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There are times when I wish I wasn't as accommodating. Yet, I only have myself to blame for it. I try to do things with the best intentions, but sometimes things just don't work out.
In this case, it all has to do with my DPS specs. A while back now, I decided to change from feral cat DPS to a boomkin because the guild needed more ranged people. I volunteered, because I always wanted to try the spec out and see what it's like. One of the biggest problems is that I barely make it to the raids due to real life schedules, so in the end I didn't really do much to help the guild out with getting a ranged class.
Finding that I was missing being feral DPS, I decided to change my second spec (feral tanking, which I had not used once since I got the spec set up and reforged all the gear) back to a kitty and tried it out in a heroic to see how I would do. For comparison, as a boomkin I would average around 8-10k DPS – which is not very good at all – by any comparison for my gear level.
My first thought was: "Why in the world did I ever switch?"
After doing a heroic Zul'Aman, my average DPS for the entire instance was around 13.6k, and my highest was around 18k for Nalorakk. At first I thought it was just that instance, but after thinking more I realized that it's just something I'm so used to doing that it flows easier.
One thing I was really bad about as a boomkin was my DoT uptime. There were some fights where I was below 30%, because I just forgot to reapply it with being so focused on my regular rotations. Fortunately as a kitty, the DoTs that I use aer some of the most important parts of my rotation and come naturally. That in itself is a great way to make sure I don't slack.
Plus, I found I was getting bored with being a boomkin. There were definitely fun parts about it, but altogether I was finding that I was just there and not being very excited to instance or raid at all. Perhaps that's how I got my priest to 85 so quickly, because I just wasn't feeling it.
Whatever the case, I'm definitely back to being a feral DPS spec. I had so much fun with it through my first instance, I don't care how many rogues and other ferals I have to beat up to get my gear. As well, if I needed any other reason, the staff that Fandral will drop from Firelands in 4.2 turns cat form into a fire cat form. 'Nuff said. I'm back to a melee state of mind.
Moving On Up
I have mentioned before that I was working on a goblin priest for an alt, something I've wanted to do for a while. That priest is finally level 85, and heroic ready… but the process was a little bit different from the expected.
Originally, my thought was to try to level through the dungeon finder to work on healing skills as I had never healed on a priest before. It worked out well for quite a while until level 41, when I got too frustrated at other people and then decided to just take the plunge and quest with a shadow spec. This ended up being a good plan, as I now have the basics of both specs down.
The thing that was scaring me was the idea of healing Cataclysm instances. On my druid, I have done all of them multiple times (excepting the new Zandalari ones), so it wasn't that I didn't know the fights. I had the simple fear of failing at something that I set out to accomplish. Many times I've been in a group where there's been one member that was doing a very bad job at their role and I was afraid that one day I'd turn into them.
Once my item level was high enough – unfortunately heirlooms make this a bit difficult, as they're an item level 1 – I decided to give it a try. From when I first made my priest, I decided to use discipline as my healing spec since it looked like fun, and so far it has been. Having the multiple methods of damage prevention and utilities make it so I have more tricks up my sleeve, and hopefully will make the run go smoother.
All in all the regular instances went fairly well. It didn't stop me from being nervous through all of the runs, but at least we were able to make it through them. The hurdle now is the transition into healing heroics.
I've done a number of heroic runs with my shadow spec, getting drops and justice points to improve my gear before I try to heal them. As of last night, I am at the point where I think my gear is ready to go into a heroic. There are a few fights that I'm worried about that have high levels of damage, and whether I'd be able to cope with the stress.
Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of forgetting to use cooldowns at times. The biggest problems are two of the best cooldowns a discipline priest has: power infusion and pain suppression. Huge increase in healing throughput and huge damage reduction, and I forget to use them? I have to set up some power auras to help me remember, the same I did for my boomkin stuff.
My priest has yet to heal a heroic, but I think I'm ready for it. If not, that's why there's the option for a dual spec.
Outland and Northrend, redux
Here we are, 4 and 2.5 years after the content was released, and I'm doing a review of the Outland and Northrend areas of World of Warcraft. Timely reporting, right? In this case, it actually is – I just finished getting my former-lowbie priest up to level 80 and blazed a trail through the two former content areas. As I adventures through these places, I was reminded of things that I liked and things I certainly didn't like.
With heirlooms, I actually didn't go through all of the zones for each continent. (As an aside, I was using the heirloom shoulders, chest, cloak, weapon, and trinket.) Even without, I know that I could have skipped some areas. It is nice that the leveling process has been eased as time goes by through these old areas, as what was once the best part of the game is now some of the worst.
Outland and Northrend are now suffering the "middle child" disease, being forgotten and overlooked. Cataclysm brought us a completely redesigned Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms (less a few zones, coincidentally from Burning Crusade), and going from levels 1-60 in the "old" world is now very exciting and fun. Prior to Cataclysm, people would power their way through the Vanilla content so they could get to the better things in Outland and beyond.
Now the two continents are relics of an old design philosophy. Cataclysm has brought so many new quest mechanics and storylines that it's truly fun to play through the zones and see what all is going on. Outland and Northrend have many of the same thing over and over again with little deviation.
My progression through Outland started with Hellfire Peninsula, going through half of Zangarmarsh, and then finishing most of Nagrand before hitting level 68. With 25% experience bonus from heirlooms and an extra 10% from the guild perk, the levels flew by – so much that I was level 73 before hitting Zangarmarsh. I only did two instances, and that was my wife running me through Hellfire Ramparts and the Blood Furnace. This time I was going for efficiency in leveling, and wanting to get through as fast as I could.
One relic quest design that still exists in Outland is the amount of Elite/Group quests. Fortunately, as I was playing a Shadow Priest this time around it was actually fairly easy and I was able to solo a majority of them. There were the few that I needed help with, like Arazzius the Cruel and Durn the Hungerer, but more often than not I was fine.
Nagrand is my favourite zone from Burning Crusade. The looks of it were just amazing, along with very good questing design for the most part. However, this zone suffers from quest hub-itis. There are five places in the zone where you get quests (mostly), and three of them are in the same area – for the Horde side at least. This means that while you can grab about 7-12 quests at once, there's a lot of travel time involved from place to place. As much as down time is necessary to regroup and calm down, there's a lot of travel time involved in Nagrand.
