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United States District Court, D. Delaware
May 21, 2018
LARS CAVI, Plaintiff,v.EVOLVING SYSTEMS NC, INC., RATEINTEGRATION, INC., AND THOMAS THEKKETHALA, Defendants.
before the Court are Defendants' Motion to Strike the
Supplemental Report, Opinions, and Testimony of Plaintiff s
expert William Uchimoto (D.I. 93) and related briefing (D.I.
94, 102), Defendants' Motion to Exclude the Testimony and
Opinions of Mr. Uchimoto (D.I. 89) and related briefing (D.I.
90, 92, 101), and Plaintiffs Motion for Leave to Serve a
Second Supplemental Expert Report Nunc Pro Tunc
(D.I. 108) and related briefing (D.I. 110, 112).
I will deny Defendants' motion to strike Mr.
Uchimoto's supplemental report. The supplemental report
apparently seeks to "clarify [] the scope" of the
original report. (D.I. 94, Exh. A at p. 2). Defendants argue
they are "extremely prejudiced" by its late
disclosure. (D.I. 94 at 10). I do not see any prejudice.
While the supplemental report appears much narrower in scope,
the opinions therein appear to be consistent with those in
the original report. (Compare D.I. 90, Exh. A,
with D.I. 94, Exh. A). The primary difference seems
to be that, now, Mr. Uchimoto characterizes his opinions as
relating to "materiality, causation, and damages."
(D.I. 94, Exh. A at p. 3). Otherwise, I do not see any
material differences between the opinions set forth in the
reports. Thus, I am hard pressed to see how Defendants are
prejudiced and do not otherwise see any reason under the
Pennypack factors to strike the report. See
Meyers v. Pennypack Woods Home Ownership Ass'n, 559
F.2d 894, 904-05 (3d Cir. 1977) (setting forth factors to be
weighed in deciding whether to exclude an untimely expert
I will grant in part and deny in part Defendants' motion
to exclude the opinions and testimony of Mr. Uchimoto.
Defendants' primary argument is that Mr. Uchimoto's
proffered testimony contains improper legal opinions.
(See D.I. 90 at 9-15; D.I. 94 at 8). Defendants
additionally contend that his testimony does not meet the
Daubert requirements of fit and
reliability.[1] (D.I. 90 at 15-18; D.I. 94 at 8-9).
According to Defendants, Mr. Uchimoto's reports
"contain[] neither underlying methodology nor anything
reflecting upon his expertise in the industry." (D.I. 90
at 16; see also D.I. 94 at 8-9).
light of Mr. Uchimoto's supplemental report and the
briefing, I understand Mr. Uchimoto to be offering opinions
related to three issues only: (1) materiality, (2) causation,
and (3) damages.[2] (See D.I. 94, Exh. A; D.I. 92 at
17 (stating that Mr. Uchimoto's "role is to opine on
materiality, causation, and damages")).
As to
materiality, it appears that Mr. Uchimoto will testify about
the differences between preferred and common shares and the
effect of "carve-outs." (D.I. 94, Exh. A at p. 3).
Further, he will "address the attendant effect that
preferred shares and carve-outs have on the actual value of
common shares." (Id. at p. 4). I understand
this proffered testimony related to stock preferences and
carve-outs to form the basis for Mr. Uchimoto's opinion
that the representations and omissions at issue would have
been viewed by a reasonable investor as having significantly
altered the "total mix" of information available.
(Id. at p. 3).
In my
opinion, Mr. Uchimoto's testimony related to stock
preferences and carve-outs, which I understand to be based on
his thirty-six years of experience as a lawyer in the
securities industry, is relevant to and will help the jury in
determining the issue of materiality. See Shapiro v. UJB
Fin. Corp., 964 F.2d 272, 280 n.l 1 (3d Cir. 1992) (The
materiality element of a Rule 10b-5 violation "is a
mixed question of law and fact, and the delicate assessments
of the inferences a reasonable shareholder would draw from a
given set of facts are peculiarly for the trier of
fact." (citation omitted)); Fed.R.Evid. 702. I think
that to the extent preferred shares and carve-outs affect the
value of common stock, the more likely misrepresentations or
omissions about preferred shares and carve-outs would be
important to a reasonable investor in deciding whether to
purchase a company's common shares. Thus, I will not
exclude Mr. Uchimoto's proffered "materiality"
I will
exclude his proffered opinions on causation and damages,
As to
causation, Mr. Uchimoto's proffered testimony seems to be
that, in his opinion, the representations and omissions at
issue "directly induced" Plaintiff to enter
employment agreements with Ratelntegration, "pursuant to
which[] he received shares and options that were, at all
relevant times, worthless." (D.I. 94, Exh. A at p. 4;
see also D.I. 90, Exh. A at p. 7). This statement is
conclusory and is otherwise not a proper expert opinion. It
is unsupported by any technical or other specialized
knowledge that would be helpful to the jury. See
Fed. R. Evid. 702. Even if it were supported, why Plaintiff
decided to work for Ratelntegration is a factual question on
which expert testimony is unnecessary. The jury will be able
to use its common sense and experience to understand the
relevant testimony, and to decide whether or not to believe
Plaintiff when he explains his reasons for accepting a
position with the company. Thus, I will exclude Mr.
Uchimoto's proffered "causation" opinion.
As to
damages, Mr. Uchimoto's "analysis" amounts to
nothing more than a simple math equation. He takes 5.42% of
$20, 000, 000 to reach a total of $1, 084, 000. (D.I. 90,
Exh. A at p. 10; D.I. 94, Exh. A at p. 4). There is no
scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge
involved that would help the jury. See Fed. R. Evid.
702. In other words, I do not think this calculation requires
an expert; the jury can do the math. Of course, Plaintiff may
put on evidence in regard to the facts underlying the $1,
084, 000 number. He can present facts related to his 5.42%
ownership of Rate Integration and Thekkethala's
representation that the company was valued at $20, 000, 000.
Plaintiff can argue at closings whatever inferences he wants
the jury to draw from those facts. But Mr. Uchimoto may not
testify as to his purported damages analysis.
For the
reasons stated above, Defendants' motion to strike Mr.
Uchimoto's supplemental report (D.I. 93) is
DENIED and Defendants' motion to exclude
the testimony of Mr. Uchimoto (D.I. 89) is GRANTED IN
PART and DENIED IN PART. Mr.
Uchimoto's proffered testimony related to causation and
damages is EXCLUDED. Plaintiffs motion to
serve a second supplemental expert report (D.I. 108) is
is SO ORDERED.
[1] Defendants also cite the
Daubert requirement of qualification. (See
D.I. 90 at 15). But I do not see in Defendants' motion
any argument that Mr. Uchimoto is unqualified. Rather,
Defendants focus on the requirements of fit and reliability.
Thus, I see ...
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When it comes to Charlie Chaplin I am far from an expert. In fact, I know very little about him and his work (I spent a bit too much time obsessing over Buster Keaton to give Chaplin his just deserved attention). I've seen the odd Little Tramp short in some of my film classes, but I never had any substantial exposure to him in school. I think from here on I may indulge myself in his work a little more than I have in the past.
I am thrilled with The Great Dictator. The clearly heavy handed satire of Hitler, Goebbles, Göring and Mussolini left me snickering and sometimes outright guffawing boisterously (I couldn't help myself). Every action is deliberate, every dig blatantly over the top: I, like Chaplin, would have traded anything to find out Hitler's reaction to the film (supposedly he had a copy imported and watched it not once, but twice).
