text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Often overlooked aspects of lesson obs in EFL. And hamsters Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Often overlooked aspects of lesson obs in EFL. And hamsters Goto page 1, 2, 3 ... 14, 15, 16 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject: Often overlooked aspects of lesson obs in EFL. And hamsters So much heat rather than light has been generated by the topic of lesson observations, that it is easy to lose sight of basic considerations, and even definitions. This is especially true if one has not had the benefit of proper observations for a long time, or even ever, as the case may be. So, here are a few points that may help shed some light of the matter, as well as shed some prejudice. Types. There are many types of lesson observation. Peer observations and formal observations. Scrivener gives a nice breakdown in his Learning Teaching, where he lists five main types, including training and developmental. Might be helpful if we all stated clearly what we mean by observations we write about them. Planning. Most types of formal observations include submitting a detailed lesson plan. The time and thought put into this is immensely important to teacher development - even for experienced in-service teachers. Clarifying your lesson ideas on paper, being able to express them so another teacher can understand them - these are valuable abilities which do not always come naturally. Fairly similar to what we try to teach language learners about planning a composition. True, we do not need, or even want, to do this before every lesson. But we should be able to do so when we need to, especially for our own research. Sadly, far fewer EFL teachers than would be expected to be able to do this seem to be able to actually do so. Data collection. This is important for many schools and courses, and the DoSes who run them. How are the learners doing, what about the course book? How does the classroom environment impact on the lesson? Is the technology we invested in proving its worth? As teachers, it is perhaps forgivable if we assume that the whole point of observations is about us, but quite often it is not. Obviously, this should be made clear to observees well in advance. Learners. They usually welcome the fact that their school takes an interest in their lessons and that administration takes an active interest in what happens in the classroom. It reassures them of quality. (Though possible not, if their teacher is fidgeting nervously and floundering...) When observations are a regular part of a schools routine, as they should be if done properly, very often the learners themselves deal with them much more positively than some of our community here. On a similar vein, observations can help highlight that we are not little despots in our own little fiefdoms, but we are part of a team in an educational establishment. What we may sometimes call our classes and our students really are not ours at all. Administration has the right, even a duty, to see what is happening in their classrooms. As well as observing lessons, administration can also place new learners in the group if they wish, or change the classroom number. Any sense of possessiveness is misplaced, at best. Following on, observations can sometimes be carried out by students. Except they are not called observations. Trial lesson is the preferred term. New students tend to be much more judgmental and forthright in their opinions - they either join or do not, based on what they see. And not much more feedback than that is to be had. Do all the arguments about how observations do not reflect a true lesson come into play for new students too? Doubtful that a new student would care too much about them. Anybody got something more to add to the list?Last edited by Sashadroogie on Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:23 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top cmp45Joined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 1475Location: KSA Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:02 pm Post subject: I agree with everything you wrote. As professionals we often assume we know everything. Sometimes we may not always recognize or notice what is missing or could be done differently; therefore observations can certainly help to point out issues that we may not be aware of...ideally, observations should be used to help teachers improve their teaching so that students are actually learning. I also recognize that teaching on a daily basis is not always so neatly packaged the way lesson plans may appear in writing; nevertheless, the ability to put a basic lesson plan together and carry it out in the classroom formally for the purpose of an observation should be something every teacher is capable of doing. If only to prove that you have not forgotten how Back to top coledavisJoined: 21 Jun 2003Posts: 1838 Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: I agree with nothing you wrote. ( ) My slant is that lesson plans are merely to let the person know where they are in a lesson and should be short and meaningless. What I want to see is that the blend of activities is a meaningful one, leading to the acquisition of vocabulary and other targets and its effective memorisation. I look at whether or not people are providing suitable material and whether or not there is a suitable balance between accuracy and fluency. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: Napoleon, I told you about this before - Ssssshhhh! Back to top coledavisJoined: 21 Jun 2003Posts: 1838 Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:33 am Post subject: But I want it, I really want it! Back to top coledavisJoined: 21 Jun 2003Posts: 1838 Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:35 am Post subject: But I want it, I really want it! Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:21 am Post subject: Another point, which just came to me as I woke up dazed from champagne this morning, is that many teachers who are involved in official language testing are 'observed' very often. True, it is not quite the same thing as a lesson, but if you are an IELTS examiner, for example, you are monitored, checked, given feedback etc. regularly. All of which is based on the recordings made during the Speaking interviews, and on the markings you give for the Writing tests. Some of the feedback given can seem quite pedantic, and there is precious little in the way of a two-way dialogue. Very much top-down, no matter how good an examiner you are, or think you are. Indeed, even experienced examiners have to regularly attend refresher classes to get 're-certificated'. The point is, language testing requires all sorts of validities, and 'monitoring' is seen as helping to ensure them. So why should language teaching not be subjected to some sort of external observation too? Especially when the process is usually nowhere near as regimented as it is for examining... Back to top fluffyhamsterJoined: 13 Mar 2005Posts: 3292Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject: @Sasha: The obvious answer to why general teaching isn't scrutinized as much as the example of IELTS testing is that the students' individual fates and monies aren't hanging so "in the balance" in the average lesson. Plus, I doubt if management is actually that bothered, "push come to shove". Regarding monitoring the impact the physical classroom has, I'm sure that some schools would have lessons taught in tea crates, if enough students could be willingly forced into them. The irony with lesson plans is that they are "crafted" the most often, and in the most "detail", at that time in the average teacher's career when they know the least. I see no reason why such plans (and then, why not an essay, or even a book?) would continue to be written long into a career, provided that the teacher is researching the language thoroughly and remains reasonably interested in developments in ELT. But there are of course times (e.g. when perhaps trying out interaction-based observation schemes) that more detailed plans might become necessary. True, there is potentially something of a possessiveness to 'my class', but it might also indicate an emotional attachment and investment, might it not? An interest in and protectiveness towards the students' linguistic well-being and future prospects. To say "This is not your class, it is the establishment's" without much justification would be pointless and self-defeating, IMHO. Even "It is in fact our class" would raise many a teacher eyebrow, in the sense of "Yeah, but who's going to do the never-exactly-piece-of-cake work of actually teaching them day in and out?". Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject: Hi Fluffy I dunno. I think plenty of students part with a fair old chunk of coin for EFL lessons, and so an observation to make sure that is well-spent doesn't seem out of place to me. True, a visa doesn't hang in the balance, but still, if examiners are happy being monitored regularly year after year, and without direct knowledge most times, why should a teacher in a classroom object? Tea-crates? Yes, possibly. Many unscrupulous school-owners out there who'd try to get away with that. Not usually the types who'd care enough about lessons to observe in the first place though... I don't get your point about lesson plans fully, but the little I do understand strikes me as erroneous. Many teachers do continue to produce lesson plans well into their career, for their own benefit, for further developmental observations, both on and off further training courses, and for developing new materials that they'd like trialed by peers. The point is that this should not be an enigmatic skill for teachers. But, sadly, if my experience with observations is anything to go by, it is very much a weakness of many teachers, even those far along their careers. Emotional attachment to groups is natural, of course. And usually harmless. But it is no reason for possibly excluding newcomers to the group, whether a new student or observer. And I think emotions more related to defensiveness and anxiety play more of a part in the sense of possession that we can all fall prey to. Ultimately, we are only teaching the learners because they enrolled into a school and that school pays us. I think that is a strong justification in itself for observations of classes in said schools. Back to top fluffyhamsterJoined: 13 Mar 2005Posts: 3292Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: I suppose the welcomeness or not of observations might have something to do with how much of that "fair old chunk" actually find its way into the teachers' pockets. (Then again, I've known some employers who've claimed to only be just about breaking even - 4% profit margins and the like - or even subsidizing the teaching arm of their business empires with profits made from other branches, such as importing tinned fruit or guns or whatever). I must admit I don't know how much IELTS examiners get paid, but I hope it's more worth their while. One can only do things for the love of it for so long. Call me a recovering victim of the organized crime of tea-chest packing, but I can easily imagine a boss feigning surprise and then scolding "Some of your students suffocated...while you resorted to using breathing gear!?". Lesson plans may be useful between colleagues actually collaborating on or sharing something, but I'm not sure why a teacher would continue producing them privately just "for their own benefit". (Rough notes and record-keeping is another matter though - I have several pocket notebooks keeping track of what I did, and then planned to do, for my elementary school classes in Japan. I made a point of sitting down in the staffroom at the end of each school day and quickly noting those things down. If I hadn't done this, I'd've easily risked losing track of which class in which school had done exactly what, and how each had responded to and fared with the activities. Many teachers do not have particularly complex rotas to keep track of, though). I think another common emotion regarding observations might be resignation. (I wonder if there is ever much genuine joy and heady anticipation? LOL). And the flip side of the "we are only teaching the learners because they enrolled into a school and that school pays us, which is a strong justification in itself for observations of classes in said schools" line is clearly that it is the collective labour of many individual teachers that is generating the school its profits - something any school would do well to remember before possibly getting too heavy in treating the teachers as the prime variable militating against "assured learning" (or whatever else it is that the school flogs in its brochures). Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:41 am Post subject: Hi again, Fluffy. Are you suggesting that teachers attitudes to observations could be made positive by them getting paid extra for the privilege? I seriously doubt that. And even were a connection to be made there, I'd have strong reservations about it. Teachers are already paid - how much was decided at the time of contract signing. The agreed payment almost always covers not just teaching duties but all other administrative duties too. Being happy or unhappy with the salary should not affect attitudes to teacher development or observations. Not on reasonable grounds, at least. As for lesson plans, I think you are confusing them with lesson registers and records. Recording what you did, an important exercise in itself, is not the same thing as figuring out what you are going to do in a lesson, and how. More importantly, a plan should reveal the why of a lesson, the objectives etc. How many teachers have a conscious aim during their classroom time? Apart from doing the next exercise in the book, that is. If a written plan is not produced, very often the aims are fuzzy at best. Your last paragraph leaves me scratching my head a little, sorry. Not sure where you are coming from with that one. Back to top fluffyhamsterJoined: 13 Mar 2005Posts: 3292Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject: Like I say, if bosses are to be believed, the profit margins in TEFL aren't that high, so perhaps the wages couldn't go up by that much across the board. There are however very few or zero bosses who pay themselves a teacher's wage, that's for sure! My main point however is that observation (esp. if not done well) on top of low wages can be like adding insult to injury - the implication is that the teacher may very well be doing a bad job, when in fact they may be doing a stellar one considering. You honestly believe I don't know what a lesson plan is and should basically look like? (Nah, I doubt it - I guess you're just playing it a bit dumb~rhetorical for the benefit of enthralled readers LOL). I assure you you are "completely wrong" there: I('ve) completed quite a few for my CTEFLA and in various jobs, and have a copy of your Scrivener knocking around for a start. Just because I nowadays don't formally commit "everything" (more like the barest bones, given what sufficed for the CTEFLA) to paper doesn't mean my lessons are aimless, far from it. And here's a thought: if it were a requirement to actually demonstrate more than sufficient preparatory research had been done, by furnishing a plan with book and/or online references, short quotes with key examples etc, how many teachers would be able and willing to do so? Even from staples such as Swan. (Some teachers get rid of any reference books as soon as they complete their cert, and never seem to re-invest in any. They really are your "just do the next exercise in the book" types). Let's leave that last paragraph, then! Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: Sorry, Fluffy, I've been cracking open the crates of vodka in my classroom, hic!, and am having serious issues with coherency myself... Not quite a badly off as this lad, though.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDWNam7RtE Back to top fluffyhamsterJoined: 13 Mar 2005Posts: 3292Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: I'll just ramble away to myself then at the opposite end of your park bench, Sasha! Hmm, I wonder which is warmer in winter, The Guardian, or Pravda? If the latter, lend me a few sheets, will you? Preferably unsoiled ones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMY045VQmyI Your vodka forklift YouTube clip wouldn't load, but if it's the one I'm thinking of then it sure is spectacular. I wonder if the guy got deducted LOL. (Rambling to myself then): I somehow missed this before: Quote: Following on, observations can sometimes be carried out by students. Except they are not called observations. Trial lesson is the preferred term. New students tend to be much more judgmental and forthright in their opinions - they either join or do not, based on what they see. And not much more feedback than that is to be had. I wouldn't read much into a student's failure to enrol(l) after taking a trial lesson. Some of them probably had nothing better to do that Friday or Saturday night. Or maybe it was the other crazies packed twenty to a tea chest that put them off? Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject: Aw! Why can't we all jes' getalong hic! Like the other who agree wiv me, hic! Here's a page of Pravda for ya allthesame...Hic! An anover thingk, I never thought that furstyle suited you, hic! Makes yer teef look big, hic! Where's me f-forklift? 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Florida-Georgia is still a big deal to them, even if neither team matters this year. But a Georgia coach cursing and grabbing his throat at UF's kicker before the gamewinning FG seems to have struck a nerve.
Bulldogs defensive coordinator Todd Grantham was captured on camera giving the universal choking gesture, just after Mark Richt had called a timeout to Florida's Chas Henry. Here are two angles:
As per the Gainesville Sun's Pat Dooley, the exact words were ""You're gonna fucking choke. You're gonna choke." We also would have accepted "this is what I would do to myself if I were named 'Chas.'"
Henry mentioned the gesture in his postgame interview, and Richt confirmed it today:
People do things they probably wish they didn't do, so I think that (the choke sign) was what was being communicated. I don't think he's necessarily proud of it."
That hasn't stopped the moralizing from message boards and from professionals who should know better.
"This is about right and wrong," writes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Jeff Schultz. "A 44-year-old college coaching grabbing his throat multiple times and shouting, 'You're gonna [bleepin'] choke,' at the opponent's 21-year-old kicker? Folks, that's wrong. It's over the line. It's not even a close call."
Over the line? There's a line now?
This is big-time college football. This isn't Pop Warner Pee Wee bullshit, where the goal is for everyone to have fun and then share a tray of orange slices after the game. There's nothing wrong with trying to get an edge by getting in the opponents' heads. Isn't icing the kicker a form of psychological intimidation too? Aren't having your fans cheer, and chant, and wear the same color all ways of trying to get to the other team?
So Grantham told Henry he was going to choke. Awesome. That's a coach who wants to win. We really have no problems with anything like this unless Grantham strode onto the field and literally choked Henry.
Oh, by the by, Henry nailed the field goal with no problem. Clearly this bothered people watching the game a hell of a lot more than it did Henry.