All in all, Outland isn't a bad place – it's just boring to me. I've gone through Outland numerous times and it's still the exact same as it was when it first came out, with the exception of how long it takes to get through it. There are many great views, quests, NPCs, and other things to see along the way. I just ask that Blizzard update things to make them better. If someone has never gone through the continent before, I think they would enjoy it.
Going through Northrend was also a lot quicker than at first, mainly due to heirlooms and guild perk. I started in Howling Fjord, did all of Dragonblight and Zul'Drak, then about halfway through Storm Peaks is where I ended up hitting level 80. Through this I only did two instances, both through the LFD tool, coming up with Utgarde Keep and Halls of Stone (of course).
Normally in my quest to level alts, I end up getting stuck around the beginning of Northrend. I can usually make it through the first zone, usually Borean Tundra, but by the time I reach Dragonblight I get bored very quickly. In a WoW Insider Show, they had likened the province of Manitoba as being the Dragonblight of Canada, and I have to agree – Dragonblight is just boring.
As I said, I normally start from Borean Tundra so the first area I hit in Dragonblight is Agmar's Hammer. Since I started in Howling Fjord this time I did the Venomspite quests first, which is what I believe made the difference. It wasn't much of a change, but any change is welcome in boring content.
Similar to Outland, there were a number of Elite/Group quests that were out there. Also similarly, I was able to solo most of them and only needing help with the ones that had mechanics that were harmful to cloth-wearers. The travel time to get to different places still was a big factor, but not nearly as bad as Outland. By this time, Blizzard seems to have learned that people don't like having to fly somewhere for five minutes before getting to the quest objective.
During my initial time in Wrath, I didn't really have a favourite zone. This time, Zul'Drak really stood out to me – the story of an empire that wanted to fend off the Scourge so badly that they killed their own gods out of desperation. I would love to see the zone the way it was before, as the pinnacle of a troll empire.
Right now Northrend is still too fresh in my mind from Wrath. Cataclysm has only been out for five months, so it hasn't been long enough for me to get over it. The zone and quest design isn't bad, but I'm glad it's not the current one anymore.
Many times through my leveling experience, I was extremely thankful for the ability to have a flying mount. Originally, flying wasn't available in Outland until level 70 and in Northrend until level 77. Having to run through all the stuff before was painful enough, I am so very glad that I didn't have to do it again.
Last year I wrote up some retrospectives about Vanilla, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King. Going through the two expansion contents, I'm reminded about many of my original observations and my overall conclusion from them: I'm glad that I was able to play through them when they were relevant, but I'm very glad that it's the past. What's done is done, and I'm glad the game is moving forward.
It shows how much Blizzard has done to improve the game over time. Anyone who says that the game was better during Vanilla, Burning Crusade, or Wrath is a liar. The game as it is today is far more superior to the previous content. Blizzard will always improve their work.
I'm very glad to be back in Cataclysm content. Hyjal, here I come!
Power Auras for Boomkins
This post will be about two versions of Power Auras – the one that is built in-game from Blizzard, and the addon that inspired it: Power Auras Classic.
A while back, I had installed the Power Auras mod and played around with it. My raid leader had told me about it, and at the time my DPS as a feral cat druid was lacking, so I wanted to try whatever I could. I loaded it up, and very quickly became confused with it and didn't bother trying it again. Not too long after, Blizzard decided to incorporate their own version of the system into the game itself, with not nearly as much customization.
Basically, Power Auras is an alert system that can tell you a number of things. Things like a spell alert which is being cast on your target, when a cooldown is available to be used, or if a certain debuff is not on your target are some small examples. By using these alerts, it can make you that much of a better player by being able to focus on what you're doing without having to look at too many different places.
I personally use a combination of the spell alerts from Blizzard supplemented by Power Auras. I know many people who use one or the other, but out of sheer laziness I decided to go with what was given by Blizzard since it would be less work for me to set up. To set up the in-game spell alerts, simply go to Interface Options, the Combat screen, and enable "Show Spell Alerts" (see graphic at right). The opacity slider simply decides how transparent or not the alerts are.
There will be a number of pre-loaded things that will happen for certain events, such as Shooting Stars which procs and instant cast Starsurge. If you haven't used these before, it would probably be a good idea to use them for a bit so you know where they are on your screen and what they look like. If you don't like them then you can customize those events into Power Auras, and if you don't mind them like me you can leave them.
The spells that are covered by the Blizzard spell alerts are:
- achieving Solar Eclipse
- achieving Lunar Eclipse
- proccing Shooting Stars for an instant cast Starsurge
- proccing Clearcasting for the next ablility to cost no mana
In my opinion, why fix what isn't broken?
This is my Power Auras setup, which is nothing too fancy. I'm a big fan of doing as little as possible to clutter up my UI. Starting from the top middle and working clockwise, this is what the different elements mean:
- Starsurge off cooldown and available to use
- Insect Swarm is not on target
- Force of Nature (treants) off cooldown and available to use
- Starfall off cooldown and available to use
- Moonfire or Sunfire (depending on which Eclipse phase I'm in) not on target.
Between the base spell alerts and Power Auras extra information, I rarely ever have to look at my action bar to see if things are off cooldown, unless I want to see how much longer until I need to use it. I have other mods which tell me specific times on cooldowns that I have as well as duration left on the target, so between these different things I'm pretty much set.
If anyone has any suggestions on ways that I can improve my setup or things that I have missed, please let me know in the comments. I'm always looking to improve, and would love to hear from you.
Screenshot of the Week – May 7
It's still Saturday! Time for a SSOTW!
This is a great perspective of Zangarmarsh as I was flying through while leveling my Shadow Priest. It's still one of the best zones in The Burning Crusade content.
Melting Faces and Taking Names
Once upon a time, it was said that Shadow Priests can melt faces. After testing out this theory for myself, it turns out that the information presented was indeed correct. For the first time in my World of Warcraft career, I'm playing a "squishy" class without actually being squishy.
When Cataclysm hit, I had my sights set on making a goblin priest. I'm not sure why exactly I wanted to do that specific race/class combination, but it seems to be working for me so far. The first bit I decided to try to level entirely by using the dungeon finder, and it worked – for a while.
