact have a lot of raid damage. So, I've been wondering if Owlkin Frenzy is a good talent for ICC raiding moonkin. In this post I will try to answer that question by providing a little more info on how Owlkin Frenzy works and take a look at the value of Owlkin Frenzy in a raid situation.
How Owlkin Frenzy works:
First lets take a look at the tool tip.
Attacks done to you while in Moonkin form have a 15% chance to cause you to go into a Frenzy, increasing your damage by 10%, cause you to be immune to pushback while casting Balance spells and restore 2% base mana every 2 sec. Lasts 10 sec.Unfortunately the Tool tip is a little missleading and not all attacks can trigger Owlkin Frenzy. Murmurs did a good job of explaining the conventional wisdom on how it works recently, but I will try and paraphrase his post.
The first thing to understand is there is a difference between an Attack and Damage. A DoT may damage you 5 times but counts as only 1 attack. Since the buff procs off of the attack, DoTs have only one chance to proc buff.
Second, the buff only works on direct attacks against you. Traditional AoE spells generally won't trigger the buff, but this is where it gets confusing. Not all spells that hit multiple targets are considered AoE by the game and, thus some spells a player would concider AoE can proc Owlkin Frenzy. There isn't really a good rhyme or reason as to why some spells are AoE and others are not. Murmurs provides some general rules, but there are also exceptions to the rules he lists.
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If we wanted to we could argue all day about what should theoretically proc Owlkin Frenzy and what shouldn't, but that wouldn't be a big help. To truely analyze the benefit of Owlkin Frenzy we need to take a look at the combat logs and see what is actually happening in raid.
For the past couple of weeks I have been running with 2/3 Owlkin Frenzy (I took the points from Gail Winds). Provided below is one weeks worth of data from my ICC 25man raids. I realize that statistically this is not a large enough sample, but I am comfortable with the numbers after looking at the parces of some other moonkin (Thank you Ziaki, Rheynn, & Foofy).
|Time (min)
|OF Up Time
|Value per Point
|Lord Marrowgar
|Lady Death
|Blood Princes
As you can see from the data Owlkin Frenzy is not procing very often for 9 out of the 10 fights listed. For these fights Owlkin Frenzy resulted in a 0.1% to 0.2% DPS increase per point invested on average. BQL was the exception, with very significant up time. In the BQL fight alone, Owlkin Frenzy was worth a 1.48% DPS increase per point invested
Despite my parce being a very small sample, I think the results are fairly conclusive and consistent with the conventional wisdom regarding Owlkin Frenzy. In most raid encounters, Owlkin Frenzy will provide a very limited DPS increase per point invested of around 0.1% to 0.2%. To put this in perspective this is very similar to the DPS increase provided by Genesis per point.
That said, Owlkin Frenzy is currently a very good talent for BQL, due to what many are speculating is a bug. Since BQL is a tight DPS race for many guilds, investing the two extra talent points in Owlkin Frenzy can be a good idea to give you a boost on this fight alone.
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Considering that Owlkin talent is only put in when you have excess talents, which most of us have now, would you say put the excess (2-3 points) into Owlkin or Genesis?
My example is no more valid, but my most recent night of raiding with 3/3 OF, I got:
Fight Procs Uptime
Marrowgar 8 22.3%
Deathwhisper 8 21.2%
Funship 0 ---
Saurfang 0 ---
Festergut 3 11.7%
Rotface 0 ---
Putricide 4 5.9%
Our numbers obviously differ quite a bit. I am not implying you are wrong, or that my numbers are any more valid, just that a sample as small as either of ours is just statistically way too small to draw conclusions from, and even trying can easily lead to bad conclusions.
Just to stress the point, the following is a chart of OF procs for a series of BQL attempts. (We wiped early vampire deaths.)
Attempt Procs Uptime
1 11 49.8%
2 4 17.7%
3 14 35%
4 24 58.1%
5 8 35.4%
6 15 52%
7 1 15.5%
8 7 25.5%
9 9 25.6%
Arbitrarily picking one or two of these can easily lead to conclusions that the whole sample does not support. Even a sample this size is not valid for drawing accurate conclusions.
So the posts do not keep formatting. I apologize for sloppy display :[
Well, my own parses show a very small number of procs as well. Basically indicating that this is a rather worthless talent. The same goes for genesis: almost wothless.
But than again, where are those points spend better. Even if i'm speccing into typhoon, i always end up with a single point in OF. As the fights i'm in now don't need AoE, i keep using at least 1/3 OF (and 1/5 genesis).
Great post on confusing talent. I wish we had better options to spend our 2 free points in.