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A thick bad-luck cloud thundered across the state, raining down inexplicable sports losses last weekend.
The Seattle Seahawks, Eastern Washington and Washington State football teams and Gonzaga basketball team all saw near victories snatched away faster than Dorothy in a tornado in "The Wizard of Oz."
The Seahawks fell late to Arizona, 17-10, following a couple questionable reviews by officials that stayed in the Cardinals' favor last Sunday.
It's as if Al Capp's Joe Btfsplk (the world's worst jinx; last named pronounced like a "Bronx cheer") walked past the review station on an already overcast day, hailing on what should have been the Hawks' parade for home field advantage during the NFL playoffs.
If you remember, Btfsplk walked around with a perpetual dark rain cloud a foot over his head. Once he appears on any scene, dreadfully bad luck befalls anyone in his vicinity.
So when the field judge stepped back on the field following the last review of a turnover where the ball appeared to us mere mortals to have struck the ground, he looked ever so much like Btfsplk.
I swear I heard him say, "On further review, the Seahawks couged this game and don't deserve to win."
"There's some stuff that we certainly feel like griping about," Seahawk coach Pete Carroll said after the game. "But it isn't going to do us any good, so we're not going to."
In Cheney on Dec. 21, where snow replaced rain, Btfsplk went by the name of Towson University's backup quarterback, sophomore Connor Frazier.
Frazier splattered Eastern Washington University in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinal after replacing injured starter Peter Athens in the second half.
The Eagles led by 10 when Frazier strode onto the red turf and willed the Tigers to a score.
I am quite sure the snow-filled clouds over Roos Field didn't part when the Eagles failed to convert on fourth-and-2 at Towson's 29.
That left Frazier with 1:35 on the clock. The unknown signal caller scored on an aptly named sneak with 17 seconds to go and sent a collective gasp through the pro-Eagle crowd.
This is the second straight year that Eastern fell under a cloud and lost in an FCS semifinal game.
Last year the Eagles' wings were clipped, 45-42, by Sam Houston State, although in that game Eastern spotted the Bearkats a 35-0 head start.
This year Eastern came back from a 21-0 deficit to lead, 31-21.
The same day as the Eagles were tamed, Washington State fans surely threw a few choice "raspberries" toward the field at the Gildan New Mexico Bowl following Wazzu showing it's the champ at couging away a victory.
The Cougars led by 15 with three minutes to play. WSU coughed up a fur-ball (fumble) twice in the final minutes to lose 48-45 against Colorado State University.
The Rams trailed 45-37 with 1:51 left and without timeouts. They scored 11 points, including a field goal as time expired following the recovery of the second fumble on a WSU kickoff return.
Cougar coach Mike Leach sounded a bit like Porky Pig, reiterating why his team should remain aggressive late. We all know Porky often fell under the Btfsplk malarkey spell.
"I just think we could have selected things better," Leach said about questionable play calling late. "Thing is, we should have thrown it, attacked them and got first downs."
Radio announcer Bob Robinson, with WSU up eight with 2:10 remaining, broadcast that the Cougs should take a knee three times late, running out the clock nearly so and preserving the win.
"We shouldn't have messed with any of that," Leach said after the loss. "OK, fine, use the clock. We should have attacked them and got first downs, and then we should have protected the football."
Gonzaga on Dec. 21 went down in more ways than one in falling 72-62 to Kansas State in Wichita, Kan. The previously 21st-ranked Bulldogs (10-2) could muster but two points during an eight-minute span late in the fourth quarter against K-State.
When it rains it pours – the Zags appear to have lost center Sam Dower, the team's second leading scorer (14.6 points per game), to a back or hip injury.
"I liked how we fought through adversity when we lost a very important guy to us," Few said. "We took the lead there for a little bit in the second half, but we just couldn't get enough stops. We couldn't make enough plays on offense to get over the hump."
Let's hope Joe Btfsplk didn't rain on your holiday, and stays away from Washington state teams from all of 2014.
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I have a difficult issue to discuss on BreakPoint today. Thanks to Saturday Night Live, you may already know about it.
On the one hand, I was absolutely horrified—and angry—that Saturday Night Live ran a comedy skit about prison rape. There is nothing, repeat nothing, funny about prisoners being raped. On the other hand, the skit was so tasteless and appalling, that maybe, just maybe, people will stop a moment and think about the national scandal of prison rape.
A recent study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that more than 60,000 adult inmates and one in eight juveniles in custody had been sexually assaulted in the previous year.
Some people think that prisoner rape is an inevitable part of life behind bars. But it doesn't have to be. There are many well-run facilities across the country where it is being prevented—and this shouldn't be surprising. After all, the government has extraordinary control over the lives of those it locks up. And the government can use this same control to establish rigorous measures to stop sexual assault in its tracks.
Next month marks one year since the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission issued a strong report to the Department of Justice on the scope of sexual assault in our nation's prisons. The report also included practical policies to end it.
The commission took several years to do its work, holding hearings across the country and listening to hundreds of experts and corrections officials. Victims told about being vulnerable to predators; about how they were left to fend for themselves after brutal attacks. Dedicated corrections officials testified about how they tried to overcome systemic problems. The commission distilled these real-life experiences into a series of recommendations.
These recommendations focus on prevention, detection and response. In addition to zero tolerance, priorities include informing inmates that they have a right to freedom from sexual abuse, instituting more stringent hiring policies for correctional staff, using efficient methods of supervision, and banning intrusive cross-gender searches except in emergencies.
Unfortunately this effort to set standards and hold prison officials accountable has become bogged down in the bureaucracy at the Department of Justice. Attorney General Eric Holder has said he is committed to ending prison rape. But instead of taking immediate action, he is allowing his employees to spend another year reviewing the work already completed by the Prison Rape Commission.
In the meantime, more adults and juveniles in prisons are being sexually assaulted every day.
The attorney general has the authority to immediately move the nation's prisons out of the dark ages—where sexual assaults are winked at—and into a new era of zero tolerance for sexual violence. And unless the attorney general finds a compelling reason to alter them—and it's hard to believe he could—he must implement the proposed standards.
It's time to stop the laughing and get serious about ending rape in America's prisons. Whatever crime our nation's prisoners have committed, being raped is not part of their sentence.
Please write the attorney general today at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, and urge him to adopt the standards set by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.
Just Detention International
The Way To Stop Prison Rape
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Stop Prison Rape? The White House Says "Not Yet."
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Hours ago, the US labor union movement was dealt another crushing blow (the most recent being the recent liquidation of Hostess which left thousands of workers cold and unemployed just in time for Thanksgiving) when the Michigan legislature gave final approval to "right-to-work" restrictions on public sector unions in a state considered a stronghold of organized labor. In the meantime, over 10,000 protesters had gathered outside the legislature, chanted in the gallery, and generally expressed their displeasure quite vocally with this development that further set back labor in its endless fight against capital. As Reuters reports, "the House passed the measure making membership and payment of union dues voluntary for public sector employees such as teachers by a 58-51 vote. The only government workers excluded would be police and fire unions. The Senate approved the same bill last week so it will now go to Republican Governor Rick Snyder, who has promised to sign it into law."
Incidentally, these same workers would be better advised to direct their anger at Chairman Bernanke who has done everything in his power in the past several years to shift the balance of power far more in benefit of capital courtesy of ZIRP and zero cost of capital, which allows companies to cut as many workers as needed in order to pursue the almight bottom line dollar, while extracting unprecedented productivity gains out of those still employed, as workers no longer can fall back on savings and are forced to accept any labor conditions in a New Normal world in which living paycheck to paycheck is becoming the norm for most, and thus giving employers all the leverage.
But that is a philosophical debate for a different place. But for now, here are two short clips to serve as a harbinger of what may and most likely will happen in the US as labor unions are stripped of even more power in the coming months and years, showcasing their reluctance to go gentle into that good night. This is how close the US is from violence at any one moment.
Luckily, nobody was seriously hurt this time.
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When Delmar Watson died in October of last year, he left behind a collection of 20th century news photographs — mostly about people and events in Southern California. He and his five photojournalist brothers made most of the photos, but their uncle, pioneer news photographer George R. Watson contributed thousands of them (see "He Made the News Click" in an earlier posting). The collection grew even larger when other "photogs" donated or willed their collections. Read the rest of this entry »
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text: 4/25/11 Diet Droid: Lose the Fat Release Notes: This slimmed ROM was built off of Buryboi's 2.4.330 with 2.4.29 apks D2G Stock Deodexed ROM release. It will update your phone and Radio to 2.4.330. Since this ROM is not so much a custom ROM and more of a stock slimmed version, it retains much of the original feel that came with your D2G from the factory. Similar to removing bloat or freezing with clockwork, and has the addition of a few other apps removed. This is an alternative to removing bloat or paying for Titanium to Freeze things. Since it is still based on Buryboi's release, you should be able to flash his release without erasing data and it will get you back to stock to accept any OTA's that come along. This ROM will undergo slight tweaking when I find out what else can be removed. Blur does remain; most of you have voiced unhappiness with 3rd party dialer/sms/contacts. Once Diet Droid reaches its desired weight goal, strength training and toning will begin. I hope to incorporate AOSP and am currently in the process of editing images to Theme this. 4/25/11 Removed Apps: adminFeedNotifier Amazon MP3 BackupAssistanceClient Blockbuster Browser CarDock CityID Clockwidget DLNA DLNA system service Friendfeed GenieWidget Help Center HomeSyncWizard InPocketService Kindle MediaSync MessagesWidget Music Mynet MyVerizon NewsWidget Photowidget QuickcontactWidget Skype Mobile Social Messaging SocialShare Status Widget StickynoteWidget SyncML Vnav – VZW Navigation Weather Wideget Worldclock Youtube 4/25/11 Removed Frameworks com.blockbuster.moto.lib com.motorola.android.mediasync 4/25/11 Other Changes: Boot Animation is Android 4/25/11 r2 notes: r2 release has the radio and device tree updates removed. You will have to come from 2.4.330 for this to work properly. Most of you are already here so this is not an issue. If not, flash Buryboi's release or SBF and update to 2.4.330 or use first download posted here. These items being removed allowed me to cut down file size. Disclaimer: I nor anyone else on DF or on the GRD dev team claim responsibility if something goes wrong with your device or service. You understand the risks and by downloading and running this ROM you maintain all responsibility for your actions. Copy .zip to SD card. Charge your battery. reboot Use bootstrap recovery to install SD. I recommend wiping Cache/Data before install (isn't the point of a diet new beginnings), but in past tests I've learned this is not necessary. First time Boot animation will take a while, be patient, it will finish Diet Droid: Lose the Fat DL link: http://www.mediafire.com/?pfqe952u5dhmdbh Diet Droid: Lose the Fat r2 DL: http://www.mediafire.com/?twqlo8rk2o26obp Many thanks to Bikedude for pinpointing my error and saving me from trial and error later! Everything should work without incident. I just completed initial setup and it is syncing all of my apps from marketplace. Google is awesome