Levels 15-35 were fairly uneventful, with decent groups being able to go through a dungeon in a good amount of time without much drama. After that, it seemed every second group would either be completely full of idiots, or people who don't know what they're doing. If I was really fortunate, it would be a nice mix of both. I was really hoping to continue leveling through the LFD tool to work on my healing, since I would likely be doing this once I hit max level. However, this didn't end up happening, and at level 42 I decided to start questing again.
Unfortunately, since this character had been parked in Orgrimmar from levels 15 to 42, I didn't have any flight paths other than Bilgewater Harbour and Razor Hill. Thankfully I had epic riding skill, so the drive down to Dustwallow Marsh to pick up the Thousand Needles breadcrumb wasn't too big of a problem. I changed over to my dual spec of Shadow, and promptly began to melt the faces of Grimtotems, pirates, and anything else that stood in my way.
Since then there has only been one circumstance when I switched back to my Discipline spec for use, which was to heal a tank so we could duo Durn the Hungerer in Nagrand. Apart from that, I've only switched over to spend the talent points that I had earned. Fortunately, there hasn't been any need to do so.
While I was leveling my enhancement shaman I found I was able to solo most things, including some group quests which I had never been able to do before. Out of curiosity, I decided to try this in Hellfire Peninsula on my priest. I had gotten the feel of the class by this point, and was comfortable in what to do for an elite mob. After some preparation and making sure I had the proper buffs, the giants for the Colossal Menace quest were destroyed efficiently.
I was honestly quite shocked – a clothie that can solo group quests this easily? It was different from what I had expected. (For the record, I have leveled a Warlock previously and they did well for group quests – but having a Voidwalker or Felguard will help quite a bit! Warlocks aren't that squishy, but I don't have any experience with one since originally leveling through Outland back in Burning Crusade.) Not having a pet or something to tank an elite mob, while I was able to still do very decent damage and have self-healing… it was a nice feeling.
Going through Outland, I was able to solo all group quests in Zangarmarsh and Nagrand (with the exception of Durn). In my brief time in Howling Fjord I've been able to solo the one group quest that has come up which has always presented me with problems on other characters, which is March of the Giants – elite giants who do heavy damage, along with a hard-hitting damage over time debuff placed on you. Fortunately a priest's arsenal includes Dispel Magic, which saved my hide a number of times through the course of that questline.
I was able to hit 70 before completing the quests in Vengeance Landing and Camp Winterhoof in Howling Fjord the other night. Originally, I was expecting to level by healing the dungeon finder groups I found with a Discipline spec. I'm extremely glad that I decided to make the switch.
It will be interesting to see how things go through Northrend and Cataclysm content. I'll be wanting to get more healing experience, but being able to melt faces is just so much fun. Rolling this priest as an alt seems to have been a very good idea.
Objective Complete
The past two weeks have been an interesting time for me. Three different long-time goals that I have had have been achieved, and I'm a little bit lost. These are not just small things, but goals that I have been working on for years.
Four months into a new expansion, and I'm already bored. I'm a Loremaster of Cataclysm, I got exalted with the factions that give me the best gear upgrades that I need, and I do my daily heroic when I have the time. I've become exalted with Hellscream's Reach in Tol Barad and have my awesome dragon from them, and I dread having to grind the daily quests again to get another item.
My long-time goals that I have completed are not even from Cataclysm, but actually from Burning Crusade. I was able to get exalted with the Sha'tari Skyguard and get the Nether Ray flying mounts, and as a result of that also getting exalted with Ogri'la (again for both – I got this on my Paladin back during BC). Shortly afterwards, I finished up the grind to get exalted with Netherwing and get all the awesome dragons.
Finally, this past Sunday I completed a goal that has eluded me for quite a while. Every day for a long time, I would venture into the lair of this foul beast and slay it in hopes that it would drop itself for me to ride upon as a trophy. At long last, it finally happened. I was excited, had a bit of a gasp as I motioned for my wife to see the loot window, and learned the Raven Lord mount.
But… now what?
I do stuff in-game as mentioned before, but it's not really keeping me entertained. Lately I've been working on my goblin shadow priest alt and have been enjoying it greatly, but it's only a matter of time before I run into the same problem as I have now. I get the priest to 85, run dungeons until I'm raid ready, raid until I have all the gear, but then will I want to do all the extra stuff I've done already on my druid? I highly doubt it.
This is the classic symptoms of burnout. The game isn't as enjoyable as it was and I'm trying to find things to keep me occupied. At the moment, the priest is doing the job of keeping me busy and getting a sense of accomplishment. My main character is sitting in Orgrimmar building up cobwebs, which is dusted off once a week to raid.
I've definitely been cutting down on my playtime lately, and trying other games. I recently bought Magicka on Steam and have been enjoying it greatly. It frustrates me many times as I find new and exciting ways to get my character killed, but still lots of fun. Portal 2 just came out, and I'm hoping I can find a way to get it soon.
Looks like I'll be scaling back on my WoW time. This isn't a bad thing, as when 4.1 comes out and there's new features to the game I'll be rested and ready for them.
Ways to Suck Less
One of my gaming New Year's Resolutions was to suck less. Unfortunately, this resolution hasn't been something that I've been the best at keeping. Fortunately I'm not failing completely, but I'm still in the process of learning my new role as a boomkin, so there is still that curve to adjust to. I was giving some thought to ways that I can improve, and I came up with the following three points:
1. Use cooldowns appropriately
Abilities have cooldowns for a reason – a decision has to be made as to when the most they will be the most beneficial. Don't just use a cooldown when it's up, make sure that it is put to the best use possible. Using Starfall in conjunction with Lunar Eclipse is an example of a small thing that can help boost damage without needing to do too much extra work. Along the same line, using Treants during the air phase of a dragon encounter isn't really the best timing.
2. Many abilities, handle them!
I'm guilty of forgetting to use certain abilities, but at the same time I use certain others that my raid leader has looked at the combat log and said – "… and you threw in a few random typhoons, I see?" Basically, don't forget what is available. My personal problem is forgetting to use Wild Mushroom, as I started out as feral and always thought it wasn't a very good ability to use. The damage was low, the mana cost was high, it was useless. Then Magmaw came around, and I was told in no uncertain terms that I could have used them to help with the adds.