It seems like a great pvp talent (I don't pvp though) but in PvE you don't want to get hit. Yes, damage is inevitable and part of every encounter, and you will take damage at some point. I don't think anyone would go out of their way to take damage to try and get this thing to proc (like warriors sometimes do for rage), but for me it always procs at bad times. I'm running out of fire, getting tombed or whatever, but basically it never seems to proc during my normal rotation so I can't even capitalize on it. Sometimes I get lucky and it procs while I'm standing still and I get a nice boost for a few seconds.
It seems like the only fights it's worth having on are BQL and Sindragosa. I haven't seen Arthas yet so I can't comment there. Would my extra points be better in Brambles for Treants, or even in Gale Winds? I use Typhoon a lot on the move now.
Sorry, but thats quite misleading. Your sample is very small. I have 2/3 OF for 3 weeks now and see a lot more procs on some bosses than what you posted.
Though I agree its not that great of a dps increase, is way better than Gale Winds, unless somone likes to top the meter on trash pulls.
You very unfairly represented owlkin frenzy in my opinion. One week doesn't do justification to a talent based off RNG when hit at that. This will effect players who attempt to dodge every attack more than others, especially Marrowgar. I believe your blog has more power than most moonkin sites and you've under represented owlkin frenzy overall.
One of the basic principles behind statistics is that with a small sample size (1 week) you're going to have a high probability rate of error in misrepresentation.
-Artofficial out
If choosing between those to I would say owlkin because it is a big boost for BQL.
@ Valr, Anon2, & Artofficial.
Did you miss the part where I said the data listed is a small sample? Did you miss the part were I said I looked at the parces of other moonkin?
Trust me, I've looked at tons of data. I've only listed my own because providing a large and acurate sample is impractical.
In reality the sample is not as small as you may think. The data I provided is the result of thousands of hits I took over the course of a raid week. On top of that, a small sample sized does not mean data is irrelevent, especially when it is consistent with what other people have found.
I am not making a hard and fast rule saying Owlkin Frenzy is worth X. What I'm saying is that he value of Owlkin frenzy is very low. Even if you triple the numbers I provided, Owlkin Frenzy is still a relatively poor talent.
I'm going to pick on you because your the one for whom I could find a parce for.
On 2/10/2010 in about an hour of boss attempts you had a total of 23 OF procs. That is just over 6% up time for about a 0.3% DPS increase per point. Yes you did proc it 8 times on marrowgar, but you also took more damage then most of the other raiders who were not tanks. The next night you had 13 procs after about 70 minutes of boss time.
You can dismiss my results as missleading due to sample size all you want, but don't delude yourself. I haven't seen a single parce where OF showed signigicant up time for any boss other then BQL and I've looked at dozens.
My results may be low, but they are not so low to show which ball park Owlkin frenzy is in.
Here is a link to logs for the recent data I listed. And I was very careful to make sure to not imply your data was irrelevant. Its not. But it is only a small part of what needs to be a much large sample to draw accurate conclusions, especially considering the extreme variance between one instance of an encounter and another. I just wouldn't pass judgment on a sample that small, as my margin of error would be more than I was comfortable posting with. On another note, it isn't an overall fantastic talent, but for the sake of comparison lets use the smallest %/point in your data: .1228%. Assuming 7k dps, a fairly modest average for icecrown, one finds an 8.6dps/point increase, coming in above brambles, and just below genesis. Any of the other numbers in your table end up with OF coming in above both brambles and genesis. Granted, its not an excellent talent, but it is much better than both brambles and genesis.
Missed the putricide uptime, which is lower than the one I used. In any case, on fights where it will proc, it takes very little to overcome both brambles and genesis.
Missed the putricide uptime, which is lower than the one I used. In any case, on fights where it will proc, it takes very little to overcome both brambles and genesis.
Do you really think it's a bug? Her raid damage procs water and lightning shields, Owlkin Frenzy doesn't seem far off to me.
The problem with comparing Frenzy to Genesis and Brambles is that the former requires an up to 15% chance on being hit by a valid effect to proc. The latter are always in effect. Brambles will always give you treants a 15% damage boost. I wouldn't expect it to be fixed if it is a bug, however the talent is still subpar on the other fights.
I tried taking 2 points out of gale winds for OF but only noticed a small gain. I also noticed myself justifying taking extra damage when I had the talent because of that small gain.
In the end, the ends did not justify the means. I was causing undue stress upon our healers. Furthermore, the majority of the damage in ICC 25 that will proc OF is avoidable.
Anyone serious about progressing will sacrifice dps to live (at least I hope they will).
With all of what I have said, where else can I place those talent points? Gale Winds is an AoE talent that is really only used for trash? Can I get more of a dps gain else where?
Tbh, I had my doubts in the start, yet choose to go 3/3 OF over gale and even the trees.