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You're done with your iPod, so you carefully coil the headphone cord around the player and stuff it in your pocket. The next time you take it out, however, you find that you have to unravel the cord and undo a knot before you can go back to listening to your music. In fact, it's pretty amazing how easily knots can form by themselvesnot only in headphone cords, but also in necklaces, coiled ropes, strings of holiday lights, hanks of yarn, or garden hoses.
A coiled headphone cord, once unraveled, is likely to contain a knot.
Two physicists at the University of California, San Diego recently decided to do some experiments to try to find out why knots form so easily in coiled strings. They looked at what happens when a long string is coiled into a box and the box is then tumbled.
The researchers, Dorian Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, found that complex knots form within secondsif the string is long and flexible enough. So, for a given stiffness, a string has to be a certain length before a knot will form. Moreover, the longer and more flexible the string, the better a chance it has of becoming knotted, especially when the string is tumbled or shaken for a long time.
This illustration represents the knot experiment, in which knots form in a tumbled string. Dorian Raymer, UCSD.
The researchers did the experiment over and over again: 3,415 times in all. Knots formed in the strings about one-third of the time. The biggest surprise came when the physicists used mathematics to identify the types of knots that formed in the strings. Mathematicians called knot theorists have described many different kinds of knots, according to features such as crossings (the number of times a string crosses over itself). The physicists found that their real-life model produced 120 different knots. In fact, their strings formed all of the possible kinds of knots with up to seven crossingsand seven crossings is quite a tangle.
Digital photos of knots are combined here with computer-generated drawings based on mathematical calculations. Dorian Raymer, UCSD.
Raymer and Smith say that knotting tends to start from one end of a string. As a string tumbles, this free end braids itself with strands lying next to it, weaving over and under adjacent segments to create a knot. The more braiding, the more complex the knot.
So, if your headphone cord is long, thin, and flexible (if?!), the chances of it becoming knotted are annoyingly high. Sigh.
Muse, March 2008, p. 18.
Articles for kids about math in everyday life, written by Ivars Peterson for Muse magazine.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – It's been more than 75 years since aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra vanished somewhere over the South Pacific yet the mystery of her disappearance made waves Wednesday halfway around the world in a Wyoming court.
A federal judge in Casper dismissed racketeering and negligence allegations on Wednesday in a lawsuit claiming an aircraft preservation group had found the wreckage of the plane but did not disclose it so it could raise more money for searches.
The judge did, however, leave fraud and misrepresentation claims intact and that portion of the legal action will proceed.
The lawsuit filed by Timothy Mellon, son of the late philanthropist Paul Mellon, claims the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery of Delaware and its executive director, Richard E. Gillespie, accepted money from Mellon to search for the plane after discovering the wreckage in 2010.
The defendants deny finding the wreckage in the waters around the Kiribati atoll of Nikumaroro, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.
Mellon, a resident of Riverside, Wyo., says he gave the group more than $1 million last year to help fund a search in the area.
Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1932. She was trying to become the first female to circle the globe when she and her navigator disappeared in 1937.
Lawyer John Masterson, who represents the defendants, declined to comment on the ruling, saying he was reviewing it.
At a court hearing in August, Masterson told the judge that Mellon's allegations amounted to a "factual impossibility."
Masterson said it was absurd for Mellon to argue the group had found Earhart's plane and kept the search going to fleece donors. He said an actual discovery could spawn movies, books and other lucrative ventures that would raise far more money than continuing the search.
Lawyer Tim Stubson, who represents Mellon, said he was pleased that U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl let some of the allegations stand.
"We're generally pleased," Stubson said. "This case has been really at its heart a fraud case, and the fraud and the negligent misrepresentation claims remain. So it leaves the door wide open for us to prove our allegations."
Mellon had asserted the recovery was negligent in failing to recognize the wreckage of Earhart's aircraft in underwater video it took on the 2010 expedition. Stubson said the video likely will come out in court in coming months.
Gillespie said in an interview after last month's court hearing that many experts have analyzed the underwater video and don't agree that it depicts the famous aircraft of Earhart.
Skavdahl noted in his ruling that the defendants had asked him to dismiss the whole lawsuit on the grounds that Mellon's allegations are, "so strained, so contrary to logical thinking and so contrary to the human condition as to warrant summary dismissal."
However, Skavdahl wrote that he can't dismiss a lawsuit only because it appears unlikely the allegations can be proven.
The judge quoted an earlier court ruling that stated, "A well-pleaded complaint may proceed even if it strikes a savvy judge that actual proof of those facts is improbable, and that a recovery is very remote and unlikely."
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By Lang Whitaker, NBA.com
VIDEO: CDR's game-winner
ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — It's been three weeks since we last fired up the Horry Scale, and in the time since, we've been mostly focused on the playoff race. As teams fought for position, somehow we had no game-winning buzzer-beaters that would require the Horry Scale to be utilized. Tonight that all ended, in the inked-out arms of Charlotte's Chris Douglas-Roberts, as the Bobcats knocked off the Atlanta Hawks, 95-93.
Before we get too far into this, we should stop and explain why we're here: What is the Horry Scale? For those who are new around these parts, the Horry Scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Kings-Pistons game?) and celebration (is it over the top or too chill? Just the right panache or needs more sauce?). Then we give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, the patron saint of last-second daggers.
One thing I'd like to clear up: The Horry Scale does not measure only a game-winning shot; the Horry Scale measures several facets of a Game-Winning Buzzer-Beater. So we're talking about not only the shot, but also the play that creates the shot, the situation and the drama, the celebrations … basically, everything surrounding and including the shot. So when I gave Randy Foye a 3 Horry rating, that wasn't only a reflection of his shot, which was admittedly remarkable, as I wrote, but also the play, which was awful. Taj Gibson's lefty layup wasn't the toughest shot, but that inbounds play was terrific. Basically, everything matters.
We all clear? OK, let's break tonight's shot down, our 17th Horry Scale entry of the season…
A runner over two defenders? Tougher than it sounds. We should say here that the Hawks weren't playing with a full deck, as they gave rotation members DeMarre Carroll, Kyle Korver and Paul Millsap the night off. (The Bobcats also limited the minutes of their key players.) With playoff berths secure for both teams, they seemed content to let some of their bench players battle this one out. That said, CDR was well defended, and his shot flew high into the air before splashing through the net.
Gary Neal and Sekou Smith's favorite player, Luke Ridnour, carried the Bobcats throughout the fourth quarter. But the Hawks rallied late after a 5-0 run from Shelvin Mack brought them within two, and then a jumper from Lou Williams with 2.6 to play knotted the game at 93. With the game tied, the Bobcats inbounded the ball on the side in front of their basket. With Martin Sargent-lookalike Josh McRoberts inbounding, the Bobcats sent Ridnour and Chris Douglas-Roberts running in a wide arc, as Al Jefferson set a pick and Gary Neal flashed to the corner. The Hawks covered all of this very well, and none of the initial options were open. With maybe a second left to inbound the ball, Douglas-Roberts flashed from the basline to the top of the key, and momentarily lost defender Lou Williams on a brush screen from Jefferson. CDR drove left, pulled up from just inside the free-throw line, and knocked down the game-winner over a recovering Williams and help defender Mike Muscala, with no time to play.
The celebration was mostly subdued. Gary Neal wrapped Douglas-Roberts in a bear hug in front of the Hawks bench, and even Bobcats sideline reporter Stephanie Ready got in a high five. it felt like both teams were more concerned with the playoffs starting later this week.
I'm going to give this one two Horrys. It was a nice shot, sure, but when one team doesn't care enough to have their best players in the game, it detracts from the fun a bit. Not that this should matter to Charlotte — they wanted to win and ran the best play possible for them to win it. Heckuva shot from CDR, no doubt. But all in all, I'm going two stars …
What say you? How many Horry's would you give Chris Douglas-Roberts' GWBB?