3. Be situationally aware
Again, with my switch from melee to ranged damage, this is a big key for me. Know what is going on around you at all times, and what could happen to you. Good practice for this is the first boss in Deadmines, which gives the achievement "Ready for Raiding" for a reason: if you avoid all the junk that he deals, it's a good indication that raiding is on the way for you.
These three simple things will help anyone raid better, and hopefully I'll be able to remember these things as well. Any class can benefit from these tips, once I have more experience under my belt I'll try to make one that's more boomkin-specific.
Rethinking Raiding
I mentioned previously that I was mulling the idea of switching from my usual melee DPS role to that of ranged DPS. Gradually over time, I've been building up my gear and getting to a raid-ready position so I wouldn't suck too much. After all of my preparation time, Tuesday arrived and gave me the first taste of raiding from a new standpoint. Over three years of thinking from a melee standpoint is out the window, time to rethink and relearn how to raid.
At first, I forgot how much of a change that it was to change roles. Instead of staring at the rear end of the boss the whole time, I get to stay safely away from its cleaves and bad things. Over the past years I haven't had to worry about anything that happens at range, so I was quickly educated on how not safe I actually was. The bosses we went through in just over two hours on Tuesday night gave me new perspectives of what I mostly knew already.
Making Decisions
I hate making decisions with a passion. I truly do not like choosing something and being stuck with it, out of fear that it wasn't the right thing to do. This ranges from the very small things like what to have for meals (ask my wife, she'd be more than happy to elaborate) and things to do, to very big things like buying a house, making a large purchase, or having kids. I like to think, think again, then think even more about all the options and choices that are out there. Even once I'm sure I know the right thing to do, I sometimes still hold off on making that decision.
Previously I've mentioned that I'm an altaholic. This definitely stems from my indecisiveness, as it gives me something to do that's different without having to worry about making a big change for my main character. Even choosing a main character for myself was a very difficult thing to do for a while during the Burning Crusade expansion, as I was enjoying three different classes in different ways. I'm now faced with a similar choice as I was back then, which is how to enjoy playing my main character.
One of my favourite posts that I've written was all about my gradual shift from caster classes to melee classes over the years. To this day, a majority of the classes that I play are melee, and I've found that I have more fun with them. A shift in our guild has had me thinking about changing it up a bit, to try something that I've always wanted to do but never really had the chance to pursue it fully.
The mythical crit-chicken, the boomkin, the oomkin: the Moonkin.
Over the years I've tried the spec a few times, with not the best success. The first time was due to the old eclipse mechanic and the rotation – I just couldn't get the hang of it. The second time was at the end of Wrath after 4.0.1 came out and the talent trees changed, but my gear wasn't very good and my damage suffered because of it. Now, with the updated talent trees along with better gear, I'm getting into the groove of it.
My feral druid damage is quite good. Not the best, but on a single-target DPS race I can get in the top three consistently. The problem with changing specs and gearing up again is that there's the curve where the damage dealt is not nearly as good, and it can be quite disheartening. Fortunately with every heroic that I run, if I'm not getting better gear from drops I am at least saving up for more gear from Justice Points. Right now I still have a few green and blue quest rewards, and a few crafted pieces as well – nowhere near the best gear that I can get.
For the first few heroic runs, I find that I'm having fun with it. To be honest I was almost hoping that I would not like it, just so that I would convince myself to stay with the way things are right now. My overall damage and DPS is decent for the heroic tier, nowhere near ready for raiding, but enough to be competitive.
This means I have to make another decision. Do I help the guild out by giving them a boomkin, since we have no leather casters? If I do, do I keep my second spec as feral DPS or do I try tanking again? Making decisions truly is not my strong spot. Any advice people can leave in the comments is truly appreciated.


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Acerca del autorAdrian Kleinbergen
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Adrian Kleinbergen (born 1961) is a Canadian artist, born in Edmonton, Alberta. Along with drawing and painting, he does jewelry design and manufacture, sculpture, caricature, writing, costuming, and even magic. He started in comics in 1987, penciling, inking and coloring Starstone and Darkewood for Aircel Publishing in Ottawa, Canada. He ran his own publishing company, Ground Zero Graphics, which published The Shadowalker Chronicles in 1991 (Starstone, Darkewood, and The Shadowalker Chronicles were created and written by Gordon Derry of Ottawa, Canada). Kleinbergen was the primary artist and a columnist for the national magic magazine, The Servante. He was one of the original artists for On Spec and Neo-opsis magazines, doing both covers and interior art. Kleinbergen's most recent comics project is the 2001 graphic novel, Frontiers, written and drawn by him and published by MU Press. Kleinbergen has also worked as a professional comics inker for a variety of magazines and artists.
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An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
Introduction | "R" Reading | Curse of the Pharaoh | End-of-the-World Prophecies
Index | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
Borley Rectory Known as "the most haunted house in England," this very substantial residence of the parish rector, Reverend Henry Bull, was built in 1863. The first occupants of the house began reporting seeing the ghost of a nun, then a phantom coach and two black horses. Subsequent residents were frightened by strange whispering noises, creaks on the staircase, ringing bells, and a light that was periodically seen, from the outside, in the window of an empty upper room.
In July 1929, when the fourth resident rector moved in, he reported that in addition to the usual ghosts encountered on stairways and in hallways, spirit writing had appeared on the walls and pebbles were raining down on the house. He managed to bear all this for six years, then moved out. He had children.
Borley Rectory lay empty for more than a year, until the celebrated ghost hunter Harry Price took up residence in 1937 and arranged for colleagues to live there in shifts. The phenomena began increasing dramatically in scope and magnitude, dishes being smashed, sleepers being thrown out of bed, and strange artifacts such as a ring and an old coat "materializing" in unused rooms.
In February 1939, an upset oil lamp ignited the old home (a poltergeist event, perhaps?) and it was reduced to ashes. Price's investigations and reports continued, even over the ruins of the building, for several years afterward.