Sure procc is abit low but there are "ways" I found OK to force a procc...
..and by that I see proccs quite often in most of the fights.
Putri may be the on of the few fights I dont see it procc much, but even there its possible to make it procc, just need a bit of timing..
OF procc on dmg, hence u need to make yourself get dmg just enough to it to procc but not more to make burden on others or in stupid ways.
I think I can boldly say I have a quite high uptime and I see the difference in my dps when its up.
tricky is to make it proc along with omen.
Either way...
..as for gale .
..sure you get more distance, you do more damage...considerably, I use these spells this benefits quite rarelly for find it worthwhile. 2 points for buffing up a spell which also costs 1 point.
An 1 point talent that does 400dmg each ~20s...but needs to be glyphed since its not always desireble to it to bounce back things....
As same goes for starfall, where you need to choose your moments, you need too with typhoon.
ICC is imao not a typhoon friendly instance. Even though OF proccs are bad, making its dps increase bit unpredictable, so is typhoon since you dont want to glyph it.
I have learned that typhoon, OF and gale are our personal flavor, a choice dependable on playstyle and group. A place where you can play more independable and can trust in your healers and group to trust you and your class, OF is your friend there. Another group where caution is more a matter and you are comfortable with utilising your movements and skill-usage, there maybe typhoon is more something for you.
So, both talents WILL give dps increase and also will not, all depends if you good at using it or not. The question about procc its just a matter of forcing the procs, as we do with omen.
Want OF to procc? Get a pan in your head and you'll chuckle (Of procc sound) like a chicken!
This is at least my experience.
I recently updated my talents post following some personal tests.
I specced into Genesis in place of Moonglow/Improved Moonfire on the basis that ....
a : Improved Moonfire is valued about on a par with Genesis in T10 due to no more Moonfire crits on dot
b : I have no mana issues, so a little DPS from Genesis > no dps from Moonglow
Following this on I took a look at a few more points, namely my last point in Intensity, and my points in Improved Insect Swarm.
On the same logic as Moonglow, moving my 1 point in Intensity over to 1/3 Owlkin Frenzy seemed like a good move. I also decided to move 2 of my 3 points in Improved Insect Swarm over.
The DPS change was not noticable on all fights apart from BQL. On most fights it felt like any RNG mechanic outweighed any change due to losing those 2 points in IIS. On BQL as per your tests, the talent was far superior.
All in all I think that talents like IIS / Owlkin Frenzy are at a point where they can be bundled in to the "choose what you like" kind of mentality. So many of our talents due to various reasons are becoming less obviously superior, and while I am sure that there are stats to support talent X over talent Y due to a 0.04% DPS increase or similar, for most players any DPS lost through RNG or just any aspect of human error would be more significant.
As already identified, BQL is still very much a DPS race. Most other fights are not. For those most other fights your DPS is not really affected that much, but then on the fight where DPS matters you have a nice boost. This is enough for me to hold on to Owlkin Frenzy for now (unless they go and nerf it)
You might want to update this post with Lich King numbers, since I'm guessing your guild is there by now.
Mine are available at http://worldoflogs.com/reports/38ecalzzevipytgj/details/21/?enc=bosses&boss=36597
Owlkin frenzy procced 30 times on 10 lich king attempts, so 3 times per attempt, and we rarely saw phase 2, so an average of 3 procs on the 1st phase + transition.
This seems very worth it to me, so I'm staying at 3/3 owlkin frenzy, because this is by far the hardest fight in ICC 25. My raid leader agreed that it's worth sacrificing typhoon on Saurfang since that's easily doable anyways, for the added dps on LK.
I'm pretty sure it's the Infest which is able to trigger it.
LOL @ makeshift. you should never take delibrate damage in a raid even if it is to proc something. there will be enough chances for it to proc in a normal raid encounter wiht out standing in fire. not to mention it only is procced by the initial hit. i plan to test this myself. the glory of this is extra damage, NOT dps increase. the uptime is not enough to increase your dps but if you proc this along with lunar eclipse youll have an insane damage increase for that short period of time


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International 1010/1100
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Chevrolet Corvair 95
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Chevrolet Cameo
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Chevrolet El Camino
This one is a no-brainer, and an idea that came oh-so-close to showrooms in the form of the Pontiac G8 ST. Although we did get about two years' worth of G8 sedans before the Pontiac brand was killed off completely, the G8 ST never made the trans-Pacific journey from Australia, where it has been sold as the Holden Ute for decades. We're hoping that, with the comeback of the Chevrolet SS sedan, it could bode well for a limited run of coupe utilities under the El Camino name.
Dodge L'il Red Truck
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Chevrolet 454 SS
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Ford Ranchero
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