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Prot Warrior Tanking Guide (4.1 Edition)
Hello and welcome to Version 4.1 of my Prot Warrior guide. Honestly, hardly anything has changed, but I'm going over the guide with a fine tooth comb anyway and updating or simply polishing anything that needs it. If most of it seems unchanged from before, well, you're not imagining things! Prot saw some changes in 4.1 but functionally we're doing the same stuff.
For the sake of reference, the previous version can be found here.
Without further ado, onward!
A Quick Review of 4.1 Changes:
If you need to read the full blue posts, those are easy enough to find. This is just going to be a really quick overview.
Shield Bash is gone. You now use Pummel. It doesn't make a sound to confirm it landed a hit… have fun with that.
Spell Reflect now has a 25 second CD, up from 10 seconds.
The Shield Mastery talent no longer reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflect, but it does give Shield Block a 7/14/20% reduction to incoming magical damage for 6 seconds. Don't forget this when it's time to mitigate a large nuke, like Nef's Crackle.
Heroic Leap is off the GCD, meaning it's more useful than ever before.
Gag Order, thank god, now applies its silence via Pummel since Shield Bash is gone.
We have a new raid-wide Last Stand. It's called Rallying Cry, it's on the same cooldown as Last Stand, it's 20% of max health, and it effects everyone in the raid. Coordinate its use with other Warriors in raid to help even out things like Chimaeron feuds or Nef Crackles in Phase 2 for people on your platform (it does have a max range and won't hit the other platforms).
Spec (Minor Changes):
This is the spec I've been using for a bit now, and the one I recommend especially for raids.
The only difference you'll find is that I've dropped the one point out of Impending Victory and placed it instead in Piercing Howl. Now some of you might be wondering why that's a good trade off, especially if you haven't had to deal with fights like Nef, Cho'gall, or being the add tank on Maloriak. Having an ability to spam snare unlimited targets is pretty crazy on those fights, and puts Prot Warriors at the top of the list for roles such at Maloriak add tank among the tanking specs. Also, if you start as the second tank for Cho'gall, you'll be free for each slime spawn to assist with snaring them if need be. It's a great dose of utility that doesn't really sacrifice much in trade.
Aside from that, the spec is the same. The one change I could suggest if you're having serious single target threat issues would be to move one point out of Thunderstruck and move it into War Academy. It's a change I've considered myself, but really I haven't seen a need for it so long as DPS gives me the 5 to 10 second lead time on a boss pull that I need for Vengeance to ramp up. I mention it here for consideration regarding your personal situation.
Glyphs (Minor Changes):
The prime glyphs remain the same and are still Devastate, Revenge, and Shield Slam.
Thunder Clap and Shockwave remain as Major glyphs, but I've replaced Resonating Power with Piercing Howl. That increased radius is a pretty huge deal when you're trying to keep twelve foaming at the mouth, exponentially self-buffing adds from eating your face so your team can get an achievement.
Minor glyph selection should still include Battle and Command. I've gone with Demoralizing Shout as my third, because I'm the one keeping that up in raids, but you may find something else more useful if you have someone else doing that debuff.
Enchants (Minor Changes):
Here are the enchants you should be going for. In cases where the best available cost maelstrom crystals (which are still fairly rare for most people), I've listed the affordable alternative. Keep in mind that the following list assumes that you are not a crafter and do not have access to proprietary buffs that they can provide. For example, ring enchants or the substantial (and best in slot if you can get it) self-only Stamina bracer enchant for Leatherworkers.
90 Stamina, 35 Dodge (Earthen Ring Revered)
75 Stamina, 25 Dodge (Therazane Exalted)
Protection (250 Armor)
Greater Stamina (75 Stamina) <– Best
Stamina (55 Stamina) <– Affordable
Dodge (50 dodge)
Greater Mastery (65 Mastery) <– Best
Greater Expertise (50 Expertise) <– Affordable
Charscale Leg Armor (145 Stamina, 55 Agility)
Lavawalker (35 Mastery, Run Speed) <– Best
Earthen Vitality (30 Stamina, Run Speed) <– Affordable
Windwalk (Dodge and movement boost proc) <– Best
Mending (Self-heal proc) <– Affordable
Mastery (50 Mastery)
Stat Priority and Reforging (Major Changes):
Here's where things get weird. First off, I need you to understand two very unusual things about Cataclysm tanking:
1) Taunt never misses in Cata.
2) Hit and Expertise are pretty much worthless stats now. Expertise still has its place for smooth threat generation, but Hit is basically ignorable. Case in point… the warrior that tanked the world first Sinestra kill has less than 1% Hit and Expertise in the low teens. Why does this work? Vengeance. As a boss hits you, your attack power goes up. Way up… so while you're going to be parried, blocked, dodged, and straight up miss, you're also going to completely plaster the boss when you do connect. Once the fight gets going (5 to 10 seconds depending on encounter) you're usually fine on threat even with zero Hit and Expertise.
Now, with that in mind, here are you stat priorities.
Stamina > Mastery > Parry ≥ Dodge
When reforging, look at each piece of gear that you have and follow this thought process:
If it has Mastery and Parry as the two stats you can reforge, leave it alone.
If it has Mastery and Dodge, reforge Dodge for Parry
If it has Mastery and Hit, reforge Hit to Parry
If it has Mastery and Expertise, reforge Expertise to Parry
If it has Parry and Dodge, reforge Dodge into Mastery.
If it has Parry and Hit, reforge Hit into Mastery.
If it has Parry and Expertise, reforge Expertise into Mastery.
If it has Dodge and Hit, reforge Hit into Mastery.
If it has Dodge and Expertise, reforge Expertise into Mastery.
If it has Haste or Crit, then pick the higher stat and reforge it into Mastery if you can, or Parry if Mastery is already on the item.
Now here comes the big "but it's really not that simple" part. Mastery may never experience diminishing returns, but Parry certainly does. However, Parry is also the trigger for Hold the Line, so it's importance is higher than Dodge. Dodge, however, is more valuable the deeper into Parry's diminishing return you get. There exists a sweet spot for Parry vs Dodge that is determined by your current Mastery rating.
Some fellow who I do not know personally, by the name of Swcarden, put together a handy graph we can use to calculate this sweet spot with relative ease. Do note that this graph assumes you are facing a single enemy with the standard 2.5 second swing time. For fights against multiple enemies, Dodge will outweigh Parry more so than this graph depicts, and for a slow attack speed fight like Chimaeron (who wings once every five seconds), Parry becomes more valuable than Dodge. The ultimate goal of this graph is to optimize Hold the Line uptime while having the highest combined evasion possible.