In 1955, the London Society for Psychical Research (SPR) issued a 180-page report following an extensive investigation of the Borley phenomena and concluded that there were no related events that could not have had rational explanations. More importantly, the report concluded that the most impressive phenomena had been produced by Harry Price himself.
One event, the light seen periodically in the upper window, was explained by the fact that it coincided with the approach of a regularly scheduled train nearby. The locomotive headlight was reflected, for a few seconds, in that window.
Still a favorite haunted house story in England, the site is visited regularly by curiosity seekers, and current phenomena are still reported to be connected with the nearby Borley Abbey.
See also poltergeist.
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Against "Ground and Pound" Sentimentality
In the wildcard thread, in the course of explaining why you can't build a winning NFL team around a running game, I reiterated in passing that the Browns were idiots to trade up to take a running back with a top-3 pick. Given that the Browns, in exchange for the additional draft picks and $5+ million this year received replacement-level running, had another terrible year, and everyone responsible for picking Richardson has been fired, I didn't think this would be terribly controversial. But because Brien Jackson, while sabermetrically inclined in baseball, is apparently a Murray Chass-style sentimentalist in football it was:
Somebody else would have traded up to get him at #3.
If the Browns had come out of the draft with Richardson AND Wilson, I think we'd have a pretty damn different outlook on their future.
He was "low impact" for a guy who was injured all year and had a shit quarterback. Also, tell the Ravens, Vikings, or Texans that running back is a "low impact" position.
To deal with the silly argument first, it may be true that somebody else would have traded up to trade Trent Richardson, but I trust that the irrelevance of this question is obvious. ("If the Jets didn't trade for Tebow, the Jaguars would have! If Dave Littlefield didn't trade for Matt Morris Bill Bavasi might have!") The question is would a competently run organization not merely waste a top-3 pick on a running back but waste additional draft choices for the privilege? I would submit that the answer is quite clearly "no." Would Bill Belichick make that move? Sure, right after he resigned to be Charlie Weis's defensive coordinator.
Anyway, there are two reasons that the pick doesn't make any sense, and both are important to an understanding of contemporary football. First, running backs are inherently unpredictable and inconsistent. To quote Barnwell again, "Of the 14 running backs who have been taken in the top five since 1990, only a handful have delivered on their promise. Most have flashes of brilliance mixed with injuries, which is exactly what you get from guys like Jerome Harrison, who cost nothing." Brien is right that Richardson was injured in the second half and is capable of better, but that's the point — because of the pounding they sustain the performance and availability running backs varies wildly. There's no reliable way of identifying elite runners, and even those who reach that level tend not to sustain it.
And yes, yes, Tom Brady went in the 6th round — but this is mentioned so often because it's the exception. The best QBs in the league — the Mannings, Rodgers, Griffin III, Luck, Ryan, Roethlisberger — are generally first round picks. This isn't at all true of running backs. And Brees and Wilson, aside from Romo the most obvious exceptions, are classic Moneyball inefficiencies — guys who projected as good NFL QBs who fell in the draft because a lot of scouts thought they didn't look like NFL QBs. (It's not coincidental that the Browns believed in this line of old-school bullshit too.) If you know what you're doing, projecting QBs isn't unusually difficult. Moreover, once you discover a hidden gem like Tom Brady, he generally stays good every year, while top running backs don't.
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L-Acoustics US recently awarded several of its independent representative firms for outstanding service during the 2006 calendar year. Paul Freudenberg, L-Acoustics vice president of sales and marketing, made the announcement and presented the awards.
Pros, Inc. of Vancouver, WA took top honors by receiving L-Acoustics' Rep of the Year'award. According to Freudenberg, "Steve Armstrong of Pros has had to deal with a detached retina, which is certainly a challenging health crisis, and yet he still completely stunned us in terms of his exceptional sales performance and customer support last year. In our opinion, he is an absolute rock star in the world of pro audio and we're elated to name him as our Rep of the Year for 2006."
L-Acoustics ' "Le Grand Poisson" (French for "The Big Fish") award went to Clinton Muntean and Doug Lettsome of Melbourne, FL-based Mainline Marketing. "Typically, this award recognizes a huge project that that shows up and seems to just 'land in the boat'," says Freudenberg. "But to Mainline's credit, this year's award, which recognized our dV-DOSC install at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, was really the result of a lot of hard work, both internally and externally, and we are most grateful to them for it."
Furthermore, awards for Outstanding Sales Achievement were presented to R. Joseph Group (Rob Joseph), Champion Enterprises (Paul Tillman), Western Audio (Mike Klickstein and Dave Weidenhoffer), and Warman Marketing (Harry Warman), while L-Acoustics' Most Improved Territory award went to Pro Media Marketing
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PATCHOGUE and BROOKLYN, N.Y. – JULY 1, 2013 – St. Joseph's College (SJC) is pleased to announce the introduction of a Bachelor of Science in Human Services degree to its undergraduate programs on both its Brooklyn and Long Island campuses for the 2013 fall semester. Previously, this degree was listed as the Bachelor of Science in Community Health and Human Services, but has since been augmented to respond to the educational and experiential needs of field practitioners.
"This new degree definition, Human Services, will help many more adult students pursue their careers in the public and private sectors of Long Island," said Carolyn Gallogly, associate professor and department chairperson for the B.S. in Human Services.
The B.S. in Human Services degree was designed to provide students with knowledge and experience in such disciplines as advocacy, assessment, interviewing, group facilitation, counseling skills, case management, program development and program evaluation.
For completion, the program will require a minimum of 128 credits with several required courses including: Principles of Counseling, Introduction to Course Management, Group Dynamics and Writing for Effective Communication. There is also a field experience requirement that can be achieved in a variety of ways based on the student's interest and capability.
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St. Joseph's College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in more than 29 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs.


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|Richard Ward Griffis
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A son of Richard Griffis and Helen Fleming Griffis, he was born in Delphos. His parents preceded him in death.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy E. (Weber) Griffis of Aiken; three daughters, Margaret Griffis of Asheville, N.C., Catherine (Drew) Bergwall of Suwannee, Ga., and Mary Hall (George) of Palm Harbor, Fla.; a brother, J. Craig Griffis of Toledo; two sisters, Helen Diane Youngpeter of Fort Wayne and Terri Elaine Massa of Columbus; and six grandchildren, Alec Hall, Ian Hall, Nathan Hall, Riley Hall, Charlie Bergwall and Bitsy Bergwall.