From the beginning of the film it is clear that Chaplin's stance on war in general, and the purpose of the war of the day, was a bitter one. His relentless attack of the antagonists of the Second World War posits them as pedantic children, his caricature of Hitler laughably similar to ones of Napoleon: a whiny, self-important little man, who thinks of the world as his playground. Chaplin doesn't mince words in his first fully talking picture, seriously commenting on how one man's greed to rule the world will ultimately lead to its destruction (the Globe Dance scene), and forcing the world to see these dictators for what they really are, stripped bare of their fear mongering ways, exposed and stripped down to their fundamental parts.
While addressing such serious issues throughout the film, he does so in a surprisingly light manner, one that makes it very easy for the public to laugh at such heinous monsters. However, as the film nears its conclusion, quite literally within the final ten minutes (maybe even less) it takes a surprisingly somber turn. When the Great Phooey (Führer) finally wreaks havoc on the Ghettos, and raids the countryside to imprison the Jews, through until the end of Chaplin's iconic speech, the film seems to grow dim.
In the bits and pieces I've read on the film over the past couple of days I've noticed that production had started in about 1937, before much of Hitler's atrocities had taken place, and before some of the, shall we say, subtler crimes had been exposed. Chaplin was, supposedly, heavily criticized for making the film and releasing it when he had, having fingers pointed at him, saying he should have known better than to make such an antagonizing film in such troubling times. His defense, in the snippets I've read, is that he did not yet know of the atrocities, and had he known he never would have made the film. Seemingly the reason the conclusion of the film takes such a drastic change in tone is because of what he had become aware of before the film was finished.
It's a brave man who pokes and wags his tongue at a raging beast, and I commend Chaplin's work here. From a purely entertaining standpoint I was laughing almost the whole way through, I found the slapstick moments to be classy and smart, not too schlocky, and the dialogue was ever so witty. To compare (not that I should, but when has that ever stopped me?) The Great Dictator to Duck Soup, this has relevance and substance. Duck Soup was seemingly nothing more than the Marx Brother's blindly instigating potentially dangerous men. Supposedly Mussolini was enraged by their film, thinking it was about him (which it seemingly was not at all). This felt substantial, and pointed, as if its instigating properties served a purpose. Chaplin wasn't doing this just to be a shit disturber, he had a goal in mind. While he did intend to poke fun, he did it with direction and purpose, and as such he did not do so foolishly, but rather he cleverly crafted his "attack".
To compare, yet again (though I know I shouldn't), I always said I preferred Keaton to Chaplin, that I thought he was a far superior performer. I still think that's true. However, I do see more value in Chaplin than I had before. His work is not limited to his physical performances (of which Keaton's really are better, you can't really compete with the offspring of circus performers), and in fact I would argue (as I'm sure most people do) that the brilliance of his performances lie in their conception. He's more than just a tumbling Tramp. He offers a dialogue, a discourse on relevant issues, and he shoves them in your face with a subtle flick of his wrist, instead of a showy cream pie.
This post was originally published on my tumblr on December 17, 2011.


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Artificial bandwidth extension using the constant Q transform
ICASSP 2017, 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 5-9, 2017, New Orleans, USA
Most artificial bandwidth extension (ABE) algorithms are based on the classical source-filter model of speech production. This approach generally requires the dual extension of each component through independent processing. Alternative approaches reported recently operate on the spectrum. With human perception thought to be largely insensitive to phase, most such approaches focus on the extension of the magnitude spectrum alone and rely on Fourier spectral analysis. This paper reports an approach to ABE based on the constant Q transform (CQT), a more perceptually motivated approach to spectral analysis. A Gaussian mixture model is used to estimate missing highband components from available narrowband components before resynthesis with phase estimates obtained from the upsampled narrowband signal. Objective assessment shows that energy normalisation is critical to performance. These findings and the appeal of CQT for ABE are confirmed through informal subjective tests based on the mean opinion score.
|Artificial bandwidth extension using the constant Q transform
|bandwidth extension, constant Q transform
|New Orleans
|March 2017
|Digital Security
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|@inproceedings{EURECOM+5107, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953218}, year = {2017}, title = {{A}rtificial bandwidth extension using the constant {Q} transform}, author = {{B}achhav, {P}ramod and {T}odisco, {M}assimiliano and {M}ossi, {M}octar and {B}eaugeant, {C}hristophe and {E}vans, {N}icholas}, booktitle = {{ICASSP} 2017, 42nd {IEEE} {I}nternational {C}onference on {A}coustics, {S}peech and {S}ignal {P}rocessing, {M}arch 5-9, 2017, {N}ew {O}rleans, {USA} }, address = {{N}ew {O}rleans, {UNITED} {STATES}}, month = {03}, url = {http://www.eurecom.fr/publication/5107} }
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Item Description: An article under "War News" from the Weekly Standard in Raleigh, NC describes news of the presidential election in the north, as well as troop movement.
Citation: Weekly standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 16 Nov. 1864. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045706/1864-11-16/ed-1/seq-1/> A copy is in the North Carolina Collection.
From Richmond and Petersburg.
There has been no change in the two armies since our last.
A telegram from Petersburg of the 9th says that
the Yankee videttes report that on Tuesday last
Warren's 5th corps voted for McClellan for Presi-
dent overwhelmingly, and that the army of the Po-
tomac has done the same thing throughout They
say New York City gave him 40,000 majority, and
Kentucky has gone for him by an immense vote.
They report the Lincoln officers in the army as
very uneasy.
The Yankee pickets in front of Richmond states
that a telegram has been received at their head-
quarters, announcing the capture of the Privateer,
Florida, off the coast of San Salvador.
Nothing additional from Wilmington or Georgia,
except the statement in the Macon Telegraph that
the federal garrison at Atlanta has been largely re-
inforced recently, and the trains are running through
from Chattanooga. It is rumored that Gen. Thom-
as, with 40,000 men is confronting Gen. Hood, and
that Sherman has four corps in Atlanta.


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And if you dig around a bit more, you find an explanatory page which puts the picture in a bit of context.
I hope you enjoy.
Oh, by the way, you have until the 9th September to see the exhibition. It is at Tate Modern. Worth the queues in my view.
This brought back pleasant memories. I think my first exposure to Picasso was a large print of Guernica my brother picked up when in Spain and shipped home for safekeeping while he continued his tour. I was maybe 15 and constantly being exposed to broader things by this brother. My dad couldn't help but unrolling this print and just shook his head, totally unable to fathom why anyone would want that on their wall. I admit, I was pretty confused by it too! My next experience with Picasso was when I was in college and got a chance to spend time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. They had several of his paintings from his blue period and I fell in love with them, buying a small print of one and a postcard of another. Fast forward to 2009 when I ran across some quotation of Picasso's and decided I really needed to learn more about him, checking out a book from the library. Oh my - it really was so interesting finding out about his progression from one stage to the next and I finally started to get a grip on those multi-perspective and garish paintings of women.
I'd been taking a drawing class and decided to use some of the paintings in the book to practice on. I'd always heard how much one could learn by copying the masters and now I was experiencing that much to my delight. I particularly remember how when drawing the nose of one of his early characters my pencil slipped and suddenly I had the nose of the some of the women in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Ah, I thought, maybe THIS is how it happened for him too, a slip of the pencil! Here is one of several blog posts on my experience of copying: https://idahobeautyquilts.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-on-copying.html
So thanks for this post and a chance to revisit Picasso and my experiences with his art.
My absolute pleasure, Sheila. And thank you for your lovely response to my post.