First, look at your total Mastery and consult the upper right portion of the chart. This will show you the corresponding color for your Mastery.
Second, add your total Parry and Dodge ratings and find the resulting sum on the bottom of the graph. This is your Total Avoidance Rating.
Now, draw a line straight up from your Total Avoidance Rating until you hit the circle of the color pertaining to your Mastery.
Finally, draw a line from that circle to the left edge of the graph to find your Parry/Dodge Ratio.
Using this ratio, you can tweak your reforging to get as close to the optimal ratio as possible. Keep in mind though that it probably won't be possible to reach it exactly, but it's a good idea to try for it.
Example: Your ratio is 1.25. You should have 1.25 Parry pre 1 Dodge. Divide your Parry by your Dodge and see how it stacks up. If it's higher than 1.25, you need more Dodge. If it's lower than 1.25, you need more Parry. Just get as close as you can, but *never* reforge Mastery into either Parry or Dodge.
Gemming (Minor Changes):
Gemming has gotten a lot easier with no caps to shoot for…
If the socket bonus of an item isn't Parry, Dodge, Mastery or Stamina then gem straight Stamina gems.
If the socket bonus is Parry, Dodge, Mastery or Stamina, then gem like this.
Red = Parry/Mastery
Blue = Stamina
Yellow = Stamina/Mastery
Prismatic = Stamina
Meta = Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond
If you find that more mitigation works better for you and your raid team, then use this alteration…
Yellow = Mastery
Blue = Stamina/Mastery
In the end, you want to have around 150K HP unbuffed for T11 normals. More, from around 165K to 180K, for T11 hard modes. Past those milestones, depending on content, you can focus more on the mitigation stats. It really depends on what you and your raid are planning to tackle.
Threat Rotations (Minor Changes):
For an AOE pack:
Rend > Thunder Clap > Shockwave > Revenge > Cleave spam as rage crosses 60.
For a boss, tell your DPS to wait roughly five to ten seconds before unloading the heavy artillery, and then follow these opener and maintenance rotations.
Charge > Shield Block > Shield Slam > Devastate to three stacks of Sunder > Rend > Demoralizing Shout > Thunder Clap > Heroic Strike spam as rage crosses 60.
Be sure to also use any Revenge or Sword and Board procs you get while performing this opener.
Shield Slam > Revenge > Devastate > Heroic Strike spam as rage crosses 60
Thunder Clap as needed to maintain Rend and the Thunder Clap debuff.
Demoralizing Shout as needed to maintain the debuff.
Shield Slams should always be followed by Revenge if it's available and by Devastate if it isn't. If this then procs a Sword and Board, you should then Shield Slam again and again follow with Revenge or Devastate.
A Brief Word on Trinkets (No Changes):
There's a good amount of debate regarding straight Stamina trinkets vs mitigation trinkets. From what I'm finding, it depends on what you have access to. If you have epic mitigation trinkets, but blue Stamina trinkets, the extra stat budget of the epics seem to outweigh the standard rule of using Stamina trinkets. The reverse is also true if your Stamina trinkets are epic. Another factor is whether or not you're a Jewelcrafter, as having access to the epic Stamina cuts makes up a decent amount of ground for not using a blue quality Stamina trinket. So does being a Blacksmith (more sockets) or Leatherworker (giant Stam enchant to bracers).
Of course, all things being equal, you should have a complete set of both and use them as the case warrants it. High spell damage fights are always going to favor higher Stamina, while high melee damage fights will always favor mitigation.
At any rate, I strongly suggest you pick up the Mirror of Broken Images (Mastery / Resist trinket) from Tol Barad and the Darkmoon Card: Earthquake (Dodge / Max HP trinket, reforge for Mastery) as soon as possible. Coupled with the two Stamina trinkets from the raid content, these four provide a lot of flexibility.
That wraps up this update of the guide. As always, please feel free to leave questions. Enjoy 4.1 and here's hoping 4.2 isn't too far off. What's being shown of Firelands looks like a lot of fun!
32 Responses to "Prot Warrior Tanking Guide (4.1 Edition)"
The enchant on shield, Block +40 doesnt exist anymore in 4.1.
It has been changed into Mastery +50!
Hey thanks for the guide! I've always been a nervous tank, because usually I use my Arms spec. This has helped me become more confident because I know my stats and gear are well done for what I have available to me(no raid gear) Tanking is more fun than DPS'ing now, to be honest.
Thanks for putting this together. It's on of the better guides I've seen, please keep them coming!
hi, i,m currently a prot warrior, main tank in fairly serious progression guild. we arent a "world first" guild, but we do expect a lot from out guild as far as progress. that in mind, im always trying to make sure im not the weakest link. ive tanked with my warrior since tbc and im very comfortable tanking anywhere and anything, but lately it seems i just cant generate enough threat early in any boss encounters to avoid losing threat to someone. this usually happens to the fury warrior, mage or hunter. they all pull 20k DPS and more. ive macrod hero strike to my main threat abilities in the past and that worked well but just isnt seeming to quite do it now. are there any other tips or advice anyone may have? thanks in advance for any info
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this guide! I am always nervous tanking and spend the entire night on the edge of my seat scoping for runaways and trying to keep my threat above the warlocks. It's nice to see someone successful in warrior tanking and know that we all haven't gone the way of the paladin. Thank you. Also, any idea where I can find some macros? I want to take your aoe threat rotation and turn it into a macro, then one for single target that has a longer string allowing time for the rend to cycle. I just stink at writing them. Thank you!
Heya and thanks for the nice update!
2 Questions I have:
1) Is deep wounds still something that a tank would consider? Having war acadamy and deep wounds seems a nice threat boost (referring to the other post as well about the warrior although I realize thats early on in fights).
2) I wondered in the part where you talk about trinkets. Seeing how important mastery is and looking into a bit of armories, I also noticed several warriors combining the two TB trinkets for a 620 boost in mastery. Or is the extra strength boost too big of a loss compared to a dodge/parry/equip trinket?
Hello and thanks for the fast reply,
Bit longer than i expected, nice to see you give it some good thoughts and help fellow warrior (even though i am not into raids that much anymore). I for sure will listen to your advice and keep checking this page for other people's questions. Have the idea I learn more here than on all other sites I ever checked 😉
Just wanted to say thanks for putting this together. I'm a long time tank, short time warrior tank, so having the specifics all broken down and laid out, especially with the "why's" in most cases is incredibly helpful.