He was also predeceased by a brother, David Griffis; and a sister, Frances Lynn Davis.
After serving in the US Army, Mr. Griffis graduated from Ohio State University in 1963 and then began a career in the automotive industry as a production control specialist. He was a member of the American Inventory Industrial Society. Retiring from the John Crane Group in 2000, he moved to Aiken with his wife, Nancy.
Richard was an avid golfer and played "all the big courses." Once retired, he began working as a caddy at The Augusta National Golf Club, the Sage Valley Golf Club and the Woodside Plantation Reserve Club. He was a former communicant of St. John The Baptist Church, Delphos, and currently was a communicant of St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, Aiken.
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Friday at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, Aiken. Due to "Aiken's Makin," friends are encouraged to park in the George Funeral Home parking lot and walk to the church. Interment will be private.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 211 Park Ave. SW, Aiken.
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Sure, Arizona Cardinals head coach raved soon after he was hired about running back Ryan Williams, the 2011 second round draft pick that has had his first two NFL seasons end in injury. However, the actions the Cardinals took in the offseason speak louder, saying that they are not going to count on him. They signed Rashard Mendenhall and then selected both Stepfan Taylor and Andre Ellington in the NFL Draft in April.
Many fans have written him off, calling him a bust.
Matt Williamson, a former scout for the Cleveland Browns and currently a scout for ESPN, is kind of in the same boat -- he sees the talent, but would be willing to give him up in a fantasy football dynasty league for a 2014 second round pick. You can tell that he feels conflicted about it.
Here is what he tweeted Thursday:
@SigmundBloom @Cianaf @Ryan_Boser I agree Sig...still SO young and I loved R Williams coming out of college, but I take early 2nd for him— Matt Williamson (@WilliamsonNFL) July 19, 2013
And I do throw last year's tape of R Williams out the window...worst run blocking team ever and FAR from 100% healthy— Matt Williamson (@WilliamsonNFL) July 19, 2013
Not a Doc here, but I think LeShoure & J-Stew are "Broken"...is Ryan Williams as well?— Matt Williamson (@WilliamsonNFL) July 19, 2013
The first point made by Bloom does make a point. His only failure has been to stay healthy. And his injuries are not the nagging type.
The point Williamson makes about his 2012 tape is telling. He called the 2012 Cards the worst run blocking team...EVER. That actually makes me appreciate the two 100+ yard games by LaRod Stephens-Howling even more.
Which camp are you in? Do you believe that Williams still will show his talent and make an impact in the league? Or with his injuries, are you ready to give him up?
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- Understanding why the 2013 Arizona Cardinals are looked down upon
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Date: Apr 8, 2006
The Vikings' coaches and players started the process of getting to know each other with their first minicamp sessions Friday.
Three months and one day after being named coach, Brad Childress saw his team on the field for the first time as the Minnesota Vikings opened a three-day mini-camp at their Winter Park facility in Eden Prairie.
"It feels great,†Childress said after the first morning session on Friday. "Just like I told those coordinators that are used to hustling around when the horn blows to their position, it is always different when you are walking around and you're responsible for everything and not responsible for just running down with the quarterbacks or wide receivers. You're got to find your niche there.â€Â
Childress' coaching staff includes two first-time coordinators in Darrell Bevell (offense) and Mike Tomlin (defense). The Philadelphia Eagles' offensive coordinator for the past seven seasons, Childress' initial focus will remain on that side of the ball as the Vikings make the switch to a version of the West Coast offense.
That leaves the 33-year-old Tomlin in charge of the switch to the Cover-2 scheme on defense. Tomlin learned the system, known as the Tampa-2, working as the defensive backs coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tomlin's enthusiasm was one of the things that stood out in the first mini-camp. Constantly encouraging and prodding his players, defenders were encouraged to pick up any loose footballs and head for the end zone.
The biggest question mark for the defense coming out of the camp is at linebacker. With veteran Sam Cowart having departed for Houston, Dontarrious Thomas and Napoleon Harris both saw time with the first team at middle linebacker. Thomas was used in passing situations last season and Harris, obtained in the Randy Moss trade from Oakland, was a non-factor for much of the year.
The Vikings want to give both a chance because of their speed but it's arguable whether either one is ready to hold down a starting spot, much less playing in the middle.
Some had thought E.J. Henderson might get a chance in the middle, a spot he played in 2004 before being shifted outside last season, but he remained outside. Ben Leber, a free-agent pickup from San Diego, has moved into the other starting spot.
The Vikings will be relying on the draft to acquire more help at linebacker. Until then, Childress wants the opportunity to see what he has at linebacker and who can play where.
"Position flexibility is really important for guys to be able to play over the tight end, be able to play out in the air,†he said. "Part of our evaluation process is not only looking at them on tape last year and not trying to have any preconceived notions, but it's also watching them practice, watching them learn and then watching them with your own eyes out here and coaching the stuff that is part of your system. We're having all of those guys be flexible.â€Â
Receiver Marcus Robinson was not present at the Vikings' Winter Park facility for the opening of the team's off-season training program but was in attendance for the mini-camp. Robinson elected to spend more time with his family in Chicago but has worked with a personal trainer.
The Vikings plan to have punter Chris Kluwe serve as the holder for new kicker Ryan Longwell this season. Brad Johnson served in that role last season, but with the veteran now starting at quarterback the coaches feel Longwell and Kluwe have a better chance of getting a rhythm together.
Three players have switched numbers. Cornerback Fred Smoot went from 27 to 21, taking the number that had been worn by Corey Chavous. New left guard Steve Hutchinson will wear 76; backup guard Chris Liwienski has switched to 67. Receiver Troy Williamson will return to wearing 82, which he had in college at South Carolina. Williamson, the seventh overall pick in the draft a year ago, wore No. 19 as a rookie. Former Viking Keenan Howry had No. 82 last season before being released.
Anthony Herrera played right guard with the first-team offense but coach Brad Childress indicated that not much should be made of that.