I have heard about copying old masters, and I am pretty sure some of the new masters did just that during their training. Oh, to have the luxury of the time to just spend in a gallery simply copying and learning. A luxury I just don't have. But you are right, a great way to learn.
And I am sure you are right about happy accidents. Picasso was just so prolific that he cannot have had the time to go back and correct mistakes - he must have just gone with them to fulfil the obligations he had to his dealers etc. Working to a deadline does give you a real sense of purpose.
As always, thanks for dropping by.
I love to receive your comments - so please say hello. I have just been brave and turned the word verification off. Lets hope those spammy gate crashers don't get in!
If you pop back to this blog from time to time you might have spotted that I have a bit of a complicated life - or rather its a bit complica...


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YARMOUTH REGISTER AND BARNSTABLE CO. WEEKLY ADVERTISER, Vol IX, No. 14, March 20, 1845.
Yarmouth-port, MA: W.S. Fisher, 1845. First Edition. 4pp, newspaper format, 24" x 17". Contains: "Uncle Abel and Little Edward" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; A Noble Name for A Noble Ship; "Lucy Dutton" by Fanny Forrester; The Mutiny on Board Ship Sharon; Marine Hospital at Hyannis; Town Officers for 1845; Local..... More


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Missing children is a serious social issue in today's society. Based on the statistics gathered in US, a child is reported missing every 40 seconds or 2,100 per day or 800,000 per year, on average. Of course this figure doesn't include cases of missing children which have gone unreported. To prevent yourself from being the next parent victim, careful attention needs to be paid to your kids especially in public areas. You can't stop your child from running around willy-nilly or stop them from playing around all the time. Sometimes you might need to take your eyes off them for a while, for instance, when you speak to somebody or is busy with something. If you have constant fear of your kids getting lost, being kidnapped, or losing the way home, one of the efficient ways is to use a kid-tracking device such as a child's phone equipped with alarm and GPS capabilities. This device will help if tragedy happens.
Japan based company, Princeton, recently introduced a tiny kid-tracking device which is able to track your kid if your kid leaves your side. Unlike other GPS enabled devices, the Princeton Kid Finder is radio based and only works within a 90 meter range. The package comes with a transmitter which can be tagged to the kid and a remote which displays basic directional information (forward, left, right). The transmitter features a SOS alarm for the kid to alert the parent in case of emergency or stranger approach.
The Princeton Kid Finder is useful when parents bring their kids to public areas such as a shopping complex, park, exhibition, etc. Both the remote (76x22x35mm) and transmitter (57×16.5x43mm) are small in size and easy to be tagged or carried along. The gadget is priced at $147, a pretty affordable figure. Besides kids, users also can tag this device on pets, luggage, etc to avoid loss or theft.


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Revision as of 07:30, 14 February 2020
- 1 Guide Updates
- 2 Overview
- 3 Stats
- 4 Skills
- 5 Rolling Cutter build
- 6 Cross Impact build
- 7 Soul Breaker Build (Soul Destroyer)
- 8 Counter Slash build
- 9 Autoattack Critical Build
- 10 Useful GX Information
- 11 Newbie Leveling Guide
- 11.1 Lv 1 - Lv 11
- 11.2 Lv 11 - Lv 16
- 11.3 Lv 26 - Lv 34
- 11.4 Lv 34 - Lv 40
- 11.5 Lv 40 - Lv 59
- 11.6 Lv 60 - 69
- 11.7 Lv 70 - Lv 79
- 11.8 Lv 85 - Lv 114
- 11.9 Rebirth - Guillotine Cross
- 11.10 Lv 100+
- 11.11 Advanced Leveling Guide
|Guillotine Cross
|Job Base:
|Thief, Assassin, Assassin Cross
|Written By:
Guide Updates
Recent Updates
These are the updates within the last 3 months.
Febuary 2020
January 2020
- Added 2 Star shadow gears to all builds.
- Added some small notes throughout the guide
- Fixed a couple errors
- Updated Advanced Leveling Guide
December 2019
- Added Rigid Nightmare Terror and Nightmare Terror combo to the following builds.
* Rolling Cutter * Cross Impact * Soul Breaker * Counter Slash * Autoattack Critical
- Added King Schmidt's Insignia Combo's to the following builds.
* Rolling Cutter * Cross Impact * Soul Breaker * Counter Slash * Autoattack Critical
- Updated some build descriptions.
- Fixed some broken links.
- Guillotine Cross (GX for short) is the third job of the Assassin class. Guillotine Cross are a versatile class, being able to solo instances, act as support or main DPS in parties, and even tank with the right gears and stats, all in all Guillotine Cross is a highly versatile class. Though they can do both PvM and PvP, I will only be covering PvM in this guide.
- Guillotine Cross is by far my most favorite class, I made one as my first character when I first started on NovaRO and continue to love it. I personally love how they can solo most instances, do amazing amounts of damage at fast speeds, and the fact that the more I play the class the more I learn about it and the mechanics of Ragnarok Online. If you enjoy playing solo, or at least farming instances solo, like I do, definitely try this class.
- If you ever have any questions you can ask me;
- In-game (illegalKross)
- NovaRO discord (https://discord.gg/WVVTrbH) (Be sure to join the #thief channel). (I am no longer personally reachable inside of the #thief channel, I am still on Nova discord though).
- My personal discord (https://discord.gg/xdkGnZk). You can even find testing and some videos there as well.
- This guide has been tailored to fit NovaRO's Server. Some information won't carry over onto other servers.
- I hope you find this guide helpful and have fun in your journey to poisoning, stabbing, and cutting the world.
|Very important stat for Guillotine Cross, this is your main damage stat.
Every 1 point;
|The most important stat in general for Guillotine Cross, its used in basically every build.
Every 1 point;
Every 5 points;
|Great stat that increases your tankiness and survivability.
Every 1 point;
Every 2 points;
Every 5 points;
|Unnecessary stat scales with nothing you want as a Guillotine Cross.
Every 1 point;
|Important to non-Crit builds for Hitting things. Though sometimes Crit builds use it for extra ASPD.
Every 1 point;
Every 5 points;
|Very important for Crit builds, extra stat for other builds. Best to keep it at a multiple of 3 for the most stats.
Every 1 point;
Every 3 points;
Every 5 points;
Every 10 points;
First Job Skills
|Improve Dodge
|Double Attack
|Back Slide
Second/Trans Job Skills
| Right-Hand Mastery
|Katar Mastery
|Sonic Blow
|Advanced Katar Mastery
|Soul Breaker (Soul Destroyer)
|Meteor Assault
|Throw Venom Knife
|Create Deadly Poison
|Enchant Deadly Poison
Third Job Skills
|Rolling Cutter
|Cross Ripper Slasher
|Cross Impact
|Cloaking Exceed
|Dark Claw
|Hallucination Walk
|Weapon Blocking
|Counter Slash
|Venom Impress
|New Poison Research
|Poisonous Weapon
|Venom Pressure
|New Poison Creation
Rolling Cutter build
Rolling Cutter GX is the best build to play if you are new or have a low budget, it's even strong as an endgame instance and field farming build.
- The goal of the build is to spam Rolling Cutter until everything around you is dead, then move on to the next group of monsters, and repeat. Since you fight multiple monsters at once, you will take a lot of damage, that is why leech gears are used to sustain this build.
Leech gears are things like Rideword Hat [1] and Thanatos Katar [1], they return HP and SP to us as we deal damage. This allows us to farm almost forever, go into instances without a priest at our side, and fight most bosses forever as long as they don't one shot us.