Somewhere, someone is theory-crafting on Elitist Jerks, but I'll be living off this list for a while 😀
great guide. ive been a prot pally for a while now but i am starting to look into changing it up since i jsut joined a guild with another prot pally tank. Ive been leveling my warrior in dungeons and i have found that sheild slam is almost useless compared to devastate, especially on bossus when 3 stack sunder is up for much longer.
You have clarified its use for me, it sounds like it becomes much more useful at max level, and also you have confirmed that i have been tanking correctly, charge, rend, clap ect.
Sometimes i find that i have nothing to use in a global cooldown which can be anoying, but overall, i am very enjoying the warrior play style, thanks for the guide
Great info, I'm new to tanking and this post has been extremely helpful. I played a hunter but decided to tank to help my guild out.
I have a question concerning addons. I use "Tidy Plates" to watch threat. Are there any other addons you can recommend for threat management and overall utility.
So, I don't have enough Mastery to make it up on the chart yet xD I'm working on my t11 stuff, and am doing just fine in keeping aggro in heroics with your build. I've got 95.51% avoidance in my gear, with Battle Shout on, and Shield Block up. Do you think I'll hit 100% once I get enough gear?
This is an excellent guide. Thank you for creating this and taking the time to explain items like reforging and the avoidance chart.
Hey nice guide there. I had trouble working out the reason behind your reforge priority list but it finally clicked ( I can be very slow sometimes).
On a slightly OT note. with all other things being equal, ie speed and other stats, a higher damage weapon would always increase threat per second wouldn't it?
I had a guildie ask "why you using that mace when you had X"
stats were the same except higher damage and therefore also higher dps from the mace.
Am I missing something or was he just being a Mage 🙂
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Just curious, what is the reason to use heroic strike instead of devastate when you're over 60 rage? Devastate hits harder for me at least( I am bad geared though so if its a scaling thing).
Or is it simply as a rage dump just for the sake of it?
Fantastic guide though, really helped me get into tanking on my new 85 warrior.
Great guide ty much, have a question regarding:
Charscale Leg Armor (145 Stamina, 55 Agility)
Would (145 stam, 55 Dodge) be an acceptable alternative? I though agi didn't come into play for tanks anymore? Thanks for clarifying.


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The Workwrite series is a collection of instructional workbooks focusing on the functions and features of workplace documents. The series is aimed at engaging adults in understanding and using documents they will encounter in entry-level positions in fields such as the industrial, clerical, retail, and hospitality sectors. The Workwrite series provides reproducible lesson plans and activities with a wide array of authentic workplace documents such as lists, notices, work schedules, job postings, office memos, agendas, meeting minutes, and more.Many workers do not access policies or procedures on a regular basis. Policies and Procedures aims to help students understand the purpose and importance of workplace policies and procedures. Understanding that they do exist and how to access them is important information for those entering or already in the workforce. The length and organization of the example documents used in this resource lend themselves to the application of basic reading skills such as skimming and scanning to more complex skills such as reading to compare or synthesize information.
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Dr. James Liao Wins 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Academic Award; Second 2010 Green Chemistry Award for Advanced Biofuels
23 June 2010
|Dr. James Liao has genetically engineered microorganisms to make higher alcohols from glucose or directly from carbon dioxide. Easel Biotechnologies. Click to enlarge.
The US Environmental Protection Agency selected Dr. James Liao at UCLA as the recipient of the 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Academic Award for his work in genetically engineering microorganisms to make higher alcohols (those with more than two carbons in the molecule) from glucose or directly from carbon dioxide. (Earlier post, earlier post.)
The award to Dr. Liao was the second for work on advanced biofuels within the five Green Chemistry awards made this year; the Small Business Green Chemistry award went to LS9, for its work on renewable biohydrocarbon fuels. (Earlier post.)
Higher alcohols, especially those with 3-8 carbon atoms, are useful as chemical feedstocks and transportation fuels. The efficient biosynthesis of these alcohols directly from carbon dioxide (CO2) or indirectly from carbohydrates would reduce net carbon emissions. However, native organisms do not synthesize these alcohols. Until now, none of these alcohols have been synthesized directly from CO2, and alcohols above five carbons have never been synthesized in the biosphere.
Dr. Liao, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), co-founder and board member of Easel Biotechnologies and a founder of Gevo, has developed a microbial technology to produce alcohols with 3-8 carbon atoms from CO2. His technology leverages the highly active amino acid biosynthetic pathway, diverting its 2-keto acid intermediates toward alcohols.
With this technology, Professor Liao and his group have produced isobutanol from glucose in near-theoretical yields with high efficiency and specificity. They also transferred the pathway into a photosynthetic microorganism, Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942, which produces isobutyraldehyde and isobutanol directly from CO2. The engineered strain produces isobutanol at a higher rate than those reported for ethanol, hydrogen, or lipid production by cyanobacteria or algae. This productivity is also higher than the current rate of ethanol production from corn. The technology shows promise for direct bioconversion of solar energy and CO2 into chemical feedstocks, the EPA said in its award summary.
As fuel substitutes, higher alcohols have several advantages over ethanol, including higher energy density, lower hygroscopicity, and lower vapor pressure leading to better air quality. After excretion by the cells as aldehydes, the products are readily stripped from the bioreactor, avoiding toxicity to the microbes. Chemical catalysis then converts the harvested aldehydes to alcohols or other chemicals.
If 60 billion gallons of higher alcohols were used each year as chemical feedstocks and fuel (replacing 25% of gasoline), Dr. Liao's technology could eliminate about 500 million tons of CO2 emissions or about 8.3% of the total US CO2 emissions, the EPA said. Easel Biotechnologies is commercializing the CO2-to-fuels technology under exclusive license from UCLA.
Easel is also a member of a consortium including UCLA and UC Davis that was awarded $4 million from ARPA-E to develop microorganisms using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering techniques to use electricity instead of sunlight for biological carbon dioxide fixation and fuel synthesis. This process will repurpose carbon dioxide for use as a liquid fuel that can be readily used as a high octane gasoline substitute. (Earlier post.)