"We are rolling a number of guys through there and we're asking them to be position flexible,†he said. "We're asking guys to play tackle that normally play guard and see if they have an aptitude that way. We're rolling a number of guys through there. I wouldn't make too much of him being the starter.â€Â
Matt Birk was back at center for the first time after missing all of last season following surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left hip. Birk has spent hours at the Vikings' facility getting ready for his return. "He did everything that we asked him to do,†coach Brad Childress said.
Fran Foley, the Vikings' vice president of player personnel, is scheduled to meet this week with vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski, coach Brad Childress and director of college scouting Scott Studwell to meet about their draft philosophy.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Other than looking through a purple facemask, the transition was smooth.† New Viking and former longtime Packers kicker Ryan Longwell after his first mini-camp in Minnesota.
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Lake Front Cottage w/Dock in Lake George
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We are located in the northern basin of Lake George. This vacation home fronts on the inner bay of Gull Bay. There is a large lawn area for kids to play along with a shaded deck and picnic table. There is a boat slip included in rental with swimming off the same shared dock (only 2 others).
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In early 2011 we consolidated offices into the new County Operations Center (COC) located in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego.
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The community edition of Nexentastore, an Open Solaris based storage solution, has been released in version 3.0.
Thanks to the Open Solaris b134 code, the new version includes in-line deduplication for the ZFS file system. Quotas for users and groups are available and the administrator interface has been improved.
Use of the Community Edition up to 12 Tbyte is free. The current version can be upgraded to Community and Enterprise versions.
The Nexentastore Community version 3.0 is available as CD and VMware image for download, and a Xen image is due to follow shortly.
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EA's Battlefield 4 reveal was impersonal, cold, and uninspiring… but look at how pretty it is
The Game Developers Conference is filled with talented people speaking passionately about interesting projects. It's also a place to do business, and to argue about the best ways to make money in the video game industry. You can also simply hang out and pick the brains of some of the most interesting people in gaming. It's hard to spend time here and not be inspired by the company around you.
If you're EA, you can also show off the first footage of a game in the flashiest, emptiest way possible.
The Battlefield 4 reveal has suffered leak after leak, and in fact many of us were watching a leaked version of the trailer in the theater before the actual reveal took place. This makes the flashlights EA representatives were shining in the eyes of the press to make sure there were no hidden video recorders in the audience even sillier than they would normally be. Any damage had already been done: People knew the game in question, and were dissecting some of the content that was supposed to be a surprise.
It doesn't matter, as the video we watched is embedded in this post. You can take a look for yourself. The Frostbite 3 engine is beautiful, and of course the person driving the demo looked around as if their eyes were a camera, making sure the audience saw every special effect and explosion in detail. The game looks like most other war titles, outside of the next-generation engine, complete with scripted events and impressive set pieces. I'm reminded of the trailers for Battlefield 3 that did so well on YouTube and at press events, but if you remember the quality of the Battlefield 3 campaign you may be skeptical about the final product here as well.
The developers dropped buzzwords afterwards. This is going to be a human story, and we'll feel like we're right there, cutting off the legs of soldiers and narrowly escaping drowning in a sinking car. There will be persistent social features, which is a statement that should scare the shit out of you. They will talk about the multiplayer features later. After we watched the video we were escorted to the top of the Metreon in San Francisco, where we enjoyed the sight of the city's skyline and ate fried macaroni and cheese balls skewered with wooden sticks.
The food was enjoyable. We were all given badges that said VIP. We were all equally special, and completely replaceable. We weren't here to report, we were here to drink free drinks, talk, and then later dutifully post the video we had just watched.
It was a reveal event utterly devoid of news, outside of a trailer that we could have watched on YouTube from our hotel rooms. It was stressed to us that the game would be "human, dramatic, and believable," and this was said with a straight face after we watched a building fall on top of someone who survived the encounter. There will be Battlefield 4 news dripped out at future events and the game may even be good, but our first look at what seems to be an uninspired if technically proficient war game was impersonal, code, and by the numbers.
My ears are still ringing.


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She was preceded in death by her husband, Rufus Handley; brother, Joseph William Burgess; sister, Inez Head and parents, Joe and Louise Burgess.
Survivors include her children, Susan L. Higgins (Barry J.), Eric Wesley Handley (Kayla) and Jodi Amanda Handley; grandchildren, Brooke Higgins Shealy (Geoffrey), Joshua Andrew Higgins (Natalie) and Wesley and Joseph Handley; and great-grandchildren, Garrett, Katelyn and Dean.
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You know you are living in a totalitarian political culture when a respected mainstream journalist at the center of that culture tells you that a politician whose consistent career theme is personal accommodation to existing power relationships is an ideological leftist.
In a recent well-crafted New Yorker essay on Barack Obama's early political career in Chicago and Illinois, Ryan Lizza makes an accurate observation. "Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama," Lizza writes, "is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them." Later in the same essay Lizza notes that Obama is "an incrementalist."
Near the end of his article, however, Lizza proclaims that "He [Obama] is ideologically a man of the left" [1].
Those of us who have yet to swallow Orwellian Kool Aid and do not believe that 2 + 2 equals 5 are left to guess what could be going on in Lizza's mind here.
How can an "eager" power-accommodator and "incrementalist" be "a man of the ideological left?" The actual historical Left since Gerrard Winstanley and before and through Marx and Bakunin and Rosa Luxembourg and up through the present is about radical-democratic structural and institutional transformation and leveling. It's about revolution.
Perhaps Lizza wants us to believe that the radically centrist Obama's conservative track record — a history of compromise, cunning, caution, and conciliation that I have detailed at some length in my next book and in a recent ZNet essay on Obama's pre-Rock Star career [2] — is just a game he is playing so that he can get past the corporate gatekeepers and seize presidential power to advance a radical agenda. That's actually the line being advanced on Obama by a fair part of the Republican right- wing noise machine. Obama, these arch-reactionary crackpots actually claim, is a socialist or some other kind of left radical.
This is totally absurd, of course and completely contrary to Obama's bourgeois socialization and education (e.g. Harvard Law) and his emergence as a corporate-funded super-candidate ("Obama, Inc.") sponsored by Exelon, UBS, Goldman Sachs, and the like.