- It is best to start out with as much leech gear as possible, and then move to more After Cast Delay and Damage gears as you near the endgame.
- It's good to note that Rolling Cutter damage scales with your base level. That means that it will slowly get stronger as you level.
- If you want an idea of how gear setups would look like, be it early or endgame, you can check below the Rolling Cutter gears, it includes a build for New/budget players as well to help you get started.
Your ping may affect the amount of spins you can do per second. Based on current information, you can lose up to a few spins per second with 300+ ping. Keep this in mind if you have a high ping.
To get the most out of Rolling Cutter you need:
- 185 ASPD and 30% After Cast Delay for 5.8 spins per second.
- 186 ASPD and 30% After Cast Delay for 6.6 spins per second.
- 187 ASPD and 35% After Cast Delay for 7 spins per second.
This is a video comparing those ASPD's and ACD's
This is a short video on After Cast Delay
- Strong area of effect damage
- High survivability/tankiness
- Very good at soloing instances
- Best GX build for basic farming (Gefenia, Magma Dungeon 2, Juperos)
- Relatively cheap to start building
- Easily upgradeable, piece by piece while still working efficiently
- Outclassed in parties by other DPS
- Can have trouble hitting high Flee/Agi-Up MVPs
|Rolling Cutter Stats
|Rolling Cutter Skill Trees
Rolling Cutter Skill Tree
Thief Skills
Assassin Skills
Guillotine Cross Skills
|Rolling Cutter Gears
|Rolling Cutter Cards
|Rolling Cutter Pets
|Rolling Cutter Shadow Gears
|Rolling Cutter Gear Progression
This section is for helping you determine which gears to get, and what gears you should work towards. Pets and Shadowgears are not listed here.
Cross Impact build
This build is based around the Cross Impact skill. Your goal is to spam it as much as possible for the best DPS. You will mainly use this for bosses, but it can easily be used as an all purpose build, kinda like the opposite of Rolling Cutter, as our main DPS is single target, but we have access to some AoE.
Since our main damage is single target it's best to use Rolling Cutter to get rid of slave mobs, so you can hit MvP's accurately.
- Cross Impact has 0.7 seconds of Cooldown, and 0.5 seconds of Cast Delay.
These stack together, so the 0.5s of Cast Delay happens at the same time as the Cooldown. So getting After Cast Delay will not increase the amount of Cross Impact you can spam. It will affect casting of other skills while this one is on Cooldown.
Due to a recent rework of this skill it can now apply critical hits, but the Critical Rate is halved. You will need around 210-220 Critical Rate to consistently get critical hits on most enemies.
Since we need such high Critical Rate, using a katar is better than dual wielding in the current meta due to the double Critical Rate that katar class weapons give you.
- Extremely high single target damage
- Stats are very flexible
- Can apply critical hits
- Very effective in Monster Hunter 2
- Area of Effect damage is mediocre
- Requires a +10 level 4 weapon and a few Bio5 cards to achieve the high end damage (Though it is still fine to use it without these conditions).
- Has a hard time hitting 210~220 Critical Rate without a katar class weapon.
|Cross Impact Stats
|Cross Impact Skill Trees
Cross Impact GX Skill Tree
Recommended Thief Skill Tree
Recommended Assassin/Assassin Cross Skill Tree
Recommended Guillotine Cross Skill Tree
|Cross Impact Gears
|Cross Impact Cards
|Cross Impact Pets
|Cross Impact Shadow Gears
Soul Breaker Build (Soul Destroyer)
This build is focused around the Soul Breaker (Soul Destroyer) skill. You want to spam and deal Critical attacks for massive amounts of DPS.
Soul Breaker has 2 seconds of Cast Delay, so you will need very high After Cast Delay to spam it fast. (Around 93%, but you can use less to still deal strong damage) It also has 0.25 seconds of Fixed Cast Time and 0.25 seconds of Variable Cast Time.
Due to a recent rework of this skill it can now apply critical hits, but the Critical Rate is halved. You will need around 210-220 Critical Rate to consistently get critical hits on most enemies.
Since we need such high Critical Rate, using a katar is better than dual wielding in the current meta due to the double Critical Rate that katar class weapons give you.
- Can be the highest DPS GX build, but needs party support buffs.
- Best party build for GX.
- Can apply critical hits.
- Has high spam rate.
- Very effective in Monster Hunter 2
- Needs party support to be the best DPS.
- Mediocre AoE damage
- Has a hard time hitting 210~220 Critical Rate without a katar class weapon.
|Soul Breaker Stats
|Soul Breaker Skill Trees
Soul Breaker Skill Tree
Recommended Thief Skill Tree
Recommended Assassin/Assassin Cross Skill Tree
Recommended Guillotine Cross Skill Tree
|Soul Breaker Gears
|Soul Breaker Cards
|Soul Breaker Pets
|Soul Breaker Shadow Gears
Counter Slash build
NOTE: This build isn't in the greatest state at the moment, similar to autoattack crit, it lacks DPS compared to the other GX builds. It can still be used to melt most MvPs but it's just not as efficient as the other GX builds now.
Counter Slash is an expensive endgame build for melting MvPs in seconds.
The goal of this build is to use Weapon Blocking and letting it get activated giving you a 10 second stance to use Counter Slash. Then you stand beside an MvP and spam Counter Slash 7 times a second, doing millions of damage VERY quickly.
In this build you need 93% After Cast Delay, and 187 ASPD for the full 7 skills a second.
You can use most of the same gears from Rolling Cutter build, so if you built that first, this won't be as expensive to pursue.
Another piece of useful information, Counter Slash completely pierces defense as part of the skill's effect.
- Absurdly high AoE damage
- Decent build for Monster Hunter 2
- Expensive to build
- Needs most of its gears to really start using it
- Weapon Blocking can lock you in place
- Hard to use on normal mobs, due to knockback
|Counter Slash Stats
|Counter Slash Skill Tree
Counter Slash GX Skill Tree
Recommended Thief Skill Tree
Recommended Assassin/Assassin Cross Skill Tree
Recommended Guillotine Cross Skill Tree
|Counter Slash Gears
|Counter Slash Cards
|Counter Slash Pets
|Counter Slash Shadow Gears
Autoattack Critical Build
- This is an endgame build meant for killing tough and high flee MvP's as quickly as possible, it is NOT recommended to build this as a newbie or on a low budget. You should farm a decent pool of zeny first.
NOTE: This build isn't in the greatest state at the moment, it lacks DPS compared to the other GX builds. This build is still fine to play, but it's mostly for nostalgia until we get further buffs to this build. If you REALLY want a strong Autoattack critical build, I would suggest Rune Knight in this meta.
- The goal of this build is to kill a single target as quickly as possible. (Which is usually an MvP). You want to get a lot of Critical Damage % to deal the highest damage that you can. And have 193 ASPD to attack as fast as you can.
- High single target damage
- Can hit high flee mobs / never misses
- Area of Effect damage is mediocre
- Expensive to build
- Needs a good chunk of gears to be able to start using it
|Autoattack Critical Stat Build
|Autoattack Critical Skill Trees
Autoattack Critical GX Skill Tree
Recommended Thief Skill Tree
Recommended Assassin/Assassin Cross Skill Tree
Recommended Guillotine Cross Skill Tree
|Autoattack Critical Gears
|Autoattack Critical Cards
|Autoattack Critical Pets
|Autoattacking Shadow Gears
Useful GX Information
Leeching Info
- The more leeching effects you have the stronger it is.