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I chose nine drawings to send to my tutor for ongoing feedback. Five of them were from the work I did in Project 2, drawings of the blankets from the archive. I chose a mixture, ink, drypoint, collage and watercolour/pen ones:
I found drawing the blankets from the archive quite a challenge. Trying to record the textures, patterns on a cloth was hard and required a few different approaches. I learnt that I needed to be a lot more focussed and selective when drawing, as it's almost impossible to process and respond to all the information I am taking in at once, I found it better to make decisions about my drawing. So some I focussed purely on the marks and patterns I could see. Others I found rearranging the fabric and not having it laid out straight was more interesting compositionally. Translating these marks into collage also required me to think differently. How to portray such fine textures and details? I had never thought of using collage in this way. I've only ever thought of in terms of shape and form. I have also turned to colour more, and investigated printmaking a bit.
I selected four from Project 3 looking at my flower studies.
Although I enjoyed collecting and arranging my own sources to record from. I don't think I pushed myself as much in Project 3: Picking and Portraying. I had lots of initial ideas of really playing around with print, pushing the ideas of composition as suggested in the file, but due to being 'on/off' with my study time at present I found it hard to keep up the momentum. I think I played it safe/easy in terms of materials.
I really enjoyed looking at Blackadder and Askey in particular – but wondering how I could bring in some other elements. From the research points, I noticed how often I was drawn to and picked out the elements of composition as well as when artists made a bold visual response.


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What kind of a society would you like to live in?
The world I want to live in would have things like rail, energy and other basic industries socialised, owned by and run in the interests of society. It would have an education system freed from the interests of business and profit, and funded entirely by progressive taxation. Public services would be run by the people who work in them and the community they serve, not by executives on six or seven figure salaries, drawn from an Oxbridge elite.
I'd like constituents to be able to recall their MPs from parliament, and a much fuller democracy than today's with the economy democratically controlled by workers through their workplaces. I'd like to see the liberalisation of unnecessary drug laws and a greener economy that doesn't exploit, pollute and destroy the environment.
If someone with these views makes their choice in voting by reading through the policies of the main political parties, they might see the Green Party's manifesto and jump into bed with them quicker than you can say "petit bourgeois". In fact there are all sorts of tests you can take online to see which party you are closest to, to save you the bother of reading the manifestos. But while that might seem like a good way to make a decision and a good decision to take, history demonstrates that politics is not straightforward.
Political parties do not stick to manifestos. Political change is not won through simply the act of voting, or even being a member of a political party. Struggle, activism, organisation and working hard to call politicians to account is the way to make change.
Since early on in the history of the capitalist system, working-class organisations and socialist thinkers saw how the working class was at the mercy of grinding poverty, workhouses, child labour, and murderous imperialist wars. They thought these phenomena were not accidental; they were the result of huge imbalances of power that emanated from the class structure of society which disempowered workers and gave undue advantage to their masters.
With inspiration from Marxist and many other socialist ideas (including what we would call today anarchist) they forged networks of institutions, methods and practices — trade unions, international labour congresses, workers' education schools, The Labour Party and much in between.
Through these organisations the working class have been able to express their interests and win lasting gains for the whole of society. The welfare state, the NHS, weekends, the eight-hour day, the abolition of child labour and more recently LGBT rights and for some, a living wage. All has been won in the heat of class struggle, sometimes as compromises from the elite aimed at quelling the surges of encroaching democracy and workers' power.
These institutions, ideas and methods that the working class has developed have always been at the centre of general progress towards equality and liberation. Their success is down to the fact that they fight their battles over the most central fulcrum of capitalist power, at the foundational level of the capitalist system — inside workplaces. It is here where wealth is created, the accumulation of profit takes place and the essentials of the system are reproduced.
Whereas once this location was the site of unfettered exploitation in Europe and North America, now, there is some protection won by collective industrial action. But also, in the major unions, there exists a democratic chain — however bureaucratised, and limited — through a hierarchy of structures, that link the worker from their productive activities on the shop floor, to the policies that the Labour Party commits to in its manifesto.
As well as the union being a means of self-defense through industrial action and so forth, it is also a conduit through which the specific interests of the working class majority can potentially be transmitted into Parliament. The importance of this structural relationship between the workplace, the unions and the Parliamentary system was understood even before the majority of men (and long before the majority of women) had the right to vote; indeed, such collective action was decisive to winning the right to vote in the first place.
The contest for democracy and economic equality takes place primarily in the workplace through the unions, and secondarily through the ballot box.
Simply throwing ones weight behind the union movement is not adequate. The movement is stifled by layers of bureaucracy, which often hinder the escalation of challenges to bosses' rule. Socialists see it as their job as activists to break down this bureaucracy, make officials accountable, and instill democracy in the union from the ground upwards, as well as pushing policy that strengthens the solidarity of the working class.
Without voting Labour, none of the struggles going on in the trade unions — against the privatisation of the NHS, for the living wage, anti-austerity agendas, against fracking, and for workers' rights — will have the potential to realise themselves at the highest political level, at the level of government.
It is here, in the labour movement where the potential exists to radically shift the scales of power. Simply having a radical manifesto and trying to get elected, like the Greens, is not a strategy that can have any effect in curtailing the vast power of the capitalist class — we need a movement that is combative, and rooted in the logic of class struggle if we are going to do that.
It is on this basis by which socialists and trade unionists have conducted their struggle for the last two centuries, and this struggle has proved the most progressive of any social movement ever, reaching into every country in the world, and stretching back to the beginning of our advanced civilisation. Of course, this grandest of social movements has been pushed back in the last two decades. As part of the neo-liberal assault workers' rights have been eroded, trade union rights attacked, and all major parties, including Labour, have been dragged to the right. Complicit in this are the trade union leaders who've offered little more than a sullen fight against Labour's leaders. But yet the battles for democracy still go on.
The central argument here is not of unquestioning allegiance to Labour, but of the importance of reinvigorating the institutions of the left, bequeathed to us by the wrenching battles for democracy that were fought over the 20th century. For socialists who fight within it, the Labour Party is not the be-all-and-end-all; it is one important tool through which we execute our struggle, because of its position in relation to the working class and trade unions. The Green Party cannot fulfill this role that a workers' party must play in the movement. Indeed, there may well come a time soon when the Blairite coup inside Labour is completed, and all ties to the workers movement are severed; but in the meantime the only logical course of action is to exhaust the battles that need to be fought. If they are lost, then the answer is a new party – a new political outlet for the workers' movement, not a foray into the populist eco-liberal territory of the Greens.
The shift to the right in the general political landscape, and a period of lull and defeat for the left in the labour movement is the context for the rising popularity of the Green Party. Lefty, libertarian minded folk without a political home are gravitating towards the only obvious available electoral option for their beliefs. But while I can sympathise with this, it doesn't make sense.