Maybe Lizza means that Obama draws a line between his privately held beliefs (supposedly "left") and his public political behavior. That is a dubious notion that would seem to hold no substantive public meaning even if it happened to be true, which seems highly unlikely.
I don't think Lizza (who seems like a fairly bright fellow) is stupid enough to join the Fatherland (FOX) News nut-jobs in believing that the "deeply conservative" (according Larissa MacFarquahar in a careful portrait in the The New Yorker last year [3]) Obama is a stealth radical waiting to leap out of a left-wing closet in the White House.
The best explanation for Lizza's description of Obama as a leftist is that the spectrum of acceptable debate and difference in the dominant U,S, money-saturated and corporate-managed political culture [4] has narrowed so far that anyone who doesn't advocate a full-blown radically regressive and extremist, hyper-militaristic agenda – including things like the rapid privatization of Social Security, the invasion of Iran, and the starting of a new Cold War with Russia – is now considered "left" by respectable intellectuals. As far as Lizza, his editors, and many other coordinator-class ilk are concerned, the left that calls for radical structural change (advocated even by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, from 1966 on) has been permanently consigned to the lunatic fringe. It deserves the same consideration one gives to a babbling old uncle in a mental hospital. It no longer exists.
There is no meaningful conflict worth discussing anymore about core questions of class inequality, racism (deeply understood), Superpower dominance/Empire, national narcissism ("American exceptionalism"), state repression, corporate rule and the basic underlying struggle between capitalism and democracy. Only fanatics and imbeciles concern themselves with such "over" questions in an era that has transcended (that sort of) history.
The "mainstream" political class's definition of acceptable debate has moved so far right that people like Hillary Clinton and her ideological brother Barack Obama (actually to Clinton's starboard side on domestic policy) are people of "the left." So what if they fund and defend the criminal and mass-murderous petro-colonial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, refuse to advance single-payer health insurance, and denounce Venezuela for daring to question to the rule of regressive U.S.-led neoliberalism? So what if Obama calls for handing over domestic social welfare programs to the Holly Rollers? So what if he votes to limit civil damages consumers can win from corporations and flip-flops rightward on unconstitutional federal wiretapping and grants retroactive immunity for illegal snooping to the telecommunications giants? So what if Obama's "war cabinet" will certainly give a top post to Randy Beers, who helped draft Plan Columbia, which spends billions of U.S. dollars on the enlistment of death squads to defeat "Marxist rebels?" So what if Obama praises Ronald Reagan for rescuing America from the supposed "excesses of the 1960s" (things like feminism, Black Power, and popular resistance to the U.S.-imposed "crucifixion of Southeast Asia" [Noam Chomsky])and applauds George Bush Senior's conduct of the first Persian Gulf War, when the U.S. slaughtered untold thousands of surrendered Iraqi soldiers on the "Highway of Death" and released Saddam's forces to slaughter Shiites and Kurds the White House had initially encouraged to rebel? So what if…[fill in the blank: the list of Obama's rightward moves and statements gets longer with each day].
In the American "one-and-a-half party system," what used to be center is now "left" and what used to be hard right is now the center. A leading presidential candidate can simultaneously embrace the ideologies of U.S. capitalism and Empire – as Obama has repeatedly gone to grotesque extremes to do [5] – and be a "man of the ideological left." War is Peace. Love is Hate. And 2 + 2 = 5.
Fine, but here's the problem. The human species cannot survive much longer in a decent or desirable form without precisely the sort of "anti-establishment revolutionary" change that the "left" Obama has consistently opposed. Reforms will not suffice. "Incrementalism" won't do the job at this stage. The severe ecological and socioeconomic difficulties plaguing humanity require a broadening of the U.S. moral, ideological and policy spectrum far beyond the allegedly (superficially) post-ideological "get things done" pragmatism of Obama and his team. Capitalist economy, society and politics (the last is the "shadow cast on society by big business," as John Dewey noted nearly a century ago) are diametrically opposed to ecological survival, social justice, peace, and democracy.
We have to let the radical anti-capitalists and our own suppressed anti-capitalist human nature out of the asylum or we will die (or might as well die). It's democratic and participatory anti- and post-capitalism or barbarism if we're lucky. Humanity will abolish the profits system and construct a radically democratic new planned, participatory, egalitarian, and sustainable social order…or it will perish in relatively short historical order.
It's not my fault that reality is left-anarchist.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is a veteran radical historian and independent author, activist, researcher, and journalist in Iowa City, IA. He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm 2005); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Routledge 2005): and Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (Rowman&Littlefied 2007). Hs next book is Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics: www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987
1. Ryan Lizza, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama," The New Yorker, (July 21, 2008).
2. Paul Street, Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); "Statehouse Days: The Myth of Barack Obama's 'True Progressive' Past," ZNet (July 20, 2008), read at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18224.
3. Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?," The New Yorker (May 7, 2007).
4. Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
5. For details and sources, see my following articles: "Obama's Audacious Deference to Power," ZNet Magazine (January 24, 2007), read at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936; "Imperial Temptations: John Edwards, Barack Obama, and the Myth of Post-World War II United States Benevolence," ZNet Magazine (May 28, 2007), read at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12928; " 'Angry John' Edwards v. KumbayObama," SleptOn Magazine (December 28, 2007), read at www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=1234-; "Obama Speaks: 'Oh Great White Masters, you Just Haven't Been Asked to Help America,'" Black Agenda Report (December 19, 2008); "The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing and Why It Matters," Black Agenda Report (July 9, 2008), read at www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=695&Itemid=1.


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Saracens Storm are through to the Aviva A-League final after beating Northampton Saints 33-23
10:38am Tuesday 11th December 2012 in Sport
Saracens Storm booked their place in the final of the Aviva A-League last night with a 33-23 victory over Northampton Saints.
The young Sarries were second best early on and found themselves 10-0 behind.
But a penalty from Nils Mordt and a try from James Short propelled Storm back into the contest.
Duncan Taylor added a second try not long before half time to extend the visitors' advantage before another score from Short and a late Sam Stanley try put Northampton out of sight.
Storm will now face Harlequins in the final, which will be played at The Stoop on Monday, December 17.
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