- For instance, if you had;
|Chance to Leech
|Amount it Leeches
|Succubus Pet
|3% Chance
|5% of damage as HP
|Rideword Hat
|5% Chance
|8% of damage as HP
|Hunter Fly Card
|3% Chance
|15% of damage as HP
|Succubus Pet + Rideword Hat + Hunter Fly Card
|11% Chance
|28% of damage as HP
This works the same way for SP leeching.
New Poisons
New Poisons are very useful tools for the GX class. They give a negative effect when applied to an enemy, and a positive effect when used on yourself.
All New Poisons will give you a 5% increase in Melee damage when applied.
All of these poisons last for 5 minutes or 300 seconds each.
|Negative Effect
|Positive Effect
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
20 Poisonous Toad Skins
1 Poison Herb Amoena
|Useful for potentially slowing down people in PvP enviroments, especially on tanky enemies.
|Gives you Increase AGI movement speed. Does not stack.
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
20 Anolian Skin
1 Poison Herb Rantana
|Can cause interruptions in PvP for casting skills.
|The best poison for critical builds, this is what you will be using most of the time. "Normal Damage" refers to autoattack damage only, not general damage.
|Death Hurt
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
25 Decayed Nail
1 Poison Herb Seratum
|Can be used on a tank or high HP enemy to slow their healing making it easier to kill them. Stacks with Critical Wounds.
|A nice potion to recover health on solo instances, just find a safe area and heal to full health when you need it.
|Leech End
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
1 Poison Herb Scopolia
1 Poison Herb Nerium
|Good for killing targets slowly, does not work on MvPs.
|In my opinion, the worst potion, we have 100 Vit for stun immunity anyways, and blind is easily removed with a green potion.
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
2 Green Herb
1 Blue Herb
1 WHite Herb
|Removes the effects of a New Poison.
|Not Applicable.
|Venom Bleed
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit}
10 Sticky Poison
1 Izidor
|Can be used on tanks or high HP enemies to take them down easier.
|A very nice poison against pesky reflect mobs, and in PvP where there is a lot of reflect.
|Magic Mushroom
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
10 Poison Spore
1 Poison Herb Makulata
|Can be used to interupt a targets tasks and skills, making it harder for them to move and fight.
|Another really strong poison, this can really help Cross Ripper Slash, Counter Slash, and Soul Breaker builds reach high After Cast Delay.
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
10 Sticky Poison
1 Poison Herb Nerium
|Good on classes that cast a lot of skills to try and interrupt them. This can "apparently" stop uninterruptible casting.
|Similar to Death Hurt, but this recovers SP. Really nice when you farming in a field or dungeon and need lots of SP.
|Oblivion Curse
| 1 Medicine Bowl
1 Poison Kit
10 Heart of Mermaid
1 Izidor
|Good on classes that cast dangerous skills to prevent them from killing you. (If they get oblivion status, sadly it's like a 5% chance on high INT characters).
|Decent poison that can help again bosses that spam Silence and Curse statuses.
List of Foods/Buffs
|Where to Obtain
|Buff Type
| Shiny Marinade Beef
Chile Shrimp Gratin
Awfully Bitter Bracer
Red Mushroom Wine
Peach Cake
Lucky Soup
|Sara's Memories
|Various Stats
|Enrich Celermine Juice
|Genetic Special Pharmacy Skill
|Awakening Potion
|Tool Dealer
|Guarana Candy
|Casts level 5 Increase Agility and concentration potion.
|Drosera Herb Stew
|Genetic Mixed Cooking Skill
|Adds +20 Agi for 5 mintutes.
|Buche De Noel
|Drops with Polar Bear Cap [1]
|Increases HP and SP restoration by 3%, and gives +3 Hit and +7 Crit for 10 minutes.
|Cash Shop
|+30 Crit for 5 minutes.
Newbie Leveling Guide
Lv 1 - Lv 11
- Walk into the portal in the centre of the gears. Choose "Wake Up". Wait for Mom to wake you up, then follow the directions she tells you. After you go downstairs follow the red arrows and talk to Mom for the next instructions.
- You are told to clear the vermin from the basement, add your stat points to Dex for an easy time clearing them, you'll need Dex later anyways.
Lv 11 - Lv 16
- After clearing the vermin set your Basic skill to level 9 (Alt + S), and spend all your stat points (in Str and Dex preferably), then follow the red arrows back to Mom.
- After Mom tells you about your dad, follow the red arrows back to the basement. Choose "Dagger (Thief)", then head back up to Mom.
- Head outside, then follow the red arrows to the main office, talk to the Job Master, he is behind the left counter next to the entrance, choose "Thief Class". You are now a Thief.
- Now go outside and talk to the warper near the fountain, warp to Payon Dungeon (Warper > Dungeons > Payon Dungeon). Kill Zombies (You can kill other monsters too, these are just the easiest to start with) until you are level 26.
Lv 26 - Lv 34
- Go to Eden (@go Eden) and take Instructor Boya's Eden Equipment Quest. She's standing behind the counter.
- Talk to the Eden Group Member outside of Payon Cave before you start hunting Skeletons and Poporings. When you've completed them, report to the Eden Group Member, then to Instructor Boya. You will receive your first set of Eden Equipment from Administrator Michael in the back-right-room behind the large Blue Door in Eden.
Lv 34 - Lv 40
- Equip your new gears and head to Payon Dungeon Floor 2, kill Archer Skeleton and Soldier Skeleton until you are level 40.
Lv 40 - Lv 59
- Take the next quest from Instructor Boya's Eden Equipment Quest now.
- Go to Orc Dungeon, then talk to the Eden Group Member outside of Orc Dungeon before you start hunting Orc Baby's and Orc Warriors. (Be sure to use Enchant Poison for extra damage against the Orc's) When you've completed them, report to the Eden Group Member then to instructor Boya. You will receive your second set of Eden Equipment from Administrator Michael in the room behind the Blue Door.
- As soon as you hit job Level 40, go back to the job changer and become an Assassin. (You won't need max job level thief until AFTER you rebirth)
Lv 60 - 69
- Talk to Ur and get the quest from Instructor Ur's Eden Equipment Quest.
- Go to Comodo (@go Comodo), then talk to the Romeo just outside of Beach Dungeon 2 before you start hunting Stalactic Golems.
- When you've completed the quest, report to Romeo then to instructor Ur. You will receive your last set of Eden Equipment from Blacksmith Thorn in the room behind the Blue Door. (I suggest choosing Katar as your weapon, as its the better option).
Lv 70 - Lv 79
- Take the last quest from Instructor Ur's Eden Equipment Quest.
- Go to Glast Heim St Abbey. Talk to the Eden Group Member outside of Glast Heim Churchyard before you start hunting Wraiths and Evil Druids. When you've completed them, report to the Eden Group Member then to instructor Ur. You will be able to enchant your weapon at Weapons Expert (he stands next to Blacksith Thorn).
Lv 85 - Lv 114
- This us the level range to join the first gramps quest. Talk to the board in the top left of Eden to get the quests, then talk to gramps (Old man beside the board) to enter the farming maps.
- Be sure to join a "85+ Gramps party" to farm monsters here, as its the fastest way. Note that your main role will be luring monsters for the rest of the party to kill.
- Gramps quests are rotated at the start of every month. You can also hunt them outside of the Gramps map. Use the
@whereis (monster name)command to find out where a monster spawns. You can find gramps parties at the main eden area or on #lfg channel.