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In an overview of the southern pine beetle and related beetles last time, I mentioned that adequate spacing between pine trees increases the vigor of individual trees and reduces the risk of beetle attack.
In an overview of the southern pine beetle and related beetles last time, I mentioned that adequate spacing between pine trees increases the vigor of individual trees and reduces the risk of beetle attack.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, better spacing also improves wind flow beneath the canopy, which can disrupt the pheromone communication system of the southern pine beetle. In residential settings, the recommended spacing between pines is twenty feet or greater.
If you have a new property that is yet to be cleared or developed, or if you have an established landscape and have decided there is a need to thin the herd, deciding what to leave and what to remove can be a challenge. Following are three criteria to consider in selecting pines for removal.
You won�t always know if a pine or other tree is infected with a serious disease, but in some cases the pathogen presents helpful signs to grab your attention. Mushrooms, conks and similar structures found on the lower trunk, surface roots or emerging from the ground close to the trunk may indicate serious wood decay pathogens. Submit a sample or good digital image to your Extension office for identification.
Fusiform rust is a very common disease of loblolly pines in particular, and can affect the structural integrity of the trunk. Fusiform rust galls may appear on branches, or on the trunk itself. Watch for a distinct orange-yellow sporulation in the spring on galled, swollen, sunken or otherwise deformed places on the branches or trunk. Fusiform damage to the trunk presents a good argument for removal, especially if the tree is near a home or other critical target.
Structural defects
Old wounds that have resulted in decay, co-dominant stems, and leans that have developed following storms are examples of problems that can significantly reduce the structural integrity of large landscape trees, including pines. Visit the U.S. Forest Service�s Hazard Trees web page at http://na.fs.fed.us/fhp/hazard_tree/ for an excellent tutorial on the subject.
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Existing trees that you wish to retain during lot development and construction should be provided, at a minimum, with a do-not-disturb zone equal to one foot per inch of trunk diameter. This is rarely accomplished, and as a result the majority of retained trees on new properties have incurred significant damage to their root systems, and frequently the trunks and branches.
Further, the �construction danger zone� concept tells us that trees within 30 feet of a new structure are consistently damaged during construction, and should normally be removed. Longleaf and loblolly pines are also considered to have only medium-low resistance to hurricane winds, so it�s an interesting question indeed as to whether 60-foot tall pines should be situated within ten and fifteen feet of homes and other buildings.
History of damage could also include lightning strikes, trenching for utilities within close proximity to the trunk, and grade changes around the base of pines to accommodate new garden projects.
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What is a Webtop? Or: is Modu back in a bigger size?
I never liked Modu's jackets concept nor the tiny phone with the look of the 70's.
To me, one strong, sexy looking smartphone, that will gather all of my stuff without having to carry other things around seems much better than having a bag full of jackets and having to spend time switching between them.
But Modu is history now, and the one of the reasons is Android – an OS so powerful it can manage everything in parallel without having to use jackets.
Yesterday I learned a new term called: Webtop.
What is a webtop you ask? Here's something from EdutechWiki:
A webtop is a kind of rich internet application that runs in a web browser and that integrates various web-based applications, typically lots of different kinds of information feeds (via RSS), some virtual office applications, some social software such as Flickr or YouTube. You may add other RSS feeds and most webtops also let you add web widget code.
Oh, so a webtop is like Chrome OS! Is that it? An OS like environment which is all about internet browsing, and cloud based services - right?
Not exactly;
Motorola recently released a new Android SuperPhone called Atrix 4G. The SuperPhone is unique in the sense that it has some docking stations that changes the experience into a desktop-like environment presented on a wide screen.
Specifically when you connect the Motorola Atrix to a laptop dock or an HD Media Dock – the phone changes into an advanced mode, fully customized by Motorola, with a dual view: one presenting the phone (Android classic look) but hosted inside a MacOS like shell, with some shortcuts in the bottom and a large windows open for browsing and other day to day tasks such as emails, folders, and facebook.
Motorola seems to take their own course on this one as the Atrix is not related to ChromeOS in any way, although it's Android based. In fact, the browser itself is based on… FireFox… something which I'm sure could piss off someone in Google…
Here's a short video preview of the Motorola Atrix 4G and the "jackets" style docking stations that turns it into a webtop:
So now we know what a webtop is, and after seeing it in real demo it doesn't look bad. Is that the return of the Modu, only in different size? Can we call those docking stations or laptop dock – jackets? Will people actually carry a webtop with them when they can have a tablet instead?
I think that like any new technology which doesn't come from Apple, Atrix will probably fail to become trendy, but in two years from now, we may not have a real laptop anymore as everything will be stored and processed by our smartphones…
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What is a Webtop? Android Webtop, Motorola Atrix 4G, Android vs.ChromeOS, Webtop mobile