The critical factor in changing society is the ability to alter the balance of forces between the two main classes in our favour, The Green Party, with no structural connection to the trade union movement, or democratic link to the working class, has no potential to seriously fight the concentrated power of the ruling class and implement their reformist manifesto. If they attempted to do something like nationalise the energy industry, or scrap Trident, the elite would go nuts and do everything in their power to paralyse or eject the government using a variety of dirty tricks.
For example, financial institutions might call an investment strike, grinding the economy to a halt. They might even use the monarchy and archaic constitutional laws to throw them out, like the Queen's Governor General did to Australia's Labor Government in 1975. In Britain under Prime Minister Harold Wilson it was revealed that elements of the aristocracy and military had spoken of orchestrating a coup d'état against the reformist Labour Government whose policies were barely more radical than the Green Party's today.
Socialists argue that the key response to a counter assault is workers' solidarity, with the working class organised and poised to hit back through mass strikes or occupations, and if necessary self-defense militia and the initiation of mutinies in the armed forces to combat the threat the establishment's suppression.
With the accumulated knowledge of our movement's history, socialists consider these questions and debate them openly, but the Green Party has no roots in this movement, culturally or otherwise, and answers addressing crucial questions about how to mobilise the working class in this way are not something found in the Green Party's policies or internal political life.
It is instructive to look at the Green's management of Brighton Council, to get an indication of how they operate in a position of power. Despite claiming to be an anti-austerity party,in 2013 the Green's minority led council constructed and voted through an austerity budget that made millions of pounds of cuts to front line services, and increased council tax for residents. Notably they attacked the pay of bin workers threatening to slash £4,000 from their annual paycheck. The bin workers and recycling staff fought back, and through their GMB union went on strike and occupied the offices of their employer; rubbish was left piled high on the streets. It is doubtful that the Greens made cuts because they are cunning and deceitful liars, but because they do not understand the pressures of governance and the nature of capitalist power. (It is illegal for a councilor to set an unbalanced budget.) The Greens found themselves in a fight with a movement they claim as some sort of ally. Recently the Brighton Green Party has passed policy urging it's councilors to set a no-cuts budget this year, bizarrely though, the Party's councilors are not accountable to the mass of their Party's ranks, and will probably ignore this as they have done previously.
How would the socialist movement deal with these kinds of circumstances? Well, in 1972 some staunch Labour councilors refused to implement a new pernicious housing charge onto social housing tenants. In Clay Cross the Tories sent in their own housing commissioner to do their dirty work where the Labour councilors wouldn't, but their stooge was blocked at every turn as the council refused point blank to co-operate. With the backing of the Labour movement they were able to push Labour into a supportive stance. When asked if he was afraid of going to jail for his actions, Councilor Dave Nuttall said "No. I've got too much faith in the trade union movement for any fear on that score", making reference to the "Pentonville 5" – trade unionists who were freed from jail by a huge strike.
This example, and there are many others, gives clear guidance about how to fight government cuts and take on the ruling class, but this language of struggle is not a part of the Green Party's vocabulary.
Your choices this May should not be seen as a contest between Labour and Green, but between socialism and the barbarity of austerity and poverty. We fight within the labour movement – including the Labour Party – to realise goals that you probably share, join us in executing the lessons of history as a socialist, the Green Party are a distraction from these ends.


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The History of Emerald
May, is the spring month of new growth and born. That is why Emerald is the birthstone of May which means the refreshing of eyes for spring after the rain. The name of Emerald is derived from a Greek word "smaragdos" which means green stones. Traced beck the history of Emerald, actually these green stone already known by royalty in Babylon and Egypt centuries. People at Spanish Conquistadors were found that they are wearing Emeralds in the sixteenth century.
That's much famous history about Emeralds. The most famous story is about the Crown of Andes, which was began in 1593, where 24 goldsmiths are involved in the project to set the crown with 453 Emeralds with the total Carat Weight of 1,500 carats. The largest emerald on the crown is 45 carat Atahualpa Emerald. The crown name is referring to the city of Popayan, high up in the Andes, founded by Spanish in 1537. The crown was then sold to an American jeweler named Wheaton's Warren J. Piper in June 1936 with S 125,000. After that it was exhibited all over the North America and attracted around 225,000 visitors in one of the show. Colombian government has been reported that had shown some interest to re-purchase back the 400 years old crown.
At Egypt, the Emerald was known because of the beautiful and powerful Queen who wore Emerald. Cleopatra (69 – 30BC), who was the beautiful queen of Egypt, is known as the best known celebrity of emerald. Just like which Princess Diana was with the Blue Sapphire (the birthstone of September). Queen Cleopatra likes Emerald very much. She often wears Emerald jewels and those visitors who departed from Egypt will always reward by Emerald jewels. Her Emerald will believed that all came from her own country where located near the Red Sea.
The Crown of Andes
The Beauty Queen Cleopatra (69 – 30BC)
The Value And The Color of Emerald
Emerald is considered as Beryl family. The color can be from light and bright, with a faint bluish color, to deep green. The Green stone is relatively hard and durable, but the inclusions found in the stone may cause the stone easily broken. And the color may loss due to strong heated.
The Emerald price can be from very cheap to extremely Expensive. It is depends on the quality and the color from poor to excellent. Some of the brilliant Emerald with fire (means very shining and rich in deep green color) is more valuable and expensive then diamonds (April Birthstone). Columbia is still the important source of High quality Emerald. Below is The Word Most Expensive Emeralds which by Chopard Design and the Emerald is from Columbia high quality Emerald also.
To make sure you get the right and natural Emerald stone, be sure you go to the right jewels shop and get the right person who knows gemstones better to assist you. It is because nowadays that's a lot of fake Emerald, which the color is quite pretty, because it is make by the colored cut glass, but the value is not so much. You may just get a small pretty Real Emerald, instead to get a big one with pretty color but is a glass emerald.
Top: The World Most Expensive Emeralds is the Emerald Necklace from Chopard's "Haute Joillerie" collection with 191 carats of Columbia most beautiful Emeralds cost $ 3 million plus. Bottom: The Beautiful Tiara "Queen Victoria Emerald and Diamonds" own by Queen Victoria and designed by her own husband, the Prince Consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in the Gothic style.