Rebirth - Guillotine Cross
- After you finish the gramps quests, DO NOT TURN THEM IN. Instead rebirth at the jop changer and become a High Thief, then go do the Cautious Village Quest.
- Now you will be a max job level High Thief. Go back to the Job Master and change to Assassin Cross, now turn in your gramps quests and ta-da, your now level 99/job level 69, now go do a little more gramps for that last job level and turn into a Guillotine Cross.
Lv 100+
Lv 100
- Minimum level to access Sara's Memory. I suggest doing this instance every day, it gives free +6 stat foods, only take 5-10 minutes, and is super easy. It also gives decent Exp at lower levels.
- Minimum level to access Friday easy mode.
Lv 115 - Lv 144
- Level range to join the second bracket of Gramps quests, once again its best to lure monsters for the rest of the party to kill.
Lv 120
- Minimum level to access Nightmarish Jitterbug
- Minimum level to access Ghost Palace.
- At this level you can start using Thanatos Katar.
Lv 125
- Minimum level to access Airship Assault.
Lv 130
- Minimum level to access Old Glast Heim Normal Mode.
- Minimum level to access Charleston Crisis.
Lv 140
- Minimum level to access Horror Toy Factory.
- Minimum level to access Central Laboratory.
- Minimum level to access Malangdo Culvert.
- Minimum level to do Dimensional Travel. This is a pre-requisite quest to access Bios Island.
Lv 145 - Lv 175
- Level range to join the third bracket of Gramps quests, once again, best to lure for the rest of the party. Unless you want to try and solo from this point.
Lv 145
- Minimum level to access Sarah and Fenrir.
Lv 160
- Minimum level to access Bios Island.
- Minimum level to access Morse Cave.
- Minimum level to access Temple of the Demon God.
- Minimum level to access Monster Hunter.
- Minimum level to access Friday hard mode.
- Recommended level to try Old Glast Heim Hard Mode if you have not done so at this point. For soloing try to just clear up to the Root of Corruption.
Lv 175+
- Level range to join the last gramps area, this is much harder than the other brackets, but sometimes we can solo here (depends on monsters).
- At this point I recommend just doing as many instances and MvP's as possible to level up, as it gets really slow at this point.
Advanced Leveling Guide
This guide is for those who have money to spare and are just trying to level as fast as possible.
- Do the quests for Mom for the easy exp.
- Go to the main office and become a Thief.
- Buy a Scaraba Summoning Scroll , and a handful of Fly Wing's.
- You can also buy a Field Manual to speed up the leveling process.
- Then go to
@go rock ridge, and walk right to go to Rock Ridge field. Let your scaraba kill shotgun buffalo bandits, Beware not to get targeted or hit by any mob, you will die in 1 hit. If you do get targeted use a Fly Wing immediately.
- Change to assassin when your job level is 40, then come back to the field.
- When you become level 99/50, go rebirth.
- Kill a couple porings in Hidden Dungeon entrance to get enough job levels to change to High Thief.
- Go back to rock ridge field again, all the way back to level 99/70. This time change to assassin cross at job level 50.
- Continue killing bandits until level 110~120
- From now on you will need some gear to be able to level through it fast.
- Go to
@go Verus, and enter the north portal.
- Kill robots until level 150 and/or do eden board quests.
- At level 150 go to illusion Dungeon Abyss, kill Ominous Solider and Ominous Permeter until level 160.
- At level 160 do the illusion Dungeon Luanda quests and kill mobs there until ~170.
- After this point you can join gramps, or do instances. This is the end of the speed leveling.


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Sex talk: Sex talk many years ago would scare the socks off many people. They either thought you were being vulgar, or had no home training. When in actuality many were having simular issues and needed to know if others shared the same troubling issues.
We were afraid to speak up or speak out, I personally was one of those who wouldn't dare discuss these issues with my mate, and certainly not my girlfriends, and never a stranger. As a matter of fact, the lights had to be out during intercourse, and never in the day time. Exploring various options with each other and our bodies.
My shame and my foolishness was simply amazing when I think back, but with time and experience and a very understandable husband, it has made this process much easier. I love the fact that Paul is a easy going man which makes pleasing him a breeze. I can now take those teachings from the scriptures and apply them to my relationship with Paul, just as Solomon did with his lover.
Now that Paul and I are going on 30 years of marriage, I no longer have the real but silly issues I once had years ago. Working together as well as having many discussions on the subject of what we desired, or not so much. Left the possibilities open to explore new positions and each other, as well as plenty of sex talk.
It is my personal belief that because of my past experience with being molested, I had a hard time being nude in front of anyone. Yes, even females, because my perpetrator was a sister. I only wanted sex in a dark space or at night, and my favorite was with all the lights out. There were even times I didn't care to even have sex, especially after I started growing older, and I say older, but it was around the age of 35.
I lost my full desire all together when it came to having or the desire to have sex. I had to pray for God to intervene in this situation, asking God to fix it immediately. So that I would be in accordance with His word. The husband or wife are required to not withhold each other
Unless he acted soon I would deprive my spouse of the thing he loved most of course, with his patience growing smaller month by month. Sex is not the most important factor in a relationship, but it is essential for many reasons. Such as satisfaction for personal needs, faithfulness in the relationship, and togetherness as a couple.
Never deprive your spouse of sexual gratification if you can help it, God is pleased with this, not to mention the things it does for your husband (Fireworks). According to the scriptures God lets us know that marriage is honorable with the marriage bed pure, and God will judge all sexual immorality; Hebrews 13:4.
Our love should resemble that of the Song of Solomon, this story dipicts the celebration of sexual love. Two lovers yearning for each other with great passion. With thoughts of pure enjoyment they offer a invitations to each other for intimacy through their own personal way of sex talk, just as we should to one another as mates.
Here is an example sex talk or the desire and love this man describes his beloved as: Her hair is like a flock of goats, her teeth like shorn ewes, and so on from face to breasts. Her neck is like the Tower of David, her smell like the scent of Lebanon. He hastens to summon his beloved, saying that he is ravished by even a single glance.
This particular section becomes a "garden poem", in which he describes her as a "locked garden" (usually taken to mean that she is chaste). The woman invites the man to enter the garden and taste the fruits. The man accepts the invitation, and a third party tells them to eat, drink, "and be drunk with love". This exactly how God would desire us as His children to conduct ourselves with our spouses.
Encourage yourself: As you read more of the Song of Solomon, I can only believe that this is how God intended for relationship to be between man and woman, as he created Eve from the rib of Adam. What your preference is, is of course your business, I am not here to judge you. I am only here to tell of what God's word says. This is not to offend anyone, this is truth, in it's purest form.
A recap: In order to have pure enjoyment from your mate, you must be equally yoked first of all, secondly trust is key, and third, communication is essential in order to know or understand the needs or desires of one another. Remember to be respectful and listen carefully to the others needs. By all means be gentle, some areas are more sensitive than others.
We as women have missed out on great love making because we have either not put anything into the process, not spoken up, or have no experience as well as past issues. Don't miss out on a great opportunity for awesome love making because we refuse to give it a 100%. Sex talk is good, and good sex is better!
I know the ways of the world are far different from is actually taking place today, but I say to you, save your self for that special someone. It is the most precious gift you can give, don't just freely give it away. Cherish that moment for your wedding day, you'll be glad you did. Refuse to entertain evil, evil thoughts, or lustful desires. Marriage is honorable!


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Montezemolo says 'no' to Italian presidency reports
Luca di Montezemolo clarified reports that he intends to stand for the Italian presidency in 2013.