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Music Industry Copies Language Of Copyright Reformers In Pushing For Three Strikes
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Indeed. As lots of people are pushing back on dangerous plans to "kick people off the internet," ISPs have pointed out how costly such a three strikes policy would be for ISPs who are suddenly drafted to be copyright police. In response, the head of BPI, the major UK music lobbyist group, responded by charging that ISPs were relying on an obsolete business model. Seriously:
"BT is clinging on to an old business model which is supported by illegal downloading. That's not only unfair to artists and creators, but penalises BT's many customers who use the internet legally,"This implies -- incorrectly -- that file sharing is somehow a massive boon to ISPs. The very same ISPs who keep claiming they need to use traffic shaping to prevent any network from being overloaded by file sharing. It's pretty ridiculous to claim that ISPs are relying on file sharing as any sort of business model at all. A huge percentage of people have internet access, not because of file sharing, but because these days it's hard to get through life without an internet connection. Suggesting that they make their money because of file sharing is patently ridiculous. It's the sort of thing that a reporter should push back on, when an industry rep spews such nonsense.


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SKF Y-bearing take-up units are available as standard with two different housing materials and can incorporate most of the bearings provided in the section Y-bearings. For an overview of the variety of combinations available from stock, refer to:
table 1 for units with cast iron housings (fig. 1)
- table 2 for units with housings made of composite for SKF Food Line (fig. 2)
Other units can be composed by ordering the parts separately.
These units are typically mounted in take-up frames and connected by an adjustment screw.