Sources Of Emerald
The world most famous source of Emerald is still belonging to Columbia in South America. Columbia is the most important source of high quality and beautiful and most prized Emerald stone. In 1830, Emeralds is also discovered in Urals at Russia. Other than that, Emeralds also found at Brazil, Norway, Zambia, Australia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria India and Madagascar as well. The recent found is at North Carolina which said that it will provide quality emeralds too if it is continues produce emerald stone. And still do not forget about Egypt – the history of Emerald, still mined in small quantities of Emerald by Bedouin Arabs.
The perfect stone of an everlasting love
Emerald is considered as a "medicine" for people. It is help to restore peace mind, to improve meditation, to cure fever if put the Emerald on the forehead, for any digestive problem, bleeding, and soothing fear and tired eyesSome people believed that Emerald can brings wisdom, growth, patients and strengthen the wearer memory. It also help the wearer to predict the future and enable them to have good future and against the evil spirits that will influence their life.
Emerald is the perfect stone for Everlasting Love. How to say? Do you know that Emerald is the best gift for the anniversary on 20th, 35th and 55th year of marriage? It is means that any couple is in a long term relationship, with an essential for a successful lasting love, and the emerald is considered the symbolic of faith and love in the marriage.
In Roman times, Emerald is considered the stone that means of rebirth and youth. And it is dedicated to the Venus - the goddess of Love and Beauty. The priceless gift is to anyone is also means of kindness and purity in any friend relationship. It is said that the changing color in Emerald for those receiver, is considered as false friends or false witness. It is not a true relationship. In Egypt, the Emerald is considered as eternal youth and the traditional way is to bury this emerald jewels with their death.
Nowadays, Emerald is considered a very precious and royalty jewels. Many jewelers like Cartier, Chopard, Tiffany, Neil Lane and others design are using Emerald to set in luxury jewels. You can see that many celebrities are wearing Emerald Jewels when attend any events and party. . Below are some Celebrities who wear the Beautiful Emerald Jewels in the Oscar Award. Most of the best Hollywood actress wearing them on their red carpet.
Pictures: Angelina Jolie is wearing a set of Emerald Stone Jewels (Ring & Earrings). The 115 carats Columbia Emerald Earring from Lorraine Schwartz worth 5 miilions.
Annette Bening was wearing a lovely pair of 35.00 carats Emerald Earring
Celine Dion is wearing a Diamond and Emerald with Green Garnet Necklace by Bulgari Design.
Kim Kardashian wear an 18-carat blackened gold necklace that had 120 carats of diamonds, 70-carat emerald-and-diamond earrings with 150 carats of emeralds worth more than $4 millions by Lorraine Schwartz.
Amy Adam was wearing the platinum diamond and 30.75 carats emerald haute joaillerie secret watch bracelet worth $1.025 million , with the Emerald Necklace as well from Cartier Design.


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Hello to anyone reading this,
I have been looking online trying to find a milk chocolate recipe starting from an unsweetened chocolate and then augment it by using stevia instead of sugar. I am a diabetic and I love milk chocolate (more of a Belgian style but Swiss and French are perfectly fine as well).
I know that you can buy sugar free milk chocolate with any other non sugar sweetner but I want to see if I can do it with stevia and right now i have not found anyone who sells that.
I was intending on using Callebaut 100% Cocoa Chocolate Liquor as my base. Does anyone have a recipe that I can start from. I fully intend on making bars and doing it right (This means attempting to temper and not refrigerating) but I need a place to start.
If anyone has any ideas or recipes please let me know. I would greatly appreciate any help with this.
updated by @louis-fernandez: 04/13/15 08:57:49AM


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Cricket is a religion in India. A memory of a past when the sub-continent was a colony of the British, cricket as a sport is unparalleled in popularity. Despite having popular sports like football, hockey, kabbadi, badminton and tennis; cricket is the single sport that unites the nation and an India vs. Pakistan cricket match, practically brings down traffic to a standstill and sees massive leave requests in offices and colleges. Contrary to popular beliefs that cricketers aren't well-educated, we profile some cricketers who have some solid degrees to their name!
Rahul Dravid
Mr. Nice Guy, The Wall, Jammy – these are just some adjectives used to describe Rahul Dravid. The man for all seasons and reasons, he has donned every conceivable role for the team's sake, be it wicket-keeping, opening the batting, pushing himself down the order or staying outside the team to feature an extra bowler; he is still respected by everyone and along with VVS Laxman he scripted a remarkable turn-around for India against Australia at the Eden Gardens many years back. Dravid is an engineer and has an incomplete management degree.
Mike Brearley
Mike Brearley led England to victory in the Ashes in 1981. A player known for his people-management skills rather than batting; he was a terrific slip fielder and motivated his team to bring out the best in them. A student of Cambridge University, Mike holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the Classical and Moral Sciences. He is a trained psychoanalyst and psychologist and also a renowned motivational speaker.
Javagal Srinath
After Kapil Dev's retirement, Srinath spearheaded the Indian team's pace bowling attack quite admirably. Currently he is an ICC-certified match referee officiating matches around the world. He holds a B.Tech in Instrumentation Engineering.
Anil Kumble
People often joked that Anil Kumble was more of a medium pacer than a spinner. Can anyone forget the ten wickets in an innings haul against Pakistan? Or that iconic image of his jaw all plastered and held together as he bowled his heart out in the West Indies? Anil Kumble holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering degree.
Shikha Pandey
A member of the Indian women's cricket team, Shikha holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering and is employed as an Air Traffic Controller with the Indian Air Force. A truly remarkable achievement indeed.
All his life he will have to bear the pun – "Misbah-one-run" following the loss to India in the inaugural T:20 World Cup. Jokes apart, he is the most balanced player and one of the sanest minds in the Pakistan cricket team for a long time. Level-headed and calm he has helped balance the team's mercurial heavy-weights and the talented youngsters. Misbah holds an MBA from the University of Management and Technology, Lahore.
Imran Khan
The man who single-handedly revitalised a team's fortunes and helped motivate Pakistan to lift the World Cup; Imran Khan studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford. Currently he heads a political party – 'Tehreek-e-Insaaf' in Pakistan.
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Apple is planning on opening its third retail store in Manhattan sometime next year. Following the SoHo store and then the famous 5th Avenue store, the new store will be located in the SL Green building, which is located southwest of the giant glass cube.
Andrew Mathias, SL Green's chief investment officer said that "the team had to negotiate more than six separate transactions and explore the outer reaches of the New York City building code with help of several consultants," adding that the store had originally started with a 50' x 100' plan but will now end up being 50' to 75' by 100' by the time it's completed.