The Ferrari president's letter to members of his political think-tank Italia Futura this week was interpreted by some as his announcement of a tilt at the top job.
"Going into politics? No I'm with Ferrari," he clarified, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Montezemolo took the opportunity of the media event at Fiorano to announce the launch date of Ferrari's 2012 car -- 3 February.
And he also addressed rumours about Felipe Massa's future, insisting that while the Brazilian "could continue" beyond 2012, the Maranello based team is "always looking around".
Gazzetta reporter Andrea Cremonesi claimed Ferrari has "approached" drivers including Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber "in recent months".


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Donald David "Coach" Dana was born May 7, 1929, in Olympia, WA and passed away July 26, 2017, in Yuba City, CA. He was the son of Alex Dana and Velva Blankenship Dana. He went to grade schools in Washington and Oregon and graduated from University High School in Eugene, OR in 1947.
Dave received a Bachelor and a Masters degree from Humbolt State College where he lettered in baseball, football, basketball, and golf. After college and a year of professional baseball, he entered the U.S. Navy where he also played baseball and football on a navy team.
After the Navy, he taught and coached at Torrance, Laytonville, Esparto and Westwood High Schools. He also coached two years at Gavilan College in Gilroy, CA.
In 1967 he joined the faculty at Colusa High School where he taught History and P.E. Dave coached a number of sports, including football, basketball, and golf. He had a very successful career at Colusa for 19 years, winning five league championships in football and 13 league championships in golf. his football team was ranked the No. 1 small school in California in 1972. After retiring from teaching, he coached the Pierce High School Football and golf teams where he won two more league titles.
Dave received the first Colusa High School 'You Inspired Me' award in 2010 and in 2013 he received the Colusa County Hall of Fame Coach's Award.
He is survived by his good friends, David and Connie Driffill and Barbara Bailey, his stepchildren Joy, Susan, and Michael; a sister Mary Jane; and nephews Stephen and Andrew Grediagin. He was preceded in death by his parents and his nephew Mark Grediagin.
A celebration of life pot luck will be held at 6 PM on August 11, 2017, at the Colusa Golf Course. For more information call Brady Myers (530) 701-8937 or Dave Driffill (530) 300-4017. Memories and pictures welcomed.


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Lean Thinking
Lean production, six sigma, and total quality management have a shared history. While the ideas of Deming, Juran, and Shewhart gained wide acceptance and broad application in post-World War II Japan, the concepts of lean production, through the championing of Taiichi Ohno, also came to fruition. Lean manufacturing was initiated by Toyota during the 1920s by Sakichi Toyoda. In the late 1940s, Taaichi Ohno, a Toyota executive, achieved a great deal of success implementing the ideas originally conceived by Toyoda. During that time, Japanese manufactures were plagued with a variety of problems relating to quality and cost. Chief among them was the challenge of serving a prospering Japanese market that demanded more product variety.
At the same time, US markets and American manufacturers followed the traditional system of mass production, propagated by the success of Henry Ford. This system lent itself to large production runs and huge inventories. Its objective was to manufacture as many units, of a standard part, at a given time, in order to take advantage of economies of scale. This method of production encouraged employees to work faster, be less concerned with quality, and encouraged companies to hold massive amounts of work in process and finished goods inventories. As a consequence, companies produced massive amounts of waste. There was waste in terms of scrap, defects, warranty returns, wasted time, unnecessary movements of goods, unnecessary processing, along with the huge cost of working capital tied up in inventories. In addition, US companies were ill equipped to deal with product variety demanded by a market place growing more sophisticated. One solution to the problem was the application of total quality management; the other solution was the implementation of lean manufacturing principles.
What is Lean Thinking?
The lean approach refers to a company's style of inventory management and operational effectiveness. Made popular by the Toyota method of production, also known as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM); lean thinking was given life in North America as a result of the work of MIT researchers lead by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos. The team of Womack, Jones and Roos introduced the term lean production to North America and the West with its 1990 publication of The Machine that Changed the World. In 1996 Womack and Roos produced another work that described the principles and applications of converting a mass production operation to a lean operation.
The book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, offers 5 guiding principles for practitioners:
- Determine value by-product/service offering.
- Identify value streams by each product and service offering.
- Make value flow.
- Let the customer pull value from the producer.
- Pursue perfection.
So, what is lean?
In our attempt to keep things simple, TPMG describes lean as:
- A method of management employed to minimize operational waste.
- A system of operation employed to deliver value added products and services to customers.
- A practice of producing goods just in time for customer order to keep the cost of holding inventory down.
- A company's journey to eliminate the cost of operational waste from selling prices.
Lean production is fundamentally a manufacturing philosophy. It has been a popular manufacturing approach because it has empowered companies to produce more with less. Successful lean manufacturers have been able to produce more in less time, with less capital and fewer resources.
With respect to lean thinking, the objective for a company is to respond to customer requirements while establishing an optimum market price for its products and services. Lean practices become a strategic competence for a company when the elimination of its waste produces a circumstance by which the difference between a company's average cost to produce a product and the product's market price is significantly greater than that of its rivals. This difference provides a company with pricing power that can either drive excess profit margins for share holders or greater market share for the company.
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That's the question I get when I tell my friends that I'm headed down to Vava'u. Wow, they say, I didn't know you wanted to go to the South Pacific – voicing the surprise. I didn't either actually. But it's so far, they say, and the islands are so different – the cultures look so foreign, you'll be alone in a strange land. Hey, I say, they have WAY more dancing in their cultures than anywhere else why wouldn't I want to go of all people?! Entire populations are dancing! 😃 Ok ok some of the serious reasons are…
1 – Ocean – you have to see the beauty of the ocean there! Yes, sure if I go to California or some of the Caribbean islands they are still in the Pacific and they are still very beautiful, but this one is like combining the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific. Truly untouched nature. And it's far… far… far.
2 – Marine life – the humpback whales, turtles and sharks did it for me. I will be going to the island of Vava'u first, and swimming with humpback whales – in the wild! I can't imagine of a bigger thrill at the moment! 😃 I will be also posting my experiences as much as I can. This is the only place in the world where it is legally allowed, with many rules apparently, but allowed. And it is on my bucket list to be out in the wild with humpbacks, dolphins (already crossed it off twice but a few more times wouldn't hurt) an other wildlife that likely will not be found in Vava'u, Fiji or other countries in Oceania.
3 – People, Culture and Volunteering Opps – Even now from here, I've gotten in touch with so many different people who are somehow actively involved with the oceans there. From what I've been reading, and my email and phone interactions with the locals point to warm and open people. I am also finding out about places who are in need for volunteer help, being at such a remote location on earth, it is difficult to organize one or two week volunteer "holidays" for a big number of people. It seems that the majority of the volunteers they get are either what most would term nomads or those who are on gap years. It makes sense, I want to stay there for as long as I can – while I can and do what I can. I am already getting responses from people near and far who are interested in Vava'u.
4 – Fiji – shark conservation! 😃 This will require diving with sharks… one of the very few things that I find myself fearing when I'm underwater – what if I see a shark? Well, if I dive to help them, and am surrounded with them, I'll have no choice but to get comfortable with them. They are mostly bull sharks, endangered and have a deep false stigma attached thanks to Hollywood and negative media coverage. My goal here is to take as many photos as possible and post them where I can to spread the word and experiences. Even if they are more likely to "eat you" I just don't feel comfortable with the purpose to catch a shark, cut off his fin while he's still alive and throw him back into the water to die.