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The University of Texas - El Paso
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The University of Texas - El Paso - Comments and Student Experiences
The academics here are horrible. Not only are they hard and not doable, but the professors are very bad. They do not know how to teach and usually very unapproachable. The work here is very hard. Comparing UTEP to Texas Tech, Texas Tech is an easier University academically. UTEP has to be the 4th hardest University in the United States. The exams are not what you study. You have to apply knowledge from as far back as 2nd and 3rd grade. The academics feel like busy work. All exams and less papers.
The faculty and staff here are so rude, mean, and very unhelpful. They are so unapproachable. You can not approach any faculty and staff without getting a rude reaction. I once called to ask about a class, just a simple question, and the secretary acted really mean and rude. Comparing the staff with the staff at Boston University, Boston University has far nicer and friendlier staff.
Everything is so overpriced. A bottle of water costs $5.00. A meal costs $15 at some food places here on campus. At Quiznos, you get charged for extra mustard or extra anything. The vending machines are always 95% of the time broken. I got charged $16 for trying to get a drink, and I never got a refund. That vending machine was broken. Also, if someone is near and they see you struggling with the outdated vending machines from the 70s, you will get laughed at.
The city of El Paso is a horrible city. Nobody likes El Paso. Everybody at UTEP hates where they are and hates El Paso. This place is a huge dump. It's old, dirty, full of rude people ruder than in New York or even in Boston, it's a city where making friends is impossible, and it's just hell. The air pollution is worse than in any of the Texas cities. There is nothing much to do, unless you have friends. I came to UTEP thinking I would make friends, but I am so friendless and so lonely. Not to mention too, all the group entertainment here like bars and clubbing are cliquish. You won't meet any new people at a bar or at a club here. All the girls are taken at a club. Speaking of which, if you are going to UTEP to meet a beautiful Mexican girl, think again. The girls at UTEP and in El Paso are the most stuck up in the United States. You won't meet your special someone, unless if your a girl, then there are plenty of guys to go around. I've been to events where I am the only single guy at this horrible place. Please anyone who wants to go to UTEP, please don't come here. Even UTPA in The Valley and Texas A&M International in Laredo are friendlier schools than UTEP. If you want Mexican culture, go to the South border. It's better there.
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Flycaptain Winter escape. 3rd episode has Texas
The official training spot of Team Aquafly. We are still working hard to finalize all the features of the Flycaptain app and wesite. We are perfectionist so all the details are very important for us. We finally got the Seadoo RXPX 260, installed the dual impeller and the ZR EMK, ready to rumble. @Damone has now all the power to deliver and share with us Flyboarder & Hoverboarder lovers with an unique content.
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Setting up your digital entertainment center
Believe it or not, the proper size and placement of your digital entertainment pieces can not only have an effect on the aesthetic of a room, it can determine how much you actually enjoy sitting on the couch watching that movie you've been looking forward to seeing. These tips will help you set up an entertainment center that will be enjoyable and will compliment the room.
- Size – The biggest television is not always the best one. In fact, a screen that is too large for a space, especially one you are forced to sit too close to, will compromise visual quality.
- Wall Placement – When hanging a flat screen don't judge the height based on standing there looking at it. Sit on the chair you will normally spend your time in and you will notice that the screen needs to be hung much lower for you to be comfortable.
- Hiding Wires – Nothing ruins an elegant room faster than wires hanging. If you are concealing wires in a wall, make sure that they have a UL-rating so there is no potential for a fire hazard. Don't want to tuck your wires in your wall? Use wire guards, they stick to virtually any surface and you can paint them to match the color of the wall.
To ensure that your digital entertainment center doesn't distract from the room, keep DVD players, gaming systems and remote controls tucked away neatly out of sight.


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Prayer for Educators
Jesus Christ, Lord of all learning, You sat in the midst
of the teachers and doctors, hearing their words and
questioning their conclusions.
Encourage all of us who teach Your people.
Help us to understand our place as mentors and figures
of authority. May we stand tall as teachers of human
dignity and purpose.
Give us grace to fill the emptiness we often experience
and the endurance to serve what may seem to be futile.
Let us enjoy with You the reward of a person made
whole, made wise through Your lasting intercession and
love. Amen.


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Stocks finished broadly lower Thursday, with the Dow closing below the psychologically-important 15000 mark, after gunshots were fired outside the Capitol building and as the government shutdown dragged into a third day.
(Read more: After-hours buzz: Facebook, Pfizer, Lexmark & more)
A female suspect was shot after she initially tried to ram her car into the White House gate, according to sources. She was then was chased by Secret Service for about 12 blocks near the Capitol and exchanged shots with police. The suspect also had a child in the car.
And at least one Capitol Police officer was injured, according to officials.
"At this time, both scenes (White House and Capitol) are secure…we have no information that this incident is related to terrorism or is anything other than an isolated incident," according to a U.S. Capitol police.
The House recessed shortly after indications of gunshots. Pennsylvania Avenue remained closed. The shelter-in-place order for House and Senate personnel was lifted at about 3pm ET after the suspect was shot.