Considering the new store designs (and Apple's recent penchant for doing wacky things with their stores), we're at the edge of our seats to see how this new store will be laid out.


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Spurs v Liverpool - team news
Thu 13 September 2018, 12:58|Tottenham Hotspur
Dele Alli will miss our Premier League clash against Liverpool on Saturday.
The midfielder picked up a hamstring injury on England duty and is unavailable this weekend.
Hugo Lloris also misses out as a result of a thigh injury picked up against Manchester United on 27 August. He's expected to be out for several weeks.
Moussa Sissoko (hamstring) is expected to return to training with the squad next week and good news sees Juan Foyth back in training after a recent thigh problem.


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Posted on 03rd December 2012 by Media Relations
He may be used to soaring through the treetops, but no one was entirely sure how Marco the White-Tailed Black Cockatoo would react to a very different kind of tree.Hanging from some branches was a festive piece of what humans would call Christmas cheer, but this model Christmas tree, fashioned from cardboard and paper, topped with a bright star and with holes in the trunk, had a very important purpose. It had been created as part of the behavioural enrichment program for the animals at Taronga. Marco perched on top of the tree, greeting us with a cheerful 'Hello!' as he nibbled at some treats. Later on, food was placed inside the tree trunk's holes for the other birds to try and retrieve.The tree was created by Behavioural Science Unit (BSU) volunteer, Alan Hind, who has worked on crafting enrichment for the animals at the zoo throughout the year. The seasonally themed tree, which will be left for the cockatoos and other parrots, is fashioned out of heavy-duty cardboard tubes and paper, held together with lots of papier-mâché instead of glue.Alan says a Christmas tree seemed like an "obvious" choice for Christmas, especially with lots of those cardboard tubes lying around (the enrichment team go through "thousands" of empty toilet paper rolls per year). It's taken him about 10 hours all up to put together, and will be a challenging puzzle for the birds as they try to get at the food inside – most likely destroying the tree in the process. The BSU's enrichment creations provide the Zoo's animals with extra mental challenges to keep their minds sharp, or can help them practice natural behaviours. In the case of Alan's Christmas tree, the cardboard tubes are similar to real tree branches, which parrots would pull apart in an effort to find food.


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text: Welcome, to all things Sylvan Hills. We hope you are enjoying your association. Two years ago, a group of Sylvan Hills High School alumni, talked about a better way to support our school. We just wanted to give back to the school that gave us tools to succeed in our adult life. The result of those conversations, is the SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. We are just alumni that understand that as a larger group, we may have better ways to support our school, than as an individual. We know this is not for everyone, but we would love to have you if you have not joined. Please look around, and if you have questions, let us know. We are all alumni and would really like to visit with you and answer any questions you may have. In the website you will find a listing of our officers, board of directors, mission statement, by-laws and other informational material. We have members from the earliest years and younger alumni, that have chosen to join and make a difference. Thanks for visiting and Go Bears!


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When the free-thinkers of post-war Los Angeles set about changing the world through meditation, rock 'n' roll, mysticism, organic food, ritual dancing and/or hallucinogens, it's safe to assume that – at some time or other – they all passed through Topanga Canyon. Far enough from the suburbs to be considered wild, and sufficiently bedevilled by flood, fire and rattlesnakes to deter the half-hearted, Topanga has traditionally cast itself as LA's preferred utopian outpost: the city's own rustic, occasionally treacherous, Shangri-la.Neil Young recorded much of his 1970 album After the Gold Rush there, around the same time that former neighbour Charles Manson was on his way to a life sentence on the back of the era-ending Family killings. Other residents over the years have included Dennis Hopper, assorted members of the Doors and the Eagles, and polit-hippie movement poster girl Uschi Obermaier. Devendra Barnhart recorded 2007's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon in Topanga, and has described the place as "magical … awesome, undeniable".
Touted by contemporary Angelenos as the neighbourhood where you're most likely to find "old hippies" in their natural habitat, Topanga Canyon is still championed for its idealistic, free-spirited, all-natural allure. But just how much of that allure is exaggerated, or refracted through the rainbow-tinted, round-rimmed spectacles of nostalgia? We set off on a day trip, to find out.There are two ways to reach Topanga Canyon from Hollywood: via Santa Monica and the Pacific Coast Highway, then up through the reed-lined creek bed of Lower Topanga; or, for the greater sense of contrast, north along the smog-smudged 101 freeway, off at Topanga Canyon Boulevard, and through the low-lying foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. By taking the second option, you get a satisfying sense of escape from the commuter crush, as the San Fernando Valley's vast carpet of suburbia melts away, curve after rising curve, before a brief stretch of plateau marks the start of a gentle descent towards the ocean, between banks of oak, eucalyptus and pine.
Instantly, it's easy to understand why people are drawn to Topanga Canyon. Sloping fields are a wildflower riot of yellow and green; red-tailed hawks make effortless arcs in the piercing blue sky; the air smells pleasantly of leaves. Clutches of native Topangans gather for brunch on the tree-shaded wooden patio at Pat's Grill (+1 310 455 0533), the first place serving food if you're heading downhill on the community's lone main road. Among them is Rick Provisor, a canyon resident for 35 years.
The conversation turns to rock 'n' roll history. "The Topanga Corral was a music venue that was real big in the 60s. Jim Morrison wrote Roadhouse Blues on the way up here. Aside from the people that played there – Canned Heat, Little Feat – all the musicians came up to watch each other. Linda Ronstadt was there all the time."
The Corral burned to the ground, for the second and last time, in 1986.Neil Young, he says, still owns a property here. "He and his manager came from Wyoming, and just kind of made this home. There was an American Legion post, used one night a week for meetings, but the rest of the time it was a restaurant. It was named the Gold Rush for a while. It's Froggy's (1105 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd; +1 310 455 1728 ) now. I used to ride my horse to the bar. Not now – too many cars."
Even though plans for a Disney-owned golf course were abandoned in the mid-90s, after community protests, development has inevitably made an impact over the years on the canyon's backwoods, barefoot, flowerchild-friendly charm because, in Provisor's words, "it's pretty hard for a free spirit to be able to purchase a $1.75 million home". Grill owner Pat Burke, another long-term Topangan, translates the division of wealth and property into local slang. "The Peakers are the yuppies with the houses on the peaks of the mountains," he says. "And the Creekers are everybody else."