5 – It's the road less traveled. There are more "native" things there, less of the modern day conveniences – which means more things to learn. Then the usual question is – well you have Google now, you can just google it – why trek for 40+ hours? Well my friend, yes I can. And you- you can go and see the turtles or dolphins in the waters of the pacific ocean come find YOU in that vastness, and give you that feeling that they are playing with you. You can go to Bonaire and SEE the damage we are causing the reefs first hand, the piles of plastic that sits on the shores of that remote island which provides none of those items. You can meet the "scary people" you see in the movies, and learn so much about their lives and how genuinely caring they are of you and just help you with the smallest things – like finding amazing chocolate in the middle of a remote island. 😃 Unlike seeing it from pictures or behind some ridiculous glass, seeing these first hand puts you in touch with your human side. Wakes you up to how much of what YOU, just you, do really does matter. You feel the real human power. And that is addicting. And I already said I am an addict.
6 – Dancing. I am kind of serious about seeing the dance ceremonies etc. Been wanting to do that for a while, especially if I can get out to the Cook Islands, that would be bliss!
I have the time at the moment. No rush for anything. Sure – staying in one place too long will either shorten or completely eliminate another destination from my list. But – I'm still blessed to be able to go and see what very few people on earth actually DO. The objective is to expose myself to as much marine/ocean conservation as I can. Learn. I have a year. Let's see what happens.
All this being said – I am aware of the possible dangers and uncomfortable situations… I will be sleeping in strange places, different types of homes, beds, bathrooms. I am mostly not looking forward to the size of the freakin spiders I've been seeing on some photos online – I hope it's people exaggerating them. Again it might be a way for me to overcome that crazy phobia too. Who knows? I also know I don't know the culture much, only will have as much of what I will be reading up on until I get there. Having my Japan experience from last year- I think I am as ready as I can be. Something is going to be very good there. I know because I am SO very excited.


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TWISTED SISTER will announce two more dates in South America. The next announcement will be on February 11th and another show will be announced on the 20th. All dates in South America will take place in April. More details will be revealed soon.
German filmmaker Andrew Horn recently announced via the TWISTED SISTER In The Clubs Facebook page that he is in the last stages of finishing a movie about TWISTED SISTER in the clubs. It begins with them in their earliest incarnation as a glam cover band in NJ and ends with them signing their deal with Atlantic at the end of '82 after their legendary appearance on The Tube in the UK.
It includes many performances in the clubs from that time and a lot of their legendary schtick such as "The Sweet Jane drink till you vomit gong show", the destruction of Hammerheads and, of course, Disco Sucks (and all that that implies).
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From our new 142 page Motion Strong Playbook, this option flows from the "Reverse" entry and the cutter rejects the staggered screens.
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Five-out Five-Lane Transition keeping the lane open for drive.
Reverse - Ball reverses to the second side from 1 to 5 to 4
1 and 5 stagger down for 3.
First option, play to the cutter. 3 rejects. If 3 does not receive pass, continue cutting hard to far corner. 2 fills up.
Second option - Play to the screener.
4 enters to 5 and screens away for 2. 4 pops after screening.
2 may curl or reject. 5 looks for 2 on the cut. If 2 does not receive the pass, continue cutting to far corner. 1 fills up.
5 passes off the elbow to either 4 popping or 1 filling up. Follow your pass into a ball screen.
5 passes to 1 and follows into ball screen. Spread ball screen for 1.
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I think Tuna Salad is usually a two way street; there are those few, few people who actually enjoy and look forward to eating it, and then there are the sensible rest of us which often cringe as a result of past memories. There are some grey area people of course, as there always are with ANY topic, in this case mostly composed of those particularly food-conscious people aware of what a properly balanced, quality mixed (preferably handmade) mayo sauce can create when combined with GOOD canned tuna.
Or other things; in this (my) case, some leftover baked Trout, which I needed to transform into something I could take to work (oh yeah, I've got more working hours now, so that may affect my future post rate btw). And that is a good sized slab of trout that deserves more than just reheating in a micro.
And overall, it's quite the simple dish to put together, starting with simply combining the many ingredients for the mayo base. Whichever Mayonnaise you prefer (I would have made it myself, but with everything I'm adding to it its various qualities would just get covered up), some Sour Cream for fun, a good dollop of Dijon Mustard, minced Garlic, smashed and chopped Capers along with a bit of their "Juice," a few drops of Worcestershire, seasoning of course, and plenty of Fresh Herbs (in this case, chives, which are so nice to finally have in the house).
We also need some form of acid, usually provided with a squirt of lemon or other citrus; but as I didn't have any lemons, I substituted one of the fun vinegars in our fridge, a Fig Balsamic to help emphasize the worcestershire. Mix them all up, taste, and adjust balances based on personal taste.
Shred the Trout, Salmon, Tuna, or whatever Fish you're using for the sandwich; I like differentiating between big and small chunks. Add to the dressing, mix thoroughly, and taste once again to make sure the balance works; I sorta found the sharp and intense flavors stay well like with the initial balance, but the subdued herbs, mayo, and other flavors that were in original balance need more adjustment.
We're almost ready to sandwich this up, but we need one last element: Celery. It's not a fish sandwich without celery; either diced into the mix or placed on top. I still sliced it in my favorite thin slivers as a garnish, along with the leaves of the celery. Which is a good thing to note if you haven't used them, celery leaves offer a great opportunity for use in many applications, either in salads or as a replacement for parsley (I actually took the leftovers and chopped them fine to use as extra herbs in the rest of my trout salad afterwards).
Prepare your bread, in this case toasted, as only a proper "tuna" salad can be made with; I only used untoasted to pack it for lunch later on. Stuff it with your mix and any "garnishes" and enjoy.
And we have a properly created, edible version of the classic schoolyard horror. Rich and creamy dressing, some sharp flavors, thin and fresh snappy crunches from the celery, and aromatic herbs compliment a tender (but sorta dry… the person who cooked it overdid it a little… again), fatty fish. I think the only thing it could use for improvement would be a few chunks of quality pickles (which I forgot to put in! Agh!).
Not sure if this post helps convince others to try this old cold fish application once more, but I figured I have to at least try. Besides, I already ate all of my sandwich filling so it's your turn. I'll see you all around once more in the coming weeks with some more recipes and recounting, enjoy your times spent until then. Good Luck and Good Eating.


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Faroese participation in Horizon 2020
The Faroe Islands have been part of the European research community on an equal basis as member states and other associated countries since 2010.
In 2014 the Faroe Islands and the European Commission initialled the new research cooperation agreement which makes the Faroe Islands an associated country to Horizon 2020.
On the front page, there are links to all the research Institutions in the Faroe Islands. If you are looking for a Faroese partner in a specific field, please feel free to send us an email to email@example.com. We will do our best til assist you.
Below you find a list of projects with Faroese participation funded by Horizon 2020.
MACRO CASCADE - Ocean Rainforest sp/f
PrimeFish - Syntesa sp/f
ClimeFish - Syntesa sp/f
EDU-ARCTIC - Jarðfeingi (Faroese Geologocal Survey)
REEEM - Tøkni sp/f
Blue-Action - Havstovan (Faroe Marine Research Institute)
AtlantOS - Havstovan (Faroe Marine Research Institute)
Interact - Jarðfeingi (Faroese Geologocal Survey)
ClearSalmonLice - Frama sp/f
TOP III - Granskingarráðið (Research Council Faroe Islands)
On the website h2020viz.vinnova.se it is possible to see the participation by organizations in the Faroe Islands and all other countries in Horizon 2020.