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Whilst waiting for my friends to read the rulebook I created some game variants with extra rules/less rules for added mayhem.
Fat Princess: This is really just CTF but with a couple of extras in it
BrikArena: This is a lot more fun. A large boxed in arena forms the battlefield with each player's base at opposite ends. Every kill in the arena gets them gold which they can spend on items and units in the shop
EpicBrik: Not as cool as it sounds, EpicBrik is a one on one battle with a very unstable landscpae. The better the landscpae the better the game


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The initial Cataclysm changes for priests has now been announced. Some we were expecting, others may come as a shock, and some to be frank I don't really understand the explanation of their addition/removal. Lets see what Cataclysm will bring for Priests.
Heal: I hadn't really considered the addition/revival of another direct healing spell, but im certainly not going to knock it. This will offer us with a third viable direct healing spell and should fit in nicely between the Flash Heal (1.5s) and Greater Heal (2.5s).
Prayer of Spirit / Divine Spirit removed: With all the recent info on stat mechanics etc… it was inevitable that these would be removed. Essentially spirit will become a bread and butter stat in Cataclysm Healing and having it as an additional buff is unnecessary.
Radiance: I suspect the balancing for this talent may be ongoing for some time, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it reformed as a proc with an internal cooldown. Essentially every direct heal will cause an additional HoT. To little and its not worth having, to much and its overpowered… let the nerfs begin!
Power Word Barrier: This has been on the cards for some time and again how the mechanics and balancing of this spell are worked will be interesting. Personally I still think this will get pulled from the final release, although full credit to the devs if they can work a way of balancing this in grp/raid situations… It's a lovely concept, but the practicality of introducing it and balancing it are daunting.
Leap of Faith: Firstly, misleading talent name! When you get over the name and read the content, its quite an interesting addition to the priests arsenal. I can certainly see the benefit of having such a spell although not necessarily the need. I think introducing something like this may say more about the sort of content we can expect in the next expansion. PvP whores are going to love this though, but again working the mechanics so that it is not abused is going to be interesting.
I've read a few bloggers this morning hesitant of this talent, and for the record I don't disagree with them one bit. It is clear that this will be a useful utility, but it should not nullify the requirement for raid awareness. My primary function is to keep the raid alive, and whilst recovering dps from the fire may be included in this remit I am not there personal nanny. If you have agro on a mob I will save you, but if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time you will die! FACT!
Inner Will: This will give us a speed increase and reduces the cast of instant-cast spells by 10%. Down side, its either Inner Fire or Inner Will. Assuming they put something in the tree talents to upgrade this I would be quite interested in its situational functionality, although I suspect that 9 times out of 10 I will continue to use Inner Fire.
Chakra Effect: Ok, so they need to sort out a name, Matt has used Holy Form, which is as good as any, so I'll go with that. Essentially upon casting 3 consecutive types of healing spells, i.e. AOE, Direct, HoT, you will go into a holy state, which will vary depending on the heal consecutively cast. This could work as a boost to haste, increased ticks on HoT's, or maybe expanding your AOE to the whole raid… who knows, but im positively wetting myself at the prospect of this talent!
Other things to consider are the changes to mana pools, consumption and replenishement… The FSR is being removed, rightfully, replenishement talents are being worked and the word from blizz is that healing is going to be more fun, which basically means decision making is again paramount to the success of a raid!
Blizz has also coined the idea of lesser/Greater shields for disc(o) priests, i.e. you will have an uber shield which you will cast on the tanks and a lesser shield to bubble the grp/raid damage. Nice idea, could be a real mana drain though, and considering the above not sure what usage this will get.
There are a number of changes to shadow aswell, and whilst I will pass comment on some of these in a later post, I will generally leave this for the experts to mull over.
To conclude, there are some really interesting ideas coming out of this initial cataclysm preview, and I cant wait to get my teeth into some of them. One things for sure, Cataclysm will provide a new (fun) challenge for priests everywhere.


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Heard over a microphone accidentally left open in March, 2012:
"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." – American President Barack Obama.
"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir [Putin]." – Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev.
Just wondering: Are we just now learning what the two politicians were talking about? Did their unrecorded, private meeting go something like this:
Medvedev: We're planning to take over the Crimea and we'll take military action if we have to.
Obama: I don't care about the Crimea. Tell Vlad that as far as I'm concerned he has a free hand in the area. When you do make your move I'll have to make some noise, or course – talk tough, sound angry, maybe slap some meaningless sanctions on you. But that will be all. Please understand that such action by you now would be bad timing for me. American elections, you know."
Later, when the two reconvened on stage with the all-hearing, but unsuspected, microphone listening, "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
"I understand . . ."
— Don Frost, Davis


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NYT Pays Former CEO $24 Million To Go Away; The Paper Made $3 Million Total Over The Last 4 Years
from the something-isn't-adding-up dept
Robinson gets pension and supplemental retirement income valued at $11.4 million, performance awards of $5.39 million, restricted stock units worth $1.07 million and stock options worth $694,164, according to the company's proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. She will also earn $4.5 million in consulting fees for this year.Now perhaps you can argue that this is well deserved and negotiated. But here's a key data point found in the same article:
The payout to Robinson is equal to about 2.4 percent of the company's market value of $981.9 million, and exceeds the approximately $3 million the company earned in net income over the past four years. Not included in Robinson's exit package is her salary of $1 million for 2011, when Times Co. reported a loss $39.7 million.Okay. One argument you can make is that at least the NYTimes made some money over the last four years. But can we ask what kind of "performance awards" would make sense when the award massively exceeds the actual profit of the company? Similarly, what kind of "consulting fees" would make sense when those consulting fees also exceed the profit of the company over the last four years combined?


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Stroudsburg officials have approved two new zoning changes that will allow for taller buildings throughout the borough.
Stroudsburg officials have approved two new zoning changes that will allow for taller buildings throughout the borough.
The first ordinance creates a mixed-use district in the area of ShopRite, from Second Street to Washington Street, following Fulmer Avenue down to Fourth Street, which turns into McConnell Street.
It also creates an area of mixed-use on West Main Street near Stroudsburg High School.
The new mixed use district allows for buildings of up to 65 feet tall. Currently, buildings up to 50 feet tall are allowed.
The second ordinance creates a commercial overlay district in an area roughly from the five-points intersection near Kentucky Fried Chicken to the interborough bridge.
The area will retain its original commercial zoning, but developers can now opt into the overlay.
Opting in would allow them to build a structure up to 56 feet instead of 40 feet tall.
In exchange for opting into the overlay, the developer allows the borough council to weigh in on the building's layout and fa�ade.
Council members Matt Abell, Joanne Kochanski, Kathleen Lockwood, Eric Scelza and Mayor Charlie Baughman approved the ordinances at last Wednesday's council meeting.
Council President Kim Diddio and Councilman Neil Allen were absent from the meeting.
Councilman Boyd Weiss voted against the ordinances.
Christina Tatu


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A fun,energetic and bouncy track. Pianos, xylophone,brass,bass and drums provide among other instruments the drive and groove for the track.There are also some light strings present. A joyfull and simple melody is played over a cheerfull background. You can imagine kids playing and running. Perfect for adding a joyful vibe to your video, tv or even animated projects.
You also get a mp3 version of the track.


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SSP = Super Short Print (Common);
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