Burke – who runs a sideline in Persian rugs and hangs his paintings on the walls of his café – remembers the good old trippy days: "We used to get zipped on LSD in the 60s, go off in the wilderness, lay down and stare at the sky. At the time we didn't realise that all those flying saucer lights and stuff like that was actually the final approach for LAX [Los Angeles International airport]."
In 2007, Burke's bear-like dog – Chin – was named Grand Marshal at Topanga Days, one of a couple of local springtime festivals (along with Topanga Earth Day). As a showcase for local bands – like psychedelic Western rockers Spindrift – Topanga Days goes some way to backing up Provisor's claims that the heart and spirit of the canyon remain, by and large, unchanged.As does another institution, located a little way down the hill – the Theatricum Botanicum (+1 310 455 2322), an open-air theatre established in the early 50s by Will Geer, best known as Grandpa from The Waltons. Geer had been blacklisted as a communist during the McCarthy witch-hunt era and, after refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee, retreated to Topanga to follow his lifelong passions: acting and botany. The gardens on the property, still run by the Geer family, were conceived to contain every plant mentioned in the works of Shakespeare. Folk musician Woody Guthrie, a friend of Geer, lived there for a while and Pete Seeger played there.
Not all former Topanga characters were as benign and well-meaning as Geer. Aside from the Charles Manson connection, mobster Mickey Cohen used a local Spanish-style mansion – restored in 1989 as the Mountain Mermaid, and currently hired out for photo shoots – as a brothel and gambling den.
Like the Mountain Mermaid, the Inn of the Seventh Ray (+1 310 455 1311)– a waterside organic restaurant among the small cluster of buildings known, tongue-in-cheek, as "downtown" – has no shortage of history. Once a retreat owned by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, then a church, and later an auto junkyard, the place should be visited for lunch, provided you're not upset by liberal use of the colour purple, or in any way averse to the music of John Barry.Across the street, within the small mall called Pine Tree Circle, Topanga Home Grown (+1 310 455 8781) (the neighbourhood's signature emporium) is a gift shop that claims to keep prices low by sourcing direct from a limited number of suppliers. Still, the long-sleeved T-shirts seemed a touch expensive a $72 a pop, but the hoodies – emblazed with a tomato, and the legend "Awaken in Topanga" – are at least made from hemp, albeit Chinese hemp.
The rest of the journey to canyon's end, and the Pacific's edge, passes another, smaller batch of stores (including an antiques shop, and a natural food market) until the winding road brings the ocean abruptly into view. Suddenly, Topanga has given way to Malibu, the domain of surf, which is an altogether different proposition, practically a different country. With the salt air lining your nostrils, take the natural right-hand turn on the coastal highway for a final fish-and-chips stop at the Reel Inn (+1 310 456 8221). Or, if there's any Topangan in you, indulge the urge to head back up the canyon, back the way you came … the coyotes start singing after dark.
Where to stay
There's nothing in Topanga Canyon (even the locals think a good B&B is long overdue) but there are a couple of options on the Pacific Coast Highway, within 15 minutes of Lower Topanga.
The Malibu Motel – from $119 to $219 per night
22541 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu CA 90265; +1 310 456 6169; themalibumotel.com
Refurbed after the Malibu fires of 2007; tidy swimming pool; minimal rooms; not the ocean side of the highway
Malibu Beach Inn – from $325 to $1650 per night
22878 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu CA 90265; +1 310 456 6444; malibubeachinn.com
Complete overhaul in 2007; owned by entertainment mogul David Geffen; beach access; will stretch your credit card


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The NUJ's policy for 'statutory underpinning' of print regulation is one of the more troubling issues in my near 38 year career in journalism. It has been hard enough being in a University Department (Media & Communications, Goldsmiths) surrounded by colleagues who are at the very centre of the Hacked Off and Coordinating Committee for Media Reform that advocates the surrendering to Parliament of a vitally important constitutional independence.
My colleagues also back statutory 'right of reply.' In my opinion these are authoritarian measures of reform.
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Let me inform you about a development environment for GR-PEACH.
As you may know, we had prepare Web compiler for GR-PEACH, that enables to program like Arduino Sketch.
Now we have done to release V1.05 template on Web compiler, that enables USB host, Web server and Camera. And the speed of executing build got improved.
In addition, I put the project for e2studio as following link.
This project enables to develop on e2studio that is based on ECLIPSE.
Hello Okayiya,
I am facing below issues while setting up E2studio. Can you please share any guide to setup e2studio for GR peach?
Description Resource Path Location Type
Program "arm-none-eabi-gcc" not found in PATH gr
Project Properties, C++ Preprocessor Include.../Providers, [Renesas GNUARM-NONE Library GCCBuildinCompilerSettings] options C/C++ Scanner Discovery Problem
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Could you confirm the toolchain window from [Help] ->[Add Renesas Toolchains] as below.
You need to install any version of GCC ARM Embedded compiler
In reply to Okamiya Yuuki:
I have attached the screenshot. Please let me know if I need to install any other tools chains.
Could you please share any step by step guide to import peach_sketch.zip into E2studio ?. I have tried to import it into project folder but I see a lot of error messages .
Ok, but let me solve this query at first.
Could you try change settings of version in Toolchain tab as below.
The below is set to 5.3.1xx, but you need to set your version installed.
I don't see those options in my Ide. Am i missing some settings here?
How is your environment setting ?
The below is mine.
Hi Yuuki,
Thanks . Below is my environment settings.
after setting PATH variable in system above error got resolved. Receiving below error when try to build the project.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure about the problem.
I attached the archive, that is exported with same version of GNU ARM 4.9.3.
Could you try to import that after remove current project?
Thanks . The make error got resolved .Now am I able to build the project. Could you please share the steps to generate .bin file from the project ?.It would be a great help if you can share a video/pdf with the steps.
It sounds good.
After built in success, you'll find .bin in Debug folder.
Thanks a lot for your help. I am able to find the .bin file and upload it to GR peach.
Hi Yuuki ,
Can you please share any libraries(sample code) used for playing mp3/wav files place in SD card of GR peach ?. I have tried the below arduino library but it didn't work.
Hi, now we don't have the library such as GR-SAKURA and others.
Let me have a time to consider.
The Arduino one you mentioned uses native AVR code, that is difficult to port for GR-PEACH.
I see the below MP3 player project done using GR-SAKURA . Can this be done with out using any libraries ?
Thanks ,


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